WELCOME
to the
Jay County Indiana GenWeb!

Your new county co-coordinators are Margie R Pearce and Jim Cox.

We hope you will be patient with us as we improve and add to the content to make researching your ancestors in Jay County ever more productive!

Many thanks to Sandi Koscak for her years of work as the past coordinator. She created most of these pages and we plan to continue to add to her work.

If you have photos, news clippings or other genealogical or historical material that you would like added to the website, please send them to Margie Pearce.

If you would like to host a county, contact the INGenWeb State Coordinator, Denise Wells

MAILING LISTS
If you would like to join the Jay County mailing/discussion list to stay current on queries, events, new data, etc just send an email to the following addresses and put SUBSCRIBE into the subject line

INJAY-L-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or
INJAY-D-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode)

A Few Facts About Jay County

Jay County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Bear Creek, Greene, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Madison, Noble, Penn, Pike, Richland, Wabash and Wayne. Jay County was formally organized March 1, 1836. Portland is the County Seat. The locating commissioners met on the first Monday in June, 1836, and decided upon the site at Portland and, at a special meeting of the County Board on December 5, 1836, gave the new County Seat the name of Portland. First settled in 1837 by H. H. Cuppy, C. Hanna, D. W. McNeil, and others, by 1849 it contained 60 houses and had a population of 300. According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an individual was a pioneer of our county if they resided here on or before December 31, 1840.