Indiana Memory website

Indiana Memory, a digital library, is now online:

http://www.in.gov/memories/

The Indiana Memory Project is a statewide collaborative effort by libraries, historical societies, archives and other cultural insitutions. It provides online access to primary sources related to Indiana’s history.

May is Historical Preservation Month

For more information and a calendar of events go to:

http://www.in.gov/feature.htm

Job Opening at the Local History & Genealogy Center

We have a part time position (30 hours a week) available at the Local History & Genealogy Center. For more information and to apply go to the “Career Opportunities” section on our website:

http://www.munpl.org/default.asp?PageIndex=325

Happy Holidays

The holiday season is a great time to work on a genealogy project. As families gather together, they can talk to one another about their family history. Older relatives should be “interviewed” by the younger ones about their family tree. It is a good time to gather around the fireplace and listen to Grandma’s and Grandpa’s stories. Aunts, uncles, cousins could also swap stories and share the family history they have compiled.

Family photos could also be shared. Older photographs are often the most valuable to genealogists.  You can scan photographs and download them on to a flash drive for free at the Local History & Genealogy Center

Several sources that can help you compile your family tree are available at the Local History & Genealogy Center. We hope you visit our Center this holiday season.

Harvest Fest is this Week!

Don’t miss our exciting programs!

For more information:

http://munplblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/harvest-fest-is-coming/

October is Family History Month

What are you doing to celebrate? Why not visit the Muncie Public Library Genealogy & Local History Center and compile your family tree?

Be sure to attend  our “Harvest Fest” events:

http://munplblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/harvest-fest-is-coming/

Beech Grove Cemetery Records now online!

Muncie Public Library has partnered with Beech Grove Cemetery to create an online database of their burials. It is part of the Muncie/Delaware County Digital Resource Library:

http://www.munpl.org/default.asp?PageIndex=800

Beech Grove Cemetery is a large, historical (and beautiful ) cemetery established in Muncie in 1841. The database contains over 42,000 burials.

Please join us at the Beech Grove Cemetery Chapel on October 11th for a lecture and walking tour of the cemetery. The walking tour will begin at 6:30pm. You will also learn more about using the online database of burials.

For more information call (765) 741-5153

Delaware County launches new Website

Delaware County government has created a new interactive website:

http://www.co.delaware.in.us/

Of particular interest to genealogists will be the forms the Health Department has put online for requesting vital records.

Ancestry.com puts more military records online

Over 90 million U.S. war records have been recently added to subscription database, AncestryLibrary.com. The scope of the records stretch from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 to the Vietnam War’s end in 1975. The records include draft registration cards from both World Wars, Civil War pension records, military yearbooks and more. Of course, not every record is available. Many military records remain classified or have been lost or destroyed. Muncie Public Library has a subcription to AncestryLibrary.com and the databases can accessed from any computer in the library.