Resources at JCPL
County Histories | Family Histories | Directories | Microfilm | Research & Other Guides
Maps | Census Schedules & Indexes for Indiana, 1807-1930 | Passenger & Immigration Lists
Some resources and indexes for surrounding counties, Indiana and other states and colonial records
County Histories
1886: History of Jackson County, Indiana ... (Brant and Fuller)
This history of Jackson County, its townships and its communities into the mid-1880s also includes biographical sketches of some families. Searchable archive is online by clicking on Brant & Fuller.
A 1905 history of Bartholomew and Jackson counties, Boley's 1976 history and two histories published in the late 1980s also are available along with various township tidbits and municipal histories.
The library also has histories and other resources for surrounding and feeder counties.
For a look at local history materials available on microfilm, click here.
Most of the family histories are listed in the library catalog. In the Local History area they are located at the west end of the books on the north wall.
The library has most of the city directories back to 1899. In the early years the directories were published several years apart so that 1899 is followed by 1912 and 1915. Both the 1899 and the 1915 directories may be accessed in digital format on the Jackson County Digital Archive site under "books." Some older phone directories also are available.
A number of research guides in the library may be borrowed for closer reading. Some also are available for in-library use. General guide are supplemented by specialty guides such as pursuing local or family history interests, house and building histories, military history, country and ethnic history, and so on.
Microfilm at the Seymour Library
Burial records of Riverview Cemetery, Seymour, from 1882 through 2003
Census Schedules, Federal :
General Population, Jackson County & a few other locations
Agriculture Census 1850-1880 Jackson & some other counties
Defective, Dependent, Delinquent Census 1880
Manufactures Census 1850-1880 Jackson & some other counties
Mortality Schedules 1870-1880 Jackson & some other counties
Civil War: 50th Indiana Volunteer Infantry correspondence
County government records: Deeds & deed indexes, delayed birth certificates, marriage records, Miscellaneous Records A&B, naturalizations, negro register, partitions, probate, wills
Directories: local city/county and telephone
Local History Collections, 2 volumes: early histories of the area; Freeman Field Collection; John Cougar Mellencamp Collection; Reno Collection; John M Lewis' Look Back & Pictorial Look Back for Seymour; township histories.
Local & Indiana Folklore from Indiana Federal Writers' Project papers at Indiana State University; Reel 10 has Jackson County material; county index
Newspapers for Brownstown, Seymour & a few other locations with scattered issues from 1849; Twingine Times Freeman Field newspaper 1943-1945.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Brownstown, Crothersville, Medora & Seymour (& other cities & towns alphabetically adjacent)
World War I Draft Registration Cards for Jackson County
Vital Records WPA Indexes, Indiana
Yearbooks for several current & former schools