Ohio, Cleveland Trinity Lutheran Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

United States Ohio Cuyahoga County

What is in the Collection?
This collection contains church records from the Trinity Lutheran Church in Cleveland, Ohio and includes baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials, communions, congregational registers and other miscellaneous records. The collection covers the years 1853 to 2013.

These records are in German so you will need to be able to understand written German. For help with reading the records, see the wiki article German Word List.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
Baptism records usually contain the following:


 * Full name of person being baptized
 * Baptism date
 * Birth date
 * Names of parents
 * Names of witnesses

Marriage records usually contain the following:


 * Marriage date
 * Names of the bride and groom
 * Where the marriage license was obtained

Death records usually contain the following:


 * Name of deceased
 * Age
 * Death date
 * Burial date

How Do I Search the Collection?
To begin your search you will need to know:
 * The name of your ancestor.
 * The type of event (such as the baptism).
 * The approximate date of the event.
 * The names of family members and their relationships.

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Look at each image comparing the information with what you already know about your ancestors to determine if the image relates to them. You may need to look at several images and compare the information about the individuals listed in those images to your ancestors to make this determination. Keep in mind:


 * There may be more than one person in the records with the same name.
 * You may not be sure of your own ancestor’s name.
 * Your ancestor may have used different names or variations of their name throughout their life.

What Do I Do Next?
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I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * Copy the citation below, in case you need to find this record again later.
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records. (Make sure that if it’s a marriage article, you take the word marriage out, if it’s a birth article, take the word birth out, etc.)
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses. Witnesses were usually family members.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

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 * If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you find possible relatives.
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby town or county.
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