Floyd County, Indiana History and Genealogy Research Guide and Links

FLOYD COUNTY, Indiana
History < - > Genealogy *First created in 1819.
*County seat: New Albany.
Located in southern Indiana, with the Ohio River as it's southeastern boundary.
*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 information and links specific to the township.
Please note: Though the information on this web page is believed to be correct, the possibility of error remains. Please notify the webmaster should an error be found.

**Townships in Floyd County**
(North = Top)
Greenville Township	Lafayette Township	New Albany Township
Georgetown Township	New Albany Township	<- New Albany Township ^
Franklin Township

Surrounding Counties:
                    NW = Washington County, IN   NE = Clark County, IN
W = Harrison County, IN     FLOYD COUNTY
                                            S = The Ohio River

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.

Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
Indiana Biography Index
Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
Images from the County
County Newspaper Holdings (in Indianapolis)

1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
INGenWeb for Floyd County Genealogy - hosted by Sue Carpenter.
The Southern Indiana Genealogical Society

Publications for sale by the Southern Indiana Genealogical Society
Indiana State Archives.

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] - 3033 Martin Rd. - Floyds Knobs, IN 47119

St. Mary's of Knobs Church Cemetery Page with a history from late 1700s when Roman Catholics of Maryland were among the pioneers who settled along the Falls of the Ohio.

Kentuckiana in Focus - for Floyd County, Indiana Profile.
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!
The Jeffersonville Evening News and The New Albany Tribune
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 U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.

Shrader Funeral Home

Conway Fire Museum - New Albany - "...Museum of vintage hand and horse-drawn fire apparatus..."
The Fire Museum Network homepage! "...Most people don't realize it, but there are close to 300 Fire Museums in the U.S. and Canada..."
Indiana University Southeast at New Albany -

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)

Floyd County Communities

City of New Albany, Indiana
The Jeffersonville Evening News and The New Albany Tribune
New Albany-Floyd County Public Library

180 West Spring Street - New Albany, IN 47150, Phone: (812) 944-8464

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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 New Albany and Floyd County, Indiana. Elsa Strassweg. (Author). New Albany, Indiana : Floyd County Historical Society, 1951. (Gc 977.201 F66S).

A Compiled History of Jacobs Chapel United Methodist Church, New Albany, Floyd County,

Indiana

Floyd County, Indiana Index of Names of Persons and of Firms. Works Progress Administration of Indiana. (Compiler). Indiana State Library. (Sponsor). Indianapolis, Indiana : [s.n.], 1939.

Ancestral Papers Written by Early Members of Piankeshaw Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Grace Sloan. (Compiler). New Albany, Indiana : The Piankeshaw Chapter, 1965. (Gc 977.202 N31DA).

Ancestral Papers. Grace Sloan. (Copier). Elizabeth S. Payne. (Compiler and Indexer). New Albany, Indiana : The Piankeshaw Chapter, 1967. (Gc 929.11 D263IN).
Index to Applications for Citizenship, Floyd County, Indiana, December 1854-March 1867. Mrs. M. Arthur Payne. (Indexer). [Indiana? : s.n.], 1973. (Gc 977.201 F66P).
First Marriage Book of Floyd County, Indiana, 1819-1837. [compiled from the original book in

Floyd County, Indiana Marriages, 1819-1830. Colleen Corwin Ridlen. (Compiler). Indianapolis, Indiana : The Researchers, [198-] (Gc 977.201 F66RI).
Floyd County, Indiana Marriages, 1837-1845. Ruth M. Slevin. (Compiler). [s.l. : s.m., 197-]. (Gc 977.201 F66FLM). Note: part. 1. Grooms; part. 2. Brides.
Will Book A, 1819-1830, Floyd County, Indiana. Mrs. M. Arthur Payne. (Abstracter and Compiler). New Albany, Indiana (P.O. Box 665, New Albany 47150) : Southern Indiana Genealogical Society, ca. 1982. (Gc 977.201 F66D).
Will and Bond Record "B", Mar. 1853-Sept. 1864, Floyd County, Indiana : abstracted from the

Floyd County Cemeteries. Southern Indiana Genealogical Society. (Author). New Albany, Indiana : Southern Indiana Genealogical Society, c1982. (Gc 977.201 F66FLC).
950 Tombstone Inscriptions from Cemeteries in Floyd, Clark and Harrison Counties, Indiana. Mrs. M.A. Payne, Piankeshaw Chapter (New Albany, Indiana), Daughters of the American Revolution. New Albany, Indiana : D.A.R., 1963. (Gc 977.201 F66DAV).
Atlas & Plat Book, Floyd County, Indiana. Floyd county Farm Bureau. (Sponsor). Rockford Map Publishers. (Author). Rockford, Illinois : Rockford Map Publishers, c1972. (Gc 977.201 F66R).
Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer. First Edition, Second Printing. Yarmouth, Maine: Delorme. 1998.
School and Library Atlas of the World. Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore, Illinois: School and Library Publishing Company. 1982.

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