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Lorain County Lookups

For Our Out-of-town Researchers

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The volunteer knows that you have received your answer and
you have had the opportunity to be courteous! ;-)

Please limit your requests to the specific lookup that the volunteer has offered to do.
Our volunteers should not be asked to research all sources for all information for any given surname. Thank you for your consideration and understanding!

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

Birth Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1867-1897, vol 1-3, #1294334
Birth Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1897-1908, vol 4-5, #1294335
Death Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1867-1889, vol 1-2, #1294335
Death Records, Lorain County Courthouse, 1890-1908, vol 3-5, #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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Amherst High School
1913 Jane Kenney or Peggy Paterchak
Contains individual pictures of the graduates and the faculty and pictures of each class down through 1st grade.
Each graduate from 1887-1913 is listed along with city of residence. Jane will also provide pictures.

1916 - Special Issue "Aloha Oe" Peggy Paterchak
1917 - Memories       Peggy Paterchak
1921 - Senior Number The Bugle   Peggy Paterchak
1922 - Senior Number The Bugle   Peggy Paterchak
1924 - Senior Number The Record Peggy Paterchak
1925 - Senior Number The Record Peggy Paterchak
1927 - Senior Number The Record Peggy Paterchak
1928 - The Record    Peggy Paterchak
1929 - The Record    Peggy Paterchak
1930 - The Record    Peggy Paterchak
1935 - The Record Nancy Meyers
1936 Diane Alexander, Names of teachers and students from 1st grade through Senior High School
1952, 1953, 1955, 1956 Richard Kurish, Identifies faculty, and all students from kindergarten through senior high.
1959 Cathy Martin
1960 through 1963 Richard Kurish (temporarily unavailable), Faculty and high school students only (grades 9-12)
1964 - The Amherstonian Nancy Meyers

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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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Lorain High School Scimitar

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
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
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

1975 thru 1978, Pat Bailey

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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

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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 slot 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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Elyria Obituaries, 1850-2007, Norma Karter Please include as much information on the deceased as possible when requesting the look-up.

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 Meyers

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
Sorted by ED or Alpha Street index with ED

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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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