The Genealogy/Local History Dept. will do research in response to personal and written inquiries.  Please limit your requests to 20 per mailing.

The Genealogy Department is located in the lower level of the library

 Hours   Mon.-Fri.   9:00-5:00                Saturday  12:00-5:00

  Sullivan County Public Library Obituary Index  1929 - present

 Index to Obituaries, Obsequies, Notices of Death for Sullivan County, Indiana 1870 - 1905

  Index to Sullivan County Marriage Returns from 1882 -1899 (inclusive)

Heritage Quest Genealogy Database

 Index to Sullivan Co., Indiana Will Books 1-7  1850-1930
NEW  Footnote.com is now available at the Sullivan County Public Library and Branches.   This database can only be used from our library locations.  Footnote has been made available through partnership with the Nation Archives.
It includes:  Revolutionary War Pension Files, Civil War Pension Index, FBI Files, Naturalization Petitions & Declarations, Confederate Soldier Service Records and much more.

Genealogy & Local History Research

Email, Mail & Telephone Inquires
     The Genealogy/Local History Dept. will do research in response to personal and written inquiries.  Only a limited amount of time may be devoted to each request.  Letter, email & phone requests will be answered as soon as time allows depending on other staff demands and the number of inquires received.  Please limit your requests to 20 per mailing.

     Staff will do research in indexed, printed sources and will only search materials dealing with Sullivan and surrounding counties.  If a request includes sources beyond this geographic area, staff may recommend other libraries to contact.

      Request should be in the form of one or two briefly stated questions and should include specific names and dates to search, or a range of dates within a ten year period (example 1850 - 1860).  Your full name and mailing address MUST be included with your query.

     The Genealogy/Local History Dep. charges $3.00 plus postage per query.  This includes up to 12 copies of material.  After the 12 copies the charges are per page:  15cents for microfilm and 10 cents for Xerox copies.  Checks and or money orders should be made out to Sullivan County Public Library/Genealogy/Local History Dept.

For more information contact:
 

Sullivan County Public Library

Genealogy/Local History Dept.

Donna K. Adams

Sullivan County Historian

100 S. Crowder St.

Sullivan, IN 47882

(812) 268-4957 or Fax (812) 268-5730

dadams@sullivan.lib.in.us

  

The following are on Microfilm

  • marriage records

  • probate records

  • will records

  • Sullivan Co. newspapers

  • census records

  • deed records

  • delayed birth records

  • Dr. Maple's scrapbook

  • etc.

On the Shelf

  • census record indexes

  • war record indexes

  • county histories

  • church histories

  • birth records index

  • marriage records index

  • death records index

  • cemetery records index

  • obituaries

  • funeral home records will records index family histories

  • periodicals

  • etc.

In the file cabinets

  • family history files

  • Sullivan County history information

  • patron correspondence files

GENEALOGY  LINKS
                ABC's of American Genealogical Research
                familysearch.org
                rootsweb.com
                genealogy.com
                Sullivan County Historical Society
                http://www.inwvgs.org/
          webpage coordinator:  posburn@sullivan.lib.in.us Hit Counter
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