Helpful Websites
WEBSITES BY LAURA HINE
FAQ for Genealogy Research in Cuyahoga County, Ohio https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/
Cleveland Street Name Changes https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/cleveland-1906-street-name-changes
Marriage Index Years https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/home/marriage-index-years
Cleveland Pastors and Their Churches https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/cleveland-pastors-and-their-churches
Cleveland Church Histories https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/cleveland-pastors-and-their-churches/cleveland-individual-church-histories
WEBSITES BY LAURA HINE AND RICHELLE EMERY
Cleveland and Its Neighborhoods https://sites.google.com/site/clevelandanditsneighborhoods/
Books About Cleveland https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/home/books-about-cleveland?authuser=0
WEBSITES BY LAURA HINE AND CYNTHIA TURK
Cuyahoga County USGenWeb Site - ALL THE LINKS YOU COULD EVER WANT FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH https://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/
BIOGRAPHIES
A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men of the City of Cleveland, 1914. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/ohio/cleveland-ohio-biography.htm
A Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof02lewi_1/page/n5/mode/2up
Biographies from Ohio Genealogy Express https://www.ohiogenealogyexpress.com/cuyahoga/cuyahogaco_bios_index.htm
BOOKS
Books page compiled by Laura Hine https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/home/books-about-cleveland?authuser=0
Cleveland Books http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/BrowseObjects.aspx?PID=ksl:clevelandbooks
Hathi Trust https://www.hathitrust.org
Internet Archive - https://archive.org
CANAL
Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio & Erie Canal http://www.clevelandmemory.org/canal/
Ohio & Erie Canalway http://www.ohioanderiecanalway.com/
Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition http://www.ohioeriecanal.org/
Ohio & Erie Canal from Encyclopedia of Cleveland History http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=OAEC
Life on the Ohio & Erie Canal http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/nye/index.html
The Ohio & Erie Canal http://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/52
CEMETERIES
Cemetery page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cemeteries/index.html
Cleveland City-Owned Cemeteries Index (includes Alger, Brookmere, Denison, Erie, Harvard Grove, Highland Park, Monroe, Scranton, Westpark and Woodland)
http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cemeteries/clecems/index.html
Find-A-Grave http://www.findagrave.com/index.html
Holy Cross Cemetery http://www.interment.net/data/us/oh/cuyahoga/holycross/index.htm
Lake View Cemetery https://www.remembermyjourney.com/Search/Cemetery/98/Map
Lutheran Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/cems/lutheran/names.html
Mapleshade Cemetery in Independence http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/cems/independence/maple/maplea.html
Riverside Cemetery http://www.riversidecemeterycleveland.org/
Riverside Cemetery Index http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cemeteries/riverside/index.html
St. Mary's Cemetery on E. 71st in Cuyahoga Heights https://www.clecem.org/
Cleveland Cemetery Transcriptions http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/cems/trans.html
Jewish Cemetery Database http://www.accessjewishcleveland.org/jewish-cemetery-database.aspx
CENSUS
Census page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Census/index.html
Ancestry Overview of the Census https://wiki.rootsweb.com//wiki/index.php?title=Overview_of_the_U.S._Census
Cyndi's List Census http://www.cyndislist.com/us/census/
Ancestry article about the Non-Population Census Schedules https://wiki.rootsweb.com//wiki/index.php?title=Non-Population_Schedules_and_Special_Censuses
ONLINE RESOURCES FOR CUYAHOGA COUNTY CENSUS RECORDS, INDICES, AND IMAGES:
POPULATION CENSUS
http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/cuyahoga/cuycens.htm - 1900 Census Index Project by the Greater Cleveland Genealogical Society
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/census/1930cen/ED_list.html - 1930 Cuyahoga County Census
http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/ - National Archive 1940 Census
https://linkpendium.com/cuyahoga-oh-genealogy/cen/ - Linkpendium Census Page for Cuyahoga County
FREE CENSUS - HERITAGE QUEST - THIS IS THE ONE YOU SHOULD GO TO FIRST - free for Cuyahoga County Library card holders and Cleveland Public Library card holders. It may also be free at other libraries across the country as well if they subscribe to Heritage Quest. Check your local library website to see if it appears in their research databases. Heritage Quest has the census for Cuyahoga County for 1820, 1860-1880, 1900-1920, and 1940. Go to either the Cuyahoga County or Cleveland Public Library website, click research databases, then genealogy, then Heritage Quest. Enter your library card number and password when asked. Heritage Quest has the best search tools available. You can do a general search, advanced search, search by year, county, name, age, sex, race, and birthplace - any combination of the above. So, if you can't find who you are looking for with a surname search because the surname is misspelled, you can just enter their first name, an age range, and Germany for place of birth. Everyone with that first name, age and born in Germany will appear. Play around with this - you can do any number of different combinations.
