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Cleveland Birth Records

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1800-1962 Ohio Births and Christenings Index Ancestry online

1908-1964 Ohio Birth Index Ancestry online

Birth index, ca. 1849-1910 FamilySearch Library

Birth records, 1867-1908; index, 1890-1908, 1867-1908 FamilySearch Library

Birth records, 1873-1908 ; index, 1873-1908 FamilySearch Library

Cuyahoga County OH Birth Returns, 1871-1908 Fold3 online

Euclid Avenue Congregational Church records, 1822-1970, Cleveland, Ohio Archive Grid

Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) 1899-1985 Archive Grid

Ohio, Birth Records, 1908-present Ohio Department of Health

Ohio, Cuyahoga County, birth affidavits, 1849-1908 FamilySearch Library

Records 1835-1871, St. John's Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1842-1967, Miles Park Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1852-1965, Immanuel United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1856-1970, St. Paul's United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1863-1918, St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1874-1915, East Madison Avenue Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1889-1917, Bethany Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1892-1975, Fidelity Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1837-1962, First Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1887-1912, St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1890-1944, Hungarian Reformed Church in America (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1892-1943, First Evangelical Slovak Society of the Holy Trinity (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1893-1957, Saint Vitus Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1902-1990, Saint Nicholas Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1906-1907, Mother of Sorrows Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1906-1940, Welsh Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Return of a birth, 1871-1908 for Cleveland, Ohio FamilySearch Library

Sacramental records, 1903-1990, Saint Paul Croatian Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church records Series II, 1935-1950 Archive Grid

The Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church records, 1851-1969 Archive Grid

Cleveland Cemetery Records (114)


Cleveland Census Records

Dutch in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, 1880, derived from the federal population census of 1880 FamilySearch Library

Federal Census of 1940, Cleveland, Ohio LDS Genealogy online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Cleveland Church Records (220)


Cleveland City Directories (171)


Cleveland Court Records

Annals of Cleveland : court record series, 1837-1877 FamilySearch Library

Annals of Cleveland, court record series of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1869, 1870 FamilySearch Library

Annals of Cleveland: court record series 1837-1877 (10 volumes) Case Western Reserve University online

The Bench and Bar of Cleveland (On the Court) Ancestry online

Cleveland Death Records

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1840-1908 Ohio Select County Death Records (includes Cuyahoga County) Ancestry online

1908-1932, 1938-2007 Ohio Deaths Ancestry online

Annals of Cleveland, 1818-1829: deaths, marriages, divorce FamilySearch Library

Beilstein-Young Company records, 1907-1930 [funeral records] WorldCat

Burial books, 1909-1960. WorldCat

Chambers Funeral Home records, 1935-1955. WorldCat

Cleveland Necrology Index (newspaper death notices and cemetery records from 1833 to 1975) Cleveland Public Library online

Cleveland Newspaper Index To Marriages and Deaths, 1818-1876 FamilySearch Library

Cleveland Public Library necrology WorldCat

Death index, 1840-1900 FamilySearch Library

Death records, 1840-1908 ; index, 1840-1908 FamilySearch Library

Edward H. Lindhorst and Sons Funeral Home records, 1906-1974. WorldCat

Euclid Avenue Congregational Church records, 1822-1970, Cleveland, Ohio Archive Grid

Grdina Funeral Home and Grdina-Cosic Funeral Home records, 1912-1991 Archive Grid

Grdina Funeral Home and Grdina-Cosic Funeral Home records, 1912-1991. WorldCat

Gustav Buesch and Sons Funeral Home Records 1917-1976 WorldCat

Index [to] St. John's Episcopal Church records, 1835-1871, Cleveland, Ohio. WorldCat

McGorray Brothers Funeral Home records, 1876-1934 Archive Grid

McGorray Brothers Funeral Home records, series II, 1935-1936 Archive Grid

Ministerial record of Benjamin Excell, marriages and deaths. WorldCat

Ohio Death Index, 1913-1944, 1954-1963 MyHeritage online

Ohio, Death Records, 1908-present Ohio Department of Health

Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index, 1810s-2013 Ancestry online

