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Genealogy: Traveling through Time
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Genealogy: Traveling through Time
Bethany FiechterArchivist 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
• 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
Finding Aids
• A descriptive tool that includes the contents and arrangement of materials in the collection
• 800 manuscript collections, and over 300 photograph collections
Digital Media Repository
• A digital repository housing documents, oral histories, photographs, maps, and other sources
• Over 140 collections, 423,000 items
• How to search?
For More Information…Bethany FiechterArchivist for Manuscript and Digital CollectionsBall State University [email protected]
Photographs: P8-0029, P20-0037, P8-0115, P40-0389-X240, P.263-0006, P028-013, P028-029, P028-037