Online Archives
Through our projects and donations from members, NWIGS
maintains a number of databases and publications that are helpful in
genealogical and family history research for individuals who resided at one
time or another in
either Lake County or Porter County, Indiana. Listed below are links to data that
are maintained internally on our Society's website. The
Research Resources webpage on our website will
direct you sources of genealogical and family history information related to
Lake County and Porter County that is maintained both on our website and other websites.
Publications containing a wealth of information, and which can be purchased
from the Society, can be found on the Our Publications
webpage of this website. We're always looking for individuals to contribute
additional genealogical and family history information to our Society or to
volunteer for a project!
Please note that no portion of the databases created by NWIGS and its
volunteers may be copied, re-indexed, or reproduced in any form or by any
means.
Use our Search Engine to explore our website.
LAKE COUNTY
Boyd Home Tourist Records,
Merrillville
Calumet Township Land
Transfer Index, 1895-1899 (12,100 records)
Cemetery
Every Name Indexes
Cemeteries of Lake County
(list of all known cemeteries)
Certificates of Business
Partnership, 1910-1960 (5,624 records)
Chicago Title and Trust
Index, Book 154 - Indiana Harbor
Chicago Title and Trust Company
Records
Circuit Court Docket Book
Index, 1884-1888
Claim Docket for Lake County,
1897-1905
Early Land Sales and Purchases Index for Lake County,
1837-1857
East Chicago
High School in the World War, 1919
Gary Elks Lodge Memorial,
1920
Gary Screw & Bolt Company Employee
Records (14,286 records)
General Land Office Records for Lake County
Germania in Amerika Index (German Pioneers of Lake County)
Guardian Bonds, 1919-1934
(1,451 records)
Hammond Pioneers (obtained from
the August 17, 1934, issue of the Hammond Times)
Hobart High School
Armed Services Honor Roll, 1919
Insolvent Tax Payers List, Lake County (32,500+ names)
Inventory Books
for Estates and Guardianships (8,509 records)
Korean War Casualties from Lake County
Lake County Naturalizations Index (10,300+ names)
Marriage Book Index, Lake County:
1837-1926
(50,796 marriages)
Medical and Drugless Physicians'
License and Certificate Records for Lake County
Plat Book Index, Lake County,
1891
Plat Book Index, North Township,
Lake County, 1869
Register of Trained
Nurses, Lake County (1,321 records)
School Enumeration, Lake
County, 1890 (2,498 records)
School Enumeration, Lake
County, 1896 (8,621 records)
Surety Bond Records,
1844-1853
Telephone Directory Listings, City of Gary, 1909
Will Abstracts, Lake County,
1855-1930s
Will Book A Index
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company Personnel Records
PORTER COUNTY
Cemeteries of Porter County
(list of all known cemeteries)
Porter County Death Index: 1884-1927
(8,900+ names)
Porter County Naturalizations Index (6,200+ names)
Porter County Obituaries and Death
Notices, Pre-1900 (13,200+ names)
NORTHWEST INDIANA (BOTH LAKE COUNTY AND PORTER COUNTY)
Canal Land Records
Civil War Soldier
Enumeration, Indiana Adjutant General, 1868
Maps of Northwest Indiana
Pullman-Standard Employee Records
Pullman-Standard Injury
Reports
Pullman-Standard Over Age 45 Employee Records
TWIGS Article Index (a bi-monthly newsletter published by NWIGS)
TWIGS Every Name Index (32,000+ names that have appeared in TWIGS)
Valparaiso Family
History Center Inventory (very extensive list)
