Indiana Census

Online resources

 * U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, ($), index.
 * United States Online Census, 1790-1940
 * Indiana, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, ($), index.
 * 1820 federal census for Indiana, index. ($)

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Indiana, click here

Online indexes and images

 * Indiana Genealogical Society has online indexes to the 1880 Defective, Dependent and Delinquent Census for all Indiana counties for its members.
 * Indiana Genealogical Society has online indexes to the 1860 Mortality Schedule for some Indiana counties for its members.
 * All Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880 are digitized and available for free through Indiana Memory.

Microfilm images
Family History Library Federal Census Non-Population Schedule Microfilms for Indiana


 * 1850 Mortality Schedule ]
 * 1860 Mortality Schedule
 * 1870 Mortality Schedule
 * 1880 Mortality Schedule

National Archives Federal Census Non-Population ScheduleMicrofilms for Indiana


 * 1820 - 1880 Manufactures Records
 * 1935 Census of Business:


 * Schedules of Advertising Agencies
 * Schedules of Banking and Financial Institutions
 * Schedules of Miscellaneous Enterprises
 * Schedules of Motor Trucking for Hire
 * Schedules of Public Warehousing
 * Schedules of Radio Broadcasting Stations

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Indiana, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses
Indiana took censuses in different years than the federal censuses. These censuses may have different data compared to federal censuses. Check these censuses for more information on a family.


 * According to Lainhart, Indiana county assessors were supposed to take a state census every six years starting in 1853. She also quotes Ancestry's Red Book saying enumerations were made at various intervals starting in 1820. Most of these incomplete originals are apparently at county archives. The Indiana State Library at Indianapolis has a few for 1931, 1919, 1913, 1901, 1889, 1883, 1877, 1871, and 1857. Many are also published in periodicals.

Why use a census?
A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.

More about censuses
Click here for additional details about how to use censuses, such as:


 * index searching tips
 * analyzing and using what you find
 * census accuracy
 * historical background
 * contents of various census years and types