Favorite resources for Ohio ancestors

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Permalink Reply by Annette on July 24, 2009 at 5:11pm

Just saw note about favorite sites for Ohio research. Family Search was a big help to me. There is a free site-Heritage Quest- that can be accessed through the genealogy department at the public library. You have to have a library card. I go to the Stark Cty. District library. You can access the records at home when you are signed up. They have people, places, and even books at the site in which you can look up the names. Newspapers online was also a help. Check the genealogy department at the library. They often have books that can be taken out that might give beginning genealogists a head start. There are LDS sites that can be visited. For those who don't have ancestry.com or other sites thatn have a fee, The genealoty department at the library might have IGI records on microfiche which tell of births, deaths, and marriage records in diffrent countries and states including Ohio. Books about counties often have names of early settlers. Most counties have administration dockets which give naturalization records, guardianship records, and others.

Permalink Reply by Unknown Ancestor on July 24, 2009 at 5:34pm

Yes, the free FHL and free FamilySearch are especially beneficial for Ohio research. After finishing the indexing and digitizing of the 1908-1953 deaths and 1816-1838 tax records, they appear to be starting on the Toldeo Diocese documents, 1796-2004.

When I last saw some public stats, Ohio was second only to Massachusetts in terms of deceased names in the International Genealogical Index, and in the top 10 in terms of the U.S. microfilm collection.

Permalink Reply by Lori Deible Chaffin on July 25, 2009 at 6:24pm

These are search able cemeteries in the Hamilton County area.

Mt Moriah Cemetery
http://www.union-township.oh.us/cemdb/index.aspx

Wesleyan Cemetery
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohhamcem/
or
http://delaohio.com/greenlawn/wesleyan/weselyan.htm

Spring Grove Cemetery
Click on 'Education' then 'Genealogy'
http://www.springgroveorg/Cemeteries.shtm

Gate of Heaven Cemetery
http://www.gateofheaven.org/global.asp?Id=locate

Walnut Hills Cemetery
http://www.walnuthillscemetery.org/

St. Joseph New Cemetery
Click on 'Record Search'
http://wwwstjoenew.com/

Mt. Washington Cemetery
http://www.terradise.101main.com/cemetery/

Permalink Reply by Liz Loveland on July 27, 2009 at 1:48pm

It's amazed me, in my Hamilton County research, just how much easier it is to find burial records there than just about anywhere else I've researched in the US.

Permalink Reply by Rebecca Kenton Pyle on July 27, 2009 at 3:15pm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~evilsizer/champai...

This is a good resource for Champaign Co.