Local History Recommended Library Resources

Ancestry Library Edition (only available inside the library) - Discover your family history by searching census records from 1790 to 1940, birth, marriage and death records from around the world, voter registrations, military records, immigration paperwork and much more.

Accessible only at Johnson County Public Library branches.

HeritageQuest Online - All U.S. census records from 1790-1930, more than 25,000 local histories and family genealogies, the Genealogical Periodical Source Index (PERSI) and Revolutionary War Pension.

Historic Indiana Newspapers - Scanned copies of historic Indiana newspapers, browsable by date and searchable by keyword, brought to you by the Indiana State Library and Newspapers.com.

Johnson County Historical Resources Available Online

These historical publications have been scanned and made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. Click the titles to access a full-text edition.

• A historical sketch of Johnson County, Indiana / by D. D. Banta (1881)
  
• Making a Neighborhood: Delivered at the Shiloh Reunion, May 26, 1887 / by D.D. Banta (1887)
  
• History of Johnson County, Indiana / by Elba L. Branigin (1913)
  
• The people's guide, a business, political and religious directory of Johnson Co., Ind. together with a collection of very important documents and statistics connected with our moral, political and scientific history; also, a historical sketch of Johnson County and a brief history of each township / by Cline & McHaffie (1874)
  
• The First Presbyterian Church of Franklin, Indiana: One Hundred and Twenty Years, 1824-1944 / by Herriott C. Palmer (1946)
  

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