The Tippecanoe County Area Genealogy Society, TIPCOA, is a non-profit
independent genealogy society with a strong membership. Our objectives are
to do research, educate, make genealogical materials available to the
public, and to locate, preserve, index and publish private and public
records of Tippecanoe County. We support many libraries in our community.
TIPCOA was formed in early 1970's as a non-profit organization dedicated to
the preservation of records and building the genealogical collections housed
at TCHA. Volunteers from DAR, TCHA, and TIPCOA saved court records,
organized boxes of loose papers, established card and family files, and
typed hundreds of thousands of index cards for marriages, wills, estates,
cemetery, and court records. TIPCOA supported the library for 32 years with
volunteers, by giving money for operating expenses, equipment and supplies,
and by purchasing books for researchers to use. In 2002 the TCHA Board
decided that TIPCOA should no longer partner with them. We left the
collection with them hoping it would stay intact for all researchers.
TIPCOA has a Certified Genealogist researching and over-seeing all research
requests. Many of our researchers were the volunteers who helped build
those indexes in the now TCHA library and are well versed on what is
available and where to locate materials. There are other original sources
of information besides those housed at the TCHA library.
Researchers do have a choice and the purpose of this message is to educate
everyone on this list that TIPCOA is working very hard at preserving the
family histories of this county and providing research services to the
public.
We hope this sets the record straight.
The TIPCOA board members
For more information you may read the links on our webpage.
Tippecanoe County Genealogy Society
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intcags/