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“Exploring Family History: Challenging Assumptions and Seeking Truthâ is an beginning genealogy article that highlights the importance of questioning assumptions when researching family history. It explains why relying solely on what is already known can lead to incomplete or inaccurate information, and provides insights into the reasons why family histories can be unreliable.
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Genealogy Of The Sharpless Family
Five years after the great family bi-centennial reunion held on August 25, 1882, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Gilbert Cope published his massive volume on the 200 years of Sharpless family ancestry in America, called “Genealogy of the Sharpless family : descended from John and Jane Sharples, settlers near Chester, Pennsylvania, 1682 : together with some account of the English ancestry of the family, including the results of researches by Henry Fishwick, F.H.S., and the late Joseph Lemuel Chester, LL.D. : and a full report of the bi-centennial reunion of 1882.” This monumental, well-researched tome sought to answer the genealogical and historical questions brought to light from that 1882 reunion. This book is free to search, read, and/or download.
Illinois and Indiana Genealogy
The Merrillville Branch of the Lake County Public Library have placed online several telephone directories for the Calumet District that previously were only available on Microfilm. The communities represented are Dyer, East Chicago, Griffith, Hammond, Highland, Indiana Harbor, Munster, St. John, and West Hammond in Indiana and Burnham, Lansing, and Whiting in Illinois.. These directories were published by the Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation of Chicago twice annually, and those digitized cover the years of 1926-1931. These are free to search, read, and/or download.
- Calumet District Directory – August 1921
- Calumet District Directory – February 1922
- Calumet District Directory – September 1922
- Calumet District Directory – March 1923
- Calumet District Directory – May 1946
- Calumet District Directory February – 1947
- Calumet District Directory November – 1947
- Calumet District Directory – August 1948
- Calumet District Directory – May 1949
- Calumet District Directory – January 1950
- Calumet District Directory – October 1950
- Calumet District Directory – July 1951
- Calumet District Directory – May 1952
- Calumet District Directory – May 1953
- Calumet District Directory – April 1955
- Calumet District Directory – May 1956
- Calumet District Directory – May 1957
- Calumet District Directory – 1958
- Calumet District Directory – 1958 – 1959
- Calumet District Directory – 1959 – 1960
Indiana Genealogy
East Chicago Telephone Directories 1926-1931
The Merrillville Branch of the Lake County Public Library have placed online several telephone directories for East Chicago that previously were only available on Microfilm. The communities represented are East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. These directories were published by the Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation of Chicago twice annually, and those digitized cover the years of 1926-1931. These are free to search, read, and/or download.
- East Chicago Directory – March 1926
- East Chicago Directory – September 1926
- East Chicago Directory – March 1927
- East Chicago Directory – September 1927
- East Chicago Directory – March 1928
- East Chicago Directory – September 1928
- East Chicago Directory – February 1929
- East Chicago Directory – June 1929
- East Chicago Directory – August 1931