Fort Wayne and Allen County Resources
Vital Records
- Marriage Records:
- Marriage Records Index, Late 1970s to September 2009
- Death Records:
- Allen County Death Index, 1870s to 1920s
Cemetery, Obituary and Other Death Event Records
- Burial Permits and Records:
- Allen County Burial Permits, 1994 to 2010
- Allen County Church Burial Records
- Cemetery Records
- Albright Cemetery
- Antioch Lutheran Cemetery
- Bethel Baptist Cemetery
- Brenton Chapel Cemetery
- Bullard Family Cemetery
- Concordia (Old) Cemetery
- Eel River Cemetery
- Fogwell Cemetery
- Fort Wayne Catholic Cemetery through 1993
- Hatfield Cemetery
- IOOF Cemetery
- Lake Chapel Cemetery
- Lindenwood Cemetery Burials, 1860 to 2023
- Marquardt Lutheran Cemetery
- Martini Lutheran Cemetery
- Massillon Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
- Parker Cemetery
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
- Poe Cemetery
- Prairie Grove Cemetery
- Riverview Cemetery
- St. Aloysius Cemetery
- St. Johannis Cemetery
- St. John's Catholic Cemetery
- St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
- St. Joseph Cemetery
- St. Patrick Cemetery
- Whitney Family Cemetery
- Coroner's Records:
- Allen County, Indiana Coroner Records Database, 1836-1949
- Funeral Home Records:
- McComb & Sons Funeral Home, 1926-1950
- Peltier Funeral Home, Coffin Sales, 1862-1877
- Tom Mungovan Funeral Home Records, 1980-2014
- Obituaries
- Fort Wayne and Allen County Area Obituary Index, 1837 to Sept. 20, 2024
- Mortality Lists
- Burials in Fort Wayne and Vicinity, 1883
- Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth, aka Fort Wayne State School
Church Records
- Allen County Church Burial Records
- Allen County Methodist Church Records
- Bahai Community in Fort Wayne
- Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Constitution and By-Laws
- Bible Baptist Church, Instruments of Organization
- Calvary Presbyterian Church, 1926-1976
- Calvary Third United Presbyterian Church
- Concordia Lutheran Church: How Did We Get Here?
- Diocese of Fort Wayne, Annual Manual, 1957
- Diocese of Fort Wayne South Bend, Directory, October 1977
- Faith United Church of Christ, Church History
- First Baptist Church Scrapbooks
- Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church Records, 1958-2004
- Golden Jubilee Honoring the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles H. Thiele, 1888-1938, St. Peter Church
- History of St. John's Lutheran Church, Lake Township, 1882-1982
- North Christian Church Scrapbooks
- Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Register and Record of the Sunday-School at Harlan, Indiana for 1906-1907
- St. Jude Catholic Church, History of the First Fifty Years, 1929-1979
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Confirmation, 1920
- St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, Grade 2 (date unknown)
- St. Peter's Catholic Church, Diamond Jubilee, 1872-1947
- Union Baptist Church
- Wayne Street Methodist Episcopal Church
- West Creighton Avenue Christian Church
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Woodburn, Parish Register 3
Court & Courthouse Records
Ethnic Resources
- African American Resources:
- African/African American Historical Society Hana L. Stith Collection
- Birth Records, 1887-1920
- Marriage Records, 1824-1920
- Death Records, 1887-1920
- Census Abstracts, 1840-1910
- City Directories, 1858-70, 1873-77, 1889-90, 1910
- Fort Wayne Black Pages & Professional Directory
- Focus: Fort Wayne's Roots
- Marsha Smiley African American Collection
- Prince Hall Grand Lodge
- Study of the Socio-Economic Circumstances of Negroes in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1963
- William E. Warfield Diaries
- World War I Draft Registrations
- French Resources:
- French Families of Allen County, Indiana
- German Resources:
- Genealogical Records of German Families in Allen County, 1918
- Jewish Resources:
- Emergence of a Jewish Community in Fort Wayne
- Native American Resources:
- Annuities and Census of Miami Indians
- Payments to Miami Indians, 1859
- Records of the Miami Indians of Indiana
Government Records
- Allen County Annual Reports
- Allen County Fire Fighters Photographs
- City of Fort Wayne Documents
- Comprehensive Plan of Allen County, Indiana [1976]
- Firefighters of Fort Wayne, Indiana: 1839-2022
- Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health
- Fort Wayne Fire Department Fire Run Books
- Fort Wayne Fire Department Newspaper Clippings, 1920-2008
- Fort Wayne Fire Fighters
- Honorary Fort Wayne, Indiana Fire Chiefs and Firefighters
- Monroeville Fire Department
- School Traffic Safety Education Division 1958-59 Annual Report
- Spotlight on Government, 1970
History Records
- Indices and Inventories:
- Index to History of Fort Wayne & Allen County, Indiana, 1700-2005
- Inventory of the County Archives of Indiana: Allen County
- Records:
- Abstracts of Title
- Adams Township Plat Book, 1903
- Anthony and Mary (Penrose) Wayne Family Bible
- Bugle Call, Exhibits of War Relics, 1886
