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*First created in 1819.
*County seat:
Located in southern
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Buchanan,
Duncan, Edwardsville,
Floyds Knobs, Galena,
Georgetown, Greenville,
Mt. St. Francis, Navilleton, New
Albany and St. Marys.
Select this LINK to see GENERAL FLoyd County information
and links.
Select from the TOWN list above to learn which township the community is
located in, and view information and links specific to that area.
Select from the TOWNSHIPs Table below to view
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Surrounding Counties:
NW = Washington
County, IN NE = Clark County,
W = Harrison
County,
S = The
- Clark - Floyd Counties Convention and Tourism Bureau - "the Sunny Side of Louisville" Visitors site includes history.
- City of New Albany,
Indiana
- Ronald Branson's, Floyd County History - biographies
- Dr. Glenn A. Crothers, VITA, Assistant Professor of History; Director, The Floyd County Oral History Project.
· Indiana State Library. 140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
o Indiana Biography Index (published before 1990)
o Indiana Biography Index (published since 1990)
o Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
o Index of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2002
o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)
o Images of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley
o Vital Information Exchange (VINE)
- 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
- INGenWeb for Floyd County Genealogy - hosted by Sue Carpenter.
- INGenWeb Archives for Floyd County
- The Southern Indiana Genealogical Society
(SIGS serves the seven southern
- Family History Resources
- ICPR Collections
- Naturalization Databases for the Indiana counties of Blackford, Dubois, Elkhart, Floyd, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Switzerland, Union, Wayne, and Whitley.
- St.
Mary-of-the-Knobs [1823] -
"...St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish, the oldest parish in the archdiocese, prepares to celebrate its 175th anniversary..."
- St. Mary's of
Knobs Church Cemetery Page with a history from late 1700s when
Roman Catholics of
- Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends/Quaker)
- History of Friends
- History of the Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting - "...When the separation occurred in 1828 , the Yearly Meeting split into two bodies: Indiana Yearly Meeting Orthodox (later Friends United Meeting) and Indiana Yearly Meeting Hicksite (later Friends General Conference)..."
- countyhistory.com: for Floyd County, by Ronald Branson!
- Falls of the Ohio State Park
Related Geology/Paleontology Internet Sites
- Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more. Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature. This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
- The Political Graveyard,
for Floyd County,
Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site
about
Funeral Homes:
- Conway Fire
Museum -
- The Fire Museum Network homepage!
"...Most people don't realize it, but there are close to 300 Fire
Museums in the
- Indiana University Southeast at
- Floyd County Government
- Floyd County Health Department (For Birth & Death Certificates from ca. 1882)
- Floyd County Circuit Court Clerk (For Marriage, Divorce and Probate records)
Often, cemeteries come to be referred to by the name of a prominent family
and/or monument in the graveyard. With this in mind, I consulted an 1870
Census index, and found the Yennawine/Yenawine name appeared in
- St.
Mary-of-the-Knobs [1823] -
"...St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish, the oldest parish in the archdiocese, prepares to celebrate its 175th anniversary..."
- St. Mary's of
Knobs Church Cemetery Page with a history from late 1700s when
Roman Catholics of
- Clark - Floyd Counties Convention and Tourism Bureau - "the Sunny Side of Louisville" Visitors site includes history.
- City of New Albany,
Indiana
- New Albany-Floyd County Public Library
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching on-site, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America. Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.
Printed resources for Floyd County, Indiana include:
- A Brief History of
- A Compiled History
of Jacobs Chapel United
Note: Index to names found in
eight
- Ancestral Papers Written
by Early Members of Piankeshaw Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution. Grace Sloan. (Compiler).
- Ancestral Papers.
Grace Sloan. (Copier). Elizabeth S. Payne. (Compiler and
Indexer).
- Index to Applications for
Citizenship,
- First Marriage Book of
- Will Book A, 1819-1830,
- Will and Bond Record
"B", Mar. 1853-Sept. 1864,
- Floyd County Cemeteries.
- 950
- Atlas & Plat Book,
- School and Library Atlas
of the World. Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore,
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