Holiday Meet and Greet Saturday

 

Steve Barnett Talks Belt RR

Looks like a good Marion County history program 

at the Central Library later this month.

Let's all be there!!

 

Any Company Newspapers At Home?

Anyone around the Marion County Genealogy and Pack Rat Association 

will confess to being always on the lookout for more research materials. 

Our focus right now is company newspapers stashed in your attic, basement, or garage. 

Even a handful of issues will be a big help. 

Two choices: You donate then to our library or allow us to digitize them.

Now is that a great deal or what? Contact us!!

 

Birth and Death Certificates Moving

The M. C. Health Department has a new building under construction 

adjacent to their present building at 3838 N. Rural St. 

After opening in 2026, the Birth and Death records service 

will move to the new facility.

[Thanks to the Weekly View for this heads up.]

National Archives Goes AI

 [Recent  Email sent out by National Archives]

AI and the Revolutionary War Pension Files

We are excited to announce that through a partnership with FamilySearch, AI extracted text for all 2,322,137 pages of the Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, ca. 1800 - ca. 1912 is now available in the National Archives Catalog.  FamilySearch used 30,000 pages of pensions transcribed by our Citizen Archivists to teach their AI language model how to transcribe this 19th Century cursive writing.  The Partner Contributed transcriptions generated by their AI language model for the entire series will now be available as Extracted Text in the National Archives Catalog.

Interested In Indiana Canals?

The Canal Era was an interesting part of the state's history, and you can explore it today. Visit the website of the Canal Society here:

And visit many of the records of the people here on our website Research Section 3:

We digitized thousands  of original pay and other business materials in the Indiana State Archives. 

Put these two sites together and maybe find your people!!

Oh Yeah...if you want to index a few original records, let us know. 

We will give you full credit and researchers will be very grateful. 

Give us a call somehow.

 

Great New Marriage Resource Added

Thanks to our "SuperVolunteerCorps" GSMC has digitized 

the first three microfilm rolls of Marion County marriage records.

To find specific records you should use the WPA Marriage Indexes 

found on Ancestry and various other sites. 

You should look at the two far right columns (see below) to find the Book and Page.

Our collection only has books 1-2-3.

 

If you do everything right, you should find an entry like this one.

Happy Hunting!!