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	<description>Research and Writing from Northwest Indiana by Harold Henderson</description>
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		<title>Welcome to Midwest Roots!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family history research can be a joy &#8212; OR it can become a boring slog through records that never quite answer your questions. I can help turn the worst into the best. I love research and writing. If you don&#8217;t (or have run out of time), hire me to do them for you, professional grade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lookup in Abstracts of Obituaries in the Western Christian Advocate 1834-1850</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret R. Waters, Dorothy Ruiker, and Doris Leistner, Abstracts of Obituaries in the Western Christian Advocate 1834-1850 (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1988). Nearly 8000 obituaries from this Methodist periodical which centered on the Old Northwest Territory states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com.]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lookup in A Guide to Manuscript Collections of the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Library (1986)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Pumroy with Paul Brockman, A Guide to Manuscript Collections of the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Library (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1986). Brief well-indexed finding aids to more than 800 manuscript collections in two of Indiana&#8217;s premier repositories &#8212; as of a quarter-century ago. These are NOT every-name indexes to the collections, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lookup in index to early La Porte court records (1830s)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harold Henderson, comp., In Court In La Porte: An Every-Name Index to the First Legal Proceedings in La Porte County, Indiana [prior to 1836] (La Porte: Blurb.com, 2011). More than 800 distinct surnames of pioneers appear in the first minute record (order book), complete record, and judgment docket of this northern Indiana county. This book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lookup in Place Names of Illinois</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Callary, Place Names of Illinois (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009). Well over 3,000 place names and origins from the Sucker State. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com.]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lookup in DePauw University 1910 Record of Alums</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Alexander Martin, ed., Alumnal Record DePauw University (Greencastle IN: DePauw, 1910). Short biographies of more than 2300 men and women who attended this Methodist school in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, in the classes of 1840 through 1910. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lookup in Michigan Place Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>haroldhenderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Romig, Michigan Place Names (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988). More than 5,000 names and origins from the Wolverine State. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com.]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lookup in pre-1979 genealogy articles from Indiana Magazine of History</title>
		<link>http://www.midwestroots.net/2012/05/free-lookup-in-pre-1979-genealogy-articles-from-indiana-magazine-of-history/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=free-lookup-in-pre-1979-genealogy-articles-from-indiana-magazine-of-history</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>haroldhenderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorothy L. Riker, comp., Genealogical Sources Reprinted from the Genealogy Section of Indiana Magazine of History (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1979). Marriage, will, cemetery, church, cemetery, Bible, and miscellaneous records as well as some family genealogies. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com.]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation: Beyond Fort Wayne, Madison, and the Newberry: Welcome to the Other Midwestern Archives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>haroldhenderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve been to the biggest, now check out the rest. My personal sample of archives in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin &#8212; and a few suggestions of where to find the one YOU need! This presentation includes visuals and runs about 50 minutes. Beginner/Intermediate. Contact me for more information and open dates. Presented at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation: First Steps in Indiana Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find your Hoosiers in the state&#8217;s four big repositories and 92 county seats. Indiana&#8217;s wealth of resources may surprise you. There&#8217;s no substitute for being there! This presentation includes visuals and runs about 50 minutes. Beginner/Intermediate. Contact me for more information and open dates. Presented at Lake County (Illinois) Genealogy Workshop November 2011.]]></description>
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