Colin, If your looking for information on all these towns I guess the best library would be the State Library in Concord. As an alternative both the Manchester Historical Assoc. and the Manchester Library have very good collections and they are only a block apart. The Nashua Library also has a history room. Good Luck Steve At 11:50 AM 09/08/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Dear list members, > I will be chasing my ancestral ghosts in Londonderry, Chester, >Litchfield, Manchester, Dover, Merrimack, Rochester and Portsmouth from Sat. >to Tuesday on the 16th through 19th of September. I was wondering if any >locals or prior genealogical visitors could provide some tips on specific >places to visit. I obviously can't spend a day in each town so I wanted to >narrow my choices down as much as possible. > Does anyone know of a library that would have the most local town > history >books? The more town histories I find the more my folks names pop up. So I'd >like to get as many local histories as possible. Any other genealogy library >or genealogical society for those towns or areas would be also helpful. I am >aware of the Family History Center, but I have one near me so that wouldn't >be a valuable use of time. Since my ancestors are the early 1700 founders of >this state, the early histories and genealogy records are what I am trying to >find. >Thanks for all your help, >Colin Brooks > >surnames: MCDUFFEE, BOYD, DARRAH, TOWNE, DWINNELL, HAM, UNDERWOOD, YOUNG, >FLAGG, MCKEAN, PERKINS, DOWNING, LUND etc. etc.