User:Lindasmith8/sandbox/IN

State Archives
Indiana Archives and Records Administration 1007, 6440 E 30th St Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone: 317-591-5222 email: arc@iara.in.gov


 * Indiana Archives and Records Adminstration home page (will get you everwhere eventually)
 * Indiana Digital Archives Collections (good general jump off point, says it is for Court Records, but is actually collections and how to use them)
 * Indiana Digital Archives (search all the digital records, also a good starting place)

Court Records

 * Court Records searches court records
 * Court Records 1830-present at Indiana Digital Archives. Search statewide or select county

Ethnic History

 * African America resources (good links and information on where to search; also includes transcription of the Registry of Negroes and Mulattos, 1853-54, Vigo County, Indiana - 32 males)
 * Indian Lands Noted On The LaPorte-Winamac Land Office list with owners name and property location.

Land Records

 * Land Records (good information about available land records with links, Many of the land records have been indexed and can be searched in the Digital Archive.

Medical Records

 * Medical Records (good list of hospitals - some records available to search in the digital archives)

Military Records

 * Military Records (has good links to all their military records - some digitized and searchable)
 * Early Militia
 * Mexican War
 * Spanish American War (Index coming soon)
 * Civil War Records (many records available to order, muster rolls are partially searchable at the Digital Archive, indexing in progress.)
 * National Guard 1898-1940 (information about the records, they can be searched at the Digital Archives)
 * Indiana World War I Service Record Cards Searchable Transcription Project
 * World War II Records Discharge papers (D214's) and U.S. Army and Navy Casualties, 1941-1945 are available, but not yet digitized. note: There was a fire in 1973 at the National Personnel Records Center in Saint Louis and many records were lost. Military records found here may be the only existing copies.
 * Korean War (DD214s may be available, but not yet searchable)
 * Vietnam War (DD214s for 1979-1984, 1985-1987, and 1988 may be available, but not yet searchable)

Naturalization Records

 * Naturalization Records (good starting point for Naturalization records, explanations and a link to the Indiana Digital Archives)

Vital Records
Vital Records available online at Ancestry.com
 * Birth — 1907-1940
 * Marriage — 1958-2005
 * Death — 1899-2011
 * Adoption
 * Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home
 * The Julia Work Center, and The Rose Orphans’ Home are coming soon.

State Historical Society
Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center 450 West Ohio Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 (317) 232-1882
 * Indiana Historical Society home page
 * Indiana Historical Society Digital Collections over 1.7 million photographs (jpg) and manuscripts (pdf). downloadable; Use statement: This image may be printed or downloaded by individuals, schools or libraries for study, research or classroom teaching without permission. For other uses contact: mailto:visualcollections@indianahistory.org.

State Library
Indiana State Library 315 W. Ohio St Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-232-3675 This website has more links than we could ever list on a page. It connects all the libraries and websites acros the state. More links on the Library site Indian State Library Legacy Search this link searches all of the 19 databases below or each of those links will search just that database.

Cemeteries
Indiana State Library Cemetery Locator File

Maps and Atlases

 * Historic Indiana Atlases
 * Historic Indiana Maps

Marriages
(This link is on the Library website, but is a FamilySearch link)

Newspapers
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/ Hoosier State Chronicles] 100's of digitized newpapers 1804-2011 Searchable by date, title or tags.Images and transcriptions.