If you are fortunate in living near some of the institution which specialize in archives of this sort of music, then you may want to pay them a visit and see just how much is available. This is not meant to be an all inclusive list of sources, but a few that you may want to investigate. Visiting their websites will give you more information.

http://ils.unc.edu/barba/sfc.html Southern Folklife Collection~~University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

http://www.etsu-tn.edu/archapp/aapprac.htm Archives of Appalachia~~East Tennessee State University at Johnson City.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/ American Folklife Center~~Library of Congress in Washington DC.

No website yet, but on the way! The Resource Center at the Ozark Folk Center~~Mountain View, Arkansas. Just yesterday, I was working on the song database which has nearly 7,000 entries so far, and growing almost daily, as Donna and the staff get to it. The database will direct you to which book or books in the Center's holdings the song is located in.

http://celtic.stanford.edu/tunesearch.html Not a library, but a great site which has an index of hundreds of tune books with reportedly over 35,000 entries.

http://www.mcs.com/%7Ehammerd/fvfs/outlinks.html#INDX The Fox Valley Folklore Society has a HUGE list of links to sites of interest to music lovers. I will not even attempt to describe the scope of this fabulous list.

http://www.dogpile.com/ And finally, do not underestimate the value of a good multi-engine search and a little ingenuity. I use dogpile, but I am sure that there are others. Since it searches 15 or more of the common search engines at the same time, I find it invaluable when searching for something out there on the fringes. Many times, I have not found what I was looking for until 8, 10, or more search engines had been gone through.

Hope some of this stuff helps somebody!