~A selective list of books you may find useful in your research~
Research Guides
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Fort Wayne-Allen County Historical Museum Manuscript Collection Inventories and Index.
Fort Wayne-Allen County Historical Museum Photograph Inventories and Index.
Historical Sources of Fort Wayne.
Survey of Church Records, Allen County.
Cemeteries
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Adams-Jefferson Township Cemeteries. (ACGSI)
Burial Records, Catholic Cemetery, Fort Wayne 1873-1983. Multi-volume.
Cemetery Inscriptions, vol. 1 (Maumee, Milan, Scipio, Springfield) by Malinda Newhard.
Cemetery Readings of Eel River and Riverview Cemeteries by Stuart Harter.
Cemetery Transcriptions and Photographs, Aboite, Allen County, Indiana. (2012)
Cemetery Transcriptions, I.O.O.F., Adams Township, Allen County, Indiana. (2012)
Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions of Allen County. (D.A.R.)
Concordia Lutheran Cemetery … Fort Wayne (ACGSI)
Concordia Lutheran Cemetery Records 1850-1971, Fort Wayne. 2 vols.
Concordia Lutheran Cemetery (ACGSI).
Death Record and Interment Record of Fort Wayne Lutheran Churches (and index)
Directory of the Oak Grove Cemetery (Aboite Township).
Eel River-Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries. (ACGSI)
Hatfield Cemetery Association Account Book, Washington Township.
Hatfield Cemetery Association Secretary’s Ledger.
Interment Record, Lindenwood Cemetery Co. …Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1896-1934. 2 vols.
Interment Records, Lindenwood Cemetery, 1860-1972. 14 vols.
Interment Records, Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1973-2005. 5 vols.
Known Cemeteries and Burial Sites. (ACGSI)
Lake-Washington-Perry Township Cemeteries. (ACGSI)
Lindenwood Cemetery Register of Interments [1860-March 1896].
Madison-Monroe Township Cemeteries. (ACGSI)
Maiden Name Supplement to Madison-Monroe Township Cemeteries. (Marquart Funeral Home).
Marion-Pleasant-Lafayette-Aboite Township Cemeteries. (ACGSI)
Orthodox Jewish Cemetery Records, Fort Wayne
Plat Book for Section Y Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Scipio-Springfield-Maumee-Milan-St. Joseph Township Cemeteries. (ACGSI)
Soest Cemetery, Marion Township.
Transcriptions of Section D of the Catholic Cemetery, Adams Township, Allen County, IN (2012)
Wayne Township Cemeteries. (ACGSI)
Court Records
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Allen County, IN Circuit Court General Record Index, 1824-1944. Multi-volume.
Application for Naturalization Records, 1844-1906.
Index to Supplemental Record, 1928 Personal and Poll Tax Records, Allen Co. (WPA)
Naturalization Records, Jan. 1854-May 1903 (Incomplete).
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Naturalization Records, Order Books A-E.
Directories
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Allen County (and Fort Wayne) Directory (Polk), 1999-current.
Allen County Directory 1906.
Allen County Gazetteer (& Directory) 1867.
Bresser’s Cross-Index Directory, Ft. Wayne, Indiana and Suburban Communities. 1970-current.
Fort Wayne City Directory (Polk), 1858-1998.
Fort Wayne Suburban Directory, 1965-1998.
S. U. Goodwin’s Allen County Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1862.
Telephone Directory, Fort Wayne, 1911-current.
Historic Buildings
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Fort Wayne Favorite Historic Buildings.
Fort Wayne Interim Report, 1996.
Historic Houses of Fort Wayne, Indiana: A Guide to Research Sources and Techniques.
Index to Fort Wayne Interim Report.
History & Biography
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Allen County Index to Names of Persons and Firms. 2 vols.
Biographies of People Who Lived in or Near Old Fort Wayne in 1816.
Builders of Greater Fort Wayne, by Bert Griswold.
Fort Wayne: Gateway to the West 1802-1813, ed. by Bert Griswold.
French Immigrants in Allen County 1850-1870.
Frontier Faith: The Story of the Pioneer Congregations of Fort Wayne, IN, 1820-1860.
History of Allen County (1880) by Thomas B. Helm. [with plat maps]
History of Fort Wayne & Allen County, Indiana 1700-2005 (Beatty and Robb, editors).
History of Fort Wayne from the Earliest Known Accounts … by Wallace Brice.
History of the Upper Maumee River (1905) by Robertson and Slocum.
Index for Microfilm, First Families of Allen County. 2 vols.
Twentieth Century History of Fort Wayne, by John Ankenbruck.
