Finding Indiana Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Research

Finding Indiana Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Research is a powerful tool, providing an overview of historical research while focusing on Indiana-specific sources. Authored by journalists and archivists, librarians, genealogists, and historians in the state's major historical and genealogical organizations, this book forms a complete guide for research in Indiana. Six model chapters show how to turn data into stories. This significant new guide will help researchers learn how to get started, where to go for the next piece of information, how to interpret the data, and how to incorporate each new fact into the stories of Indiana's ancestors.

M. Teresa Baer is the editor, Family History Publications, at the Indiana Historical Society Press. She has a BA in history, an international studies certificate, and an MA in comparative history from Indiana University in Indianapolis. Baer has published a number of historical and genealogical essays in books and periodicals and served as the editor for a variety of IHS Press book projects. Geneil Breeze is the editorial assistant, Family History Publications, at the Indiana Historical Society Press. She has found her Indiana ancestors dating back to the 1840s in Daviess and Monroe counties.