Portage County, Ohio Genealogy

  United States  Ohio  Portage County Historical Facts Parent Counties: Formed from Trumbull County in 1808. County Seat: Ravenna &#160; Neighboring Counties: <span class="fck_mw_template"> residents may also have records in <span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">Wikipedia contributors, &quot;Portage County, Ohio&quot; in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012). Geauga</a> (north)<span class="fck_mw_template">· Stark</a> (south)<span class="fck_mw_template">· Summit</a> (west)<span class="fck_mw_template">· Mahoning</a> (southeast)<span class="fck_mw_template">· Trumbull</a> (east) </li></ul> Boundary Changes See an interactive map of Portage County boundary changes</a>. Record Loss Resources Bible Records Biography Business Records and Commerce Cemeteries Census Church Records Court Records Education <ul>Kent State University Yearbooks</a> - approximately 1914-1985 yearbooks are freely available on the Internet Archive </li></ul> Emigration and Immigration Ethnic, Political, Religious Groups Gazetteers Genealogy History Land and Property Maps Military <ul>Civil War service men from Portage County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment)&#160;that&#160;originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Portage County. </li></ul> <dl><dd>-1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery</a>, Batteries A, D, and I. </dd><dd>- 104th Regiment, Ohio Infantry</a>, Companies D and I </dd></dl> Naturalization and Citizenship Newspapers Obituaries Periodicals Probate Public Records Repositories Courthouse Portage County Courthouse</a> 449 S Meridian Street PO Box 1035; Ravenna, OH 44266 Phone: 330.297.3450 Mayor’s Office has birth, death and burial records; Probate Judge has marriage and probate records; Clerk Court has divorce and court records from 1820; County Treasurer has land records<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="HBG">Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Portage County, Ohio. Page 545 ;. Family History Centers <ul>Introduction to LDS Family History Centers</a> </li>Rootstown Ohio Family History Center</a> </li></ul> Libraries Museums Societies Taxation Vital Records Birth Marriage Death <a href="Ohio Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)">Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953</a> Free name indexes and images at <a href="Ohio Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)">FamilySearch</a>. 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. Web Sites <ul><li><a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohportag/">Ohio GenWeb: Portage County</a> - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project </li><li><span class="fck_mw_template"> </li></ul> Places Populated Places <a href="Kent, Ohio">Kent</a> Neighboring Counties <ul><li><a href="Cuyahoga County, Ohio">Cuyahoga</a> </li><li><a href="Geauga County, Ohio">Geauga</a> </li><li><a href="Mahoning County, Ohio">Mahoning</a> </li><li><a href="Stark County, Ohio">Stark</a> </li><li><a href="Summit County, Ohio">Summit</a> </li><li><a href="Trumbull County, Ohio">Trumbull</a> </li></ul> References <span class="fck_mw_references" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="references" /> <span class="fck_mw_template">

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