Probate Order Books contain the daily actions of the Probate Court. Actions include letters of administration (no will) or testamentary (will found), administrator and executor’s bonds, guardianships for minor heirs, partitions of land, estate sales, widow’s dowers, disputes between heirs, lawsuits brought by creditors, and more.
The following table details probate order books available for Fayette County, Indiana. Links to indexes available on Indiana’s Gore are given when available.
These volumes have been all digitized by Ancestry. They are available on microfilm from the Indiana State Library and Family History Library.
See Fayette County Probate Records for other records.
| Book | Index |
| Book A, 1819-1829 | 1819-1840 Index |
| Book B, 1829-1840 | 1819-1840 Index |
| Book B1, 1841-1849 | 1841-1852 Index |
| Book C, 1849-1852 | 1841-1852 Index |
| Book 1, 1853-1858 | 1853-1863 Index |
| Book 2, 1858-1863 | 1853-1863 Index |
| Book 3, 1863-1866 | 1863-1870 Index |
| Book 4, 1866-1870 | 1863-1870 Index |
| Book 5, 1871-1874 | 1871-1877 Index |
| Book 6, 1875-1877 | 1871-1877 Index |
| Book 7, 1878-1881 | 1878-1885 Index |
| Book 8, 1881-1885 | 1878-1885 Index |
| Book 9, 1885-1887 | 1885-1890 Index |
| Book 10, 1887-1890 | 1885-1890 Index |
| Book 11, 1890-1893 | 1890-1896 Index |
| Book 12, 1893-1894 | 1890-1896 Index |
| Book 13, 1894-1896 | 1890-1896 Index |
| Book 14, 1896-1898 | 1896-1901 Index |
| Book 15, 1898-1899 | 1896-1901 Index |
| Book 16, 1899-1901 | 1896-1901 Index |
| Book 17, 1901-1903 | 1901-1907 Index |
| Book 18, 1903-1905 | 1901-1907 Index |
| Book 19, 1905-1907 | 1901-1907 Index |
| Book 20, 1907-1909 | 1907-1913 Index |
| Book 21, 1909-1913 | 1907-1913 Index |
| Book 22, 1912-1913 | 1907-1913 Index |
| Book 23, 1913-1915 | 1913-1917 Index |
| Book 24, 1915-1916 | 1913-1917 Index |
| Book 25, 1916-1917 | 1913-1917 Index |
| Book 26, 1917-1918 | 1917-1919 Index |
| Book 27, 1918-1919 | 1917-1919 Index |
| Book 28, 1919-1920 | 1919-1921 Index |
| Book 29, 1920-1921 | 1919-1921 Index |