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Research Databases

Akron Beacon Journal  Full text access to all content from 1984 to present.

Ancestry Library Edition   Ancestry Library Edition 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 (1790-1930), 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.  (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY- MUST BE A LIBRARY CARD HOLDER)

HeritageQuest Online  HeritageQuest features the U.S. Census, 1790-1930 (1850-60 Slave Census Schedules not included), the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), a digitzed collection of more than 25,000 family and local history books, Records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files and Freedman's Bank Records (1865-1874).

Ohio Historical Society Searchable Databases  This collection of searchable databases (many of which were created under the Ohio Vital Information for Libraries Center, a grant-funded project of OHS supported by the State Library of Ohio and OPLIN) includes: Online Documents, Online Research Tools, Online Services, and On-location Services.

Full List of Research Databases

Census Records
First Census of the United States, 1790: Ohio Northwest Territory, 
   vol. 1-2
Ohio 1800-1810 (special census data)
1812 Census of Ohio: Statewide Index of Taxpayers
1820 Federal Population Census
1840 Ohio Census Index
1850 Index to the Federal Population Census of Ohio
1860 Index to the Federal Population Census of Ohio
1870 Ohio Census Index
1880 Ohio Census Index
1820-1930 Federal Census, Summit and surrounding counties   

Summit County Records
Summit County, Ohio, Naturalizations, 1840-1858
Index to the Federal Census of 1900 for Summit County
Summit County, Ohio, Death Records, 1866-1902

Cemetery Records and Inscriptions
Lest We Forget: Sixty+ Unique Summit County, Ohio, Cemeteries: 
  Their Stories and Existing Records
Fairview Cemetery, Boston Heights Village, Ohio
Glendale Cemetery Burial Records, 1838-1868, Akron, Ohio
   (formerly Akron Rural Cemetery)
Locust Grove Cemetery, Twinsburg, Ohio
Maple Lawn Cemetery, Stow, Ohio
Markillie Cemetery, Hudson, Ohio
Mount Hope Cemetery, Akron, Ohio
New Portage Cemetery, Barberton, Ohio
St. Bernard’s Catholic Church Cemetery Inscriptions and 
   Funeral Records, Akron, Ohio
St. Mary’s, 1858-1988, Hudson, Ohio
Stow Cemetery, Stow, Ohio
Summit County Cemetery Inscriptions

Stark County Cemtery Inscriptions (7 volumes)
Portage County Cemeteries (15 volumes)

Ohio Cemeteries (by county)
Ohio Cemeteries, 1803-2003

Local Family Histories
 

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