GREENE COUNTY LOCAL HISTORY & GENEALOGY

lOCAL HISTORY Materials available at our library

​Birth Records
Index to Greene County Birth Records, 1885-1997 (5 books)
Cemetery/Death Records
Index to Greene County Death Records 1895-1996 (WPA)
Greene County Obituary Project 1800s – Present (coverage varies)
Grandview (Bloomfield) (Index in back, light blue paper, map of cemetery in front of book)
Cemeteries of Eastern Greene County (2 vol., 2nd vol. is index; light blue paper, arranged by location in cemetery – can use to find marker)
Cemeteries of Eastern Greene County Revised Edition (1994) (in alphabetical order within townships; must check each individual township for index – deep green spiral binding)
Western Greene County Cemeteries I & II (orange paperback)
Fairview (Linton) (beige paperback; index at back, cemetery diagram in front)
Crane Cemeteries
Gone But Not Forgotten (Cemeteries & Narratives), Millie Uland, Author, 1986 (Covers Eastern Greene County information about old communities, schools, cemeteries and family history, comments & pictures. Be sure to refer to it if person was from Eastern part of county.)
Owensburg Cemetery, Sept. 1995 (Alphabetical listing)
Pleasant (Kentucky) Ridge Cemetery
Various church graveyard lists
​Census Information
The Indiana Enumeration of Males, 1820 – (book – alphabetical by county. Look in Knox County [Widener, Washington]. Some Eastern area was in Orange County at this time)
1820 Census of Surrounding Counties (microfilm – Greene County did not exist – look in Knox County for Western part of county. Look in Orange County for Eastern part.)
1830-1920 Greene County
1840 Paper Index (Microfilm)
Church Records/Histories
Hicks Church History
Tulip Church of God Cemetery & Plot Information
First United Methodist Church
Cross Roads United Methodist Church
Simpson Chapel Methodist Church
Hebron Regular Baptist Church
Furnace Christian Church
Richvalley Church
Family Histories
Forms for Genealogy Information
Charge: 10 cents per sheet
Family Group Sheets – several varieties
Pedigree Sheet – several varieties
Research Logs
Vital Information Request Forms
International Vital Records
General Records
Bloomfield High School Yearbooks (set not complete)
Eastern High School Yearbooks (set not complete)
Directory of Public Records for Surrounding Counties
​Greene County Histories
Greene/Sullivan County History 1888- (history by townships and topics as well as biographical sections)
Uncle Jack Baber’s Early Greene Co. History 1875 (If found in black notebook index, refer to index in current volume for correct page)
Greene County Memoirs 1908 (3 vol., photocopied with green cover, spiral binding)
Greene County History 1989- (Indexed in back, family members submitted this information)
Early Greene County Settlers from Southern States, Franklin photocopies in blue notebook with Chartreuse labeling)
Pictorial History of Greene Co., IN 1993
Guides/Source Books/Other States
Ancestry Red Book (map of state with counties and county seats, p. 184; address, date formed, parent county; birth, marriage, death, land, probate court date, p. 171)
Antique Handy Book (Indiana – p. 44)
Colonists in Pennsylvania
Family History for Fun & Profit
Finding Your Roots
Genealogy Online
Hoosier Ancestors
International Vital Record Handbook
Know Your Ancestors
Our French Canadian Ancestors
Pennsylvania Colonial Record
Searching for Your Ancestors
​Magazines
Traces (1993- )
Hoosier Genealogist (1988 – 1996)
Daughters of the American Revolution (1952-1996)
Indiana Magazine of History (1967 – 1998)
Genealogical Helper (1959 – )
​Marriage Records
Micro-Fiche of Marriage Records Index 1821-1970 (Must get actual copies at courthouse)
Paper Index of Early Marriages 1822-1845
Paper Index of Early Marriages Oct. 1910 – June 1912
Some Virginia Marriages (Vol. 1, 1700-1799, paper; Vol. II, 1800 – 1825, paper; both have indexes)
Owen County Marriages
Lawrence County Marriages (Book A & B, Index – pink cover)
​Naturalization Records
Original Naturalization Applications in Greene County, IN (index in back)
Newspapers on Microfilm
Bloomfield News, 1888 – Current
Evening World, September 1974 – April, 2001
​Other Indiana County Histories
Monroe, Brown & Morgan Co. History
Knox Daviess County History
Boone County History
Owen Co. Historical Society Bulletin
Springville, Indiana: Village in Spring Creek
Thirty Three Years in the History of Lawrence County, Indiana (1958)
​War Records
Greene/Sullivan History 1888
Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of American Revolution Buried in Indiana (Vol. 1, 1938 – county listing in front, alphabetical name information following; Vol. II, 1966 – alphabetical name, no county lists, includes index to Vol. I in back; Vol. III, 1980 – additional individuals p. 55, additional info on people in vol. I & II, p. 81 has French patriots)
Service Records World Wars I & II Eastern Greene County (pictures included, arranged alphabetically)
Pension Lists of American Revolution 1792-1795 (with other Revolutionary War Pension Records)
The Pension List of 1820 (Indexed in back)
Civil War Letters of Col. Elijah H. C. Cavins, 14th Indiana Regiment
Civil War Letters of Aden C. Cavins (E. 59th Indiana Volunteers & 97th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers)

Greene County genealogy project

About the project

​The Greene County History CD Project was begun in 1997 as a cooperative effort between the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library and the Worthington-Jefferson Township Public Library. It was financed by a $40,000 Library Services Technology Grant awarded by the Indiana State Library. COMARCO did the original conversion of the print material to digital form.We wish to thank the Greene County Health Department who made the Birth and Death record indexes available to us. They are current to the year 1994. The Project included many other Greene County history and local family genealogy items. They are available on CD at the local libraries. In the future we hope to make more of this information available on-line. Also available at the Bloomfield library are microfilm copies of the Bloomfield newspapers from 1888-1998. At the Worthington library one can view the Worthington newspaper from 1855-current.

The files are in a PDF format, you will need to have a viewer installed to be able to read the files.
We recommend using the latest version Adobe Acrobat Reader. These PDF files have been created to be searchable and require up-to-date software. If you have problems opening them, please try updating your software.

The documents listed within this web site indicate which book and page number the records are listed in.
If you wish to get a copy of the appropriate certificate you must contact the Greene County Health Department.
These large PDF files might take awhile to load on your computer due to their size:  
​Birth Records (PDF) 
​Death Records (PDF)
​Marriage Records (PDF) 
1830 Federal Population Census for Indiana (PDF) 
Greene County, Indiana Will Records 1825-1904 (Books 1-5) (PDF)
Biographical Memoirs of Greene County Volume 1 (PDF)
​Biographical Memoirs of Greene County Volume 2 (PDF)  
​Biographical Memoirs of Greene County Volume 3 (PDF) 
Cemeteries of Eastern Greene County (PDF) 
Cemeteries of Western Greene County Volume 1 (PDF)
Cemeteries of Western Greene County Volume 2 (PDF)
​Cemeteries of Western Greene County Volume 3 (PDF) 
​Morris Chapel Cemetery (PDF) 
Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana Volume 1 (PDF)
​Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana Volume 2 (PDF)
​Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana Volume 3 (PDF)