Genealogy Resources
- HeritageQuest Online – Resource for census data, family records, and local histories.
- Ancestry Library Edition – Available for use in the Library on the ER terminals.
- Local newspapers available on microfilm from 1833 to present. There is usually a three to four month delay on their arrival, but these dates are available electronically. Please note that newspapers frequently changed names, printing schedules, and opened and closed during the 1800s.
- 2006 – present Lafayette Journal and Courier Article Database
- Headline History of Tippecanoe County (1824 – 1999) by Robert C. Kriebel
REF IND 977.295 K92 1998.
- 1882 – 1941 Index to Birth Records for Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
GENEALOGY 929.3772 S632B - 1902 – 1952 Lafayette Journal and Courier Index to Births, Deaths, and Marriages
GENEALOGY 929.3 J86R - 1995 – 1999 (see bottom of page)
- ??? – 1825 Indiana marriages, early to 1825 : a research tool
GENEALOGY 929.3772 I39D - 1850 – 1941 Index to Marriage Records for Tippecanoe County, IN
GENEALOGY 929.3772 S632M - 1902 – 1952 Lafayette Journal and Courier Index to Births, Deaths, and Marriages
GENEALOGY 929.3 J86R - Indiana Marriage Database: Through 1850
Indiana Marriage Database: 1993 – 2004
(Indiana State Library)
- 1995 – 1999 (see bottom of page)
- 1882 – 1920 Index to Death Records for Tippecanoe County
GENEALOGY 929.3772 S632D - 1902 – 1952 Lafayette Journal and Courier Index to Births, Deaths, and Marriages
GENEALOGY 929.3 J86R - 1950 – 1969 (Missing 1954-1957), 1991 – 2002 Obituary Index from the Lafayette Journal and Courier
GENEALOGY 929.3772 O12 - 1995 – 1999 (see bottom of page)
- Tippecanoe County Genealogical Society’s Tippecanoe County Indiana Death Notices and Obituaries 1850-1869
- Barcus, Conarroe (Conroe), Concord, Coby & Stingley, Farmers Institute, Fink, Hickory Grove, Kenny, O’Neall, Pinhook, Greenbush (1848 – 1860), Sickler, Spencer, Spring Grove, West Point, Wildcat, Jackson Township index, Union Township index, Wayne Township index, Wea Township index.
- Indiana Census on microfilm
1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, (no 1890), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 - Soundex to Indiana census
1880, 1900, 1920 - Indexes to census (book form)
Indiana: 1807, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850
Tippecanoe County: 1860, 1870
- 1858 – present
(Missing 1868, 1870, 1890, 1892, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956)
- Central Catholic 1958 – 2001
- Jefferson High 1913 – 2003, 2010
- McCutcheon High 1981 – 2008
- Southwestern High 1968
- West Lafayette High 1920 – 1996, 2001
- Harrison High 1986 – 2006
- Debris 1893 – 2003
- TCPL has a number of Indiana County Histories in book form, and most County Histories on Microfilm. They are located with the rest of the microfilm at the rear of the library.
- Tippecanoe County, IN Index of Persons and Firms
GENEALOGY 929.3772 T595 - Military Service Records – Union Soldiers, Indiana
A microfilmed list of Indiana Union Soldiers from the Civil War, listing names and which Company the soldier belonged to. - Muster rolls and payrolls of Militia and Regular Army Organizations in the Battle of Tippecanoe. (November 1811)
On microfilm.