Click here to see Maps of Summit County

• Resources in Summit County
  A good place to start your first visit.
  Updated: Sunday, June 30, 2002
• The Cities of Summit County
  [with maps and documents indexes]
  Updated: Saturday, November 25, 2000
• Summit County cemeteries
  A complete listing of the Cemeteries and contact information
  Updated: 4/15/02
• Interactive Map of Surrounding Counties
  (a map with links to other Counties)
• A Table of the Surrounding Counties
  (a text version to other counties)
• Summit County Photo Album
  (send in your own pictures to add!)
  Updated: Wednesday, February 09, 2000
• Look ups in Summit
  [if you can help please volunteer]
  updated: Friday, September 07, 2007.
• Summit County Newspapers
  available at the Akron-Summit County Library
• Summit County Search Page
• How to join the OHSUMMIT list
  (Lots of great info and help on the list)

• Ohio Historical Society Front Page
  (with search-able data base)
• Ohio Historical page on Tallamage Church
• Summit County Chapter of the OGS
• Summit County Historical Society Web Page
• Richfield Historical Society
• Historical Society of Olde Northfield
• Peninsula Library & Historical Society
• The Ohio Genealogical Society
• The Hudson Genealogical Study Group Web Page
  (A Hudson chapter of the OGS. Check out their schedule of speakers)
• Hudson Library & Historical Society
• Akron Canton and Youngstown Railroad Historical Society
• Twinsburgh Historical Society
  new!
• the Cuyahoga Falls Chapter NSDAR

Summit County:
Named for: Highest point along the Erie-Ohio Canal.
Established: by an act of congress March 3, 1840.
Parent Counties: Medina, Portage and Stark Counties.
Land Area: 412.8 Square Miles
County Seat: Akron City

Summit County is located in the northeast portion of the State. Interstate Highways 76 and 80, US Rout 224, and State Routes 18, 82, 162, 261, 303, and 619 cross the county east and west, and interstate Highways 77, and 271, and State Routes 8, 21, 91, 93, and 241, run north and south. The Cuyahoga, Tuscarawas, and Rocky Rivers flow through Summit County.
Known as the "Rubber Capital of the World," Akron in Summit County today is recognized as the world leader in polymer research. The University of Akron's Institute of Polymer Science is internationally acclaimed.

Historical Collectons of Ohio by Henry Howe 1888

• Vital Records
  • Barberton Health District Birth Record Search.
  • Barberton Health District Death Record Search.
  • Summit County Naturalization Records
    from 1850
• Cemetery transcriptions online.
  • Summit County Tombstone Transcriptions Online
  • Locust Grove Cemetery
    Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio
    Compiled by Jeffrey Alan Mills
    NEW URL!! & Serchable Database!!
• Obituaries from local papers.(2002-Present)
  • Akron Beacon Journal
    (only 1 year of past obituaries held online)
  • Aurora Advocate
  • Bedford Times-Register
  • Cuyahoga Falls News-Press
  • Gateway News (Streetsboro)
  • Hudson Hub Times
  • Maple Heights Press
  • The News Leader (Northfield)
  • The Record Courier
  • Stow Sentry
  • The Tallmadge Express
  • Twinsburg Bulletin
• Schools
  • THE CUYAHOGA FALLS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS, JUNE 1962
    Donated by: Lynda Yale
  • Barberton High School Class of 1919

• OHGenWeb Project
  (Visit other Ohio counties.)
• USGenWeb Project
  [Visit other states here.]
• The WorldGenWeb
  (Visit other Countries.)
• Summit County Archives TOC
  [A Table of Contents for the Archives]
• The OHGeWeb Archives
• USGenWeb Archives Search Feature
  (A great archival resource)
• The USGW Census Project
  (find or volunteer for a census)
• The Tombstone Project
  (find a grave or volunteer)
• Vital Records Information
  (Locate information on Vital Records for Any State)
• Soundex Conversion Program
  (enter your surname and get the soundex code)
• Funeral Net Search
  (A good source to find cemeteries)
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
  (A Must visit spot for advanced research.)
• Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook
  

• Lisa Trifonoff's Website.
  (A collection of scanned articles from her g-grandmother's Cookbook)
• The Howe Family Web Site
  [An extensive family history page with Akron connections]
• Granny and Me Genealogy Page!
  info pertaining to the Schoeck/Scheck family of Summit Co.

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