Valley of the Upper Maumee River (1889) by Robert S. Robertson. 2 vols.
Who Put That There? Outdoor Sculptures of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
History – Pictorial
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Allen County in Vintage Postcards.
Allen County Photo Album 1852-1954
Best of Fort Wayne, by George Mather, vol. 1.
Best of Fort Wayne, by George Mather, vol. 2.
Celebrate Fort Wayne: A Bicentennial Pictorial History of the Summit City.
Fort Wayne: Images of America.
Fort Wayne Story: A Pictorial History, by John Ankenbruck.
Fort Wayne’s Trolleys
Headwaters Park: Fort Wayne’s Lasting Legacy. [Images of America]
Historic Photos of Fort Wayne, by Scott Bushnell (2007)
Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, by Bert Griswold, 2 vols.
Institutional Records
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Allen County, Indiana, Poor Asylum Records, now Byron Health Care Center, 1853-1963. 2 vols.
Index to Allen County Poor Asylum Records, 1853-1939.
Land
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Allen County Deed Index Grantor/Grantee, 3 vols.
Fort Wayne Land Office Entries, 1823-1852.
Original Land Entries of Allen County.
Maps
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Allen County, Indiana, 1974 Edition, Plat Book, Index of Owners, City Street Maps.
Allen County, Indiana, 2004 Plat Book.
Family Maps of Allen County: with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries…
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History of Allen County (1880) by Thomas B. Helm. [with plat maps]
Insurance Maps of Fort Wayne, Indiana (Sanborn Map Co.), 1919 with corrections to ca. 1956
Plat Book of Allen County (1907).
Plat Book of Allen County (1925).
Plat Book of Allen County (ca. 1920) published by C. Ross Lindemuth.
Standard Atlas of Allen County, 1898.
Military
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Abstracts of Soldiers’ Obituaries from Fort Wayne, Indiana Newspapers: WWI, WWII, Korea
Allen County Area Servicemen and Servicewomen.
Allen County Soldiers 1861-1865
Allen County Veterans Burial Records 1906-1929.
Allen County War Casualties 1776-1973.
List of Civil War Veterans Buried in Allen Co.
Mortuaries – Allen County
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Allen and Wells Cos., Elzey-Dickey-Haggard Funeral Home, Waynedale and Ossian.
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Brindle Register of Funerals, William Brindle, Undertaker, Yoder, Ind., Apr. 1891-Dec. 1914,
Allen Co., Ind. (Lafayette & Pleasant Twps.), and Wells Co., Ind. (Union & Jefferson Twps.)
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From the Records of Augustus Wych Roberson, Coffin Maker and Undertaker, and David A.
Roberson, Sr., his son, Eel River Twp., Allen County, Indiana, ca. 1858-1932
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Index of Brindle Register of Funerals, Allen & Wells Co., Ind., 1891-1914
Mortuaries – Fort Wayne
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C. M. Sloan & Sons Mortuary Records, 1903-1964. 3 vols.
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Chalfant-Perry Funeral Home Mortuary Records 1914-64.
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D.O. McComb & Sons Funeral Home Mortuary Records 1926-50.
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Klaehn Funeral Home Mortuary Records, 1876-1964. 6 vols.
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Mungovan and Sons Mortuary Records 1912-1963. 3 vols.
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Peltier Funeral Home, Fort Wayne Coffin Sales 1862-1877.
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Peltier Mortuary Records of Fort Wayne, 1874-1938. 2 vols.
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Scheuman Funeral Home Mortuary Records 1899-1951.
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Supplement to C. M. Sloan & Sons, 1926-1929.
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Tom Mungovan Funeral Home Records. 8 vols.
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Wellman’s Funeral Home Mortuary Records, 1917-1964, 1965-1968. 2 vols.
Mortuaries – Harlan
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Carrington records, Harlan, 1892-1922; also Old Harlan Cemetery
E.C. Carrington family records and funeral register 1892-1922, Harlan
Records of Oetting Funeral Home, Harlan, Ind., 1922-1964
Mortuaries – Monroeville
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Genealogy Records of the Marquart Funeral Home, Monroeville, Indiana, 1940-1977
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Histories of Funeral Homes in Monroeville
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Marquart Mortuary Records, Monroeville, Indiana (dates 1909-1939)
Mortuaries – New Haven
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E. Harper & Son Funeral Home Inc., New Haven, Allen County.
Newspaper Indexes
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Periodicals
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Citations in Fort Wayne Newspapers, 1919-1936. (2 vols.)
