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The field's own bibliography. John D. Beatty, Historical Sources of Fort Wayne, Indiana: An Annotated Bibliography for Doing Historical Research on the Summit City in the Allen County Public Library. Fort Wayne: Allen County Public Library, 2000. Open at the Internet Archive (histsourcesFtWayne). Beatty, the Genealogy Center's own bibliographer, arranged the library's Fort Wayne holdings by subject and annotated them — a snapshot, as he writes in his preface, of the sources at the close of the twentieth century.
What it proved here: this bibliography is the map the whole project orients by — the book-length answer to the question this section answers in miniature. Where a section needed to know whether a Fort Wayne source existed at all, Beatty was the first place checked; where his annotations and a section's first-hand read differ, the read is what we print. Any future edition of this record should begin by asking what Beatty would add.
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- Every leg, as the finding aid of first resort.