Genealogy Club

We invite you to attend meetings at the Crawfordsville District Public Library in the Donnelley Room on the basement floor on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. We have a monthly program and refreshments, annual dinner, and quarterly After Hours research in the library.

Visitors are welcome to attend!

Call 765-362-2242 ext. 118 or email ref@cdpl.lib.in.us for more information or find us on Facebook: Genealogy Club of Montgomery County Indiana.

Our members help each other and guests with their research. The Club works on restoring Pioneer Cemeteries and other projects. Interested in becoming a Genealogy Club member? Complete our membership application (.pdf)

Digital genealogy research materials can be found on our Local History and Genealogy library page as well as our local history databases interface: Presto.

We have informational genealogy presentations to view on our Gen Club YouTube page, plus additional presentations and our Roots and Branches newsletters below. 

Genealogy Club Presentations

Searching for Haunted History Presented by Christopher and Christina Hunt — March 12, 2024

Lincoln School for Colored Children  Presented by Shannon Sullivan Hudson and Vicke Hudson Swisher — January 9, 2024

Making a Visual History Presented by Toni Ridgway-Woodall — August 8, 2023

Find A Grave Presented by Stephanie Simms and Amie Cox Springer — June 13, 2023

Swinging the Census into the 1950s Presented by Katie Springer — April 11, 2023

The Montgomery Guards Presented by Aaron Morrison — March 14, 2023

Restoring Moses Barnes Cemetery Presented by Joe Morrison –February 14, 2023

Chasing William Bratton Presented by Amie Cox — January 10, 2023 

A Compass Pointing Home: The Adventurous Life of William Bratton of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Presented by Amie Cox — May 1, 2022

A Grave Matter in Indiana (Cemetery Symbols) Presented by Jeannie Regan -Dinius — April 12, 2022

Black Civil War Troops from Montgomery County, pt. 2  Presented by Shannon Hudson — February 10, 2022

Black Civil War Troops from Montgomery County, pt. 1 Presented by Shannon Hudson — January 11, 2022

Susan Elston Wallace Presented by Helen Mundy Hudson and Stephanie A. Cain — November 9, 2021

New Databases at CDPL since 2017  Presented by Dellie Craig — December 21, 2019

General Resources at DePauw University Archives  Presented by Wesley W Wilson — July 9, 2019

Thorntown Colored cemetery  Presented by Shannon Hudson — June 11, 2019

Friends, Foes, and Frenchmen: a Brief History of the Northwest Territory to and through the American Revolution  Presented by James S. Swift — Feb 9, 2016

Who Sold the New Purchase?  Presented by James S. Swift — March 8, 2016

Family Search Wiki  By Stephen Thompson — August 9, 2016

Montgomery County Underground Railroad Part II  By Shannon Hudson — September 12, 2016

The Underground Railroad in Indiana By Jeannie Regan-Dinius –November 8, 2016

We Like Ike! By Beth Swift –January 10, 2017

Lew Wallace and the Elstons By Beth Swift –December 6, 2016

15th Anniversary of the Genealogy Club of Montgomery County By Dellie Craig — March 14, 2017

Cemetery Project Update By Judi Kleine — March 14, 2017

The History of the Genealogy Club of Montgomery County By Dian Moore — March 14, 2017

Brown Township By Karen Zach — June 13, 2017

History of Linden Depot By Elizabeth Henderson — March 13, 2018

Germanna 101 By Fred Smith — April 10, 2018

Presto & Our Local History Databases By Angela White — May 8, 2018

Elston Grove By Shannon Hudson — June 12, 2018

Cemetery Restoration Project Update By Judi Kleine — September 11, 2018

Boxcar to Nebraska By Stephen Simms — November 13, 2018

Ripley, Alamo & Elmore family By Bill Hauser — March 12, 2019

Deceased Lawyers of the Montgomery County Bar 1790-2017 By Kurt Homann

Lawyers of Montgomery County — In memoriam

Roots and Branches Newsletters