August 2023

Genealogy Gems:

News from the Allen County Public Library at Fort Wayne No. 234, August 31, 2023

In this issue:

School Time . . . Year ‘round!

Review of David Hackett Fischer’s “African Founders”

Chinese Exclusion Era Records Online

Technology Tip of the Month: Footnotes vs Endnotes

PERSI Gems: Blueberries, Peaches, and the Weight of History

History Tidbits: Abram Petrovitch Gannibal

Genealogy Center’s September Programs

September Program Call-outs: Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society: Meet Your Mishpocha and African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne: Find Gems at the Genealogy Center!

Staying Informed about Genealogy Center Programming

Genealogy Center Social Media

Driving Directions to the Library

Parking at the Library

Genealogy Center Queries

Publishing Note

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School Time . . . Year ‘round! by Curt B. Witcher

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For so many individuals, late August and early September bring back memories of our own school days as well as the school days of our children and grandchildren. There likely is a mix of feelings, remembering good times meeting and making new friends and learning new things in areas that interest us while also recalling the dreaded term papers, cramming for tests, and the hot classrooms trying to learn subjects we did not care a whit about. Regardless of the memories, though, we should realize the important role school records should play in our efforts to conduct reasonably exhaustive research--in our efforts to find all of our families’ stories. The first best place to look for school records is among the data sets of large information aggregators like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch. Most are familiar with how to search those sites. We simply need to narrow our focus to specifically finding school and education records. Ancestry has a section called “Schools, Directories & Church Histories” on its main page that can be further narrowed by “School Lists & Yearbooks.” Once one has found any useful information on these large, popular sites, it is important to remember to “go local,” go to state and county sites that actually may have more detailed information and access to digital copies for your particular research. The Genealogy Center’s website (GenealogyCenter.org) is a comfortable way to begin exploring for school records, both to see if we have materials that would be directly helpful to your research as well as to give you ideas of school records you might want to look for in your geographic areas of interest. Under our Indiana Resources section, one can find a searchable database compiled by Fortville-Vernon Township Public Library staff of Hancock County, Indiana students and teachers at Fortville from 1881- 1887. www.genealogycenter.info/search_fortvilleschool.php That resource not only provides us with an example of what type of data to look for, it also serves as a reminder that local public libraries all over the country can be great places to discover school records. Equally great places to search for education and school records are the holdings of local historical societies from coast to coast. Whether a local public library or local historical society, it is frequently quite beneficial to look for both physical and, increasingly, virtual collections of school records. The Genealogy Center here in Allen County, Indiana continues to build collections of school records from high schools in the area, both those continuing to educate and those that have been closed for years. The main website of one of the first schools in Fort Wayne, Central High School, www.genealogycenter.info/centralhigh/, links to digital copies of various reunion programs of numerous classes, the school newspaper, and their entire collection of yearbooks with a few specialty digital assets besides. For another county school, South Side High School, one can find years of attendance records. www.genealogycenter.info/search_southsideattn.php Digital collections are being developed for all the high schools in this Great Lakes county. When considering school records as a source for finding our family stories, we should seek to find records and data about the teachers as well as the students. As libraries and historical societies tend to focus on their own local history materials, we would find such publications for teachers in the same institutions as we find the students’ histories and records. Many of these publications are being scanned and made available online through local entities as well as through large, free websites such as the Internet Archive. The 1855 “Annual Report of the Michigan Asylum for the Deaf Mutes and the Blind” is available for free viewing on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/annualreportofmi18mich/page/n5/mode/2up. Another example of a statewide publication is “Rising in the Sun: A History of the Georgia Teachers and Education Association” found at: www.genealogycenter.info/search_garisingsun.php. School records are typically of high interest for genealogical societies when they are looking for content to preserve and present to their members; hence, it is worthwhile to explore for school records among their web offerings. Some states’ online memory projects may also contain information from school records as might state archives, depending on the type of school. Truly one won’t know what is available until you start searching, and that search should include local, state and national data repositories. Let’s keep those school days alive in our family history research!

