Tuesday's Tip - Use WorldCat.org to Find the Nearest Repository for a Book

This week's Tuesday's Tip is:  Use WorldCat.org to find the nearest repository for a specific book.

A reader emailed me asking where I found the book:

Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908 (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).

I went to www.WorldCat.org, and put the book title in the search box:

 After clicking "Search everything" on the screen above, I saw the results:

I selected the first one from the list, and saw:

Further down the screen, WorldCat provides a list of the repositories that hold this book, listed by distance from your zip code (you need to enter it into the form):
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There are five pages, about 29 entries, on the list.

The closest repository to me is Fresno County Public Library, about 325 miles away.  I think I read it at  the Family History Library in Salt Lake City many years ago.  I hope my reader is close to one of the listed repositories.

Have you used WorldCat.org to find repositories with genealogy books that you want to read?

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