About This Resource:
This obituary index covers obituaries recorded in Fort Wayne, Indiana
newspapers between 1841 and early August 2008. There are more than 504,000 records in this database.
The index is in two parts and represents two totally different works.
PART ONE:
The first part of the index covers 1841 to 1899. This part was completed and originally printed in
book form a number of years ago. In the publishing of the original book index, an unfortunate
circumstance caused the names of the newspapers and the page citations to become disassociated with the
names. Hence, in searching this index one is able to find the name of the person who appeared in an area
newspaper, the date of the paper, and an abstract of the obituary.
PART TWO:
The second part of the index covers some 1900 dates through early August 2008. The Allen County Public Library's
Genealogy Center staff and volunteers compiled the searchable data file.
Periodic updates will be made to this site over the next year as staff work to
index the newspapers missed over this one hundred and sixty-seven year period. This part will also be
updated with more current obituaries as those data files are created.
Researchers can find microfilm of all of the Fort Wayne newspapers in the Allen
County Public Library's Genealogy Center.
About Searching This Resource:
This database may be searched in the following ways:
- Fuzzy -- will search for that string of characters. Searching for Smith would find
Smith, Smithson, Arrowsmith, etc.
- Exact -- will search only for that exact text. Searching for Smith will find only Smith.
- Soundex -- will search for the Soundex equivalent. Searching for Smith will find Smith, Smythe, Schmidt, etc.
To keep the system running smoothly, the
search will return a maximum of 1000 items.
|
