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 Ohio 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 Ohio County Probate Records on Ancestry Finding Aid for details. They are available on microfilm from the Indiana State Library and Family History Library.
See Ohio County Probate Records for details about other records created by the Probate Court.
Probate Book | Index | Abstracts |
Order Book 1[a] (1844-1852) | 1844-1859 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
Order Book 1[b] (1853-1859) | 1844-1859 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
Order Book 2 (1859-1866) | 1859-1872 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
Order Book 3 (1866-1872) | 1859-1872 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
Order Book 4 (1873-1878) | 1873-1883 Index | N/A |
Order Book 5 (1878-1883) | 1873-1883 Index | N/A |
Order Book 6 (1883-1890) | 1883-1894 Index | N/A |
Order Book 7 (1890-1894) | 1883-1894 Index | N/A |
Order Book 8 (1894-1898) | 1894-1903 Index | N/A |
Order Book 9 (1898-1903) | 1894-1903 Index | N/A |
Order Book 10 (1903-1906) | 1903-1909 Index | N/A |
Order Book 11 (1907-1909) | 1903-1909 Index | N/A |
Order Book 12 (1909-1913) | 1909-1920 Index | N/A |
Order Book 13 (1913-1915) | 1909-1920 Index | N/A |
Order Book 14 (1916-1918) | 1909-1920 Index | N/A |
Order Book 15 (1918-1920) | 1909-1920 Index | N/A |
Order Book 16 (1920-1923) | 1920-1931 Index | N/A |
Order Book 17 (1923-1925) | 1920-1931 Index | N/A |
Order Book 18 (1925-1929) | 1920-1931 Index | N/A |
Order Book 19 (1929-1931) | 1920-1931 Index | N/A |
Order Book 20 (1931-1933) | 1931-1943 Index | N/A |
Order Book 21 (1933-1935) | 1931-1943 Index | N/A |
Order Book 22 (1936-1938) | 1931-1943 Index | N/A |
Order Book 23 (1938-1943) | 1931-1943 Index | N/A |
Order Book 24 (1943-1948) | 1943-1955 Index | N/A |
Order Book 25 (1949-1955) | 1943-1955 Index | N/A |
Order Book 26 (1955-1963) | 1955-1969 Index | N/A |
Order Book 27 (1963-1968) | 1955-1969 Index | N/A |
Order Book 28 (1969-1974) | 1969-1981 Index | N/A |
Order Book 29 (1974-1979) | 1969-1981 Index | N/A |
Order Book 30 (1979-1981) | 1969-1981 Index | N/A |