This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3h.2ADE/374.370.1 Message Board Post: 1)The naturalization record for Thomas Dowd is recorded in Floyd Co. IN Circuit Order Book R, p. 604. This listing is found on p. 37 of: "An index to Indiana naturalization records found in various order books of the ninety-two local courts prior to 1907", published by Indiana Historical Society, 1981. This index does not include names from the naturalization record books and related documents usually found in the clerk's office in each county. In this same index are 2 Dowd entries listed in Jefferson Co. IN: Peter Dowd, Circuit Book S, p. 368 (1852/1853) and Peter Dowd, Circuit Book W, p. 453 (1859/1861). 2) The Circuit Order Books should still be in the County Clerk's Office of each county unless placed in a local archives due to limited space. 3) Since the naturalization records are considered to be federal records, not county records, record books labeled or identified as naturalization records were removed from Indiana county court houses several years ago and taken to the Indiana State Archives, Indianapolis, for preservation. I suggest you contact the County Clerks for photocopy of the above mentioned records in Circuit Order Books, and then the Indiana State Archives for possible additional information.