How to Search for Historical Societies

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Finding Historical Societies or History Libraries

In many states, there are both state and county historical societies or history libaries. You can use the options below to find historical societies.

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Ways to Use Historical Societies

Historical societies may do searches of their archives for you—often for a fee. You might also consider contacting a lookup volunteer who is able to go to a given historical society to do an in-person search. Here is one way to search for lookup volunteers.

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