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/clevelandanditsneighborhoods/home/books-about-cleveland

BIOGRAPHIES

A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men of the City of Cleveland, 1914.  http://www.accessgenealogy.com/ohio/cleveland-ohio-biography.htm 

Prominent German Citizens   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/ 

BOOKS

Books page at the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site:  http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Books/index.html

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History http://ech.cwru.edu/

Cleveland Books http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/BrowseObjects.aspx?PID=ksl:clevelandbooks

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

Holy Cross Cemetery http://www.interment.net/data/us/oh/cuyahoga/holycross/index.htm

Lakeview 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://search.ancestry.com/search/DB.aspx?dbid=2442 - Ancestry 1940 Census

http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/ - National Archive 1940 Census

http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/OH/Cuyahoga/ - 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 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 Part 1

History of Churches in Cleveland Ohio in A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William Coates Part 2 

The Methodist Churches from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, compiled by Crisfield Johnson, 1879. 

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 Township History from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

Cleveland Village History from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

Cleveland City History from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

Cleveland, The Pleasant City by Charles Thwing 

Commercial (transportation, water, air, interstate urban and interburban, trade, and utilities) from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

German Heritage in Cleveland  http://www.clevelandmemory.org/german/heritage.html 

Industries from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

Cleveland Metroparks History  http://www.neonaturalist.com/parks/cleveland_metroparks.html 

Newspapers and Writers from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

Parks from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

Physicians and Hospitals from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates

The History and Plan of Wendy Park  http://wendypark.org/history.html

CLEVELAND HISTORY BLOGS

http://www.clevelandareahistory.org/

http://clevhist.blogspot.com/

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 - request a free guide. 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 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 USGENWEB http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/

Cuyahoga County Linkpendium http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/OH/Cuyahoga/

CUYAHOGA COUNTY HISTORY

History page on the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site:  http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/History/index.html

Cuyahoga County Family Search Wiki  https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Cuyahoga_County,_Ohio 

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 

ETHNIC GROUPS

Immigrants page from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site:  http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Immigrants/index.html

German Music Society http://www.germanmusicsociety.com/

Cleveland Donauschwaben http://www.donauschwabencleveland.com/

Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum http://www.clevelandmemory.org/gcem/

Irish Undertakers in Cleveland http://www.irisharchives.org/pdf/undertaker.pdf

FACEBOOK PAGES ABOUT CLEVELAND 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 Garfield Heights IF Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/104067929694086/ 

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/

Raised in Goosetown Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/204321076300794/

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

Find-A-Grave http://www.findagrave.com/index.html

Castle Garden Immigration Lists http://www.castlegarden.org/

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 

Union Oil Company History  http://www.onlinebiographies.info/oh/cuya/unionoil.htm 

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

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

The Battle of Lake Erie Bicentennial  http://battleoflakeerie-bicentennial.com/history/the-battle/

Lake Erie, Cuyahoga Harbor and Industry from the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB site:

http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Lake%20Erie/index.html

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

http://cdm16014.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p4014coll24/searchterm/hopkins/field/title/mode/all/conn/and/order/title

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

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/

Lakeshore rail maps for Cleveland/Detroit Superior Bridge  http://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/detroitsuperior.html

Lakeshore rail maps for Public Square  http://www.lakeshorerailmaps.com/publicsquare.html

Lakeshore rail maps for East 9th Street Pier  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

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES

Bedford Township History

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/bedford.html#:~:text=About%201810%20the%20township%20was,the%20first%20pioneer%20of%20Bedford.

Brecksville Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/brecksville.html#:~:text=Brecksville%20was%20surveyed%20in%201811,and%20died%20there%20before%201818.

Brooklyn Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/brooklyn.html#:~:text=ORGANIZATION.,has%20been%20restored%20to%20Cleveland.

Chagrin Falls Township History

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/chagrinfalls.html

Dover Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/dover.html

Independence Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/independence.html

Newburg Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/newburg.html#:~:text=Newburg%20township%20was%20formed%20by,to%20the%20city%20of%20Cleveland.

Olmsted Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/olmstead.html

Orange Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/orange.html

 Parma Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/parma.html

Rockport Township History

 https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/rockport.html

Royalton Township History 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah3/royalton.html

CITIES AND VILLAGES

See the Cuyahoga County USGENWEB page for Cities, Villages and Townships for many links

http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cities/index.html

NEIGHBORHOODS

BROADWAY

http://www.slavicvillagehistory.org/

BROOKLYN CENTER

http://brooklyncentre.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page

DETROIT SHOREWAY

http://www.dscdo.org/

FLATS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Cleveland#Flats_East_Bank

OHIO CITY

Westside Market https://westsidemarket.org/

SLAVIC VILLAGE/BROADWAY

http://www.slavicvillage.org/

http://www.slavicvillagehistory.org/

TREMONT

http://www.digitaltermpapers.com/c7136.htm

http://www.digitalessays.com/film/003.php

http://clevelandhistorical.org/items/browse/tag/Tremont

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

http://www.warehousedistrict.org/

WHISKEY ISLAND 

http://wendypark.org/

http://wendypark.org/photos.html

http://realneo.us/Congratulations-Citizen-Hauser

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

Cleveland German websites:

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/german/

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/

http://www.kirchenbuchportal.de Internet portal for German parish registers at this site. The first stage of work is to set up a site that provides an overview of the status of digital parish registers in the German church archives. The second phase, from July 2008, is intended to make them available in digital form online. The records will deal with individuals documented in parish registers between 1550 and 1850.

POLAND

Genealogy and Poland http://www.polishroots.com

Polish Genealogical Society of America http://www.pgsa.org/

Poland GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/

Poland Gen Web 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 http://www.luteranie.pl/pl/index.php?D=113

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