Genealogy: Traveling through Time

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 Libraries765-285-5078bcfiechter@bsu.edu

Photographs: P8-0029, P20-0037, P8-0115, P40-0389-X240, P.263-0006, P028-013, P028-029, P028-037