Climbing Your Hoosier Family Tree Feb. 2001 Volume 2, #2

Happy New Year to all the Hoosier genealogists...here's hoping this year is kind to us all; may we all find plenty of ancestors with lots of documentation! Now that the holidays are past us, and all the thank you notes are written, it's time to get out your postage stamps...here's a new batch of addresses to utilize in your search for the complete family tree.

National Resources 1. National Archives and Records Administration National Personnel Records Center, 9700 Page Avenue, Saint Louis, MO, 63132-5100 These are for military records

2. National Archives- Great Lakes Region 7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60629 (covers Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin)

3. National Park Service Office of Library, Archives, and Graphics Research Harpers Ferry Center Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0050 If you had any relatives who were employed in the National Park Service, these folks can help you with records.

4. Immigration and Naturalization Service Gateway Plaza 950 North Meridian, Suite 400, Indianapolis, IN 46204

5. Veterans Administration Regional Office 1481 W. 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

Vital Records Offices So you need to find a copy of Grandma's birth certificate to find out the names of her parents...in the words of the 80's song, who ya gonna call?
1. Indiana State Department of Health 1330 West Michigan Street, PO Box 1964, Indianapolis, IN, 46206-1964 Phone (317) 633-0276 Please call for current rates for birth/death certificate requests.

2. Kentucky Department for Health Services Office of Vital Statistics, 275 East Main Street, Frankfort, KY, 40621-0001 Phone (606) 564-4212

3. Ohio State Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics, PO Box 15098 Columbus, OH 43215-0098 Phone (614) 466-2531

If there's another state you need an address for Vital Statistics Offices, please click on the e-mail link at the bottom of the page and I'll see if I can find it for you.

Libraries with a National Focus
1. National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Library 1776 D. Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006-5392

2. Denver Public Library, Genealogy Division,1357 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203-2165 If researching Hispanic ancestors, please try this library.

3. Library of Congress, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ 20, 10 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C., 20540-5554 The Library of Congress has published genealogies that might be of help to you.

4. Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610 If researching Native American ancestors, this library has a lot of history and cartography that can help you.

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