Lake County, Ohio Genealogy

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

Neighboring Counties

 * Ashtabula
 * Cuyahoga
 * Geauga

Cemeteries
Lake County Cemeteriesand Index of names.

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.


 * - 105th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies D and K

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

Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch – Pilot. 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.

Kirtland Ohio Family History Center 8751 Kirtland Road Route 306 (1 mi. south of I-90, red brick church in the valley) Kirtland, Ohio 44094 Phone: 216-256-8808 Hours open: Wednesday-Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m and 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Web Sites

 * Family History Library Catalog
 * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com~ohlake - The GenWeb site has many databases, biographies, vital records, etc.
 * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlcgs - The Lake County Genealogical Society projects page with the cemetery inscriptions, naturalizations and other information.