Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy

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Parent County
1822--Lorain County was created 26 December 1822 from Huron, Cuyahoga, and Medina Counties. County seat: Elyria

Populated Places
Amherst, Avon, Avon Lake, Columbia Station, Grafton, Kipton, LaGrange, Lorain, North Ridgeville, Oberlin, Pittsfield, Rochester, Sheffield, Vermilion (part), Wellington

Neighboring Counties

 * Ashland
 * Cuyahoga
 * Erie
 * Huron
 * Medina

Cemeteries
Lorain County Cemetery Inscriptions

Church
Pittsfield Community Church Brief history of the church. The original building, built in 1846, was destroyed in the tornado of 1965 that killed seven people and destroyed the town. It, and Pittsfield, were quickly rebuilt.

Local Histories
A Pioneer History of Camden Township Written in the 1930s by local doctor F. E. Weeks, this is a series of short biographies of many Camden families. Primarily taken from oral interviews of older residents. Some families have extensive genealogies included. A very useful, if not always accurate source.

Newspapers
TheOberlin College Digital Collectionhas images of the Oberlin News-Tribune's World War II issues. The index is fully searchable by name.

Obituaries
Oberlin High School obituariesFrom the 1800s to the present.

Vital Records
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, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

Lorain County Probate Court Index Index of marriage records from about 1930 onwards (no dates until the late 1990s), probate birth records, and estate file numbers from the mid-20th century onwards.

Lorain County Records Retention Center PDF scans of probate court birth and death records from 1867-1908.

Lorain County Court of Common Pleas Searchable index useful in finding divorce records from the mid-1980s onwards.

Societies and Libraries

 * 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Society for descendants of soldiers who fought in this regiment during the Civil War.


 * Sheffield Village Historical Society

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. User-contributed birth, death, marriage, and court records, as well as obituaries.
 * Family History Library Catalog