CENSUS RECORDS

Federal censuses for the state of Indiana began in 1820, continuing every ten years and currently available through 1920; the mostly destroyed 1890 census being excluded. The 1820 census is missing for the county of Daviess, and the 1870 & 1910 censuses are currently unindexed. It is also noted that many rural residents were missed in the 1850 census, though appear on the 1850 agricultural enumerations.
An 1807 territorial census exists and has been published, as has one for 1810 (for Harrison County only). Few state censuses are available.

Indiana Research Sources

Beatty, John D. "Genealogical Research in Indiana" National Genealogical Society Quarterly 79, no. 2 (June 1991): 100-22.
Cockrum, Col. William M. Pioneer History of Indiana; Including Stories, Incidents and Customs of the Early Settlers. Oakland City, Ind.: Press of the Oakland City Journal, 1907.
An important indexing project was begun by the WPA and continued in 1979 by the Indiana Historical Society. Copies of this typescript index to every name mentioned in biographical entries of each county's published histories are at Indiana State Library, Indiana Historical Society Library and Allen County Public Library and available through the FHL.

Archives, Libraries and Societies.
Indiana State Library
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Indiana State Archives,
Commission on Public Records
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Indiana Historical Society
315 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
"Moving Fall 1998 to Ohio and West Streets"

Genealogy Department
Allen County Public Library
900 Webster Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
http://www.acpl.lib.in.us