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-== Vital Record Indexes ==
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-During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Indiana Works Progress Administration indexed many counties' birth and death records for the period of 1882 to 1920. These index volumes often are available at public libraries in the counties they cover, as well as at the [http://www.in.gov/library/ Indiana State Library] in Indianapolis and the [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Allen County Public Library] in Fort Wayne. The original typescripts of the WPA indexes are at the Indiana State Library.  The birth index provides the name of the child, its father’s name, mother’s maiden name, sex, color, date of birth, book, and page. The death index gives the name of the deceased, sex, color, age at death, date of death, place of death, book, and page.<br>
+During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Indiana Works Progress Administration indexed many counties' birth and death records for the period of 1882 to 1920. These index volumes often are available at public libraries in the counties they cover, as well as at the [http://www.in.gov/library/ Indiana State Library] in Indianapolis and the [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Allen County Public Library] in Fort Wayne. The original typescripts of the WPA indexes are at the Indiana State Library. The birth index provides the name of the child, its father’s name, mother’s maiden name, sex, color, date of birth, book, and page. The death index gives the name of the deceased, sex, color, age at death, date of death, place of death, book, and page.<br>
 Published marriage record indexes are available for most Indiana counties from the earliest marriages to the early or mid-1900s and sometimes beyond.
 [http://208.119.72.68/INMarriages1850/marriages_search.asp Marriages through 1850] is a statewide searchable database on the Indiana State Library's website.
-FamilySearch has an ongoing project to index Indiana marriage records. This searchable database, available at [http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1410397 Record Search] currently is 12 percent complete. It covers 11 of Indiana's 92 Indiana counties (Adams, Blackford, Carroll, Decatur, Franklin, Henry, Huntington, Ohio, Owen, Rush, and Sullivan). The database's title indicates that it indexes records for the years 1811 to 1959, however a few entries date as early as 1790.
+FamilySearch has an ongoing project to index Indiana marriage records in partnership with the Indiana Genealogical Society. This searchable database, available at [http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1410397 Record Search] currently is&nbsp;44 percent complete.&nbsp;The index portion covers 18 of Indiana's 92 Indiana counties (Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Decatur, Dubois, Franklin, Harrison, Henry, Huntington, Marshall, Ohio, Owen, Rush, and Sullivan). The descriptive material for the collection indicates that it also includes searchable images of records for the counties of Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, DeKalb, Dearborn, Delaware, Dubois, Harrison, Huntington, Marshall, Ohio, Owen and Rush. The database's title&nbsp;is "Indiana Marriages, 1811 to 1959," however a few entries date as early as 1790.
 The [http://www.in.gov/library/ Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library] has microfilm indexes of Indiana marriage records from 1958 to the present. The [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Allen County Public Library] has these microfilm indexes for 1962 to 1992.