Columbus Genealogy (in Bartholomew County, IN)

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Columbus Birth Records

1907-1940 Indiana Birth Certificates Ancestry online

Bartholomew County, Indiana, Birth Records Index, 1882-1920 Ancestry online

Indiana, Birth Records, 1907-present Indiana State Department of Health

Columbus Cemetery Records

Asbury United Methodist Church Columbarium Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center online

Asbury United Methodist Church Columbarium Find a Grave online

Burnett-Bonnell Cemetery Find a Grave online

Carter Cemeteries Find a Grave online

Carter's Chapel Cemetery : records FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1868-1933 (Bethel Baptist Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

City Cemetery records of Columbus, Indiana FamilySearch Library

City cemetery, Columbus, Bartholomew Co., Indiana FamilySearch Library

Columbus City Cemetery Billion Graves online

Columbus City Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

Columbus City Cemetery Find a Grave online

Crump Family Cemetery Find a Grave online

Daugherty Cemetery Billion Graves online

First Baptist Church Columbarium Find a Grave online

First Presbyterian Church Columbarium Find a Grave online

First United Methodist Church Columbarium Find a Grave online

Flat Rock Cemetery Billion Graves online

Friendship Baptist Graveyard Find a Grave online

Garden City Cemetery Billion Graves online

Garland Brook Cemetery Billion Graves online

Garland Brook Cemetery Interment online

Garland Brook Cemetery Find a Grave online

Harmony Burial Ground Find a Grave online

Hollowell Family Graveyard Find a Grave online

Indiana, Bartholomew, Columbus, Garland Brook Cemetery Interment Records, ca.1885-ca.2000 Family Search online

Lambert Cemetery Find a Grave online

Lawton Cemetery Billion Graves online

Lewelling Family Graveyard Find a Grave online

Marr Cemetery Find a Grave online

Mitchell Family Graveyard Find a Grave online

Mount Pleasant Cemetery Billion Graves online

Mount Pleasant Cemetery Find a Grave online

New Harmony Cemetery Billion Graves online

New Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Newbern Christian Cemetery Billion Graves online

Old Liberty Meeting House Graveyard Find a Grave online

Orena V. Grant Genealogical Collection (Marriages and Cemetery Records) Ancestry online

Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery (White Creek) Find a Grave online

Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery Find a Grave online

Saint Pauls Episcopal Church Columbarium Find a Grave online

Springer Cemetery Billion Graves online

Thompson Cemetery Find a Grave online

Troutman Family Cemetery Find a Grave online

Unitarian-Universalist Memory Walk Find a Grave online

White Creek Methodist Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Columbus Census Records

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Columbus Church Records

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An historical compilation of Mormons in Southern Indiana : Columbus vicinity 1897-1987 FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1835-1901 (St. John's Lutheran Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1851-1862 (St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1858-1987 (St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1868-1933 (Bethel Baptist Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1894-1938 (First English Evangelical Lutheran Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1901-1986 (St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1930-1966 (Sandy Hook United Methodist Church (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Columbus First Presbyterian Church records, 1875-1964, Columbus, Ind. Archive Grid

Complete directory of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1903-1904 : embracing membership in all associations, clubs, church boards with alphabetic lists of the patrons of rural free delivery routes towns and the city of Columbus, etc. : an indexed map LDS Genealogy online

Complete directory of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1903-1904 : embracing membership in all associations, clubs, church boards with alphabetic lists of the patrons of rural free delivery routes towns and the city of Columbus, etc. : an indexed map Internet Archive online

History of First United Lutheran Church (1893-1953) Indiana Genealogical Society online

History of St. Bartholomew Catholic Church (1841-1991) Indiana Genealogical Society online

History of Tabernacle Church of Christ (1829-1940) Indiana Genealogical Society online

History of Wertz Memorial Evangelical United Brethren Church (1892-1959) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Methodist Hope & St. Louis church records, Bartholomew County, Indiana Archive Grid

Parish registers, 1845-1924 (Catholic Church. St. Bartholomew's (Columbus, Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Record of members, [1908?]-1942 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Columbus Branch (Indiana)) FamilySearch Library

Roll book, 1862-1924, Columbus First Baptist Church (Columbus, Ind.). Archive Grid

Tabernacle Church of Christ, Columbus, Indiana, history, 1829-1940 FamilySearch Library

Columbus City Directories

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Business Directory For Columbus 1868 US Gen Web Archives online

Columbus (Indiana) city directories FamilySearch Library

Columbus City Directory 1907 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1915 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1917 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1919 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1921 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1923 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1927 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1931 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1934 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1938 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1950 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1953 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1955 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1957 MyHeritage online

