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

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Orange County, Indiana
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Location of Indiana in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	December 26, 1815
County Seat	Paoli
Courthouse
Address	Orange County Courthouse Court St. Paoli, IN 47454 Phone: 812.723.2649 Website
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Historical Facts

Parent County

1815--Orange County was created 26 December 1815 from Washington, Knox and Gibson Counties.
County seat: Paoli ^[1]

• Crawford
• Dubois
• Lawrence
• Martin
• Washington

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Resources

Bible Records

• Orange CountyBible records

Biographies

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries for Orange County - Linkpendium
  

• Look under Cemeteries for Orange County - USGenWeb

Census Records

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

• Index to Defective, Dependent & Delinquent Census for Orange County, Indiana (1880) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Church Records

Court Records

Directories

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

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic and Religious Groups

Gazetteers

Genealogies

History

Local Histories

• History of Washington County Indiana: A Re-Production of the Original "History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties" 1884. (Salem, Ind: Washington County Historical Society, 1999.) 977.226 H2Lc FHL FHL Collectionother libraries     INTERNET ARCHIVE
  

• History of Orange County - Linkpendium
  

• Historical Articles of Orange County - INGenWeb

Land and Property

Maps

• Family Maps of Orange County, Indiana (land patent maps) at HistoryGeo.com ($). Free surname search.
• Maps and Gazetteers - Linkpendium

Military Records

War of 1812

• Residents of Orange County Who Served in the Mexican War (1846-1848) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)
• Look under Military Information - USGenWeb

Civil War

Civil War service men from Orange County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Orange County.

• 13th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Companies E, and F
• 24th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies B, and G
• 38th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, and I
• 47th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 49th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company G
• 59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 66th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies D, and E
• 86th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company C
• 93rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, D, G, and H
• 112th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies E, and H
• 137th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Company K
• 140th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company A
• 144th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 145th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B
• 28th US Colored Troops, Companies D, E, F, G, and Addition Recruits for Colored Troops

Civil War Books

• "Military History Of Orange County" Chapter 7 in History of Washington County Indiana: A Re-Production of the Original "History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties" 1884. (Salem, Ind: Washington County Historical Society, 1999.), (page 508-529, Regiment, Companies),977.226 H2Lc FHL FHL Collectionother libraries     INTERNET ARCHIVE

World War I

World War II

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Probate Records

Public Records

Repositories

Archives

County Courthouse

Orange County Courthouse
Court St;
Paoli, IN 47454
Phone: 812.723.2649

County Health Department has birth records
from 1882, death and burial records.
County Clerk has marriage, divorce,
probate and court records from from 1816.
County Recorder has land records from 1816.^[2]

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Museums

Libraries

Societies

School Records

• Directory of Teachers for Orange County (1936) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Taxation

Vital Records

• Look under Vital Records for Orange County - USGenWeb

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

Birth Records

Marriage Records

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

• Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992-FamilySearch
  

• Indiana Marriage, 1811-1959-FamilySearch
  

Death Records

• 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
• Orange County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
2. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Orange County, Indiana 215 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.

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