FREE CENSUS - FAMILY SEARCH
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list/ - scroll down to U.S. for their holdings from 1790-1940
CHURCH RECORDS
Religion page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Religions/index.html
Cleveland Pastors and their Churches by Laura Hine: https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/cleveland-pastors-and-their-churches
Cleveland Jewish History - http://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/
Closing Catholic Churches in Cleveland - http://closingcatholicchurchesincleveland.blogspot.com/
Diocese of Cleveland History - https://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/about/our-history
History of Churches in Cleveland Ohio in A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William Coates - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/380/mode/2up
The Protestant Episcopal Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog00injohn/page/n293/mode/2up
The Methodist Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog00injohn/page/250/mode/2up
The Presbyterian Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog00injohn/page/254/mode/2up
The Baptist and Disciple Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog00injohn/page/n311/mode/2up
The Roman Catholic Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog00injohn/page/n315/mode/2up
The Congregational Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog00injohn/page/n321/mode/2up
The Evangelical Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog00injohn/page/n325/mode/2up
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary History - http://nativitycleveland.com/history/
Old Stone Church - Cleveland's First Church - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stone_Church_(Cleveland,_Ohio)
The Presbyterian Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879.
St. Rocco - http://stroccocleveland.org/historyparish.html
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 2031 W. 30th https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2115643
CITY DIRECTORIES
Directories page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Directories/index.html
1837 https://www.morganohiolibrary.com/ClevelandDirectory1837.html
1850 http://www.morganohiolibrary.com/ClevelandDirectory1850.html
CLEVELAND HISTORIES
Cleveland Metroparks History http://www.neonaturalist.com/parks/cleveland_metroparks.html
Schools and Libraries from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/406/mode/2up
Physicians, Surgeons, Medical Colleges and Hospitals from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/460/mode/2up
Newspapers and Writers from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/474/mode/2up
Industries from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/504/mode/2up
Parks from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates - https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/534/mode/2up
CLEVELAND HISTORY BLOGS
http://www.clevelandareahistory.org/
http://morethanabuilding.blogspot.com/2009/03/picture-is-worth-thousand-words_22.html
http://coolhistoryofcleveland.wordpress.com/
http://clevelandhistorical.org/
CLEVELAND MISCELLANEOUS
Travel Bureau for Cleveland - https://www.thisiscleveland.com/
Cleveland Landmarks http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/landlist.php?first=a
Cleveland Movie Theaters http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-states/ohio/cleveland
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY PAGES
Research Guides at CSU http://researchguides.csuohio.edu/content.php?pid=235933&sid=3086544
Cleveland Memory Project http://www.clevelandmemory.org/
CUYAHOGA COUNTY SPECIFIC
Cuyahoga County USGENWEB, the definitive source for all links: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/
Cuyahoga County 1930 Census http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/census/1930cen/ED_list.html
Cuyahoga County naturalizations http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/nats/index.html
Cuyahoga County Archive https://cuyahogacounty.gov/publicworks/archives
Western Reserve Historical Society http://www.wrhs.org/
Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office https://cuyahoga.oh.publicsearch.us/
Cuyahoga County Public Library https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/
Cuyahoga County Familysearch Research Wiki https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Cuyahoga_County%2C_Ohio
Cuyahoga County Linkpendium http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/OH/Cuyahoga/
CUYAHOGA COUNTY HISTORY
Cuyahoga County Cities and Villages http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cities/index.html
Cuyahoga County Township Histories from Crisfield Johnson, William R. Coates, and Gertrude Van Renssaelear Wickham https://sites.google.com/site/clevelandanditsneighborhoods/home/cuyahoga-county-townships?authuser=0
History page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/History/index.html
Cuyahoga County Family Search Wiki https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Cuyahoga_County,_Ohio_Genealogy
