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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 Local History      (Source: American Local History Network)
• Portage OH GenExchange      (Source: GenExchange)

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

• Hiram GEDCOM Index 
• Portage Co., OH Biographies      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Portage County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Ravenna GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (36)

Census Records and Indexes (16)

History

• History of Portage County      (Source: Ohio History Central)
• National Register of Historic Places 
• Portage County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Portage County  Henry Howe's 1888 "Historical Collections of Ohio"
• Portage County History Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

• Churches and Other Religious Institutions

  • History of St. Patrick Parish  Kent
  • Kent Church of the Nazarene 
  • Kent State Lutherans 
  • Presbyterian Church of Kent 
  • Primitive Baptist Churches  Church and Family History Assistance     (Source: The Primitive Baptist Library of Carthage)
  • United Church of Christ of Kent 

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Early History of Kent, Ohio 
  • City of Ravenna  Our History
  • Ravenna, Ohio      (Source: Ohio History Central)
  • A Brief History of of Streetsboro, Ohio 

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Aurora, OH Steamboat "Pat Rogers" Disaster, Aug 1874      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Breakneck Yards, OH Train Wreck, Oct 1891      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Kent State Riot  1970     (Source: Ohio History Central)
  • Kent, OH Lake Brady Drowning, Aug 1908      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Mahoning, OH Train Wreck, Feb 1902      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Paulding, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Portage, Preble and Putnam County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Portage County Storms      (Source: NCDC Storm Events)
  • Ravenna, OH Private Company Airline Crashes, Sep 1962      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Ravenna, OH Terrible Train Collision, July 1891      (Source: GenDisasters)

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: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Portage County Ohio Info      (Source: Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever)
• Portage County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Portage County, Ohio History Resources      (Source: Ohio Public Library Information Network)
• Portage Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Land Records

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Hiram College Archives and Special Collections 
• Kent State University Libraries and Media Services  Department of Special Collections and Archives
• Lowrie-Beatty Museum 
• Portage County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Portage County, Ohio History Museums, Historic Sites and Villages      (Source: Ohio Public Library Information Network)
• The Rowe Museum 
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

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 (11)

Military Records and Histories

• Civil War

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

• 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)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Miscellaneous Portage County, Ohio Obituaries      (Source: Genealogy Buff)
• Portage County Democrat  1854, part 2     (Source: Ohio Genealogy Network)
• Portage County Democrat  1854, part 1     (Source: Ohio Genealogy Network)
• Portage County Whig  1852-1853     (Source: Ohio Genealogy Network)
• 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)
• 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)
• Scrapbook Contents      (Source: Ohio Memory)

School Records and Histories

• Hiram College      (Source: Ohio History Central)
• A Historical Look at Hiram College 
• History of Hiram College 
• Kent State Normal College 
• Kent State University      (Source: Ohio History Central)

Societies

• Aurora Historical Society 
• Kent Historical Society 
• Kent Historical Society 
• Kent Historical Society 
• The NorthEast Ohio Computer-Aided Genealogy Society 
• Old Northwest Chapter  Ravenna     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Portage County Historical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (189)

Tax Lists

• Taxpayers in Portage County, Ohio  1808     (Source: Ohio Genealogy Network)

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 
• Portage County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• Marriage Records 1805-1865, 'E' surnames      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Marriage Records for Portage County      (Source: A to Z Marriages)
• 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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