Hammond is a city in Indiana USA and is listed among the Chicago metropolitan areas. And the Hammond public library is situated there. It consists of the Suzanne G. Long local history room, E.B Hayward local office, and the Howard area office in Grand Avenue. Times obituaries are a utility recently provided by Hammond public library. The Hammond public library's base in calumet was founded in 1967 with the objective to assemble, safeguard and make available possessions relating to calumet region and Hammond. It was in 2002 when the room was refurbished.

Numerous articles, photos and other memorabilia that commemorates life in Hammond are put on exhibition here. Now, fortunately it has gone online and wifi, moreover on their site they offer facilities to view your benefactor record, search the huge catalog they put forward, to take a look at the featured list they show that contains new entries, and all time favorites. They also facilitate you with a reading list and pathfinders that enlists book in a user friendly manner. It has subcategories of books for adults, teens, youth and an award list too. The materials and the books provided by them are totally original and authentic.

Appreciations to the hard work of volunteers and staff of the HPL is cataloging the obituaries appearing in the leading “Times” newspaper. The date that appears on the website's index is not necessarily the death date but the date of initial appearance of obituary. Hammond Times Obituaries endeavors to enlist all the names in the Times newspaper mentioned as obituary. But as there is no proper column for obituary slips may happen during indexing. If you want to obtain a replica of a specific obituary then either come to the central library and view the microfilm or you can also get a correspondence print and send your demand at this address: “Hammond public library Attn: local history room, 564 state street, , IN46320, Hammond United states of America” in a stamped and self addressed envelope bearing five dollars apiece obituary. The indices on the site generalize the records in the form of decades, since the year 1939 till 2010.

Together with the Hammond Times Obituaries they also secure genealogy internet links, high school yearbooks, over the tea cups index, family announcements index and historical society. Over the tea cups is a tremendous resource for genealogists who had their ancestors in Hammond in the year 1907. It gives glimpse of Hammond hundred years ago. This could prove really helpful to those who are doing homework on their family history in Hammond.