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*First created in 1836.
*County seat:
Located in northern
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Aetna, Ainsworth, Belshaw, Black Oak,
Brunswick, Buffington
Harbor, Calumet, Cedar Lake, Clarke,
Cook, Creston,
Crown Point, Deep River,
Dinwiddie, Dyer,
East Chicago, Gary,
Green Acres, Griffith,
Hammond, Hartsdale,
Hawthorne Hills, Hessville,
Highland, Hobart, Hornbeck, Independence Hill,
Indiana Harbor, Klaasville,
Kreitzburg, Lake
Dalecarlia, Lake Hills, Lake Station, Leroy,
Liberty Park, Liverpool,
Lottaville, Lowell,
Maynard, Merrillville,
Miller, Munster,
New Chicago, New
Elliott, North Hayden, Orchard Grove, Palmer,
Pine, Prairie View,
Range Line, Roby,
Ross, St. John,
Schererville, Schneider,
Shady Lawn, Shelby,
Southeast Grove, Turkey
Creek Meadows, Wald View, Weston, Whiting and
Winfield.
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located in, and view information and links specific to that area.
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Broad Street &
Avenue "A" -
- Earle Grist Mill
in Hobart,
- Historical Articles on the Development of the Lincoln Highway
- LakeNet - information for Northwest Indiana Community, Culture, etc.
- Map of the Calumet Region, 1889, on the Eve of Its Major Industrial Development (Whiting Library site)
- Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more. Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature. This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
- countyhistory.com: for Lake County, by Ronald Branson!
- Indiana Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Indianapolis, Indiana Regional Office
- Veteran's Burial & Memorial Benefits
- How to Obtain Military Records:
Military service records are kept by the
- Request Pertaining to Military Records.
· Indiana State Library. 140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
o Indiana Biography Index (published before 1990)
o Indiana Biography Index (published since 1990)
o Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
o Index of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2002
o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)
o Images of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley
o Vital Information Exchange (VINE)
· 1880 Census Index, by familysearch.org
· 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
- Obtaining EDs for the 1930 Census in One Step (Large Cities), by Stephen P. Morse, PhD, Joel D. Weintraub, PhD and David R. Kehs, PhD
- The Doughboy Center - presented by The Great War Society.
- World War II Veterans Online Information Center
- Civil War: NPS: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
- Polish Genealogical Society of America
- Lake County Public Library
- Indiana Room
- Genealogy Requests
- Indiana Roots
- Hammond Public Library
Reference Questions: Phone: (219) 852-2243 or E-mail: infodesk@hammond.lib.in.us
- East Chicago Public Library
- Whiting Public Library
- Local History Room
- Obituary Index
- Map of the Calumet Region, 1889, on the Eve of Its Major Industrial Development
- Crown Point Community Library
- 214 S. Court Street -
- Winfield Library
- Lake County, Indiana
- Lake County Health Department (For Birth & Death Certificates from ca. 1882)
- East Chicago City Health Department
- Gary City Health Department
- Hammond City Health Department Vital Records Division
- Lake Circuit Court Clerk (For Marriage, Divorce & Probate Records)
- Courts Building
- Phone: (219) 755-3465.
Calument
Township - Communities include: Aetna, Black Oak, Clarke, Gary, Griffith,
Miller and Ross. Pine and Weston appear to have been near the
- The Tolleston
Cemetery, with a brief history of Tolleston: located on
Miller Cemetery Gravestones, read by Mrs. Joseph E. Brown and Mrs. W.A. McBride of the Julia Watkins Brass Chapter, N.S.D.A.R.,- Town of Griffith, Indiana
- Griffith Historical Society, Inc.
Broad Street &
Avenue "A" -
Cedar Creek Township - Communities
include:
- The History of Lowell,
Indiana, by Richard C. Schmal,
- Three Creeks Historical Association meets at the Lowell Public Library.
Center Township - Communities include:
- www.crownpoint.net -
- St. Mary Catholic Church [Est. 1868]
- H. J. Alerding's, 1907, "History of St. Mary's Catholic Parish", transcribed.
- Crown Point Community Library
- Winfield Library
Phone: (219) 662-4039.
Eagle
Creek Township - Communities include: Dinwiddie, Range Line and Southeast
Grove.
