NWIGS Porter County Records

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 is maintained internally on our Society’s website.
     *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.
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​Porter County Every Name Index and List of Cemeteries (list of all known cemeteries)
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• Porter County Death Index: 1884-1927 (8,900+ names)
• Porter County Naturalization Index (6,200+ names)
• Porter County Obituaries and Death Notices,  Pre-1900 (13,200+ names)
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  Volume 1
  
  ​Volume 2

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NWIGS Northwest Indiana Indexes and Collections

Porter County, Indiana, Government Books Archived at Indiana University - Northwest

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• Canal Land Records
  
  
• Civil War Soldier Enumeration, Indiana Adjutant General, 1868
  
  
• Hammond Times 1929 Death Notices & Obits
  
  
• Maps of Northwest Indiana
  
  
• Porter County Government Books - Calumet Regional Archives
  
  
• Pullman-Standard Employee Records
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• Pullman-Standard Injury Reports
  
  
• Pullman-Standard Over Age 45 Employee Records
  
  
• TWIGS Newsletter (a bi-monthly newsletter published by NWIGS) see member area
  
  
• TWIGS Every Name Index (32,000+ names that have appeared in TWIGS)
  
  
• Valparaiso Family History Center Inventory (very extensive list- not updated)