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Floyd County Facts

Floyd County was created on January 2, 1819 and was formed from Clark and Harrison Counties. The County was named foreither Col. John Floyd of Virginia or for either early settler Davis Floyd or early settler John Floyd.

The County Seat is New Albany. An act of the Legislature January 10, 1823, tried unsuccessfully to relocate the County Seat. See also County History for more historical details.

Counties adjacent to Floyd County are Clark County (northeast), Jefferson County, Kentucky (south), Harrison County (west), Washington County (northwest).

Floyd County is divided into 5 Civil Township as follows: Franklin, Georgetown, Greenville, Lafayette and New Albany. Cities, Towns and Communities include Duncan, Floyds Knobs, Galena, Georgetown, Greenville and New Albany.

 

There are free downloadable and printable forms to help with your research. These include U.S. Census Extraction Forms, U.K. Census Extraction Forms, Research Calendar, Ancestral Chart, Research Extract, Correspondence Record , Family Group Sheet , Source Summary Form.

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Records at the Floyd County Courthouse

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PLEASE READ!! Please call the clerk's department to confirm hours, mailing address, fees and other specifics before visiting or requesting information because of sometimes changing contact information.

NOTE: The date listed for each category of record is the earliest record known to exist in that county. It does not indicate that there are numerous records for that year and certainly does not indicate that all such events that year were actually registered. See also the Floyd County Courthouse History

   Floyd County Clerk has Marriage Records from 1819 , Probate Records from 1819 and Court Records from 1819 and is located at 311 West First Street, Room 235, New Albany, IN 47150
   The Clerk of the Circuit Court is a ministerial officer who is the custodian of the Clerk's record and seal, issues process, accepts filings of commencement of actions in litigation, enters judgments and orders of the court, receives money in his official capacity, makes certified copies of record, issues many miscellaneous licenses, and keeps a record of all wills and matters of trust in probate proceedings.

   Floyd County Recorder has Land Records from 1819 and is located at PO Box 878, New Albany, IN 47150; (812)948-5430.
   The county recorder's function is to maintain permanent public records involving a wide variety of instruments. These documents detail transactions involving real estate, mining, personal property, mortgages, liens, leases, subdivision plats, military discharges, personal bonds, etc. Generally, all of these instruments are recorded either for giving legal public notice of their existence or for safekeeping and future reference. The recorder maintains and preserves all legal documents affecting title to real property.

Search Online Click Here to Search Indiana Court, Land, Wills & Financial Records! - Researchers often overlook the importance of court records, probate records, and land records as a source of family history information.

   Floyd County Health Department has Birth / Death Records from 1882 and is located at 1917 Bono Road, New Albany, IN 47150; (812) 948-4726

Below is a list of online resources for Floyd County Court Records. Email us with websites containing Floyd County Court Records by clicking the link below:

  • Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
  • Indianapolis Newspaper Index, 1848-1991: Select articles from 1848-1888 Indianapolis daily newspapers; heavily focused on deaths and marriages. Select articles from 1898-1991 about people, places, events, and topics in Indianapolis and the state of Indiana. Extremely limited for deaths; no coverage of marriages.  Card file also available in the Microforms Area, second floor.
  • Reference & Government Services CD Collection: Database to allow searching of the hundreds of CDs from the federal government and other sources, part of the collections of the Reference & Government Services Division.
  • Floyd County, Indiana Court Books at Amazon.com
  • Indiana Immigration & Emigration Records - Immigration records help the family historian to understand the movements of their ancestry as they relocated to different parts of the world.

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Floyd County Vital Records

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Search Online Click Here to Search Indiana Birth, Marriage & Death Records! - Birth, marriage, and death records are connected with central life events. They are prime sources for genealogical information. Look also for baptism, christening, and burial records in this collection.

