Links For Parke County Research

Beginner's help

• Ancestry

• Cyndi's List

• RootsWeb

Local Contacts

• County Clerk

• Rockville Public Library

• Parke County Historical Society

 History

• Parke County History Lesson

• 1875 History of Parke County 

• Parke County Towns

• 1927 History of Churches and Cemeteries

• List of Available Parke County Newspapers - at the Indiana State Library

• Additional History for town of Minshall - Raccoon Township (Shared by Chuck Price)

• Primitive Baptist Church Histories

Neighboring Libraries & Societies 

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• Clinton Public Library (Vermillion County)

• Vigo County Public Library Page

• Crawfordsville Public Library (Montgomery County)

• Indiana Genealogical Society Homepage

• State Archives

Maps

• Washington Township (thanks Brian & Terri Howard)

• USGS (National Mapping Information)

• Map - Parke County, IN - Circa 1897

• New Discovery Plat Map

Photos

• Randy Wright's Page

• Parke County Residents

Miscellaneous

• 1874 Parke County Atlas Index

• 1920 Parke County Prairie Farmers Directory

• Parke County Poor Asylum Index 

• Parke County Poor Farm Residents 1850 to 1920

• 1920 Rockville Sanatorium Residents

• Roots Web Mailing Lists

• Parke County Covered Bridges

• Rockville / Parke County Hometown Page

• Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project

• Indiana Cemetery Locator

• Find A Grave

Reference

• Geographic Search     (By name of county, town, cemetery, waterway...)

• Unknown Indiana County

• Indiana Visitor Center - Search other Indiana counties

• Cemetery Transcription Library (National & International Records)

• Surname Thesaurus

• Hoosier Heritage Digital Library (Online databases in Indiana libraries, including photo collections, newspaper indices, etc.)