Yes, you can contact the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center at
http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx
The Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center has 1,000's of newspapers
on microfilm, but they are not online. They do have obituaries Indexed back
to 1841 from the present:
http://friendsofallencounty.org/search_obits1900.php All the local
newspapers from the present back to the 1870s are on microfilm, further back
to 1840's are somewhat sporadic. There are 2 daily newspapers from today
back to about 1900, then there were many more. Newspapers prior to 1900 used
small print and are very hard to read.
A lot, but not all of the newspapers should be in Ancestry.com's newspaper
collection from 1920 back to 1840's - but are not easy to find unless you
search by name and/or location. They are in separate databases based on the
name of the newspaper making it confusing and difficult to find. Look for
names like The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, The Journal, The Gazette, The
News-Sentinel, the News, the Sentinel, Dawson Daily Times, Daily News, daily
and weekly of some newspapers with the same name and perhaps other long
defunct newspapers that are all on microfilm in the library.
Stan Follis
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From: inallen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:inallen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Nirdlinger(a)aol.com
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:19 AM
To: inallen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INALLEN] Allen Co 1861 - 1866
Is there a collection of microfilm for newspapers published in ALLEN Co.
during 1861 - 1866 ? Using GenealogyBank and
Ancestry.com have only found a
few scattered dates. The "Elkhart Weekly Review" comes up with many dates
for that span of time using "Fort Wayne" as a search term [the city I am
interested in].
Or, if such items do not exist, what neighboring county might have
newspapers from that period of time ?
And, might there be a book that details what went on in Fort Wayne during
that period of time? Would be most appreciative of any suggestions that
would enlighten me.
Thanks, Nancy NIRDLINGER Gerbino
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