Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana

12/27/2025

Over 100-year tradition is coming to an end. 🥲

ACGSI GE page: https://www.acgsi.org/ge/index2.php
ACPL GE Collection: https://contentdm.acpl.lib.in.us/digital/collection/p16089coll47
Allen INGenWeb GE page: https://www.acgsi.org/genweb/fort-wayne/ge-fort-wayne-indiana.html

Weldon Schaefer knows all good things come to an end, but he didn’t imagine the local GE Quarter Century Club would be among them.

12/17/2025

⚠️ Heads up! The Main Library will be closing at noon today, 12/17 for building maintenance. The Main Library will reopen tomorrow, 12/18, for normal business hours. No other branches are affected.

12/17/2025

The library is closing at noon today!
The workshop will need to be canceled or moved.

12/11/2025

Registration is open for the NGS 2026 Family History Conference! 🎉 Explore the conference website and join us 27-30 May. Tag someone who would enjoy with you and start making your travel plans to Fort Wayne, home to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center—one of the largest genealogy libraries in the country.

https://conference.ngsgenealogy.org

12/07/2025

ACGSI helps family historians learn about people from Allen County, Indiana. Search a name in our extraordinary digital archive to find fascinating clues.

12/06/2025

It's not often that we learn something new about the 1940s Wolf & Dessauer Santa Claus Christmas lights. 😀
See Wolf & Dessauer page: https://www.facebook.com/Historic07District/posts/pfbid028K5rjsXAU9FJVwmYqE2GtZuNyepFxLEmTfqCoYNdfnfcn8WKauNyCLEkYuS6W3eSl?__cft__[0]=AZXkuP0ZCUfb29lZRv3c9f-WyYjFIBrMm5S5t3kOsQQClpzBl_rKp4yqTreGY48O5O6P1F5pSEyVXAPo8KITbr-Ao7eKsYboZ3k4tYOWQdZYuNmLnw_OrkEQi-EZbjtuN7ZIDAkei9m6tR3FU-jcQU-ASyZaAK0VUoZGI93jYpZbjqlqNvGipUUWuB14rXcmniR_Q3UE0hsLgoR2gsAgffm3&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-Rthat

12/04/2025

12/04/2025

History buffs can now peruse over 100 years of Maryland birth, marriage, death and other records online at the Internet Archive.

12/04/2025

The amazing people at Reclaim the Records created a BIRLS database to help you easily get VA records for your 20th century military relatives. You can search directly on their site and submit the Freedom of Information Act request directly from there. They even FAX it to the VA for you. It's amazing.

https://www.birls.org/

Unfortunately, the VA is now refusing to fulfill these requests with the full files. Read more here and keep filing those FOIA requests. We have a right to our records.

https://www.birls.org/updates

12/04/2025

Reclaim the Records - Available Genealogy Collections (New Quicksheet)

Reclaim the Records is a non-profit organization that strives to obtain genealogical record collections that “ought to be” in the public domain but are restricted by government organizations. They file FOIA and Open Data requests to obtain the records and if that fails to succeed, they go to court.

Once records are obtained, the organization digitizes the records and makes them available on repositories such as the Internet Archive for public use by genealogy researchers and anyone else who has an interest.

The downlaodable Quicksheet PDF has links to 64 digitized collections that they have made available.

https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/reclaim-the-records-available-genealogy-collections/