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Delaware County Genealogy Resources

This page is under development and is NOT a complete listing of all Delaware County family history resources available in the Genealogy Division at the Indiana State Library at this time. As new Delaware County family history resources are added, this page will be updated.

Birth Records

WPA.  Index to birth records, 1882-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343u

Death Records

WPA.  Index to death records, 1882-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343u

Marriage Records

Marriage Index, A-Z, 1920-1996
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Marriage Records, Vol. 1-70, 1827-1950
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

DAR.  Early history of Delaware County. . . marriage records, 1827-1840; wills, 1830-1860.  Cop. . .[by] Lelia L. Hill.  n.d.  46 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343d

DAR, . . .Marriage records [1827-1860]. Comp. by Mary W. Young.  1966-1975.  4 vols. (vol. 1 includes wills, 1830-1852; vol. 2 by A. Petro).
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343dm

Marriages, 1827-1837, 1838-1841 (The Hoosier Genealogist, vol. 6, no. 2-3, Mar.-April, May-June 1966).
Genealogy Division, 977.2 H789

WPA.  Index to marriage records, 1827-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343u

WPA.  Index to supplemental record, marriage applications, 1837-1893.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343u

WPA.  Index to supplemental record, marriage transcript, 1882-1911.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343u

Deeds

Deed Indexes, 1829-1902
Microfilm, Second Floor

Deed Indexes, Grantee, Vol. 1-13, 1829-1901
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Deed Indexes, Grantor, Vol. 2-13, 1829-1901
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Deed Records, Vol. 1-103, 1827-1901
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Brown, Immogene B.  Land Records of Indiana.  1965-1972.  5 vols. (Vol. 2, Delaware County).
Genealogy Division, 977.2 B878L

DAR. Deed books 1-4.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343df

DAR. Deed books 5-7.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343dg

Probate Records

Partitions, Vol. 1-8, 1852-1892
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Probate Order Books, Vol. 1-79, 1853-1919
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Probate Records, Vol. 1-4, 1831-1869
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Probates, 1830-1849; Indexes, 1852-1931.
Microfilm, Second Floor

Wills

Wills
Vol. 1A-9, 1851-1921
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Wills, 1860-1901. (See DAR under "Marriage Records" for wills 1830-1860 and 1830-1852).
Microfilm, Second Floor

Young, Mrs. Gerald S.  Wills, 1831-1845. 2 pp. (The Hoosier Genealogist, vol. 7).
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Duncat. no. 4

DAR, . . .Will records - book 2, abstracts. . .[1852-1870]. 1974. [184 pp.]
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343dd

DAR, . . .will records - book 3, abstracts. . .[1869-1879]. 1975. [139, 4 pp.]
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343dda

Wills, 1831-1845 (The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol. 7, no. 3, May-June 1967).
Genealogy Division, 977.2 H789

Cemetery and Church Records

Beeson, Cecil, Sr.,  [Cemetery records. . .].  4 pts.  (Elizabethtown, Mt. Zion, Ginn, Roderick cemeteries).
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 4

Bowles, Helen.  List of cemeteries.  1948.  2 pp. (missing 1982).
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Duncat. no. 1

Buckles, Ginn, Leaird, and Roderick cemeteries. . . [18 pp.]
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Duncat. no. 5

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  [Cemetery records. . .].  14 pts.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 6

Colvin, Kathryn R.,  Cemetery west of . . . Wheeling on the Wheeling Pike. . . 1971.  6 pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 9

DAR. Carmichael and Rees Cemeteries, Muncie. . . 3, 13 pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 12

DAR.  Cemetery record. . . 4 pts.  (Julian, Strong, Yorktown, Elizabethtown cemeteries).
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 2

DAR, Revolutionary war soldiers buried in Delaware. . . 19--.  16 pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 973.34 I385dap

Eaton cemetery. . . newspaper clipping (not complete). 1 pp. (missing 1982).
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Duncat. no. 2

Heavilin, George E.,  Buckles cemetery. . . [1951].  4 pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 3

[Indiana Historical Society].  [Cemetery records. . .].  1941.  10 pts.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 1 Wierbach, Eugene S.  The old Wilson cemetery on White river.  [1941]. 2 pp. (From IMH)
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Duncat. no. 3

Maynard, Urbane V.,  Prairie Grove Cemetery, history and tombstone inscriptions. . .  Washington township.  [1965].  [6 pp.].
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 7

Beech Grove Cemetery survey, prepared by Muncie Central Sesquicentennial Hist. Society.  [1970].  2 vols.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343de

Cartwright, Rosaella. Cemeteries in Delaware County.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343c

DAR, Cemetery records. . .1956-1962.  4 vols.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343dc

DAR, Cemetery records, Harrison and Perry townships. . .cop. by Mrs. Kenneth J. Petro [1977?]. 88 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343p

DAR, Cemetery records, Monroe township. . . 1978.  124 pp.  (Cop. by Mrs. Kenneth J. Petro.)
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343pe

DAR, Cemetery records, Salem township. . .Cop. by Mrs. Kenneth J. Petro.  1978.  [95 pp.]
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343pet

Hamm, Thomas D.,  Records of Fairview, Rees cemeteries of Delaware county. . . and Cherry Grove Friends, New Liberty, Snow Hill, Cabin Creek A.M.E., Union Chapel, White River Christian, and Bethel A.M.E. of Randolph county, Indiana.  [1977].  [214 pp.].
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343h

Jones, Mary K. Jones Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant twp.
Genealogy Division 977.201 D343j

Petro, Mrs. Kenneth J., Cemetery records, Center and Hamilton township. . . 1982. 43 leaves 
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343pec

Petro, Mrs. Kenneth J., Cemetery records, Monroe township. . . 1978..
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343pe

Petro, Mrs. Kenneth J., Cemetery records, Niles township. . . 1979.  61 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343pen

Young, Mary W.,  Records from the session record, First Presbyterian Church, Muncie. . . 1838-1867.  [1963].  28, [5 pp.]
Genealogy Division, 977.202 M963r

Court Records

Circuit Court
Civil Order Books, Vol. 1-55, 1832-1894
Civil Order Books, Vol. 77-125, 1901-1921
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Civil Complete Order Books, Vol. 1-15, 1828-1929
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Court of Common Pleas
Civil Complete Order Books, Vol. 1, 1853-1858
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

General Index Civil Cases, A-Z
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Superior Court, Civil Order Books, Vol. 1-11, 1909-1921
MiCrofilm, Second Floor

Land Records

 Petro, Mrs. Kenneth J.,  Early land records, tract book. . . 1981.  67 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343peL

Military Records

Delaware County in the World War, 1917-1918... Delaware Co. Council of Defense; edited by Lannes McPhetridge, c1919
Genealogy Division 977.201 D343dw

Naturalization Records

Ball State Univ. Hist. class.,  . . . naturalizations [to 1853].  1972.  12 pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 11

DAR.,  . . . Declarations of intentions and applications for citizenship.  1975.  [94, 4 pp.].
Genealogy Division, 977.201 D343di

DAR.,  Naturalizations service petitions. . .  1971.  27 pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 D343 no. 10

Miscellaneous Records

DAR. Early history of Delaware Co., Indiana. marriage records, 1827-1840, Wills, 1830-1860.
Genealogy Division 977.201 D343d

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.