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  • Birth Certificates: The Division of Vital Records and Statistics maintains birth records that occur in Indiana since Oct 1907 to the present. Prior to October 1907, records of birth are filed only with the local health department in the county where the birth actually occurred.
    • Cost: Initial search and one certified copy or certification of the record or No Record Statement is $10.00 and $4.00 for each additional copy. Make your check or money order payable to "Indiana State Department of Health". Enclose a business-size self-addressed envelope. If no record is found or no copy is made, state law requires that we keep check amount for a searching fee. Please do not send cash in the mail.
    • In Person: The ISDH Vital Records office is located at 6 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204. The office is open for walk-in requests from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., E.S.T., Monday through Friday (excluding official State Holidays). The cost for the first certificate is $10.00 and $4.00 for each additional copy. Average wait time is less than an hour.
    • Processing Time: 5 weeks when ordered by MAIL or 2-5 Days when you order ELECTRONICALLY
  • Death Certificates: The Division of Vital Records and Statistics maintains death records that occur in Indiana since 1900 to the present. Prior to 1900, records of death are filed only with the local health department in the county where the death actually occurred. For deaths occurring from 1900 to 1917, the city and/or county of death is required in order to locate the record.
    • Cost: Initial search and one certified copy or certification of the record or No Record Statement is $8.00 and $4.00 for each additional copy. Make your check or money order payable to "Indiana State Department of Health". Enclose a business-size self-addressed envelope. If no record is found or no copy is made, state law requires that we keep check amount for a searching fee. Please do not send cash in the mail.
    • In Person: The ISDH Vital Records office is located at 6 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204. The office is open for walk-in requests from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., E.S.T., Monday through Friday (excluding official State Holidays). The cost for the first certificate is $8.00 and $4.00 for each additional copy. Average wait Time is less than an hour.
    • Processing Time: 5 weeks when ordered by MAIL or 2-5 Days when you order ELECTRONICALLY
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  • Marriage Certificates: Certified copies of marriage certificates are not available from the State Health Department. They are available from the Clerks of the Circuit Court in the county where the marriage was granted. Fees vary.
  • Divorce Certificates: Certified copies of divorce certificates are not available from the State Health Department. They are available from the County Clerk in the county where the divorce was granted. Fees vary.

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Floyd County Census Records

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Search Online Click Here to Search Indiana Voter Lists & Census Records! - Few, if any, records reveal as many details about individuals and families as do government census records. Substitute records can be used when the official census is unavailable.

  Countywide Records: Federal Population Schedules that exist for Floyd County, Indiana are 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. Other Federal Schedules to look at when researching your Family Tree in Floyd County, Indiana are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. There are free downloadable and printable Census forms to help with your research. These include U.S. Census Extraction Forms and U.K. Census Extraction Forms.

  See Also Statewide Records that exist for Indiana

Below is a list of online resources for Floyd County Census Records. Email us with websites containing Floyd County Census Records by clicking the link below:

  • Indiana Census, 1790-1890: This collection contains the following indexes: 1790 (Northwest Territory) Federal Census Index; 1807 State Census Index; 1810 Wayne County Census Index; 1812 Census Index; 1820 Federal Census Index; 1830 Federal Census Index; 1840 Federal Census Index; 1840 Pensioners List; 1850 Federal Census Index; 1860 Federal Census Index; 1870 Federal Census Index; 1890 Veterans Schedule.
  • Floyd County, Indiana Census Books at Amazon.com

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Floyd County Maps & Atlases

   Genealogy Atlas has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for Ohio and other states.

  You can view rotating animated maps for Indiana showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at Census Maps
   You can view rotating animated maps for Indiana showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at County Maps

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Floyd County Military Records

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Search Online Click Here to Search Indiana Military Records! - Military and civil service records provide unique facts and insights into the lives of men and women who have served their country at home and abroad.

   The uses and value of military records in genealogical research for ancestors who were veterans are obvious, but military records can also be important to re-searchers whose direct ancestors were not soldiers in any war. The fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and other close relatives of an ancestor may have served in a war, and their service or pension records could contain information that will assist in further identifying the family of primary interest. Due to the amount of genealogical information contained in some military pension files, they should never be overlooked during the research process. Those records not containing specific genealogical information are of historic value and should be included in any overall research design.

Below is a list of online resources for Floyd County Military Records. Email us with websites containing Floyd County Military Records by clicking the link below:

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Floyd County Tax Records

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   Records of county taxes were kept as early at 1842, although most were discarded. Remaining ones would be at the county courthouse. National Archives-Great Lakes Region has records of the Internal Revenue Service for Indiana for 1867 to 1873. These are tax assessment records, arranged by district and then chronologically.

Below is a list of online resources for Floyd County Tax Records. Email us with websites containing Floyd County Tax Records by clicking the link below:

  • Floyd County, Indiana Tax Books at Amazon.com

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Floyd County Genealogical Addresses

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   The Repositories in this section are Archives, Libraries, Museums, Genealogical and Historical Societies. Many County Historical and Genealogical Societies publish magazines and/or news letters on a monthly, quarterly, bi-annual or annual basis. Contacting the local societies should not be over looked. State Archives and Societies are usually much larger and better organized with much larger archived materials than their smaller county cousins but they can be more generalized and over look the smaller details that local societies tend to have. Libraries can also be a good place to look for local information. Some libraries have a genealogy section and may have some resources that are not located at archives or societies. Also, take a special look at any museums in the area. They sometimes have photos and items from years gone by as well as information of a genealogical interest. All these places are vitally important to the family genealogist and must not be passed over.

