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*First created in 1835.
*County seat: Bluffton.
Located in north eastern Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include:
Bluffton, Craigville, Dillman, Domestic, Greenville, Greenwood, Jeff, Keystone,
Kingsland, Liberty Center, McNatts, Mt. Zion, Nottingham, Ossian, Petroleum,
Phenix, Poneto, Reiffsburg, Rockford, Tocsin, Travisville, Uniondale, Vera
Cruz, Wellsburg, and Zanesville.
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Surrounding Counties:
N = Allen
County, IN
W = Huntington
County, IN WELLS COUNTY E = Adams County,
IN
SW = Grant
County, IN S = Blackford
County, IN SE = Jay County, IN
- Native American links
- countyhistory.com: for Wells County, by Ronald Branson!
- Wells County Public Library - About the library page.
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Bluffton newspapers from 1866 on microfilm - Genealogy Dept.
- Obituaries, 1866-2000
- Cemetery Index
- To order obituaries use the Genealogy Request Form
- Professional Historical-Genealogical Research
- Bluffton, Indiana unofficial web page.
- Bluffton: Village Profile.
- Parlor City - Local Internet Provider.
- Wells County Historical Society and Museum
- Membership Mailing Address:
- Wells County Historical Museum
- Site Index of Online Articles and Information
- The Indians and Wells County.
- Wells County History: The Early Years.
- "Backwoods Bluffton": by James Foster.
- Funeral Homes:
- H. Brown and Sons
Funeral Home Records (
- The Bluffton News-Banner - online news
- INGenWeb for Wells County, IN - hosted by Cathy Burnsed.
· 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
- 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.
- Bureau Of Land Management - General Land Office Records: Search for early land records.
- Wells County Public Library - About the library page.
200
Bluffton newspapers from 1866 on microfilm
- Ossian Branch Library
Contacts for many documents and certified copies:
- Wells County Health Department (For Birth and Death Records from about 1882)
(For Marriage and Divorce Records)
- Wells
- Miami Nation of Indians
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- Annuity Payroll: June 12, 1895, on the USGenWeb for Miami County
- The MYAAMIA Project, from the
- Indians of Indiana - Guide which includes migration maps, from Ray's History and Guide to Terre Haute
- Information about the Illinois-Miami language.
- Miami History, by Lee Sultzman
- Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
- Miami Tribal Library
- Indian Nations - Indian Territory, for the Miami Nation, online at the Oklahoma USGenWeb
- Native American Census Enumeration - information about
- The Big Miami Reserve, Article by Historian, Carl Leiter, includes maps - In 1819: "...The largest of these [Miami Indian towns] in north central Indiana was located at the confluence of the Mississinewa and Wabash rivers and was named "Missinewa Town" on the Surveyors' plat of the region. ..."
- Glenn A. Black Laboratory Current Research Publications Menu
- An Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana, by James H. Kellar, online at the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Reproduced with the permission of the Indiana Historical Societies.
- Index of Miami Names, Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology and The Trustees of Indiana University
- The Research
Experiences of the Miami Nation of Indiana, by Darryl Baldwin,
Miami of Indiana---Graduate student in Linguistics at the
- French-Canadian Associations: PRDH, The Comprehensive Site of Quebec French-Canadian Genealogy
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching on-site, 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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