Allen County, Indiana Genealogy

See our The News-Sentinel newspaper history section. WORK IN PROGRESS.

You can Search The Journal Gazette Archives pay-per-view including searches for page images of The Fort Wayne News Sentinel 1901-1942, and text-only searches of the Journal Gazette 1992-Current, and News-Sentinel 1990-current.

The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana has whatever issues are available from 1833 to the present on microfilm in the library.

Newspapers.com has:

1. Fort Wayne Daily News Archive 1874–1923
2. The Fort Wayne News Archive 1894–1919
3. Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel Archive 1875–1917
4. The Fort Wayne Sentinel Archive 1870–1923

October 24, 2023 post by WANE 15 on Facebook:

For more than three years, The News-Sentinel’s website has sat frozen in time, perpetually stuck at April 23, 2020.

On Wednesday, a publication that dates back to 1833 may have finally gone dark for good.

The News-Sentinel goes dark: Website for newspaper dating back to 1833 taken offline

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has 37,218 snapshots of www.news-sentinel.com from 1999-October 2023. The snapshots went green and stayed green meaning redirects on October 25, 2023.

Final The News-Sentinel website screenshot October 23, 2023

Internet Archive Wayback Machine links

Work in progress to copy links to the Wayback Machine where it is hoped they will remain as long as the internet!

Screenshot of original website

I Remember History online tour of Summit City history from the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaperwas still online 10-26-2023.

• These I remember Fort Wayne links go the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
• I remember Fort Wayne
• Articles by Michael Hawfield
• Articles by Richard Battin
• Articles by Kevin Leininger goes to a long list of articles called Fort Wayne History shown below
• Irish canal diggers built prosperity
• Blanks family was 'invisible' in turn-of-century Fort Wayne
• Blacks sought equality in Fort Wayne
• Johnny Appleseed
• History by Century is links to Time Period links by decade
• Allen County Courthouse links to more articles about the courthouse

Fort Wayne History

Is from the Articles by Kevin Leininger link above in the I remember Fort Wayne section.

Still linked to original site.

• Death of the Aveline House
• The House that James built
• The best market, Barr none
• The life of the Bass Foundry
• Area swimmers once flocked to the St. Joe River
• City forgot its birthday, but threw a party anyway
• It took years to break the 'Berry blockade'
• Building new bridges
• Bowser and his pumps
• Fort Wayne breweries
• Canal era short-lived but important to city
• Church of churches
• Cigar war winner still alive and living downtown
• Civic center first sought 72 years ago
• Local school system sprang from the Clay
• City's celebrated scandal: the coal-deal probe
• 'Magic' made Columbia Street disappear
• A corner of change
• Old courthouse had charms
• Dry goods merchant recalled by street name
• Dudlo's Wire Enamel
• City fought fires before it was a city
• The flood of 1913
• Wreck of the Penn Flyer killed four in 1911
• Stay cool with the frozen past
• The Hanna homestead
• McCulloch on the mend
• The IOOF building
• Light of the world
• Fort Wayne Knitters
• Neighborhood was ready for La Ressurrection
• Mother of Fort Wayne's meat packers
• The last downtown department store
• A necktie party
• Fort Wayne's saddest story
• Playing our song
• The Pennsy Shops
• Banker & reformed gambler built Pixley-Long
• The story behind the hill in the park
• The rink attracted good skaters
• Price of education too steep for some
• St. Paul's has two birthdays
• Traffic on right tracks
• The Transfer Building
• Riding city's trolley car not like going coach
• Anthony's tale
• Olds Wagon Works flourished briefly
• WOWO brightest when radio was king
• Identity mistaken

WORK IN PROGRESS - NEED TO CLEAN UP AND REPLACE WITH WAYBACK MACHINE LINKS

Fort Wayne History Stories About Time Periods in I Remember History online tour of Summit City history from the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper

TOP 50 Northeast Indiana's Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century by The News-Sentinel newspaper

Cityscapes - People & Places series of articles from the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper- bad links to egen2.

1000 to 1900 in Fort Wayne History Stories About Time Periods in I Remember History online tour of Summit City history from the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper

News Sentinel Text Archive & Digital Fort Wayne Newspapers Facebook Event

Genealogy Saturday, September 21 2:30pm - 3:30pm Add to Calendar Main Library Meeting Room C Online sources for Fort Wayne newspapers. The News Sentinel Text Archive is a great addition to the various online sources for Fort Wayne newspapers. Join us in exploring these fabulous resources for hometown history! Presenter: Delia Cothrun Bourne

FORT WAYNE HISTORY

Stories about time periods: http://egen.fortwayne.com/ns/projects/history/2000/

1000 to 1900

1. Path to the past by Nate Meyer
2. Take the portage journeyPATH TO THE PAST Hiking the Maumee-Wabash canoe portage by Nate Meyer
3. Portage pointsPATH TO THE PAST
4. Millennium milestones in Fort Wayne 1000 to 1799
5. Fort Wayne
6. Settlement born of simple beginnings PATH TO THE PAST Settlement born of simple beginnings The area's earliest residents were hunter-gatherers a millennium ago. by CONNIE HAAS ZUBER
7. Interactive map of the portage Click on numbers to see photos and details from each part of the portage
8. SLIDE SHOW: Path to the past photos are numbered 1-11 for interactive map above

1900 - 1910: Era of optimism

1. Immigrants' toil built city's base by Nancy Nall
2. Early African Americans find local life a constant struggle by Shannon King
3. Sun shines on courthouse dedication by Margaret Ankenbruck 1997
4. Hope and despair characterized times The rich moved to the suburbs while the poor struggled to survive by Kevin Kilbane
5. Cubs battled their way to league title on diamond Betting on horse races also was a popular pastime by Blake Sebring
6. Robison Park amused thrill seekers by Carol Tannehill
7. Horseless carriages paved way into centuryby Connie Haas Zuber
8. The Lincoln' insurance company built on foundation of failed pyramid scheme by Lynne McKenna Frazier
9. Timeline of changes - A new era of change dawns
10. VIEW PACKAGE- Interactive Timeline - Printable Version

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