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Online Resources

• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1847-2009 Indiana Newspapers, 1847-2009 at MyHeritage ($)
• 1800-Current Indiana, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• Indiana Online Historical Newspapers
• Indiana Newspaper Archives (1804–1992) at Genealogy Bank, index.
• Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana State Library
• Mennonite Church USA Archives: MennObits
• Online Indiana Death Indexes and Obituaries
• Indiana Newspapers and Obituaries
• United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014 — index and images - How to Use this Collection
• Indiana Newspapers, 1847-2009 $ Index and images.

Resources for Indiana Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

The Indiana Division of the Indiana State Library has the state’s largest newspaper collection. They have many newspapers on microfilm and an index of names and obituaries in Indianapolis newspapers since 1898. Their newspaper microfilms are available through inter-library loan. For a county-by-county inventory of their 16,500 reels of Indiana newspaper microfilms, see their Indiana Collection

Newspaper Directory

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Printed Inventories

A guide for locating newspapers published from 1804 to 1980 is:

Miller, John W. Indiana Newspaper Bibliography: Historical Accounts of All Indiana Newspapers Published from 1804 to 1980 and Locational Information for All Available Copies, Both Original and Manuscript. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society, 1982. (FS Library book 977.2 B32m; film 2055588 item 5; fiche 6087603.) The newspapers are listed by county and then by town. The history of the newspaper is given along with the names of the repositories or libraries that keep original or microfilm copies. There is also an index to the towns, editors, and publishers.

To identify microfilms you can order on interlibrary loan through your local public library, see United States Newspapers for Newspapers in Microform: United States, 1948–1983. This includes newspapers published from the early 1700s to 1983.

For a list of newspaper indexes, see:

"Indexes and Abstracts of Indiana Newspapers at Indiana State Library." The Hoosier Genealogist 36, no.1 (March 1996): 1-28. 977.2 B2h This lists 229 indexes or abstracts by county, then by the name of the newspaper. Shows Indiana State Library call numbers, authors, titles, a brief description of what is indexed or abstracted, years covered, and citations to the original source.

In the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog, you will find newspapers listed under:

INDIANA- NEWSPAPERS

INDIANA, [COUNTY]- NEWSPAPERS

INDIANA, [COUNTY], [TOWN]- NEWSPAPERS

Digital Issues Online

• NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of Indiana newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries under the name AccessNewspaperArchive.
• Search CyndisList for Indiana newspapers
• There is a large collection of Indiana newspapers digitized, indexed and online at Ancestry.com ($)which is a subscription website that may be available at your local public or academic library.

Indexes

• Newspaper Archive at Indiana University Bloomington Library, for authorized IU Bloomington users.
• Hendricks County Obituary Database and Card File Online from the Plainfield Public Library. The index includes Plainfield and Hendricks County obituaries which were gleaned from the Plainfield and Hendricks County newspapers in the library's collection. The newspaper collection spans from 1866-current.
• The Vigo County Library has online indexes to obituaries published in Terre Haute newspapers from 1900-2007. Coverage is most complete for Vigo County, but does include obituaries from the surrounding Wabash Valley Counties.
• Browning Genealogy, Evansville, Indiana area obituary search