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Some resources and indexes for surrounding counties, Indiana, other states, and colonial records
histories: county, township, schools, family, church
atlases, maps, plat books
newspapers
directories, yearbooks
local history files
microfilmed material including some county records
databases, indexes, and more
Be sure to ask what we may have to help with your research.
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 by the Jackson County Historical Society also are available along with various township tidbits and municipal histories.
The library also has histories and other resources for surrounding and feeder counties.
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 guides 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
Archaeological Report & Maps of Jackson County 1874 by E.T. Cox, state archaeologist
Census Schedules, Federal:
Population, Jackson County & a few other locations
Agriculture Census 1850-1880 Jackson & some other Indiana counties
3-D (Defective, Dependent, Delinquent) Census 1880
Manufactures Census 1850-1880 Jackson & some other Indiana counties
Mortality Schedules 1870-1880 Jackson & some other Indiana 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, order books, partitions, probate, wills
Directories: local city/county and telephone
Folklore of the Local Area & elsewhere in Indiana from Indiana Federal Writers' Project papers at Indiana State University; Reel 10 has Jackson County material; county index available at Information Services Desk
Freeman Field official USAAF station history plus a collection of Freeman Field history by various authors
Geology of Jackson County in 1874 by E.T. Cox
Local History Collections, 2 volumes: early histories of the area; Freeman Field Collection; John Cougar Mellencamp Collection; Reno Collection; John M Lewis' A Look Back Into Seymour's History & A Pictorial Look Back for Seymour; Star-Spangled Days township histories.
Newspapers for Brownstown, Seymour & a few other locations with scattered issues from 1849; Twingine Times Freeman Field newspaper 1943-1945
Riverview Cemetery, Seymour, burial records from 1882 through 2003
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Brownstown, Crothersville, Medora & Seymour (& other cities & towns alphabetically adjacent) from the late 1800s to mid-1900s
Vital Records WPA indexes for births, marriages, and deaths in about 66 of 92 Indiana counties from the beginning of records being kept until about 1920
World War I Draft Registration Cards for Jackson County
Yearbooks for several current & former schools in Jackson County
June 2009