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Some Private Laws of Indiana Relating to La Porte County

PRIVATE LAWS OF INDIANA RELATING TO LA PORTE COUNTY ON LINE 1843-1847 and 1850 available on GoogleBooks 28 July 2012 What follows is a sampling from one county of a little-used legal resource for genealogists and historians that is available in most states and counties. Six annual “local law” books for Indiana are available on [...]

Free Lookup in Index to the Justices Court Records 1879-1906, New Durham Township, La Porte County, Indiana

Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com. I can supply the nature of the case, plaintiff & defendant, date, and JP presiding. The original book is in the La Porte County Clerk’s office. Allen, Edward, 407 Allison, George, 10 American Steel & Wire Co., 426 Anderson, Daniel, 84 Ansley, Elmer, 307, [...]

Free Lookup in 1987 La Porte Directory

1987 La Porte, Indiana, City Directory (Taylor MI: R. L. Polk & Co., 1987) Includes alphabetical listing, business directory,  street directory, reverse phone-number directory, and county taxpayers list. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com.

Free Lookup in 1986 La Porte Directory

1986 La Porte, Indiana, City Directory (Taylor MI: R. L. Polk & Co., 1986) Includes alphabetical listing, business directory,  street directory, reverse phone-number directory, and county taxpayers list. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com.

Free Lookup in 1971 La Porte Directory

Caron’s La Porte (La Porte County, Ind.) City Directory 1971 (Detroit: Caron Directory Co., 1971) Includes alphabetical listing, business directory,  street directory, reverse phone-number directory, and county taxpayers list. Email me with your query at librarytraveler  AT gmail DOT com.  

Free Lookup in index to early La Porte court records (1830s)

Harold Henderson, comp., In Court In La Porte: An Every-Name Index to the First Legal Proceedings in La Porte County, Indiana [prior to 1836] (La Porte: Blurb.com, 2011). More than 800 distinct surnames of pioneers appear in the first minute record (order book), complete record, and judgment docket of this northern Indiana county. This book [...]

An Index Is a Treasure Map — Do You Dig?

Originally published in Indiana Genealogist 19, no. 3 (September 2008):147-150, with nice illustrations not shown here. Footnotes {1} have been converted into endnotes in this format. Copyright Indiana Genealogical Society. AN INDEX IS A TREASURE MAP — DO YOU DIG? Trying to do genealogical research without indexes would be like digging for buried treasure without [...]