Howard County, Indiana:
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Projects

• Department of Genealogy and Local History Services  Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
• Howard County INGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Howard County Memory Project 
• Howard County, Indiana      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Carroll County, IN  to the west
• Cass County, IN  to the north
• Clinton County, IN  to the southwest
• Grant County, IN  to the east
• Miami County, IN  to the north
• Tipton County, IN  to the south

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Biographical and genealogical history of Cass, Miami, Howard and Tipton counties, Indiana  Volume 1     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Biographies of Howard County, Indiana      (Source: Online Biographies)
• History of Howard County, Indiana, 1909  Volume 2     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Howard Co, Indiana, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Howard County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Howard County GEDCOM Index 
• Long-term Lovers of Howard County  Married for decades!     (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Surnames in the Vertical Files  (so material is physically at the library, not on the Internet)     (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)

Cemeteries (14)

Census Records and Indexes (24)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Howard County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Directories

• Kokomo City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Roster of Octagenarian Club  1925     (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)

Ethnic

• A Window on the Past  African-American life in Howard County from the Civil War to 1890     (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)

History (33)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Naturalization Records prior to 1907      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)

Introduction and Guides (15)

Land Records

• Combined Database of Canal Land Entries      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Family Maps of Howard County, IN      (Source: Arphax Publishing Co.)     ($)
• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• Laporte-Winamac Land Office Entries, 1833-1855  Indiana State Archives
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Howard County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Clinton, Howard Counties     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (11)

Lookups

• Howard County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Howard County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Howard County, IN Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• IN-WEST-CENTRAL-L West Central Indiana genealogy

  • IN-WEST-CENTRAL-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • IN-WEST-CENTRAL-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • IN-WEST-CENTRAL-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• INHOWARD-L Howard County genealogy

  • INHOWARD-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • INHOWARD-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • INHOWARD-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (34)

Military Records and Histories

• 1883 Pensioners      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Civil War/WWI Military Discharge Index      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Howard County, Indiana     (Source: Internet Archive)

• World War I

  • Gold Star Honor Roll      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
  • History of Howard county in the World War  1920     (Source: Internet Archive)
  • History of Howard County in the world war      (Source: Internet Archive)
  • Honorable Discharges Registered at the Courthouse  Mainly World War I, but a few from other wars     (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Howard County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Howard County, Indiana  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Howard County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Howard County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records (10)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• The Kokomo Perspective 
• Kokomo Tribune 
• Kokomo Tribune      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kokomo Tribune Obituary Index  October 8, 1998 - December 31, 2002     (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Kokomo, Indiana Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Rich Funeral Home  History and Records     (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Saber Management  Kokomo, Indiana
• Williams & Bluitt Funeral Home  Kokomo and Indianapolis, Indiana

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• 1908 Images of Kokomo      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Historical Postcards of Howard County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Howard County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Howard County Atlas 1877      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Images from Howard County  Images of Indiana, Indiana State Library
• Indiana Historical Images  Howard County
• Penny Postcards from Indiana      (Source: USGenWeb Indiana Archives)
• Russiaville & Honey Creek Township      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)

School Records and Histories

• Children from Howard County at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Eastern High School - Aurora Yearbook (Greentown, IN)  Class of 1956     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Greentown School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Greentown School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Indiana Business College      (Source: Internet Archive)
• Kokomo High School Class of 1908      (Source: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library)
• Kokomo School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Russiaville School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Search Engines and Searchable Databases

• Laporte-Winamac Land Office Entries, 1833-1855  Indiana State Archives

Societies

• Greentown Historical Society 
• Howard County Historical Society 
• Howard County Indiana Genealogical Society 
• Russiaville Historical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (533)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

• Armstrong Pickett & Co. - mercantile house - Kokomo      (Source: Online Biographies)
• Building histories of Howard County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Howard County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Howard County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Patents  Howard County, Indiana     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records (15)

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