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Ancestry Library Edition is available at computers within each of the Library's branches.


HeritageQuest Online is available at all the library locations & at home for patrons with a resident library card.


Also available to resident cardholders at home or to all in the library, ProQuest Obituaries features national newspapers dating back to the 1800's.


WorldCat focus on genealogy: Learn more and get a tutorial.

The Lake County Public Library Indiana Room includes both local history and genealogy resources. The emphasis of the collection is on Lake County, but also includes nearby counties such as Porter and LaPorte.

Reference materials for states from which settlers migrated to Indiana and many general genealogy reference resources are also available.

Indiana Magazine of History

The Indiana Magazine of History (IMH) is one of the nation's oldest historical journals, published since 1905. Thanks to a grant, free access to this scholarly journal is available for all but the two most recent years of publication.

Region Roots - the Indiana Room Newsletter

Region Roots contains notes, tips, articles and information about genealogy, especially in Northwest Indiana. Find out more about some of the resources in the library's Indiana Room. Use your news aggregator to subscribe to this blog.

Access NewspaperARCHIVE

Access NewspaperARCHIVE is the largest historical newspaper database online, containing tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1759 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date and are able to be viewed as pdf files using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Currently, users are able to search 79.5 million pages from 708 cities, going back 239 years.

The Indiana Room hours are:

Monday - Thursday	9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday	9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday	9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday	1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The Indiana Room is located behind the Central Library Reference Desk. For appointments with the Indiana Librarian, call 219-769-3541, ext. 336.

Access Indiana Roots from here!

In early 2003, the Library joined forces with the Genealogy Search Engine, Indiana Roots. More than 50,000 Lake and Porter County obituary listings are indexed from the following papers: Post Tribune (Gary), The Times (Hammond), Merrillville Herald, Lowell Tribune, Sun Journal, and Star Register. The coverage period runs from the 1960s to mid-1980s with some gaps. Additional years are planned in the future.

Also, Indiana Roots covers birth, marriage and obituary records for other counties in Northern Indiana (currently only Elkhart County). Patrons visiting the Central Library can view a printed copy of LCPL's obituaries included in Indiana Roots.

If you are bookmarking Indiana Roots, use the address www.indianaroots.lib.in.us.