Fort Wayne Newspaper Index, 1986-1991. (6 vols.)
Scrapbook of Fort Wayne History (238 vols.) [arranged by subject – articles copied from the
Indiana Collection vertical file]
Selected Subject Index to Pre-1986 Fort Wayne Newspapers: Based on Clippings in the Indiana
Collection Vertical File
Allen County Lines. [Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana]
Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library
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Vital Records – Births
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Historical Society Bulletin. [Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society]
Old Fort Bulletin. [Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society]
Old Fort Bulletin Index, 1958-1983. [Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society]
Old Fort News. [Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society]
Redskin Review: The North Side High School Alumni Association Newsletter.
Short Lines: Newsletter of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society.
Totem Tales: The North Side High School Alumni Association Newsletter.
Allen County Register of Delayed Births, Books 1-6.
Allen County Supplementary Index to Birth Records, 1882-1896.
Allen County WPA Index to Birth Records, 1887-1920. 4 vols.
Grabill Births 1917-35, Deaths 1916-37; New Haven Births 1907-37, Deaths 1918-37; Woodburn
Births 1907-37, Deaths 1907-37.
Index to Births, Marriages and Divorces as Reported in Fort Wayne Neighbors 1990-91.
Monroeville Vital Record Indexes, Births, and Deaths, 1906, 1925-37.
Vital Records – Marriages
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 97, Jul.-Oct. 1940. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 98, Nov. 1940-Apr 1941. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 99, Apr.-Aug. 1941. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 100, Aug.-Nov. 1941. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 101, Nov. 1941- Mar. 1942. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 102, Apr.-Jul. 1942. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 103, Jul.-Nov. 1942. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Index to Marriage Book 104, Nov. 1942-March 1943. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Marriage Applications, 1893-1894, 1894-1896 [ACGSI]
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Allen County Marriage Application Book 96, Jan.-Jul. 1940. [ACGSI]
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Allen County Marriage Records, 1991-1995. Multi-volume. [facsimile licenses]
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Allen County Marriage Records 1995-ongoing. Multi-volume. [facsimile licenses]
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Early Marriage Records of Allen County, 1824-1849, 1849-1874, 1874-1888, 1888-1899 by Ehle.
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Early Marriage Records of Allen County 1849-1874 [Index to above]
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Early Marriage Records of Allen County Books 1A & 1B, 1824-1853.
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Index to Births, Marriages and Divorces as Reported in Fort Wayne Neighbors 1990-91.
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Marriage Records, Allen County: 1834-43; 1844-1847. 2 vols.
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Marriage Record, Allen County, 1824-1834. [facsimile]
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Marriage Records of Allen County 1921-1925. 4 vols.
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Marriage Records of Allen County 1926-1930. 4 vols.
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Marriage Records of Allen County 1931-1936. 4 vols.
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Marriage Records of Allen County 1937-1941. 4 vols.
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Miscellaneous Marriage Notices as Found in Fort Wayne Newspapers 1840-1850, 1875-1876
(including Many Out of Town Residents).
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W.P.A. Index to Marriage Records, 1824-1920. 4 vols.
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W.P.A. Index to Supplemental Record, Marriage Transcript, Allen County, Indiana 1824-1920
[1893-1896].
Vital Records – Deaths & Obituaries
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Abstracts of Soldiers’ Obituaries from Fort Wayne, Indiana Newspapers: WWI, WWII, Korea
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Allen County, Indiana, Death Records Not Appearing in the WPA Index, 1921-1937
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Allen County Infirmary Deaths 1937-1973.
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Grabill Births 1917-35, Deaths 1916-37; New Haven Births 1907-37, Deaths 1918-37; Woodburn
Births 1907-37, Deaths 1907-37.
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[Index to] Obituary Records Found in Fort Wayne, Ind., Newspapers, 1841-1900
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Monroeville Vital Record Indexes, Births, and Deaths, 1906, 1925-37.
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Obituary Records as Found in Fort Wayne Newspapers, 1841-1993. 16 vols.
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Record of Deaths, Allen County 1894-1896.
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W.P.A. Index to Death Records 1896-1920, Allen County.
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W.P.A. Supplementary Index to Death Records, Allen County 1870-1896.
Wills/Probate
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Revised: July 2, 2013
Allen County: An Inventory of Wills, 1824-1899.
Everyname Index to Will Records of Allen County, 1831-69,1870-1900. 2 vols.
General Index Estates. 3 vols.
General Index of Guardianships, Allen County, 1829-1905.
Will Records, Allen County, vol. 2 1870-1900.
Will Records of Allen County 1831-1869.