United States Resources: Indiana

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    ROOTS-L Databases and Files

  • Indiana Surnames in the RootsWeb Surname List

    Surname to search for:
  • Indiana Books We Own
  • genealog.lc-in: Books in the on-line Library of Congress catalog with the subject "Indiana--genealogy."
  • genealog.vital-in: Where to write for Indiana vital records, Indiana genealogical and historical societies, the state archives (lots of detail about the collection), and a newspaper genealogical column. Or check Indiana Vital Records Information for more current info on where to write for vital records.

    Other Indiana Genealogical and Historical Resources on the Net

    Other Indiana Genealogy and History Pages

  • Linkpendium Indiana County Links
  • Indiana Resources at Rootsweb:
    • State level
    • County level
  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - U.S. - Indiana
  • The Indiana GenWeb Project
  • The American History and Genealogy Project
  • Hoosier Interest Sites
  • A Guide to Indiana Genealogy Resources from GeneaSearch

    General Resources

  • USGenWeb Archives: Indiana
  • LDS Research Outline for Indiana
  • Indiana Family History Centers
  • From Ancestry.com
    • 1820 U. S. Census
    • 1830 U. S. Census
    • 1840 U. S. Census
    • 1850 U. S. Census
    • 1860 U. S. Census
    • 1870 U. S. Census
    • 1880 U. S. Census
    • 1900 U. S. Census
    • 1910 U. S. Census
    • 1920 U. S. Census
    • 1930 U. S. Census
  • The USGenWeb Census Project: Indiana
    • Completed Transcriptions
  • Indiana Home Page: WPA Life Histories
  • Census Online: Indiana
  • NEIC: Earthquake History of Indiana
  • Indiana Tornadoes, 1950-1995
  • Ohio River Valley Families Genealogical Database
  • Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
  • Historic Southern Indiana
  • Ghost Towns of Indiana
  • Indiana Civilian Conservation Corps camps
  • Historic House Museums of Indiana
  • Lincoln Highway
  • Lake Michigan Lights
  • Indiana Postal History
  • Indiana Bibliography - United States and Worldwide Postal History
  • History of Route 40 and the National Road

    Archives, Libraries and Special Collections

  • Indiana State Commission on Public Records, with some searchable databases
  • Indiana State Archives
  • Indiana Historical Bureau
  • Indiana State Library
  • Allen County Public Library, Historical Genealogy Department
  • Connor Prairie Living history museum
  • Indiana University Archives
  • German-Americana Manuscripts in IUPUI University Libraries Special Collections
  • The Monroe County History Center
  • Northern Indiana Center for History
  • Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame
  • Batesville Memorial Public Library, Genealogy and Indiana History
  • Genealogy @ the (Clinton Public) Library
  • Monroe County Public Library's Indiana Room
  • Indiana Room at the Mooresville Public Library
  • Local & Family History Services of the St. Joseph County Public Library
  • Willard Library

    Cemeteries

  • Tombstone Transcription Project
  • Cemetery Records Online
  • The Indiana Political Graveyard
  • Find A Grave
  • Cairo Cemetery Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County

    Ethnic and Religious

  • African Ancestry in Indiana
  • Delaware History
  • Kickapoo History
  • Miami History
  • Ojibwe History
  • Potawatomi History

