Allen County, Indiana Genealogy

This article is about a northeast Indiana county. For other uses, see Allen.

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History

Parent County

1823-- Allen County was created 17 December 1823 from unorganized territory and Randolph County.
County seat: Fort Wayne

Places/Localities

Neighboring Counties

• Adams
• De Kalb
• Defiance County, Ohio
• Huntington
• Noble
• Paulding County, Ohio
• Van Wert County, Ohio
• Wells
• Whitley

Resources

Cemeteries

• Concordia (Old) Cemetery
• Fort Wayne Catholic Cemetery through 1993
• IOOF Cemetery
• Lindenwood Cemetery burials, 1860-2005
• Prairie Grove Cemetery
• Riverview Cemetery

Church

• Allen County Church Burial Records. Years of coverage vary by church.

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Fort Wayne

Court

• 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

• 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

• McComb and Sons Funeral Home Records, 1926-1950

Maps

• Allen County, 1860
• Fort Wayne, panorama, 1857
• Fort Wayne Central Business District, 1929
• Suburban and Rural Additions, 1960

Military

• Persons Exempt from Military Service, Sept. 1862
• Allen County Pensioners, Oct. 1883
• Allen County Area Servicemen & Servicewomen, 20th Century

Obituaries

• Obituary Index, 1841-mid March 2009 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 517,000 records in the database

Probate

• 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.

Vital Records

• 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 

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

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog