Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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''[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/census/1930cen/search.html 1930 Cuyahoga Census Abstract]''(partial) | ''[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/census/1930cen/search.html 1930 Cuyahoga Census Abstract]''(partial) | ||
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Revision as of 20:50, 1 March 2013
Coordinates: 41.54°0′N 81.66°0′W / 41.54°N 81.66°W
| Cuyahoga County, Ohio | |
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| Address | Cuyahoga County Courthouse 1219 Ontario St. Cleveland, Ohio 44113-1603 Cuyahoga County Website |
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Ohio Cuyahoga County
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- Parent Counties: Formed from Geauga County 10 February 1808.[1]
- County Seat: Cleveland
- Neighboring Counties: Cuyahoga County, Ohio residents may also have records in [2]Medina (south) · Geauga (east) · Summit (southeast) · Lorain (west)
Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Cuyahoga County boundary changes.
Record Loss
Resources
Bible Records
Biography
Biographical Sketch Name Index
Cemeteries
- Cleveland City Cemetery Burials -- online burial index from the East Cuyahoga County Genealogical Society of all the city-owned cemeteries. Contains more than 350,000 names.
- Greater Cleveland Cemeteries - online database of more than 200,000 names from area cemeteries. Last updated in 2004.
- Alger, Brookmere, and Denison Cemeteries Index
- Butternut Ridge Cemetery (North Olmsted)
- Calvary Cemetery Search Engine
- Calvary Cemetery, Garfield Heights BillionGraves, has photos of headstones and searchable database.
- Cemeteries in Cuyahoga County by Lawrence A. Boyle - a listing of cemetery addresses, photos of the front gates and more.
- Cemetery and Church Records by MattsonWorks Genealogy Preservers
- Strongsville Cemetery
- St. Adelbert's (Polish) Cemetery
- Cuyahoga County Cemeteries
- Erie Street Cemetery Burials (before 1841)
- Find-A-Grave
- Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland BillionGraves
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- Lutheran Cemetery Records
- Mapleshade Cemetery (Independence)
- Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation
- East Cleveland Twp. Cemetery
- Scranton Road Cemetery
- Lakeview Cemetery Web Cemeteries site.
- Lakeview Cemetery BillionGraves
- River Road Cemetery
- Riverside Cemetery
- St. Lawrence Cemetery (Independence)
- St. Mary's Cemetery (Cuyahoga Heights)
- St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery (Berea)
- The Tombstone Transcription Project
- Woodland Cemetery Foundation
Census
1930 Cuyahoga Census Abstract(partial)
Church Records
Catholic
- 1796–2004 Ohio, Diocese of Toledo, Catholic Parish Records, 1796-2004 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection includes images of parish registers recording the events of baptism, first communion, confirmation, marriage, and death in the Diocese of Toledo (Ohio), Roman Catholic Church. These records are accessed by browsing the images by county. In addition to traditional parish registers, this collection includes miscellaneous cemetery records, Books of the Elect, Professions of Faith, Sick Call registers, etc.
- 1796–2004 Ohio, Diocese of Toledo, Catholic Parish Records, 1796-2004 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection includes images of parish registers recording the events of baptism, first communion, confirmation, marriage, and death in the Diocese of Toledo (Ohio), Roman Catholic Church. These records are accessed by browsing the images by county. In addition to traditional parish registers, this collection includes miscellaneous cemetery records, Books of the Elect, Professions of Faith, Sick Call registers, etc.
LDS Ward and Branch Records
- Cleveland
Cleveland Ohio Pastors and Their Churches by Laura Hine.
Cleveland Clergy to 1942 by Don O'Malley
City Directories
- Fold3 ($) has Cleveland City Directories 1861, 1864-1923 (5 yrs. missing) available online.
Get free access to Fold 3 by signing on through the Cuyahoga County Public Library site.