History of the Cuyahoga County Public Library http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ccpl/history.html
National Register of Historic Places in Cuyahoga County, Ohio http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/oh/cuyahoga/state.html
CUYAHOGA RIVER
History of the Cuyahoga River http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/fenlewis/History.html
Cuyahoga River from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=CR9
Whiskey Island from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=WI
Kingsbury Run http://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/376
Irishtown Bend http://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/549
FACEBOOK PAGES ABOUT CLEVELAND AND CUYAHOGA COUNTY GENEALOGY, HISTORY, AND MEMORIES
Cuyahoga County Genealogy https://www.facebook.com/groups/CuyahogaCoOhGen/
My Father's Cleveland https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Fathers-Cleveland/140777039422451
Cuyahoga Heights Memories https://www.facebook.com/groups/132447953512779/
Growing Up On The Westside of Cleveland https://www.facebook.com/groups/growinguponwestsideofcleveland/
I Was a Parma Kid https://www.facebook.com/groups/52481632963/
I Grew Up In Strongsville https://www.facebook.com/groups/276438152988/
You Know You're From West Park IF Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/258015094225559/
Old Brooklyn Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204571174/
Broadway Harvard Turney Miles Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/227983680622035/
Broadway Union Fleet Slavic Village Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/55952656828/
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/69950865201/
FUNERAL HOMES
Funeral Home page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Funeral/index.html
GENERAL
Steven Morse Website for searching immigration records http://www.stevemorse.org/
Genforum Message Boards https://www.genealogy.com/forum/
National Archive http://www.archives.gov/index.html
Castle Garden Immigration Lists https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/ny-castle-garden-ellis-island
Ellis Island Immigration Lists https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/
Ruth Ketteringham Collection http://www.brooklyncentre.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Ruth_Ketteringham_Collection
INDUSTRY
The Hulett Automatic Ore Unloaders in Cleveland http://www.clevelandmemory.org/glihc/hulett/
Hulett Ore Unloaders from Encyclopedia of Cleveland History http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=HOU
Industry from Encyclopedia of Cleveland History http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=I4
History of the Iron Ore Trade http://www.clevelandmemory.org/glihc/oretrade.html
Great Lakes Industrial History Center http://www.clevelandmemory.org/glihc/index.html
Iron and Steel Industry in Cleveland http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=IASI
Lake Erie, Cuyahoga Harbor and Industry from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Lake%20Erie/index.html
INSTITUTIONS IN CLEVELAND AND CUYAHOGA COUNTY
Institutions page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Institutions/index.html
LAKE ERIE
Lake Erie, Cuyahoga Harbor and Industry from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Lake%20Erie/index.html
Shipwrecks and Maritime Tales of the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail http://www.ohioshipwrecks.org/
Great Lakes Historical Society in Vermilion, Ohio http://www.inlandseas.org/
The Battle of Lake Erie http://www.history.com/news/the-battle-of-lake-erie-200-years-ago
MAPS OF CLEVELAND
Maps and Atlases from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site (MANY images of actual maps here) http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Maps/index.html
1917 Map of Cleveland http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/cleveland_oh_1917.jpg
1904 Map of Cleveland http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/cleveland_1904.jpg
Rails and Trails http://www.railsandtrails.com/Maps/default.htm Scroll down to the Ohio City, Township and County Maps you will have to download the free djVu viewer to look at the maps.... These are Courtesy of the Cleveland Public Library Map Department
Library of Congress Maps http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-geogmap.html
Hopkins Plat Books at CPL - 1881, 1912, 1914, 1921, 1922, and 1938
Using Maps Research Guide by CSU http://researchguides.csuohio.edu/content.php?pid=235933&sid=2225318
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps at CPL http://cdm16014.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p4014coll24/searchterm/sanborn
David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Cleveland Historical Maps from nine periods. You can move a slider and see how the maps changed over time - click on the arrows and see pictures of buildings - VERY NEAT! Covers 1874, 1881, 1898, 1912, and 2012.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=ddb0ee6134d64de4adaaa3660308abfd
MILITARY
Military page from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Military/index.html
