Photo of the Heritage Library Resource Center; shows the front of the Moore-Youse Home Museum next door.
 
  Heritage Library Resource Center
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Delaware County Historical Society
120 East Washington Street
Muncie, Indiana 47305-1734
(765) 282-1550

 
"P
reserving the Past for Future Generations"
   
           
 
 

Heritage Library

is now OPEN
 

Hours: TUESDAY through FRIDAY
Noon to 4:00 p.m.


▪ ▪ ▪ or by appointment ▪ ▪ ▪
 

Come in and see our new additions, including the  R. Thomas Mayhill private genealogy collection consisting of approximately 3,000 books. 
Included are:
  diaries, genealogical records from Indiana and many other states, some foreign resources, and microfilm.

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For more information, contact the Delaware County Historical Society at 282-7315.
 


The Heritage Library's collection focuses on Delaware County's genealogy and history.  There are some materials from surrounding counties and a few from other counties in Indiana.  It also includes a smaller collection of materials from the so-called feeder states, those states through which most of the Delaware County pioneer settlers passed. 
 
Delaware County resources include:
 
A.
 All of the Delaware County histories and the every name index to those histories.
B.
  Atlases of Delaware County, including Muncie and other localities plus indexes.
C.
  W.P.A. indexes of births and deaths in the county from 1881 to 1920.  Such records were not collected before 1882 in Indiana.
D.
  Indexes of marriages 1827-1920 and of marriage applications from the time they were required.
E.
  Printed U.S. census indexes for 1820 (entire state) and Delaware County in 1830, 1840, 1860 and 1870.
F.
  Muncie City Directories for various dates.
G.
  Indexes to testators for 1827-1900.
H.
  Cemetery directories locating the various cemeteries in the county.
I.
  Cemetery readings or abstracted records of extant cemeteries with stones or records.
J.
  Histories of the various localities in the county, such as Albany, Eaton, Yorktown, etc.
K.
 Church histories.
L.
  Histories of businesses in Delaware County.
M.
  Naturalization Records 1851-1905.
N.
  Yearbooks from schools in the county and city of Muncie; years vary.
O.
  Land entries of the initial purchases in East Central Indiana and deed abstracts of the first eight deed books beginning in 1827.

Indiana resources include:
 

A. County histories and records from several of the surrounding counties.

B. Various titles from other counties in Indiana.

C. Atlases of the state and its counties.

 

Other resources:
 

A. Various records abstracts and transcriptions from states such as Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee.

B. Families histories and family files.

Heritage Library Hours

Tuesday through Friday
Noon to 4:00 p.m.
▪ ▪ ▪ or by appointment ▪ ▪ ▪
 

Heritage Library
 

It is our goal to make our entire collection accessible to the public.  If you would like to contribute toward this goal, please send your check payable to the DCHS at:
 

     DCHS
     120 East Washington Street
     Muncie, IN  47305-1734

Donations are fully tax deductible, as we are a 501 (c) (3) organization as determined by the Internal Revenue Service.
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

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