Ancestry Releases More Than 12M Indiana Vital Records
Post date: Jun 4, 2016 4:13:01 PM
As of the beginning of June, 2016, Ancestry.com has released more than 12 million searchable birth, marriage, and death records from the Indiana State Archives.
These records appear to include:
- Birth Certificates from 1907 - 1940 (2,363,495);
- Marriage Certificates from 1958 - 2005 (2,363,495); and,
- Death Certificates from 1899 - 2011 (5,076,222).
You may have read that Ancestry had digitized 17 million records, but it appears that only about 12 million are searchable on the system as of today.
These records are available as part of an Ancestry.com subscription. They are also available for purchase at the Indiana State Archives for a fee of $0.25 each.
Unfortunately, many of these records look like the certificate in this image (I do not believe that this is Ancestry's fault, as the records were scanned mostly from microfilm, and not from originals):
This is the Death Certificate for an individual who appears to have died from a cerebral hemorrhage on the 3rd day of December in a year that ends in an "8".
Hopefully, this Death Certificate does not belong to your ancestor, and if it does, hopefully the details of the death are either already known, or simply not important to you.
It is sad to see the loss of records like this, and I applaud the efforts of companies like Ancestry who are preserving these records in digital form.