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The Butler
County Historical & Genealogical Society's LIBRARY RESEARCH
ROOM
The Butler County Historical & Genealogical
Society's research collection is housed at the public library, 309 Fort Dale
Road, Greenville, Alabama. We're only a few minutes from the Butler County
courthouse (a local destination we recommend for visiting researchers) and
from Interstate 65 with hotels, restaurants and shopping. WHAT DOES OUR
COLLECTION INCLUDE?
Our family surname files are a wonderful source
of information found nowhere else -- news clippings, obituaries, pedigree
charts, photographs, bible records, family letters and diaries, and many
other research items contributed by members and visitors over the past four
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We also have hundreds of family genealogy books, Alabama and Butler County
histories, genealogical quarterlies, books and publications from throughout
the South, cemetery records, censuses and state records, old photographs,
microfilm of Butler County courthouse records, military records, newspaper
records, and more.
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VISITING THE BCHGS RESEARCH ROOM: If you plan a visit from
out-of-town, we recommend that you contact us in advance so that a volunteer
can be at the library to assist you. All records are not available for
open browsing, and research room volunteers may be able to show you sources
that you were unaware of. We ask that you treat all our books, microfilm,
vertical files and open-shelf collections with care. Tuesday is usually
a "work" day at the research room but other days are variable. (Please note:
The public library staff is NOT responsible for managing the historical
society collection, but they will be glad to direct you to our research
room.)
A COPY MACHINE
(coin-operated) is in the MAIN LIBRARY ROOM, opposite the FRONT DESK.
You may take materials from the BCHGS research room to copy in the main
library room, but PLEASE respect the hard work that went into our collection,
and DO NOT REMOVE FILES OF ANY KIND FROM THE BUILDING.
The Butler County
Historical & Genealogical Society
Research Collection:
309 Fort Dale Road, Greenville
Your contributions through membership, research fees and publication
purchases help us to maintain the research room and continue preserving
the records of YOUR ancestors' lives.
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yet they are treasures of information on the county and its families.
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A researcher who only
"surfs the Net" may never get to meet or know these amazing living resources
who write stories for our quarterly, visit our research room, help us identify
photographs and "lost" ancestors, and enjoy attending our meetings. Their
family stories, knowledge and memories are priceless glimpses into the
past. But you don't have to join our society just
to meet people. The preservation of our Butler County heritage is an ongoing
process -- especially necessary in today's world with the increasing deterioration
of old cemeteries and churches, theft and damage of original records, and
other modern stresses that are gradually destroying the past.
You can share in our efforts to save that heritage by joining The Butler
County Historical and Genealogical Society. "Free" Internet research is
fantastic, but someone in every town, in every county, at every courthouse,
church and cemetery, must constantly work to PRESERVE your ancestors' history.
The dedicated volunteers of the Butler County Historical and Genealogical
Society are doing just that, and they've been doing it for over forty years.
The Butler County
Historical & Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 561, Greenville,
Alabama 36037
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Copyright 2011 by The Butler County Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc.
Web page maintained by
Annie Crenshaw
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