Columbus City Directory 1959 MyHeritage online

Columbus, IN 1915-1932,1934-1935 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Columbus, IN 1938-1943, 1947, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1902 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1907 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1908 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1915 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1917 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1919 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1921 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1923 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1925 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1927 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1929 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1931 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1934 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1938 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1940 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1942 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1947 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1950 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1953 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1955 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1957 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Columbus, Indiana, City Directory, 1959 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Complete directory of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1903-1904 : embracing membership in all associations, clubs, church boards with alphabetic lists of the patrons of rural free delivery routes towns and the city of Columbus, etc. : an inde Genealogy Gophers online

Directory of Businesses in Columbus (1930) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Columbus Death Records

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1899-2011 Indiana Death Certificates Ancestry online

Bartholomew County obituaries, ca. 1880-1893 FamilySearch Library

Brown County, Indiana : selected records, funeral homes of Columbus, Indiana : Barkes, Inlow & Weaver, 1935-1949, Hathaway-Myers, 1907-1905, Reed-Jewell, 1891-1975 WorldCat

Brown County, Indiana selected records : funeral homes of Columbus, Indiana, 1891-1975 FamilySearch Library

Indiana, Death Records, 1900-present Indiana State Department of Health

J. D. Emmons Funeral Home records, Columbus, Ind.,, 1891-1901 FamilySearch Library

Obituaries and Miscellaneous Items Abstracted from Columbus, Indiana, Bartholomew County, Newspapers, 1872-1884 FamilySearch Library

Obituaries and miscellaneous items abstracted from Columbus, Indiana, Bartholomew County, newspapers, 1872-1884 WorldCat

Obituaries from the Columbus herald and the Republic, Columbus, Indiana WorldCat

Selected records, funeral homes of Columbus, Indiana : Barkes, Inlow & Weaver, 1935-1949; Hathaway-Myers, 1907-1975; Reed-Jewell, 1891-1975 FamilySearch Library

Columbus Histories and Genealogies

Bartholomew County, Columbus, Indiana, sesquicentennial, 1821-1871 FamilySearch Library

Biographical sketches, Bartholomew County, Indiana FamilySearch Library

History of the Jewish community of Columbus, Indiana FamilySearch Library

Souvenir and official program: 19th annual encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Indiana and auxiliary societies, Columbus, In., May 17-20, 1898 Genealogy Gophers online

Columbus Immigration Records

Indiana, Federal Naturalization Records, 1892-1992 Ancestry online

Miscellaneous naturalizations, Bartholomew County, Columbus, Indiana, compiled by Joseph Hart Chapter, DAR., Columbus, Indiana Archive Grid

Naturalization records, 1856-1916 FamilySearch Library

Columbus Land Records

Deeds, 1822-1887 FamilySearch Library

Columbus Map Records

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1906 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1912 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, April 1898 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, December 1892 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, February 1890 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, January 1886 Library of Congress online

Columbus Marriage Records

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1810-2001 Indiana Marriages Ancestry online

Bartholomew County, Indiana marriages, 1821-1920 FamilySearch Library

Indiana Marriage Index, 1800-1941 Ancestry online

Indiana Marriages Through 1850 Indiana State Library online

Indiana Marriages, 1802-1850 (includes Bartholomew County 1821-1850) Ancestry online

Indiana, Marriage Index, 1806-1861 Ancestry online

Indiana, Marriages, 1780-1992 MyHeritage online

Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959 MyHeritage online

Marriage record, 1882-1909 FamilySearch Library

Marriage records, Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1821-1951 FamilySearch Library

Marriage supplements of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1882-1920 FamilySearch Library

Orena V. Grant Genealogical Collection (Marriages and Cemetery Records) Ancestry online

Columbus Minority Records

History of the Jewish community of Columbus, Indiana FamilySearch Library

Columbus Miscellaneous Records

Residents of Bartholomew County Orphans Home (1893-1902) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Voters of Columbus (1839, 1847) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Columbus Newspapers and Obituaries

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Bartholomew County obituaries, ca. 1880-1893 FamilySearch Library

Charter, charter members, officers, transcripts of newspaper articles noting council activities and dates FamilySearch Library

Columbus Bartholomew Democrat, 1870-1876 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Daily Herald, 1881-1901 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Daily Times, 1893-1901 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Democrat, 1876-1877 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Evening Star, 1897-1898 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Gazette (Columbus, Bartholomew County) Hoosier State Chronicles online

Columbus Herald 1942-1994 Newspapers.com online

Columbus Herald, 1882-1910 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Monroes Legal Tender Issue, 1876-1876 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Morning Star, 1896-1897 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Republican 1872-1927 Newspapers.com online