Cemeteries in Eagle Creek Township include:
1) Southeast Grove Cemetery
155th and Southgrove Road, Eagle Creek Township,
Crown Point, IN
2) Plum Grove Cemetery
Plum Grove Cemetery is located on State
Road 2, between Broadway Street and Mississippi Street, just west of Dinwiddie,
Indiana and I-65, in Eagle Creek Township, (Latitude: 411721N; Longitude:
0871906W)
Burials in Plum Grove
Cemetery, compiled by Mrs. Joseph Brown and Mrs. Waldon A. McBride of
the Julia Watkins Brass Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., in 1953, posted online by Kathy
Huish.
Hanover Township - Communities include:
Brunswick, Cedar Lake, Cook, Klaasville and Kreitzburg.
- History of St. Anthony's Church in Klaasville, Indiana., from Rt. Rev. Alerding's 1907 History of the Diocese of Fort Wayne.
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Hobart Township - Communities include:
Hobart, Lake Station, Liverpool and New Chicago.
- Earle Grist Mill
in Hobart,
- Take a Walking Tour of Hobart on Frank and Jackie Tromble's site.
- Hobart Township Branch Libraries
- Hobart Branch Lake County Public Library
Hobart Carnegie Library is on the Historic Landmarks in Northwest Indiana list
- St. Bridget Catholic Church [est. 1873] - See: 1907: History of St. Bridget's Church.
North Township - Communities include: East
Chicago, Hammond, Highland, Maynard, Munster, Roby and Whiting. The
- Lake County, Indiana Visitors Center
- City of Hammond (official) City Government Directory.
- History of the City of Hammond
- Hammond Public Library
Reference Questions: Phone: (219) 852-2243 or E-mail: infodesk@hammond.lib.in.us
- Whiting Public Library
- Local History Room
- Obituary Index
- Map of the Calumet Region, 1889, on the Eve of Its Major Industrial Development
- Munster Historical Society
- Northwest Indiana Views: Indiana Harbor (ca. 1913 postcards)
- Marktown Preservation Society
405 Prospect
St., East Chicago, IN 46312 Phone: (219) 397-2239
"...The Mark Town Site was built in 1917 by Chicago
Industrialist Clayton Mark Sr. and was designed to be used as housing for his
rapidly expanding Indiana Harbor Works of the Mark Manufacturing Company of
Evanston, Illinois..."
- The Tolleston
Cemetery, with a brief history of Tolleston: located on
- Hessville /
Hessville
and Paupers Cemetery Readings, walked and recorded by Ann Keightley, in
1987, and donated to the US GenWeb by friends and family members, in the late
Ann Keightley's honor.
Phone: (219) 473-4700 E-mail: cyh@whiting.lib.in.us
Ross Township - Communities include:
Ainsworth, Deep River, Green Acres, Hornbeck, Independence Hill, Lincoln
Village, Lottaville, Merrillville and Turkey Creek Meadows.
- The Merrillville
Cemetery,
330 (73rd Avenue) in Merrillville Indiana, transcribed and posted online, by Kathy Huish.
St. John Township - Communities
include: Dyer, Hartsdale, Lake Hills, New Elliott, St. John and
Schererville.
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church was established in 1847 : "The Oldest Parish in NW Indiana" - The parish website includes a brief History 1839-1998.
Mailing address:
- H. J. Alerding's, 1907,
"History
of St. John's Catholic Parish", transcribed : "...
- St. Joseph
Catholic Parish: [est. 1867] See Alerding's History of
H. J. Alerding's, 1907, "History of St. Josephs Catholic Parish", transcribed :- St. Michael
Parish:
- St. Maria Goretti
Catholic Parish:
- Historical Articles on the Development of the Lincoln Highway
- Town of Dyer, Indiana
- Dyer, Indiana
- Schererville, Indiana
- Lake
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West Creek Township - Communities include:
Belshaw, North Hayden and Schneider. The community of Creston is located
on the West Creek-Cedar Creek township line.
Winfield Township - Communities include:
Leroy, Palmer and Winfield.
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PROFESSIONAL
HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsite, and with the vast resources of the Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America. Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.
Printed resources for this page include:
- School and Library Atlas
of the World. Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore,
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