Doxpop - Tools for Attorneys and Public Information Researchers: October 2025

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Congratulations to Clinton County! - Historical indexes now go back to 1961

Congratulations to Kialee Mitchell and her staff at the Clinton County Recorder's Office! 

Clinton County has just finished working with Doxpop to provide access to images of their historical General Index Books. These indexes span the period from 1961-1995, when their computerized indexes begin.

In the past, a researcher would have to travel to the county to look up information for this period before the index was computerized. Now you can access this information from the Recorded Document Advanced Search Page, or by clicking on the "recorded documents" tab, and choosing Clinton County in the "View Historical Indexes" Pane: 


Image of doxpop recorded documents page with arrow pointing to "View Historical Indexes" pane in lower right.

When you've entered the index image area, click on the type of index you want to see in the left margin, and it will expand to show options. Keep choosing options until the page you want is displayed. From here you can use the scroll bars and zoom tools to visually inspect the index.


Image of the first "A" page from Clinton County's 1961 through 1965 general index book.

This project was accomplished in part to ensure that these books are available online to researchers during the several days it will take to move into their new office once it's complete. And of course for the future, these index books will be available after hours and on weekends. The next step in this project is to scan the Recorded Documents these General Indexes refer to, so you can access them by searching online.

You'll notice a place for searching by Book and Page above the index viewing window. Search results in Clinton County begin in 1995, so those searches will not bring back document image results in our system until those records are scanned. For now, you will need to visit the Clinton County Recorder's Office to obtain copies of those records once you have searched for the documents you'd like to inspect.

Please join us in expressing our appreciation to Kialee Mitchell and her staff for their work on this project.


Tuesday, October 7, 2025

An Important Update to Legal Description searching with Subdivision names

Thank you to the Bartholomew County Recorder's Office staff for helping us to identify an issue limiting our Subdivision name searching. We've looked closely at this feature and adjusted the field to display up to 250 possible matches as you type, regardless of whether you're searching across a single county, many counties, or all counties.

Our Advanced Search includes Legal Description fields for platted and unplatted land, as well as for any state or county tax numbers that have been indexed by the Recorder's Office:


When searching for platted legal descriptions, we will display all valid subdivision names for the search region you've selected. As you continue to type into the subdivision field, the system will display those matching subdivisions as they've been entered by the Recorder's Office. It is our hope that this will help users search more confidently and accurately. You may either select a specific subdivision name from the options presented, or leave your search string as entered to ensure that all presented options are included in your search results.

Please let us know whether this change to expand Subdivision name searching is helpful to you or whether you other great suggestions that we can hear! Here's a simple form for submitting your search suggestions: https://forms.gle/KemDDJYHuqzm3YN89

We look forward to hearing from you!