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| Swem Library at the College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia |
400 Landrum Drive
P.O. Box 8794 (23187-8794)
Williamsburg, VA 23185
757-221-INFO (4636)
http://www.Swem.wm.edu
E-mail: swem@wm.edu
Open Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m.‒2:00 a.m.; Friday, 8:00 a.m.‒8:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m.‒8:00 p.m. and Sunday, 10:00 a.m.‒2:00 a.m.
Repository
The College of William and Mary’s Earl Gregg Swem Library in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers a significant collection of genealogical materials and helpful librarians! As part of a public university, Swem Library is open to all, free of charge. We’d love for you to visit our beautiful facility, located at 400 Landrum Drive in Williamsburg.Be Prepared
Several public computers are available for searching our catalog and databases. And if you want to capture information, there are options to photocopy, scan, photograph (no flash, please), and save to your laptop or your flash drive.Holdings
At Swem Library, you’ll find standard genealogy reference sources, located in our Virginia Genealogy Resource Center, plus hundreds of published state and local sources, family papers, church records, and more. The collection is particularly strong in Virginia and Southern sources, but is also broad in scope. Our resources include genealogy collections such as Boddie’s Historical Southern Families and Pecquet du Bellet’s Some Prominent Virginia Families, as well as military records including the Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865 and Index to Revolutionary War Service Records.Collections
For an overview of Swem’s genealogy resources, visit http://guides.swem.wm.edu/genealogy. We also have a helpful online guide to genealogy resources located in our Special Collections Research Center, such as the Tyree Collection, which includes more than 600 notebooks of research compiled by Young Tyree based largely on Virginia county records. You can access the guide at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/scrcgenandlocal.Swem Library is open open Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m.‒2:00 a.m.; Friday, 8:00 a.m.‒8:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m.‒8:00 p.m. and Sunday, 10:00 a.m.‒2:00 a.m. Hours vary during semester breaks and in the summer. Please visit http://www.swem.wm.edu for full hours, directions, and parking information or contact us at swem@wm.edu.
Dr. Earl Gregg Swem
By the way, the library is named for Dr. Earl Gregg Swem, William & Mary’s college librarian in the 1920s‒1940s and editor of the Virginia Historical Index, a source familiar to many genealogists. Dr. Earl Gregg Swem was inducted into the National Genealogical Society Hall of Fame in 2013. A bio of Dr. Swem can be found on the NGS Hall of Fame at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/halloffame_winners. Scroll down to the 2013 winner.Conference Tour to Colonial Williamsburg and Swem Library
If you are attending the conference and plan to do research at the Swem Library, one of the Richmond Discovery Tours on Monday 5 May 2014 will be a bus tour to the Swem Library and Colonial Williamsburg. More details about the Williamsburg tour and the other tours before the conference are available at http://www.richmonddiscoveries.com/ngs.php. The password is NGS2014. The coach tour to Williamsburg does not include the cost of admission to Colonial Williamsburg nor does it include lunch. Space at the Swem Library is limited for access to the special collections, so contact janalpert@aol.com if you are taking the coach on Monday, 5 May 2014, to reserve a seat at the Swem Library.
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