- Masonic Lodges of Greater Fort Wayne
- Pleasant Township Road Tax Lists, 1880
- Ribbon Commemorating Abraham Lincoln, 19 April 1865
- Will of John B. Richardville, 1841
- Will of Me Sha Na Quah (alias Anthony Revoir), 1839
- Will of Wa-Pe-Mung-Ah (alias White Loon), 1877
- Resources:
- 122nd Fighter Wing
- 40 Years of Service to Christ, to Our Aged 1932-1972 (Lutheran Homes)
- Abbott Magnetic Mineral Well
- ACPL Exhibit Catalog: Of Growth and Form
- Airport Highway Access Report, March 12, 1968
- Allen County Historic Sites & Structures Summary
- American Cablevision of Fort Wayne, Incorporated (Application, 1978)
- Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Fall Reunion 1928, Valley of Fort Wayne
- And There Was Light: The Story of American Electric Power Company
- Anthony Wayne Area Council 100 Year Anniversary, 1917-2017
- Ardmore Project Status
- Baer Field, 1941-1991: 50th Anniversary
- Baer Field Memories
- Bass Foundry Materials
- Besancon Historical Society Collection
- Bethany Presbyterian Church Women's Society Cookbook, 1936
- Builders of Greater Fort Wayne
- Business Histories
- CCC Co. 1590, Camp SCS-19, August 14, 1940
- Citizens Cable
- Commercial Sites Inventory of Fort Wayne (1961)
- Community Perceptions of Human Needs and Services in Allen County, 1975
- Dad Was a Cop: The Tour
- Demographic Profile of Allen County, Indiana
- Dutch Ridge Remembered--1900, Cedar Creek, Allen County, Indiana
- Eckrich Company Collection
- E. Jane Hamilton Society Follies 1927
- Elks' Bowling Association of America Tournament, 1940, Fort Wayne
- Embassy Theatre Commemorative Photographs, 1928-1978
- Embassy Theatre Page Organ Rebuilding, 1988
- Evaluation of Revitalization Strategies for South Central Fort Wayne
- Everybody Makes the Team: The Story of Wildcat Baseball
- First and Hamilton National Bank, Fort Wayne Ads
- Forest Park Boulevard Historic District
- Fort Wayne-Allen County Historical Museum
- Fort Wayne Black Pages & Professional Directory
- Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce
- Fort Wayne Historic Houses
- Fort Wayne Parks
- Fort Wayne Press Club Gridiron Dinner
- Fort Wayne Professional Chapter Women in Communications Conference, 1985
- Fort Wayne Sister Cities, International
- Fort Wayne Theaters Records and Pictures
- Fort Wayne's Civic Clubs, Trade Associations, Fraternal Organizations, July 1954
- Free Title Day, January 1, 1940
- General Electric Collection
- Gronauer Lock Materials
- Historic Wildwood Park Home & Garden Tour, 2022
- Historical Notes Concerning Parkview Memorial Hospital, 1952
- History and Tradition of Klaehn, Fahl & Melton: The Home
- History of the Fort Wayne Children's Home of the United Church of Christ, Inc.
- History of the Fort Wayne Council of Parent-Teacher Associations
- Hobby House and 20th Century Foods
- Honorable Mayor Thomas C. Henry, Mass of Christian Burial
- Hope Hospital
- Huntertown Historical Society Family Files
- Illsley Place-West Rudisill Historic District
- In Praise of Johnny Appleseed
- Jacob A. Knee Residence
- Johnny Appleseed Memorial Association Record Books
- Lafayette Medical Center: A 20th Anniversary Retrospective
- Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company: Highlights in a Half Century of Progress
- Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (1923)
- Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Home Office Organization, April 21, 1942
- Log Cabins in Allen County, Indiana
- Lutheran Hospital Patient Information Guide, 1976
- Magnavox Company
- Marion Township Scrapbook
- Marion Township Histories, Biographies & Signatures
- Marion Township Minute Book
- Men of Affairs in Fort Wayne
- Mercantile Accident Association of Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Miscellaneous Scrapbook of Fort Wayne History
- New Buildings Erected in Fort Wayne in 1858
- New Haven Canal Days, 1991
- New Haven Centennial
- The Old Fort - 1816: Frontier Fort to Statehood
- Pages From the Portage City
- Paper Towns and Ghost Towns of Allen County
- Parkview's Proud Predecessors
- Penn Station Preservation Plan
- Pi Lambda Theta, Fort Wayne Area Chapter Scrapbooks
- Pilot Briefing Folio, Troop Carrier Command, Baer Field
- Poe Centennial
- Prince Hall Grand Lodge
- Regional Bikeway Plan, June 1976
- Rotary Club of Fort Wayne
- Sears Grand Opening, 29 September 1953
- Shawnee Place Historic District
- Silver Anniversary and the Opening of the New Home of the Lincoln National Bank & Trust Company
- South Wayne Historic District
- Stop! Look! Listen! Read a Letter to the Nickel Plate Railroad Company
- Story of a Children's Room: Public Library Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Story of Allen Dairy: Diary of a Dairy
- Susan Mann McCulloch Materials
- Ten Years of Progress 1933 to 1943, Fort Wayne National Bank
- Three Rivers Coordinating Council
- Tri-State Loan & Trust Company
- Unidentified Photographs of Magnus O. Schoenherr
- Viacom Broadband Communications Proposal to Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1978
- Wayne Machinery Co.
