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Why Allen County Public Library?

April 26, 2017Allen County library public

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Why Allen County Public Library?

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• Midwest’s Largest Genealogical Collection (Second Largest in U.S.) • Online Catalog – assists in orienting you to the scope of the collection and helps you to plan in advance your actual research time at the Genealogy Center • 350,000 printed volumes including over 55,000 family histories • 513,000 items of microfilm and microfiche • Largest English-language genealogy and local history periodical collection in the world with more than 6,200 current subscriptions and more than 10,000 titles. Individual articles may be accessed through a variety of indexes including the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI), compiled by ACPL staff. • All Federal Census microfilm through 1930 including Soundex indexes • Many State & Territorial Census on microfilm • Most National Archives Passenger Arrival Lists on Microfilm • Large Civil War Collection • Free access to online databases including Ancestry.com, HeritageQuestOnline.com, and NewEnglandAncestors.org as well as government document and obituary dat