[Contact: Ann Mensch]
Indiana
*Additional
Research Resources:
·
National Atlas of
the United States
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U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and
Cartographic Resources
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U.S. Gazetteer,
online search for place names.
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U.S. Census Bureau: State
& County QuickFacts for Indiana
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List of Indiana's Territorial
and State Governors
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Access Indiana - http://www.in.gov/
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Indiana Digital County Network
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Indiana
State Department of Health (Birth and Death Certificates)
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Indiana State Information Center
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Student
Fact Book for Indiana
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Indiana State Museum and Historic
Sites - Historic
Sites List
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Indiana Code:
Table of Contents page.
Circuit
Court Clerk
(for marriage, divorce and probate records)
See a description of a Circuit Court Clerk's responsibilities from the Indiana
Code, Article 17 (Circuit Court Clerks): IC 33-17-1,
Chapter 1. Powers
and Duties.
County Recorder (For Land Records, such as Deeds and Land Transfers)
See a description of an Indiana County Recorder's responsibilities from the
Indiana Code:
§
IC 36-2-11, Chapter 11. County
Recorder.
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IC 10-2-9
Chapter 9. Awards and Decorations
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IC 23-4. Indiana Code regarding Cemetery
Associations and Regulations in Indiana.
·
Obtaining Indiana Birth and Death
Certificates
·
Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration
Project
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Researching
Tippecanoe County Cemeteries: Notes from a Presentation, by
Marlene Mattox, 7/01/00, reprinted on the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries
Restoration Project website.
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Indiana Pioneer
Cemeteries In the News
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Indiana
Recorders Association
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Association of Indiana Counties
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County websites via an Indiana
map.
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Indiana County
Courts online
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Indiana Historical
Society 450 West Ohio Street - Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
Phone: (317) 232-1882, (800) IHS-1830.
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The Hoosier
Genealogist - periodical.
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Traces of
Indiana and Midwestern History - periodical. Indiana Historical Society: Membership
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The Society of Indiana
Pioneers 450 West Ohio Street - Indianapolis, IN
46202.
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Local
County Library and Historical Society Directory
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Indiana Historical Bureau
140 North Senate Avenue - Room 408 - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
Phone: (317) 232-2535 TDD: (317) 232-7763
E-mail: ihb@statelib.lib.in.us
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Download Indiana Historian
Magazines
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Indiana Governors' Portraits
Collection
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Documents Leading to
Statehood
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Northwest
Territory Ordinance: 1787
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1801
Map of Northwest Territories
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Map
of Indiana Counties in 1816 - by John Mellish, 1817.
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Map
of Indiana Counties in 1830
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Historic
Indiana Map Collection
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Indiana's
Counties in 2000 with map and origin of county names.
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Digital
Images Online Library
§
Order
Book of the U. S. District Court for the District of Indiana, 1817-1833
and Name
Index, compiled by Doria Lynch
§
Abstracts
of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana (Quaker Records),
edited by Ruth Dorrel and Thomas D. Hamm
Indiana State Library.
140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
Indiana Biography Index
(published before 1990)
Indiana Biography Index
(published since 1990)
Index of Indiana Marriages
Through 1850.
Index of Indiana Marriages,
1993 through 2002
Newspaper Holdings:
Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)
Images of Indiana: 92 Counties //
from Adams to Whitley
Vital Information Exchange (VINE)
World War II Veterans Online
Information Center
Indiana State Archives.
6440 E. 30th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone:
(317) 591-5222
Fort Wayne Land Office Entries,
1823-1852
LaPorte-Winamac Land Office Entries,
1833-1855 .
Indian Lands Noted On The
LaPorte-Winamac Land Office .
Naturalization Databases
for the Indiana counties of Blackford, Dubois, Elkhart, Floyd, Hamilton,
Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Owen,
Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Switzerland, Union, Wayne, and Whitley.
Indiana
Soldier’s and Sailor’s Children’s Home
Indianapolis and Marion County
Employees, 1890-1926
Index
to Life Prisoner’s Statements: State
Prison at Michigan City
Central
State Hospital Collection Index and History of patient life
Other
Indiana Hospitals for the Mentally Ill and Developmentally Disabled
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Indiana
Archival and Historical Repositories
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Index of
Miami Names in Archives, The Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory
Archives: The Miami Collection, online by Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology
and The Trustees of Indiana University.
