Collection Development Manual > Libraries & Collections > Central Library > Genealogy
Genealogy
- 929 Genealogy, names, insignia
- 929.4 Personal names
- 929.6 Heraldry
- 929.7 Royal houses, peerage, gentry, orders of knighthood
- 929.8 Awards, orders, decorations, armorial bearings, autographs
- 929.9 Forms of insignia and identification
The library maintains a Genealogy collection that focuses on "how-to" titles and reference material, especially that relating to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Genealogical reference materials include passenger lists, censuses and census indexes, cemetery burial lists, land records, and lists of obituaries from important newspapers. Reference materials on the states in the Northeast and Southeast are well represented in the genealogy collection, and the library is seeking to increase the collection of material describing Ohio and the Midwest, as well as the Pacific Northwest.
Genealogies of individual families are not usually purchased, as they are numerous, specific, and collected by other libraries in the area.
The Genealogy collection is used both by experienced genealogists and by people who are just beginning to research their family histories. Since Multnomah County Library has maintained its genealogy collection over many decades, people often come from other parts of Oregon, or from outside of the state to use this collection.
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Some materials that will be helpful to genealogical researchers are located in the History and Biography collections. At Central Library, these collections are kept in the Humanities rooms.