Click "Research" then "Electronic Resources A-Z" then "Genealogy" then "Fold 3" (entering your Cuyahoga County Public Library card number when asked for)
Once on the Fold 3 site, click browse, then "City Directories" then "City Directories Cleveland"
- 1834-35 Ohio City Directories
- 1837 City Directory
- 1900 Cleveland City Directory
- 1834, 1845, 1846, 1848, 1850 Ohio City Directories
- U.S. City Directories
Court Records
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Civil and Criminal Index
Emigration and Immigration
Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups
Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Biographies
Church Records
Cemetery Records
Court Records
Histories
Immigration/emigration/migration
Maps
Newspapers
Societies
Gazetteers
1906--Cleveland Street Name Changes
Genealogy
History
Cuyahoga County is located along the shores of Lake Erie in Northeast Ohio. Its largest city, Cleveland, was founded at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in 1796 when the first of the Connecticut Land Company arrived to survey the Connecticut Western Reserve. The area grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution as a transportation and manufacturing hub, drawing people of diverse backgrounds from around the world.
Local Histories
A History of Cleveland: Its Settelment, Rise, and Progress, 1796-1896 FamilySearch Books Online
Cuyahoga County American History and Genealogy Project
Cuyahoga County - The First 200 Years by Dr. Judith Cetina
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Google Books (free older books, previews of others)
The Pioneer Families of Cleveland 1796-1840 by Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham
World Vital Records (paid site) has the following histories: (click on Ohio)
History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1879)
History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1881)
Ohio Wills & Estates to 1850 by Carol Wilsey Bell
Early Ohio Tax Records by Esther Weygand Powell - Cuyahoga Co. 1810, 1811, 1814 and 1819. Maps
Converting pre 1906 addresses to post 1906 addresses in Cleveland
Land and Property
Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office Deed Images
Cuyahoga County Auditor's Office
Maps
Military
Civil War
Civil War service men from Cuyahuga County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Cuyahoga County.
- 1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery, Batteries B, E, and G
- 1st Regiment, Ohio Infantry
- Company E, also known as the Cleveland Grays
- Company F, also known as the Hibernian Guards
- 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies A, D, E, H, I, and K
- 107th Regiment, Ohio Infantry - many men in this regiment were immigrant Germans from Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. Companies B and E were raised in Cuyahoga County.
Naturalization and Citizenship
Cuyahoga County Naturalizations
Naturalization Petitions for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division, Cleveland 1907-1946 at Fold 3 (paid site) (the old Footnote)
Get free access to Fold 3 by signing on through the Cuyahoga County Public Library site.
Click "Research" then "Electronic Resources A-Z" then "Genealogy" then "Fold 3" (entering your Cuyahoga County Public Library card number when asked for)
Once on the Fold 3 site, click browse at the top and then Naturalizations then Documents then Naturalizations Ohio Northern
Newspapers
- The Cleveland Necrology File (Obits from 1833-1975)
- The Cleveland News Index (index to articles 1983 to current and obituaries 1976 to current)
- Berea Advertiser - full-text of more than 1,200 issues spanning 1882-1908 freely available in Google Newspaper Archive
- The Plain Dealer-- Obituaries (past six months)
- Cleveland Plain Dealer Searchable Archive (for those with a CPL library card)
- Cleveland Magazine (1983- present)
- Ohio Magazine (Oct 1990-present)
Obituaries
Periodicals
Probate
Cuyahoga County Wills and Estates Index (with directions and link to Family Search where you can see actual images of the documents)
Wiki articles describing collections are found at:
- Ohio Cuyahoga County Probate Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Ohio Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Ohio Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Public Records
Repositories
Courthouse
Cuyahoga County Courthouse
1200 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: 216.443.7950
Probate Court has birth records 1859-1901 and death records
1868-1908; Western Reserve Historical Society has marriage
