A guide and directory to Boone County Indiana genealogy, containing both online and offline resources for genealogy and historical research. This article contains sources of genealogical data about Boone County such as biographies, cemetery records, census records, church records, court records, family records, land records, military records, naturalization records, and vital records. The vast majority of the material on this page are free to access. If we find a particular set of data that is not free we’ll place a $$$ at the end of it to signify it’s currently only available on a membership website.
Boone County Cemeteries
- Cemeteries in Boone County, Indiana
This list contains each cemetery found within Boone County Indiana and the libraries which have records of the actual cemetery transcriptions. Contained with each listing is the exact location of the cemetery in each township. At the end of the list are additional cemeteries whose records can be found within the libraries of Boone County.
Following Cemeteries are hosted at the Guinn Genealogical Center
- Beck Cemetery
- Brush Creek Cemetery
- Cason Cemetery
- Clouser Cemetery
- Colored Cemetery
- Cox Cemetery
- Curry Cemetery
- Dover Cemetery
- Gipson Cemetery
- Green Cemetery
- Loveless Cemetery
- Maple Lawn Cemetery
- Mechanicsburg Cemetery
- Sugar Plains Cemetery, Thorntown, Boone, Indiana
- Taylor Cemetery
- Walnut Grove Cemetery
- Boone County Cemeteries
This PDF file contains 13,400 + entries from cemetery reading, obituaries and funeral home books.
Following cemeteries are hosted at the Lebanon Public Library
- Beck Cemetery
- Beeler Cemetery
- Bethel Cemetery
- Cason Cemetery
- Dover Cemetery – Veterans
- Harmon Cemetery
- Moore Cemetery
- Jones-Parr Cemetery
- Oakhill Interment Records
Digital reproduction of the original records. - Old Eagle – Cox Cemetery
- Pitzer Cemetery
- Richardson Cemetery
Following Cemeteries (hosted at Boone County INGenWeb Project)
Following Cemeteries (transcribed by Jane A Heine)
Boone County Indiana Census Records
- 1830 Boone County Census, Page 200
- 1860 Boone County Mortality Schedule Index
- 1870 Boone County Mortality Schedule Index
- 1880 Boone County Mortality Schedule Index
Boone County Indiana Church Records
- Primitive Baptist Church Records for Boone County, Indiana
- Trinity Lutheran Church Bulletins, 1956-1965
Indexed by Judy Walburn, 2014
Boone County Indiana Court Records
The Boone County courthouse caught on fire in 1854 and many of the records up to that time were lost or damaged. See Burned Counties, by Michael John Neill, on tips to get around this issue.
- Appearance Docket of Guardianships 1862-1889
Indexes Appearance Docket of Guardianships & Estates, 1862-1884, and Appearance Docket of Guardianships, 1884-1889 - Applications for Resident Hunting and Fishing Licenses (1920-1930)
- Boone Cir. Court Insanity Records Index 1881-1963
- Docket of Letters of Guardianship 1847-1894
Indexes Docket of Letters of Guardianship, No. 1, 1847-1853, and Estate Docket/Guardianship Docket, 1866-1894 - Probate Order Book A 1830-1843
- Truant Officers Record of Students of Compulsory Age, Center Township
Boone County Wills and Probate Records
- Harry Bohannon – Legatees Named in Will
- Rebecca Brenton – Will – abstract
- Philander M. Curtis – Will
- Charles Davis – Will
- Harvey Gregg Hazelrigg – Will
- Rachel Howard – Will
- William Lawless – Will (1851)
- Johnny Marshall – Will – partial
- George Webster – Mention of request in will
Boone County Indiana Directories
- 1874 The people’s guide: a business, political and religious directory of Boone County, Indiana
Together with a collection of very important documents and statistics connected with our moral, political and scientific history: also, a historical sketch of Boone County, and a brief history of each township - 1878 Boone County, Indiana, Farm Directory
- 1920 Boone County, Indiana, Farm Directory
Boone County Indiana History
- History of Boone County, Indiana
With biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of old families. - A portrait and biographical record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Indiana
Containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens. - Early life and times in Boone County, Indiana
