Lorain  County  Researchers

 

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                    Become a County Volunteer Researcher by contacting Kathy or Margaret.

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                    The following Lorain County records on microfilm can be 
                ordered from Salt Lake Library by visiting your local Family                           History Center Library.

                Birth Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1867-1897, vol 1-3, 
                film #1294334

                Birth Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1897-1908, vol 4-5, 
                film #1294335

                Death Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1867-1889, vol 1-2, 
                film #1294335

                Death Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1890-1908, vol 3-5, 
                film #0447511

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUALS and YEARBOOKS of LORAIN COUNTY.   Many of the look-up volunteers will scan pictures.

Lorain County Schools  The 1925 ELSIESS, Richard Kurish,
(I think the name is meant to sound like LCS -- Lorain County Schools)
The yearbook has pictures and identifies all seniors from the following schools: Amherst, South Amherst, Wellington, Avon, Belden, Penfield, Columbia, Brighton, Camden, Brownhelm, Lagrange, Grafton, and Henrietta.  Also identified are the faculty of all the elementary and high schools in the County (except Lorain and Elyria), including the county superintendent and school board, and all the members of the school boards of the individual County Schools ( twenty-nine school boards in all ).

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Sheffield-Sheffield Lake, Brookside High School
               1930 - 1995 Includes married names for many female students. Nancy Meyers
Sheffield Lake High School,  "The Leader" 
               1958-1962  Dee Bloomberg

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Elyria High School

              1926  Peggy Paterchak,  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1927  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1928  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1929  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1930  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1931  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1933  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1939  Patricia Daly-Zake
              1940  Pennola Nolan
              1941  Linda Martin or  Pennola Nolan
              1942  Linda Martin
              1955  Russell C Sage
              1956  Russell C Sage
              1957  Russell C Sage
              1958  Russell C Sage
              1965
              1967
              1963 to the present,  Debby Thompson   Elyria High School and Elyria West 
                   High School Alumni Directory 2002

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Lorain High School Scimitar

              1912  Pam Rihel
              1916 April, quarterly soft cover, Don Emerick
              1917 B,  Don Emerick
              1917 Quarterly Issues: March and Thanksgiving, Don Emerick
              1918 A&B, Don Emerick
              1918 Quartley Issues: Easter and Christmas, Don Emerick
              1921 Easter, soft cover, Don Emerick
              1920  Nancy Meyers
              1922 A&B  Nancy Meyers
              1924 B  Karen Tillack
              1924 A&B  Nancy Meyers
              1925 A  Karen Tillack 
              1927 & 1928  Pam Rihel
              1926 A&B, 1927, 1928  Nancy Meyers 
              1929, 1930, 1931, 1932  Paula Brosky-Shorf
              1927 thru 1933  Don Emerick
              1933  Nancy Meyers
              1934, 1935  Paula Brosky-Shorf
              1936  Nancy Meyers
              1936 thru 1947 Don Emerick
              1936, 1937, 1938  Pam Rihel
              1939  Paula Brosky-Shorf
              1940  Don Emerick
              1941, 1942, 1943  Paula Brosky-Shorf
              1944, 1945  Don Emerick
              1946, 1947  Linda Hendley
              1948 thru 1950 Shirley Schremp
              1950  Karen Tillack
              1955, 1956  Karen Tillack
              1956  Don Emerick
              1960, 1961  Don Emerick
              1961  Dee Blomberg
              1962 thru 1965  Ron Dziak
              1966  Nancy Meyers
              1968, 1969  Nancy Meyers
              1970, 1971, 1972, 1973  Don Emerick

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Lorain St. Marys High School

              1967  Paula Brosky-Shorf

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Oberlin High School             

               Almuni Home Page,  http://www.oberlin-high.org/  

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North Ridgeville High School

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Wellington High School

Wellington graduates 1873 to 1912.  Bud Burge  (note: Bud says that he is not available all of the time and there may be a delay in responding.)