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Indiana Tourism - Enjoy Indiana! - Regional Tourism
Online
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Extant Indiana
Railroad/Railway Structures, by Railroad
Station Historical Society, Inc.
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railroaddata.com -
links to over 4,000 railroad websites.
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Keith's Collected
Railroad Sites
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The Naturalization
Process and the various records which may exist, by the Milwaukee
County Historical Society, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, contains examples of the 3
types of records which may be filed during the naturalization process:
declarations of intent, petitions, and naturalization certificates! Though this
is NOT an INDIANA site, it is an informative web page.
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Ronald Branson's online Indiana counties collection: countyhistory.com!
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Allen County Public Library - Digital
Photo Collection for Allen County
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Indiana Genealogical Society
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Indiana
Archival and Historical Repositories
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The
Underground Railroad, by Hazel Carrasco and Owen Solberg.
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The Poorhouse Story, by
Linda Crannell and CCS.
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Indiana
Biographies, by Deb Murray
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LOC: ca. 1775: An
accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishing the
British, Spanish and French dominions on this great continent; exhibiting the
present seat of war, and the French encroachments. Also all the West India
Islands belonging to, and possessed by the several European princes and states.
The whole laid down according to the latest and most authentick improvements,
by Eman. Bowen, geogr. to His Majesty and John Gibson, engraver.
Published in London, Printed for Robt. Sayer [1775?] "Shows boundaries,
cities and towns, roads, forts, missions, some industries, trails, trade
routes, portages, and vegetation. Also shows Indian villages and tribal
territories, routes of navigation in the Gulf of Mexico, and navigational
hazards along the coast. Includes historical notes, references to
symbols, notes on territorial claims, and insets of "A particular map of
Baffin and Hudson's Bay" and "The passage by land to
California." Described in United States. Library of Congress. The
Lowery collection. 1912. No. 409."
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LOC: ca. 1750 Map: Carta
geografica dell' America settentrionale. by L'Isle, Guillaume de,
1675-1726. Published: [Venezia, 1750]. "Covers area including North
America, Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
Shows boundaries, cities and towns, forts, some trails, routes of exploration,
and Indian villages and tribal territory. Appears in the author's
Atlante Novissimo (1740-50), v. 2."
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LOC: ca. 1753, A Map of
the western parts of the province of Pennsylvania, Virginia, &c.
Published: [1753?] "To the Honourable House of Representatives of
the Province of Pennsylvania this map is most humbly inscribed by their most
obedient and humble servant." Shows area from the Wabash River on
the west to the Scioto River on the east, and from Lake Huron on the north to
the Green River in Kentucky on the south. While one is not an exact copy
of the other, there is great similarity to the "Traders map" ascribed
to John Patten in Howard N. Eavenson's Map makers & Indian traders,
1949. On verso: No. 52. Map of the western parts of the province of
Pennsylvania & Virginia &c. A sketch ...
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ca. 1795-1802: A map
exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America
: inscribed by permission to the honourable governor and company of adventurers
of England trading into Hudsons Bay in testimony of their liberal
communications to their most obedient and very humble servant A. Arrowsmith,
January 1st 1795. By Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823). Published London : A.
Arrowsmith, [1802].
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Indian land cessions
in the United States, comp. by Charles C. Royce, with introduction by Cyrus
Thomas, Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923. Library of Congress
Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA (Call Number:
E51 .U55 18th). [Url:
<http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701em.gct00002>]
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A map of Louisiana, with
the course of the Missisipi, and the adjacent rivers, the nations of the
natives, the French establishments and the mines; by the author of ye History
of that colony. 1757. Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775. London, Printed for T.
Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1763, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA (Call Number: G4010 1757 .L4 Vault).
[Url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4010.ar167200>]
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A general map of the
middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware,
Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Of
Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending
Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio and Thuchsochruntie
their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage and Skaniadarade their beaver
hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain, and of part of New
France: Wherein is also shewn the antient and present seats of the Indian
nations; carefully copied from the original published at Philadelphia,
by Mr. Lewis Evans 1755, with some improvements by I. Gibson, [London] Sold by
T. Jefferys, 1758. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA (Call Number: G3710 1758 .G5 Vault).
[Url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3710.ar071200>]
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Native
American and Early Area Map Resources, online by the Ohio Historical
Society.
