Portage County, Ohio Genealogy

Guide to Portage County Ohio genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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.

Cemeteries
Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

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

Probate

 * 1790–1967 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection consists of probate records and estate files from county courthouses in Ohio. The content and time period varies by county, with more records being added as they become available. This Collection will include records from 1789 to 1996. Currently, (September 2012) the collection is only searchable by browsing the images. A list of Fires that have destroyed records in the courthouses of several counties are listed on the Record Description page.

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