Portage County, Ohio:
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Projects

• Portage County History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Portage County OHGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Portage County, Ohio History & Genealogy      (Source: U.S. Genealogy Express)
• Portage County, Ohio History and Genealogy      (Source: USGenWeb)
• 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

• History of Portage County, Ohio  1885     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Portage Co, Ohio, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Portage County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Portage County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)
• Portage Heritage  A history of Portage County, Ohio (1957)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Portrait And Biographical Record of Portage And Summit Counties, Ohio  Volume 2 (1898)     (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)

Cemeteries (15)

Census Records and Indexes (22)

Church Records

• U.S. Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970  includes Streetsboro, Ohio     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Court and Legal Records

• Court of Common Pleas Chancery record, 1835-1853      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Court of Common Pleas Civil docket, 1809-1855  Chancery execution docket     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Portage County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• Portage County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)
• Supreme Court records, 1823-1851      (Source: FamilySearch)

Directories

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

Estate Records

• Ohio Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998  includes Portage County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Ohio, Probate Records, 1789-1996      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Probate dockets, 1819-1889      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Probate journal, 1877-1886      (Source: FamilySearch)

History (85)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Ohio County Naturalization Records  1800-1977     (Source: FamilySearch)

Introduction and Guides

• County by County in Ohio Genealogy, 1992  Portage County     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Cyndi's List of Ohio locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Portage County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Portage County Ohio Info      (Source: Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever)
• Portage County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)
• Portage County, Ohio Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy, Inc.)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• Portage County Deeds and Indexes      (Source: FamilySearch)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (17)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• OHPORTAG Portage County genealogy

  • OHPORTAG Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (19)

Military Records and Histories

• Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services, 1841  Portage County     (Source: Internet Archive)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Portage County, Ohio     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Report of the Annual Reunion of Battery A  August 10, 11, 12, 1892 at Earlville, Portage County, Ohio (1892)     (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Portage County     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • 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

  • Ravenna Arsenal      (Source: Ohio History Central)
  • The World War II Ordnance Department's Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Industrial Facilities  Ravenna Ordnance Plant Historic Investigation     (Source: Internet Archive)

Miscellaneous Data

• Portage County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records (14)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (11)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (10)

School Records and Histories (14)

Societies (13)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (261)

Tax Lists

• Duplicate tax records: 1816-1838      (Source: FamilySearch)

Transportation and Industry (11)

Vital Records

• 1918 Pandemic Flu Statistics and Records for Ohio  Portage County     (Source: Families of the 1918 Pandemic)
• Ohio Births Index, 1908-1964  Portage County, Ohio     (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)
• Ohio, County Marriages  1789-2016     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Portage County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Portage County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Portage County     (Source: FamilySearch)

Wiki

• Portage County, Ohio Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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