The Marion Public Library’s Indiana Room staff and volunteers have created the Indiana History and Genealogy Database for your use. Currently the database includes over 800,000 records, more records are added daily, so check back often. If you are unable to find the information you are looking for, please contact the Indiana Room for assistance.
To use the database: Click on search the database and look for your names. You can limit by the type of record if you wish. The database does not Soundex, so you will have to search alternate spellings. Each field must match exactly so try broad searches, using only the last name unless you have a very common surname. For assistance contact the Indiana Room.
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Cemetery indexes – all available information is included in the database, we have no further information at the library. All Grant County cemetries are indexed.
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Census Microfilms for Indiana - 1820-1930, except 1890
Census Microfilms for Ohio - 1820-1870
Census Microfilms for Pennsylvania - 1820, 1830, 1840
Grant County Census Indexes - 1830-1930
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CDRoms
Internet - for genealogy searches only.
Local Online Databases - Index of birth, death & marriage
records, obituaries, cemeteries, & Orphans' Home.
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WPA Index -
- Biographical Memoirs, 1901
- Whitson's Centennial History, 1914
- Brant & Fuller's History of Grant County, 1886
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Death and birth records begin in 1882 and are indexed up to 1980 for births and 1987 for deaths. We have the records on microfilm in the Indiana Room use the reel number, book number and page number to request copies of records.
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Indexes from local funeral home abstracts, not all funeral homes or years available.
- Adams/Raven/Choate Funeral Home
- Armes-Hunt Funeral Home
- Diggs Funeral Home
- Jones Funeral Home
- Milford Funeral Home
- Parrill & Lewis Funeral Home
- Shawley Funeral Home
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Images from the minute book from the Grant County Medical Society from 1890 through 1941.
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Online resource for census data, family records and local histories. An ongoing project (new content is added weekly), Heritage Quest Online will grow to encompass obituaries, Freedman's Bank Records, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Index and additional materials.
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More that 5,100 photographs of Marion and Grant County digitized and indexed.
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Church Records
Family Histories
Local History Files
Military References - including some pension records
Naturalization Records - 1856-1958
Newspapers on Microfilm -
Fairmount News, 1888-1910 with index (1893
through 1895 are not available)
Gas City Journal
Marion Newspapers , 1867-1947 (February 1947
through current year are
available in Library Reference Services.
Oak Hill Times Review
Swayzee Press
Oral Histories - Community History Project
Picture File
Quaker Records
Surnam File
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Grant county marriage records from 1837 to 2008 are indexed in the database. We have the records on microfilm in the Indiana Room use the Book and Page number to request a copy of a marriage record. From 1837 to 1882 all we have are certificates there are no applications available until 1882.
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This database has a wealth of information pertaining to the genealogy of New England. It is maintained by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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Obituaries are indexed from local papers from 1867 to the present. Use the name of the paper and the record date to request copies of obits.
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We have microfilmed records from the Orphan’s Home, use the book and page number to request information from the records.
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Eastern States
Europe
Genealogy
Indiana County Histories
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Birth Records - February 1882-July 1980
Birth Indexes to Newspapers - 1976-current year
City Directories - 1887-current year
Death Records - January 1888-1980 (Marion and Grant County)
Histories and Atlases with index
Obituary Index -
Marion Newspapers, 1867-present
Swayzee Press
Van Buren News Eagle
Marriage Indexes - Microfilmed Ledgers
Wills - 1893 - 1923, Orphans' Home Grant County Poor Farm, and
other miscellaneous records
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