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Review of David Hackett Fischer’s “African Founders” by John D. Beatty, CG

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David Hackett Fischer, renowned emeritus professor of History at Brandeis University, is well-known among genealogists for his 1989 book, “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.” That book studied four distinct early American folk traditions (New England Puritans, Mid-Atlantic Quakers, Virginia planters, and the Scots Irish) and provided historical and cultural background about their influence on American culture. The book, now considered a classic, has helped family historians gain a better understanding of their ancestors in their historical context. Fischer has now written a companion volume, “African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals” (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022), GC 973.068 F52af, which explores the cultural contributions of enslaved African immigrants to the development of American cultural tradition. In an ambitious study that is jaw-dropping in its breadth, it bids to give African Americans the same cultural understanding as those Americans of British descent. Fischer divides his study of slavery into nine regions: New England; Hudson Valley; Delaware Valley; Chesapeake Virginia and Maryland; Coastal Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast; Western Frontiers; Maritime Frontiers; and Southern Frontiers. He presents his work as an open-ended inquiry into the unique character of slavery as it developed in those regions. He identifies the contributions that enslaved people made by tracing specific cultural threads back to traditions practiced among tribes in Africa. For example, in his discussion of slavery as it evolved in New England, he states that large clusters of enslaved people came from Akan-speaking Fante and Asante from western Ghana. In contrast to western Christian theology, Akan tribes developed a distinct ethical tradition “derived from needs and customs of a people and reinforced by gods rather than dictated by them.” It found expression among enslaved people as an ethical imperative for doing good in both individual and collective acts. In his discussions of the Gullah and Geechee cultures in coastal Carolina, Fisher emphasizes the importance of passing down complex cadences of speech, maintaining roots to Africa, and the imperative of expressing ethical African traditions in their own world. He cites Michelle Obama, a Gullah descendant, who carried this ethic to the White House. Indeed, throughout the book, while sometimes taking great leaps in time to interpret people and events, he juxtaposes his impressive scholarship with brief biographical sketches that illustrate or exemplify the attribute or tradition being discussed. Fischer does not shy away from tracing the brutality of slavery or the pervasiveness of racism, but the tone of his book is more celebratory than polemical. Within the American current culture wars over the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory, readers will find “African Roots” to be anodyne in that conflict. Historians may question some of the historical connections that Fischer makes without first establishing specific links, but he believes that historical events, when studied within the context of their own period, have immediacy in today’s culture. Genealogists may benefit both from Fischer’s extensive bibliography and his efforts to make specific connections to African tribes even if no reader is able to actually trace their ancestry to someone mentioned in the book. As he did with “Albion’s Seed,” Fischer uses “African Founders” to provide important background information that make it an invaluable work in understanding the cultural contributions of enslaved African Americans in our history.

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Chinese Exclusion Era Records Online by Sara Allen

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The U.S. population is made up entirely of three groups: immigrants or their descendants who arrived here voluntarily; those whose ancestors were forced here from other lands; and the descendants of the original First Nations tribes already here. A long history of discrimination exists among the different racial and ethnic groups in this country. The borders remained open to comers from all parts of the globe until the 1880s, when xenophobia against Asians and poor economic conditions produced the first major exclusionary immigration law, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The act limited immigration to the United States from China, ostensibly, according to its proponents, to prevent cheap Chinese labor from flooding the market and taking jobs from American citizens. Other Chinese exclusionary acts were passed in the U.S. from 1882 to 1930 and repealed in 1943. Canada passed similar laws in 1923 that were repealed in 1947. Collectively, they created many official records and documents that identify specific Chinese-American residents and immigrants. Ancestry.com has begun adding these records to its online database under the collection title, “Chinese Exclusion Era.” You can do a search in Ancestry’s Card Catalog for this term to find links to the fourteen subgroups of records in this collection. Types of records include passenger lists, indexes to case files (complete files can be ordered from the National Archives), certificates of identification, landing records, applications for admission, and registers of citizens. These records, although created during a difficult time for the Chinese in North America, are rich in detail about the named individuals. They can provide useful information about ancestors of that era, such as birth, marriage, or death information, family details, citizenship details, passenger arrival information, occupation, physical description, and more. Since genealogical records from China itself are hard to find, these records represent a potential goldmine for the Asian-American researcher. For those wanting to learn more about this era of American history, here are a few book titles to get you started: “Guarding the Golden Door: American immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882” by Roger Daniels (GC 973 D228G); “Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943” edited by Sucheng Chan (GC 973 EN87); and “Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law” by Lucy Salyer (GC 970 SA394LA).

