History
Book in Second Printing
The new history book, Carroll
County,
Indiana
Legacy 1824-2005, is currently at the printer
for the second
printing. If
you missed out on
purchasing a first printing copy of this book, this is your chance to
own one
of your very own. The
books should be
finished by mid to late June. The
first
printing of the book sold out within a month, so call or stop by the
Museum to
order one of these books before it is too late. The purchase price is $79.50 (tax included). Optional shipping is an
additional
$5.00. The
Historical
Museum
is located on the
ground level
of the Court House in
Delphi
,
101 W. Main St
.
,
P.O. Box 277
,
Delphi
,
IN
46923
,
phone number 765-564-3152.
“Second Wave”
New Family Ancestry
Program
The
Carroll County Historical Museum has initiated a companion family
history program to First Families of Carroll County.
The new program is titled “Second Wave.”
It honors the second wave of settlers who helped build Carroll County
through commerce, education, and the development of towns and
villages. These great ancestors helped to position Carroll
County to move forward to the turn of the century and into the machine
age.
The “Second Wave” program will encourage families
to research and preserve their family lineage for future
generations. Members will have their names listed in the
booklet of the Annual Old Settlers Meeting held each August.
To qualify for membership as a “Second Wave”
family, you must provide documented evidence that your earliest Carroll
County ancestor in that line resided in Carroll County, Indiana,
sometime between August 2, 1855, and December 31, 1900. A
direct line from the applicant to the pioneer ancestor must be proven
at each step, including the spouse in each generation, and all
documents must include full citation. This lineage will be
included in the permanent genealogy collection of the Carroll County
Historical Museum.
Applications for the “Second Wave” program are
available in the Museum, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8 a.m.
- 5 p.m. and Wednesdays 8 a.m. - noon. The Museum also
contains many resources for genealogy research. The staff is
always available to assist researchers with information. The
application and information is also available on our web site at Second Wave Information.
Oral History Project
The staff and volunteers of the Museum are
starting an Oral
History Project to help preserve the stories and memories of long-time
Carroll
County
residents. The
purpose of this project is to preserve
and collect 20th-century history through the
medium of first-person testimony. Eventually we hope to have many of these
interviews available on the
Museum web site. We
have applied for grant monies to purchase the
necessary digital recording and transcription equipment.
Photo
Archives Receives New Look
Check out the new look of our Photo Archive web portal. The easy-to-use interface now allows you to search the same
term simultaneously in multiple fields to improve retrieval
of photographs
from our collection of more than 15,000 in the archives. An
advanced search screen has also been added that allows you to search
specific fields and to use Boolean "or" search capability. Either
search returns a list of the photographs that meet the criteria
entered. Clicking on the number link brings up the photograph and its
complete description from the database. Clicking on the photo opens it
in a separate window generally as an enlarged image. It can be
increased in size once more by clicking on the icon that appears in the
lower right-hand corner of the picture when you hover there with the
mouse cursor.
WWII Soldiers Killed
in
Action in the
Philippines
The Museum recently received notice of an
Indiana
native now living in the Manila,
Philippines
,
area who would be willing to email photos or information about the
tombstones of
soldiers who were killed in the
Philippines
during WWII. If you
are looking for any
such information, contact
Phyllis
Moore at the
Carroll
County
Historical
Museum
,
765-564-3152, or
check out the web site: http://fizkid.tripod.com/
New Items in the Museum:
Books -
-
Clinton County
,
Indiana
History and Families
-
Stanley
Family “Our Family Tree: The Building of
a Family and Country”
-
Ohio County
,
Kentucky
- The
Old
Northwest
, Vol. 1
- The
Old
Northwest
, Vol. 2
- Old Chapel
- Index to
Indiana
Source Books
- The Scotch-Irish of Colonial
Pennsylvania
- Scotch-Irish Pioneers in
Ulster
and
America
- History of the
Lower
Shenandoah Valley
- Census of
Indiana
Territory
1807
- The Hanna Family
- Preble Co.,
Ohio
Cemetery
Inscriptions
Vol. 1 & 2
- Hughes Family Genealogy
- Sheffer Family
Unique Item-
Silver, wind-up pocket watch with keys. This pocket watch, with display case, was
donated by Jerry Sneathen. Jerry’s
grandfather, Joseph Sneathen, was a stable boy who often drove the
carriage for
Dr. Wickliffe Smith and James Whitcomb Riley. Riley gave the pocket watch to the boy to make
sure he would be on time
to fulfill his duties. |
