25 individuals with an age range of 43 to 100 years 1,947 minutes of audio 3,935 miles traveled 1,200 pages of transcripts 100 years of documented history into a 188-year-old collection In the fall of 2016, I started traveling around the state for the Latino Collecting Initiative. I talked to 25 pioneering individuals who sat […]
Lake life is a term that has taken off recently in Instagram tags, clothing lines and even lifestyle TV shows. But lake life as we know it in Indiana has been around for well over a century. There is something special that draws us back to the water each summer, whether it’s boating, fishing, quality […]
As a collections assistant, it is my job to go through collections that have been donated to the Indiana Historical Society and put them in order. I often come across fun objects like someone’s old doodles left in the margins of a letter or silly photographs taken of people when they weren’t expecting it. As […]
Roger Lawton, a volunteer in the IHS Press, recently enlisted the help of his grandson, Lane, to help him photograph the Lawton family bible for publication with an article in Online Connections. The Bible was purchased for Alice Lawton in 1859 and has been owned by Roger, who acquired the Bible when he was 60, […]
As we are approaching the first stop of our Indiana Bicentennial Train this week, I am reminded how railroads were such an integral part of immigration. The railroads? heyday in Indiana started in the 1840s and lasted through the 1860s. It was the construction of the railroads that brought some of our ancestors to Indiana […]
As the soon-to-be newest member of the Local History Services, I present to you _ myself! I?m Marianne Sheline, Indiana Historical Society employee of more than eight years. I was hired at IHS right out of college (Go Ball State!) with a degree in history. Due to my supervisor leaving (R.I.P. Margaret! that?s Retire in […]
The Indiana Digital Archives has made available new materials for researchers interested in Indiana?s heritage. The Marion County Court Records Index includes information on nearly 130,000 court records created between 1822 and 1930. The database includes case files, bonds and licenses, summonses, subpoenas, jury lists and coroner?s inquests. This index encompasses most of the records […]
I came across this photo on a friend’s Facebook page. It’s a recent shot of her son posing by a 1970s car. She used Instagram’s 1977 filter on it. Looks cool, doesn’t it? But 50 years from now, what date would a photo expert assign to it? A little background: Instagram is a photo-sharing program […]
IHS hosts renowned genealogist Tony Burroughs on Saturday, May 21, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. The Six Phases of African-American Genealogy are what Burroughs has identified as the building blocks of African-American family history research. Because researchers do not get far only entering family names in […]
In November 2010, my family and I had the great honor to be invited to a naturalization ceremony. Kidist, a young Ethiopian woman who had married a friend, asked us to share her special day. We jumped at the opportunity as U.S.-born citizens, we had never witnessed a naturalization ceremony. The ceremony was held in […]
