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RESOURCES - NON GOVERNMENT
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City Indiana Library 100 E. Fourth Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 (219) 879-4561 Has an line Obituary Index Search Engine Not totally complete - but what an effort! Contact them for current fees. |
La Porte
County
Genealogical Society Click on above link for current news and activities |
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| LaPorte
County Library 904 Indiana Avenue LaPorte, IN 46350-3435 Phone: 219-326-6156 See below for a list of directories that this library has: *** |
La
Porte County Historical Society & Museum Take a walk into yesteryear. Visit the museum at a new location. Lots of research material and helpful staff too. Phone: 219/324-6767 |
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| VILLAGES,
CITIES, TOWNS, TOWNSHIPS, COUNTIES, AND POST OFFICES - IN |
LaPorte
County Pioneer Cemetery Commission Files Contact Patricia Gruse Harris at pagharris@sbcglobal.net |
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| Rolling Prairie Library 1 E Michigan St Rolling Prairie, IN (219) 778-2390 |
Union
Mills Branch Library 3727 W 800 S Union Mills, IN (219) 767-2604 |
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| Wanatah Public Library 104 N Main St, Wanatah, IN (219) 733-9303 |
Westville
Public Library 153 Main St, Westville, IN (219) 785-2015 |
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| Kingsford Heights Library 436 Evanston Rd, Kingsford Hts, IN (219) 393-3280 |
La Crosse Public Library - moved here to new location - 307 E Main St, La Crosse, IN (219) 754-2606 |
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| Westville Community Historical Society | The
Wanatah Historical Society site updates by: Don Millbranth |
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| Access
La Porte County Visitors Information |
La
Porte County Government On Line Township, cities & Election info  |
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| Allen County Public
Library - Allen Co.,, Indiana. and do a search under the Texts (top left links in browser) for your county name + Indiana or State you are searching for and surf through the titles.Comes in pdf files on the left under View the Book section to download. These are the original scans of the films and huge files so will take some time to download. |
Indiana State Library old La Porte County Newspapers 140 N. Senate Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46204 317.232.3675 |
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| LaPorte
Herald Argus recent Obituaries |
News Dispatch recent Obituaries |
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| CastleGarden.org America's First Immigration Center |
Michigan City Indiana hosted by Richard Blissmer |
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| INDIANA - RESOURCES - GOVERNMENT OFFICES | LaPorte County, Indiana Court Records | |||
| Indiana State Archives Follow through the pages to find what you are looking for and/or follow their email instructions. - State is restructuring their site. |
Federal
Land Records Site Search for land records and descriptions by owner |
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| Logansport
State Hospital Cemetery (Sometimes called Longcliff Cemetery ) |
A New site being built for the Internet and already
containing a lot of information may be found at Family Search |
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Stress Breakers
| Photos around our County Robb Quinn |
Botswana, Africa |
10 different live cameras |
State
Comparisons |
***The
following directories are available at the La Porte Library:
1884-86 has LaPorte City, Michigan City, AND County Lists Separated by
Township
1887-88 Has LaPorte City, Michigan City, AND County Lists with county
residents sorted alpha, not by township.
This also indicates "property & real estate owners", so might
not include non-owner tenants.
1890 is a LaPorte City Only Directory the next one is 1897.
WPA
Vital Records Indexes are available for about 2/3 of the Indiana
counties.
They have marriages (usually 1850-1920) and sometimes application info
for a few of the included years; deaths and births (both generally
1882-1920).
Look for these in both book form and microfilm. The following counties
are NOT included: Blackford, Brown, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur,
DuBois,
Fayette, Grant, Jefferson, Jennings, Lawrence, Marshall, Noble, Ohio,
Porter, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Steuben, Switzerland, Tipton,
Union,
Wabash, and Whitley. The following counties have only partial indexes:
Fulton, Kosciusko and Pulaski.
Indiana
Death Index 1882-1920 (WPA) at Ancestry.com (requires payment) includes
the following counties: Adams, Allen, Benton, Boone, Carroll,
Cass, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Delaware, Elkhart, Floyd,
Fountain, Franklin, Fulton, Gibson, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock,
Harrison,
Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jasper, Jay, Johnson,
Knox, Kosciusko, Lagrange, Lake, La Porte, Madison, Marion,
Martin, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Orange, Parke,
Perry, Pike, Posey, Putnam, Shelby, Spencer, St. Joseph,
Starke, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Warren,
Warrick, Washington, Wayne, Wells & White County
The
following News Papers are available at the Michigan City Library on
Microfilm.
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indicates sporodic issues within time frame noted - -
++ indicates best sources for research
with a few
issues missing her and there.
Michigan City Press
5/8/1939 - 10/18/1939
The Weekly Times
2/20/1909 - 8/7/1909
Michigan City News ++
8/11/1887 - 6/4/1938
Michigan City
Evening News ++
8/1/1887 - 6/8/1922
Michigan City Evening Dispatch ++
4/26/1881 - 6/4/1938
Michigan City Dispatch ++
9/1879 - 10/2/1913
Michigan City Enterprise **
11/28/1855 - 6/9/1871
Michigan City Gazette **
5/5/1841 and 7/21/1841
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like to exchange links,
please contact Deanna
West laportecountyin@yahoo.com
Presented by: The La Porte County Indiana Cemeteries and Research Association