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Indiana
*Additional Research Resources:
· National Atlas of the United States
· U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources
· U.S. Gazetteer, online search for place names.
· U.S. Census Bureau: State & County QuickFacts for Indiana
· List of Indiana's Territorial and State Governors
· Access Indiana - http://www.in.gov/
o Indiana Digital County Network
· Indiana State Department of Health (Birth and Death Certificates)
· Indiana State Information Center
o Student Fact Book for Indiana
· Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites - Historic Sites List
· Indiana Code: Table of Contents page.
Circuit Court Clerk (for marriage, divorce and
probate records)
See a description of a Circuit Court Clerk's responsibilities from the Indiana
Code, Article 17 (Circuit Court Clerks): IC 33-17-1,
Chapter 1. Powers
and Duties.
County Recorder (For Land Records, such as Deeds and Land Transfers)
See a description of an Indiana County Recorder's responsibilities from the
Indiana Code:
§ IC 36-2-11, Chapter 11. County Recorder.
o IC 10-2-9 Chapter 9. Awards and Decorations
o IC 23-4. Indiana Code regarding Cemetery Associations and Regulations in Indiana.
· Obtaining Indiana Birth and Death Certificates
· Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project
o Researching Tippecanoe County Cemeteries: Notes from a Presentation, by Marlene Mattox, 7/01/00, reprinted on the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project website.
o Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries In the News
· Indiana Recorders Association
· Association of Indiana Counties
· County websites via an Indiana map.
· Indiana County Courts online
· Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street - Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
Phone: (317) 232-1882, (800) IHS-1830.
o The Hoosier Genealogist - periodical.
o Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History - periodical. Indiana Historical Society: Membership
· The Society of Indiana Pioneers 450 West Ohio Street - Indianapolis, IN 46202.
· Local County Library and Historical Society Directory
· Indiana Historical Bureau
140 North Senate Avenue - Room 408 - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
Phone: (317) 232-2535 TDD: (317) 232-7763
E-mail: ihb@statelib.lib.in.us
o Download Indiana Historian Magazines
o Indiana Governors' Portraits Collection
o Documents Leading to Statehood
§ Northwest Territory Ordinance: 1787
§ 1801 Map of Northwest Territories
§ Map of Indiana Counties in 1816 - by John Mellish, 1817.
§ Map of Indiana Counties in 1830
§ Historic Indiana Map Collection
§ Indiana's Counties in 2000 with map and origin of county names.
§ Digital Images Online Library
§ Order Book of the U. S. District Court for the District of Indiana, 1817-1833 and Name Index, compiled by Doria Lynch
§ Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana (Quaker Records), edited by Ruth Dorrel and Thomas D. Hamm
· 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)
· World War II Veterans Online Information Center
· Indiana State Archives.
6440 E. 30th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone:
(317) 591-5222
o Fort Wayne Land Office Entries, 1823-1852
o LaPorte-Winamac Land Office Entries, 1833-1855 .
o Indian Lands Noted On The LaPorte-Winamac Land Office .
o 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.
o Central State Hospital Collection Index and History of patient life
o Other Indiana Hospitals for the Mentally Ill and Developmentally Disabled
· Indiana Archival and Historical Repositories
· Index of Miami Names in Archives, The Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archives: The Miami Collection, online by Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology and The Trustees of Indiana University.
· Indiana Tourism - Enjoy Indiana! - Regional Tourism Online
· Extant Indiana Railroad/Railway Structures, by Railroad Station Historical Society, Inc.
· railroaddata.com - links to over 4,000 railroad websites.
· Keith's Collected Railroad Sites
· The Naturalization Process and the various records which may exist, by the Milwaukee County Historical Society, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, contains examples of the 3 types of records which may be filed during the naturalization process: declarations of intent, petitions, and naturalization certificates! Though this is NOT an INDIANA site, it is an informative web page.
· Ronald Branson's online Indiana counties collection: countyhistory.com!
· Allen County Public Library - Digital Photo Collection for Allen County
· Indiana Genealogical Society
· Indiana Archival and Historical Repositories
· The Underground Railroad, by Hazel Carrasco and Owen Solberg.
· The Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS.
