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LIBRARY EXPANDS
GENEALOGY
COLLECTION
The
Paris-Bourbon County Public Library is pleased to announce a growing
collection of genealogy books and microfilm, in addition to the
recent purchase of a new digital microfilm viewer/scanner.
Visits &
Queries
The library provides many resources for
your use in performing research on our premises and through our web
site. We welcome your visit any time during our regular hours of
operation (see at left). If you're planning a special trip to come
here, please check our Activity Calendar
first for any scheduled closings. We seldom close for inclement
weather or other emergencies unless the situation is severe, but if
you want to call ahead: 859-987-4419.
The library receives a large volume of genealogy-and history-related queries;
however, we simply do not have sufficient staff resources to perform
personal research for everyone, and we currently have no volunteers for this purpose.
E-mail, telephone and written genealogical queries will be
referred back to the resources listed on our
main genealogy page.
If you are
looking for a local researcher or someone to talk to about family
lines in the area, please contact the local genealogical society -
see our
main genealogy page.
The
library’s web site contains links to a wealth of historical and
genealogical resources; it also offers valuable access for library
cardholders to
powerful online databases containing census, birth,
marriage, death, immigration and military records and much more.
In-house, the library’s rapidly growing microfilm collection
includes thousands of old documents that have been scanned and
stored on film, including local newspapers, census data, wills,
vital statistics records, Kentucky death certificates, tax
assessment books, deeds, marriage records, and more. Some items date
back as far as 1787; many were hard to view and/or nearly illegible
when printed using the old microfilm equipment at the library.
A new
ST200 Digital Microfilm Viewer/Scanner by S-T Imaging was recently
purchased with the assistance of Friends of the Paris-Bourbon County
Library, a non-profit group that supports the library by conducting
fundraisers such as used book sales. The new viewer/scanner offers
incredible film scans at up to 2700 dpi, while keeping file sizes
small enough to handle. View, zoom, crop, flip, scan, print, or save
scans to a disk or USB thumb drive (for later e-mailing or burning
to CD)… whatever you view, you can print or save using the attached
computer with easy-to-use "ScanWrite" software. Featuring
exceptionally clear images for on-screen viewing, automatic focus,
instant zooming and printing, positive/negative reversal and more,
the new machine will even scan directly from 35mm film and slides.
Library staffer and genealogy enthusiast Susan Eades is thrilled
with the new equipment. She said, “It’s very easy to use, the scan
quality is great, and people really like taking the images home on a
USB drive instead of having to print on paper.”
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