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Allen County, Indiana Obituaries

Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana newspaper obituaries can be searched on the obituary index of the The Genealogy Center online databases from over 500,000 entries from the Allen County Public Library starting in 1841 through the present time. Researchers can find all of the Fort Wayne newspapers on microfilm in the Allen County Public Library's Genealogy Center. Volunteers at the library will copy obituaries for $2.50 each if you contact them at genealogy@acpl.info. Most of the newspapers through 1920 are also accessible online through the Allen County Public Library computers and by subscription through Ancestry.com's online Historical Newspaper Collection.

Recent obituaries are online at Fort Wayne Newspapers using Legacy.com for archiving their obituaries and some local funeral homes have web sites. The online newspapers go back to 2003, but a year after publication expect to pay $2.95 per obituary for access to archived obituaries.

Old time obituaires were often quite blunt about cause of death, but today they rarely include death details. We have come to rely on cause of death on government certificates recorded in the county courthouse since they became the law in most states starting in 1882. A number of recent studies indicate that as many as a third of today's death certificates list the most likely cause of death rather than the actual medical cause of death making their value questionable. Unless a medical autopsy was performed, knowing human nature in todays society, we must wonder how accurate death certificates have ever been.

• Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation - professionally taken photographs of deceased infants donated by professional photographers nationwide
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Funeral Homes and Online Obituaries

Example of a 4 part query on INALLEN - L Rootsweb Mailing List Archive resolved with use of ACPL online Obituary Index.

• 1830's to 1900 Allen County, Indiana Church Burial Records - ACPL
• 1840's to the present Allen County Public Library Online Obituary Index
• 1900 to 1912 - Evangelical Messenger Obituary Index ACPL
• ACGSI list of Funeral Homes
• Allen County Funeral Services - list of companies
• All Funeral Homes.org - Funeral Home Directory
• Carmichael Funeral Service Obituaries
• Covington Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home Obituaries
• D.O. McComb and Sons Funeral Home Obituaries
• Fort Wayne Newspapers obituary index back to about 2003
• FSN Funeral Homes.com - Find A Funeral Home
• Funeral Homes near Fort Wayne - maps of locations
• Klaehn, Fahl, & Melton Funeral Homes - started in 1876 from Indiana History.org pdf
• Legacy.com online obituaries
• Newspaper Obituary Archive - nationwide search requires subscription

Obituary Abstracts

Richard Berkheiser has posted obituary abstracts from his Newspaper Tidbits Project on the Allen County, Indiana Rootsweb Mailing List. Clicking the colored date links will open the obituary abstracts in a new browser window.

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