Columbus Star, 1896-1898 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Weekly News (Columbus, Bartholomew County) Hoosier State Chronicles online

Columbus Weekly Times, 1895-1898 Newspaper Archive online

Columbus Weekly Union (Columbus, Bartholomew County; 7 December 1867 - 27 February 1869) Hoosier State Chronicles online

Monroe's Legal Tender Issue (Columbus, Bartholomew County; 30 August 1876 - 11 October 1876) Hoosier State Chronicles online

Obituaries and Miscellaneous Items Abstracted from Columbus, Indiana, Bartholomew County, Newspapers, 1872-1884 FamilySearch Library

Obituaries and miscellaneous items abstracted from Columbus, Indiana, Bartholomew County, newspapers, 1872-1884 WorldCat

Obituaries from the Columbus herald and the Republic, Columbus, Indiana WorldCat

Republic 05/28/2014 to Current Genealogy Bank online

Republic 1877-2023 Newspapers.com online

The Bartholomew Democrat (Columbus, Bartholomew County; 29 September 1871 - 14 April 1876) Hoosier State Chronicles online

The Columbus Bulletin (Columbus, Bartholomew County; 18 September 1868 - 21 October 1870) Hoosier State Chronicles online

The Columbus Herald (Columbus, Bartholomew County; 11 December 1896 - 24 June 1910) Hoosier State Chronicles online

The Columbus Republican (Columbus, Bartholomew County; 1 August 1872 - 3 September 1874) Hoosier State Chronicles online

The Daily Evening Democrat (Columbus, Bartholomew County) Hoosier State Chronicles online

WKKG - 101.5 FM 02/06/2010 to Current Genealogy Bank online

Offline Newspapers for Columbus

According to the US Newspaper Directory, the following newspapers were printed, so there may be paper or microfilm copies available. For more information on how to locate offline newspapers, see our article on Locating Offline Newspapers.

Bartholomew Democrat. (Columbus, Ind.) 1870-1876

Columbus Advocate. (Columbus, Ia. [I.E. Ind.]) 1839-1842

Columbus Bulletin. (Columbus, Ind.) 1867-1870

Columbus Daily Herald. (Columbus, Ind.) 1887-1942

Columbus Gazette. (Columbus, Ind.) 1844-1848

Columbus Herald. (Columbus, Ind.) 1881-Current

Columbus Herald. (Columbus, Ind.) 1882-1887

Columbus Republican. (Columbus, Ind.) 1872-1918

Columbus Star. (Columbus, Ind.) 1896-1897

Columbus Weekly News. (Columbus, Ind.) 1859-1861

Columbus Weekly Union. (Columbus, Ind.) 1863-1860s

Daily Evening Democrat. (Columbus, Ind.) 1876-1880s

Daily Evening Republican. (Columbus, Ind.) 1877-1883

Daily Times. (Columbus, Ind.) 1892-1906

Evening Republican. (Columbus, Ind.) 1883-1966

People--Yes!. (Columbus, Ind.) 1969-1980s

Republic. (Columbus, Ind.) 1967-Current

Semi-Weelky [Sic] Ledger. (Columbus, Ind.) 1840s-1844

Weekly Indiana Democrat. (Columbus, Ind.) 1856-1867

Weekly Ledger. (Columbus, Ind.) 1842-1840s

Weekly Times. (Columbus, Ind.) 1895-1906

Columbus Probate Records

1798-1999 Indiana Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Columbus School Records

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Central Junior High School yearbook, 1978 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Columbus East High School yearbook, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Columbus East High School yearbook, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Classmates online

Columbus East High School yearbooks, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Columbus High School (Thru 1973) yearbook, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 Classmates online

Columbus High School (Thru 1973) yearbook, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Columbus High School (Thru 1973) yearbooks, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Columbus High School yearbook, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1971, 1972 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Columbus North High School - Log Yearbook (Columbus, IN), 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1983 E Yearbook online

Columbus North High School Yearbook, Log, 1937, 1938, 1943 Internet Archive online

Columbus North High School yearbook, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1940, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Columbus North High School yearbook, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Columbus North High School yearbook, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Classmates online

Graduates of Columbus Central High School (1922) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Northside Junior High School - Epoch Yearbook (Columbus, IN), 1971 E Yearbook online

Northside Junior High School yearbook, 1971 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

School register and grade book, Columbus Township, District 7, 1887-1912 FamilySearch Library

Selected Alumni of Columbus Central High School (1872-1921) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Students of Columbus High School (1927) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Teachers of Columbus Central High School (1922) Indiana Genealogical Society online

Teachers of Columbus High School (1927) Indiana Genealogical Society online



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