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Discover Your Indiana Roots with Hoosier Connections Welcome! I am Kaye Ford, AG®, a professional genealogist dedicated to uncovering the ancestral stories rooted in Henry County and East-Central Indiana. Through Hoosier Connections, I help clients navigate local repositories, solve complex research problems, and build accurate, compelling family histories.

I offer a range of specialized services, including targeted basic or extensive research projects, oral history transcriptions, and expert guidance on lineage society applications. Every family has a story waiting to be told—let’s work together to find the records that complete yours. Reach out to schedule a complimentary one-hour consultation.

Geographic Specialities
Great Lakes Region (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)

Testimonials

• "I can't thank you enough for all of your help as I research my family history.  It was so helpful that you took the time to pull out all the files on my family.  What a gift all of the pictures and information was!  Thank you for your incredible kindness." ~ H.A., 2025
• "...Living in California, it is not possible to do my own research and thus my appreciation is 'immeasurable' when I find help...thank you so much for providing this research..." ~ C.V., 2025
• "...I wanted to reach out and thank you again for the information you sent me four years ago.  It has helped me to finally get Thaddeus Owen (the father) recognized by DAR as a patriot! (They didn't originally accept it and I had to come up with more proof). I have also been able to verify that John Elliott was a patriot, born in New Hampshire.  He was at Bunker Hill and the Bennington Battle, among others, serving under General Stark. Again, thank you for your help in my genealogical pursuits!" ~ A.M., 2024
• [Found photo of WWII veteran buried overseas]] " Kaye! What a find - many thanks for your efforts." ~ T.H., 2024
• "Thank you so very much for your diligent search for and success in finding the newspaper account of Elsie -- April 1949 talk at the Henry County Historical Society--especially going the extra mile to round up page two of that article in the Courier-Times...And thanks too for the even more arduous search for an account of a talk she might have given earlier, in1948..." ~ L.L., 2023
• "Thank you so much for your kind and substantive help and guidance...researching the Edwards family.  During the week, we scanned over 100 documents but none so exciting as Lizzie's medical documents.  Thank you for making her life become more real for us!" ~ B., 2019

Additional specialities or search keywords
Proofreading, transcribing

Repositories

• Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, IN)
• Indiana State Library
• Indiana Historical Society
• Indiana State Archives
• East-Central Indiana
• West-Central Ohio
• Ohio History Center
• NARA - Chicago

Research Time Periods

• 20th Century
• 19th Century

Languages

• English
• Some basic German (genealogical information only)
• Some Latin

Honorifics/Credentials
Accredited Genealogist®

Certificates

• ProGen 39
• Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) - 2019 (Mastering Genealogical Documentation, Dr. Thomas Jones)
• GRIP 2021 (Reading Old Handwriting, Carla Cegielski)
• GRIP 2023 (Great Lakes Region Research - Cari Taplin, CG®)

Affiliations

• Indiana Genealogical Society
• Sarah Winston Henry Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
• International Commission for Accreditation of Professional Genealogists
• Henry County (Ind.) Historical Society & Museum

Degrees
Bachelor of Science in Professional Studies with an emphasis on Family History Research from Brigham Young University-Idaho (July 2022)