Local History & Genealogy

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Local History & Genealogy Materials @ the Library

Click here for the Library's Local History research guide.

Visit the Guilderland Room at the library.

It houses most of our Local History Collection. The materials do not circulate, but photocopies can be made, and the room is available for study.

In the Guilderland Room:

The Arthur B. Gregg Collection.

  • more than 100 rare titles on local, regional, and state history
  • donated to the Library by Guilderland’s former town historian.

The Altamont Enterprise Collection.

  • 1990-present (paper)
  • 1892-1990, 2004-2006 (microfilm)

Click here for the Library's main Local History page.

Browse the stacks for Circulating Materials.

Books on Local History are found at call number 974.

Books on Genealogy are located at call number 929.

  • resource guides
  • how-to manuals

for the kids:

  • Circulating materials found at call number J 974.742.
  • Information about Guilderland historic sites, landmarks, and town history; natural areas of Albany County, the Pinebush; Native Americans in NYS; Albany

   
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