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Michigan 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 Meets at - Swanson Center, LaPorte Every 2nd Tuesday of the Month President - Alan Zeller
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
VILLAGES, CITIES, TOWNS, TOWNSHIPS, COUNTIES, AND POST OFFICES - IN			LaPorte County Pioneer Cemetery Commission Files Contact Patricia Gruse Harris  at pagharris@ sbcglobal.net
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
Wanatah Public Library 104 N Main St, Wanatah, IN (219) 733-9303			Westville Public Library 153 Main St, Westville, IN (219) 785-2015
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
Westville Community Historical Society			The Wanatah Historical Society site updates by: Don Millbranth
Access La Porte County Visitors Information			Wanatah Indiana
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
LaPorte Herald Argus recent Obituaries			News Dispatch recent Obituaries
CastleGarden.org America's First Immigration Center			Michigan City Indiana hosted by Richard Blissmer
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
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 http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0
Cyndi's List Huge data base with lots of helpful links.			Health Department of La Porte County (Birth and Death Certificates

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***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

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Presented by: The La Porte County Indiana Cemeteries and Research Association