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Are you interested in your ancestry? Learn how to get started with your genealogy from the Indiana Room’s Sarah Wright. She'll discuss tips, tricks, and proper methods for digging through online records.  Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 6:30pm McMillan B meeting Room....

The Family History Hounds genealogy group will meet Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 1:00pm in the McMillan B Meeting Room for our monthly program. Genealogy speaker Amber Oldenburg will be our presenter: Land for the Homeless: Homestead Records and How To Use Them in Your...

Help preserve our Plainfield history by sharing your historic photos, letters, and artifacts. Drop by the library's Indiana Room anytime between January 21-23, 2022 during library hours and we will digitize your treasures, add the electronic image to our local history archives, and return the...

Preserving history is a mission of the Indiana Room. We wanted to be sure to capture this moment in pandemic history and document it for the future. Thanks to the Plainfield residents who participated in our Oral History project. Listen in their own words how...

Come Explore Your Family History with the Indiana Room!  Are you curious about your ancestry?  Maybe DNA is your thing?  Drop by the Indiana Room where genealogy is our thing!  Try out (free) some of our many online genealogy databases (including Ancestry.com, Family Search, World...

We're happy to introduce our newest database making research easy and fun - Fold3, a genealogy database with Census records, military records, city directories and more. Check it out! Browse through military photographs or city directories. Who knows what - or who - you'll find!...

Did you know the library can help you locate historic marriage records from Hendricks County? Index to Marriage Records Hendricks County, Indiana SEARCH DATABASE This project was originally indexed by the Indiana W.P.A.  Original records are located in the Hendricks County Clerk's Office, Danville, IN. For information on...

If you love history and looking at nostalgic photographs, you'll want to check out these new pictorial books on Plainfield and Hendricks County, Indiana.  The library has several copies in the collection--if they're all checked out, be sure to place a hold through Evergreen so...

The Library has a growing collection of historic photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries documenting the people and places of Hendricks County. Browse through hundreds of these pictures of Plainfield and other Hendricks County towns and villages here.  ...