Jennings County
This page is under development and is NOT a complete listing of all Jennings County family history resources available in the Genealogy Division at the Indiana State Library at this time. As new Jennings County family history resources are added, this page will be updated.
Birth Records
Births, 1882-1907.
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[Delayed Birth Records Issued 1941-1966]
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Death Records
Deaths, 1882-1913.
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Jennings County, Indiana death record index, 1882-1899.
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Marriage Records
General Index of Marriages, [1818-1845].
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Marriage Returns, 1881-1888.
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Marriages, 1818-1887.
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Marriages, 1850-1872, 1879-1923.
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Marriage records - from marriages books 1 [and 2, 1818-1833. . . ]. [10pp.] (From The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry. 1969).
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D.A.C., Marriage records . . . books I and II, 1818-1837. Cop. by Mary L. Osterman. 1960. 26, [7pp.]
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. . . Marriage records. [1] Jan. 18 - Sept. 1903. . . [2] Oct. 1903-1918
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Marriages, 1818-1837, (The Hoosier Genealogist, vol. 18, no. 3, Sept. 1978).
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Ridlen, Colleen A., . . . Early marriage records, 1818-1840. [1979]. 42pp.
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Slevin, Ruth M., . . .Marriages, 1837-1866, books 3-6. [1970?] 76, 76pp.
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Slevin, Ruth M. .. Marriages, 1866-1887 : books 7-9. [197?]. 73 leaves.
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Deed Records
Deed Records [1817-1886], Deed indexes, 1818-1887
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Deeds, 1817-1833.
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Original Land Entries, 1812-1852
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Probate Records
Probate Order Books [1818-1829], 1836-[1920]; [complete record, 1829-1850], 1865-1875
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Probates, 1830-1836.
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Will Records
Will and Probate Records, 1818-1829.
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Will Records, 1842-[1943].
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Holmes, Maurice. Will records. . . 1822-1913. [1977]. 313pp.
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Cemetery and Church Records
Jennings County Cemetery and Family Records.
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Records of the Graham Baptist Church, formerly the Liberty Baptist Church [1829-1898]. . .
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Church, R.L., Prather family cemetery. . . (not complete). 5pp.
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D.A.C., Hillcrest Cemetery, North Vernon. . . [1974?]. 59pp.
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D.A.C., St. Mary's Cemetery, North Vernon. . . [1974?]. [36pp.]
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DAR. Cemetery records. . . [1] A family cemetery [Prather?]. 1pp.
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D.A.R., Joseph Hart Chapter….Geneva Township Cemetery Records Comparison of the 1950 and 1970 Readings, Genealogy Division 977.201 J54jgc
D.A.R., Joseph Hart Chapter….Vernon Township Cemetery Records Comparison of the 1950 and 1970 Readings, Genealogy Division 977.201 J54jvc
Horstman, Helen., . . . Cemetery records: Grove burying ground, Dixon-Cave or Paris, and Wilson? cemeteries. [12pp.]
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Horstman, Joe., . . . Edwards Cemetery, Vernon township. [1977]. 3pp.
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Horstman, Joe., . . . Cemetery records, Spencer township. [1977?]. [3pp.] (Buena Vista cem.).
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Hoyt, Mrs. Leo. Scipio Catholic cemetery. . . [1953]. 9, [1]pp.
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[Indiana Historical Society], Records of cemeteries. . . 1941- 12 pts.
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Indiana Junior Historical Society. . . . Cemetery records. 1973-. 21pts.
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Vaught, Mary Ann., . . .[Cemetery] records. 1977. [1pp.] (Tull? cem., Lovett township)
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Cemeteries in Jennings and Jefferson Counties. . .; a few outside county and state. 1982. 63pp.
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D.A.C., Cemetery records. . .; Graham Presbyterian - Green - Scipio (or Amick) - Queensville - Family cemetery, Queensville. [1977?]. [48pp.]
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D.A.C., Cemetery records . . . Center and Creek townships. [1976?]. 37pp.
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D.A.C., . . . Cemeteries. [1970-1971]. 2 vols. (and index by D. Benedict. 1975. 40pp.).
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DAR., Cave Spring cemetery. 1994.
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DAR., Cemetery records. . . 1958. 17pp.
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DAR, Dodd's burial records, Paris Crossing. . . 1 vol.
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Census Records
Indiana State Library. . . , Index to 1840 census. . . [1972]. 14pp.
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Court Records
Circuit Court Order Book, 1817-1822.
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Commissioners Records, 1824-1846.
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Holmes, Maurice. Court records. . . 1818-1850. [1978]. 211pp.
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History
Wohreer, Alice Bruner. .. History, Jennings County. 1987. 213 leaves.
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Land Records
Holmes, Maurice. Early landowners. . . [1976]. 90pp.
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Mortuary and Obituary Records
Coroner's Record [1904-1935]
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DAR, Funeral home records, cemetery, and miscellaneous family records of Jennings County. . . and cemetery and family records of Dearborn County. . . [1977]. 136pp.
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D.A.C., Obituaries. . . 1885-1890; and, undertaker's record. . . 1901-1907. [1981]. 67, [5], 19pp. (obituaries taken from Plain Dealer, North Vernon, Ind. funeral records taken from the Dove Funeral Home, formerly H.H. Dowd & Co., North Vernon, Ind.).
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Naturalization Records
Naturalizations. [1865-1900].
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Naturalization record. . . 1850-1856. Copied from original by Genealogy Division, ISL. 1971. 18pp.
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Naturalization records... 1850-1856 / Fort Wayne and Allen County Library. 1966. 247 leaves.
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Miscellaneous Records
Indentures [18??-1888].
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Miscellaneous records and papers relating to Jennings County. . .history and families.
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Dixon, Williamson W., [Index to account book of W.W. Dixon, a tailor at Old Paris. . .]. [6pp].
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Borden, William W., Jennings and Ripley County maps showing residences in each township in 1875. [1875]. n.p.
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D.A.C., Indiana miscellaneous records, Jackson and Jennings counties obituary and cemetery records. 1981/2. 19, 31, 45pp.
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Holmes, Maurice. Miscellaneous records. . . [1976]. 71pp.
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The Jennings County special. The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry. 1982- vol. 1.
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Judge John Carney's scrapbook of Vernon, Indiana. [1918]. 80pp.
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Negro register [1853-1856]. (The Hoosier Genealogist, vol. 17, no. 2, June 1977).
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Many of the records identified on this page were initially selected by Carolynne L. Wendel Miller in her book, Indiana Sources for Genealogical Research in the Indiana State Library, published in 1984 by the Indiana Historical Society.
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