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About the Department
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Hours
Monday: 4pm - 8pm
Tuesday: 9am - 8pm
Wednesday: 9am - 5pm
Thursday: 9am - 8pm
Friday: 12pm - 6pm
Saturday: 9am - 5pm
Sunday: 1pm - 5pm |
Contact us:
Local History/Genealogy Services
Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
1120 Stafford Road
Plainfield, IN 46168
(317) 839-6602 ext. 2114
Email: askindiana@plainfieldlibrary.net
Research Requests
There is no set fee for our local history/genealogy services. Donations to the Library's Gift Fund are gratefully received and will be used to buy additional materials for the collection. Checks may be made out to: Plainfield Public Library with "genealogy" noted on the memo line.
- Mail requests to:
Plainfield - Guilford Township Public Library
Attn: Local History & Genealogy Department
1120 Stafford Road Plainfield, IN 46168
- A self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage must accompany the request.
- Requests will be filled as time allows.
Family Search Affiliate Library
The Indiana Room at the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library is a Family Search Affiliate Library with FamilySearch.org and the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. If you are interested in ordering and borrowing any of their over 2 million reels of microfilmed records, you are now able to select PGTPL as the destination for your microfilm. When your film arrives, you may use the readers at this library for viewing and copying. We return the films for you when your borrowing time is finished.
To order films from the FHL, consult the Family Search website.
Resources on Hendricks County, Indiana
Extensive Hendricks County materials for genealogy and local history include, but are not limited to:
- Census microfilm (1830 - 1930)
- Access to Ancestry, Heritage Quest, and World Vital Records databases
- All published Hendricks County histories and atlases
- WPA name index and vital statistics indexes
- Birth record indexes: 1882 - 1920
- Marriage records and indexes: 1824 - 1950
- Death record indexes: 1882 - 1920
- Microfilmed Newspapers: Plainfield, Danville, Clayton, Coatesville, Brownsburg, Hendricks County and also Jamestown
- Obituary file (from local newspapers)
- Card index to some Plainfield newspapers (1890s - 1950)
- Cemetery interment records
- Index to deaths with burial in Hendricks County (1882 - 1990)
- Online cemetery and obituary database
- Plat atlases from 1878 and 1904 for Hendricks County
Other Indiana Counties
The collection includes one or more books on most Indiana counties. A 6-volume set of Indiana Quaker records by Willard Heiss is also available.
Indiana History
The local history collection includes a good representation of books on the state, both general histories and volumes on specific subjects.
Morgan, Putnam, Boone and Montgomery Counties
- Census microfilm (1830 - 1930)
- County Histories and WPA indexes
- Cemetery interment records
- Marriage, birth and death records
Photocopies
A coin-operated machine is located in the Indiana Room. **All materials must be approved by the staff before copying. In certain cases, fragile materials must be copied by staff. Photocopies are $0.10 (ten cents) for letter and legal sized paper. Ledger sized paper (11x17) is $0.20 (twenty cents) per page.
Closed Stacks
The GUILFORD TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL COLLECTION (materials with call numbers beginning "H") includes non-circulating local and Indiana history, and genealogy books. This reference collection is shelved in closed stacks. Patrons may use the library's catalog to locate titles for viewing. Staff will bring these books to you upon request.
How to request information from closed stacks:
Books with call numbers starting with "H" are located in the archives and are retrieved by the staff. To request a book:
- List the complete call number, author and title of the work.
- Ask a staff member to obtain the books. Please limit the number of books in use to 5 at a time.
- Return books to a staff member when finished, and before requesting additional materials.
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