Marion County, Indiana Genealogy

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History


The county is named after "The Swamp Fox" Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Marion(c1732-1795).

Parent County
1821--Marion County was created 31 December 1821 from unorganized territory. County seat: Indianapolis

Neighboring Counties

 * Boone
 * Hamilton
 * Hancock
 * Hendricks
 * Johnson
 * Morgan
 * Shelby

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records
 * Crown Hill Cemetery

Vol. 21 page 73 - Old Battleground Cemetery Vol. 21 page 84 - Huffman Cemetery, Washington Township

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Indianapolis
 * Indianapolis Dist
 * Indianapolis N.
 * Indianapolis S.

Funeral Homes
Jacobs Brothers Funeral Home (digitized records)

Vital Records
Index to Marriage Record, Marion County was compiled by the Indiana Works Progress Administration in 1939. Vol. I = 1822-1855. Vol. II = 1856-1865. Vol. III = 1866-1870. Vol. IV = 1871-1875. Vol. V = 1876-1880. Vol. VI = 1881-1890. These volumes are available at the public library in Indianapolis and at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne.

Marion County, Indiana Early Marriages, 1822-1836 by Colleen Alice Ridlen, and Marriage Records, Marion County, Indiana, 1822-1843, compiled by the DAR are two additional indexes of the county's earliest marriages.

The Allen County Public Library has a 169-volume set of Marion County marriages for 1929 through June 1944 titled Marriage Records, Marion County, Indiana: Ministers' Returns for the Board of Health. An index to the 1929 and 1930 volumes of these records also is available at ACPL.

A searchable database of Marion County Marriages, 1925-2006 is available at the Marion County Circuit Court's website.

Societies and Libraries

 * Williams Creek |

Web Sites

 * The Marion County IN GenWeb Project, a member of The INGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * Family History Library Catalog