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 == What is PERSI?  ==
-The Periodical Source Index, or PERSI, is the largest subject index to genealogical and local history periodical articles in the world. Periodicals include magazines, journals, or newsletters. PERSI includes more than 1.9 million index entries from nearly ten thousand periodicals written in English and French Canadian, since 1800 (covering primarily the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland). This index was created in 1985 by the [[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]] in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and continues to be updated today.<br>
+The Periodical Source Index (PERSI), is the largest subject index to genealogical and local history periodical articles in the world with more than 1.8 million index entries from nearly ten thousand periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800.&nbsp; The index includes magazines, journals, or newsletters published primarily the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland. This index, created in 1985 by the [[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]] in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is updated with entries from current periodicals, although the index lags approximately 18 months from article publication date.
 PERSI is widely recognized as an essential source for high-quality genealogy research. Periodicals may contain about 20 percent of published genealogical material. Genealogical periodicals often included articles about local cemeteries, census, church, land, naturalizations, and probate records. So, PERSI is most useful as a genealogical subject index for a selected state, province, county, or town.