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 Franklin 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 Franklin County Probate Records for other records.