Lake County Public Library (Indiana)

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Contact Information
Website: http://www.lcplin.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lcplin

Address:

1919 W 81st Ave

Merrillville, Indiana

46410

Directions/Parking Map

Telephone: (219) 769-3541

Email Us:

Hours of Operation:

M-Th: 9AM - 9 PM

Fri: 9 AM - 6 PM

Sat: 9 AM - 5 PM

Sun 12 PM - 4 PM 

Description of Collections
Genealogy Room -

Collection focus is Lake County, Indiana resources with some Porter County materials. Subject area focus of the entire collection is East Coast early America to the Midwest States, with some Southern State coverage.

- High School Yearbooks and College Yearbooks (Digitized copies are available)

- Newspaper obituary indexes in binders for the Gary Post Tribune (digital version of index is available), The Hammond Times or Times, Lake County Register and Star, Lowell Tribune, Crown Point Register and other local papers.

- Microfilm of local newspapers, city directories, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Misc. Crown Point wills, Calumet Region phone books, WPA indexes for Indiana,

- Census and Soundex.

- City, town and county histories, school enumeration records, cemetery indexes and more.

- Lake County Plat Maps - approximately 1926 to 2014.

- Genealogies of some local families.

- Genealogy magazines and newsletters.

- Major online subscription databases at LCPL that patrons may use onsite include: HeritageQuest, Ancestry.com Library Edition, Fold3, Access Newspaper Archive, Post Tribune Newspaper 1986 to current, Proquest African American Genealogy, Proquest Historical Newspapers, Chicago Tribune (1849-1990).

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