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Brief
description of the Indiana Territory development, online by the Ohio
Historical Society.
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A correct map of the
seat of war. by Lewis, Samuel. Published [S.l., 1812].
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650.
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Indiana Migrations
Project, by Patrick Hays.
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1816
Indiana Map, by John Melish (Philadelphia : John Melish, [1819], online
by the Indiana Historical Society
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Indiana Towns - 1826,
from Sam Cline.
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Indiana Post Offices-1875,
from Sam Cline.
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Indiana 1895 Atlas, by
Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
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1852
Map of the state of Indiana compiled from the United States surveys by
S. D. King, Washington City. Exhibiting the sections & fractional sections;
the situation & boundaries of counties; the location of cities villages
& post offices canals, rail roads and other internal improvements,
carefully laid down.
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1858
Johnson's map of Indiana showing the rail roads and townships compiled
from the latest & best authorities.
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1860 Colton's map of the
state of Indiana compiled from the United States surveys & other
authentic sources, exhibiting sections, fractional sections, railroads, canals
&c.
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1888
Cram's township and rail road map of Indiana.
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Digital
Collections of IUPUI University Library
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States and Counties,
Quick Facts - Interactive County
Maps for Indiana.
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Historical U. S. Census
Data Browser
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Color Landform Atlas of
the United States
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Use the query form, at USGS,
to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and
more. Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as
a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is
actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual
feature. This database may not be complete, and, as with any database,
there may be errors.
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USGS: National Map Viewer, search
for geographic features and locations.
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The Federal Geographic Data Committee
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Mapping: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
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MapStats - for Indiana
- provides statistics and links to additional data sources produced by more
than 70 agencies in the United States.
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EPA: EnviroMapper
- Indiana
Map -allows users to view spatial data at the national, state, and
county levels, as well as utilize GIS functionality, such as displaying
multiple spatial layers, zooming, panning, identifying features, displaying
latitude and longitude, and querying single Envirofacts points.
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Bureau Of Land Management - General
Land Office Records: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming
land patents and State
Resources for Research
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Land
Descriptions : Township / Range
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http://www.co.blm.gov/
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MapQuest
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Microsoft Expedia Maps -
find address, directions, etc.
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Local Catholic Church History
& Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory + Indiana*
Page.
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Enjoy Indiana - Tourism
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Railway List, online
by Technical Society for Rail Operations Safety & Signaling
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Indiana in the Civil War,
by Kristopher and Larry Ligget
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Indiana
Regiments in the Civil War - a must see for IN Civil War research
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Letters, Diaries
and Stories
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Library of Congress - Civil War
Maps Collection and Civil
War Photographs
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National Personnel Records Center:
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The
Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and
Periodicals
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How
to Make Money for the Missionaries: An original Essay written by a Girl
eleven years old, and read by her at a Woman's Foreign Missionary Meeting in
Indiana, from "The American missionary", Volume 34, Issue 3, Mar
1880, online from Cornell U. MOA.
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History of the Indiana National
Guard
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Decorations and Medals
World War II Veterans Online
Information Center
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Indiana Battleflag
Collection - a photo and brief history of a few select battle
flags in the Indiana War Memorial
Commission's collection.
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Library of Congress: Civil War Battles by
State
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American Civil War
Alphabetic List of Battles,
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eHistory: Civil
War Battles by State, Civil War
Units & Regimental Information and more.
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The National Park Service : Military History
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An
Overview of Records at the National Archives Relating to Military Service,
By Trevor K. Plante
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Access
to Military Service and Pension Records
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Indiana Townships
Association: Identify
Townships, population and contact.
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Specific duties of
the civil township Trustee.
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Indiana Association of Cities and
Towns.
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Pacific Information Resources,
Inc.: Free Public Record Database - for Indiana
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Indiana Naturalization
records to 1951 - counties included: partial
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Colonel Eli Lilly Civil
War Museum
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They
Answered the Call: Military Service in the United States Army during World War
I, 1917-1919, by Mitchell Yockelson.