1921  Bud Burge
1932  Cathy Martin

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Telephone Directories

Lorain City Telephone Directory,:1934, Paula Brosky-Shorf
Lorain County Telephone Directory: 2007, Sue Strick
Elyria Telephone Company Directory: 1930, 1932-1936, 1938, Margaret Cheney

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City Directories

Elyria City Directory
1955  Carl Jasinto   Directory includes: Residential, Rural routes, Grafton, Wellington, and Avon.
1959  Carl Jasinto  Directory includes:  Residential, Rural routes, Amherst, Avon Lake, Columbia Station,  Grafton, La Grange, Oberlin, Wellington (but NOT Avon)

Lorain City Directory
1909  Paula Brosky-Short
1912  Paula Brosky-Short
1926  Paula Brosky-Short
1940  Paula Brosky-Shorf
1960  Paula Brosky-Shorf
1976  John Dunn

Lorain County Rural Directory, 1915, Dawn Linden
Elyria Business Directory, 1902, Carol C. Eddleman
Huron County Rural Directory, 1931-1932-1933,  Sylvia Price

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"Humphreys Family in America"  book vol.one and two first published in 1883. It has the Humphrey line back to Michael Humphrey, the first known Humphrey to set foot on American soil. It also has a lot of branches of the Humphrey family. The book is by Frederick Humphrey. Debbie

"Hungarians in America"  - published in 1941 by the ( newspaper) Hungarian Daily out of Cleveland, Ohio.  It contains fascinating  information about American Hungarians, including many individuals from Lorain, Ohio.  It doesn't just give demographic information, like addresses, birthdates, but actually tells a story about each individual, how they were respected, and their involvement in the community. Kelli  Felde

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Assorted Elyria newspapers, 1850-1976, Norma Karter

Parish Records-St. Mary of Immaculate Conception Parish-Avon, Pamela Rihel

1851 Tax Map, Jan Brooks

Aliens who petitioned the court for US citizenship and were admitted...1824-1845.
     abstracted by Mary Gray, 1961, Nancy Meyers 

Atlas from Tax Map of Lorain County for 1857 (pub 1992), Jean Diedrick

Atlas of Lorain County 1874 (pub 1974), Jean Diedrick

Index to 1851 Lorain County Tax Map, Dawn Linden

Atlas of Lorain County 1896, Property owners marked on maps; photos and short bios of many citizens of Lorain County. Nancy

Beers' Biographical Record of Lorain County (pub 1894), Nancy Meyers 

A collection of records abstracted from Elyria City Health Dept, Nancy Meyers  
      Births 1908-1990 and Deaths 1908-2000.

DAR Index to LC Marriages, 1824-1865 (pub 1980), Nancy Meyers 

Company F, 41st Ohio Infantry, posted by Richard Kurish

1879 History of Lorain County Ohio,  Richard Kurish
Published by Williams Brothers. (History of the settlement of each Township,and biographical sketches of many prominent citizens)

1916 History of Lorain County Ohio, Volume 1 and 2,  Richard Kurish
Author, G. Frederick Wright, Published by Lewis Publishing Co. (History of Townships and biographical sketches of many prominent citizens)

1914 Amherst's Story, Richard Kurish
by Robert Grenville Armstrong, Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Amherst Ohio. Contains history of the settlement and development of Amherst, and mentions many citizens of the city from 1814 to 1914

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Be reminded that Census Indexes are not complete census records. An index will name only the head of household and persons in the household with a different surname.

Index to Lorain County Census and Tax List for 1820, Jan Brooks
Index to Lorain County Census 1850, Nancy Meyers 
Index to Lorain County Census 1860, Nancy Meyers 
Lorain County Census 1870, Dawn Linden
Index to Lorain County Census 1880, Dawn Linden
1890 Special Census of living Civil War Veterans and surviving widows: (Please give Township) "Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Surviving Spouses" Frank Waldek

1910 Census,  Elyria City Enumeration Districts, submitted by Mary Anne Cella

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Picturesque Elyria, 1874, Jean Deidrick
Reminiscences of Elyria, Ohio,   Amy Armstrong  has scanned and indexed this book which was published by The Lorain County Historical Society in 1900.

The Family and Descendants of George Hall and Elizabeth Knight, Randall Bott

Autobiography of Moses Deming, Columbia Historical Society, 1986, Ruth Weitzel Guinns

Hoadley and Potter Families from Cuyahoga and Lorain Co., Ohio_1998
by Mildred Shores Sussell, Ruth Weitzel Guinns

General Catalogue Oberlin College, Oberlin OH, Nancy Meyers   Lists students 1833-1960 with biographical information.

