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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
Thomas Balch Library Adds New Historical And Genealogical
Databases To Research Resources
Leesburg, VA (June 30, 2011) – Leesburg’s Thomas Balch Library recently added three new
historical and genealogical databases to the library’s resources. All three of the new databases
are searchable and include:
• QuakerMeetings, a database that documents efforts to record basic historical information
about every monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends that has ever existed in
North America. Records of over 2,000 meetings are currently available, with more
information available as research continues.
• Civil War, in Words and Deeds, a vast database of over 144,000 images that document the
Civil War through regimental histories, personal narratives, and other sources of significant
historical value from the period between 1860 and 1865. Items available in this database
are some of the most useful sources available to historians of both local and Civil War
history, as well as to genealogists.
• Freedom Riders in the South, 1961. Subtitled "We Were Prepared For the Possibility of
Death," and drawn from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library, this comprehensive
database contains documents which describes the journey of civil rights activists who rode
interstate buses into the segregated South to test the results of United States Supreme
Court decisions outlawing racial segregation in southern interstate bus terminals. This
important resource celebrates the 50th anniversary of the CORE Freedom Riders.
For more information about these databases and other historical research resources available
at the Thomas Balch Library, please visit www.leesburgva.gov/index.aspx?page=86.
About the Thomas Balch Library: The Thomas Balch Library is a genealogy and local history
library owned and operated by the Town of Leesburg. A designated Underground Railroad
research site, the Library’s collections focus on Loudoun County, regional and Virginia history,
genealogy, military history with special emphasis on the American Civil War, and ethnic history.
Contact:
Alexandra S. Gressitt, Library Director
agressitt@leesburgva.gov • 703-737-7196
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