Lake County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Lake County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Cuyahoga and Geauga Counties 6 March 1840.
 * County Seat: Painesville
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Geauga (south)·Ashtabula (east)·Cuyahoga (southwest)

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

Cemeteries
Lake County Cemeteriesand Index of names.

Individual cemeteries:


 * Leroy Cemetery, Painesville BillionGraves

Church Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Kirtland

Court Records
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.

Courthouse
Lake County Courthouse 47 North Park Place Painesville, OH 44077-3414 Phone: 440.350.2657 Clerk Court has court records from 1840; Probate Judge has marriage and probate records; County Recorder has land records

Family History Centers

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

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

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

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

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, widowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

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.