Ohio County Resources

General Information

• Ohio County Courthouse
  413 North Main Street
  Rising Sun, Indiana 47040-1029
  Phone: 812-438-2724
  Note: Most Public Offices closed on Wednesdays
  
  
• Vital Records-Health Department
  117 Sixth Street
  Rising Sun, Indiana 47040-1112
  Phone: 812-438-2551
  

  They Have Birth and Death Records from 1882. When making a request, include all the information you have and your relationship to the person. Certified copies $5.00 each. Please inclide a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope with the request.

• Clerks Office
  Annie Jo Jackson
  P.O. Box 185
  Phone: 812-438-2610
  Fax: 812-438-1215
  

What the Clerk's Office Does?
Some of the duties genealogists are concerned with are:

• Filing, recording, and entering all orders pertaining to civil, juvenile, and criminal matters
• Issuing letters testamentary, letters of administration, and letters of guardianship; recording wills, inventories of estates, sales bills, inheritance tax orders, final accounts, and reports of distribution in probate proceedings. Money to be held in trust is kept with the Clerk
• The Clerk issues marriage licenses, hunting and fishing licenses, and licenses or certificates to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, optometry, and other professions when applicants present to him certificates from the appropriate state examining boards. He also collects license fees from poultry dealers and junk dealers operating within the county.

• Recorder's Office
  413 North Main Street
  Rising Sun, Indiana 47040 Phone: 812-438-3269
  

What the Recorder's Office Does?
Records Deeds, Mortgages, Assignments, Releases, Powers of Attorney, Real Estate Contracts, Annexations, Trustee Elections, Affidavits, Final Decrees, Surveys, Federal Tax Liens, Mechanics Liens, Military Discharges, Articles of Incorporation, Cemetery Deeds, Bonds, Plats, Condominiums, Firms Doing Business Under Assumed Names, Delinquent Sewer Liens, and Miscellaneous Instruments. Files Uniform Commercial Code instruments. Supplies copies of any instrument and certifies to those recorded upon request. (Fee charged).

Libraries

• Ohio County Public Library
  100 North High Street
  Rising Sun, Indiana 47040-1022
  Phone: 812-438-2257
  The library has a collection of old Ohio County newspapers on microfilm.
  

Mailing List, Message Boards, Blogs

• Ohio County Mailing List -- JOIN!
• Search the Ohio County, IN Mailing List
• Ohio County, Indiana Message Board - courtesy of Rootsweb

Societies

• Ohio County Historical Society
  P.O. Box 194
  Rising Sun, Indiana 47040
  Phone: 812-438-4915
  Genealogical Search, Cost $10.00 per name.
  Please send a sekf addressed, stamped envelope when mailling requests.
  
  
• Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter reports (Nov 24, 2008) -- The Palatine to America Library has been closed. The library collection contains over 5000 books, journals, and other print material. The collection is being relocated to the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Columbus, Ohio. It is anticipated the Palatine Collection will be available for use sometime in the first quarter of 2009.

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