Records 1852-1965, Immanuel United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1856-1970, St. Paul's United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1863-1918, St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1889-1917, Bethany Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1892-1975, Fidelity Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1906-1944 [Boyd's Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio)] WorldCat

Records, 1892-1943, First Evangelical Slovak Society of the Holy Trinity (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1893-1957, Saint Vitus Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1902-1959, Saint Lawrence Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1902-1990, Saint Nicholas Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1906-1907, Mother of Sorrows Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1906-1940, Welsh Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Sacramental records, 1903-1990, Saint Paul Croatian Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Saxton Funeral Home Records, 1882-1997 Western Reserve Historical Society online

St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church records Series II, 1935-1950 Archive Grid

The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Index, 1964-2007 Ancestry online

The Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church records, 1851-1969 Archive Grid

Thomas-Wheaton Funeral Home records, 1926-1992 Archive Grid

Cleveland Histories and Genealogies (233)


Cleveland Immigration Records

Alien appearance docket, 1883-1895 FamilySearch Library

Alien docket (declaration of aliens), 1818-1906 FamilySearch Library

Alien docket, 1820-1854 FamilySearch Library

Czech migration patterns to Cleveland, 1865-1940 FamilySearch Library

Declaration of aliens under 18, 1883-1906 FamilySearch Library

Declaration of intention index of Common Pleas Court, 1910-1915 FamilySearch Library

Declarations of intention, 1906-1931 ; indexes, 1906-1971 FamilySearch Library

Greek Americans of Cleveland : immigration and assimilation since 1870 FamilySearch Library

Hungarian Americans and their communities of Cleveland FamilySearch Library

Index of naturalization petitions (Ohio), 1855-1967 : NARA, M1893 FamilySearch Library

Index to naturalizations of Court of Common Pleas, 1818-1931 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization Petition and Record Books for the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, Cleveland, 1907-1946 Fold3 online

Naturalization card file, ca. 1850-1970 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization index, 1859-1901 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization petitions, 1855-1903, United States District Court (Ohio : Northern District : Eastern Division) Archive Grid

Naturalization records, 1859-1901 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization records, 1883-1906 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization service, petition and records, (Ohio), 1907-1946 : NARA, M1995A-M1995B FamilySearch Library

Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977 MyHeritage online

Ohio, Northern District, Eastern Division, Naturalization Records, 1855-1945 Family Search online

The Czechs of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University online

The Jewish community of Cleveland (1910) Case Western Reserve University online

The Lithuanians of Cleveland (1920) Case Western Reserve University online

The Slovaks of Cleveland : with some general information on the race FamilySearch Library

The Slovaks of Cleveland: with some general information on the race (1918) Case Western Reserve University online

Cleveland Land Records

A checklist for property research in Cleveland & Cuyahoga County FamilySearch Library

Part I: Western Reserve Historical Society: Annual Report for 1915-1916 &, The Connecticut Land Company Ancestry online

Records, 1867-1887, Cleveland Baptist Union Archive Grid

Cleveland Map Records

Birds eye view map of Cleveland, Ohio 1877. Library of Congress online

Cleveland 1877 Bird's Eye View Map (in U.S. Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases) Ancestry online

Cleveland 1887 Bird's Eye View Map (in U.S. Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases) Ancestry online

Cleveland city guide with indexed map (1882) Case Western Reserve University online

Cleveland directory map FamilySearch Library

Cleveland, Ohio Maps 1899, 1962 American Geographical Society online

Cleveland, Ohio enumeration district maps FamilySearch Library

Map of Cleveland, Ohio, 1887 Library of Congress online

Map of the city of Cleveland, 1855 FamilySearch Library

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1886 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1886 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1887 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1896 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1896 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1896 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1896 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1903 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1912-1913 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1912-1951 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1912-1953 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1925 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1925-1933 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1949 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1950 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1952 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1953 Library of Congress online

The only correct map of the city of Cleveland : issued in 1876 FamilySearch Library

Wagner's complete indexes pocket map of greater Clevelandand environs : showing boulevards, street numbers, car lines, parks, etc FamilySearch Library

