The Local and Family History room is located on the first floor of
our library. The collection focuses on Kentucky, the Jackson Purchase
region, surrounding counties, and states which relate to Kentucky
migration, including Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Southern Illinois.
More than 4,000 books are included in our collection; titles are added continually. You may search for books through our online card catalog.
Other research materials include online database subscriptions,
microfilm, microfiche, CDs, periodicals, journals, subject and family
files, photographs, and archives. The McCracken County
Genealogical-Historical Society collection is housed in our room at the
library.
DATABASES AND RESEARCH TOOLS:
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Access to AncestryLibrary.com is available at the public computers in the Local and Family history room.
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GENEALOGY - Click here for more information.
- Genealogy Collection
- Genealogy and history periodicals
- Kentucky birth and death indexes
LOCAL HISTORY - Click here for more information.
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Irvin S. Cobb Collection
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Mary Wheeler Collection
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Subject files on Paducah and McCracken County
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Paducah City directories
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Paducah biographies
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County and states histories
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Kentucky biographies
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Paducah and area newspapers on microfilm
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OTHER COLLECTIONS
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Map collection
- Kentucky literature
- Civil War Collection