Climbing Your Hoosier Family Tree November 2000 Volume 1, Issue #10

Welcome to the latest issue, hope you find some info that will aid you in finding your Hoosier ancestors. The first site to check out in this issue is: https://members.tripod.com/~KHuish/index.html This site has tons of genealogy links, also some good Indiana links!

Found on the Hendricks County Rootsweb mailing list: A list of genealogy/history links that are bound to give your research a kick-start! Please visit http://www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=134249

Are you trying to find online census records? One place to look is http://www.nara.gov/nara/searchmicro.html

Are you trying to find some online biographies of your ancestors to add some details to the bare bones dates and places? Then you want to check out the National Bio-Bin. Visit http://www.genexchange.org/biobin.cfm

Are some former Federal employees hiding in your family tree? The National Personnel Records Center Civilian Records Facility can be a big help; they can be contacted at 111 Winnebago Street, St. Louis, MO 63118-4126 phone (314) 538-5761. This facility houses personnel and medical records of former Federal civilian employees from ~1900 to present.

Civil War Site of the Month To read up on the history of Indiana units, how they were organized, and what battles they served in, take a look at http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionin.htm

What about those female ancestors that are hard to track down? I'm sure there are a few "Great-Aunt Mary" or "Great-grandma Sarah" folks in your files who are resistant to being found...here's an option for searching. Go to http://geneasearch.com/ and click on the Female Ancestors button. Congrats to Donna Trewitt on this helpful site!

What about recent ancestors who died during World War I? There might be info available to you in a searchable online database courtesy of the American Battle Monuments Commision web site, found at http://www.abmc.gov/

Counties changing borders, changing names...are these changes complicating your research? To avoid hitting the ibuprofen for a raging headache, take a look at this site: http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html to access the data base query form for the USGS Mapping Information site.

If printing some of your family trees in book form is a resolution of yours for 2001, take a look at Royal Palm Press at their site.

Going to Indiana for research? Is your research trip going to take you to the southwestern part of the state? Located approximately 30 miles from Evansville is the quaint little settlement of New Harmony. This was a religious community originally, settled by George Rapp who formed the Harmony Society. To learn more about New Harmony and get directions to include it on your itinerary, please go to http://www.usi.edu/hnh/hnh1.htm

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