Indiana Research Tips and Strategies

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Research Tips and Strategies

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page The Indiana Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for Indiana. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

Indiana Research Strategies

Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Indiana:

• Finding Indiana Births, Marriages, and Deaths using Guided Research
• Indiana Online Genealogy Records
• Indiana Record Finder
• Step-by-Step Indiana Research, 1900 to the Present
• Step-by-Step Indiana Research, 1850-1900
• Indiana Descendancy Research
• How to find Indiana Birth Records
• How to find Indiana Marriage Records
• How to find Indiana Death Records
• FamilySearch Research Guide
• Indiana Family History Library Research Outline

Indiana Research Tips

These tips will help you as you research your ancestors in Indiana.

• Birth information: Statewide registration of births began in 1907, with compliance by 1920. A helpful substitute record to find birth information is a death record. However, date and place of birth on a death record is considered secondary information, as it was not recorded at the time of the birth event. The birth information should be corroborated with other substitute records to improve accuracy.
• Finding Parents: Death records were recorded by the county health office beginning in 1882, where they remained before mandatory recording with the state board of health began in January 1900. . They often will list the parents of the deceased and their birth information. Search Indiana death records
• Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search U.S. Censuses.

Further Indiana Research

• INGenWeb] - Indiana GenWeb Project
• Indiana Genealogy Trails - collection of transcribed data for the state of Indiana
• Cyndi's List - Indiana genealogy sites on the internet
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - State of Indiana Records Guide