Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana

01/03/2026

Friday Fact - twelve years apart by the Allen County Recorder's Office and Indiana Genealogical Society regarding soldier discharge records. Both on the Military page: https://www.acgsi.org/genweb/military/military-allen-county-indiana.html

12/31/2025

"Fort Wayne, Indiana, then an outpost of civilization." 😀 from the beginning of the last paragraph in this post. 😀
1906 - "Miss Margaret Johnson: “My grandfather was the chief United States factor in the management of Indian affairs, and at the beginning of the nineteenth century was stationed at Fort Wayne, Indiana, then an outpost of civilization." 😲 2026 begins America250. 😀

Some of their Fort Wayne posts are on the John Johnston Family page: https://www.acgsi.org/genweb/people/john-johnston-family-of-allen-county-indiana.html

Many local Indian pages link off this page: https://www.acgsi.org/genweb/people/indians-of-allen-county-indiana.html

12/29/2025

This would be a unique way to display family pictures. 😀

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