What Genealogical Resources Does Lehigh have?

• Easton Public Library: 515 Church St. Easton. Phone (610) 258-2917.
Directions: Take 378 N to 22 E (Easton)
Get off 22 at 4th Street exit. Proceed on North 4th to Northampton Street (2 blocks).
Turn right on Northampton Street to 6th Street (2 blocks).
Turn right on North 6th St. Entrance to parking lot is 1 block down on 6th.
• Bethlehem Area Public Library: 11 W. Church St. Bethlehem. Phone (610) 867-3761
Directions: Get on New Street. Take the New St. Bridge across the river. Go through light at end of bridge and follow traffic circle around to the light. At the stop sign, turn left onto Church St. Library is building on left after next intersection

• Lehigh County Historical Society,  Old Court House at 5th and Hamilton Sts., PO Box 1548 Allentown, (610) 435-1074 http://www.voicenet.com/~lchs/
• Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society, 101 South Fourth Street, Easton, 610-253-1222 http://www.northamptonctymuseum.org/
• Lehigh County Courthouse, 455 West Hamilton Street, Allentown.
• Northampton County Courthouse, 669 Washington St, Easton
• GenWeb has a site on researching in Lehigh County: http://www.pa-roots.com/~lehigh/lcgw/ and their main page, http://www.pa-roots.com/ and the ProGenealogists site: http://progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm also haveaccess to good information.
• The Pennsyvania Historical and Museum Commission has some information about genealogical services on their web page. Go to http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ and click on Genealogy.
• Also try the Historical Society of Pennsylvania http://www.hsp.org/index.html
  

• Check ASA, our online catalog,  http://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/uhtbin/webcat   for that person's name as a subject. For certain people, the Special Collections office in the Bayer Galleria of Rare Books (Linderman, 3rd Floor. Hours 1-5 PM Monday through Friday) maintains a Vertical File of clippings and pamphlets. Also, any books or other materials we might have on them will also be listed in ASA. (Most of these materials will have the location code L-BAYER, which means that they are in the Bayer Galleria.)
• You can also check ASA for the person's name as Author, to see if we have any writings by them.
• Old issues of the Lehigh Yearbook, Epitome: A Yearbook are kept on FM-3-North (Fairchild-Martindale, 3rd floor, North side) at 378.73 L52e. There are also copies in the Bayer Galleria.
• Old issues of the University Catalog, which gives staff and faculty names, are also available in the Bayer Galleria.
• Also check the indexes of the two histories of Lehigh University:
• A history of Lehigh University. Catherine Drinker Bowen. FM-1-REF 378.73 L52b
• Lehigh University : a history of education... W. Ross Yates. FM-3-NORTH 378.748 Y34L
• More Lehigh University historical materials are available in the Bayer Galleria.
• The Alumni Association sometimes has files on distinguished alumni. The best way to contact the Alumni staff is via telephone at 758-3135.
• People trying to contact alumni should go through the Alumni Association also: the Alumni Association will take the person's contact information and forward it to the alumnus. You can refer visitors to the Lehigh Alumni directory: FM-1-REF (and L-1-REF) 378.748 L522a 1998. We do not give out alumni contacts over the phone- such questions should go through the Alumni Association office and/or web page

• Brown & White (Lehigh Student newspaper): holdings from 1894 onward.
• Bethlehem Express-Times, Globe-Times, Globe, etc. :  holdings going back to 1867
• Morning Call 1987 to present only
but they do not have indexing. For indexing to recent issues of the Morning Call, try http://www.mcall.com/, or Lexis/Nexis; we also have electronic issues of the Morning Call as a separate database; for indexing of the Bethlehem Express-Times and its predecessors, try the Bethlehem Public Library local history indexes.: http://www.bapl.org/lochist.html

We also have some general government documents, handbooks and reference works on genealogy. Look up 'genealogy' in ASA as a subject for a complete list.

• Genealogical research at the Library of Congress. LC 1.2:G 28/999 FM-2-DOC
• Sources for family history. AE 1.102:H 62/6 FM-2-DOC
• Research in the land entry files of the General Land Office. AE 1.113:49 FM-2-DOC
• Pennsylvania land records : a history and guide for research. 333.31 M966p FM-2-DOC-R
• The researcher's guide to American genealogy. 929.1 G816r 1990 L-1-REF
• A guide to the Genealogy/Local History Section of the State Library of Pennsylvania. PE 136.2 G946g/989 1989 FM-2-DOC