GENEALOGY AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF MOUNT VERNON


We at the Public Library are happy to assist you in your genealogy research. If you are out of town, or are unable to come in and use our genealogy collection yourself,we do offer some free basic research services. Keep in mind that time and staff constraints prevent us from assisting in detailed or large projects. Please allow at least 4weeks for us to respond to your request (during peak times, it can take twice that long, or more). You may also send your requests via postal mail or by phone.

to make a genealogy request from the library

 

please adhere to the following guidelines:

-Please do not request more than 3 obituary or birth notices, or article lookups (or any combination of these)
-Please have a specific date for your obituary/birth notices, or article lookups (our newspapers are not indexed); the Knox County Health Department may be able to assist you in pinpointing an exact date of birth or death
-Newspaper-related requests can only be searched in the Mount Vernon News, or its predecessors (please keep in mind that our newspapers are NOT indexed, so a
specific date is required)
-We do not have original records (birth/death/marriage records); for their location, see our Help Sheet; we do have incomplete indices to birth and marriage records
(which refer to courthouse records), as well as an sizable, though not complete, index to obituary notices
-Please no more than 3 index lookups (we cannot look up "all of the Smiths" in the Cemetery Index)
-We do have census records on microfilm for Knox County (and are planning to purchase CD-Roms), however, we do not have indices for all of them, so we may not be able to fulfill all census requests (and again, please no more than 3 names)
-If you are requesting information on a particular local business, organization, or institution, or if you are seeking biographical information of persons, you may also want to contact the Knox County Historical Society
-Please also keep in mind that federal copyright laws may prevent us from fulfilling a request (we cannot photocopy an entire book, or significant portions of the book, without permission from the author and/or publisher)
-If you would like to view microfilm that we do not currently own, we generally can borrow it for you. Please go to our online Interlibrary Loan form.

Requests that do not adhere to these guidelines cannot be processed! We receive several requests per week. Time and staff constraints prevent us dedicating significant amounts of time to these requests.

We do not charge any fees for this service (although we reserve the right to do so in cases of excessive staff load).

Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County
201 North Mulberry Street
Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050
(740)392-BOOK (2665)
Hours: Monday-Thursday 9-9; Friday & Saturday 9-5
http://www.knox.net/


Most materials are in the Genealogy Room near the Reference Desk; We have limited resources for other counties.
We do not have birth, marriage, or death records at the Library!

-History of Knox County: Hill, 1881; Norton, 1779-1862; Lorey, 1876-1976
-Past and Present of Knox County, 1912
-Biographical Record of Knox County, 1902
-Atlases of Knox County, 1871 and 1896
-Family histories
-Marriage index, covers 1808-1875
-Death Records index, covers 1867-1908
-Obituary indices, substantial but not complete
-Knox County cemeteries index
-Will abstracts, not complete
-Knox Co. census beginning 1820, excluding 1890 (records on microfilm, indexes 1830-1880)
-Mount Vernon newspapers from 1840s (on microfilm and generally NOT indexed)

Copies: 15 cents for photocopies; 25 cents for microfilm copies

 

E-mail: library@knox.net