SEOLS & Genealogy Societies
The Southeast Oklahoma Library System provides several resources to help you with your genealogy and local history needs. Three of our libraries: Choctaw County Public Library, Coal County Public Library, and Patrick Lynch Public Library, have genealogy societies located in their libraries. All of our libraries have items dealing with local histories including some rare books.
Finally, our patrons have access to a variety of online resources they can use to do their genealogy research.
Click here for materials on how to do genealogical research located in SEOLS libraries.
Genealogy Libraries located in a SEOLS library
- Choctaw County Genealogical Society – the Heritage Room at the Choctaw County Library in Hugo.
- Coal County Genealogical Society – located at the Coal County Library in Coalgate
- Leflore County Genealogical Society – located at the Patrick Lynch Public Library in Poteau.
- McCurtain County Genealogical Society - located at the Idabel Public Library.
Genealogy Programs
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Genealogy Databases
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A listing of African-American historical newspapers and magazines across the United States that can be read online
Find birth, death, and census records. Ancestry is available at home to our patrons until September 2021. Learn more with the Ancestry LibGuide.
ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.
AtoZdatabases is the Premier Job Search, Reference & Mailing List Database including 30 million business & executive profiles & 240 million residents.
Biography Reference Center provides thousands of reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography Today and Biography, plus narrative biographies not available in other da
DPLA offers a one-stop discovery experience for more than 40 million digital cultural heritage objects—images, text, videos, and audio clips—aggregated from 40-plus libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.
Extensive digital collection of Southeast Oklahoma newspapers dating from the 1800s to the present. Due to copyright restrictions only accessible inside the library or connected to our Wi-Fi.
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) includes sixteen thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.
Genealogical Libraries
CHOCTAW HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Documents, historical and genealogy research assistance
309 N B St
Hugo, OK 74743
United States
Documents, historical and genealogy research assistance
PO Box 436
Coalgate, OK 74538
United States
Documents, historical and genealogy research assistance
204 East Main Street
Stigler, OK 74462
United States
Documents, historical and genealogy research assistance
301 W. Ada
Wilburton, OK 74578
United States
County Maintenance and Road Repair
303 Dewey
Poteau, OK 74953
United States
Genealogy & Historical Research Assistance
206 South McKenna
Poteau, OK 74953
United States
Research documents and assistance
13 East Carl Albert Parkway
McAlester, OK 74501
United States