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What to do With Your Genealogy When No One Else Wants It Genealogy Library Center, Inc. Written by Donald R. Snow, Retired Prof of Math Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
A non-profit genealogical library established by Arlene H. Eakle to help you preserve your personal manuscript genealogy files and supporting books, maps, and other genealogical materials and to make these precious and valuable data available to genealogists who share common genealogy ancestry.
As we get older, our stuff has a kind of primary importance. Our children, even if they have the interest, usually lack the space to raise a family and preserve genealogy files too.
The Genealogical Library Center, Inc. have bought a large building on Main Street in Tremonton Utah to store, protect, preserve, and make available to the public various genealogical research collection that need a permanent home.
They currently have 6 ½ tons of British Isles professional family and locality files (Sherwood Collection); 3-million entry slip index to British Court documents; 50,000 entry card index to German Church Books; 12 file drawers of American professional research files including original photographs (Hollingsworth Collection); 5 Virginia databases--rent rolls, 53 family notebooks, marriage records, land ownership maps, and "minutemen" for Culpeper County; Chamberlain Families of America Collection - family notebooks, correspondence files, US census entries and spreadsheets, FGR and
Pedigree charts; etc. All collections, no matter how big or small are important to preserve.
If you have a research collection that needs a permanent home contact: Arlene H. Eakle, Genealogy Library Center, Inc., 56 West Main Street, Suite B, Tremonton UT 84337. Mailing address: P.O. Box 40, Garland, UT 84312 800-377-6058 email: researchmyfamilytree@yahoo.com.
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