Genealogy & Local History Services Volunteers

	John Anderson collects and formats data for the Cemetery Databases. John has photographed thousands of tombstones in Howard County, which may be found on the GLHS website.
	Ed Beheler - works on Sunset Memory Gardens data.
	Mary Blangy is a longtime volunteer in Genealogy and Local History. While she no longer assists in the room, Mary compiles the obituaries from the Kokomo Tribune each year as a valuable resource for our patrons.
	Margaret Cardwell retired from the Library in 1997 after 28 years of watching the genealogy/local history area move from a section of the reference department to a room of its own. My MLS is from I.U. I have taught classes in basic genealogy. Special Interests include the orphan train which came to Kokomo. Ancestral background includes English and German ancestors. My husband's family settled here at the turn of the century. Margaret is now working on inputting an index of newspapers along with other inputting volunteers. We are happy to have her back with us.
	Gayle Eikenberry is the Spanish teacher at Central Middle School in Kokomo and is retiring at the end of this school year (03-04) after thirty-four years of service. He is the husband of Joyce Eikenberry, Head of the Russiaville Branch Library. They have four children and five grandchildren. Besides doing genealogical research, Gayle enjoys spending time with his wife, children, grandchildren, and father, doing volunteer work at the Russiaville Branch and at the Genealogy/Local History Department downtown, and reading novels in Spanish, listening to Mexican music, and preparing (and eating) Mexican food. Gayle is researching the following names: BENGE of Madison and Clinton Counties, IN FIFE of Carroll County, IN NEWPORT of Howard and Cass Counties, IN TURLEY of Howard and Cass Counties, IN NOEL of Cass and Greene Counties, IN CAMPBELL of Cass County, IN HAINES of Clinton County, IN FORD of Clinton County, IN EIKENBERRY of Clinton County, IN; Ohio, Virginia, and Germany
	Cheryl Genovese started volunteering in 2005. She has a Ball State University English education/library science degree. Cheryl recently retired after 37 years of teaching. She is currently updating the Howard County Timeline for the website. Her genealogy research interests include FENN & VANDENBOSCH from Shelbyville to Hemlock, Howard County and from Belgium to Kokomo. Her brick wall is the Genovesa Italian ancestry.
	Dick Jones volunteers with his wife Candy and helps out with tasks as needed in the department.
	Candy (Schick) Jones has been a volunteer in Genealogy and Local History since the "Indiana Room" started having volunteers. In those days the department was staffed by volunteers only. The room was only open when there was a volunteer present. Candy helped to form a local support group, a state-wide coalition and lobbied for changes in the Indiana adoption laws. She is still co-director of the Indiana Adoption Coalition. Candy is married, the mother of four, stepmother of five, and aunt and legal guardian for three. She has 15 grandchildren. All of Dick and Candy's children and grandchildren are in other states. That means they travel a lot. She also serves as a Confidential Intermediary for the state of Indiana dealing with adoption searches. Candy's roots reach from Howard County to the first families to come to and settle in this country. Candy's areas of expertise are Indiana adoptions and Middle Tennessee research. She also enjoys newspaper research, since is is always interesting and one gets lost reading the old newspapers. Candy also enjoys planning programs.
	Mary Johanna McHale Kaspar has been a volunteer since October 1997. Mary Jo does indexing at home and helps in any way she can when she is here. One of her main genealogical locations of interest is County Mayo - McHALE and SPELLMAN; and County Cork (Cork City) - FITZGERALD and O'MARA/O'MEARA.
	Carl Leiter - Writes history articles for our website.
	Patty Lundberg -
	Pat Pointer
	Kent A. Smith - Military is a special interest of Kent's. He is especially interested in the Russiaville area and is the author of Russiaville in the Civil War.
	Karen Sosbe - Inputs data to the Vital Records Cardindex Database.
	Vivian White has volunteered with the GLHSD for several years. She just returned from an absence and we are happy to have her back with us. Vivian enjoys gathering information & putting it into out records. She also enjoys helping patrons.