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About Our Society:

SIGS serves the seven Southern Indiana counties of:

Clark Floyd Harrison
Crawford Perry Scott
Washington

The Southern Indiana Genealogical Society was formed May 3, 1979 to encourage, gather and preserve genealogy materials and information in the seven southern Indiana counties of Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Scott, and Washington.

Our collection of genealogical materials is housed in the Indiana History Room of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library. We are a non-profit organization, operated by volunteers. A listing of researchers is available upon request from the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, 180 W. Spring Street, New Albany, IN, however you are responsible for contacting the researchers and arranging payment to them, if they decide to do research for you.

Our membership year is July 1 through June 30 and is $15.00 per year; a Bi-Annual publication is published in January/April and July/October. Membership entitles a member to submit three free queries of fifty words or less to the editor for publication. A fee of $2.00 is charged to non-members for submitted queries. Membership also entitles the member to a discount on publications sold by the society.

The Southern Indiana Genealogical Society in New Albany, Indiana has completed purchasing the entire 2,670-roll microfilm collection of the Revolutionary War Soldiers Pension Applications and Bounty Land Warrants, with the assistance of a $20,000.00 grant from Caesars Foundation of Floyd County. There are only five completed sets in existance.

Researchers can now view all select and non-select Revolutionary War letters and papers held by the National Archives in Washington, D.C., as well as make copies of these documents in the Indiana Room of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, if you are planning to be in the area.

There is no charge to use our holdings, and copy charges are only $ .10 per page. If you are in the library, you can make the copies, or the library staff will make the copies for you.

Our general meetings are held the first Thursday of each month at the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library in New Albany, Indiana. Membership meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. After a short business meeting, a qualified speaker presents a program of a genealogical or historical nature.

The National Headquarters of the Sons of the American Revolution is located in nearby Louisville, Kentucky.

You may E-mail us at: sigsvolunteer@gmail.com. No copies will be sent without pre-payment for copies and postage.

The phone number for the Indiana History Room at the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library is
812-949-3527


Library Address:
New Albany-Floyd County Public Library
180 West Spring Street
New Albany, IN 47150

  • Our Next Meeting

  • Info & order form for our latest book - "New Albany Floyd County, Indiana, a Guidebook to Early Pioneers and Some of Their Descendants" (.pdf document)
  • Some SIGS Counties Cemeteries (Photos)

    (Listings are alphabetical and partially complete unless otherwise stated)
  • Atkins Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana
  • Bethel Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana (Complete thru 2009)
  • Buttontown Cemetery- Greenville Township, Floyd Co., IN - Some photos of gravestones in Buttontown Cemetery - New
  • Charlestown Cemetery, Clark County, Indiana - (Complete thru 2005)
  • Chapel Hill Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana (partia
  • Fairview Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana (a work in progress)
  • Galena Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana (complete thru 2009)
  • Graceland (now Kraft-Graceland) Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana
  • Mount Tabor Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana
  • Leyden Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana
  • Potters Field, Floyd County, Indiana
  • St. John's Cemetery, Lafayette Township, Floyd County
  • St. Mary's of the Knobs Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana
  • St. Mary's Navilleton Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana
  • Sellersburg Cemetery, Clark County, Indiana (a work in progress)
  • Tunnell Hill Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana
  • Westhaven Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana

    Southern Indiana Genealogical Society Quarterly

  • SIGS Quarterly Table of Contents 2001-2010
  • New Albany-Floyd County First Families

  • New Albany-Floyd County, IN First Families Information (.pdf document)
  • New Albany-Floyd County, IN First Families Instructions (.pdf document)
  • New Albany-Floyd County, IN First Families Application (8 page .pdf document) to print out
  • If you would like more information about SIGS, send an email to Sigsvolunteer@gmail.com

    Floyd County INGenWeb Site
    Indiana Historical Society Begins Registration for Midwestern Roots: Family History and Genealogy Conference 2012 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~insigs/in_hist_soc_gen_conf.html

    Indiana Historical Society Begins Registration for Midwestern Roots: Family History and Genealogy Conference 2012

    Revised May 2011 for the Southern Indiana Genealogical Society, by Sue P. Carpenter