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 Jefferson 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 Ripley County Probate Records for other records.
Book | Index |
Probate Order Book A, 1818-1837 | 1818-1843 |
Probate Order Book B, 1837-1843 | 1818-1843 |
Probate Order Book C, 1843-1846 | 1843-1849 |
Probate Order Book D, 1846-1849 | 1843-1849 |
Probate Order Book E, 1849-1852 | 1849-1858 |
Probate Order Book 1, 1852-1858 | 1849-1858 |
Probate Order Book 2, 1858-1864 | 1858-1869 |
Probate Order Book 3, 1864-1869 | 1858-1869 |
Probate Order Book 4, 1869-1872 | 1869-1875 |
Probate Order Book 5, 1873-1875 | 1869-1875 |
Probate Order Book 6, 1875-1877 | 1875-1879 |
Probate Order Book 7, 1877-1879 | 1875-1879 |
Probate Order Book 8, 1879-1881 | 1879-1883 |
Probate Order Book 9, 1881-1883 | 1879-1883 |
Probate Order Book 10, 1883-1884 | 1883-1886 |
Probate Order Book 11, 1884-1886 | 1883-1886 |
Probate Order Book 12, 1886-1888 | 1886-1889 |
Probate Order Book 13, 1888-1889 | 1886-1889 |
Probate Order Book 14, 1889-1891 | 1889-1892 |
Probate Order Book 15, 1891-1892 | 1889-1892 |
Probate Order Book 16, 1892-1893 | 1892-1895 |
Probate Order Book 17, 1893-1895 | 1892-1895 |
Probate Order Book 18, 1895-1896 | 1895-1897 |
Probate Order Book 19, 1896-1897 | 1895-1897 |
Probate Order Book 20, 1897-1898 | 1897-1900 |
Probate Order Book 21, 1898-1900 | 1897-1900 |
Probate Order Book 22, 1900-1901 | 1900-1903 |
Probate Order Book 23, 1901-1903 | 1900-1903 |
Probate Order Book 24, 1903-1905 | 1903-1905 |
Probate Order Book 25, 1905-1906 | 1905-1908 |
Probate Order Book 26, 1907-1908 | 1905-1908 |
Probate Order Book 27, 1908-1910 | 1908-1912 |
Probate Order Book 28, 1910-1912 | 1908-1912 |
Probate Order Book 29, 1912-1914 | 1912-1915 |
Probate Order Book 30, 1914-1915 | 1912-1915 |
Probate Order Book 31, 1915-1917 | 1915-1918 |
Probate Order Book 32, 1917-1918 | 1915-1918 |