INDIANAPOLIS – Wanting to learn more about your family history?
The State of Indiana has entered into a contract with Ancestry.com, an online database of genealogy records.
Working with the Indiana Commission on Public Records, the State will post more than 13 million birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage records for online access beginning next year.
A completion date is expected during Indiana’s bicentennial year in 2016.
The birth and death certificates date back to the early 1900’s, and marriage records range from 1958 through 2005.
The partnership with the website saves the Hoosier State more than $3.2 million.
Governor Mike Pence says the initiative improves accessibility to records and can benefit future generations looking back at state history.
