*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.
 

• Native American links
• countyhistory.com: for Wells County, by Ronald Branson!
• Wells County Public Library   -  About the library page.
•    200 W. Washington Street – Bluffton, IN  Phone: (260) 824-1612.
     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 Public Library
• Wells County Historical Society and Museum
   
• Membership Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 143 - Bluffton, IN 46714-0143
• Wells County Historical Museum
     420 West Market Street - Bluffton, Indiana
• 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 (Warren) - transcription project for Wells and Huntington County genealogy
• The Bluffton News-Banner - online news
• INGenWeb for Wells County, IN - hosted by Cathy Burnsed.
• History of Wells County
• Wells County Cemeteries!
• familysearch.org - 1880 Census Index
• Indiana State Library.
   140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
• Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
• Indiana Biography Index
• Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
• WWII Servicemen Index
• Images from the County
• County Newspaper Holdings (in Indianapolis)
• 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 W. Washington Street – Bluffton, IN  Phone: (260) 824-1612.
   Bluffton newspapers from 1866 on microfilm

• Genealogy Dept.
• Obituaries, 1866-2000
  
• Ossian Branch Library
    207 North Jefferson Street – Ossian, IN  Phone: (260) 622-4691.

Contacts for many documents and certified copies:

• Wells County Health Department  (For Birth and Death Records from about 1882)
   223 West Washington Street - Blufflon, IN 46714-1955  Phone: (260) 824-6489.
• Wells County Courthouse
   102 West Market Street Ste. 205 - Bluffton, IN 46714
(For Marriage and Divorce Records)
County Clerk: Phone: (260) 824-6482
 
• Wells County Recorder: (For Land Records)
    102 West Market Street # 203 - Bluffton, IN 46714 Phone: (260) 824-6507.
• Wells County Surveyor (For County Maps)
       102 West Market Street # 107 - Bluffton, IN 46714 Phone: (260) 824-6414.

• Miami Nation of Indians
    
• P.O. Box 41 - Peru, Indiana 46970  Phone: (765) 473-9631.
• The web site was at www.miamiindiansofindiana.org, however, it does not appear to be accessible at this time.
• Annuity Payroll:  June 12, 1895, on the USGenWeb for Miami County
• The MYAAMIA Project, from the Miami Nation and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
• 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 University of Montana. Coordinator of the Indiana Miami Language and Cultural revitalization program.
• French-Canadian Associations: PRDH, The Comprehensive Site of Quebec French-Canadian Genealogy

• Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer.  First Edition, Second Printing.  Yarmouth, Maine:  Delorme.  1998.
• School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.