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Guide to Crawford County Indiana genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Crawford County, Indiana
Map
Location of Indiana in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	January 29, 1818
County Seat	English
Courthouse
Address	Crawford County Courthouse 316 S Court English, IN 47118-0375 Phone: 812.338.2565
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Historical Facts

Populated Places

Boundary Changes

Neighboring Counties

• Dubois
• Harrison
• Meade County, Kentucky
• Orange
• Perry
• Washington

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biographies

Business Records

Cemeteries

• Crawford County, Indiana: Cemeteries - Linkpendium

• Cemetery Records -INGenWeb

Census Records

For tips on accessing Crawford County, Indiana census records online, see: Indiana Census.

• Index to Defective, Dependent & Delinquent Census for Crawford County (1880) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)
  

• Crawford County, Indiana: Census Records and Indexes - Linkpendium
  

• Census Records -INGenWeb
• Early Residents of Crawford County (1820) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Church Records

Court Records

Directories

• Directory of Businesses in Leavenworth, Crawford County, Indiana (1868) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic and Religious Groups

Gazetteers

Genealogies

Histories

Local Histories

• Pleasant, Hazen Hayes. 1926. A history of Crawford County, Indiana. (Greenfield, Ind: Wm. Mitchell Printing Co.) 977.228 H2p FHL US/CAN Book  FHL Collection   other libraies   ancestry.com  $

• Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. (Evansville, Ind: Unigraphic, 1972.) FHL US/CAN Film 934899 Item 4 FHL Collection  other libraries   INTERNET ARCHIVE
  

• Crawford County, Indiana: History - Linkpendium

Land and Property

Maps

• Crawford County, Indiana: Maps and Gazetteers - Linkpendium

Military Records

• - see - Military Records and Histories - Linkpendium

Civil War

Civil War service men from Crawford County served in various regiments. Men often joined a regiment or a company (within a regiment)that originated in their county. Listed below are the military units that were formed in or had many men from Crawford County.

• 1st Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company E
• 6th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company F
• 13th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company H
• 13th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company I
• 17th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company C
• 23rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company H
• 38th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies E, and K
• 49th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies F, and H (A-K see "Civil War Military Records" below)
• 51st Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B
• 52nd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company D
• 59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 66th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company G
• 81st Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, and H
• 99th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company E
• 144th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company D
• 28th US Colored Troops, Addition Recruits for Colored Troops

• Crawford Co, Indiana Civil War Soldiers - CensusDiggins.com
• Civil War Military Records - INGenWeb

• MILITARY PERSONS (Who served from Crawford Co., IN or are buried in the county.) INGenWeb

Civil War Books

• "Civil War" Chapter 14 in Pleasant, Hazen Hayes. 1926. A history of Crawford County, Indiana. (Greenfield, Ind: Wm. Mitchell Printing Co.), (page 229-306, Regiment, Companies, Name's, history of Knight of Golden Circle), 977.228 H2p FHL US/CAN Book  FHL Collection   other libraies   ancestry.com  $

World War I (The Great War), 1914-1918

World War II, 1941-1945

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Probate Records

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Crawford County Courthouse
316 S Court
English, IN 47118-0375
Phone: 812.338.2565

County Clerk has marriage records from 1818,
divorce, probate and court records from 1860.
County Health Department has birth and death records.
County Recorder has land records. ^[1]

Archives

Libraries

Museums

Societies

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

School Records

• Directory of Teachers (1936) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Taxation

Vital Records

• Vital Records -INGenWeb
  

Birth Records

Marriage Records

• Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892 - Ancestry.con $
  

• Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992  - FamilySearch
  

• Indiana Marriage, 1811-1959  - FamilySearch
  

Death Records

• Indiana State Digital Achives for Death, E-Publication, Instiution, Military, Misc Historical, Naturalization Records can be searched by person name (accessed 26 May 2011)
  

• Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 - FamilySearch

Voter Registration

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Crawfod County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Crawford County, Indiana 211 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.

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