Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana Area Obituary Index, 1841-mid January 2008

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Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana Area Obituary Index, 1841-mid April 2008

About this Database:
This obituary index covers obituaries recorded in Fort Wayne, Indiana newspapers between 1841 and mid April 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 mid April 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 in this Database:
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.

Which data to search?	1841-1899 1900-mid April 2008
Surname:
Type of Search for Surname:
First Name:
Type of Search for First Name:
Obituary Date (MM/DD/YYYY):

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