I have purchased a copy of the 1874, 1907, and 1921 COMBINED ATLASSES & 1892 Plat Book of LaPorte County, Indiana from the LaPorte County Historical Society and am willing to do some basic free lookups for other researchers.

Keep in mind that these combined books do not contain every person in LaPorte County.  What they do contain are properties outside of the towns and cities.  If your ancestors owned more than a residential lot inside a town or city, their property might be listed in these maps.  In addition to the Plat maps, there are listings of prominent people and business persons.  Some listings include the nativity of the person, their date of birth, and the year they came to the county.

1874 outline

• Government officials
• Biographies of some notables
• Directory of some citizens and business folk (include nativity and year in county)
• Property maps
• Includes index of surnames and places in the atlas (compiled in 1987)
• Atlas contains numerous illustrations of homes and businesses.  (I hope to index these at sometime in the future.)

• Property maps
• Directory of La Porte Co.  (includes year of birth, nativity, occupation, and year settled)

• Property maps
• Rural directory (strictly PO and rural route)
• 5 pages of advertisments (local businessmen and businesses)  (I plan to index these)

• Property maps partial index
• Patron's directory (includes occupation and year settled in LaPorte)
• 10 pages of local advertisments.  (I plan to index these)
• 4 pages of illustrations of notable people, businesses and homes  (I plan to index these)

When requesting a lookup, please indicate what township you believe your families are from.  Be aware that sometimes the property ownership is only indicated by a first initial and last name.