Probate Order Books contain the daily actions of the Probate Court. Actions include letters of administration (no will) or testamentary (will found), administrator and executor’s bonds, guardianships for minor heirs, partitions of land, estate sales, widow’s dowers, disputes between heirs, lawsuits brought by creditors, and more.
The following table details probate order books available for Dearborn County, Indiana. Links to indexes available on Indiana’s Gore are given when available. Some volumes have been abstracted and are available for purchase in paperback and PDF ebook formats.
These volumes have been all digitized by Ancestry. See the Dearborn County Probate Records on Ancestry Finding Aid for details. They are available on microfilm from the Indiana State Library and Family History Library.
See Dearborn County Probate Records for details about other records created by the Probate Court.
| Book | Index | Abstracts |
| Probate Order Book 1 (1826-1834) | 1826-1837 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Probate Order Book 2 (1834-1837) | 1826-1837 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Probate Order Book 3 (1837-1840) | 1837-1844 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Probate Order Book 4 (1840-1844) | 1837-1844 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Probate Order Book 5 (1844-1846) | 1844-1849 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Probate Order Book 6 (1847-1849) | 1844-1849 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Probate Order Book 7 (1849-1852) | 1849-1852 Index | PDF ebook |
| Probate Order Book 1 (1853-1854) | Not microfilmed | |
| Probate Order Book 2 (1855-1856) | Not microfilmed | |
| Probate Order Book 3 (1857-1860) | 1857-1864 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 4 (1861-1864) | 1857-1864 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 5 (1864-1866) | Not microfilmed | |
| Probate Order Book 6 (1867-1869) | 1867-1869 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 7 (1869-1871) | 1869-1874 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 8 (1872-1874) | 1869-1874 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 9 (1874-1876) | 1874-1877 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 10 (1876-1877) | 1874-1877 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 11 (1877-1879) | 1877-1880 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 12 (1879-1880) | 1877-1880 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 13 (1880-1882) | 1880-1884 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 14 (1882-1884) | 1880-1884 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 15 (1884-1885) | 1884-1887 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 16 (1885-1887) | 1884-1887 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 17 (1887-1889) | 1887-1891 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 18 (1889-1891) | 1887-1891 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 19 (1891-1892) | 1891-1896 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 20 (1892-1894) | 1891-1896 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 21 (1894-1896) | 1891-1896 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 22 (1896-1898) | 1896-1900 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 23 (1899-1900) | 1896-1900 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 24 (1901-1903) | 1901-1906 Index | |
| Probate Order Book (25 (1903-1906) | 1901-1906 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 26 (1906-1908) | 1906-1910 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 27 (1908-1910) | 1906-1910 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 28 (1910-1912) | 1910-1918 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 29 (1913-1915) | 1910-1918 Index | |
| Probate Order Book 30 (1915-1918) | 1910-1918 Index |