Below is a list of online resources for Floyd County Genealogical Addresses. Email us with websites containing Floyd County Genealogical Addresses by clicking the link below:

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Floyd County Church & Cemeteries

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Search Online Click Here to Search Indiana Obituary Records! - This database is a compilation of obituaries published in U.S. newspapers, collected from various online sources. Obituaries can vary in the amount of information they contain, but many of them are genealogical goldmines, including information such as names, dates, places of birth and death, marriage information, and family relationships.

   There are many churches and cemeteries in Floyd County. Some transcriptions are online. A great site is the Floyd County Tombstone Transcription Project.

Baptist records are found at Franklin College (in Franklin); Methodist at DePauw University (in Greencastle); Mennonite at Goshen College (in Goshen); Presbyterian at Hanover College (in Hanover); Disciples of Christ at their historical society in Nashville, Tennessee; and French Catholic at Vincennes University in the Byron R. Lewis Collection. There are also Catholic church histories and records at the Catholic Archives, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Quaker records are at Earlham College (at Richmond).

   The commissioner's office of each Indiana county may have burial records for soldiers, sailors, and marines. If available, the records should include name, age, date of enlistment, discharge date, and death date. Records begin about 1862.

The Indiana State Library holds records of inscriptions from some Indiana cemeteries. The "Indiana Cemetery Locator File," compiled by the Genealogy Division, is an alphabetical listing of cemeteries, indicating the location in the state and the designation in the Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library where inscriptions may be found.

Below is a list of online resources for Floyd County Cemetery & Church Records. Email us with websites containing Floyd County Cemetery & Church Records by clicking the link below:

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Family Trees & Genealogy Tidbits

Search Online Click Here to Search Indiana Family Tree Records! - The use of published genealogies, electronic files containing genealogical lineage, and other compiled sources can be of tremendous value to a researcher.

   When view family trees online or not, be sure to only take the info at face value and always follow up with your own sources or verify the ones they provide. Below is a list of online resources for Floyd County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information. Email us with websites containing Floyd County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information by clicking the link below:

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County History

1849 Adams County Retrospect - Based on "Indiana Gazetteer," published by E. Chamberlain

Floyd County was organized in 1819, and was named after Colonel John Floyd, of the distinguished Virginia family of that name, who had been killed by the Indians on the opposite side of the river.

It is bounded on the south by the Ohio River, on the west by Harrison, on the north by Washington and on the east by Clark counties, and contains about 150 square miles. It is divided into five civil townships, viz: New Albany, Lafayette, Greenville, Georgetown and Franklin. The population in 1830 was 6,363, in 1840, 9,454, and at this time [1849] about 13,500. A range of hills called "the knobs," from one to three miles in width, run through the county from north to south, coming to the Ohio River a short distance below New Albany. They present a very uneven surface, and are composed of slate, clay, soft sandstone and iron ore. Above the clay and ore is a stratum of freestone, valuable for the purposes of building, and on the pinnacles a stratum of limestone of building, and on the pinnacles a stratum of limestone, which becomes very thick as the country on the west falls of nearly level. East of the "knobs," and in part of the country west, the land is either level or gently undulating, but the general character of the county is hilly and the soil poor, with the exception of some tracts of very good land. The timber varies according to the varieties of soil and surface. Much of it has first-rate timber, peculiarly excellent for the construction of Steamboats. On the knobs, the white, black and chestnut oaks are abundant, and in some places pine. In the west part of the county are poplar, chestnut, beech and sugar tree, and in the bottoms of the Ohio and Silver Creek, the timber common in similar situations. Much of the county is well adapted to the cultivation of corn and grass, and to raising hogs, horses, cattle and sheep. The principal manufactories are a bagging manufactory, which cost originally about $50,000, three foundries and steam engine manufactories, on a large scale, one brass foundry, and usually from five to ten steamboats are built, and twice that number repaired, annually. There are in the county eleven grist and nine sawmills, mostly propelled by steam, about 130 stores and groceries, fourteen lawyers, eighteen physicians, fifteen ministers, two printing offices, and at least 500 mechanics and artisans. As New Albany, the County Seat, contains more than half the population of the county, the reader will turn to that for further information.

The taxable land is 85,691 acres.

