The library of the Chautauqua County Genealogical Society is also located here. CCGS library is located at the Darwin R. Barker Museum. Copying is available. Copying is available. 1 PM Collections include various newspapers from 1876 to the present, scrapbooks, diaries, autograph books, oral history tapes, video and lecture tapes, photographs, dissertations, historic register of homes, and histories of other Chautauqaus.
Copying is available.
Collections concentrate on Jamestown and Southern Chautauqua County, but cover all of the county and include family history files, a card file for deaths and marriages form 19th century newspapers, printed family genealogies, county census records and indexes, Jamestown city directories, plus manuscript and photograph collections. Copying is available. Please remember that a phone call in advance of a visit is always advisable. Please enclose a SASE with all correspondence. Several institutions also include museum facilities.