records 1810-1941 and tax revenues 1819-1869; Marriage License
Bureau has marriage records from 1810; County Courthouse has
naturalization records 1818-1906 and probate records from 1810;
Clerk Court has divorce records 1837-1925; County Administration
Building has land records from 1810[1]
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Ohio Cuyahoga County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Family History Centers
- Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
- Solon Ohio Family History Center
- Westlake Ohio Family History Center
Libraries
Museums
Societies
School Records
Courtesy of the Cleveland Public Library:
Taxation
Vital Records
Birth
- Cuyahoga County Birth Returns 1871-1908 - located at Fold 3 (paid site) (the old Footnote)
- Get free access to Fold 3 by signing on through the Cuyahoga County Public Library site
Click "Research" then "Electronic Resources A-Z" then "Genealogy" then "Fold 3" (entering your Cuyahoga County Public Library card number when asked for)
Once on the Fold 3 site, click browse at the top and then vital records and choose "Cuyahoga County Birth Returns"
- Ohio Births & Christenings 1821-1962 (Searchable Index but no images)
Marriage
- Historical Marriage License Index--1810-present
- Marriage Index Years Covered
- Cuyahoga County Marriages (from Cuyahoga County Archive)
- Cuyahoga County Marriage Transcriptions
- Ohio Marriage Index by Ancestry 1970; 1972-2007
- Ohio Divorce Index 1962-1996 by OGS
- Ohio Marriages at FamilySearch 1800-1958 Index and Images
- Ohio County Marriages at Family Search 1790-1950 Index and Images
Death
- Coroner Case Files--1833-1900
- Ohio Deaths 1854-1997 (Index only)
- Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at [hhttps://www.familysearch.org/search/search/index/catalog-search#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&fed=false&collectionId=&catSearchType=keywords&searchCriteria=Ohio+Deaths%2C+1908-1953&placeName=&author_givenName=&author_surname= FamilySearch]. Records include such information as birth date of deceased, city, county, and state of death, name of spouse if married, names of parents, maiden name of mother, name of informant, if deceased was single, married, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.
- Ohio Death Certificates 1954-present (how to obtain them)
Miscellaneous
Voter Registration
1893-1899 Cleveland Voter Registration
1907 Cleveland Voter Registration
Web Sites
- Castle Garden Passenger Lists
- Cleveland Digital Library (from Cleveland State University books and links to books)
- Cleveland Police Museum
- Clew Bay to Cleveland (Irish History)
- Cuyahoga County Ohio Genealogy and History
- Cuyahoga County OHGenWeb
- Family History Library Catalog
- Cuyahoga County Research FAQs
- Cuyahoga County History
- Cuyahoga County Cities in 1896
- Cuyahoga County Old Photos
- Cuyahoga County Photos by Wikimedia
- Cuyahoga County Schools
- Case Western Reserve University Digital Book Collection
- Cleveland State University Digital Library
- Cleveland State University Memory Project
- Cleveland's German Businesses
- Cyndi's List for Cuyahoga County
- Ellis Island Passenger Lists
- Genealogy and Family Tree Search Engine by Mocavo
- Genforum Message Board
- German Heritage in Cleveland
- Germans In Cleveland
- German Immigrants to Cleveland
- Greater Cleveland Genealogical Research Websites
- Harm's Way (site about Germans to Cleveland)
- Heritage Pursuit (paid site)
- Lakewood Public Library History Site
- Linkpendium
- National Archive
- Ohio Genealogy Express
- Ohio History Central
- Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
- Ohio and Erie Canal
- Footnote.com
- Cleveland District Round Table Regional Activities
- Cleveland Public Library Genealogy Databases
- Polka Hall of Fame Cleveland Style
- Rootsweb, Rootsweb Mailing Lists and Worldconnect
- Rootsweb Resources for Cuyahoga County
- Social Security Death Index
- Steven Morse Site for searching Immigration and Census Records
- Western Reserve Historical Society Searchable Databases
- Western Reserve Historical Society Catalog
- WorldCat
Places
Populated Places
Cities
Villages
Townships
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), [FHL book 973 D27e 2002].
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Cuyahoga County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).
Wiki articles describing these collections are found at:
- Ohio Cuyahoga County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Ohio Cuyohaga County Probate Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
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