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Technology Tip of the Month: Footnotes vs Endnotes by Kay Spears

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Let’s continue our little chat about lines. Wait a minute, wait a minute. The title of the article says Footnotes vs. Endnotes. Yes, I know. But you see, there is a line involved in both Footnotes and Endnotes. See, how I tied that all together? Research. Sometimes when we do research, we write about that research. It really doesn’t matter what kind of research it is. It could be a scientific discovery, a medical discovery, or a paper on our family. Regardless of what kind of research we do, we always want to include our sources and other pertinent information. We may not want to do that in the main body of the article. And that is where Footnotes and Endnotes come in. Those are the little things that can have a whole lot of valuable information. Which one you use is mostly up to you. Some people prefer their sources at the bottom of each page and some prefer their sources at the end. In my opinion, the Footnotes and Endnotes option in Microsoft Word, is one of the easier tools to use. Footnotes. So, your typing along and you want to add a Footnote. Depending on the version your using, all you have to do is go to the Reference tab. Normally, you go to the end of the sentence you want to add the note, and click on Insert Footnote. As soon as you do this, a little number or symbol will appear where your cursor was, and your cursor will be automatically moved to the bottom of the page. There will be a line, a matching little tiny number and your cursor will be blinking. This is where you will type in your source information. When you are finished, you will return to the body of the article and continue typing. Endnote. The Endnote function operates basically the same, except instead of selecting Insert Footnote, you will select Insert Endnote. The big difference between the two is that the Footnote stays with the initial page while you continue to type, and the Endnote moves while you type. If you want more information on Footnotes and Endnotes, I suggest going to the Microsoft website for more details. There are also some wonderful tutorials out there. Next article: What’s that I hear? Editors’ Note: Some good websites that address genealogical documentation are listed below. https://familytreemagazine.com/research/beginner-genealogy-source-citation/ https://bcgcertification.org/ten-minute-methodology-proof-in-a-footnote/ https://www.familyhistoryfanatics.com/add-citations-to-family-history-book

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PERSI Gems: Blueberries, Peaches, and the Weight of History by Adam Barrone and Mike Hudson

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The findings of our family history research can be interesting, touching, surprising, or fulfilling. They, too, can be uncomfortable or alarming. We uncover an ancestor's cause of death now known to be genetic. We learn that a relative exhibited unstable, harmful, or criminal behavior. We reveal a hidden truth or a lie. Such discoveries can weigh on us, but we find ways to learn from the new information, file it away for later, or use it constructively. Articles cited in the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) address the weight of history, of structures, of metal, of cargo, and of the body. They even suggest blueberries and peaches as a potential remedy for excess weight. We hope you'll take a load off and try your own PERSI search here: https://www.genealogycenter.info/persi/ Dorie O'Toole dances to The Twist, claims she lost weight, 1962, n.p. Store Door (Tenakee Historical Collection, AK), Vol. 8, Issue 3-4 (Dec 2010) From the weight of gold to the weight of history in HBO's Deadwood Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 27, Issue 4 (Feb 2007) George A. Custer dumbbells for weight lifting, artifact photo and note, late-1860s MHQ: the Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vol. 23, Issue 4 (Sum 2011) Georgia peach as an aid to beauty and weight reduction, William Clendenin research, 1927 Armadillo Tracks (Brantley County Historical & Preservation Society, GA), Issue 5 (Jun 2012) Grand jurors: age, nativity, weight and all Hawkeye Heritage (Iowa Genealogical Soc.), Vol. 21, Issue 3 (Fal 1986) Heavy duty, highway weight laws and weigh stations established in MI, 1930-1990s Michigan History, Vol. 89, Issue 3 (May 2005) Longevity and heavy weight New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, Vol. 10, Issue 3 (Jul 1925) Mail carrier Jim White cart broke under weight of jugs of whiskey, newspaper note, 1892 King George County (VA) Historical Society Quarterly Newsletter, Dec 2012 Mary Ann Lila study shows blueberries help people lose weight, news note, 2008 Commerce (MO) Historical and Genealogy Society Newsletter, Vol. 16 (Jan 2012) Somerset Methodist Episcopal Church weakening under weight, Athens Messenger, Dec. 16, 1875 Perry County Heirlines, Vol. 33, Issue 1 (Jan 2015) Tradesman married off eleven daughters, paid out their weight in halfpence, 1770 Hertfordshire (Eng.) People, Issue 104 (Mar 2008)

