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Genealogy: Traveling through Time

Genealogy: Traveling through Time. Bethany Fiechter Archivist for Manuscript and Digital Collections. Ready Reference . Works Progress Administration (WPA) Index Delaware County Histories City Directories Family Files Microfilm: Vital Records. Local History Files.

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Genealogy: Traveling through Time

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  1. Genealogy: Traveling through Time Bethany Fiechter Archivist for Manuscript and Digital Collections

  2. Ready Reference • Works Progress Administration (WPA) Index • Delaware County Histories • City Directories • Family Files • Microfilm: Vital Records

  3. Local History Files • Vertical files of newspaper clippings collected since the late 1970s. • Includes information about Muncie and Delaware County people, buildings, events, and miscellaneous odds and ends • Digitized over 10,000 clippings; making them available on our reading room computers • One-stop, full-text searching

  4. Finding Aids • A descriptive tool that includes the contents and arrangement of materials in the collection • 800 manuscript collections, and over 300 photograph collections

  5. Digital Media Repository • A digital repository housing documents, oral histories, photographs, maps, and other sources • Over 140 collections, 423,000 items • How to search?

  6. For More Information… Bethany Fiechter Archivist for Manuscript and Digital Collections Ball State University Libraries 765-285-5078 bcfiechter@bsu.edu Photographs: P8-0029, P20-0037, P8-0115, P40-0389-X240, P.263-0006, P028-013, P028-029, P028-037

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