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*First created in 1823.
*County seat: Crawfordsville.
Located in central Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Alamo, Ames, Beckville, Bowers,
Browns Valley, Cherry
Grove, Crawfordsville, Darlington, Darlington
Woods, Elmdale, Fiskville,
Garfield, Hybernia,
Kirkpatrick, Ladoga,
Lapland, Linden, Linnsburg, Mace, Manchester, New Market,
New Richmond, New
Ross, North Union, Parkersburg,
Pine Hills, Taylor
Corner, Smartsburg, Waveland,
Waynetown, Wesley, Whitesville, Wingate
and Yountsville.
Select this LINK to see GENERAL Montgomery 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.
Disclaimer: 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
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Surrounding Counties:
WNW = Fountain
County, IN N = Tippecanoe
County, IN ENE = Clinton
County, IN
WSW = Parke
County, IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY
E = Boone
County, IN
S = Putnam
County, IN ESE = Hendricks
County, IN
- Zoomable
map of Montgomery County,
- Crawfordsville, Montgomery County with a brief history from 1813, and links to local museums and sites.
The Ben Hur Museum in
- Crawfordsville's Community Page.
- Crawfordsville District Public Library - Information
- Online Historical Records and Indexes
- 1878 Montgomery County Atlas (.pdf)
- Newspapers:
- Journal Review
Messenger 1901 - myLocal.IN.gov for
Montgomery County
- Montgomery County Visitors and Convention Bureau
- Includes:
- Montgomery County Genealogy, by Karen Zach, includes the following and MORE!
- Townships
Information Pages
- USGenWeb Archives for Montgomery County
- Revolutionary
Soldiers with Montgomery County connections
- Dorothy Q Chapter, NSDAR:
- See a Tiger Interactive
map of Montgomery County,
- 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.
· 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
- Social Security Death Index Interactive Search, on Rootsweb
· 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)
- countyhistory.com: for Montgomery County, by Ronald Branson!
- Fountain, Montgomery and Parke Counties, Indiana, Portrait and Biographical Record, Originally Published, by Chapman Brothers, in 1893, online by Ronald Branson.
- The Political Graveyard,
for Montgomery
County, Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site
about
· 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
· Montgomery County Health Dept. (For Birth
& Death Certificates from ca. 1882)
· Montgomery
· Montgomery
Brown
Township communities include: Browns Valley, Pine Hills and
Waveland. The town of
Phone: (765) 435-2700
Madison Township communities include:
Cherry Grove, Kirkpatrick and Linden.
- Linden/Madison Township
Historical Society - operates the
Ripley Township communities include:
Alamo, Hybernia, Taylor Corner and Yountsville.
- Crawfordsville, Montgomery County with a brief history from 1813, and links to local museums and sites.
- The Ben Hur Museum in
- Crawfordsville's Community Page.
- Montgomery County Visitors and Convention Bureau
- Crawfordsville District Public Library - Information
- Online Historical Records and Indexes
- 1878 Montgomery County Atlas (.pdf)
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY 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.
Printed resources for this page include:
- School and Library Atlas
of the World. Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore,
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