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New Treasures at the Indiana State Archives

Student nurses at the Home Hospital Training School for Nurses, Lafayette, Indiana, posing outside the Kile Memorial Building, circa 1929. (Click for high resolution)

"Student nurses at the Home Hospital Training School for Nurses, Lafayette, Indiana, posing outside the Kile Memorial Building, circa 1929.” One of a series of twelve photographs documenting student life at the Home Hospital School. Photo courtesy of Dale Armstrong.

Student records from many closed Indiana hospital nursing schools are preserved at the Indiana State Archives. A database of student names from eleven closed schools is now online at http://www.indianadigitalarchives.org/

    Indiana Digital Archives Again Named to Best of Web List

    The Indiana Digital Archives has been named a "Best State Website" by Family Tree Magazine for the second consecutive year. America's #1 family history publication will release the list of honorees in its December 2011 issue and is currently available at http://familytreemagazine.com/article/2011-best-state-websites.

    The "Best State Website" list honors America's leading genealogy research websites. The seventy-five sites listed represent the go-to bookmarks for browsing America's past, state by state. The Indiana Digital Archives joined Indiana State Library: Genealogy Collection as one of only two honorees from the State of Indiana. Family Tree Magazine also named the Digital Archives a "Best Website of 2011," which encompasses genealogy and history-related sites from all sources public or private, subscription or free.

    "This recognition by Family Tree Magazine is another great honor for the Indiana State Archives and is especially rewarding for State Archives staff and the dozens of volunteers whose years of hard work have made the Indiana Digital Archives a success," said Jim Corridan, Director of the Commission on Public Records and State Archivist. "The Digital Archives has become increasingly popular among researchers due to its ability to instantly connect them to valuable historical records and other holdings within the Indiana State Archives."

    Friends of the Indiana State Archives volunteers have spent the last 16 years creating indexes for many of the state's records that are now available within the Digital Archives. Researchers can browse these indexes to many of the most popular Indiana State Archives collections, including death, institution, military and naturalization records, among others.

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    About ICPR

    Under Director and State Archivist Jim Corridan, the Indiana Commission on Public Records (ICPR) assists State and local governments in the cost-effective, efficient and secure management of governmental records.

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