Long Beach Public
Library
Address:
101
Pacific Ave.
Long
Beach, CA 90822
Located
at the corner of Ocean Blvd. There is a
parking for a fee structure behind the library on Broadway. There is also metered street parking, limit 2
hours.
Phone:
562-570-7500
Website:
Hours:
Sunday,
Monday – closed
Tuesday
– 10 AM to 8 PM
Wednesday,
Thursday – 10 AM to 6 PM
Friday,
Saturday – 10 AM to 5 PM
The
Genealogy Collection at the Long Beach Public Library is under the oversight of
the Questing Heirs Genealogy Society and is open to the public whenever the
library is open. They have a small but
nice collection of books. One of the
things I found to be somewhat unique in this library was the fairly large
collection of military registers. There
are long runs of: US Bureau of Naval Personnel Commissioned and Warrant
Officers, US Coast Guard Registers, US Department of the Air Force Registers,
Official Army Registers, and more. They
also have periodicals, books on Black research, general genealogy books, books
on Cherokee research, references grouped by state, published genealogies, and
even a small collection of books that can be checked out.
Some
of the things I spotted that were specific to California research were Los
Angeles Co. Marriages from 1851-1877, the 1890 Great Registers for Los Angeles
and Orange Cos., a northern CA marriage index for 1850-1860, the 1850 Census of
LA City and Co., Old Santa Ana Cemetery Records, and Spanish/Mexican Families
of Early California, 1769-1850.
The
Genealogy Collection just happens to be located next to the History Collection
of the main library. Here’s what I found
for California counties in that collection
– at least the following county histories: Mendocino, Humboldt, Lake, Napa, Tuolumne,
San Joaquin, Contra Costa, Marin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Fresno, Kern,
Santa Barbara and Ventura. There were
lots of books on Los Angeles City and County and on San Francisco. There were various regional topics, such as:
Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, Sacramento, Death Valley, Anza-Borrego.
Among the many general California histories were The Works of Hubert
Howe Bancroft, a number of his volumes on California history. Also, adjacent to the Genealogy and History
sections is the Travel section with lots of books on California.
This
library also has the several newspapers in its collection: The Long Beach Press
Telegram, The Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. They also have Long Beach city directories
and old high school yearbooks. There is
a history of Long Beach Special Collection.
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