Resources
If you are researching local history or your family tree, here are links to various free research resources in Marshall county and beyond.
Families on this site
The tag cloud page lists all the family names tagged in articles on this website. Click a name from your family tree to find articles that mention people in that family.
Bremen High School graduates database
Historic Bremen hosts a database of BHS graduates at BHSgrads.com.
Bremen graduates database
General resources
- Historic Bremen photo & news archives
- Marshall County Historical Society
- Indiana Historical Society
- Indiana Memory – library and museum collections
- “If you grew up in Bremen, Indiana” Facebook group
- Indiana county and township codes (useful for understanding property maps)
- Topographical maps of Bremen (USGS – key is the imprint year)
Bremen obituaries
Genealogy resources
- Bremen Public Library obituary search
- FamilySearch record search
(census, marriage, draft, etc.) - Findagrave cemetery search
- Civil War:
- ISTG Immigration ships record search
- Genealogy Trails – Marshall county
- RootsWeb – Marshall county
- Indiana Genealogy – Marshall county
- genealogy links from the Bremen Public Library, including Bremen war veterans & cemetery records
Click “Search … Newspapers.com” to search the Bremen Enquirer
Newspaper resources
- Search the Enquirer and other Indiana newspapers
- Hoosier State Chronicles newspaper archive
- Elephind newspaper archive – Bremen, Indiana
- Newspapers.com (Bremen Enquirer, SB Tribune, etc.)
Books
- History of Indiana – Special Edition for Marshall County (1890) – Bremen search
- Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana (1908) – Bremen search
- History of Hastings, Indiana (c1920) – folk history that explains the draining of marshes, the series of popular crops (onions, hemp, and mint), and daily life in the area before the modern day
- Google Books preview of Bremen and North Central Indiana, full of old photos from the Don Schneider collection and elsewhere
![1920s - Thomas and Eleanora [Vanasdallen] Reed](https://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/50842635607_ca3800c353_m.jpg)
December 31, 2016 at 10:57 am
A friend just told me about your website. How interesting! I grew up in Bremen also and wonder how I can research my family. Could you help me with that? We bought the old Seneff building on the west side of town (before Seneff’s bought it ) in about 1965 and we lived there in the back of the building and my parents made it a used furniture store called Pat’s Bargain Barn. Would like to know it’s previous history. I think it was an ice cream parlor before we owned it. Thank you
January 8, 2017 at 2:22 pm
I find the Bremen Bargain Barn as early as 1953 one block south of the foundry and Pat’s Bargain Barn opening in 1964 in the Steineck Building on W Plymouth St. Here is Steineck Hardware about 1930:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/historicbremen/22836343726/
John H Steineck opened his hardware store there in 1886. Is that the building you mean? You can e-mail me directly at derek@tysto.com.
April 1, 2017 at 11:44 pm
It occurs to me that you mean the Senff Wood Products building outside town west of Bremen. That was previously the Wheel, a smorgasbord restaurant.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/historicbremen/26015412972/
June 5, 2019 at 6:31 pm
I would like to bring that Charcoal Portrait that is in a Chicago Portrait Co. Cathedral Picture frame in this Friday and hopefully find out more about it. I will be in Bremen around 10:00 am. Where would I go to have this looked at and whom would I ask for? Thank you in advance…