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 '''Sun 12 PM - 4 PM<br>'''<br>
 ==Description of Collections==
+'''Genealogy Room -'''
+Collection focus is Lake County, Indiana resources with some Porter County materials.  Subject area focus of the entire collection is East Coast early America to the Midwest States, with some Southern State coverage.
+- High School Yearbooks and College Yearbooks ([http://www.lcplin.org/yearbooks-2512 Digitized copies are available])
+- Newspaper obituary indexes in binders for the Gary Post Tribune ([http://engagedpatrons.org/database/LakeCountyObits/ digital version of index is available]), The Hammond Times or Times, Lake County Register and Star, Lowell Tribune, Crown Point Register and other local papers.
+- Microfilm of local newspapers, city directories, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Misc. Crown Point wills, Calumet Region phone books, WPA indexes for Indiana,
+- Census and Soundex.
+- City, town and county histories, school enumeration records, cemetery indexes and more.
+- Lake County Plat Maps - approximately 1926 to 2014.
+- Genealogies of some local families.
+- Genealogy magazines and newsletters.
+- Major online subscription databases at LCPL that patrons may use onsite include: HeritageQuest, Ancestry.com Library Edition, Fold3, Access Newspaper Archive, Post Tribune Newspaper 1986 to current, Proquest African American Genealogy, Proquest Historical Newspapers, Chicago Tribune (1849-1990).
 ==Services==
 ==History==