South Bend Indiana Family History Center

Center Contacts and Hours Location Map: Location Map Address: 930 Park Place Mishawaka, IN 46545 United States The entrance to the Family History Center is located on the southeast side of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Meetinghouse Phone: 1-574-243-1633   E-mail: IN_SouthBend@ldsmail.net Open Hours: Tuesday: 12:00pm - 7:00pm Saturday: 10:00am - 2:00pm  CLOSED: All holidays December 24th-January 1st When surrounding schools are closed due to weather the Family History Center will also be closed.  Center Resources Collections <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/#form=catalog">FamilySearch Catalog:</a> This center has the ability to order any of the films and fiche available through the FamilySearch Catalog,&#160;from Salt Lake Library distribution. We have over 1900 films in our own Inventory. Plus another 1,000 or so fiche. </li></ul> There is a $7.50 charge to cover the shipping to and from our FHC. This allows a patron to view the film for 90 days. If they find 90 days is not enough time, they can renew the film for an additonal 60 days&#160;for another $7.50 to have the Microfilm for an Extended loan with no defined return date ,if someone wants to&#160;&#160; to keep the film here who initially ordered it. Or they can pay the $16.50 up front, and when the film comes in we add it to our Inventory at that time. <a _fcknotitle="true" href="FHC Portal">FHC Portal</a> This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to Premium Family History software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. </li>Such as the following web sites. •19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive •Access Newspaper Archive •Alexander Street Press - The American Civil War: &#160;&#160;&#160; Research Database | Letters and Diaries | Images, Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera •Ancestry.com </li>•Find My Past •Fold3.com (Previously known as Footnote.com) •The Genealogist •Genline FamilyFinder&#160;*. •Godfrey Memorial Library •Heritage Quest Online •Historic Map Works Library Edition •Paper Trail •World Vital Records </li>Hardware and Equipment: We have seven computers with access to the above sites, with the ability to print or save to a flash drive the information you&#160;find and want to keep. We have five film readers along with one Cannon Scanner that allows you to scan&#160;documents you find on&#160;any of the films you may have ordered. We are working on adding another scanning device that will be able to take a picture of an image&#160;from the readers. This will be of great&#160;benefit to our patrons. Now we have a 1 hour time limit on the Cannon Scanner, this allows more patrons time to copy the documents, rather then&#160;having to transcribe the information. &#160;&#160; </li></ul> Center Services Staff Research Specialties We have several consultants who specialize in Hungary, Poland,&#160;German, and England&#160;research. Also one who is very good searching Military Records. Once you have an initial contact with them, you can set up appointments with them, at no charge.&#160;We&#160;do ask $.10 a copy if you make a hard copy of your records, other than that everything here is free of charge.&#160; Resources in the Local Area The Mishawaka Penn Harris Public Library, located at 209 Lincoln Way East, Mishawaka, (574) 259-5277, with branches at: 602 Bittersweet Rd, Mishawaka (574) 259-0392, and 51446 Elm Rd. Granger&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; (574) 271-3179. The St.Joseph County Public Library, 304 South Main St.South Bend, IN&#160; (574) 282-4621 The Allen County Public Library, in Ft. Wayne,&#160;IN (260) 421-1200 Links <a href="http://wicklow.rootsireland.ie">http://wicklow.rootsireland.ie</a> <a href="http://www.geneanet.org">www.geneanet.org</a> and <a href="http://www.archive.org">www.archive.org</a> <a href="http://www.verwandt.de">www.verwandt.de</a> and&#160; <a href="http://www.mocavo.com">www.mocavo.com</a>&#160; <a href="http://www.in.gov/library/genealogy.htm">www.in.gov/library/genealogy.htm</a> Volunteer at the Center Anyone can be a volunteer at our Family History Center. You don't have to be an expert at doing research or on how to use a computer. We would be glad to have anyone who has a couple of hours during any of the days we are open.