Resources
Our Research Library is a caretaker of county public records. This includes a large collection of family, school and church records, estate and guardianship records, township records, county plats and military books.
Our Resources Include:
- Cemetery Indices
- Census Records
- Church Records
- Civil Court Files
- Divorce Files
- Estate Records
- Extensive Card Catalogs
- Family Genealogies
- Funeral Home Records
- Guardianship Records
- Microfilm Collections
- Marriage Records
- Military Records
- Newspapers
- Plat Books
- School Histories
- Surname Files
- Wills
- Yearbooks
Other Holdings
- Asylum Registers
- Boy Scout Records
- City Directories
- County & Town Histories
- County Home Documents
- Death Indices
- GAR Records
- Insanity Request Records
- Coroner Request Records
- Jail Registers
- Local Club Records
- Maps
- Root & Branches Quarterlies
- Voter Records
Indices
We have indexed many of our holdings, including our estate files, and they are available for searching on our website and onsite at our library.
ingenweb.org/inmarshall/
Vertical Files
Vertical Files include topics of local historical interest, such as business & industry; churches; townships; town histories; school histories; organizations & clubs; and local architecture.
Photo Collection
Photo archives contain more than 25,000 items indexed by name and topic. Copies can be made for personal use. The entire collection has been digitized.
Cemetery Brochures
Printed cemetery brochures detail the cemeteries of Marshall County, give a brief history of each and locate them on an area map, making them easy to find by car.
Microfilm Collections
- Newspapers for Plymouth, Bourbon, Bremen, Culver and Argos
- Sanborn Fire Maps, 1886 – 1924
- Wills, 1836 – 1899
- Marriage ApplicationsĀ
- Marshall County Federal Census Records through 1940
- Abstract Records
- Land Record Indices
- Original Survey Notes
- Naturalization Applications
- Church Records
- Guardianship Records
- WPA Records