Hancock County, Indiana Genealogy

United States Indiana Hancock County

Guide to Hancock County Indiana genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Hancock County, Indiana
Map
Location of Indiana in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	January 26, 1827
County Seat	Greenfield
Courthouse
Address	Hancock County Courthouse 9 E Main Street Greenfield, IN 46140 Phone: 317.462.1109
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Historical Facts

Neighboring Counties

• Hamilton
• Henry
• Madison
• Marion
• Rush
• Shelby

Resources

Cemeteries

• Cauldwell (Jackson) Cemetery
• Gillium Chapel (Methodist) Cemetery
• McCordsville-I.O.O.F. Cemetery
• Reeves (Mount Gilead) Cemetery
• Simmons Cemetery
• Wynn Cemetery

Church Records

Most church records are held by individual churches. For contact information, check a phone directory, such as SearchBug or Dex Knows. Some denominations are gathering their records into a central repository.

For more information about these major repositories, see Indiana Church Records.

Histories

Local Histories

• Richman, George J.History of Hancock County, Indiana; Its People, Industries and Institutions. (Greenfield, Ind: Wm. Mitchell Printing Co, 1916.)  977.258 H2r FHL US/CAN Book  FHL Collection  other library  INTERNET ARCHIVE  Google books
  
• Hancock County, Indiana: History - Linkpendium
  
  

Land and Property

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

After land was transferred from the government to private ownership, subsequent transactions were recorded at the courthouse, where records are currently housed.

See Indiana Land and Property for additional information about early Indiana land grants and patents. 

Finding More Land Records

Additional land records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Hancock County, Indiana Genealogy Probate Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Maps

• Hancock County, Indiana: Maps and Gazetteers - Linkpendium

Military Records

• Veterans in Hancock County, Indiana (1886) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Mexican War, 1846-1848

• Men of Hancock County in The Mexican -Genealogy Trailss

Civil War, 1861-1865

Civil War service men from Hancock 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 Hancock County

• 5th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry (90th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers), Company G
• 8th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies B, G, and Reorganized Company G
• 9th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company C
• 9th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company B
• 12th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B, and Reorganized Company G
• 13th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company I
• 20th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company E
• 28th US Colored Troops, Addition Recruits for Colored Troops
• 51st Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company D
• 53rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company A
• 57th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company A
• 69th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies B, C, and D
• 75th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company I
• 99th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B
• 105th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company E
• 132nd Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Companies F, and I
• 134th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Company K
• 147th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 148th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies C, and I
  

Civil War Sources for Hancock County

• Men of Hancock County in The Civil War - Genealogy Trails
  

• "Military Annals" Chapter 7 in Richman, George J.History of Hancock County, Indiana; Its People, Industries and Institutions. (Greenfield, Ind: Wm. Mitchell Printing Co, 1916.) (page 255-328 Regiment, Company, Name)   977.258 H2r FHL US/CAN Book  FHL Collection  other library  INTERNET ARCHIVE   Google books

World War I (The Great War), 1914-1918

• World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Hancock County - Ancestry.com ($) [http://genealogytrails.com/ind/hancock/rollhonor.html

• A Record of Indiana Men and Women who Died in the Service of the United States and the Allied Nations in the World War. 1914-1918 - Genealogy Trails
• Residents of Hancock County, Indiana Who Served in World War I ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)

World War II, 1941-1945

• Hancock County, Indiana World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps  -  AccessGenealogy

Newspapers

Many Hancock County residents were covered in the Knightstown Banner. See their obituary archive and genealogy columns at http://thebanneronline.com/

Repositories

Courthouse

Hancock County Courthouse
 9 E Main Street
Greenfield, IN 46140
Phone: 317.462.1109

County Clerk has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1828.
County Recorder has land records.
County Health Department has birth and death records from 1882.

Family History Centers

FamilySearch Centers are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are located all over the world. Their goal is to provide resources for family history research.

The main FamilySearch Center for Hancock County, Indiana Genealogy is the

• Fishers Indiana Family History Center

For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the [Family History Center directory].

School Records

• Graduates of Mount Comfort High School (1902-1929) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)
• Graduates of Wilkinson High School (1898-1926) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)
• Directory of Teachers for Hancock County (1936) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Taxation

Indiana tax records complement land records and can be used in place of censuses or to supplement the years between censuses. Because only persons who owned taxable property were listed, many residents were not included in tax lists. There may also be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties.

For more information see the wiki page Indiana Taxation.

Vital Records

Marriage Records

• 1828-1836Hancock County, Indiana Marriages

Genealogy Trails

• Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892 - Ancestry.con $
  
• Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992  - FamilySearch
  
• Indiana Marriage, 1811-1959  - FamilySearch
  

Death Records

• Indiana State Digital Achives for Death, E-Publication, Instiution, Military, Misc Historical, Naturalization Records can be searched by person name (accessed 26 May 2011)
  
• Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 - FamilySearch

Finding Vital Records at Other Repositories

Additional vital records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Hancock County, Indiana Genealogy Vital Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Hancock County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)