Cleveland Marriage Records

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1774-1993 Ohio, County Marriages Ancestry online

Annals of Cleveland, 1818-1829: deaths, marriages, divorce FamilySearch Library

Applications for marriage licenses, 1829-1875 FamilySearch Library

Cleveland Newspaper Index To Marriages and Deaths, 1818-1876 FamilySearch Library

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973 Ancestry online

Euclid Avenue Congregational Church records, 1822-1970, Cleveland, Ohio Archive Grid

Index [to] St. John's Episcopal Church records, 1835-1871, Cleveland, Ohio. WorldCat

Marriage license index, 1829-1875 FamilySearch Library

Marriage records (Cuyahoga County, Ohio), 1810-1941; indexes, 1810-1952 FamilySearch Library

Ministerial record of Benjamin Excell, marriages and deaths. WorldCat

Record book for the marriages, baptisms, burials from the year 1884 to 1928, which I performed FamilySearch Library

Records 1835-1871, St. John's Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1842-1967, Miles Park Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1852-1965, Immanuel United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1852-1965. (Immanuel United Church of Christ, Immanuel Evangelical Church, Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church) WorldCat

Records 1856-1970, St. Paul's United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1863-1918, St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records 1889-1917, Bethany Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1887-1912, St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1892-1943, First Evangelical Slovak Society of the Holy Trinity (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1893-1957, Saint Vitus Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1902-1959, Saint Lawrence Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1902-1990, Saint Nicholas Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1906-1907, Mother of Sorrows Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1906-1940, Welsh Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records, 1909-1967, Holy Ghost Greek Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Sacramental records, 1903-1990, Saint Paul Croatian Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

St. Malachi Catholic Church, Cleveland, Ohio records of marriages WorldCat

St. Malachi Catholic Church, Cleveland, Ohio. Record of marriages : volume 1, December 20, 1865-June 28, 1899 FamilySearch Library

St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church records Series II, 1935-1950 Archive Grid

The Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church records, 1851-1969 Archive Grid

Cleveland Military Records

Cleveland official souvenir of the thirty-fifth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, September, 1901 FamilySearch Library

Draft Board records, card indexes, Cleveland war service record : series IV FamilySearch Library

Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, 1882 Ancestry online

Honor roll for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County : Series III, the Cleveland war service record FamilySearch Library

Personal war sketches of the members of Army and Navy Post No. 187, [ca. 1899]. WorldCat

Reminiscences of the Cleveland Light Artillery Genealogy Gophers online

Reminiscences of the Cleveland Light Artillery LDS Genealogy online

Reminiscences of the Cleveland Light Artillery Internet Archive online

The Cleveland war service record : card indexes to draft registrants, pre-September 1918, World War I FamilySearch Library

The Cleveland war service record : series V: draft board records, sheet listings FamilySearch Library

The Forty-first Ohio veteran volunteer infantry in the war of rebellion. 1861-1865 Genealogy Gophers online

U.S. Civil War, Roll of Honor, Vol. IX (Soldiers Buried In Cleveland, Ohio) Ancestry online

War of 1812 Correspondence (Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, 1875) Ancestry online

Cleveland Minority Records

All name index to Cleveland and its Germans : (Cleveland und sein Deutschthum) FamilySearch Library

Americke? De?lnicke? Listy (American Workingmen's News), Czech newspaper, 1918-1941 Ohio Memory online

Bohemians on Broadway FamilySearch Library

Cleveland Jewish News, 1964-2020 Digital Archive of the Cleveland Jewish News online

Cleveland Jewish News. (Cleveland, Ohio) 1964-Current US Newspaper Directory

Cleveland and its Germans FamilySearch Library

Czech migration patterns to Cleveland, 1865-1940 FamilySearch Library

Dirva = Field, Lithuanian newspaper, 1943-1951 Ohio Memory online

Dutch in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, 1880, derived from the federal population census of 1880 FamilySearch Library

Early nineteenth-century German settlers in Ohio (mainly Cincinnati and environs), Kentucky, and other states FamilySearch Library

Echo : Wochenblatt der Vereinigten Deutschen Socialisten Clevelands, German newspaper, 1911-1920 Ohio Memory online