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WWI Document Archive - and Photo
Archive
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Co.
K, 2nd Indiana Infantry - WWI (photo)
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U.S. Army
Military History Institute: Unit Histories - WWI
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The Doughboy Center -
presented by The Great War Society.
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World War II Veterans
Online Information Center
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The Vietnam Veterans of
America: The VVA
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USA Veterans' Administration
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Request Deceased USA Veterans' Records? Phone: 1-800-827-1000.
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Regional and Local
offices contacts page
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Indiana Department of
Veterans' Affairs
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Indianapolis,
Indiana Regional Office
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Veteran's Burial & Memorial Benefits
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How to Obtain Military Records:
Military service records are kept by the National Personnel Records Center
(NPRC) which is under the jurisdiction of the National
Archives and Records Administration.
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NARA:
Access to Military Service and Pension Records National
Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132-5100
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Request
Pertaining to Military Records.
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NAIL
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USA Department of Veterans' Affairs Home Page
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Request Deceased USA Veterans' Records? Phone: 1-800-827-1000.
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U.S. Army Military
History Institute
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American Battle Monuments Commission
- War Dead -
"...maintains a listing of those interred at the American military
cemeteries overseas and those Missing in Action from World War I, World War II,
Korea and Vietnam. In addition it has a listing of war veterans
buried at our Corozal American Cemetery and those who lost their lives during
the Korean War..."
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National Register of Historic
Places
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African American
History - Aboard
the Underground Railroad & Route Map
& List
of Sites by State.
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NARA: National Archives and
Records Administration
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1790-1890
Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm
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1930
Census Microfilm Locator
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Clues in
Census Records, 1790-1840
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Clues in
Census Records, 1850-1930
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Nonpopulation
Census Records
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Prologue, Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First
in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census,
by Kellee Blake.
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Immigration Records
and Naturalization
Records
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"Any
woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca.
1802-1940", by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)
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By
Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border,
1895-1954, By Marian L. Smith (St. Albans Lists) (Fall 2000) — A guide
to using immigration records of the U.S.-Canada border.
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Military Records
available from the National Archives
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Military
Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
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Civil
War Records: An Introduction and Invitation, By Michael P. Musick
(Prologue, Summer 1995)
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Women
Soldiers of the Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
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Sailors,
Soldiers, and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS
Maine, By Rebecca Livingston (Prologue, Spring 1998).
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They
Answered the Call: Military Service in the United States Army during
World War I, 1917-1919 (Prologue, Fall 1998).
-- A guide to looking for information about World War I army veterans - By
Mitchell Yockelson.
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State-level
Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and the Vietnam
Conflict , By Theodore J. Hull, (Prologue, Spring 2000).
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Indian
Bounty Land Applications, By Mary Frances Morrow (Prologue,
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American Indians A Select
Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications Snakes
& Scribes: The
Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks, By Kent Carter, in
"Prologue" (Prologue, Spring 1997)
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Genealogical
Fallout from the War of 1812, By Ruth Priest Dixon (Prologue, Spring
1992) - "...The impressment of American seamen by the British was one of
the causes of the War of 1812. The practice also resulted in the creation of
extensive records about merchant seamen that are of great value to genealogists
and historians..."
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Genealogical
Records of the War of 1812, By Stuart L. Butler (Prologue, Winter 1991)
- "...National Archives records created during and after the War of 1812
offer the genealogist a diverse and fertile ground in which to obtain
invaluable family information..."
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Preserving
the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops, by Budge Weidman
(Prologue, Summer 1997)
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A
Guiding Light: Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National
Archives, By Debra Newman Ham (Prologue, Special Issue, Summer 1997).
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From
Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in
the Civil War Era, By Noralee Frankel (Prologue, Summer 1997)
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Riding
the Rails Up Paper Mountain: Researching Railroad Records in the National
Archives, By David A. Pfeiffer (Spring 1997).
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Obtaining EDs for the 1930 Census in One
Step (Large Cities), by Stephen P. Morse, PhD, Joel D. Weintraub, PhD
and David R. Kehs, PhD
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familysearch.org - 1880
Census Index
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1820
Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
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Tina's Adoption Reform
and Search Pages (all states).
