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function DbInfoMiniDescription() { document.write('This database indexes the death records of sixty-seven of the ninety-two counties in the State of Indianna, USA, from 1882 to 1920. Information that may be found in this index for each entry includes name, gender, color, age at time of death, death date, death place, source location, and source notes.'); }
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function DbInfoDescription() { document.write('<p>Prior to January 1900 when statewide registration of deaths began in Indiana, deaths were recorded at the local level by each county\'s health office. The WPA began to index vital records, county-by-county, for the entire state, but the agency was abolished before the project was completed. Only sixty-seven of the ninety-two counties had their birth and death records (1882-1920) and marriages (generally 1850-1920) collected. The completed county indexes are available in print at the Indiana State Library and Allen County Public Library, among others (Indiana, Ancestry\'s Red Book  by Carol L. Maki, edited by Alice Eichholz. (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1992)). </p><p>This data set contains the WPA\'s indexes to the death records of most of the counties that they completed. For a list of the counties that are included in this index see below. Information that may be found in this index for each entry includes name, gender, color, age at time of death, death date, death place, source location, and source notes. With the information gathered from this index you may be able to obtain a copy of the original death record from the county health department or Division of Vital Records (address listed below). It is important to use indexes to locate original records because original records often contain more information than do their indexes. </p>State Board of Health, Division of Vital Records<br>1330 West Michigan Street<br>Indianapolis, IN 46207<br><p>You may also use the information gathered in this index to locate other records relating to your ancestor\'s death. For example, using the date and place of death you may be able to begin searching for an obituary in local newspapers. Obituaries can be great sources of death information. They usually provide details about a person\'s life, their family, the events leading up to their death, survivors, or place of burial. These are often details that would be difficult to learn from standard vital records. To find an obituary, you should check local and state libraries where the death took place. Usually public libraries maintain a collection of local newspapers, from the earliest times to the present. Often, state libraries will do the same for the entire state. Other types of death records to search for include cemetery and burial records and church death records.</p><p>The following counties are included in the index:<br><br>Adams County<br>Allen County<br>Benton County<br>Boone County<br>Carroll County<br>Cass County<br>Clay County<br>Clinton County<br>Daviess County<br>DeKalb County<br>Delaware County<br>Elkhart County<br>Floyd County<br>Fountain County<br>Franklin County<br>Fulton County<br>Gibson County<br>Greene County<br>Hamilton County<br>Hancock County<br>Harrison County<br>Hendricks County<br>Henry County<br>Howard County<br>Huntington County<br>Jackson County<br>Jasper County<br>Jay County<br>Johnson County<br>Knox County<br>Kosciusko County<br>Lagrange County<br>Lake County<br>La Porte County<br>Madison County<br>Marion County<br>Martin County<br>Miami County<br>Monroe County<br>Montgomery County<br>Morgan County<br>Newton County<br>Orange County<br>Parke County<br>Perry County<br>Pike County<br>Posey County<br>Putnam County<br>Shelby County<br>Spencer County<br>St. Joseph County<br>Starke County<br>Sullivan County<br>Tippecanoe County<br>Vanderburgh County<br>Vermillion County<br>Vigo County<br>Warren County<br>Warrick County<br>Washington County<br>Wayne County<br>Wells County<br>White County<br>'); }
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function DbInfoSourceInfo() { document.write('<DIV class="p_sourceTxtDiv">Ancestry.com. <i>Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920</i> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.</DIV>'); }
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