Portage County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio  Portage County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Trumbull County in 1808.
 * County Seat: Ravenna
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Geauga (north)·Stark (south)·Summit (west)· Mahoning (southeast)·Trumbull (east)

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

Education

 * Kent State University Yearbooks - approximately 1914-1985 yearbooks are freely available on the Internet Archive

Military

 * Civil War service men from Portage 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 Portage County.


 * -1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery, Batteries A, D, and I.
 * - 104th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies D and I

Courthouse
Portage County Courthouse 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

Family History Centers

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

Death
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, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

Web Sites

 * Ohio GenWeb: Portage County - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project

Populated Places
Kent

Neighboring Counties

 * Cuyahoga
 * Geauga
 * Mahoning
 * Stark
 * Summit
 * Trumbull