· Indiana Biographies, by Deb Murray
· LOC: ca. 1775: An accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishing the British, Spanish and French dominions on this great continent; exhibiting the present seat of war, and the French encroachments. Also all the West India Islands belonging to, and possessed by the several European princes and states. The whole laid down according to the latest and most authentick improvements, by Eman. Bowen, geogr. to His Majesty and John Gibson, engraver. Published in London, Printed for Robt. Sayer [1775?] "Shows boundaries, cities and towns, roads, forts, missions, some industries, trails, trade routes, portages, and vegetation. Also shows Indian villages and tribal territories, routes of navigation in the Gulf of Mexico, and navigational hazards along the coast. Includes historical notes, references to symbols, notes on territorial claims, and insets of "A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay" and "The passage by land to California." Described in United States. Library of Congress. The Lowery collection. 1912. No. 409."
· LOC: ca. 1750 Map: Carta
geografica dell' America settentrionale. by L'Isle, Guillaume de,
1675-1726. Published: [Venezia, 1750]. "Covers area including North
America, Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
Shows boundaries, cities and towns, forts, some trails, routes of exploration,
and Indian villages and tribal territory. Appears in the author's
Atlante Novissimo (1740-50), v. 2."
· LOC: ca. 1753, A Map of the western parts of the province of Pennsylvania, Virginia, &c. Published: [1753?] "To the Honourable House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania this map is most humbly inscribed by their most obedient and humble servant." Shows area from the Wabash River on the west to the Scioto River on the east, and from Lake Huron on the north to the Green River in Kentucky on the south. While one is not an exact copy of the other, there is great similarity to the "Traders map" ascribed to John Patten in Howard N. Eavenson's Map makers & Indian traders, 1949. On verso: No. 52. Map of the western parts of the province of Pennsylvania & Virginia &c. A sketch ...
· ca. 1795-1802: A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America : inscribed by permission to the honourable governor and company of adventurers of England trading into Hudsons Bay in testimony of their liberal communications to their most obedient and very humble servant A. Arrowsmith, January 1st 1795. By Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823). Published London : A. Arrowsmith, [1802].
· Indian land cessions in the United States, comp. by Charles C. Royce, with introduction by Cyrus Thomas, Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA (Call Number: E51 .U55 18th). [Url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701em.gct00002>]
· A map of Louisiana, with the course of the Missisipi, and the adjacent rivers, the nations of the natives, the French establishments and the mines; by the author of ye History of that colony. 1757. Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775. London, Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1763, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA (Call Number: G4010 1757 .L4 Vault). [Url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4010.ar167200>]
· A general map of the middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio and Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage and Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain, and of part of New France: Wherein is also shewn the antient and present seats of the Indian nations; carefully copied from the original published at Philadelphia, by Mr. Lewis Evans 1755, with some improvements by I. Gibson, [London] Sold by T. Jefferys, 1758. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA (Call Number: G3710 1758 .G5 Vault). [Url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3710.ar071200>]
· Native American and Early Area Map Resources, online by the Ohio Historical Society.
· Brief description of the Indiana Territory development, online by the Ohio Historical Society.
· A correct map of the seat of war. by Lewis, Samuel. Published [S.l., 1812]. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650.
· Indiana Migrations Project, by Patrick Hays.
· 1816 Indiana Map, by John Melish (Philadelphia : John Melish, [1819], online by the Indiana Historical Society
· Indiana Towns - 1826, from Sam Cline.
· Indiana Post Offices-1875, from Sam Cline.
· Indiana 1895 Atlas, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
· 1852 Map of the state of Indiana compiled from the United States surveys by S. D. King, Washington City. Exhibiting the sections & fractional sections; the situation & boundaries of counties; the location of cities villages & post offices canals, rail roads and other internal improvements, carefully laid down.
· 1858 Johnson's map of Indiana showing the rail roads and townships compiled from the latest & best authorities.
· 1860 Colton's map of the state of Indiana compiled from the United States surveys & other authentic sources, exhibiting sections, fractional sections, railroads, canals &c.
· 1888 Cram's township and rail road map of Indiana.
· Digital Collections of IUPUI University Library
o States and Counties, Quick Facts - Interactive County Maps for Indiana.
· Historical U. S. Census Data Browser
· Color Landform Atlas of the United States
· 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.
· USGS: National Map Viewer, search for geographic features and locations.
· The Federal Geographic Data Committee
· Mapping: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
· MapStats - for Indiana - provides statistics and links to additional data sources produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States.
· EPA: EnviroMapper - Indiana Map -allows users to view spatial data at the national, state, and county levels, as well as utilize GIS functionality, such as displaying multiple spatial layers, zooming, panning, identifying features, displaying latitude and longitude, and querying single Envirofacts points.
· Bureau Of Land Management - General Land Office Records: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming land patents and State Resources for Research
o Land Descriptions : Township / Range
o http://www.co.blm.gov/
· MapQuest
· Microsoft Expedia Maps - find address, directions, etc.
· Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory + Indiana* Page.
· Enjoy Indiana - Tourism
· Railway List, online by Technical Society for Rail Operations Safety & Signaling
· Indiana in the Civil War, by Kristopher and Larry Ligget
o Indiana Regiments in the Civil War - a must see for IN Civil War research
o Letters, Diaries and Stories
· Library of Congress - Civil War Maps Collection and Civil War Photographs
· National Personnel Records Center:
· The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals
· How to Make Money for the Missionaries: An original Essay written by a Girl eleven years old, and read by her at a Woman's Foreign Missionary Meeting in Indiana, from "The American missionary", Volume 34, Issue 3, Mar 1880, online from Cornell U. MOA.
o History of the Indiana National Guard
o Decorations and Medals
· World War II Veterans Online Information Center
o Indiana Battleflag Collection - a photo and brief history of a few select battle flags in the Indiana War Memorial Commission's collection.
· Library of Congress: Civil War Battles by State
o American Civil War Alphabetic List of Battles,
· eHistory: Civil War Battles by State, Civil War Units & Regimental Information and more.
· The National Park Service : Military History
· An Overview of Records at the National Archives Relating to Military Service, By Trevor K. Plante
· Access to Military Service and Pension Records
· Indiana Townships Association: Identify Townships, population and contact.
o Specific duties of the civil township Trustee.
· Indiana Association of Cities and Towns.
· Pacific Information Resources, Inc.: Free Public Record Database - for Indiana
· Indiana Naturalization records to 1951 - counties included: partial
· Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum
· They Answered the Call: Military Service in the United States Army during World War I, 1917-1919, by Mitchell Yockelson.
· WWI Document Archive - and Photo Archive
o Co. K, 2nd Indiana Infantry - WWI (photo)
· U.S. Army Military History Institute: Unit Histories - WWI
· The Doughboy Center - presented by The Great War Society.
· World War II Veterans Online Information Center
· The Vietnam Veterans of America: The VVA
· USA Veterans' Administration
o Request Deceased USA Veterans' Records? Phone: 1-800-827-1000.
o Regional and Local offices contacts page
o Indiana Department of Veterans' Affairs
o Indianapolis, Indiana Regional Office
o Veteran's Burial & Memorial Benefits
o How to Obtain Military Records: Military service records are kept by the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) which is under the jurisdiction of the National Archives and Records Administration.
· NARA:
Access to Military Service and Pension Records National
Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132-5100
· Request Pertaining to Military Records.
· NAIL
· USA Department of Veterans' Affairs Home Page
o Request Deceased USA Veterans' Records? Phone: 1-800-827-1000.
· U.S. Army Military History Institute
· American Battle Monuments Commission - War Dead - "...maintains a listing of those interred at the American military cemeteries overseas and those Missing in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In addition it has a listing of war veterans buried at our Corozal American Cemetery and those who lost their lives during the Korean War..."
· National Register of Historic Places
o African American History - Aboard the Underground Railroad & Route Map & List of Sites by State.
· NARA: National Archives and Records Administration
o 1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm
o 1930 Census Microfilm Locator
o Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840
o Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930
o Nonpopulation Census Records
o Prologue, Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, by Kellee Blake.
o Immigration Records and Naturalization Records
o "Any woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940", by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)
o By Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1895-1954, By Marian L. Smith (St. Albans Lists) (Fall 2000) — A guide to using immigration records of the U.S.-Canada border.
o Military Records available from the National Archives
o Military Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
o Civil War Records: An Introduction and Invitation, By Michael P. Musick (Prologue, Summer 1995)
o Women Soldiers of the Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
o Sailors, Soldiers, and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS Maine, By Rebecca Livingston (Prologue, Spring 1998).
o They Answered the Call: Military Service in the United States Army during World War I, 1917-1919 (Prologue, Fall 1998). -- A guide to looking for information about World War I army veterans - By Mitchell Yockelson.
o State-level Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and the Vietnam Conflict , By Theodore J. Hull, (Prologue, Spring 2000).
o Indian Bounty Land Applications, By Mary Frances Morrow (Prologue,
o American Indians A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications Snakes & Scribes: The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks, By Kent Carter, in "Prologue" (Prologue, Spring 1997)
o Genealogical Fallout from the War of 1812, By Ruth Priest Dixon (Prologue, Spring 1992) - "...The impressment of American seamen by the British was one of the causes of the War of 1812. The practice also resulted in the creation of extensive records about merchant seamen that are of great value to genealogists and historians..."
o Genealogical Records of the War of 1812, By Stuart L. Butler (Prologue, Winter 1991) - "...National Archives records created during and after the War of 1812 offer the genealogist a diverse and fertile ground in which to obtain invaluable family information..."
o Preserving the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops, by Budge Weidman (Prologue, Summer 1997)
o A Guiding Light: Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives, By Debra Newman Ham (Prologue, Special Issue, Summer 1997).
o From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era, By Noralee Frankel (Prologue, Summer 1997)
o Riding the Rails Up Paper Mountain: Researching Railroad Records in the National Archives, By David A. Pfeiffer (Spring 1997).
