Ohio Genealogy

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Indiana Court documents

This is an amazing resource! Most families from Ohio have connections to Indiana. I found a relative who was sued for Public Indecency for uttering an innapropriate word in a conversation...ok, he was a minister! Another "cousin" tried to get his 13 year old daughter committed to the Indiana Industrial Home for Girls because she wouldn't go to school. My 3rd great grandmother was sued for commenting on the living arrangements of two unmarried people. These are all the original documents from the 1800's...and you can view them. What an incredible collection...absolutely fascinating.

http://www.munpl.org/

Click on "Adults" on left side of page (This is the Muncie Public Library, so it takes a minute to load.)

Local history/genealogy

Digital Resource Library

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Northeast Ohio

Ohio's Heritage Northeast brings digital collections from universities, colleges, and public libraries together into one searchable database. Use the search box above to explore our combined collection of images, sound recordings, videos and texts chronicling northeast Ohio's past.
There is an easy to use Search function.
http://www.ohiosheritagenortheast.org/

Sandusky and Erie County History

Sandusky History
Here is a blog dedicated to the discussion of topics relating to the history of Sandusky and Erie County, Ohio; inspired by the collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center and Follett House Museum. A service of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. http://www.sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Extensive list of Resources for Ohio

http://www.rootexinc.net/OhioCounties.html

Although this site has not been updated for a few years, the list and links are extensive. AND...there is a good colorful map of Ohio Counties. Black & white maps are sometimes a bit difficult to read...this one is great. At least check out the site.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Migration Trails

Here is a site that has a link that shows states, counties & migration trails. http://www.migrationtrails.com/

This is a free service which can bring to life the travels of your ancestors by requesting your customized migration map and discover:

Migrations trails that your ancestors might have traveled.
New counties to research for records.
How many miles your ancestors might have traveled.
A map that will become an important part of your genealogical records.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Free Genealogy Search Help

Genealogy Search Help for Google, which helps you run targeted genealogical Google searches

Free Genealogy Search Help for Google
Get the Best Genealogy Searches for Google by Using Your Family Tree
This free genealogy site will help you use Google™ for your research. It will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" that will likely improve your results. The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google to find ancestry information on the Internet.
Just complete the small family tree from the link above for an ancestor and this site will set up the best searches for you, based on what you enter. Tip: If you don't know an ancestor's parents, but know one of the ancestor's children, use the child's name for the First Name and Last Name below (and spouse, birth, and death) and then enter the ancestor as the Father or Mother. This gives more information for building a search.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Great resource - NEW Source

If you go to the New York Times site, you can enter your search terms in the bar near the top of the page and select whether you want to search articles since 1981 or before 1981. Once you have your results, you can select the Advanced option to limit your search to specific dates. The stories are downloadable as PDF documents. (If you happen across articles that aren't in the free years, they're $4.95 each, or you can get a monthly pass for $7.95 that allows 100 story downloads.)
I used a couple of Ohio place names and found real gold...many surnames, too. Try it.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Stark County resources

http://www.starklibrary.org/starkcountyonlineind.htm

The Stark County, Ohio library is one of the best resoiurces online for research. I have visited the library and found the personnel to be more than helpful. But here is an index, by year, to the newspaper which goes back to 1815 for obituaries. There are other resources on the web site and the library staff responds to requests very quickly.

Here is a copy of an obit I ordered and received within two weeks. nThis was dated 1935

Monday, September 3, 2007

Free Mortality Schedules online

Search Online Mortality Schedules for Free
Bill Cribbs, the man behind the GenealogyBuff.com free genealogy search engine site, has gathered hundreds of counties’ online transcribed mortality schedules and made them searchable at MortalitySchedules.com.
For the 1850 through 1880 US censuses, enumerators recorded names of and other details about people who’d died within the past year. These mortality schedules may be the only death record for some people, especially in states that didn’t require recording of deaths until later. You can browse MortalitySchedules.com by state or search on one or more keywords, such as a name or place. (If you want matches to contain more than one keyword, select “Find all words” from the dropdown menu.) When you click on a match, you'll be taken to the Web site that stores the transcribed records. What you see varies depending how the data was transcribed and digitized. You may get a chart or a text file listing a few details of deaths in that enumeration district, or you may get the whole shebang: the deceased’s age and marital status at death; death date, place and cause; birth date and place; physician’s name; parents’ birthplaces and more.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Google Book Search

Are Your Ancestors in Google Book Search?
A favorite search tool is Google's Book Search, at books.google.com. By typing in keywords just like in a normal Google search, you get results from all sorts of out-of-print and hard-to-find books. Type in "Ohio Genealogy" and more than 350 books will come up. Try your surname or the county or town where you are researching. There are many other resources here. Some books show up in the results as full page scans with searchable text. Other books are restricted to just showing a few preview pages or a few paragraphs of excerpts. Some are downloadable as PDF documents. (Even if you can't see all of the information, Google gives you the publisher's information that gives you a head start on finding it at your library.)

Ohio soldiers in the War of 1812

Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812 -
The roster of the war of 1812 for Ohio consisted of a total of 26,280 men who enlisted from Ohio to assist the nation in this war. They comprised of 3 regiments, 464 companies, 13 cavalry troops, and 1 artillery battery. This dataset has broken up this list for easier perusal by the company, troop, or battery of the soldiers.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

research comment

He who cares nothing about his ancestors will rarely achieve anything worthy of being remembered by his descendants. —author unknown

Newspaper index

http://www.starklibrary.org/genealogylinks.htm
This is a link to the Stark County, Ohio library and their web site. Here you will find the searchable archives of the county newspaper going back more than 100 years. This is an amazing amount of information. You will also find a link here to the death certificates in the state repository.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Civil War pension Files

These files contain an amazing amount of information. I sent away for my great-greatgrandfather's pension file and received 97 pages of valuable copies of handwritten documents from his parents, friends, and family as well as doctors, ministers, and fellow soldiers. He was from Gallia County, Ohio and now I can share much information with others in that county...copies of their ancestor's signature, for example.
NARA Record Request Fees Go Up Oct.
We’ve known it was coming since the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) proposed last February to raise its reproduction fees for records you order. The good news is, it could’ve been worse.Effective Oct. 1, NARA will charge $75 for a Civil War pension file of up to 100 pages, plus $.65 per additional page (for longer files, staff will contact the requestor with a price quote before filling the order). NARA will charge $50 for pre-Civil War pension files regardless of page count, and $.75 per page to copy other records.While still a steep increase from the current $37 for a Civil War pension file, these fees are less than the $125 and $60 NARA originally proposed for Civil War and pre-Civil War pensions, respectively. (Still, save some cash by sending your request before October.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Gallia County, Ohio

Gallia County Ohio http://www.galliagenealogy.org/ has one of the best genealogical web sites in the state. Here you can find lists of the following:

Obituaries
Military Obituaries
MilitaryRecords
Church Records
Cemetery
Family Reunions
Tax Records
Hardesty Index
Births
Census
Family Histories