Genealogy & Local History

Collections & Resources

AT HOME OR IN-LIBRARY ACCESS

FindMyPast (To access from home log in using Email: reference@andersonlibrary.net Password: APLremote1.) - U.S., Canada, and UK genealogy records
Fold3 (To access from home, click here.) - U.S. military records
Heritage Quest - U.S. Census records and Freedman's Bank
Indianapolis Star, 1903-present
NewsBank - Current and past Herald Bulletin
Newspaper Archive (To access from home log into My Account) - Historical newspapers
Newspaper Index - Herald Bulletin (1995-2014) & Madison Co. Monthly (1990-98)
Newspapers.com (To access from home, click here. To access the local paper portal while in the library, click here.) - Historical newspapers
Sanborn Maps (To access from home, click here.) - Business property maps, 1867-1970

IN-LIBRARY ACCESS ONLY

Ancestry Library
FamilySearch - Affiliate library access

MADISON COUNTY DATABASES

A collection of historical databases including:

Obituaries
Death certificates
Funeral home records
Coroner's reports
Cemetery records
Marriages
Naturalizations
Military records
High school student indexes
And more indexes coming soon!

Digital Collections

Browse or search indexes, images, and documents of Anderson and Madison County. Included are scans of yearbooks for schools in Madison County and The X-Ray student newspaper, Madison County birth records, auto industry labor union newsletters, and more.

Picturing Madison County

A collection of over 500 images of Anderson and surrounding areas that is part of the Indiana Memory Digital Collections, hosted by the Indiana State Library.

Indiana Room

The Indiana Room, located on the second floor of the Main Library, is dedicated to the study of local history and genealogy. The Indiana Room offers a variety of research collections for genealogists such as census and vital records indexes, access to the leading online genealogy websites, newspapers on microfilm, and volumes on other counties, states, and countries.

If you want to start tracing your family tree or perhaps you're stuck and haven't been able to make any progress, you can request an appointment with a librarian for a one-on-one genealogy consultation at the Main Library. Appointments are scheduled during Indiana Room business hours and typically last 30-60 minutes.

You may also contact Indiana Room staff with research questions or to request a copy of an obituary or newspaper article. We charge $1.00 per obituary to mail them using USPS and obituaries are free if sent via email. Customers are limited to 10 obituary requests per week.

Use our Fee Payment Form to pay for your obituaries online.

Indiana Room hours:

Monday-Thursday: 10:00am-7:00pm

Friday: 10:00am - 5:30pm

Saturday-Sunday: CLOSED

Collections & Resources

AT HOME OR IN-LIBRARY ACCESS

IN-LIBRARY ACCESS ONLY

MADISON COUNTY DATABASES

Digital Collections

Picturing Madison County

Online Collections

Genealogy

Documents

Historical

Indiana Room

Indiana Room hours:

Helpful Handouts and Info

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