    Local History and Information

  • Adams County at Linkpendium
  • Allen County at Linkpendium
  • Angola History: Growing Since 1834
  • Bartholomew County at Linkpendium
  • Benton County at Linkpendium
  • Blackford County at Linkpendium
  • Boone County at Linkpendium
  • Brookville History: Yesterday's Heritage
  • Brown County at Linkpendium
  • Brownsburg Indiana History
  • Carroll County at Linkpendium
  • Cass County at Linkpendium
  • History of Centerville
  • Clark County at Linkpendium
  • Clay County at Linkpendium
  • Clinton County at Linkpendium
  • Clinton County History
  • 1830 Crawford County Census
  • 1840 Crawford County Census
  • Crawford County at Linkpendium
  • Crown Point History
  • Crown Point: The Grand Old Lady
  • "Little Known Stories" about Danville, Indiana
  • Daviess County at Linkpendium
  • De Kalb County at Linkpendium
  • Dearborn County History
  • Dearborn County at Linkpendium
  • Some Indiana Genealogy from Dearborn, Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph Counties
  • Decatur County at Linkpendium
  • Delaware County at Linkpendium
  • Dubois County at Linkpendium
  • Elkhart County at Linkpendium
  • Browning Genealogy: Evansville, Indiana Area Obituary Search
  • Fayette County at Linkpendium
  • Floyd County at Linkpendium
  • Fountain County at Linkpendium
  • Franklin County at Linkpendium
  • Fulton County at Linkpendium
  • Gibson County at Linkpendium
  • Grant County at Linkpendium
  • Greene County at Linkpendium
  • Hamilton County at Linkpendium
  • Hammond History
  • Hancock County at Linkpendium
  • Harrison County at Linkpendium
  • Hendricks County at Linkpendium
  • Henry County at Linkpendium
  • Howard County at Linkpendium
  • Huntington County at Linkpendium
  • Jackson County at Linkpendium
  • Jasper County at Linkpendium
  • Jay County at Linkpendium
  • Jefferson County at Linkpendium
  • Jennings County at Linkpendium
  • Johnson County at Linkpendium
  • Knox County at Linkpendium
  • Kosciusko County at Linkpendium
  • Kosciusko County Indiana Historic Newspaper Articles
  • La Porte County at Linkpendium
  • LaGrange County History
  • Lagrange County at Linkpendium
  • Lake County at Linkpendium
  • Lawrence County at Linkpendium
  • Madison County at Linkpendium
  • Marion County at Linkpendium
  • Marshall County at Linkpendium
  • Martin County at Linkpendium
  • Miami County at Linkpendium
  • Michigan City History
  • Monroe County at Linkpendium
  • Montgomery County at Linkpendium
  • Morgan County at Linkpendium
  • Historic New Harmony
  • Newton County at Linkpendium
  • Noble County at Linkpendium
  • Ohio County at Linkpendium
  • Orange County at Linkpendium
  • Owen County at Linkpendium
  • Parke County's Covered Bridges
  • Parke County at Linkpendium
  • Parke County, Indiana Covered Bridge Capital of the World
  • Perry County at Linkpendium
  • Pike County at Linkpendium
  • Pike County History
  • Porter County at Linkpendium
  • Posey County at Linkpendium
  • Pulaski County at Linkpendium
  • Putnam County at Linkpendium
  • Greencastle/Putnam County History
  • Randolph County at Linkpendium
  • Richmond/Wayne County History
  • Ripley County at Linkpendium
  • Rush County at Linkpendium
  • Saint Joseph County at Linkpendium
  • Schererville History
  • Scott County at Linkpendium
  • Shelby County at Linkpendium
  • Spencer County at Linkpendium
  • Spencer County History: Famous Sons
  • Starke County at Linkpendium
  • Steuben County at Linkpendium
  • Sullivan County at Linkpendium
  • Switzerland County at Linkpendium
  • Tippecanoe County at Linkpendium
  • Tipton County at Linkpendium
  • Union County at Linkpendium
  • Vanderburgh County at Linkpendium
  • Vermillion County at Linkpendium
  • Vigo County at Linkpendium
  • Wabash County at Linkpendium
  • Warren County at Linkpendium
  • Warrick County at Linkpendium
  • Washington County at Linkpendium
  • Wayne County at Linkpendium
  • Wells County at Linkpendium
  • White County at Linkpendium
  • Whitley County at Linkpendium
  • From Brian Mavrogeorge, five files:
    • inblack.ndx, a 41K text file of tract entries with full names and dates for Blackford County. The names are from tract books 1-40 and 42.
    • inblack1.zip, 11K bytes zipped, 60K unzipped, a slightly cleaner version of the database in inblack1.ndx above.
    • incwhoov.zip, 17K zipped, 54K unzipped, summaries of the Civil War service (from the 3x5 card file at the Indiana State Archives) of soldiers with the surname of Hoover.
    • inmarhoo.zip, 2700 bytes zipped, 6700 unzipped, a list of early Indiana Marriages involving persons named Hoover
    • innathoo.zip, 1100 bytes zipped, 2400 unzipped, an index to some Indiana naturalization records for Hoovers.

    Mailing lists

  • Indiana Mailing Lists
  • Randolph County, Indiana Researchers

    Maps and Gazetteers

  • USGS/GNIS Database of Indiana locations
  • Indiana from Color Landform Atlas of the United States
  • Indiana Profiles: Interactive county maps
  • Pam Rietsch's 1895 U.S. Atlas

    Military

  • Civil War - Indiana
    Message Boards
    • Civil War, Indiana RootsWeb
  • Civil War Sites in Indiana
  • Indiana Civil War Map of Battles
  • Indiana at Vicksburg
  • Union Regimental Index: Indiana
  • History of the Third Indiana Cavalry
  • History of the Third Indiana cavalry 1906
  • History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • The 7th Indiana Cavalry 119th Regiment
  • History of the Seventh Indiana cavalry Volunteers
  • History of the 11th Indiana battery
  • From Vicksburg to Raleigh Or, A Complete History of the Twelfth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry North-South Skirmish Association
  • 31st Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • History of the Thirty-seventh Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers
  • 42nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • The Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer InfantryHistory of its services in the war of the rebellion and a personal record of its members
  • History of the Forty-sixth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry
  • 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Company F
  • History of the 72d Indiana Volunteer Infantry of the Mounted Lightning Brigade
  • History of the Seventy-fifth regiment of Indiana infantry voluteers
  • Eighty-second regiment, Indiana volunteers
  • The Eighty-sixth regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry A narrative of its services in the civil war of 1861-1865 History of the Ninety-seventh regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry
  • New History of the 99th Indiana Iinfantry
  • New history of the 99th Indiana Infantry Containing official reports, anecdotes, incidents, biographies and complete rolls
  • U.S. Military Personnel who died in the Korean War
  • Vietnam Conflict Casualty List

