Lake County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Lake County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Cuyahoga and Geauga Counties in 1840.
 * County Seat: Painesville
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Geauga (south)·Ashtabula (east)·Cuyahoga (southwest)

Parent County
1840--Lake County was created 6 March 1840 from Geauga and Cuyahoga Counties. County seat: Painesville

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Lake County boundary changes.

Neighboring Counties

 * Ashtabula
 * Cuyahoga
 * Geauga

Cemeteries
Lake County Cemeteriesand Index of names.

Individual cemeteries:


 * Leroy Cemetery, Painesville BillionGraves

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Kirtland

Court
Naturalization Records- An Alphabetical Abstract of the naturalization petitions from Lake County Probate Court (1860-1906) and Lake County Common Pleas Court (1906-1975). This includes Declarations of Intention and petitions that failed for a variety of reasons. Naturalizations between 1840 and 1860 were done in a variety of courts, which will be abstracted later.

Military

 * Civil War Civil War service men from Lake 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 Lake County.


 * - 1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery, Battery C
 * - 105th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies D and K

Newspapers

 * Select issues ofEvening and Morning Star available at BYU's Digital Collections. Click on newspaper in box on right.

Vital Records
Marriages - Lake County Probate Marriage Records Index 1840-1915

Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 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, widowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

Societies and Libraries
Morley Library--Best collection of local genealogical materials.

Lake County Genealogical Society This site contains links to their projects, which have a lot of information in them.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Kirtland Ohio Family History Center

Web Sites

 * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake - The GenWeb site has many databases, biographies, vital records, etc.
 * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/vitalrec/probateb.html - Lake County birth records 1867-1908.
 * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlcgs - The Lake County Genealogical Society projects page with the cemetery inscriptions, naturalizations and other information.
 * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlcgs - The Lake County Genealogical Society projects page with the cemetery inscriptions, naturalizations and other information.