Welcome to the Howard County Memory Project

It is exciting to see images from the original Howard County, Indiana, courthouse records, including the Marriage Record Books dating from 1844. Scoll over "Collections," then "Court/Marriage Records," and then select a set of images to view by clicking on the title of the "Marriage Record Book" depending on the years you are researching.

Each Marriage Record Book will have an index . . . click on those titles to view the actual index to determine the page number for locating the primary records. Our hope is that the clerk's penmanship in those early years is clear and readable today, as it was then!

Another of our newest additions is a listing of the City & Rural Directories in the library's collection that relate to Kokomo and Howard County, Indiana. Scroll over "Collections," then "Local History," and click on "City & Rural Directories" to view an index of the directories available for research in the Genealogy & Local History Department at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library. 

The other recent additions to the website include images of native son, and Clifford the Big Red Dog author, Norman Bridwell, microfilmed Court Records indexes, Funeral Notices, the Continental Steel Files index, and the Ryan White Files.

 The Howard County Memory Project website was established in 2002 and focused on local high school yearbooks. Within this site in 2010, you will find multiple 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 continues to evolve.

Genealogy
        & Local History

 @ the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library 

  4053 S. Webster St.
  Kokomo, IN 46902

      765.450.5885

• MOVE information
  The Genealogy & Local History Department (GLHD) will be moving back into the renovated library building at 220 N. Union St. in Kokomo . However, the timeline has been pushed back slightly. We anticipate moving in the next few months; please call before making the trip to the temporary location.

• PAPER & DOCUMENT PRESERVATION WORKSHOP -     September 21 ~  6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
  Learn how to clean, store, and display your family's keepsakes with repair and preservation techniques for books, documents, and photos. Please call after August 22, for required registration.