Indexes

The Heritage Center has an extensive collection of indexes, many of which are available online. Additional indexes are available in the library.

Businesses

County Records

Magazines

Miscellaneous Indexes

Mortality Schedules

Newspapers

Obituaries

Schools

Businesses

The following is an index of businesses that advertised in Boone County school yearbooks. The index includes a description of the business, the name of the owner (if printed in the ad), and indicates if the advertisement includes a picture of the business.

– Lebanon High School 1905-2018 (except 2012) indexed by Ellen Spall; 2012, 2019-2023 indexed by Dixie Taylor.  Other schools indexed by Dixie Taylor.

County Records

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APPEARANCE DOCKET OF GUARDIANSHIPS, 1862-1889

Indexes Appearance Docket of Guardianships & Estates, 1862-1884, and Appearance Docket of Guardianships, 1884-1889.  These volumes are part of Series II, Boone County Records, Special Collections.

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APPLICATIONS FOR RESIDENT HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES, 1920-1930

These records are stored in Series III.B, Boone County Records, Special Collections.

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BOONE CIRCUIT COURT INSANITY RECORDS, 1881-1963

“Y” in the Envelope column indicates that there are loose-leaf documents associated with this entry.  The date in a row with a “Y” in the Envelope column does not necessarily correspond to the dates of the documents in the envelope.  For example, such an entry has the year 1898, but the envelope contains documents from other years.  The envelopes are sorted alphabetically by last name.  Indexed by Evgeny Jenya Chumin; revised by Eric Spall, 2021.  These records are part of Series II and Series III.C, Boone County Records, Special Collections.

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CORONER’S RECORDS, 1937

Index to the Coroner’s Verdicts and Coroner’s Certificates of Evidence.  The verdicts contain the coroner’s official statement on the cause of death, and the certificates of evidence contain witness statements.  The names of the coroner’s clerk, the coroner, and the county clerk are on nearly every document.  These records are stored in Series III.J, Boone County Records, Special Collections, and are filed alphabetically by last name of the deceased.

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COURT PACKETS

Index to unbound documents including, but not limited to, affidavits, allowances, bonds, certifications of elections of trustees, deeds, liens, mortgages, and transcripts.  These records are part of Series III.A, Boone County Records, Special Collections.  PDF 35.1 MB

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DELINQUENT TAX RECORD, 1856-1880

Indexed by Rosemary Peterman from a volume in the Boone County Treasurer’s Office.  The library does not have the original record.

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DOCKET OF LETTERS OF GUARDIANSHIP, 1847-1894

Indexes Docket of Letters of Guardianship, No. 1, 1847-1853, and Estate Docket/Guardianship Docket, 1866-1894.  These volumes are part of Series II, Boone County Records, Special Collections.

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PROBATE ORDER BOOK A, 1830-1843

This volume is part of Series II, Boone County Records, Special Collections.

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Magazines

This index indexes the feature articles in B Magazine, Boone County Lifestyle Magazine, Lebanon Lifestyle Magazine, Whitestown Quarterly, Zionsville Home and Style, and Zionsville Magazine.  It generally does not index advertisements and events calendars.  For a list of our holdings of each magazine, see the Finding Aid for each title on our Special Collections page.

Miscellaneous
 

Miscellaneous Index

This index indexes many of the Heritage Center’s bound (published and unpublished) Boone County volumes that were originally created without indexes.  The Index lists the entry subject, a code for the indexed volume, and the page number(s) on which the entry is found.  The Index Code shows the full titles of the indexed volumes and notes explaining decisions made while indexing some of the volumes.

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Postcard Index

Collection contains postcards sent to residents of Boone County, dating from the early 20th Century to the 1970s, as well as postcards collected as souvenirs. The description in the index is of the type of card (e.g. Christmas or Birthday) or the image on the front of the card (e.g. Arizona landscape or Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) and not of the contents of the message.  Items are filed in the same order as in the index.  The locations of oversize items are noted in the index.

Note:  Other postcards featuring images of Boone County scenes are in the Photograph collection.

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Social Club Record Index

Boone County Lodge: Roster of Sojourning Members 1917-1925

Record of the Knights of Pythias

The original volume is in Series IV.B, Knights of Pythias, Lebanon Lodge No. 45, Special Collections.

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Vital Records Index

Divorces of Boone County, IN 1830-1879

Abstracted from Civil Order and Judgement Docket books, 1830–1879.

Indexed from records at the County Clerk’s office; the library does not have the original volumes.

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Mortality Schedules

Mortality schedules were compiled with the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 Federal Censuses.  They provide information on people who died during the year prior to the census.  These mortality schedules can help you find information regarding the death of some people who died prior to 1882 (the year Indiana began requiring death certificates).

1860

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1880

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Newspapers

Lebanon Patriot & Weekly Patriot

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Index of Divorce Notices appearing in 1870

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Index of Marriage Notices from 1870-1873 (by Groom)

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Index of Marriage Notices from 1870-1873 (by Bride)

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Index of Obituaries and Death Notices from 1870-1873

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Index of Personal and Real Estate Sale Notices from 1870-1873

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Index to Other Obituaries

These are not available online.

  • Advance Newspaper Obits – 1899-1922
  • Index to Thorntown Obituaries – Compiled from a collection of newspaper clippings at the Thorntown Public Library by Rosemary Peterman
  • Jamestown Abstracted Obit & Biographies –  1892-1902
  • Newspaper Index – 1856-1888

Lebanon Reporter Obituaries and Vital Records

The following is an index of vital records, including obituaries, published in the Lebanon Reporter. Click the first letter of the last name to open the PDF. All PDFs are search enabled for quick look-ups. 

1940 – 1999

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

2000 – 2019

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

2020 – September 2024

A B C D E F G H I J K ​L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Indexes to Other Newspapers

These are not available online.

  • Advance Hustler Obituaries – 1899-1922
  • Jamestown Abstracted Obituaries & Biographies –  1898-1902
  • Newspaper Index – 1856-1888
  • Thorntown Obituaries – Compiled from a collection of newspaper clippings at the Thorntown Public Library by Rosemary Peterman

Schools

Truant Officer’s Record of Students of Compulsory Age, Center Township

Record of all children between the ages of 7 and 14 compiled for the truant officer. The title page says 1915, but based on the dates of birth and ages at time of compilation, it was probably created in 1905, 1906, or 1907.

The original volume is in Series II.A.5, Boone County Schools, Special Collections.

Transcribed by Karen Richards, 2014.

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Boone County Teachers

A list of teachers at Boone County schools from 1883-1885.

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