Giving an account of the early settlement of each locality, church histories, county and township officers from the first down to 1886… Biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and women. - Boone County Lodge: Roster of Sojourning Members 1917–1925
- Topography of Boone County Indiana
- An Address Containing the History of Boone County by Stephen Neal
Boone County Indiana Land Records
Boone County Indiana Maps and Atlases
- 1878 Combination Atlas Map of Boone County Indiana
Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys By Kingman Brothers
Boone County Indiana Military Records
Boone County Indiana Newspaper Records
Boone’s County Newspaper Clippings
Indexes to newspaper clippings from Lebanon Reporter & Indianapolis Star of birth, engagement, marriage, anniversary and death notices
- 1931-1934
- 1931-1944
- 1936-1944
- 1943-1952
- 1945-1950
- 1951-1958
- 1966-1996
- 1972-1979
- 1980-1989
- 1990-2003
- 1997-2000, 1922, 1973, 1990, 1993-4
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- 2005, January – August
- 2005, August – December
- 2006, January – June
- 2006, July – December
- 2007, January-May
- 2007, May – September
- 2007, September – December
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Lebanon Patriot & Weekly Patriot Indexes
- Online Index of Divorce Notices appearing in 1870
- Online Index of Marriage Notices from 1870–73
- Online Index of Marriage Notices from 1870–73
- Online Index of Obituaries and Death Notices from 1870–73
- Online Index of Personal and Real Estate Sale Notices from 1870–73
Lebanon Reporter Indexes
- Online Index of Vital Records (Including Obituaries) from 1940-1999
The index is divided up by the first letter of the bride’s or groom’s surname. Please click on the first letter of the last name to be taken to a PDF containing the listing of indexed notices. PDFs are search enabled for quick look-ups! - Online Index of Vital Records (Including Obituaries) from 2000-March 2015
This index is divided up by the first letter of the surname. Please click on the first letter of the last name to be taken to a PDF containing the listing of indexed obituaries. PDFs are search enabled for quick look-ups!. - Index to Obituaries in the Lebanon Reporer 1985-2005
This index was compiled by the staff and volunteers from the Heritage Room at Lebanon Public Library. Indexes were merged and converted to a pdf file by staff from the Guinn Room at the Thorntown Public Library.
Boone County Historical Photos
- Photos of Thorntown School Children from 1936
- Thorntown Buildings
Photographs compiled of different buildings and businesses from Thorntown. - Thorntown People
Photographs compiled of the people from Thorntown.
Boone County Vital Records
Boone County Indiana Birth Records
Boone County Indiana Death Records
Boone County Indiana Funeral Records
- Lebanon
- Thorntown
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #1 (1893-1909)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #2 (1902-1913)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #3 (1914-1918)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #4 (1918-1922)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #5 (1923-1926)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #6 (1927-1930)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #7 (1931-1935)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #8 (1936-1938)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #9((1938-1952)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #10 (1944-1952)
- LaFollette & Nay Funeral Home #11 (1952-1957)
- Russell & Hitch Funeral Home #1 (1938-1953)
- Russell & Hitch Funeral Home #2 (1954-1963)
- Russell & Hitch Funeral Home #3 (1963-1972)
- Russell & Hitch Funeral Home #4 (1972-1977)
- Russell & Hitch Funeral Home #5 (October 13, 1980-May 4, 1991)
- Russell & Hitch Funeral Home #6 (March 19, 1991-December 11,2003)
Boone County Indiana Divorce Records
- Divorces of Boone County, IN, 1830–1879
Abstracted from Civil Order and Judgement Docket books, 1830–1879. These books are available only at the Boone County Clerk’s office, Lebanon, IN.
Boone County Indiana Marriage Records
Boone County Indiana Yearbooks
Thorntown Exode Yearbooks 1913-1974
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Western Boone Jr.-Sr. High School Constellation Yearbooks 1975-2010
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