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History Tidbits: Abram Petrovitch Gannibal by Logan Knight

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Genealogy’s rise in popularity has uncovered an astonishing number of family stories. As people discover their roots, they go to places they never could have imagined. While many may think of this as a facet of our hyper-connected, modern world, in truth, our interconnectedness across oceans and continents is far older than most suspect. Consider the fascinating case of one Abram Petrovitch Gannibal. His early years are shrouded in mystery, but he was born probably around 1696 in what is today Cameroon on the western coast of southern Africa. As a child, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery to the Ottoman Turks. Along the doleful journey to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul), his sister, Lagan, threw herself overboard rather than live as a slave. Abram would become a servant in the palace of the Turkish Sultan and was given the name Ibrahim. It seemed that all he had to look forward to was a lifetime of back-breaking drudgery. Then, fate intervened. A Russian ambassador to the Sublime Porte (another term for the Ottoman government) had been instructed to look for a black child to join the court of Tsar Peter the Great. This practice was not uncommon at the time, as European royalty sought “exotic” people or items to add luster and prestige to their court. However, Abram (Ibrahim in Russian) was destined to be far more than just a curiosity. The Tsar took an interest in the child and decided to give him an excellent education. Some historians believe he did this to show what could be done with modernization efforts, similar to what he was trying to achieve with the Russian Empire. Abram became Peter’s personal valet, accompanying him on all of his military campaigns. In 1717, he was sent to Metz, France, where he revealed a talent for mathematics and engineering. Three years later, he transferred to an artillery school at La Fere. From there he joined the French Army and participated in the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720). He showed great bravery in the conflict but was captured by the Spanish, who eventually released him. Abram adopted the surname “Gannibal” at this time in tribute to Hannibal, the famed Carthaginian. In Russian, Hannibal is rendered with a “G.” He returned to Russia, arriving shortly before Peter the Great died in 1725, and it inaugurated a time of challenges for him. The new government viewed him with suspicion, due to his French education and his being a foreigner. He was forced to marry a Greek woman whom he despised (she would be sent to prison for over a decade when he discovered evidence of infidelity), and eventually he was sent to exile in Siberia. This period of exile ended with the reign of Empress Elizabeth, who appreciated Abram’s military and engineering talents. She appointed him Governor of Reval (now Tallinn, capital of Estonia) where he remained in command for a decade. He then retired to his governmentgranted estate at Mikhaylovskoye (it came with hundreds of serfs to make the estate run) in north-western Russia. He would live for another twenty years and father ten children with his much more beloved second wife, Christine Regina Sioberg. His great-grandson was actually the famed poet, Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was quite proud of his African heritage and wrote a book about his noble ancestor, “The Moor of Peter the Great.” Abram passed away at age eighty-five on May 14th, 1781. When rooting through a family’s past, no shortage of surprises can be found. However, most would admit that few family stories can compare with that of Abram Petrovitch Gannibal.

