Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy

The web site, Footnote, has birth returns for Cuyahoga county digitized. These documents were small forms filled out and returned to the county by the doctors to allow the county to record births.

The Cleveland Public Library has a Necrology File that can be accessed online. This has information from obituaries from 1833-1975

Cleveland Necrology File from Cleveland Public Library at www.cpl.org          direct URL:

http://dxsrv4.cpl.org/WebZ/Authorize?sessionid=0&amp;next=/html/obit.html&amp;dbchoice=1:dbname=necr&amp;bad=html/authofail.html&amp;style=noframe

Historical Marriage Index Cuyahoga County direct URL http://probate.cuyahogacounty.us/ml/pa.urd/mliw1000.display Cleveland Pastors and their Churches by Laura Hine includes links to marriage years for the volumes found in the index. Also a good FAQ guiding research for Cuyahoga Co. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~officer/pastors.html Marriage volumes direct URL http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~officer/CuyOhMarIndx.html Current Obituaries Cuyahoga (past 6 months) area www.legacy.com/cleveland/deathnotices.asp  Obituaries Cuyahoga area (past 180 days) www.cleveland.com/obits/archives  Cleveland News Index "CLENIX" Index to death notices Plain Dealer and Cleveland Press 1976-current http://www-catalog.cpl.org/CLENIX

Cuyahoga County Resources www.cuyahogacounty.us Marriage Licence Index Go to Legal Resources &gt; Probate &gt;Skip introduction &gt; Marriage Licence information Additionally, other Popular Items include deed search. Search Database &gt; auditor search &gt; Search Property&gt; [insert name] &gt; transfer history [goes back to 1975.] Also find property search for real estate property info; Recorder's office by parcel number to find sale history for the property.

Cleveland District Round Table Regional Activities www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt Find genealogical organizations, history of programs for several years, and meetings and trips of interest in a five county area around Cleveland.

There is an LDS crew currently nearing completion of digitizing the county archives. Much more information will be available online in the near future. July 13, 2008