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Library of Congress:
American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Indiana town
and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!
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Library of Congress: Map
Collections: U.S.A.
Maps Index.
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Library of Congress: Railroad Maps,
1828-1900
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Map
showing the lines of the Columbus, Chicago, and Indiana Central Railway, and
their
connections,
by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., New York, 1868.
·
The First
American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages
of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and
transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the
early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the
University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville,
Kentucky.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection -
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Historical Maps of the
United States - Historical Maps with early trails and roads
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U.S. Territorial Growth: 1775,
1790,
1800,
1810,
1820,
1830,
1840,
1850,
1860,
1870,
1880,
1900,
1920,
Admission
of States and Territorial Acquisition, U.S.
and Outlying Areas 1970
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Exploration
and Settlement: 1800-1820
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Exploration
and Settlement: 1820-1835
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MOA: Making of America - Browse
Cornell University's MoA Journal Collection
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DNR: Indiana
Canoeing Guide and Indiana's Rivers: Canoeing
Trails.
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Library of Congress - State Libraries
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Indiana Public
Libraries Online
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Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the
Internet for Indiana!
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Hoosier Heritage Digital Library
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SearchSystems.net -
Searchable Public Record Databases online
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The American Village -
American Revolution era living history
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Newspapers around the world - PPPPnet
links - Indiana
News Links
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Birth Date Calculator,
by Ben Buckner: The script calculates the birth date when the age at
death and the date of death are know, according to the Gregorian calendar, with
New Year on Jan. 1.
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SS: Popular Baby
Names by Decade
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Social Security Online - History
of Social Security
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Social Security Death Index
Interactive Search, on Rootsweb
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Social
Security Death Index Search, on ancestry.com
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Interment.net - Indiana
Cemeteries
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IC 14-21-1: Chapter
1. Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology
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IC 23-14-67: Chapter
67. Care of Cemeteries by Counties
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IC 23-14-68: Chapter
68. Care of Cemeteries by Townships
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The Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries
Restoration Project
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Saving Graves - Indiana
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Norton Arts Monument
Conservation - in Arkansas
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Cemetery
Research and Gravestone Rubbings, by Patty Bancroft Roberts
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Cemetery Do's &
Don'ts From the Connecticut Gravestone Network
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American History & Genealogy Project
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RootsWeb.com - Genealogy.
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My History is America's History
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WorldGenWeb Project -
Genealogy
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USGenWeb Project -
for Indiana Genealogy.
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USGenWeb Archives
Special Projects
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1820 Indiana
Census Index, by Lori!
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NARA: 1930 Census Microfilm
Locator for Indiana
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Indiana
Biographies Project - coordinated by Deb Murray.
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FamilySearch - LDS
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Everton.com - Genealogy
Resources in the U.S.A.
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Cemetery
Junction for Indiana.
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Cemetery Records Online -
Cemeteries and Genealogy.
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Library of Congress: Online Map
Collection.
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Online
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McDougal
Littell State Spotlight: Click on your state in the map or the list to
find a wealth of state-specific educational resources.
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WorkersGov - Connecting American
Workers and their Families to Government Services and Information.
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FirstGov: U.S. Government Online
Directory
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National Register of Historic
Places Bulletin: Researching
a Historic Property, by Eleanor O'Donnell.
·
The Political Graveyard,
for Indiana,
created and maintained by Lawrence
Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and
cemeteries.
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Geographic Index
to Politician Births and Deaths in Indiana.
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History of the
WPA: The Work Project Administration, by Brenna Harper and Kyle Weaver
- The W.P.A. was established in 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a
work program for the unemployed during the Depression, and lasted through 1943.
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National Archeological
Database Maps
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DNR: Indiana Department of Natural Resources
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List of
Endangered, Threatened and Rare Species by county.
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Indiana State Museum and Historic
Sites.
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Indiana
Environmental Organizations
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GORP: Great Outdoor
Recreation Guide for Indiana.
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MapQuest
Professional
Research
Ann McRoden Mensch,
Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsite, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library,
holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America.
Search the Library's
online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a
location or topic.
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