    Photographs

  • Vigo County Historical Society: Photo Collection
  • Detroit Publishing Company Photographs from Indiana

    Societies, Historical and Genealogical

  • Indiana Genealogical Society
  • Indiana Historical Society
  • The Society of Indiana Pioneers

      Ethnic and Religious

    • Fellowship of Brethren Genealogists

      Lineage

    • Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution
      • Captain Henry Vanderburgh Chapter - Evansville
      • Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter - Indianapolis
      • Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter - Indianapolis
    • The Indiana Society - Sons of the American Revolution
    • Indiana Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
    • United Daughters of the Confederacy
      • General Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter #2597 - Cicero
    • Department of Indiana - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
      • William P. Benton Camp #28 - Centerville
      • William Hardy Link Camp #12 - Fort Wayne
      • Orlando A. Somers Camp #1 - Kokomo
      • David D. Porter Camp #116 - Valparaiso
    • Indiana Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

      Railroad

    • The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society
    • The Monon Railroad Historical and Technical Society
    • The Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society

      Special Interest

    • Canal Society of Indiana
    • Glenn Curtiss Historical Society
    • Indiana Postal History Society
    • Nikon Historical Society

      Regional

    • Old Northwest Historical Society - the region northwest of the Ohio River that became Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
    • Southern Indiana Genealogical Society
    • Tri-State Genealogical Society

      Local

    • Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana
    • Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society
    • Bartholomew County Historical Society
    • Batesville Area Historical Society
    • Benton Central History Club
    • Besancon Historical Society - eastern Allen County
    • Blackford County Historical Society
    • Brown County Genealogical Society
    • Carmel Clay Historical Society
    • Carroll County Historical Society
    • Clay County Genealogical Society
    • Clinton County Historical Society
    • Crawford County Genealogical and Historical Society
    • Dearborn County Historical Society
    • DeKalb County Indiana Genealogy Society
    • Delaware County Historical Society
    • Elkhart County Genealogical Society
    • Elkhart County Historical Society
    • Fulton County Historical Society
    • The Gary (Indiana) Historical and Cultural Society
    • Greene County Genealogical Society
    • Greene County Historical Society
    • Hamilton County Historical Society
    • Henry County Genealogical Society
    • Henry County Historical Society
    • Howard County Indiana Genealogical Society
    • Howard County Historical Society
    • Jackson County Genealogical Society
    • Jefferson County Historical Society
    • Kosciusko County Historical Society
    • LaPorte County Indiana Genealogical Society
    • La Porte County Historical Society
    • Madison County Historical Society
    • Genealogical Society of Marion County, Indiana
    • Martin County Genealogical Society
    • Miami County Historical Society
    • Michigan City Historical Society
    • Monroe County Historical Society
    • Morgan County History & Genealogy Association, Inc.
    • Munster Historical Society
    • North Manchester Historical Society
    • Historical Society of Ogden Dunes
    • Ohio County Historical Society
    • Orange County Genealogical Society
    • Orange County Historical Society
    • Owen County Historical and Genealogical Society
    • Parke County Historical Society
    • Ripley County Historical Society
    • Scotland Historical Society
    • Scott County Genealogical Society
    • South Bend Area Genealogical Society
    • Starke County Genealogical Society of Indiana
    • Sullivan County Historical Society
    • Tippecanoe County Historical Association
    • Vigo County Historical Society
    • Wabash County Genealogical Society
    • Wanatah Historical Society Cass, Clinton and Dewey Townships in LaPorte County, and Morgan, Essex, and Washington Townships in Porter County
    • Washington County Historical Society
    • Wells County Historical Society
    • Genealogical Society of Whitley County
    • Whitley County Historical Society

    Vital Records

  • Birth and Death Certificates
  • Indiana Vital Records from VitalChek
  • Indiana Vital Records information from Elizabeth T. Orsay

    Commercial

  • Ancestor Publishers
  • The Donning Company Publishers
  • Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
  • The Gregath Publishing Company
  • Higginson Book Company
  • SK Publications Indiana Census Books and CDs
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