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Genealogy Center’s September Programs

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Join us for another month of free, virtual programs. There are some really good ones here suggested by our patrons. September 5, 2023, 2:30 p.m. EST “Introduction to Genealogy Research” with Kate McKenzie - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9058252 September 7, 2023, 6:30 p.m. EST “Examining DNA for Unknown Parentage” with Steven Frank - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9058294 September 12, 2023, 2:30 p.m. EST “Introduction to the Vasa Archives” with Kathy Cuff - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9058354 September 14, 2023, 6:30 p.m. EST “Using the Family History Guide” with Bob Taylor - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9077871 September 19, 2023, 2:30 p.m. EST “Researching Your Black Sheep Ancestors” with Brian Mulcahy - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9077897 September 21, 2023, 6:30 p.m. EST “A Genealogist's Guide to Sanborn Maps” with Michelle L. Spencer - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9077903 September 26, 2023, 2:30 p.m. EST “Genealogy Resources at the Kansas State Archives” with Lauren Gray - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9077912 September 28, 2023, 6:30 p.m. EST “How Investigative Genetic Genealogy is Revolutionizing Cold Case Investigations” with Tracie Boyle - https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9077924 Please register in advance for these engaging programs.

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September Program Call-outs

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+++++Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society: Meet Your Mishpocha+++++

The Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society (NEIJGS) will be hosting its 5th annual open house, “Meet Your Mishpocha,” on Sunday, September 10th from 10:30am-12:30pm at the Rifkin Campus, 5200 Old Mill Road, in Fort Wayne. This year’s presentation “Surprise! I’m Jewish!” will feature Greg Shoup who will tell the story of his newfound Jewish roots – how he learned of his heritage through DNA testing. Working with genealogist, Marlise Gross, Greg has been able to trace his connection to the Kisselhoff family and their journey from Russia to the United Kingdom, and America. His presentation will begin at 11:00 a.m. Greg is the Emmy-nominated First News and Noon meteorologist at WANE 15 who has been forecasting weather for 30 years in Fort Wayne. As a result, Greg is Fort Wayne’s most experienced certified meteorologist and is considered the ‘dean’ of Fort Wayne meteorologists. On-site features include the following family history resources: advice on digitizing photographs and documents with opportunities for scanning and receiving the scans on a thumb drive expert assistance with beginning one’s family history, forging ahead with one’s current research, and using DNA to help explore one’s biological background Steve Carr, the director of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue Fort Wayne, will be present to introduce new Holocaust resources available through the USC Shoah Foundation and the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive. the NEIJGS Fort Wayne Jewish Families Database; over 7,000 people with Jewish roots in northeast Indiana representatives from the Indiana Jewish Historical Society and the Oral History Video Project •information regarding the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy which will take place in Fort Wayne in August 2025 The NEIJGS will offer a free DNA kit as a door prize to one attendee at the conclusion of the program. If one is unable to attend Greg Shoup’s presentation, registration is required to view his interesting story; the link can be found on our website at https://neindianajgs.org/upcomingevents/. +++++African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne: Find Gems at the Genealogy Center!+++++ September 16, 2023 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST, the African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne (AAGSFW) will be offering an in-person program at the Genealogy Center. The program, “Research Tools & Tips - Find Gems at the Genealogy Center!” is an in-person, hands on research experience. Bring your research! Bring your questions! Join us IN PERSON at the Genealogy Center for hands-on research with members from the African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne (AAGSFW). Learn tools, methods, and resources to dig deeper and further your genealogy research! Join Roberta Ridley, AAGSFW Chairwoman and Dr. Al Brothers, AAGSFW Vice Chair as they help answer your genealogy questions with the amazing resources at the Genealogy Center inside the Allen County Public Library. The African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne (AAGSFW) celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2021 and promotes looking ‘outside of the box’ for genealogy information and research.

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Staying Informed about Genealogy Center Programming

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Do you want to know what we have planned? Are you interested in one of our events, but forget? We offer email updates for The Genealogy Center’s programming schedule. Don’t miss out! Sign up at http://goo.gl/forms/THcV0wAabB.

