Family tree: Vigo, Sullivan Library Maps Present Entry to Newspaper Archives | Life within the valley

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Typically we make a Ancestry.com search and we get a suggestion pointing to a diary obituary of our matter, solely to search out by clicking on it that it is on Newspapers.com (property of Ancestry) and subsequently a further subscription charge can be charged for viewing it. Effectively no extra, if you happen to dwell in Vigo County and have a Vigo County Public Library card.

The Sullivan County Public Library has the free model of Newspapers.com on-line for viewing from your property you probably have their library card – and they’ll situation reciprocal playing cards to VCPL library card holders. Getting a reciprocal card includes going to the Sullivan Library and requesting a library card. They’ll confirm with the VCPL that you’ve got a Vigo County map after which situation you with a Sullivan County map. It solely took me a couple of minutes to get a card. Plus, your Sullivan Library Card entitles you to view their books and use all of their library’s providers as if you happen to lived there.

And do not forget that the Vigo County Public Library has the NewspaperArchives.com database on their internet web page, which you’ll be able to view totally free from your property with a VCPL library card. Though there’s some overlap, these two log databases have completely different logs and completely different years. So including them collectively will increase your possibilities of discovering extra articles about your loved ones and ancestors.

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Whether or not you’re a genealogist or not, you probably have by no means checked FindaGrave.com, you’re lacking one thing. Launched in 1995 as a strategy to view the graves of well-known folks, it has grown and grown over the previous 22 years to incorporate everybody. In 2013, the location was bought to Ancestry with the understanding that it could stay free to the general public. It has over 180 million memorials, all displayed by volunteer members. You could find documentation of the graves of early settlers at memorials to individuals who could have died final week. Extra info could also be displayed on a memorial, similar to hyperlinks to the individual’s mother and father and youngsters, an obituary or demise discover of the individual, a photograph of the gravestone or the individual. As with all database created by volunteers, you’ll want to examine any details about a memorial that’s not effectively documented or that seems incorrect, contradictory, or unclear.

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Searching for images and tales concerning the Lewis Bough household. They moved to Terre Haute from Evansville and earlier than that that they had migrated from Maryland to Kentucky in Indiana. Lewis Bough was married to Caroline (Carrie) Schiffman (his household was from Evansville, Indiana). I’ve info on the household of Lewis (typically known as Louis) relationship again to Frederick Bough, 1760-1838, who died in Greene County, Indiana. I’m extra within the photographs and tales of Lewis Bough, born August 8, 1879 in Silverville, Lawrence County, Indiana, and died April 17, 1929, in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. He’s buried in Evansville, Indiana, my great-grandfather.

Lewis labored for the railroad; he was very concerned within the Vigo Brotherhood n ° 146 of the railway. Carrie, his spouse, was president of the Girls’s Auxiliary at one level. He was additionally a member of Bedford Stone Metropolis Lodge of the Eagles, No. 654. Lewis and Carrie had three sons, of whom I additionally know little or no: Frederick Delbert Bough, the youngest, was my grandfather (I’ve a number of images and tales of him). I want to know extra concerning the two oldest sons, Elwood and John Bough. Contact Wynne Linden, 507 W. Poplar St., West Terre Haute, IN 47885; e mail [email protected] or 262-370-8890 (most well-liked textual content or depart a message).

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