Ritzenthaler Family Bible, submitted by Phil Roblee.  Surnames: Ritzenthaler, Allen, Eddy, Morringer, Bates, Kellogg

Will of Orra Hemmingway, submitted by  Cheryl Bakker   Surnames: HEMINGWAY, GILMORE, SHUPE, FRINK, RICHMOND, SHATTUCK, HAMMEL, HEINMAN

Oberlin Colony, a History of Oberlin, OH, 1833-1933, Bob Oliphant

History of Camden Township, Lorain Co OH, Bob Oliphant  Lists early settlers.

Women Who Came to the Western Reserve by 1840/1850, Nancy Meyers   Lorain County Index

The Early Families of Sheffield, Thomas Hoerrle

The Lorain County Underground Railroad.  Thomas Hoerrle

A list of casualities from the 1924 Lorain tornado provided by Mary Kocak

Some Records of Deaths, Probate Court, Lorain County, Ohio 1882  by Joyce Peck.

Katherine "Katie" Bachmann's Autograph Album, 1889-1892, Brownhelm Twp. Sharon Swanson will photocopy pages for interested parties:
       Hattie ABELL, Anna ACKERMAN, Bertha ACKERMAN, Conrad ACKERMAN,
       Mary ACKERMAN,  H. B. B., Anna BACHMANN, Georgie BACHMANN, Mary
       BACHMANN, Sidney BATES, Josi BOLAND, Clara CLAUSIUS, Amelia ENGLEBRY,
       Lydia FISCHER, Agnes GILCHRIST, Bertha HAHN, Lydia HAHN, Willie HAHN,
       Jennie HARRIS, Minnie HEIDELOFF, Anna HUENE, Pearl HUNES, Alice KANE,
       Hattie KLINE, Albert KRAPP, Carrie KRAPP, Ella LEIMBACH, Bert MATTISON,
       Louise MORAN,  George NAEGELE, John NAEGELE, Alva PARSONS, Carrie PETERS,
       Laura PETTERSON, S. R., Maud RIEFERT, Anna RIES, Sophie RIES, E. A. ROSS,
       Louisa ROSS, Anna VEDDER, and Nellie WELLS


Lillian Wood's Autograph Book, submitted by Sari Anna
      Autographs dating from 1880 thru 1883 when Lillian (from Brighton) was 10+yrs old.  Sari will
      look up the verse and perhaps make a copy for you.  O.F. Goss 1880, Mary S. Goss 1880,
      Mattie Wilbur 1880, Susie Fenwick 1882, Herbie Goss 1880,  Doug Blain 1880, Etta C. Paull
      1881, Laura Hardy,  Belle Pattinson 1883, Ella Stewart 1881, Frank Barradhoug 1883, Alice Hart
      1881, Ella Myers,  Hattie Osier 1883, Edna Perkins, Miriam Williams, David T. Williams (pastor)
      1880, Manette  Whipple 1881, Mary or Many A. Marshall, Willie Hubbell, Hattie Patterson 1882,         Wilson Haynes, Ella Carr 1881.

Croel Wilkinson Nickols’ Journal, Lorain County Ohio, 1842
Francee Taylor  will be happy to do lookups from her GG Grandfather's journal.
Check the list for a surname.    Surnames A-L,    Surnames M-Y  Copyright © 2001 Frances Taylor Haff, all rights reserved. Frances Taylor Haff, 8414 366th St. E. Eatonville, WA  98328

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                                  STATEWIDE

Genealogy LookUp Forum  is a web site of volunteers who will do various types of look ups in many states such as Birth, Death, Census, Cemetery, Marriage, and obituaries.

Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index, (Bell, 1981),  Nancy Meyers

Sons of the American Revolution CD lookup,  William King

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The following researchers, while affiliate members of the Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, work independently. The Chapter assumes no responsibility for their availability or the results of their work. All arrangements must be made directly with these genealogists.

In order to evaluate this service, we would appreciate a follow-up email regarding the quality of services you received.    

Janice Brooks
246 Miller Court 
Elyria OH  44035-8118
JBROOKS4@oh.rr.com  
Janice specializes in Federal Census research for Lorain County, Ohio. Will also do Lorain County courthouse research.

Diane Nott
1100 Oakwood Drive F204
Elyria OH 44035
dnott.geo@yahoo.com
Diane will do Lorain County Online research only,  including Ancestry.com subscription access.

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