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=== State Archives and Libraries ===

[http://www.in.gov/icpr/index.htm '''Commission on Public Records''']<br>Indiana State Archives<br>6440 East 30th Street<br>Indianapolis, IN 46219-1007<br>Telephone: 317-232-3380<br>Fax: 317-233-1713

The Indiana State Archives, Commission on Public Records, houses state and local government records including land office, census, and military records for Indiana. The Archives has a growing&nbsp;online digital collection that contains death records, military records, naturlization records and institutional records.  

[http://www.in.gov/library/genealogy.htm '''Indiana State Library, Indiana Division''']<br>315 West Ohio Street<br>Indianapolis, IN 46202<br>Telephone: 17-232-3670

[http://www.in.gov/library/databases.htm '''Indiana State Library, Genealogy Division''']<br>315 West Ohio Street<br>Indianapolis, IN 46202<br>Telephone: 317-232-3689

The Indiana State Archives and&nbsp;the State Library are now located in separate places. State Library’s Genealogy Division is well-known for its family and local histories and its census, military, cemetery, and vital records collections. The Indiana Division has county histories, Indiana periodicals, maps, photographs, and newspapers. It also houses a number of indexes to its collection. It has an online catalog and An important guide to the Indiana State Library is:  

Miller, Carolynne L. ''Indiana Sources for Genealogical Research in the Indiana State Library''. Indianapolis, Indiana: Genealogical Section, Indiana Historical Society, 1984. {{FHL|487669|item|disp=FHL book 977.2 D23mc}}.  

A listing of family records and other sources at the Indiana State Library is found in:  

Pumroy, Eric. ''A Guide to Manuscript Collections of the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Library''. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society, 1986. {{FHL|616807|item|disp=FHL book 977.2 H23p}}.

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=== National Archives Regional Center ===

'''[[National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago)|National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago)]]<br>'''7358 South Pulaski Road<br>Chicago, IL 60629<br>Telephone: 773-948-9001<br>Fax: 773-948-9050 <br>Website: [http://www.archives.gov/great-lakes/ Click here]

This center has federal censuses, passenger lists, Indian census rolls (1885–1940), records of marine inspection and navigation for Indiana (1865–1968; includes owners, masters, and crew members), naturalization indexes, General Land Office records for Indiana (1808–1876; listed by land office), U.S. District and Circuit Court records for Indiana (1819 –1961), military, and other records.  

For an online guide to the holdings of the Chicago Branch of the National Archives [http://www.archives.gov/great-lakes/holdings/ Click here].

For an older print guide the the Archives and its branches, see:  

Szucs, Loretto Dennis, and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. ''The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1988. {{FHL|630522|item|disp=FHL book 973 A3sz}}, 17-19.

=== Genealogical and Historical Societies  ===

The Indiana Genealogical Society publishes an online newsletter in the Members Only area of the IGS website. The ''Indiana Genealogist,'' a quarterly journal, is in its last year as a print publication and will be published online in the future.  

The Indiana Genealogical Society website includes numerous databases of interest to those with Hoosier ancestors. Some are available free and others are in the [http://www.indgensoc.org/membersonly/databases.php Members Only] area of the website.  

IGS directs the [http://www.indgensoc.org/SCWFI.php Society of Civil War Families of Indiana], a membership organization comprised of desendants of soldiers who served in the Civil War in Indiana units.  

Applications for the Territorial Guard Society of Indiana, a membership organization of those who can prove direct ancestral residence within the boundaries of the present state of Indiana on or before 11 December 1816 will begin being accepted 1 January 2011, with the first inductees to be installed in April 2012. Watch for more information to appear on the [http://www.indgensoc.org IGS website].  

"This is a private society with a strong collection of original sources, especially for the early 1800s. A guide to family records and other sources at the Indiana Historical Society is in Eric Pumroy’s book cited above.  

=== Allen County Public Library ===

'''[[Allen County Public Library]]'''<br>Genealogy Center<br>900 Webster Street<br>Fort Wayne, IN 46802<br>Telephone: 219-421-1225<br>Internet: [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ www.acpl.lib.in.us]

The [http://www.genealogycenter.info/index.php Genealogy Center]houses the second largest genealogy research collection in the United States, and the largest in a public library. It is primarily a North American collection, with some complementary resources for the British Isles and other European countries.  

A Genealogist’s Guide to the Allen County Public Library, St. Wayne, Indiana,''3rd ed. Fort Wayne, Ind.: The Author, ca. 1983. (Allen County Public Library, [[]]); (Family History Library has the original 1980 edition titled ''A Genealogist's Guide to the Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Public Library,''published by McDowell Pub., 1980 {{FHL|129067|title-id|disp=977.274/F1 A3c}})''  

There have been over 50 courthouse fires and other natural disasters in Indiana that have caused significant losses of records. A list of these lost records was prepared by John J. Newman of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1988. In the list, the date in parentheses following the county name is the year the county was organized. A fire in one parent county might have affected other counties that were later divided off from it.  

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