Helpful Background information

The WPA Historical Survery: A Guide to the Unpublished Inventories, Indexes and Transcripts published in 1980 describes the purpose and scope of the WPA’s History Records Survey and in which repositiers each state’s resulting documents can be found. It is available online in the Family Search Digital Library here.

The WPA Historical Records Survery: A Guide to the Unpublished Inventories, Indexes and Transcripts compiled by Loretta L. Hefner.

Indiana Archives and Records Administration (IARA) links:

The FamilySearch wiki page Indiana Censuses has links to the Indiana state censuses on FamilySearch and Ancestry.

The Indiana State Library article Understanding and accessing Indiana state censuses and other enumerations explains in great detail the various types of state censuses and enumerations. Of particular interest is the School Enumeration. See the Indiana State Library’s guide to Indiana State Censuses and Alternate Enumerations, Genealogy Division, Indiana State Library

The Adams County Trumpeter newletter of the Adams County Historical Society published the Adams County, Indiana, entries found in “An Index to Indiana Naturalization Records Founded Various Order Books of he 92 Local Courts Prior to 1970” The entries for the surnames from A-K was published in the October 1988 issue; the entries for the surnames from K-Z was published in ????:

The index gives 1.) the person’s name, 2.) the name of the court order book and 3.) the page number within the book.

Starting in 1854 separate naturalization ledgers were begun in Adams county, Indiana.

FamilySearch has digitized the Adams' County Court Order books and they are availalbe to view at afflilates like the Genealogy Center, where the images can be downloaded to one’s harddrive.