NEIGHBORHOODS IN CLEVELAND
Neighborhoods website on Cleveland and Its Neighborhoods. Click the dropdown menu to see all Cleveland Neighborhoods:
https://sites.google.com/site/clevelandanditsneighborhoods/home/the-neighborhoods?authuser=0
NEWSPAPERS
Newspapers tab on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site (a very comprehensive list) http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Newspapers/index.html
OBITUARIES
Obituary page from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Obituaries/index.html
RAILROADS
Streetcars http://world.nycsubway.org/us/cleveland/
Detroit Superior Bridge from Lakeshore Rail Maps website http://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/detroitsuperior.html
Cleveland Public Square Railways from Lakeshore Rail Maps website http://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/publicsquare.html
East 9th Street Pier from Lakeshore Rail Maps website http://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/e9stpier.html
REPOSITORIES AND WHERE TO FIND RECORDS
Repositories page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Repositories/index.html
SCHOOLS AND YEARBOOKS
Schools and Yearbooks page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Schools/index.html
TAX RECORDS
Taxes page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Taxes/index.html
VOTER INFORMATION
Voter page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Voters/index.html
ETHNIC GROUPS
Immigrants page from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Immigrants/index.html
Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum http://www.clevelandmemory.org/gcem/
EUROPEAN MAPS
Federation of East European History Map Collection (FEEFHS) http://www.feefhs.org/
Detailed topographic maps of Poland and other areas http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/maproom-1.htm
Kartenmeister - German Maps http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/map/default.asp
GERMANY
German Americans of Cleveland: http://www.clevelandmemory.org/german/
German Heritage in Cleveland http://www.clevelandmemory.org/german/heritage.html
German Music Society http://www.germanmusicsociety.com/
Cleveland Donauschwaben http://www.donauschwabencleveland.com/
Prominent German Citizens in Cleveland http://www.clevelandmemory.org/german/cleveland.html
Germans in Cleveland http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/germans/germans.htm
German Immigrants to Cleveland from Cleveland and Its Germans http://clairegebben.com/category/list-of-german-immigrants-to-cleveland/
German Genealogy http://www.genealogienetz.de/index_en.html
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe SGGEE http://www.sggee.org/
German Telephone book http://www.teleauskunft.de/
Evangelical Church in Germany http://www.ekd.de/english/
Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin EZAB http://www.ezab.de/
Archion Kirchenbucher Online https://www.archion.de/de/ - Internet portal for German parish registers. The records cover individuals documented in parish registers between 1550 and 1850.
IRISH
Irish Undertakers in Cleveland http://www.irisharchives.org/pdf/undertaker.pdf
POLAND
Polish Roots Polish Genealogy Reference http://www.polishroots.com
Polish Genealogical Society of America http://www.pgsa.org/
Poland GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/
Poland GenWeb transcribed records - See the Transcribed Records page to find these online records: http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polandarchives.html
Finding parish addresses http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/parish.html
Lutheran Parishes in Poland https://en.luteranie.pl/
Mapa Polski (Polish online interactive map) http://mapa.szukacz.pl/
Index of church books records/parishes in Poland (Katalog zasobow metrykalnych), 10,479 parishes for today, is located now on the new webpage of the new
Polish Genealogical Society (PTG): http://www.genealodzy.pl/name-katalog.phtml
'Wyszukiwanie' = Searching
Please write in 'Miejscowosc' (town) the name of the parish, and click on 'Szukaj' = search, so you have almost all about the availability of the church book years in this parish/church, and/or in the local diocese archive, together with full postal address of the parish, local diocese might be researched with Polish internet. One ammendment from author Stan, but maybe important, from the second remark in Polish under the 'Search': if you see in the line 'Ksiegi parafii' - 'Parish church books' only one date (year) with Narodzin (Births), Slubow (Marriages), Zgonow (Deaths), it means that they have ALL church books of this kind from that year till today,
PRUSSIA
FAQ about Prussia http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/faq/faqpruss.htm
FAQ about East Prussia http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/faq/faqostpr.htm
FAQ about West Prussia http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/faq/faqwestp.htm
For a "bird's eye view" of Prussia, 1815: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/british_dominions_yearbook/prussia_map4_1815.jpg