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The
Paris-Bourbon County Public Library is pleased to offer a growing
collection of genealogy books and microfilm, as well as a 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). We seldom close for inclement
weather or other emergencies unless the situation is severe, but
unforeseen circumstances do occur. If
you are making a special trip to come here, please check our Activity Calendar
first for any scheduled closings, and call ahead to confirm:
859-987-4419.
The library receives a large volume of genealogy-and history-related queries;
we simply do not have sufficient staff resources to perform personal
research for everyone.
E-mail, telephone and written genealogical queries will be
referred back to the resources listed on our
main genealogy page.
On request, we will provide contact info for any known/currently
available local researchers who will work for a fee.
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.
OR ask your own local library about access to such resources.
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. These items are NOT shared online and the
microfilm is never loaned.
A Digital Microfilm Viewer/Scanner was
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 digital 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 USB thumb drive... Featuring
exceptionally clear images for on-screen viewing, automatic focus,
instant zooming and printing, positive/negative reversal and more,
this machine will even scan directly from 35mm film and slides.
Library staffer and genealogy enthusiast Susan Eades is thrilled
with this 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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