New Albany, either the first or second town [in 1849], as to population, in the State, and the County Seat of Floyd County, is beautifully situated on the Ohio River, two miles below the Falls, in lat. 38 deg. 18 min. north, and longitude 8 deg. 49 min. west. It was laid out in the summer of 1813, by Joel, Nathaniel and Abner Scribner, with wide streets, running nearly east and west, parallel with the river, and others crossing them at right angles, the most of which have been well McAdamized, and the sidewalks paved. In 1834, the population of New Albany was estimated at 2,500, in 1840, it was 4,226, and at this time it is over 7000. The number of houses is about 1,200, of which one-fourth are brick. Steamboat building and repairing is carried on to a large extent there, and in the different kinds of mechanical business connected with it, about 500 hands are constantly employed. There are in the city three iron foundries and machine shops, on a large scale, for the manufacture of steam engines and other machinery, one brass foundry, one patent bagging factory for the manufacture of hempen clothes, which cost $50,000, a marine railway, which cost $40,000. There are also in New Albany two printing offices, a branch of the State Bank, about 120 stores and groceries, two Methodist, two Presbyterian, one Catholic, one Christian, one Episcopalian, one Lutheran and three Baptist Churches, and the means to facilitate the instruction of the young and the communication of knowledge, are highly creditable to the public spirit and liberality of the citizens. Anderson's Collegiate Institute, chartered by the Legislature, the Old School Presbyterian Theological Seminary, two large District schools, built at the public expense, at a cost of $12,000, a city school, endowed by the original proprietors, and a large number of private schools are in operation, and all generally well conducted. The Railroad to Salem, and intended to be carried still further, will soon add largely to the business and prosperity of New Albany. The enterprise, industry, morality and public spirit, which have heretofore contributed so much to its growth, will not fail to carry it onward hereafter.

1938 Adams County Retrospect - Based on "Indiana Review," published by the State Legislature

Runing through Floyd County are Indiana's famous "Knobs." These knobs are a range of hills from one to three miles in width and are one of the state's outstanding natural features. The county has the broken surface typical of the region, though north of the hills is level ground suitable for agriculture. On the slopes of the hills are large fruit orchards and the southern part is the most fertile region in the county. Limestone of finest quality is found in the Silver Hills, and quarrying has been done extensively for a number of years.

Floyd County is next to the smallest in the state area in area, covering but 148 square miles in the five townships. The incorporated city is New Albany, 25,819; towns: Georgetown, 374, and Greenville, 257. The county population for 1890 was 29,458; 1900, 30,118; 1910, 30,293; 1920, 30,661; 1930, 34,655.

New Albany is directly opposite Louisville, Kentucky, and connected with it by a bridge. Five main railroads and numerous riverboats serve this thriving industrial city. New Albany had forty-six manufacturing establishments, according to 1935 federal census figures, and employed 2,386 wage earners. These employees were paid $1,925,195. The value of the products was $7,423,164. Among the city's industries are rolling mills; furniture and edge tool factories; tanneries; flour, woolen, cotton, and planing mills; engine, stove, stave, and boiler works; machine shops; fertilizer plants; and a hardwood lumber mill. New Albany is the plywood center of the world. Formerly the city built many steamboats, outstanding among these, the "Robert E. Lee." The fact that it was a shipbuilding town is reflected in the architectural style of the old residences, many of which were owned by operators and employees of the shipyards. Many of the homes are still in use.

New Albany is replete with points of artistic interest. The Courthouse, of Greek classic style, was built in 1865. The building is in the public square now known as Scribner House, home of Joel Scribner, the city's founder, was built in 1814, and still stands today. This home is now owned by a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A memorial to the men of Floyd County who died in the World War is found in the form of a bronze tablet in the Carnegie Library.

At least seven of the city's fine churches were built before 1860 and are used by congregations today. The dozens of fine residences give the city a distinctive beauty. As is the case in most places flavored with the mellowness of the remains of bygone days, many of these homes contain antiques and coverlets of artistic note, as well as some valuable collections of books. New Albany has three art schools, and an art colony has been established. In Fairview Cemetery is a monument to the Floyd County men who fought in the Mexican War. Two other monuments in the cemetery are highlights upon the important personages in the county's history. One of these is to Ashbel P. Willard, one of Indiana's early governors.

Funds for the erection of a monument to Michael C. Kerr were provided by the General Assembly of 1927. Kerr at one time was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

New Albany is so located that it serves as one of the principle gateways between North and South, and the bridge connecting it with Louisville is one of the largest river bridges in the United Sates.

At Georgetown is the largest railway tunnel in the state.

Floyd County had fifty-one manufacturing establishments according to the report of 1935. A total of $1,994,421 was paid to the 2,447 wage earners. The value of the industrial output was $8,012,596.

The county had 1,266 farms averaging 59.7 acres each. These were valued at $4,481,820. A total of 12,039 head of livestock was reported.

Total county tax valuation for 1936 was $21,157,710.

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