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Coordinates: 41.17°0′N 81.20°0′W / 41.17°N 81.2°W
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| Address | Portage County Courthouse 203 West Main St Ravenna, Ohio 44266 |
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Ohio Portage County
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- Parent Counties: Formed from Trumbull County in 1808.
- County Seat: Ravenna
- Neighboring Counties: Portage County, Ohioresidents may also have records in [1]Geauga (north) · Stark (south) · Summit (west) · Mahoning (southeast) · Trumbull (east)
Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Portage County boundary changes.
Record Loss
Resources
Bible Records
Biography
Business Records and Commerce
Cemeteries
Census
Church Records
Court Records
Education
- Kent State University Yearbooks - approximately 1914-1985 yearbooks are freely available on the Internet Archive
Emigration and Immigration
Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History
Land and Property
Maps
Military
- Civil War service men from Portage 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 Portage County.
- -1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery, Batteries A, D, and I.
- - 104th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies D and I
Naturalization and Citizenship
Newspapers
Obituaries
Periodicals
Probate
Public Records
Repositories
Courthouse
Family History Centers
Libraries
Museums
Societies
Taxation
Vital Records
Birth
Marriage
Death
Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at 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.
Web Sites
- Ohio GenWeb: Portage County - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project
- Family History Library Catalog
Places
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
References
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Portage County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).
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