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 Franklin County, Indiana. Links to indexes available on Indiana’s Gore are given when available.
These volumes have been all digitized by Ancestry. They are available on microfilm from the Indiana State Library and Family History Library.
See Franklin County Probate Records for other records.
Book | Index |
Records from 1811 to 1817 can be found in the court books. See Franklin County Early Court Records. | |
Order Book A, 1811-1825 [County Court minutes, 1811-1812; probate minutes 1817-1824] | 1811-1842 |
Records from 1825 to 1827 are in Circuit Court Order Books 3 and 4 | 1811-1842 |
Order Book B, 1827-1834 | 1811-1842 |
Order Book C, 1834-1842 | 1811-1842 |
Order Book D, 1842-1842 | 1842-1852 |
Order Book E, 1849-1852 | 1842-1852 |
Order Book 1, 1853-1856 | 1853-1860 |
Order Book 2, 1857-1860 | 1853-1860 |
Order Book 3, 1860-1864 | 1860-1869 |
Order Book 4, 1864-1869 | 1860-1869 |
Order Book 5, 1869-1873 | 1869-1875 |
Order Book 6, 1873-1875 | 1869-1875 |
Order Book 7, 1876-1878 | 1876-1881 |
Order Book 8, 1879-1881 | 1876-1881 |
Order Book 9, 1881-1883 | 1881-1886 |
Order Book 10, 1883-1886 | 1881-1886 |
Order Book 11, 1886-1889 | 1886-1891 |
Order Book 12, 1889-1891 | 1886-1891 |
Order Book 13, 1891-1893 | 1891-1895 |
Order Book 14, 1893-1895 | 1891-1895 |
Order Book 15, 1895-1897 | 1895-1899 |
Order Book 16, 1897-1899 | 1895-1899 |
Order Book 17, 1899-1901 | 1899-1904 |
Order Book 18, 1902-1904 | 1899-1904 |
Order Book 19, 1904-1906 | 1904-1910 |
Order Book 20, 1906-1910 | 1904-1910 |
Order Book 21, 1910-1914 | 1910-1917 |
Order Book 22. 1914-1917 | 1910-1917 |
Order Book 23, 1917-1920 | 1917-1922 |
Order Book 24, 1920-1922 | 1917-1922 |