GENERAL RESOURCES
ACCELERATED INDEXING SYSTEMS (AIS):Census Searches on microfiche. Has the accumulated indexes of the federal census indexes. Complete to 1850. Search 8 has index of the mortality census schedules for many states.

ANCESTRAL FILE ™: Family History Library (FHL) database of about 35,000,000 names on all our 50 computers. Use the keyboard F9 to find the names and addresses of the submitters in the "old" "FamilySearch" database. Ask for help from the staff. It's also on the Internet at: http://www.familysearch.org

CARD CATALOG: Is for only this Center and ONLY has books, CD’s, "F" (ONLY IN THIS CENTER) films, pamphlets, periodicals and maps. See the Salt Lake Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) listed below.

CD’s (COMPACT DISKS): Many indexes, databases, land records and many other things are on a large collection of CD’s. Check them out from the Sales Area and use them in one of the computers in the Computer Area.

COMPUTERS: There are 50 computers for your free use. Use them to access the Ancestral File, IGI, Family History Catalog and other databases. You may also use the latest Personal Ancestral File (PAF) program to enter your genealogy information.

COUNTRY AND STATE LOCALITY FILE FOLDERS: Located in a file cabinet in the Map Area. There are many good research papers in these folders.

DATABASES ON CD’s (COMPACT DISKS): Many databases are on a large collection of CD’s. Check them out from the Sales Area and use them in one of the computers in the Computer Area.

FAMILY HISTORIES: Use the Card Catalog to find the surnames in the book family histories that are in this library. There is also a collection of family histories in a file cabinet in the Map Area.

FAMILY HISTORY HISTORY LIBRARY CATALOG (FHLC) ™: Catalog is on microfiche or on our computers or on the Salt Lake Website http://www.familysearch.org Our books, microfilms and microfiche in this Center are under Salt Lake call numbers, microfilm numbers and microfiche numbers.

FAMILY REGISTRY ™: This is a Salt Lake Family History Library (FHL) microfiche database of deceased persons and surname organizations. It has the names and addresses of the persons who submitted the data to the database. Fiche FHL # 6,050,000.

GAZETTEER CARD FILE: This file is next to the Card Catalog. It contains about 45,000 File Cards, which has hard-to-find places in the U.S. where the name may have changed or the place no longer exists.

GENEALOGY PROGRAMS: You may use the PAF or Personal Ancestral File programs on any of the computers to enter your genealogy information. You may also bring in a family data GEDCOM to submit over the Internet to the Pedigree Resource File.

HANDOUTS: Help sheets are available free at the Information Desk and the Sales Area. Blank forms are available free in the Sales Area.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX (IGI) ™: A Salt Lake Family History Library (FHL) database that contains about 350,000,000 names on microfiche and the computers. The IGI contains Birth (Baptismal, Christening or actual Birth) and Marriage dates. Names are arranged alphabetically in the State or Country LOCALITY in which the event occurred. The IGI on the Internet at: http://www.familysearch.org

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FAMILY HISTORIES: While this Library does not have most of these family history books you can look at the Library of Congress two blue, one red complement, two red supplement vols. call no. 016.9292 K128g for histories before 1961. You can obtain the exact title, author, publication date and publisher. Check the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) on MICROFILM for the book in the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake. If found there, you may order it at the Sales Desk. If it a book at the FHL and not on microform you may order copies of pages using a Family History Library form in the Sales Area called "Request for Photocopies-...Books...". If the book and not on microform and a book at the FHL, you may order a few pages using the Library of Congress order form in the Sales Area.

MAP AREA: Gazetteers, atlases and maps are here. There are many useful reference books and maps for various countries. UCLA is the best place for maps! Pick up the "Guide to UCLA" handout on a file cabinet in the Map Area.

MICROFICHE: Find them in the eight Microfiche Cabinets in the Microfilm Room. There are 1000's of microfiche in the Microfiche Cabinets-- thumb through them in the drawers. Most of the titles can be read along the tops of the fiche.

There is a "100 Genealogical Reference Works on Microfiche", a paper in the Red 3 Ring Notebook "Genealogy Research and Things". Use the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) where they are cataloged.

NEWSPAPERS: American Newspapers/Union List of Newspapers, book, the best source for the old newspapers, call no. Ref 970 B33a. Gale Directory of Publications, a great source for the names and addresses of the current newspapers that are published, book, call no. 970 E4ay.

PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE ™: More than 60 million names are now part of the newer Pedigree Resource File (PRF) in electronic form in the computers at this Center. It's a database of compiled pedigrees submitted by users via FamilySearch.com or gathered from printed family histories. A successor to the Ancestral File, PRF indexes individual records with events, parents, locations, contains notes, source documentation and submitter contact information.

PERSI: Is the PERiodical Source Index by Locality and Families done by the Allen County Library; books, call no. Ref 973 D25per and 1847-1985 on microfiche FHL #6016863. This Index is also on CD #49 in the Sales Area.

RED 3-RING SELF-HELP NOTEBOOKS: The 75 Red 3-Ring Self-Help Notebooks Collection is located in this Center next to the entrance to the Microfilm Room in alphabetical order by title. Has information about U.S. and European resources.The Self-Help Notebooks in this Collection have the compiled useful resources of this Center, other libraries and magazine articles. They also have Research and Class Papers written by the author and compiler of the Notebooks, Jon Schweitzer.

RESEARCH OUTLINES AND RESOURCES GUIDES: They are for sale in the Sales Area of this Center. The Research Outlines are more extensive than the Resource Guides. The Research Outlines and the Resource Guides give some of the best methods and resources for conducting your research in each state or country.

SURNAMES-RESEARCHERS: Genealogical Research Directories, annual publications, use the 1990 - 2005 editions, has the names and addresses of researchers around the world working on surnames, call no. 929.1025 G286grd.

UNITED STATES RESOURCES
CENSUS RECORDS: Actual census records are on microfilm for 1790 through 1930. Printed book indexes for most early states from 1790 through 1850; many for 1860 and later. See the A.I.S. (microfiche) Index to census records mentioned above. The 1880, 1900, part of 1910 and 1920 censuses have Soundexes (Indexes) on microfilm. The 1880 Soundex only has families with children age 10 and under. Names are arranged on the Soundex rolls by Soundex Code Number and then alphabetically by given name. Some Indexes and records are on CD’s in the Sales Area.

CITY DIRECTORIES: United States 1840-1861 City Directories on microfiche starting with FHL #6043501.

DAR: Three Patriot Index books, call no. Ref 973 C42da and three catalogs, call no. Ref 973 A3DA.

LDS CHURCH RECORDS AREA IN FILM ROOM: The LDS Church Census of members taken during the years 1914, 1920, 1925, 1930 and 1935 are arranged in alphabetical order. The LDS Church Census for 1940 is also alphabetical. The LDS Church Census for 1950, 1955, and 1960 are combined in alphabetical order. 3-generation and 4-generation Family Group Sheets arranged in alphabetical order by year in which they were filmed. Family Group Record Archives Collection 1942-1969. (P365 = 3-generation filmed in 1965, P466 = 4-generation filmed in 1966, etc.). They are located in the Microfilm Room.

MILITARY RECORDS AND INDEXES IN FILM ROOM: General Index to Pension Records 1861-1934, Index to Union Volunteer Service Records, arranged by states and MUCH MORE!
National Archives inventory of Microfilm in this Center is in the National Archives Microfilm Inventory and Location by Subject notebook in the Red 3 Ring Notebook collection.

PASSENGER INDEXES AND PASSENGER LISTS: Indexes and records are on microfilm in the microfilm Room. See the National Archives Microfilm Inventory Notebook mentioned above. The New York City indexes for 1820-1846, 1897-1943. Many passenger lists are here. Indexes for Boston 1848-1920. Indexes for Philadelphia 1800-1948. Indexes for Baltimore 1833-1866 and 1920-1952. See the National Archives Microfilm Inventory Notebook described above.

See the passenger lists books and passenger lists in the 3 ring notebooks in the Passenger Book Area. The blue 3 ring notebook has "NEW YORK ARRIVALS 1820-1943". The blue 3 ring notebook "ATLANTIC AND GULF COAST PORTS" has many ports along the Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf Coast and the Great Lakes ports and are indexed for various short periods.

SUTRO LIBRARY CATALOG: On microfiche FHL #8,000,037 covers the genealogical holdings of the Sutro Library in San Francisco. Important because their genealogical materials and directories are available through public libraries on interlibrary loan.

VITAL RECORDS OF SOME STATES: Normally just indexes, not the records themselves. Use the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) on one of the computers to determine if this library or Salt Lake has the indexes and/or records on microforms. See the list of microforms of death indexes of records in the Red 3 Ring Self-Help Notebook "Genealogy Research and Things" titled "Are You Using Death Indexes In Your Research?"