· Obtaining EDs for the 1930 Census in One Step (Large Cities), by Stephen P. Morse, PhD, Joel D. Weintraub, PhD and David R. Kehs, PhD
· familysearch.org - 1880 Census Index
· 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
· Tina's Adoption Reform and Search Pages (all states).
· Library of Congress: American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Indiana town and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!
· Library of Congress: Map Collections: U.S.A. Maps Index.
· Library of Congress: Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
o
Map
showing the lines of the Columbus, Chicago, and Indiana Central Railway, and
their
connections,
by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., New York, 1868.
· The First
American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000
pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples,
exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the
mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from
the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical
Society of Louisville, Kentucky.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection -
· Historical Maps of the United States - Historical Maps with early trails and roads
· U.S. Territorial Growth: 1775, 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, Admission of States and Territorial Acquisition, U.S. and Outlying Areas 1970
o Exploration and Settlement: 1800-1820
o Exploration and Settlement: 1820-1835
· MOA: Making of America - Browse Cornell University's MoA Journal Collection
· DNR: Indiana Canoeing Guide and Indiana's Rivers: Canoeing Trails.
· Library of Congress - State Libraries
· Indiana Public Libraries Online
· Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet for Indiana!
· Hoosier Heritage Digital Library
· SearchSystems.net - Searchable Public Record Databases online
· The American Village - American Revolution era living history
· Newspapers around the world - PPPPnet links - Indiana News Links
· Birth Date Calculator, by
Ben Buckner: The script calculates the birth date when the age at
death and the date of death are know, according to the Gregorian calendar, with
New Year on Jan. 1.
· SS: Popular Baby Names by Decade
· Social Security Online - History of Social Security
· Social Security Death Index Interactive Search, on Rootsweb
· Social Security Death Index Search, on ancestry.com
· Interment.net - Indiana Cemeteries
· IC 14-21-1: Chapter 1. Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology
· IC 23-14-67: Chapter 67. Care of Cemeteries by Counties
· IC 23-14-68: Chapter 68. Care of Cemeteries by Townships
· The Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project
· Saving Graves - Indiana
· Norton Arts Monument Conservation - in Arkansas
· Cemetery Research and Gravestone Rubbings, by Patty Bancroft Roberts
· Cemetery Do's & Don'ts From the Connecticut Gravestone Network
· American History & Genealogy Project
· RootsWeb.com - Genealogy.
· My History is America's History
· WorldGenWeb Project - Genealogy
· USGenWeb Project - for Indiana Genealogy.
· USGenWeb Archives Special Projects
· 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
· NARA: 1930 Census Microfilm Locator for Indiana
· Indiana Biographies Project - coordinated by Deb Murray.
· FamilySearch - LDS
· Everton.com - Genealogy Resources in the U.S.A.
· Cemetery Junction for Indiana.
· Cemetery Records Online - Cemeteries and Genealogy.
· Library of Congress: Online Map Collection.
· 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Online
· McDougal Littell State Spotlight: Click on your state in the map or the list to find a wealth of state-specific educational resources.
· WorkersGov - Connecting American Workers and their Families to Government Services and Information.
· FirstGov: U.S. Government Online Directory
· National Register of Historic Places Bulletin: Researching a Historic Property, by Eleanor O'Donnell.
· The Political Graveyard, for Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
o Geographic Index to Politician Births and Deaths in Indiana.
· History of the WPA: The Work Project Administration, by Brenna Harper and Kyle Weaver - The W.P.A. was established in 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a work program for the unemployed during the Depression, and lasted through 1943.
· National Archeological Database Maps
· DNR: Indiana Department of Natural Resources
o List of Endangered, Threatened and Rare Species by county.
o Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.
· Indiana Environmental Organizations
· GORP: Great Outdoor Recreation Guide for Indiana.
· MapQuest
Professional
Research
Ann McRoden Mensch,
Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsite, 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.
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