Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy

United States

Ohio

Cuyahoga County

Guide to Cuyahoga County, Ohio ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Map
Location in the state of Ohio
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Cuyahoga County Courthouse 1219 Ontario St. Cleveland, Ohio 44113-1603 Cuyahoga County Website

Historical Facts

Beginning dates for major county records
Birth	Marriage	Death	Tax	Land	Probate
1867	1810	1868		1810	1811
*For earlier dates, try... Church | Obituaries | Cemeteries

• Parent Counties: Formed from Geauga County 10 February 1808.
• County Seat: Cleveland

Description

The county was named after the Iroquoian word Cuyahoga, which means 'crooked river'. The name is also assigned to the Cuyahoga River, which bisects the county. It's county seat is Cleveland and was founded Founded June 7, 1807. It is located in the North-Central area of the state.

Neighboring Counties

Lorain County  • Medina County  • Summit County  • Portage County  • Geauga County  • Lake County

Boundary Changes

For animated maps illustrating Ohio county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Ohio County Boundary Maps" (1788-1888) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss

There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Resources

• Cuyahoga County Resources

Bible Records

• Bible Records Index

• Ohio Bible Records.

Biography

• Biographical Sketch Name Index

Cemeteries

Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

Online Grave Transcripts	Published Grave Transcripts	County Cemetery Directories
Findagrave.com	Family History Library	Findagrave.com
Interment.net	WorldCat	Names in Stone
USGW Tombstones		Billion Graves
Billion Graves		Epodunk
Ohio Gravestones
OHGenWeb
See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

• Butternut Ridge Cemetery (North Olmsted)
• Calvary Cemetery Search Engine
• Calvary Cemetery, Garfield Heights Wikipedia article
  
• Cemetery and Church Records by MattsonWorks Genealogy
• Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation
• Lakeview Cemetery Web Cemeteries site.
• Riverside Cemetery (home page)
• St. Lawrence Cemetery (Independence)
• St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery (Berea)
• Woodland Cemetery Foundation

Census

1930 Cuyahoga Census Abstract(partial)

Church Records

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about Ohio denominations, view the Ohio Church Records wiki page.

General

Cleveland Ohio Pastors and Their Churches by Laura Hine.

• Cleveland Church Histories

• Cleveland Clergy to 1942 by Don O'Malley

• Cleveland Jewish History

• Lakewood Church Histories

• St. Colman Church History

• Trinity Lutheran Church microfilmed records (West 30th and Lorain)

Finding More Church Records

Additional church records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Church Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).
  

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.
  

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Cleveland

City Directories

• 1861, 1864-1923 - ($) Cleveland City Directories Fold 3 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, 1863-64- 1834-35 Ohio City Directories
• 1837 - City Directory
• 1900 - Cleveland City Directory
• 1834, 1845, 1846, 1848, 1850 - Ohio City Directories
• 1881-1882, 1889-1890, 1890, 1894, 1906-1907, 1911, 1914-1915, 1917, 1921, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1943 - Cleveland City Directories
• various years - U.S. City Directories

Court Records

• Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Civil and Criminal Index

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

African American

Davis, Russell H. Black Americans in Cleveland from George Peake to Carl B Stokes, 1796-1969 - Washington : Associated Publishers, [c1972] - 525p. F499.C69 N32

Davis, Russell H. Memorable Negroes in Cleveland's Past. - Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1969. 58 p. FHL 977.1 A1 no. 91

Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Biographies
Church Records
Cemetery Records
Court Records
Histories
Immigration/emigration/migration
Maps
Newspapers
Societies

Gazetteers

• 1906 - Cleveland Street Name Changes

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

• Johnson, Crisfield, History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio: in three parts, general history of the county, history of Cleveland, history of the townships, with portraits and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (Cleveland, Ohio: D.W. Ensign & Co, Leader Print. Co., 1879) Digital version at Internet Archives; FamilySearch Books Online; on microfilm at FHL film 982061 Item 1.

A Book of Clevelanders

A History of Cleveland: Its Settlement, Rise, and Progress, 1796-1896 FamilySearch Books Online

Cuyahoga County American History and Genealogy Project

• CWRU Digital Books

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

• Tremont History Project

• Virtual Jewish History

Land and Property

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Ohio Land and Property for additional information about early Ohio land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.

• various years - Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office Deeds images
• various years - community contributed deeds Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives
• various years - Cuyahoga County Auditor's Office

Finding More Land Records

Additional land records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Land and Property Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog(For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

• The Trumbull County Archives/Microfilm department has online maps and deed indexes
  

Maps

• Maps of Ohio (1788-1940)
• 1874 Atlas of Cuyahoga County
• CSU Cleveland Maps
• Converting pre 1906 addresses to post 1906 addresses in Cleveland

Military

• 1888-1919 - Ohio Soldier Home Records, 1888-1919 at FamilySearch — index and images
• Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

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
• 54th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company H
• 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

• 1800-1977 - Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 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

INDEX TO CUYAHOGA COUNTY PROBATE COURT NATURALIZATION RECORDS, 1859-1901

Cuyahoga County Index

This index, arranged alphabetically by surname, and dating from 1859-1901, provides access
to the naturalization records preserved by the Cuyahoga County Probate Court in three sets
of volumes: Declaration of Aliens (DOA) (16 volumes); Declaration of Alien Minors (DOAM)
(8 volumes); and the Naturalization Book (NB) (26 volumes). Those interested in additional
information regarding the naturalization process, particularly as administered during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States, should request from the
Cuyahoga County Archives a copy of the information sheet "Tracing an Immigrant Ancestor
through the Naturalization Records in the Cuyahoga County Archives."

The index contains eleven columns or data fields that include the name of the volume indexed,
the volume number and page number, the surname, first name, middle name, country of origin,
the date of arrival, the date of declaration (date that the declaration or "first paper" was
filed), and the date of naturalization. The database also includes a "Record Problem" column
that many contain additional information useful to the researcher. Spelling variations for a
first name are listed here, while surname spelling variations are noted with a "see also"
reference. Records that are incomplete or that have been identified as void are so marked.
For naturalizations recorded in the NATURALIZATION BOOK (NB) volumes 25 or 26, a reference to
a petition number may be listed. In a few cases this column may provide a clarification or
correction to the data that was recorded in the original records. Finally, missing pages are
noted in this column. Researchers should be aware that not all immigrants made application
for citizenship in the Probate Court, as some sought naturalization in the Court of Common
Pleas and in the U.S. District Court. The County Archives preserves the Common Pleas naturaliz-
ation records and you should contact the Archives for a search of available indexes to those
documents. The records from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio are pres-
erved by the National Archives and Records Service-Great Lakes Region in Chicago, Illinois.

When requesting a copy of a Probate Court naturalization document from the Archives you should
provide the following information: the person's name, date of declaration and/or date of natural-
ization, and the reference to the relevant volume, by name, e.g. DOA, DOAM, NB, and to the appro-
priate volume and page numbers. Persons can communicate with the Archives by mail, or visit in
person, at 2905 Franklin Blvd. N.W. Cleveland, Ohio 44113; or they can make a request by tele-
phone (216) 443-7250, fax communication (216) 443-3636, or by e-mail, countyarchives@nls.net.

Newspapers

Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy newspapers may contain genealogical value including obituaries, births, marriages, deaths, anniversaries, family gatherings, family travel, achievements, business notices, engagement information, and probate court proceedings.

To access newspapers, contact public libraries, Ohio Genealogical Society chapters, college or university libraries, the Library of Congress, Google News, or the Ohio Historical Society. The Ohio Genealogical Society Obituary Database is another source of newspaper information.

For more Ohio newspaper information see the Newspaper Guides on the wiki page Ohio Newspapers.

Online Newspapers

• 1882-1908 - Berea Advertiser - full-text of more than 1,200 issues spanning 1882-1908 freely available in Google Newspaper Archive;
• 1993-present - Cleveland Magazine
• Oct 1990-present - Ohio Magazine

Online Newspaper Abstracts

• 1976-present - [1]Index to articles 1983 to present and obituaries 1976 to current
• 1833-1975 - The Cleveland Necrology File Obituaries
• The Plain Dealer Obituaries (past six months)
• Cleveland Plain Dealer Searchable Archive (for those with a CPL library card)
• various years - community contributed news articles Courtesy OhioGenWeb

Newspaper Extracts and Abstracts in Book Form

Obituaries

• 1850-1975 - Cleveland Necrology File online at the Cleveland Public Library website. Cleveland Plain Dealer (1850-1975), Cleveland Herald (1833, 1847-8, 1876, 1878-9), and Cleveland Press (1941-1975), cemetery records and other death records covering some of the years between 1850 and 1975.

