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Projects

• Portage Co. OHGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Portage County History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Portage County OHGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Portage County, Ohio History & Genealogy      (Source: Ohio Genealogy Express)
• Portage County, Ohio Local History      (Source: American Local History Network)

Adjacent counties

• Cuyahoga County, OH  to the northwest
• Geauga County, OH  to the north
• Mahoning County, OH  to the southeast
• Stark County, OH  to the south
• Summit County, OH  to the west
• Trumbull County, OH  to the east

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Hiram GEDCOM Index 
• History of Portage County, Ohio  Containing a history of the county, its townships, town, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies, history of the Northwest Territory; history of Ohio; statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc.     (Source: Online Collections at BYU)
• Portage Co., OH Biographies      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Portage County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Ravenna GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (40)

Census Records and Indexes (16)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Portage County Lawyers     (Source: Google Book Search)

Directories

• Portage County, Ohio Online Historical Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)

History (34)

Introduction and Guides

• County Records Availability      (Source: Genealogy, Inc.)
• Cyndi's List of Ohio locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Portage County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Portage County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Portage County Ohio Info      (Source: Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever)
• Portage County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Portage County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Portage Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (11)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Portage County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Portage County, OH Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• OHPORTAG-L Portage County genealogy

  • OHPORTAG-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • OHPORTAG-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • OHPORTAG-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (35)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Portage County, Ohio     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • A Grassroots History of the American Civil War, Volume III  Captain Cotter's Battery     (Source: Heritage Books)     ($)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Portage County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Portage County, Ohio  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)
  • Ravenna Arsenal      (Source: Ohio History Central)

Miscellaneous Data

• Migrations through Portage County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Portage County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Portage County Records      (Source: Find County Records)

Newspaper Records

• Portage County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Search Ravenna Historical Newspapers  Free search     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Miscellaneous Portage County, Ohio Obituaries      (Source: Genealogy Buff)
• Portage County Democrat  1854, part 2     (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Portage County Democrat  1854, part 1     (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Portage County Whig  1852-1853     (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Record Publishing 
• The Weekly Villager, serving Newton Falls, Garrettsville and Burton  Recent obituaries

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Brady Lake  Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Historical Postcards of Portage County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kent  Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Mantua Village in Times Past 
• Ohio--Portage County--Ravenna.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Portage County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Portage County Poorhouse Pictures      (Source: The Poorhouse Story)
• Randolph Township History in Pictures 
• Scrapbook Contents      (Source: Ohio Memory)

School Records and Histories (13)

Societies (11)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (267)

Tax Lists

• Resident Proprietors of the Connecticut Western Reserve, 1804  An Ohio Tax List of 1804     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Taxpayers in Portage County, Ohio  1808     (Source: Wayback Machine)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Portage County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Cheesedom      (Source: Ohio History Central)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Iron and Early Steel Bridges of Portage County, Ohio 
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Portage County, Ohio     (Source: Google Patents)
• Portage County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• Marriage Records 1805-1865, 'E' surnames      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Portage County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Portage County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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