- Wayne Township Justices of the Peace
- We Lived, and Played, on Freimann Square
- West Central Historic District
- West Central Home and Garden Tour and ArtsFest
- Williams Woodland Park
- Wolf & Dessauer Brochure, 1965
- Wolf & Dessauer Menu, 1940
- Women's Industrial Golf Tournament, 1965-2009
- WOWO: The Birth of a Station
- Zollner Pistons: 1940-1957 From YMCA to NBA - The Rise and Demise of the Zollner Pistons
- Zollner Pistons Presents the Bob Hope Show (1953)
- Zollner Pistons Softball Scrapbook
Institutional Records
Maps
- 1812 Era Map of Fort Wayne
- Anthony Wayne Maumee River Parkway, Fort Wayne to Toledo, Proposed 1931
- Original Plat of Fort Wayne
- Map of Fort Wayne, 1846-1848
- Map of Fort Wayne and Vicinity, 1855
- Map of Fort Wayne—Panorama, 1857
- Map of Allen County, 1860
- Plat of Grounds at Fort Wayne, 1888
- Map of Fort Wayne, 1908
- Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and Environs (ca. 1922)
- Map of Fort Wayne Central Business District, 1929
- Map of Business District, 1935
- Map of Downtown Business Loop, 1935
- Maps of Suburban and Rural Additions, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1960
- Street Map of New Haven, 1990s
Military Records
- Persons Exempt from Civil War Military Service, Sept. 1862
- Allen County Pensioners, Oct. 1883
- Allen County Area Servicemen & Servicewomen, 20th Century
- Album of Basha Members, China Burma India Veterans Association, Anthony Wayne Basha, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- American Veteran: Atomic Bill
- American Veteran: B-26 Pilot Keith Freeman
- American Veteran: Fort Wayne, IN WASP in WWII
- Liaison's Report of Fort Wayne's Soldier Participation and Volunteer Citizen Front, World War II
- Military Personnel from Allen County Serving in World War I
- Tell America: USS Indianapolis Disaster
- Tuskegee Airmen: Harold Gaulden and Walter Palmer
- 3 Tales of Vietnam
School Records
- Aboite Township School Enumeration, 1866-1895
- Aboite Township School Trustees Records, 1867-1893
- Adams Township High School, 1899-1900
- Allen County Common Schools Commencement, 1930
- Allen County High School Yearbooks
- Allen County Schools Directory, 1963-1964
- Arcola High School Newspaper
- Bishop Dwenger High School, 2019 Commencement
- Bishop Luers High School Graduation Exercises, 1962
- Brentwood School Special Education
- Butler Public School Souvenir, 1904-1905
- Central Catholic High School
- Central Grammar School, 1894
- Central High School
- Council of Parent-Teacher Associations of Fort Wayne Community Schools, Directory 1963-1964
- Deborah Eidson School Collection
- Elmhurst High School
- Fort Wayne Art School, Art Lights, 1929
- Fort Wayne High School, 1917 Scrapbook (Mae Keller)
- Fort Wayne High School, 1920 Commencement
- Fort Wayne and Allen County Public Schools Directories
- Fort Wayne Roundball, 1965-66
- Frances Slocum Elementary School PTA Membership Records
- Harmar School, Readiol Yearbook, 1946
- Harris Elementary School
- Haverhill Elementary School, Facility Dedication, 1982
- Heritage High School, Class List 1973-1974
- History of the Fort Wayne Council of Parent-Teacher Associations
- Hoagland School
- Hoagland High School, 1937
- IPFW Commencement, 1975
- Lake Township Parent-Teacher Association, 1935-1941
- Louis C. Ward School Bicentennial Folder
- Monroe Township School Records
- New Haven High School Class of 1938
- North Side High School
- Northrop High School
- On Common Ground: A History of Miner School from 1886 to 1952
- Purdue University - Fort Wayne
- St. Joseph Hospital, Retrospect 1931
- St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, Grade 2 (date unknown)
- St. Vincent Villa
- Shawnee Middle School, Distant Drums Magazine
- Snider High School
- South Calhoun Elementary School
- South Side High School
- Southwest Allen County Schools, 1991-92 Directory
- Village Elementary School, Fort Wayne
- Village Elementary School, New Haven
- Washington Township School Yearbook, 1957-1958
- Wayne High School Bicentennial Memories
- Waynedale School Scrapbook (1976)
- Whitney M. Young Elementary School Scrapbook (1976)
- Woodlan High School, Commencement Programs