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Monday, July 19, 2010
Ind. Gov't. - "Couple working to preserve Indiana county's records"
While the Valparaiso Clerk-Treasurer struggles to find $20,000 to preserve her city's historical records dating back to 1857 (see ILB entry here), missionaries are working to preserve Knox County's records, according to this story today in the Lafayette Journal Courier:
VINCENNES - A southern Indiana county's old birth and death records, wills and other documents are being digitized to save them for future generations.A Washington state couple began working last year to photograph Knox County's masses of leather-bound volumes and crumbling files that in some cases date back to the 1700s.
Joseph and Betty Clark's monumental task is a missionary project for FamilySearch International, which is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Knox County is the first stop for the Clarks in an effort to create a genealogical lineage database for anyone interested in tracing their ancestry.
The Clarks picked Knox County because of its prime position in Indiana history. The county seat, Vincennes, was Indiana's territorial capital before it achieved statehood.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 19, 2010 09:49 AM
Posted to Indiana Government