Enakopravnost, Slovenian newspaper, 1942-1947 Ohio Memory online

Ethnic groups in Ohio, with special emphasis on Cleveland : an annotated bibliographical guide FamilySearch Library

Greek Americans in Cleveland since 1870 FamilySearch Library

Greek Americans of Cleveland : immigration and assimilation since 1870 FamilySearch Library

Homegoing programs from African-American Genealogical Society of Cleveland, Ohio. WorldCat

Hungarian Americans and their communities of Cleveland FamilySearch Library

Irish Americans and their communities of Cleveland FamilySearch Library

Italian Americans and their communities of Cleveland FamilySearch Library

Jednos?? Polek = Unity of Polish Women, Polish newspaper, 1923-1931 Ohio Memory online

Jewish Independent. (Cleveland, Ohio) 1906-1964 US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Review and Observer. (Cleveland, Ohio) 1899-1964 US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Review. (Cleveland, Ohio) 1893-1899 US Newspaper Directory

Lithuanian Americans and their communities of Cleveland FamilySearch Library

Memorable Negroes in Cleveland's past FamilySearch Library

Mount Sinai Hospital records Series II, 1915-2004 Archive Grid

Pokrok, Czech newspaper, 1874-1876 Ohio Memory online

Radnic?ka Borba = Workers' Struggle, Croatian newspaper, 1941-1946 Ohio Memory online

Records 1906-1968, Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Romanian Americans and their communities of Cleveland FamilySearch Library

Siebenbu?rgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt, Hungarian German newspaper, 1939-1954 Ohio Memory online

Slovenes of Cleveland : the creation of a new nation and a new world community Slovenia and the Slovenes of Cleveland, Ohio FamilySearch Library

Sve?t = World, Czech newspaper, 1918-1924 Ohio Memory online

The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Index, 1964-2007 Ancestry online

The Italians of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University online

The Jewish community of Cleveland (1910) Case Western Reserve University online

The Poles of Cleveland (1919) Case Western Reserve University online

The history of the Jews of Cleveland FamilySearch Library

Cleveland Miscellaneous Records

Articles of Corporation, Officers, Membership : Annual Reports For 1918-1919. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1919 Ancestry online

Articles of Corporation, Officers, Membership : Annual Reports For 1919-1920. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1920 Ancestry online

Articles of Corporation, Officers, Membership : Annual Reports For 1920-1921. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1921 Ancestry online

Articles of Incorporation, Officers, Membership, Annual Report For 1921-1922. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1922 Ancestry online

Articles of Incorporation, Officers, Membership, Annual Report For 1922-1923. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1923 Ancestry online

Articles of Incorporation, Officers, Membership, Annual Report For 1923-1924. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1924 Ancestry online

Articles of Incorporation, Officers, Membership, Annual Report For 1924-1925. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1925 Ancestry online

Articles of Incorporation, Officers, Membership, Annual Report For Year Ending May 1St, 1926. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1926 Ancestry online

Articles of Incorporation, Officers, Membership, Annual Report For Year Ending May 1st, 1927. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1927 Ancestry online

Articles of Incorporation, Officers, Membership: Annual Report of 1917 - 1918. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1918 Ancestry online

Cleveland, Ohio, Board of Elections registration records, 1907-1908 Archive Grid

Doans Corners and the city four miles west : with a glance at Cuyahoga County and the Western Reserve FamilySearch Library

Laws and Ordinances of a General and Local Nature, for the Government of the City of Cleveland Ancestry online

Mount Sinai Hospital records Series II, 1915-2004 Archive Grid

Ninth Annual Meeting, May, 1877 of Western Reserve Society Ancestry online

Numismatics (Western Reserve Historical Society) Ancestry online

Ordinances of the City of Cleveland Ancestry online

Part I: Western Reserve Historical Society: Annual Report for 1912-1913 & Northern Ohio During the War Ancestry online

Part I: Western Reserve Historical Society: Annual Report for 1916-1917 Ancestry online

Records 1906-1968, Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid

Records of indentures, 1837-1890 FamilySearch Library

U.S., