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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

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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 Massachusetts[1][2]
1937 Henry County, Blackford County: Licking Twp.
1931 Blackford, Hancock, Henry, St Joseph Counties
1925 Blackford, Henry, St. Joseph Counties
1919 Henry, Pike, Ripley, St Joseph Counties; Blackford County: Licking Twp., Hancock County: Center Twp., Ripley County: Jackson Twp.
1913 Henry County; Pike and St. Joseph Counties (scattered towns); Blackford County: Licking Twp., Starke County: Center Twp.
1907 Montgomery,St Joseph Counties; Pike county: Lochart Twp.
1901 Pike, St. Joseph, Washington Counties (Partial)
1897 St. Joseph County
1895 Pike, St. Joseph, Starke Counties
1890 St Joseph County
1889  St. Joseph County; Blackford County (partial); Hancock County: Sugar Creek Twp., Pike County: Jefferson Twp.
1883 St. Joseph County; Blackford and Hancock Counties (partial)
1882 Whitley County: Churubusco
1877 Blackford and Fayette Counties (Partial); Hancock County: Brown and Green Twps.
1871 Blackford County (Partial)
1866 Clinton and Kosciusko Counties; Pike County: Jefferson
1853 Hendricks, Jennings, St. Josesph counties
1807 Clark, dearborn, Kaskaskia, Knox, Randolph Counties
  • Beatty, John D. "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.

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Sources and footnotes[edit | edit source]

  1. Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992), 57.
  2. Henry J. Dubester, State Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken After the Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948), 24-29.
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