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Genealogy Center Social Media

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Driving Directions to the Library

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Wondering how to get to the library? Our location is 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the block bordered on the south by Washington Boulevard, the west by Ewing Street, the north by Wayne Street, and the east by the Library Plaza, formerly Webster Street. We would enjoy having you visit the Genealogy Center. To get directions from your exact location to 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, Indiana, visit this link at MapQuest: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=900%20 Webster%20St&city=Fort%20Wayne&state=IN&zipcode=46802%2d3602&country=US&geodiff =1 >From the South Exit Interstate 69 at exit 302. Drive east on Jefferson Boulevard into downtown. Turn left on Ewing Street. The Library is one block north, at Ewing Street and Washington Boulevard. Using US 27: US 27 turns into Lafayette Street. Drive north into downtown. Turn left at Washington Boulevard and go five blocks. The Library will be on the right. >From the North Exit Interstate 69 at exit 312. Drive south on Coldwater Road, which merges into Clinton Street. Continue south on Clinton to Washington Boulevard. Turn right on Washington and go three blocks. The Library will be on the right. >From the West Using US 30: Drive into town on US 30. US 30 turns into Goshen Ave. which dead-ends at West State Blvd. Make an angled left turn onto West State Blvd. Turn right on Wells Street. Go south on Wells to Wayne Street. Turn left on Wayne Street. The Library will be in the second block on the right. Using US 24: After crossing under Interstate 69, follow the same directions as from the South. >From the East Follow US 30/then 930 into and through New Haven, under an overpass into downtown Fort Wayne. You will be on Washington Blvd. when you get into downtown. Library Plaza will be on the right.

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Parking at the Library

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At the Library, underground parking can be accessed from Wayne Street. Other library parking lots are at Washington and Webster, and Wayne and Webster. Hourly parking is $1 per hour with a $7 maximum. ACPL library card holders may use their cards to validate the parking ticket at the west end of the Great Hall of the Library. Out of county residents may purchase a subscription card with proof of identification and residence. The current fee for an Individual Subscription Card is $85. Public lots are located at the corner of Ewing and Wayne Streets ($1 each for the first two halfhours, $1 per hour after, with a $4 per day maximum) and the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Harrison Street ($3 per day). Street (metered) parking on Ewing and Wayne Streets. On the street you plug the meters 8am – 5pm, weekdays only. The meters take credit cards and charge at a rate of $1/hour. Street parking is free after 5 p.m. and on the weekends. Visitor center/Grand Wayne Center garage at Washington and Clinton Streets. This is the Hilton Hotel parking lot that also serves as a day parking garage. For hourly parking, 7am – 11 pm, charges are .50 for the first 45 minutes, then $1.00 per hour. There is a flat $2.00 fee between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m.

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Genealogy Center Queries

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The Genealogy Center hopes you find this newsletter interesting. Thank you for subscribing. We cannot, however, answer personal research emails written to the e-zine address. The department houses a Research Center that makes photocopies and conducts research for a fee. If you have a general question about our collection, or are interested in the Research Center, please telephone the library and speak to a librarian who will be glad to answer your general questions or send you a research center form. Our telephone number is 260-421-1225. If you’d like to email a general information question about the department, please email: Genealogy@ACPL.Info.

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Publishing Note

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This electronic newsletter is published by the Allen County Public Library's Genealogy Center, and is intended to enlighten readers about genealogical research methods as well as inform them about the vast resources of the Allen County Public Library. We welcome the wide distribution of this newsletter and encourage readers to forward it to their friends and societies. All precautions have been made to avoid errors. However, the publisher does not assume any liability to any party for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, no matter the cause. To subscribe to “Genealogy Gems,” simply use your browser to go to the website: www.GenealogyCenter.org. Scroll to the bottom, click on E-zine, and fill out the form. You will be notified with a confirmation email. If you do not want to receive this e-zine, please follow the link at the very bottom of the issue of Genealogy Gems you just received or send an email to kspears@acpl.lib.in.us with "unsubscribe e-zine" in the subject line. Curt B. Witcher and John D. Beatty, CG, co-editors