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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 | Published marriage record indexes are available for most Indiana counties from the earliest marriages to the early or mid-1900s and sometimes beyond. | ||
FamilySearch has an ongoing project to index Indiana marriage records. This searchable | [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. | |||
Ancestry.com's Indiana offerings include searchable databases titled ''Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941,'' ''Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920'' and ''Indiana Births, 1880-1920.'' These databases were compiled primarily from the published WPA indexes. Ancestry.com is a subscription database, but many public libraries maintain subscriptions that their patrons may use onsite. | Ancestry.com's Indiana offerings include searchable databases titled ''Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941,'' ''Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920'' and ''Indiana Births, 1880-1920.'' These databases were compiled primarily from the published WPA indexes. Ancestry.com is a subscription database, but many public libraries maintain subscriptions that their patrons may use onsite. | ||