In recent blogs I have review the Indians Source Book, covering four volumes and an independent index to the first three volumes. These four volumes represent the work of Willard Heiss. He took upon himself the task of copying and printing into a single series of books all the abstracts of vital and genealogically important records which had previously been published in The Hoosier Genealogist, a quarterly of the Indiana Historical Society. He described the contents in the first volume as thus:
“The Hoosier Genealogist first appeared in 1962. Its editorial policy was an still is ‘to publish transcripts of original county records (such as marriage, land, will, and probate records), also church, Bible, and cemetery records.”
The abstracts come from many different sources, predominately covering the records from the 1800s. Heiss completed four volumes of work, covering nearly 20 years of the Hoosier Genealogists. Fortunately, especially for those with an historical or genealogical interest in Indiana, Rebah M. Fraustein took up where Heiss left off, and has given us Indiana Source Book: Genealogical Material From “the Hoosier Genealogist” 1982-1984, Volume 5 with Index. Fraustein had this to say about the book [taken from the Introduction]:
“Innovations appear, such as ship passenger lists of persons who indicated their destinations as Indiana, naturalization records, graphics, such as ship lanes from Ireland and England, and brands for cattle…Extracts from early local newspapers are continued, giving one an historical perspective of the times and the mode of life. Many articles were too long to [be] published in one issue; they were continued in later issues.
THG editorial policy has always been to print as much material as possible. Of the ninety two Indiana counties, some sort of material concerning over one third of them appeared in these twelve issues.”
Copies of Indiana Source Book Vol. 4; Genealogical Material From “the Hoosier Genealogist” 1973-1979 and other volumes in this set are available at Family Roots Publishing; Price: $15.00
Table of Contents
Cambridge City Presbyterian Church
Extra ts from Indiana Gazette
Facts from 1826 Indiana Gazette
Dearborn County Voters 1805
Jeremiah Farmar (Farmer) Bible
Early School Records, Fall Creek Township, Maison County
Crawford county Naturalizations
La Grange County Nationalizations, 1825-1829
David Martin Bruce Bible
Duplicate Tax List, Wabash County, 1835
Branum-Ball Bible Reocrds
Vincennes Celebrates Founding 250 Years Ago
Extracts from 1826 Indiana Gazetteer
John W. Bone Family bible records
Linus Eberhard (Eberhart0Bible Reocrds
Marshall County Tax Duplicates, 1843
Earliest Ripley County Nationalizations, 1818-1843
An “Orphan Train” Stops at Danville
Christian Mylin Family bible
Baptist Cemetery, Wills Township, Laporte County
Roberts Family bible
The Western Ranger, Porter Co., 1847-1849
Extracts from 1826 Indiana Gazetteer
Lasselle Papers Post Vincennes, 1788
Extracts from Fayette Observer, 1826
Orange County Nationalizations, 1840-1905
Marchall Co. Tax Duplicates
Shaw Family Bible Reocrd
Yoder Family bible
Aliases in Marion county Will Index
Harvey & Phebus Cemetery
Indiana Records Fond in “Loose Papers: Franklin County, Tnnessee
Born in Indiana, Died in Illinois
Marriages, Waldron Circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church, Southeast Indiana Conference, 1864-1900
Shenandoah Co. Virginia to Indiana
Summerfield Vawter Cemetery, Center Township, Jennings County
Andrew Boorkover Family Bible Records
White County Original Will and Estate Papers
Valentine Morgan Bible
Census of Head of Families Resident Population and Legal Voters Plainfield, Guilford Township, Hendricks County, Indiana
Warren County Stock Marks, 1827-1831
Extracts from The Philanthropist, 1838
Extracts from the 1833 Indiana Gazetteer
Darius Pattterson bible
Mordecai Davis bible
Family Record of Issac and Sarah R. Fowler from the Account Book of Isaac Fowler
Cass County Naturalization Applications???
Immigrants to Indiana from Ship Passenger Lists at New York
Extract from Evansville Gazette, 1821
Vanderburgh Co. in 1826, 1833 & 1850 Gazetteers
McBride Bible Records
Bowman Family bible
Account Book of Dr. Solomon W, Biddiger of Decatur and Bartholomew counties
The Updike Family bible and Barkley Family Reocrds
Heffley Family Records
Wabash & Erie Canal
“Stray” Hosiers who died or married in Vancouver, British Columbia
James Hammond Bible
The Wm. P. Bryan & Henry Clauson Bibles
Konsanke Funeral Home Records, Kouts, Porter Co., Indiana
Wells County Naturalization Final Otaths
Lee (Methodist_ Cemetery, Cotton township, Switzerland County, Indiana
Fort Wayne in the 1833 Gazetteer
Born in Indiana, Died in Illinois
Abstracts of Notices of Death from the “Morgan County Gazette”, 1853-1854
Pupils of Snow Hill School, 1867-68 and 1870-71, Whitewater Township, Franklin County, Indiana
Some Vincennes Residents in 1805, form the Lasselle Mss. Collection
Family Traditions vs Facts
Immigrants to Indiana from Customs Ship Passenger Lists to New Orleans and New York
William McManaman Account Book
No W.P.A. Indexes
Wayne County, In. Nationalizations book #2, 1853-54
Account book of Stewart William Kellems, m.D., Dubois County
Seventh Federal Census of Prisoners in Indiana State Penitentiary
Bibles of Isaac Wason Blake and Charles Abel Blake, Parke County
Warren county Bounty for Wolf Scalps
Kellems Family Rocrds
Biographical Sketches of Indiana Civil War veterans
Bible records Gilbert Hayes Family, 1790-1906
Decatur County 1896 School Enumeration
Hamilton County & Noblesville in the 1826, 1833 & 1850 Gazetteers
Land Purchased in Marion County 1821-1824
More Immigrants to Indiana from Customs Ship Passenger Lists to New Orleans
Immigrants to Indiana 1853-1855 from Customs Ship Passenger Lists to New York
The Daniel Family Bible & Records
Hamilton County Marriages, 1837-1843
Graves Cemetery, Van Buren, Twp. Clay County
Blake Bibles
Shipping Lanes & Port Maps, England & Ireland
Immigrants to Indiiana
Land Purchased in Marion County
Biggers to Minnesota
Obits of Former Hoosiers who did in Illinois
Marvin Bible
Cox Family of Parke County Indiana Bible Records
Smiths in Nettle Creek Cemetery, Wayne County
Henry & Mary Barkman Family Bible
Index