State Archives Open By Appointment Only

The Indiana State Archives is currently open for research by appointment only. For more information about scheduling an appointment, send an email to arc@iara.in.gov or give us a call at 317-591-5222. As always, you can utilize the Indiana Digital Archives and Research Indiana Catalog from home.

About IARA

The Indiana Archives and Records Administration assists State and local governments in the cost-effective, efficient and secure management of governmental records, by providing services throughout the life cycle of records, including creation, use, records inventory and scheduling, storage, and disposition. Read more here.

Join the Indiana Archives Virtual Volunteer Program!

Looking for something to do from home? Join our FromThePage project and become a Virtual Volunteer! We have started a new project to transcribe our index to the Lake County Naturalization Records. 

Naturalization records are an important genealogical tool that can help place a family in Indiana at a certain time in history. The Indiana State Archives holds the naturalization records for 81 of Indiana's 92 counties. Many of them have already been indexed by volunteers and can be searched at the Indiana Digital Archives. 

You can help create an index for the Lake County naturalization records from home - all you need is an Internet connection.

To help, visit our Lake County Naturalization Records project page on FromThePage.com and click Start Transcribing. You will be prompted to sign up for a free account. 

We have three different card indexes for the Lake County records, and this digital index will combine all of them. More cards are being added all the time. Clicking either Start Transcribing or Pages that Need Transcription will take you to cards that haven’t been transcribed yet. 

For some transcription tips, check the Help tab on the page for any individual Work, and please send an email to arc@iara.in.gov if you have any questions.

New Online Records Management Training for State Employees

January 2019

In addition to our quarterly in-person Records Management Training Workshop, IARA's Records Management division has created three new online tutorials for state employees:

1. Records Management Basics (IARA_WBT_0001): How and why we manage public records in state government, and how the Archives and Records Administration can help.
    
2. Reading and Interpreting Records Retention Schedules (IARA_WBT_0002): What a Retention Schedule is, what it looks like, and how to apply it.
    
3. Creating and Updating Records Retention Schedules (IARA_WBT_0003): A guide to the process of working with IARA to make sure your agency Retention Schedule is current and accurate, and how to update it when that's not the case.

Our tutorials are available for employee learning credit through ELM, Indiana State Personnel's Enterprise Learning Management system in Peoplesoft, or you can download your own reference copy directly from our website, to save, share, and review whenever you need it.

Read more, including who should take these courses, and how!

 

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