Local History materials in the library include:
Contact the Local History Specialist for assistance.
At right are links to some frequently used online resources with annotations below on how they can help with your quest.
These materials can help you learn about people and events that shaped present-day Jackson County, Indiana. Materials also tell about places from which the people came and to which they went.
Some resources are available for counties from which people migrated to Jackson. These include Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Jennings, Knox, Lawrence, Monroe, Scott and Washington.
Resources are available for African-American and German ancestral research as well as some resources for Indiana, Kentucky, New England, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Virginia and West Virginia.
To learn how materials are selected for the Local History area, please see the library's collection development policy.
Don't forget to check the nonfiction area outside of local history for related materials with additional biographical, historical and geographical information. Guides are available to research your family, document an historic building, identify an architectural style, and much more.
Cyndi's List of more than a quarter-million genealogy resources online
FamilySearch has name searches, census and vital records data, research guides, maps, plus Family History Library catalog to locate microfilmed records from other localities
Google is a search engine with special engines that can look for patents by name or locality as well as number, that can search historic newspaper archives, and that can search books with historical material that may be useful to your quest
Heritage Quest Online for federal census, full-text books on Indiana, on families, and on other subjects; Revolutionary War papers; PERSI; Freedman's Bank (Free access to HQO for JCPL customers is available from remote locations by clicking on the Heritage Quest link on this page and entering your 14-digit library barcode. If you have trouble accessing the database, please contact the Information Services Desk, 522-3412, ext. 240.)
INSPIRE click on WorldCat to find histories & genealogies you can access at other libraries and possibly through Interlibrary Loan; check the WorldCat Genealogy FAQ & Tutorial for more ideas
Jackson County Digital History & Photo Archive has the 1886 History of Jackson County, a 1900 Seymour directory, a 1915 county directory and photographs
JCPL Catalog can help you find some of the local and family histories in addition to how-to and locality guides.
National Archives Catalogs help you locate the documents that the Nation's Attic has online as well as those you can borrow on microfilm, order as photocopies or view in person at the NARA in Washington, DC.
NUCMC is the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections which can lead you to names and places in documents
RootsWeb with SSDI search, family finders and lists, more
US GenWeb genealogy resources by locality
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Online Resources
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Etext Center (Lib. of Va.) Online Books (U.Penn., click historical) Digital Library (U.Missouri) |