Donate Us Some Of Kroger's Cash

We were just approved as a non-profit organization in the Kroger Community Rewards Program. 

If you are a Kroger shopper and have their Rewards Card, 

you can donate money to support GSMC. 

Just open their website (Kroger.com), go to the bottom of their homepage 

and click on the link, "Kroger Community Rewards Program."  

Follow the instructions to register 

and be sure to specify the Genealogical Society of Marion County.

[We can sure use the cash to support our library and scanning programs. Thanks a bunch!]

 

Franklin Township Scrapbooks Index

Another FTHS scanning item is this index to a pile of township scrapbooks. 

There are scanned pages containing 7,385 line items like the sample below. 

If you have any Franklin Township families, 

you really need to check out this new GSMC resource.

 

Visit Our GSMC Table Tomorrow

When you visit the Indiana State Library Saturday 

be sure you visit our GSMC table and say hi. 

We have some Marion County materials available plus a raffle book you don't want to miss. 

See you there, 10 am to 3 pm.

 

New Franklin Township Resource Added

A recent GSMC scanning session at the Franklin Township Historical Society allowed us to add the following resource to our website in the FREE area. This is a 134 page history that is chock full of local ancestors. Are some of them yours?

 

Need To Modernize Your Genealogy?

Come down to our library on Wednesday; we can help you keep up.

GSMC Needs Volunteer Indexers

The Genealogical Society of Marion County has a number of scanned files 

that would be more useful if they had an accompanied alphabetical index. 

They have about 25 +pages like the first image below, 

and about 100 names like the second image below. 

Volunteers can index the files from their home.

Contact us if you are willing to assist on this project. Thanks a bunch.

 

Need A Native American Locator Map?

GSMC received two copies of the below map, 

a 3' x 5' glossy diagram of all the Native American tribal lands in the U.S. 

The other side is the Alaska locations.

They were donated by member Kerry Steiner and are a product of the U.S. Census Bureau.

We will be adding one copy to our library collection, but the other copy may be up for grabs.

Contact us or drop in on a Wednesday and we will discuss it. 

 

Whatever Happened To The State Archives??

Indiana seems to have lost a building; the new Indiana State Archives Building to be exact. 

The money was appropriated years ago; 

we found out the postage-stamp site downtown a couple of years ago; 

we saw the architectural plans in a meeting a while back.

We have heard nothing about anyone moving any dirt, pouring concrete, or erecting steel. 

Did someone forget that part?

The world wonders...

 This is the Tennessee State Archives; will ours be anywhere similar?

GSMC Explores National Road, Saturday October 8

If you are in the area, 

visit the GSMC Library on October 8 

and see how your ancestors might have migrated to the Northwest Territory.

[or check in online}