Lorain Public Library System

Lorain Public Library System - Useful Web Links

Selected Topic: Genealogy

Ancestry - Library Edition
The library edition of Ancestry.com can only be used inside a CLEVNET library building using a library computer. When you click on this link be ready to scroll down the list of research databases to click on Ancestry Library Edition. This version provides easy access to more than 4,000 genealogy databases with a single search. Coverage focuses primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, although other areas are covered. Databases include the complete U.S. Census & Index (1790-1940), vital, church, court, and immigration records. The Map Center contains more than 1,000 historical maps. Other notable collections include Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books; Social Security Death Index (updated monthly); WWI Draft Registration Cards; Federal Slave Narratives; and a strong Civil War collection. Databases are updated continuously as new information becomes available.

Canadian Naturalization Databases
1915-1932 Canadian naturalization from the National Archives of Canada.

Census Links
Links to Census websites - National Archives and foreign censuses.

Cleveland Necrology File
The website is provided by Cleveland Public Library. It includes notices published in the following newspapers: The Cleveland Plain Dealer - 1850-1975; The Cleveland Herald - 1833, 1847-1848, 1876, 1878-1879; The Cleveland Press - 1941-1975.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
"Your genealogy starting point online for more than a decade!" International links are an added plus on this website.

Death Records Checklist
The Genealogy Blog offers information about ten places to look for a death record.

Ellis Island
Search passenger arrival records. Get hints on genealogy research.

FamilySearch
Describes itself as the largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world.

Genealogy Resources at the Cleveland Public Library
This website provided a guide to genealogical records and resources in Cuyahoga County as well as resources available the Cleveland Public Library.

Genealogy Services - Lorain Public Library

HeritageQuest Online (through the CLEVNET Research page)
HeritageQuest combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection & other valuable content. You must have a CLEVNET library card for access to this database outside a CLEVNET library. When you click on this link be ready to scroll down the list of research databases to click on HeritageQuest.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
A source for locating passenger lists from many different ports to America since Colonial times and immigration-related materials.

Lorain County Cemeteries
Link to Lorain County Genealogists page on Cemeteries in Lorain County, showing listings compiled from headstones and cemetery records as well as locations of cemeteries.

Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogy Society
Links to local genealogy organizations.

Military Personnel Records
More than 6 million military personnel records available from the National Archives' Personnel Records Center for military personnel who served and left military service before 1946.

New England Historic Genealogical Society
Full access is by subscription only but the New England Historic Genealogical Society website does provide some free information.

ObitsArchive
ObitsArchive.com provides an index to obituary articles posted by hundreds of newspapers across the country. As of 2010 thirty Ohio newspapers were among the newspapers included.

Ohio Birth Records - Available Through Lorain City Health Department
The Lorain City Health Department has obtained State certification to issue an Ohio birth record regardless of the county/city where the birth occurred.

Ohio Gravestone Photos
Welcome to the Ohio Gravestone Photo Project! The mission of this project is to capture digital images of gravestones of our ancestors. As decades pass-- many stones in Ohio cemeteries are becoming harder, if not impossible, to read the inscriptions they originally contained.

Ohio Obituary Index
The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, located in Fremont,Ohio, maintains a growing database of obituary information including over 1,600,000 obituaries, death & marriage notices & other sources from Ohio from the 1810s to the present day.

Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
A directory of online death indexes by state and county. Includes death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, & cemetery & burial records.

Roots Web
Full access by subscription only. The primary purpose and function of RootsWeb.com is to connect people so that they can help each other and share genealogical research.

Start Your Genealogy Research at the National Archives
The National Archives web site has very few actual records online. The web site's focus is on articles and information on how to conduct in-person research in the different types of records, along with finding aids, such as microfilm indexes.

U S GenWeb
The US GenWeb Project is a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.

United States Vital Records Information
Information on how to obtain birth, death, marriage, and divorce records.

Veterans Records Request
The online military personnel records request system allows you to customize an order form to mail in to request information from your, or your relative's, military personnel records.

Western Reserve Historical Society - Genealogy Resources
Family history and other resources.