IN HCR0052

Honors 185 volunteers who have contributed more than 100,260 hours to the Indiana State Archives since 1991

Recognizes 43 volunteers who devoted 6,816 hours in 2015 to processing, indexing, and preserving Indiana's historical records, equivalent to four full-time employees

Acknowledges volunteers' entry of over 1.5 million names into a searchable online database and their role in the Archives' website being named "Best State Website" for genealogical research five times by Family Tree Magazine

Notes volunteers in the Conservation Lab contributed 2,500 hours to preserve original Indiana House and Senate bills dating back to 1863

Directs the Principal Clerk of the House to transmit a copy of the resolution to the Friends of the Indiana State Archives and Jim Corridan, director of the Indiana Archives and Records Administration