Indiana Church Records: Difference between revisions

[[File:Dark_thin_font_green_pin_Version_4.png|50px]]<span style="color:DarkViolet">'''The records of all four Roman Catholic dioceses in Indiana are available on microfilm at the [[Family History Library|Family History Library]]. These records include the dioceses of Evansville, Fort Wayne-South Bend, Gary, and Lafayette, plus the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, all to about 1916. They have been digitized and can be used at a [[Family History Centers|Family History Center]] near you.'''  </span><br>

::Catholic Church records collected by Francis P. Clark of Catholic parishes that closed during the 1950s and following Vatican II throughout Kentucky and the Ohio Valley. During this era, when many Catholic parishes would close, the priests would throw out their old record books. Patrick developed relationships with priests throughout the region and personally visited closing parishes and collected record books, ephemera, and photographs which he later donated to the Notre Dame University Archives where he worked as supervisor of the microfilm department.