Hi Mary, I do my research at the Ft. Wayne, IN Public Library. They are now the second in U.S. for genealogy, there collection covers whole U.S., plus other countries (England, Ireland, Scotland, etc.). I am sending you the URL so you can go to their catalog collection (this covers books on the shelves only, not their microfilms). You can search by title, author or subject. When it comes up, look to the left column under seaarch and click on Catalog. Example, if you are interested in Adams Co., IN., just type this in and click search (it is usually set for words and phrase). To change this click on the little blue arrow after these words and a drop down menu appears to change the search requirement. http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ This will help you with what has been publiched and out there and you will then have titles and authors to work with. You may want to save this in favorites for future reference. Judi