Marion County, Indiana Genealogy

United States &gt; Indiana &gt; Marion County

County Courthouse
Marion County Courthouse 200 E Washington Indianapolis, IN 46204 Phone: 317.327.4740

County Clerk has marriage and divorce records; County Recorder has birth, death and land records; Probate Court has probate records

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

 * Marion County Cemeteries - USGenWeb


 * Cemeteries for Marion County - Linkpendium


 * Crown Hill Cemetery


 * LDS Cemetery Records


 * 1) Vol. 21 page 73 - Old Battleground Cemetery
 * 2) Vol. 21 page 84 - Huffman Cemetery, Washington Township


 * Index of Pioneer Cemeteries, Perry Township (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Index of Pioneer Cemeteries, Warren Township (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Census

 * Index to Mortality Schedule for Marion County, Indiana (1860) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Index to Defective, Delinquent &amp; Dependent Census for Marion County, Indiana (1880) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Enumeration of Males in Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana (1913) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


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

City Directories
Fold3.com ($) has Indianapolis City Directories 1857, 1861, 1864-1923 (3 yrs. missing) available online.

Funeral Homes

 * Obituaries and Funeral Home Records - Linkpendium


 * Jacobs Brothers Funeral Home (digitized records)

Local Histories

 * History of Marion County Linkpendium


 * SULGROVE, B. R. (1884). History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. (Philadelphia, L.H. Everts &amp; Co.) FHL US/CAN Film 934914 Item 1    other libraries  INTERNET ARCHIVE


 * The People's Guide, a Business, Political and Religious Directory of Marion Co., Ind., Together with a Collection of Very Important Documents and Statistics Connected with Our Moral, Political and Scientific History. 1873.  other libraries    INTERNET ARCHIVE


 * United States. Names of Persons Enumerated in Marion County, Indiana, at the Fifth Census Eighteen Hundred and Thirty. (Indianapolis: E.J. Hecker, printer and publisher, 1908.) other libraries Google books


 * Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana: Together with Biographies of Many Prominent Men of Other Portions of the State, Both Living and Dead. (Tucson, Arizona: Americana Unlimited, 1974.) other libraries Google books


 * Nowland, John H. B. Sketches of Prominent Citizens of 1876 : with a Few of the Pioneers of the City and County Who Have Passed Away. (1876.)   other libraries   INTERNET ARCHIVE

Maps

 * Maps and Gazetteers - Linkpendium

Military

 * Military Record and Histories -  Linkpendium
 * Veterans in Marion County, Indiana (1913) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Soldiers From Marion County, Indiana Who Died in World War II (1941-1946) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Indianapolis Water Company Employees Serving in World War II (1940-1945) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Residents of Marion County Who Received Medals in World War I (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Women from Marion County Who Served in World War I (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Civil War

Civil War service men from Marion County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Marion County.


 * 1st Regiment, Indiana Heavy Artillery, Companies B, L, and M
 * 1st Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company K
 * 3rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
 * 4th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company A
 * 5th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry (90th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers), Company M
 * 7th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Companies C, D, G, and H
 * 7th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company I
 * 8th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company H
 * 9th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Companies A, F, H, I, and L
 * 10th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
 * 11th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, B, E, H, K, and Reorganized Companies A, B, E, F, H, and K
 * 12th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company A
 * 13th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, H, and Reorganized Companies D, and E
 * 14th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
 * 16th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Companies F, I, and K
 * 19th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies D, and F
 * 20th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
 * 26th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies E, and I
 * 30th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company A
 * 35th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company A
 * 40th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company G
 * 47th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company G
 * 52nd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies B, K, and Reorganized Company E
 * 70th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, E, and F
 * 79th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, C, and F
 * 99th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company H
 * 100th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
 * 104th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, All of Companies A-H
 * 106th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
 * 107th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, All of Companies A-M
 * 110th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B
 * 113th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, All of Companies A-I
 * 123rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company E
 * 124th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies C, and D
 * 132nd Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Companies A, B, C, F, and K
 * 148th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, C, and G
 * 156th Regiment, Indiana Infantry Company A
 * 28th US Colored Troops, Companies A, B, C, E, G, and Addition Recruits for Colored Troops
 * Wilder Battery, Indiana Light Artillery

Newspapers

 * Indiana Farmer Newspaper, 1851-1917 - digitized collection via Purdue University Libraries
 * Indianapolis Recorder, 1899-2005 - African-American newspaper; digitized collection via Purdue University Libraries

School Records

 * Graduates of Arsenal Technical High School, Indianapolis (1915-1925) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Graduates of Ben Davis High School (1898-1938) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Graduates of Castleton High School (1897-1941) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Graduates of Oaklandon High School (1895-1941) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Graduates of Southport/Perry Township High School (1934-1937) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Graduates of High Schools in Franklin Township (1890-1942) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Students and Teachers in Indianapolis Public Schools Board Minutes (1907-1913) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Students in Grade 1-8 of Indianapolis Public Schools (1890) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Alumni of Indianapolis Public School #30 (1927-1947) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Students of Marion County Seminary (1834-1853) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Students of Sabbath School Union Society (1826) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Students of Shortridge High School, Indianapolis (1890) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Students of Warren Township (1856-1865) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Students at Indiana School for the Deaf, Indianapolis (1857, 1858) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Selected Teachers of Marion County, Indiana (1874) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Taxation

 * Selected Tax Lists of Marion County, Indiana (1840-1850) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Delinquent Taxpayers of Indianapolis, Marion County (1840) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Vital Records

 * Indiana State Digital Achivesfor Death, E-Publication, Instiution, Military, Misc Historical, Naturalization Records can be searched by person name (accessed 26 May 2011)


 * Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992 FamilySearch  (accessed 31 Mar 2011  note; name index)


 * Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959 FamilySearch  (accessed 31 May 2011  note; at this time Marion County has not be done)


 * Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 ancestry com. $ (accessed 31 May 2011   note; name index; year range = 1822-1836, 1861-1925, for Marion County)


 * 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. &lt;br.


 * 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.


 * Records of Jacobs Brothers Funeral Home, Indianapolis (1939-1956) (free, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Other Records

 * Selected Lists of Jurors in Marion County, Indiana (1800s) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * African Americans in Civilian Conservation Corps, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis (1938) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
 * Indiana Cvilians in Training Course at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis (1925) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Indianapolis Indiana Family History Center
 * White River Indiana Family History Center

Williams Creek

Web Sites

 * The Marion County IN GenWeb Project, a member of The INGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * Marion County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Marion County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)