Addresses for Oklahoma County Genealogy Research

Archives and Libraries

• State of Oklahoma Resources

• USGenWeb Archives
  Oklahoma

 Local Resources

• Oklahoma Historical Society  
  Library Resources Division
  2100 N. Lincoln Blvd
  Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4997
  405-522-5225 -- FAX 405-521-2492
  
  Library Resources Division - maintains 30,000 book titles representing approximately 63,700 volumes. Collection consists of rare, and some unpublished manuscripts, state and local histories, contemporary books, etc. Collection includes Oklahoma history, the Five Civilized Tribes, family and community histories, industry, technology, and agriculture. Houses a large collection of the U.S. Census microfilm.

Archives and Manuscripts Division
2100 N. Lincoln Blvd
Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4997
405-521-2491-- FAX 405-521-2492

Indian Archives; Photographic Archives [some images are quite large];
Oral History Collection; Newspaper Department; Manuscripts Division.

Oklahoma Historical Society Special Collections
Bibliography Special Books, Library Resources Division
Oklahoma Historical Society Newspaper Search

• Oklahoma Genealogical Society
  P.O. Box 12986
  Oklahoma City, OK 73157-2986
  Publication "Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly"
  Specializes in Oklahoma and Indian Territory
  First Families of the Twin Territories -- Qualifications to Join
   

• Fraternal Organizations
   

• Family History Library Catalog
   

• Metropolitan Library System (MLS)

  • Databases - logon as Anonymous, if required

  • Catalog - logon as Anonymous, if required

  • Oklahoma Images

  • Resources at all MLS agencies

    • Daily Oklahoman online 1982-

    • Online subscription to Ancestry.com, including census images

  • Downtown Library Branch
    131 Dean A McGee Ave
    Oklahoma City, OK 73102-6499
    405-231-8650 - hours noted on their site
    405-232-5493 - fax
     
    Resources at Downtown Library
    [many thanks to Debra Osborne Spindle, Downtown Library Manager, for providing great details of their available resources]

    • Oklahoma City city directories 1903-  and criss-cross directories 1949-

    • Oklahoma City telephone directories 1960-

    • Clippings files - 
        Oklahoma biographies, businesses, buildings, artist, and counties & towns

    • Oklahoma County histories

    • Chronicles of Oklahoma - publication of Oklahoma Historical Society

    • Subscriptions to popular genealogical magazines:
      Ancestry, Family Tree Magazine, Heritage Quest

    • Native American resources such as: 

      • Cherokee Drennen Roll of 1851 - Marybelle W. Chase

      • Only the Names Remain, Cherokee series - Sandi Garrett

      • Cherokee Indian Rolls: Doubtful and Rejected - B. T. Harris

      • Chickasaw rolls: Annuity Rolls of 1857-1860 and the “1855” Chickasaw District Roll of 1856 - K. M. Armstrong and Bob Curry

      • Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory - Nova A. Lemons

      • Choctaw Emigration Records, 1831-1856 - Monty Olsen

      • 1832 Creek Census: Parsons-Abbott - James L. Douthat

      • The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma - Jack M. Schults

      • Some Old Delaware Obituaries - Ruby Cranor

      • Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, Caddo and Delaware Indians birth and Death Rolls, 1924-1932 - Jeff Bowen

      • Census of the Comanche tribe of Indians, Kiowa Agency, O.T., July 1895 - Faye R. Washburn

      • Census of the Comanche tribe of Indians, Kiowa Indian agency, O.T., June 30, 1905 - Washburn

      • 1917 Census of the Comanche Indian Tribe of the Kowa Agency, Anadarko, Oklahoma - Polly Lewis Murphy

      • 1880 Cherokee Nation census [cd-rom] Vital information from the Guion Miller Roll: Eastern Cherokee Court of Claims, 1906-1909 [cd-rom] - indexed by Barbara Benge

      • Indian Lands west of Arkansas (Oklahoma) - Frances Woods

    • Microfilm at the Downtown Library

      • Federal Land Tract Books of Oklahoma Territory index & microfilm

      • Sanborn fire insurance maps of Oklahoma towns and cities

      • City directories for Oklahoma for Oklahoma towns and cities (coverage varies, 1960 latest)

      • Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City Times, and selected additional old city newspapers

      • Census microfilm of Oklahoma

        • 1890 Union Vets and Widows

        • 1900 Soundex and Population Census
          Indian and Oklahoma Territories

        • 1910 Miracode and Population Census for Oklahoma

        • 1920 Soundex and Population Census for Oklahoma

        • 1930 Population Census for Oklahoma

      Downtown currently has 5 microfilm reader/printers and 2 photocopies. 
      Call 231-8650 ext 3 - Reference Desk for cost of copies, etc.
       

  • University of Oklahoma
    Western History Collections
    630 Parrington Oval, Rm 452
    Norman, OK 73069
    405-325-3641-- FAX 405-325-2493
     
    The Library Division of the Western History Collections is one of the top ten special research libraries in the nation for the study of American Indian history and anthropology. Composed of twelve named and separately maintained book collections, published oral histories, microforms, and serials, the division as a whole contains publications spanning a four-hundred-year period.
     

  • Oklahoma State University
    Special Collections and University Archives Home Page
    204 Edmon Low Library
    Stillwater, OK 74078
    405-744-6311

  • Oklahoma City Community College - Library
    7777 South May
    Oklahoma City, OK 73159
    405-682-7564
    Special Collections - None Listed [2-2003]

  • Oklahoma City University Library
    Dulaney-Browne Library
    2501 N Blackwelder
    Oklahoma City, OK 73106-1493
    405-521-5065
    FAX: 405-521-5291

    • Special Collections
      Archives for the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church [archivist collects and preserves historical materials having to do with the history of the Methodist Church in Oklahoma - open to the general public by appointment. Access will be granted only when the archivist (or other library employee) can remain in the archives with the patron.]

  • Rose College Library
    Learning Resource Center
    6420 SE 15
    Midwest City, OK 73110
    405-733-7370

    • Special Collections
      includes some of the College's official and historic documents, some publications by Rose State faculty and staff, and all issues of Pegasus. Nothing found pertaining to genealogy. [05/2001]

  • University of Central Oklahoma
    Archives & Special Collections
    100 N University Drive
    Edmond, OK 73034
    405-974-2882
    405-974-3806 - Fax

    • Genealogical material is located on the 4th floor on the library, including all Oklahoma censuses and indexes from 1860-1920; the Dawes Rolls on microfilm, Sandborn fire maps, Oklahoma tract book indexes and many many genealogical books on microfilm.

    • Library has a computerized index of Edmond newspapers published back to 1889. Service available by phone or email.