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 Switzerland 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 Switzerland County Probate Records on Ancestry Finding Aid for details. They are available on microfilm from the Indiana State Library and Family History Library.
See Switzerland County Probate Records for details about other records created by the Probate Court.
| Probate Book | Index | Abstracts |
| Order Book 1 (1814-1824) | 1814-1837 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Missing order book for 1824-1831 | ||
| Order Book A (1831-1837) | 1814-1837 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book B (1837-1841) | 1837-1849 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book C (1841-1849) | 1837-1849 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book D (1849-1853) | 1849-1862 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book 1 (1853-1857) | 1849-1862 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book 2 (1857-1862) | 1849-1862 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book 3 (1863-1867) | 1863-1872 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book 4 (1867-1871) | 1863-1872 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book 5 (1871-1872) | 1863-1872 Index | Paperback PDF ebook |
| Order Book 6 (1873-1876) | 1873-1878 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 7 (1876-1878) | 1873-1878 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 8 (1878-1879) | 1878-1881 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 9 (1880-1881) | 1878-1881 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 10 (1881-1883) | 1881-1885 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 11 (1883-1885) | 1881-1885 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 12 (1885-1887) | 1885-1889 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 13 (1887-1889) | 1885-1889 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 14 (1889-1891) | 1889-1893 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 15 (1891-1893) | 1889-1893 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 16 (1893-1896) | 1893-1898 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 17 (1896-1898) | 1893-1898 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 18 (1898-1902) | 1898-1905 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 19 (1902-1905) | 1898-1905 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 20 (1906-1909) | 1906-1915 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 21 (1909-1915) | 1906-1915 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 22 (1915-1919) | 1915-1923 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 23 (1919-1923) | 1915-1923 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 24 (1923-1926) | 1923-1929 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 25 (1926-1929) | 1923-1929 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 26 (1929-1933) | 1929-1937 Index | N/A |
| Order Book 27 (1933-1937) | 1929-1937 Index | N/A |