• Online Cleveland & Cuyahoga County, Ohio Death Records & Indexes

• The Cleveland News Index 1976-Present

Periodicals

• Ohio -- Cuyahoga County Periodicals - Internet Archive

• Genealogy

• Annals of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County (1880)

Probate

Probate records created after 1852 are held by the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Court. From 1797 or the creation of the county, probate records were held by the Court of Common Pleas. Most counties transferred all records to the Probate Court, but in some circumstances, Court of Common Pleas records should be searched for records prior to 1852. Most records are housed at the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Courthouse. Some records are on microfilm at the Ohio Genealogical Society and the Family History Library. For more complete information about the location of county probate records see:

• Carol Willsey Bell, Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index (1981).  FamilySearch Books Online - Free online copy.
  

See the wiki page Ohio Probate Records for information about how to use probate records.

Content: Probate Records may give the decedent's date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, neighbors, associates, relatives, and their place of residence.

Record types: Wills, estates, guardianships, naturalizations, marriage, adoption, and birth and death records (1867-1908 only).

Online Probate Records

• 1786 - 1998 Ohio Wills and Probate Records 1786-1998 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
• 1789 - 1996 Ohio Probate Records 1789-1996 at FamilySearch.org — images
• 1790–1967 - Ohio, Probate Records, 1790-1967 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection consists of probate records and estate files from county courthouses in Ohio. The content and time period varies by county, with more records being added as they become available. This Collection will include records from 1789 to 1996. Currently, (September 2012) the collection is only searchable by browsing the images. A list of Fires that have destroyed records in the courthouses of several counties are listed on the Record Description page.
  
• 1813–1917 - Ohio, Cuyahoga County Probate Files, 1813-1917 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. The collection consists of case files of the Probate Dockets from the Cuyahoga County courthouse in Cleveland. The files are arranged by docket number and case number. The earliest records are designated Common Plea (before the formation of the Probate Court). The Probate Dockets began alphabetically, A through P, and changed to numeric listing beginning with 17 (replacing Q, the 17th letter). This collection is being published as images become available. Currently, (September 2012) this collection is only searchable by browsing the images.
• various years - community contributed wills Courtesy OhioGenWeb
• 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)

Finding More Probate Records

Additional probate records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Public Records

• The Official Website of Ohio's Cuyahoga County

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

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Ohio Cuyahoga County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Family History Centers

Family history centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes. See family history center for more information. Search the online FHC directory for a nearby family history center.

• Solon Ohio Family History Center

For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the FHC directory. Put your town name in the top search box.

Libraries

• Cuyahoga County Archives

• Western Reserve Historical Society Library

• Cleveland Public Library

• Cuyahoga County Public Library Genealogy Site

Museums

• African-American Museum

• Maltz Museum of Jewish History

• Ukrainian Museum-Archives

Societies

The Connecticut Western Reserve  was a part of northeast Ohio originally intended for settlement by Revolutionary War refugees from Connecticut. The former Connecticut Western Reserve  lands were in the modern counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Trumbull fully, but also in parts of Ashland, Mahoning, Ottawa, Summit, and Wayne counties in Ohio.

The Research Library at the Western Reserve Historical Society History Center  is the premier repository for Cleveland, Ohio and Connecticut Western Reserve history material. One of the principal strengths is its manuscript collections. The WRHS collection has original land records, genealogies of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, biographies, histories, and family Bibles.

Other Societies

• Berea Historical Society

• Cleveland Heights Historical Society

• Greater Cleveland Genealogical Society

• Lakewood Historical Society

• North Olmsted Historical Society

• Ohio History Connection

• Shaker Heights Historical Society

• Slavic Village Historical Society

• South Euclid/Lyndhurst Historical Society

• Westlake Historical Society

School Records

Courtesy of the Cleveland Public Library:

• Cleveland High School Yearbooks and Student Newspapers
• Additional Schools Publications

Taxation

Ohio tax records complement land records and can be used in place of censuses before 1820 or to supplement the years between censuses. Because only persons who owned taxable property were listed, many residents were not included in tax lists. There may also be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties. For more information see the wiki page Ohio Taxation.

• 1811 - tax lists 1811 Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives

Finding More Tax Records

Additional tax records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Tax Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Vital Records

Vital records consist of birth, death, marriage and divorce records. Although Ohio enacted a statute in 1856 -1857 requiring registration of births, deaths and marriages, many counties did not comply. A second law was written in 1867 but, again, was not always followed. By 1908, the law was more clearly defined and kept. Any existing birth and death records from 1867 through December 19, 1908 are located at the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Court. The Ohio Department of Health has birth records filed after December 20, 1908 and death records filed after January 1, 1954 while the Ohio Historical Society houses death records from December 20, 1908 through December 31, 1953.

Original marriage records are held at the office of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Court with divorce records located with the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Clerk of Courts.

See also How to order Ohio Vital Records or order vital records electronically online.

