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Vital records, as their name suggests, are
connected with central life events: birth,
marriage, and death. Maintained by civil
authorities, they are prime sources of
genealogical information; but, unfortunately,
official vital records are available only for
relatively recent periods. These records,
despite their recent creation in the United
States, are critically important in genealogical
research, often supplying details on family
members well back into the nineteenth century.
The Source: A Guidebook of
American Genealogy,
by Loretto Szucs and Sandra Luebking.
Vital Records Section
State Department of Health
1330 West Michigan Street
PO Box 7125
Indianapolis, IN 46206-7125
Additional copies of the same record
ordered at the same time are $1.00 each. For
earlier records, write to Health Officer in city
or county where event occurred.
Check or money order should be made
payable to
Indiana State Department of Health.
Personal checks are accepted. To verify current
fees, the telephone number is(317)
383-6274.
Information on how to obtain certified copies is
also available at:
http://www.state.in.us/doh/index.html
Ancestry.com
Indiana State Database
A large collection of databases of births,
deaths, marriages, census, obituaries,
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records.
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Births
State office has birth
records beginning October 1907. Cost: $6.00
Deaths
State office has death
records beginning October 1907. Cost: $4.00
Indiana State Library
Genealogy Division Cemetery Database
Browning Genealogy Database
The Browning Genealogy Database is
the lifetime work of Charles Browning, who
compiled the obituary records of Vanderburgh
County and surrounding southwestern Indiana
from the Evansville newspapers: The
Evansville Courier, The Evansville Press,
and now The Evansville Courier and Press.
Divorce
Write to County Clerk in
city or county where divorce was granted.
Marriages
Ancestry.com
Indiana Marriages to 1850
This database of Indiana marriages to 1850
contains nearly 200,000 names. Each entry
includes groom, bride, marriage date, county,
and state. Every name is indexed so you can
search for one name, or two names that are
linked.
The marriage date is usually the date of
marriage as given in the original entry.
However, when no marriage date is given (e.g.,
the "marriage return" was not provided to the
record keeper), the date of the license is used.
In a few cases, a marriage will be listed twice,
but in two different counties. This most often
happened when a couple obtained a license in one
county, but were actually married in another.
(Free Database)
Marriage index since
1958 for some counties. Certified copies are not
available from State Health Department or State
Library but must be obtained from county where
event occurred.
Vital Records Section
State Department of Health
1330 West Michigan Street
PO Box 7125
Indianapolis, IN 46206-7125 |
