Libraries Are Our Friends
WE JUST HAVE TO GET ACQUAINTED!
JEAN L. COOPER
JUNE 16, 2012
University of Virginia Library
 Alderman Library
 Newspapers
 Microfilm
 Digital historical documents & visual material
 Government documents
 Maps
 Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library
 Manuscript materials – letters, diaries, Bible records, etc.
 Unique books
 Background material
Library Guides
WWW.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU
GUIDES.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU/GENEALOGY
WWW.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU/GENEALOGY
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations
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Series A: South Caroliniana Library at
the University of South Carolina
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Series I: Louisiana State University
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Series B: South Carolina Historical
Society
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Series J: Southern Historical
Collection, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Series C: Library of Congress
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Series K: Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation Library (VA), The Shirley
Plantation Collection, 1650-1888
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Series L: Earl Gregg Swem Library,
College of William and Mary (VA)
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Series M: Virginia Historical Society
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Series N: Mississippi Department of
Archives and History
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Series D: Maryland Historical Society
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Series E: University of Virginia Library
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Series F: Duke University Library (NC)
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Series G: Center for American History,
University of Texas at Austin
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Series H: Howard-Tilton Library at
Tulane University (LA), and the
Louisiana State Museum
Digital Library
University records
such as the Board of
Visitors Minutes and
the University
Catalogs.
Search for
“board of visitors
minutes”
“catalogue of the
officers and students of
the university of
virginia”
Chronicling America -http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Dissertations
Holsinger Studio Collection, 1889-1939
Unidentified young woman
Holsinger Studio
Collection, 1889-1939,
Albert & Shirley Small
Special Collections Library
Unidentified child,
ca. 1907
Holsinger Studio
Collection, 18891939,
Albert & Shirley
Small Special
Collections Library
Jefferson Madison Regional Library
 Interlibrary Services
 Ancestry Library Edition
 Heritage Quest Online
 Online access
Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Library
 Manuscript materials
 Ph.D. Dissertations & Masters Theses
 Photographs
 Secondary materials supporting research
Jefferson Library, Monticello
 Open to researchers of Jefferson and his time
 An in-depth collection of materials for its period
 Vertical file of published and unpublished material
 Research reports
Jean L. Cooper
Genealogical Resources Specialist
University of Virginia
jlc5f@virginia.edu