Welcome to the Howard County Memory Project

The Howard County Memory Project website was established in 2002. Within this site, you will find databases and digitized items especially for genealogy and local history researchers. We will be continuing to add items of interest and we hope you will check back often as this site evolves.

The newest additions to the website include:

• Marriages & Court Records: Scroll over "Collections" and click on "Court Records" to view the first recorded marriages in Howard County beginning in 1844. These are the actual images without transcription . . . images of the indexes found in each book will allow you to research names.
  In addition, old court records are available on 74 rolls of microfilm at the library: volunteers are extracting names to create a database you can search from this site. Like to volunteer? See the Contact Us section on this site! 

• Funeral Notices: reflect a time when death was honored and shared with friends and family members, long before modern communication arrived via daily newspapers, the telephone, and today’s Internet. See this collection of 17 funeral Notices by scrolling over "Collections," then "Local History," and select "Funeral Notices."

• The Continental Steel Files:  pertain to the local steel mill AFTER it closed in 1986, and includes a brief history of Continental Steel with links to the mill's historical heritage. Scroll over "Collections" and click on "Continental Steel Files."

• The Ryan White Files: Scroll over "Collections" and click on "Ryan White Files" to view digital images of news articles revolving around this young man's short life, and the impact his story made in Howard County, Indiana, and around the world.