of the
Ohio Genealogy Society
Research Requests: The Genealogy chapter will now provide research on a limited scale and only pre-paid. Please use this form when requesting research. All work is done by volunteers and all money after expenses goes to the chapter. The Genealogy Chapter is not the same group as the Historical Society and research requests are handled by different people and there is a different cost structure.
Membership
Dues for the Chapter are $10.00 for single membership and $12.00 for two or more at one address. Dues are payable January of each year.
Application Form - Click on one of the links below for a membership form.
First Settlers of Portage County
Open to any member of the Chapter who can prove that their direct ancestors were in Portage County prior to December 31, 1840. Applications with completed documentation and a one time fee of $15.00 is due June 1st of any year. The chapter holds an annual luncheon honoring the approved applicants in October.
Newsletter
The Chapter newsletter, PORTAGE PATH TO GENEALOGY, is published bi-monthly, six times a year. Information relating to meeting dates and subject, member activities, queries and Portage County material is included in each newsletter. QUERIES are published free for members and there is a $1.00 charge for non members. Please limit queries to four surnames.
Officers for 2009-2010
President, Barb Petroski; Vice President, Evelyn Burgess; Secretary, Jackie Woodring; Treasurer, Tom Monroe; Chairman of Membership,Carolyn Kale; First Settlers Chairman, Jackie Woodring; Historian, Lois Ragan; Newsletter Editor, Barb Petroski; Publications Chair, Eloise Clark.
The Chapter is currently working at the Portage County Historical Society on the Naturalization records that are on file there. This project is about two-thirds finished. It started out as just a listing of names and dates and then a book was found with more names and and index, so now the project has a new focus. It will contain names, dates, place of origin and other miscellaneous information.
A new publication of the wills, estates, and guardianship records located
at the Portage County Historical Society is now available for sale. See
link in Publications for Sale below.
Indexes to all the scrapbooks and diaries
located at the Portage County Historical Society have been completed by
our members.
Our goal is to make the history of Portage County available to the genealogist
and historian as easy to find as possible.
The Chapter has read the cemeteries within Portage
County and published thirteen volumes containing every name indexes and
all readable information written on the stones. The books are sold by
mail or at the Portage County Historical Society. The Chapter also has
Undertaker's Records of Ira Herriff (of Kent) There are four volumes in
this collection.
[Volume I, II, IV, & V, 1869-1912 [Volume III of the original Herriff
records is missing.]
Go to Genealogy Pubs for Sale for a complete list.
New Publication: Index
to Portage County Probate Court Records Wills, Estates and Guardianships1813-1942
Located at the Portage County Historical Society Ravenna, Ohio. See
Pubs for Sale above for price and ordering information.
MEETING TIME: The Chapter meets at the Portage County Historical Society on the third Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted in the newsletter or on this site. There are no regular meetings in June, July, August or December.
2010 Meetings
All meeting held at the Portage County Historical
Society, 6549 North Chestnut St. Ravenna, Ohio, from 10:00 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. (new time) unless noted. The Historical Society
is located southwest of Maple Grove Cemetery and next to the Ravenna High
School Stadium complex.
.The programs are free and open to anyone interested in doing family research.
.No meetings June, July, August
2010
February-- Roger Marble will present program about using the internet
for researching genealogy
March--Gerald Payne of Medina will be speaker, topic to be announced
April--
May--Wayne Enders will speak about Whisky in Portage County
Contact
Us
Mailing
Address:
Portage County Chapter OGS
P. O. Box 821
Ravenna, Ohio 44266-0821
Please Note the Following:
The Portage County Historical:
HOURS
FOR THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY --
Thursday and Sunday 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
and the first Saturday of each month from 1:00-4:00 P.M.
Other Genealogy Sites of Interest
Rootsweb
Connects to the site for the Portage County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical
Society
Ohio Genealogical Society, Mansfield Ohio
Ohio Historical Society Death Index The Ohio Historical Society Library/Archives have changed their hours. They will be open only three days a week. Check their web site for more details.
Cleveland Necrology File newspaper death notices on microfilm at Cleveland Public Library