Whitley County, originated in the year 1838, was named on the behalf of William Whitley. It has the county seat in Columbia City. With a total area of 337.91 sq mi, it consists of over 33.2K people with a brilliant mixture of races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others. Around 11.7K households and 8.6K families are found here.

Today with the advent of internet, online historical researches have reached a height of success and that has become largely possible due to the awesome information regarding birth and death news including birth certificate numbers and obituary details, marriage and marital status, divorce decree and census figures with ancestral Social Security numbers, naturalization and immigration data, land assessment and property registration deeds, military duty records with detailed grade and entity, martial achievements in American civil wars and World War I&II, last will and estate records, probates and liens, civil court proceedings and so on obtained from the Whitley County records library.