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Indiana County Court, Probate, Tax and Other Miscellaneous Records
Indiana Court Records
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There is no effective substitute for an on-site search of county courthouse records. County level records have not yet been centralized. No single county's records have been significantly abstracted or transcribed, making a courthouse visit essential. County records vary widely from county to county in both quality and quantity.
Indiana settlers wanted a government that was simple, democratic, and located close to the people. The county courthouse became the axis of politics and government that included a sheriff, coroner, circuit court clerk, recorder, and three county commissioners. The legal system was made up of a state supreme court, numerous circuit courts, and township justices of the peace`` who had jurisdiction for petty crimes and civil cases involving less than $50
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Indiana Probate Records
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The court jurisdiction responsible for probate changed a half dozen times in Indiana's history before finally settling in the county's circuit court. Thankfully, location of the records has remained with the clerk of the circuit court, although they are often stored in the county clerk's office. The records include wills, probate records, administration of estates, letters of administration, inventories of decedent's personal property, final record books, adoption papers, guardianship records, civil court records, records of minors, records of the insane, and naturalization records and proceedings. A state-wide index to wills, Indiana Wills Index through 1880, 2 vols. (Indianapolis, Ind.: Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe, 1983) is available.
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Indiana Tax Records
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Records of county taxes were kept as early at 1842, although most were discarded. Remaining ones would be at the county courthouse. National Archives-Great Lakes Region has records of the Internal Revenue Service for Indiana for 1867 to 1873. These are tax assessment records, arranged by district and then chronologically.
