Special Newberry Materials

Genealogical Index of the Newberry Library
This index was created by genealogical librarians at the Newberry over the course of twenty years. It includes references to 3,000 different genealogical items published before 1917, and therefore contains quite a bit of valuable information involving the early genealogical collection. The index itself is rather difficult to use because it is so old and because most of the call numbers that it refers one to have been superseded. The library provides users with "how-to" handouts for the index because of this.

The Family Research Files
These research files are records that have been donated by genealogists or families. The files are incredible because they are composed of a mix of correspondences, newspapers and even personal journals among other documents. The files are organized by family surnames.
http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/verticalfiles.html

Genealogy Readings
Different materials have been published to help familiarize people with the Newberry's genealogy collection.
http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/genealogypubs.html