The Indiana History Room is pleased to offer the following tools
for Grant County Researchers:

  1. Marion & Grant County

  2. Church Records
  3. Family Histories
  4. Local History Files
  5. Military Reference
  6. including some pension records
  7. Naturalization Records
  8. 1865-1958
  9. Newspapers on Microfilm
  10. Fairmount News
  11. 1888-1910 with index
  12. (1893-1895 are not available)
  13. Marion Newspapers
  14. 1867-1947
  15. (February 1947 through current
  16. year are available in
  17. Library Reference Section)
  18. Gas City Journal
  19. Swayzee Press
  20. Oak Hill Times Review
  21. some newspapers from
  22. surrounding counties
  23. Oral Histories
  24. Community History Project
  25. Picture File
  26. Quaker Records
  27. Surname File

  1. Vital Statistics

  2. Birth Records
  3. February 1882-July 1980
  4. Birth Indexes to Newspapers
  5. 1976-current year
  6. City Directories
  7. 1887-current year
  8. Death Records
  9. January 1888-1980
  10. (Marion and Grant County)
  11.  
  12. Histories and Atlases
  13. with index
  14.  
  15. Obituary Index
  16. Marion Newspapers
  17. 1867-2002
  18. Van Buren News Eagle
  19.  
  20. Marriage Indexes
  21. Microfilmed Ledgers
  22. 1831-2002
  23. newspapers 1977-current year
  24.  
  25. Wills
  26. 1893-1923,
  27. and other miscellaneous records

  1. Census Records

  2. Census Microfilms for Indiana
  3. 1820-1930, except 1890
  4. Census Microfilms for Ohio
  5. 1820-1870
  6. Census Microfilms for Pennsylvania
  7. 1820-1830-1840
  8. Grant County Census Indexes
  9. 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
  10.  

  11. Funeral Home

  12. Milford Funeral Home
  13. Adams/Raven/Choate Funeral Home
  14. Diggs Funeral Home
  15.  

  16. Cemetery Listings

  17. All Grant County cemeteries, indexed
  18.  

  19. Reference Sources

  20. Eastern States
  21. Europe
  22. Genealogy
  23. Indiana County History

  1. Computer Research

  2. CD-Roms
  3. Internet
  4. for genealogy searches only
  5.  
  6. Can be used in the Library
  7. New England Ancestors
  8. Ancestry Library Edition
  9. Heritage Quest
  10. (may be used elsewhere
  11. with MPL Card)
  12.  
  13. Local Online Databases
  14. Index of marriage records
  15. Index of Obituaries
  16. Index to Grant County Estate Books
  17.  

  18. County Histories

  19. WPA Index
  20. Biographical Memoirs,1901
  21. Whitson's Centennial History,1914
  22. Brant & Fuller's History of Grant County,1886
  23.  

  24. Historic Photographs

  25. More than 4100 photographs of Marion
  26. and Grant County digitized and indexed

Grant County Genealogy

Marion Public Library
Indiana History
&
Genealogy Services

600 South Washington Street
Marion, Indiana 46953
mplih.@marion.lib.in.us		 Indiana Room Hours

Mon. ,Wed., Fri.     9-5:30p.m.
Tues., Thurs.,      9-8:00p.m.
Saturday       9-5:00p.m
Sunday       1-4:00p.m.
 
Closed Sundays between
May 1 and Labor Day		  
Phone: (765)669-2900
extension 154
FAX:(765)669-2911
TDD:(765)668-2907
www.marion.lib.in.us