Climbing Your Hoosier Family Tree
January 2001 Volume 2, Number 1




Welcome to another issue, put the coffee on to brew and warm up the printer! This issue has a variety of sites for you to check out, all with the goal of helping you find more info on your Indiana ancestors. Ready to start?


When Traveling to Indiana....
Have you planned on including a trip to Fort Wayne on your next research trip? Even if you didn't have kin in Ft. Wayne, visiting the Genealogy Research Center at the Allen County Public Library would be worth your time...the home of the 2nd largest genealogy collection in the US! Contact the Fort Wayne/Allen County Visitors Bureau at (800) 896-6088 for special discount packages.




If taking lots of pictures of the old homesteads, tombstones, churches, and the like, you might want to check out some free film offers at http://www.filmworks.com Seattle Filmworks or http://www.mysticcolorlab.com Mystic Color Lab. Every little bit helps, right?!




Here's a great company I'm personally familiar with... Rootstamps has a practical yet fun product. Rubber stamps for use in your record keeping can help keep your documentation up to speed. To see their online catalog, go to http://www.rootstamps.com. Or, send $2 for a catalog(refundable with first order) to Rootstamps, 6479 White Pine Drive, RR4 box 1936, Lakeside, AZ 85929.




Is there an old family Bible in your possession, with a different style of handwriting than what we're used to today? Here are a few sites that will help you make sense of the old styles of penmanship.
Deciphering Old Handwriting: http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html
Early English Handwriting: http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oldalpha.htm
Old German Script: http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/scripts.html




Civil War Site of the Month
Kristopher and Larry Ligget have put together an awesome site on Hoosiers in the Civil War! Especially worth checking out on the site are the pages with letters from soldiers...maybe a relative of yours? To start the search, please go to http://www.mach500.net/liggetkw/incw/cw.htm. This is a site you shouldn't miss!




For a site that has numerous photos of Hoosiers and more(even though the site owners are from Kentucky!), please check out the Ford and Nagle site at http://users.erinet.com/31363/fordand.htm.

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