What's New?A running chronology of website changes . . . .
| 2010 | |
| January 22 | Approximately 300 fully transcribed, cited, and indexed biographies have been added to the website. A total of more than 1,300 Porter County biographies are now available. |
| 2009 | |
| December 2 | Added DISNMORE to the Surnames webpage. |
| November 29 | Added a list of Liberty Center High School Alumni from 1914 through 1929 to the Miscellaneous webpage. |
| November 23 | Added 2,008 aerial images from John Drury's book This Is Porter County. |
| November 16 |
Added complete scans of high school annuals for
Valparaiso High School for the years of
1907,
1909,
1911,
1920, and
1923 to the Miscellaneous
webpage. Each annual is searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader's pdf search feature. Added city and county directories for 1885, 1893, and 1902 to the Miscellaneous webpage. Each directory is searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader's pdf search feature. |
| November 8 | Added a list of Crisman High School Alumni (Portage Township) from 1918 through 1930 to the Miscellaneous webpage. |
| October 5 | Added list of Porter County veterans that served in the Seminole War of 1835-1842 to the Military Service webpage. |
| September 11 | Completed the transcription of the August 18, 1936, edition of The Vidette-Messenger. This edition included the Porter County Centennial, 1836-1936, Special Edition, a 94-page compendium of Porter County history that included 174 articles. |
| August 29 | Added list of Porter County veterans that served in the Mexican Expedition of 1916-1917 in the pursuit of Pancho Villa to the Military Service webpage. |
| August 28 | Added list of Porter County veterans that perished in World War II to the Military Service webpage. |
| August 14 |
Added
Pioneer Life and Impressions written by Mrs. Isabel McKnight,
circa 1917, discussing various people and places in Porter County to the
Miscellaneous
webpage. Added numerous articles from the Porter County Centennial edition of The Vidette-Messenger newspaper, published on August 18, 1936, to the Miscellaneous webpage. Added list of Porter County veterans that perished in the Korean War to the Military Service webpage. Also added remembrance page for Staff Sergeant James P. Thorstad, who perished in the 1983 bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks in Lebanon. |
| August 11 | Added an 1878 History of Porter County written by Hubert M. Skinner. |
| August 7 | Lists of Porter County veterans serving in the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Black Hawk War, as well as a list of casualties of the Iraq War and the Occupation of Iraq have been added to the Military Service webpage. |
| August 3 | Lists of Porter County veterans serving in the Mexican-American War, Spanish-American War, World War I, and the Vietnam War have been added to the Military Service webpage. |
| June 23 | Added BROBECK, EICHENSEHER, EICHENSEHR, JOHNSON, KELEHER, KELLIHER, REASON, RIESSEN, RUHSEN, RUSHEN, SCOTT, STRANGEWAY, and WHITHOF to the Surnames webpage. |
| June 20 | A brief history of the Porter County school system, written in 1917 by Fred H. Cole, Superintendent of Porter County Schools, has been added to the Miscellaneous webpage. |
| June 14 | Added BIGELOW to the Surnames webpage. |
| May 17 | Added the 1893 Valparaiso City Directory to the Miscellaneous webpage. |
| April 25 | An article published in 1919 titled Fishing in a Mid-West College Town has been added to the Miscellaneous webpage. |
| April 10 | Added CLIFFORD, McGILLICUDDY, and THUNE to the Surnames webpage. |
| March 28 | We have completed the process of adding nearly 2,300 unique images to the Photographs & Historical Images webpage. |
| March 20 | Added a link to Porter County GIS to the Maps webpage. This mapping service is provided to the general public by the Porter County GIS Office, a unit of the Porter County Auditor's Department. |
| March 13 | We have added a complete transcription of a Vidette-Messenger newspaper article concerning the memories of Broncho John H. Sullivan published in 1935. |
| March 6 | Added indexes for the Eight Square Cemetery in Pine Township and the Salem/Friedhoff Cemetery in Washington Township to the Porter County Cemetery Index webpage. Special thanks is extended to Deanna West for providing these indexes for use on the Porter County GenWeb. |
| March 5 | We have added a complete transcription of a book written in 1896 by Broncho John H. Sullivan, one of Valparaiso's most colorful citizens, titled Life and Adventures of Broncho John: His First Trip Up the Trail. |
| February 6 | We have started the process of adding approximately 2,200 unique images to the Photographs & Historical Images webpage. |
| January 31 | More than 300 fully transcribed, cited, and indexed biographies have been added to the website. |
| January 25 |
Added contemporary newspaper articles concerning the
Woodville Train Wreck of 1906 that killed between 55 and 61
individuals. Added Liberty Township Newspaper Transcriptions, 1884-1900, to the website. |
| January 24 | Added indexes to all Liberty Township cemeteries to the website. |
| January 18 |
Added an article to website titled
Dream Cities of The Calumet written by John O. Bowers and published
in 1929. Added an essay to the website titled Villages and Towns of Porter written by Timothy H. Ball and published in 1900. Added railroad right-of-way plat maps for Porter County to the website. |
| January 17 | Added a 1956 History of Porter County by John Drury to the website. |
| January 15 | Added an 1876 History of Porter County written by A. G. Hardesty and a 1923 History of Porter County written by Deborah H. Shults-Gay. |
| January 12 | Added a Brief History of Porter County in the Civil War to the website. |
| January 11 | Added 1,103 records from the Hardesty List of Porter County Civil War Soldiers. |
| January 9 |
Added
1876 township plat maps and
1895 township plat maps. Added AUSTIN, EDWARDS, GARRISON, GORDON, LUDINGTON, and WATTS to the Surnames webpage. |
| January 8 | Added 1906 township plat maps and 1921 township plat maps. |
| January 7 | Added 1973 township plat maps and 1976 township plat maps, and 1988 township plat maps. |
| January 6 | Added 1969 township plat maps. |
| January 5 | Added USGS topographical maps covering the entire area of Porter County, as well as 1938 township plat maps. |
| January 4 | Added pdf files of the books Some Bible Records in Porter County, Indiana, and Index to Part I of Counties Lake and Porter, Indiana (1882) published by the William Henry Harrison Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, to the Miscellaneous Items webpage. |
| January 2 | An additional 220 fully transcribed, cited, and indexed biographies have been added to the website, bringing the total to more than 770. Many more additions are forthcoming. |
| 2008 | |
| December 15 | An additional 150 fully transcribed, cited, and indexed biographies have been added to the website. Many more additions are forthcoming. |
| December 8 | More than 400 fully transcribed, cited, and indexed biographies have been added to the website. |
| December 7 | More than 6,700 fully transcribed, cited, and indexed Porter County obituaries and death notices were added to the website. |
| December 6 | Completed the addition of Will and Probate abstracts, including an index, from Porter County Will Books A and B to the website. |
| November 29 | Added Find A Grave search feature for Porter County cemeteries to the Cemeteries webpage. |
| November 28 | Introduced redesigned website. |