Genealogical Society of Marion County

The purpose of the society is to :

• Promote genealogical research of all types
• Encourage and develop the skills of member genealogists
• Locate, preserve, and make available local, private, and public records of genealogical value
• Support genealogical libraries of Marion County, Indiana
• Publish materials of genealogical value

1999 meetings to be held at the Waiting Station will be on March 13, with Stewart DeVane, in uniform, telling about "The 42nd Indiana Infantry in the Civil War"
        We will also kick off our big Census project.  See details below.
April 10,  Visitors are welcome to join us at our Crown Hill site in April for our Annual Conference.  Click here for agenda & registration form.
June 12, Karen Beidelman will speak about "Internet Search Engines and Genweb"
August 14, Richard Enochs will talk about Migration Research.
December 11, Annual Show-and-Tell, Holiday Pitch-In Luncheon

Meetings for 1999 that will be held at State Library Auditorium will be on May 8, with Colleen Ridlen and "The Society of Indiana Pioneers"
July 10, Steve Towne of the State Archives is rescheduled from January to speak about Military Records at the Archives
September 11, Andrea Hough will tell us about State Library resources outside the Genealogy Room
October 9, Tour the new Indiana Historical Society Building
November 13, Gerald Handfeild, Jr., Indiana State Archivist, will talk about the developments in Indiana's Public Records.

Guests are welcome to join us.
 
 

In March we will begin the lengthy task of indexing the 1870 Census for Marion County which is part of a larger state-wide project.  There are 5 reels of microfilm to be read and abstracted.  We will need volunteers to read the film, enter the data into computers, and to re-check the output.  Work will be broken down to 30 pages of census per volunteer to be completed in two month's time.  We estimate the project to take a couple years.  There will be plenty of opportunities to volunteer whether you live near or far!  Please contact  Ron Darrah, or Gerald Phillips.

The GSMC began a manuscript extraction project at the State Library at the end of June.  Project manager, Ron Darrah, identified 20 manuscript collections that are small, self-contained, and pertain to Marion County.  Volunteers will prepare the contents for publication and inclusion in our library by photo-copying and hand copying.  Members interested in helping on this project can contact Project Director, Gerald Phillips; or project manager, Ron Darrah.
So far:
1.)  Records have been culled of the Horse Thiefs' Detective Association, an organization of Marion County sheriff and deputies that existed from the early 1900s to the 1950s.
2.)  Volunteers are also gathering information from the account books of the Mary Riggs Center on the westside regarding its activities between 1914 and the mid 1940s.
3.)  Names of the 72 people who drew up the article to establish the city's first burial ground, Greenlawn Cemetery, are being listed.
 

How To Join The Genealogical Society of Marion County, Indiana

Directors

GSMC Library update

Cemeteries in Need

For a list of publications available from GSMC, click here.

These other sites may be of interest to Indiana researchers:

• Indiana State Archives
• Everton's Indiana page
• Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe
• Genealogy Terms, Definitions, etc.
• Barrel of Genealogy Links
• Marion County, IN GenWeb page
• Danville Public Library
• Hendricks Co. IN Gen Web
• Karen's Kobweb Korner
•  Central State Hospital records

Last updated: February 17, 1999