At Your Leisure: The Fading of the Orange Roof
A postcard showing the grandeur of the downtown Howard Johnson’s. (Image: Amazon) We often...
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In the Park: JTV Hill Park
A cold wind whipped through the bare trees as I walked the perimeter of JTV Hill Park. There was...
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In The Park: Babe Denny Park
This fall, over half a million football fans dressed in their blue and white finest will visit...
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In The Park: Riverside Amusement Park
A vintage view of Riverside Amusement Park (image: ebay) “In The Park” has visited Wonderland...
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In The Park: Holliday Park
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of...
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HI Mailbag: 302 N. East Street
Reader’s Question: Can you provide me with any background on 302 North East Street? ...
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Reader’s Question: Back in the Fifties and Sixties, my family sometimes dined at a Chinese restaurant called the Mandarin Inn, which was as well-known for its steaks as it was for its Chinese food. There were also several...
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Family Tree: The First Census
Two hundred and twenty-three years ago, on March 1, 1790, Congress passed the First Census Act....
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Friday Favorite: A New Look at Lincoln
Have you ever taken the “one tank trip” to Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood home in southern Indiana, to...
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Family Tree: Irish in Indianapolis
Poster recruiting workers for the Central Canal, via the Indiana Historical Society As a few HI...
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Family Tree: Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Much has been written on this site and elsewhere about Indianapolis’s German influences....
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Putting It Together
So far we’ve dug through census records, searched cemeteries, and combed through military...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Wills & Probate Records
This application for administration from Clinton County shows that the deceased died without a...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Church Records
Photo of First Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis by the Detroit Publishing Co., via the Library...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: City Directories
The tile page from the 1858-1859 Indianapolis City Directory, via IUPUI City directories may be...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Discovering Your Family’s Heroes
My grandfather, Merle Longwell (2nd from the left), with his WWII service buddies. Earlier this...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Newspapers
Up to this point, we’ve been focusing on the basic facts (the names, dates, and places) of...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Obituaries
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve discussed several sources of information pertaining to...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Cemetery Records
Last week I mentioned that one way of discovering specific information regarding the place and...
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FF- Why Old Neighborhoods Are Better: Potential Magic
Kimball & Tess Lloyd-Jones, Woodruff Place, 2012 The coincidental sometimes seems—in...
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