Birth

Online Birth Indexes and Records

• 1800-1962 - Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1962 at ancestry.com ($)
• 1908-1964 - Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 at ancestry.com ($)
• 1871-1908 - Fold 3 Cuyahoga County Birth Returns($) Get free access to Fold 3 by signing on through the Cuyahoga County Public Library
  Click "Research" then "Electronic Resources A-Z" then "Genealogy" then "Fold 3" (entering your Cuyahoga County Public Library card number when asked)
  Once on the Fold 3 site, click browse at the top and then vital records and choose "Cuyahoga County Birth Returns"
• 1860-1896;1873-1897 - Cuyahoga County Births Affidavits (1860-1897) Corrections (1873-1908) Index only
• 1821-1962 - Births and Christenings Searchable Index but no images
• 1898-1908 - Birth Affidavits images included
• various years - archive records Contributed by Cuyahoga County Archives and their volunteers. Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives

Original Birth Records on Microfilm

Marriage

Online Marriage Indexes and Records

• Marriage Index Years Covered
• Cuyahoga County Marriage Transcriptions
• 1789-2013 - Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1800-1958 - Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free; Index. Name index to marriage records from the state of Ohio. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and some FamilySearch Centers. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.
• 1800-1942 - Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1942 at FamilySearch — index
• 1810-1973 - Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records and Indexes at ancestry.com ($)
• 1810-present - Historical Marriage License Index
• 1837-1934 - Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Jewish Marriage Record Extracts at
• 1971-2007 - Ohio Marriage Index by Ancestry
• various years - archive records Contributed by Cuyahoga County Archives and their volunteers. Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives

Original Marriage Records on Microfilm

Death

Online Death Indexes and Records

• 1833-1900 - Coroner Case Files
  
• 1840-2001 - Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1854-1997 - Ohio Deaths Index only
• 1908-1953 - Ohio Deaths 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.
• 1954-present - Ohio Death Certificates how to obtain them
• 1964-2007 - The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Index at ancestry.com ($)
• 1850-1975 - Cleveland Necrology File online at the Cleveland Public Library website. Various newspaper notices, cemetery records and other death records covering some of the years between 1850 and 1975.
• various years - archive records Contributed by Cuyahoga County Archives and their volunteers. Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives

Original Death Records on Microfilm

Miscellaneous

• Cleveland Health Network Birth and Death Records
• University Hospital birth and death records

Finding More Vital Records

Additional vital records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy Vital Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Divorce

• Ohio Divorce Index 1962-1996 by OGS

Voter Registration

• 1893-1899 Cleveland Voter Registration

• 1907 Cleveland Voter Registration

Websites

• Castle Garden Passenger Lists
• Cuyahoga County, OH History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
• Ohio Genealogy Network Community on Google+
• Ohio Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
• Cleveland Digital Library (from Cleveland State University books and links to books)
• Cleveland Police Museum
• Clew Bay to Cleveland (Irish History)
• Cuyahoga County OHGenWeb
• FamilySearch Catalog
• Cuyahoga County Research FAQs
• Cuyahoga County History
• Cuyahoga County Cities in 1896
• Cuyahoga County OH Genealogy
• 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
• Fold3
• Cleveland District Round Table Regional Activities
• Cleveland Public Library Genealogy Databases
• Polka Hall of Fame Cleveland Style
• Rootsweb Mailing Lists
• Rootsweb's Worldconnect
• Rootsweb Resources for Cuyahoga County
• Social Security Death Index - Free at Fold3
• Steven Morse Site for searching Immigration and Census Records
• Western Reserve Historical Society Searchable Databases
• WorldCat

Places

Cities

Bay Village Beachwood Bedford Bedford Heights Berea Brecksville Broadview Brook Park Brooklyn Cleveland Cleveland Heights East Cleveland Euclid

Fairview Park Garfield Heights Highland Independence Lyndhurst Maple Heights Mayfield Heights Middleburg North Olmsted North Royalton Olmsted Falls Parma

Parma Heights Pepper Pike Richmond Heights Rocky River Seven Hills Shaker Heights Solon South Euclid Strongsville University Heights Warrensville Heights Westlake

Villages

Bentleyville Bratenahl Brooklyn Heights Chagrin Falls Cuyahoga Heights Gates Mills Glenwillow

Highland Hunting Valley Linndale Mayfield Moreland Newburgh Heights North Randall Woodmere

Townships

• Chagrin Falls Township
• Olmsted Township

References

Wiki articles describing these collections are found at:

• Ohio Cuyahoga County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Ohio Cuyohaga County Probate Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)