A Message From Our President

In my early days, stories began, "Once upon a time." The CCGS Library has changed with the times. We have computers, copy machines, and a microform printer/reader. However, the Internet has slowed the traffic through the door at 309 Main Street to a crawl.  New and exciting materials are added to our shelves each week, and some of it is passed on in The Researcher and the CCGSI webpage, to you folks by the quarter. What you see in the Researcher or on this website is only a fraction of the resource materials available at our Library.

Our Society was organized to collect materials to use in locating Clay County families and to make this information available to the public. Upkeep of our Library building is an ongoing concern and repairs are always on the agenda for each year. As the President, I will have to confess that the past few years we have not had enough income to pay the bills without drawing upon savings put back for emergencies. Service contracts on the large copier & printer/reader are very expensive, but they are nice to have for our patrons. The cold of this winter has caused unforeseen furnace expense, too, as we had to call a repairman twice.

Our membership is our "life blood," so if you have relatives or friends, who are interested in a large collection of various genealogy and historical items, invite them to join our Society. Not only does our Library house genealogical materials we also have historical documents for Clay and surrounding counties. In fact we have some materials on all the counties in Indiana. If you have families from Indiana, we have information for you! Membership has its privileges and is very affordable. Sign up today! See more about membership  here. 
Betty Herbert, Volunteer. January 27, 2010