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BROOKS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
224 MAIN STREET
BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT |
The Genealogical and Local History rooms at the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro are a
wonderful, unknown resource, located on the mezzanine. Some of the items we have are
listed below:
- Large collection of the Massachusetts vital record books to 1850;
- Many Massachusetts town histories;
- Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, and in the Civil War;
- Many Vermont town histories;
- Rutland Co., VT, cemetery books by Margaret Jenks;
- Some Windham Co., VT cemetery listings;
- Vermont War indexes;
- Vermont State Papers;
- Walton's Vermont Registers starting 1812-1923;
- Vermont Year Book 1931-1996;
- Brattleboro Town Directories starting 1871-72 to 1984, when they were discontinued;
- Genealogical Society of Vermont Branches & Twigs (missing Vol. 9)
- The Vermonter magazines;
- Vermont Life magazines;
- Vermont Historical Society Journals;
- Vermont State Papers;
- Early Brattleboro newspapers (many on microfilm-machine on first floor);
- 1790 census books for New England, plus 1800 for VT and NH, microfilms of Windham Co.
censuses;
- Local History Scrapbooks;
- Some NH, CT, RI, ME, NY histories;
- Connecticut Nutmegger journals, Vol. 10-25;
- American Canadian Genealogical Society Journals from inception to present;
- Western New York Genealogical Society Journals for many years to present;
- Boston Transcript queries in notebooks (indexed 1902-1913 and 1930-1940); others not
indexed;
- Hartford Times queries in notebooks, not indexed;
- Mayflower Descendant books, 1-26 with assorted loose copies;
- Vol. 1, 2, 3, Mayflower Families to the Fifth Generation;
- New England Historical and Genealogical Registers to date; indexes through Vol. 148;
- Ship Passenger Lists by P. William Filby through 1992;
- American Genealogical Index through at least Vol. 40;
- DAR Lineage books;
- Many genealogical research books, how to, etc.;
- Many genealogies, some are in manuscript form;
- File cabinets with folders regarding local history and local historical figures;
- Old Bibles; most printed in Brattleboro in the early 1800s;
- Books printed in Brattleboro and in Vermont;
- Much more.
If you are in Brattleboro, you should stop at the local library and check it out! We
have recently started a Genealogical Interest Group (GIG) which meets once a month. We
welcome anyone to attend when they are in the area. For further information as to when we
will be meeting again, contact Joann Nichols, 802/254-9554, or
jnichols1930@verizon.net. Our group is taking a collection
each month to buy books which are of interest to us for the genealogical room. Thus far we
have purchased the third edition of Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research and
the second edition of Collecting Vermont Ancestors by Alice Eichholz.
This page was last updated on
01/10/08 |
