Friday, July 7, 2017

Report from Fort Wayne

We've spent the past two weeks in Fort Wayne enjoying the resources at the Allen County Library. We did find additional information that we'd missed during our last visit about 10 years ago. The library was not very busy with plenty of room to work. That also meant computers were available for longer than the normal 60-minute time limit. Books are all shelved and you access what you need without having to fill out a request sheet.

Some of the resources we used included county histories, vital record and will books and family histories. The library has suggestion sheets for each state with call numbers and library maps to give you an idea of where each state's information is located.

It was still necessary to use FindMyPast to access PERSI, although the website was free to use at the library.

Do you have Indiana ancestors? If so, the photo shows the location of the Indiana shelves with all of the resources arranged by counties... Books for the rest of the states and countries are located in other areas of the library.

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