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Online Indiana indexes and images[edit | edit source]

Template:Census Online Indiana

Federal population schedules[edit | edit source]

Microfilm images[edit | edit source]

Indexes: fiche, film, or book[edit | edit source]

For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Indiana, click here

Federal non-population schedules[edit | edit source]

Online indexes and images[edit | edit source]

Online Federal Non-Population Schedules for Indiana
		Free			Free at Some Libraries (usually with library card)			Pay
Year	Type	Record Search	Census Bureau	Google Book	Heritage Quest	Ancestry FHL	Ancestry Library	Ancestry Home
1880	Mortality	-	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1870	Mortality	-	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1860	Mortality	-	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1850	Mortality	Link	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1840	Pensioners	-	BookLink	BookLink	-	Link	Link	Link

Microfilm images[edit | edit source]

Indexes: fiche, film, or book[edit | edit source]

For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Indiana, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses[edit | edit source]

State, Territorial, and Colonial Censuses of Indiana

1937

Henry County, Blackford County: Licking Twp.

1931

Blackford, Hancock, Henry, St Joseph counties^[1]

1925

Blackford, Henry, St. Joseph counties

1919

Blackford (Licking Twp), Hancock County (Center Twp), Henry, Pike, Ripley (Jackson Twp), St Joseph counties ^[1]

1913

Blackford (Licking Twp), Henry, Pike, St. Joseph (scattered twps), Starke (Center Twp) counties^[1]

1907

Montgomery,St Joseph Counties; Pike county: Lochart Twp.

1901

Pike, St. Joseph, Washington (Jackson Twp) counties^[1]

1897

St. Joseph County

1895

Pike, St. Joseph, Starke Counties

1890

St Joseph County

1889

Blackford (scattered twps), Hancock (Sugar Creek Twp), Pike County (Jefferson Twp), St. Joseph counties^[1]

1883

Blackford (scattered twps), Hancock, St. Joseph counties^[1]

1882

Whitley County: Churubusco

1877

Blackford (scattered twps), Fayette (five twps.), Hancock (Brown and Green Twps) counties^[1]

1871

Blackford County (scattered townships)^[1]

1866

Clinton and Kosciusko Counties; Pike County: Jefferson

1857

Blackford County; Ohio County (Hartford City)^[1]

1853

Hendricks, Jennings, St. Josesph counties

1807

Clark, dearborn, Kaskaskia, Knox, Randolph Counties

John D. Beatty "Indiana Census Records and Census Substitutes." Indiana Genealogist 8, no.1 (March 1997): 1–17.

A few scattered fragments of the 1853, 1866, 1871, 1877 and later enumerations are at the Indiana State Archives. Many of these fragments have been published in periodicals. The Family History Library has one of these records on microfilm:

Hendricks County (Indiana). County Clerk. Male Census, 1853. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1967. (Family History Library film 488432).

1807-- Census of Indiana Territory for 1807. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society, 1980. (Family History Library book 977.2 X2c 1807; film 1033927 item 4.)

1801-1820-- The portion of the 1800 census that included the area that is now Indiana was lost or destroyed. A census substitute for this early period is:

Franklin, Charles H. Indiana Territorial Pioneer Records 1801-1820. N.p.: Heritage House, 1983- 1985. (Family History Library book 977.2 N4i.) Volume 1 covers 1810–1815, and volume 2, 1801–1820. 1807.

Existing and lost censuses[edit | edit source]

For a list of available and missing Indiana censuses, click here.

Why use a census?[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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Sources and footnotes[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992)[[Template:Lainha]], 40-41.

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[Lainh-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992)[[Template:Lainha]], 40-41.

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-| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | Henry, Pike, Ripley, St Joseph Counties; Blackford County: Licking Twp., Hancock County: Center Twp., Ripley County: Jackson Twp.<ref name="Lainh" />
+| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | Blackford (Licking Twp), Hancock County (Center Twp), Henry, Pike, Ripley (Jackson Twp), St Joseph counties <ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
 | align="left" | '''1913'''
-| align="left" | Henry County; Pike and St. Joseph Counties (scattered towns); Blackford County: Licking Twp., Starke County: Center Twp.<ref name="Lainh" />
+| align="left" | Blackford (Licking Twp), Henry, Pike, St. Joseph (scattered twps), Starke (Center Twp) counties<ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
 | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | '''1907'''
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 | align="left" | '''1901'''
-| align="left" | Pike, St. Joseph, Washington Counties (Partial)<ref name="Lainh" />
+| align="left" | Pike, St. Joseph, Washington (Jackson Twp) counties<ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
 | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | '''1897'''
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 | align="left" | '''1889'''
-| align="left" | &nbsp;St. Joseph County; Blackford County (partial); Hancock County: Sugar Creek Twp., Pike County: Jefferson Twp.<ref name="Lainh" />
+| align="left" | Blackford (scattered twps), Hancock (Sugar Creek Twp), Pike County (Jefferson Twp), St. Joseph counties<ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
 | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | '''1883'''
-| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | St. Joseph County; Blackford and Hancock Counties (partial)<ref name="Lainh" />
+| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | Blackford (scattered twps), Hancock, St. Joseph counties<ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
 | align="left" | '''1882'''
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 | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | '''1877'''
-| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | Blackford and Fayette Counties (Partial); Hancock County: Brown and Green Twps.<ref name="Lainh" />
+| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | Blackford (scattered twps), Fayette (five twps.), Hancock (Brown and Green Twps) counties<ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
 | align="left" | '''1871'''
-| align="left" | Blackford County (Partial)<ref name="Lainh" />
+| align="left" | Blackford County (scattered townships)<ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
 | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | '''1866'''
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 | align="left" | '''1857'''
-| align="left" | Hartford City, Blackford County<ref name="Lainh" />
+| align="left" | Blackford County; Ohio County (Hartford City)<ref name="Lainh" />
 |-
-| align="left" | '''1853'''
+| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | '''1853'''
-| align="left" | Hendricks, Jennings, St. Josesph counties
+| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | Hendricks, Jennings, St. Josesph counties
 |-
-| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | '''1807'''
+| align="left" | '''1807'''
-| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="left" | Clark, dearborn, Kaskaskia, Knox, Randolph Counties
+| align="left" | Clark, dearborn, Kaskaskia, Knox, Randolph Counties
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