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Clay County Research Assistant

If you own any Clay County information, and will help do Research, please let me know. As you can see, volunteers are needed.

Feel free to request Research help from the following volunteers. Please limit your request to one name per request. Please put CLAY COUNTY RESEARCH in the subject line of your request to insure the message is not overlooked or accidently deleted. In the first line of the message please put the name of the book you are requesting the Research in.

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Clay County Biographies
Clay County Name Files
Clay County Bible Records

Clay County Research volunteers

Research Volunteer E-mail Book
Marcella Campbell Marcella Campbell The Encyclopedic Directory of Clay County, IN
 Clay County, Indiana Marriage Records 1851 - 1869
 1850 Census of Clay County
Sherfey - Kidd Funeral Direcory Records of Brazil, IN   1880 -1902
Cemetery Readings for Sugar Ridge Township, Clay Co., IN
 Bourbon Co, KY  Marriages 1896-1850 and Deaths 1852 - 1859
Norma Karter Norma Karter History of Clay County
Written in 1909
Joseph Murphy Joseph Murphy Brazil Indiana city directories for the years 1929 & 1942
Amy Price Amy Price 1790-1930 census records, public record look ups & copies, research at the genealogy society in Centerpoint, Still pictures of tombstones
Lori Craighead Vicki Ebert Clay County's Answer 1917-1919 Published By American Legion Post #2
Soldiers of Clay Co, IN
Lori Craighead Lori First Christian Church in Brazil
directories 1906 and 1926
Deborah Sweeney Deborah History of St. Peter's Church
Published in 1954
Deborah Sweeney Deborah 1927 yearbook The Sycamore, v. 32
Indiana State Normal School, Terre Haute, Indiana
Glorianne Glorianne
Bob Zambenini Bob Zambenini
Don Ott Don Ott
John Anderson John
Sharon Collins Sharon Collins Births 1850 to 1920
Sharon Collins Sharon Collins Deaths 1800 to 1941
Sharon Collins Sharon Collins 1880 National Census from Family Search (LDS)


Clay County Census Owned By Email
Norma Karter Norma Karter 1910-1930
census please provide full name, age, wife’s and kids names and ages.
Carol Bishop cjbishop@marlownet.net 1830 census
1840 census Fred Finkbiner

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1850 census Lana Magiera

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1860 census Fred Finkbiner fredf@claynet.com
1870 Census Index Sharon Collins rzgrdn@rushmore.com
Sharon Collins Sharon Collins 1880 National Census from Family Search (LDS)
1900 census Becky Horvath

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Clay County marriages Owned By Email
Marriage affidavits 1831 to 1852 Carol Bishop cjbishop@marlownet.net
Marriage Records 1826 to 1860 Glorianne Glorianne
Clay County Marriage Records 1851 to 1869 Marcella Campbell Marcella
Marriages 1850 to 1920 Sharon Collins rzgrdn@rushmore.com
Marriage Index:  Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio & Tennessee 1720-1926 Sharon Collins rzgrdn@rushmore.com
Marriage Index:  Indiana, 1851-1900 Sharon Collins rzgrdn@rushmore.com

Clay County Courthouse Information

Contact the Health Office for birth and death records
Money Orders ONLY,NO personal checks
Birth Certificate---$3.00 and Death Cerificate---$4.00

Address;
Clay Courthouse
Office of Health
609 East National Avenue
Brazil,IN 47834

Phone Numbers:
Health Office: (812)448-9021
Recorder's Office: (812)448-9004
Clerk's Office: (812)448-9024


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