MISSION:
At the Society’s organizational meeting on June 21, 1979 Carl Albert was elected as the Society’s first President. He made a few statements about a possible course of action for the group: 1) the preservation of the records of the county should be paramount and 2) the Society should attempt to record every man, woman and child who ever lived in Pittsburg County.
The newly formed Society held its first meeting in September 1979 and the suggested course of action for the group was converted into two objectives:
- to collect, categorize, and make available genealogical and historical data of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, as well as this part of the Choctaw Nation;
- to assist each interested person in developing genealogical skills.
These objectives have been pursued through the efforts of the members and volunteers.
COLLECTIONS:
The Library’s collections have grown to over 7,000 items including more than a thousand significant genealogical books, approximately 250 family history books, and nearly 900 rolls of microfilm.
Collections are nice but they are more accessible when indexed. The Society’s Master Index contains over 250,000 lines of data. Each line represents the occurrence of a name in one of the following:
- U.S. Census Records
- 1900 Choctaw Nation
- 1910, 1920, 1930 Pittsburg County
- Funeral Home Records
- Obituaries (Ongoing project)
- 1920 and 1930 Pittsburg County School Records
- Marriage Records (Partially Indexed)
- Early Minister Records
- Fatalities in the Coal Mines of Indian Territory and Southeastern Oklahoma 1885-1962
- Countians at War (World War II Scrapbooks)
- Red Book (clipping of World War II fatalities)
- Naturalization Records
The Cemetery Records have been converted to word searchable PDF for in-library use.
AVAILABILITY:
All records and collections are available at the Society’s Genealogy Library. There is no entrance fee or research fee. Volunteers are available to provide research assistance.
While remote access to these collections is not currently available our volunteers respond to queries submitted by “Contact US“, mail, email or telephone.