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Revision as of 07:49, 21 May 2010
- This article is about a northeast Indiana county. For other uses, see Allen.
United States > Indiana > Allen County
County Courthouse[edit | edit source]
History[edit | edit source]
Parent County[edit | edit source]
1823-- Allen County was created 17 December 1823 from unorganized territory and Randolph County.
County seat: Fort Wayne [1]
Boundary Changes[edit | edit source]
Record Loss[edit | edit source]
Places/Localities[edit | edit source]
Populated Places[edit | edit source]
Neighboring Counties[edit | edit source]
- Adams
- De Kalb
- Defiance County, Ohio
- Huntington
- Noble
- Paulding County, Ohio
- Van Wert County, Ohio
- Wells
- Whitley
Resources[edit | edit source]
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
- Concordia (Old) Cemetery
- Fort Wayne Catholic Cemetery through 1993
- IOOF Cemetery
- Lindenwood Cemetery burials, 1860-2005
- Prairie Grove Cemetery
- Riverview Cemetery
Church[edit | edit source]
- Allen County Church Burial Records. Years of coverage vary by church.
LDS Ward and Branch Records
- Fort Wayne
Court[edit | edit source]
- Applications for Naturalization, 1844-1906. Information includes name, date of application, native country. Later ones also include age, port of embarkation, and date and place of arrival.
Ethnic[edit | edit source]
- African-American Births, 1887-1920
- African-American Marriage Records, 1824-1920
- African-American Deaths, 1887-1920
- Genealogical Records of German Families in Allen County, Indiana, 1918. This index was taken from the "Enemy Alien Registration Files." German- or Austrian-born people who were not American citizens were required to file.
Funeral Homes[edit | edit source]
Land[edit | edit source]
Local Histories[edit | edit source]
Maps[edit | edit source]
- Allen County, 1860
- Fort Wayne, panorama, 1857
- Fort Wayne Central Business District, 1929
- Suburban and Rural Additions, 1960
Military[edit | edit source]
- Persons Exempt from Military Service, Sept. 1862
- Allen County Pensioners, Oct. 1883
- Allen County Area Servicemen & Servicewomen, 20th Century
Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Obituaries[edit | edit source]
- Obituary Index, 1841-April 2010 Web site shows name, date of obituary and name of newspaper and page for the Fort Wayne and Allen County areas. There are more than 536,000 records in the database
Probate[edit | edit source]
- Guardianship Records, 1829-1905. Index gives the name of the ward and usually the name of the guardian, date of appointment, heir of, and volume/page of the original record.
Taxation[edit | edit source]
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
- Allen County Death Index, 1870s-1920s
- African-American Births, 1877-1920
- African-American Marriage Records, 1824-1920
- African-American Deaths, 1887-1920
Societies and Libraries [edit | edit source]
The Allen County Public Library houses one of the largest genealogical record collections in the world. They can be visited at:
www.acpl.lib.in.us
Phone: 260-421-1252
Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana
Web Sites[edit | edit source]
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- Family History Library Catalog
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).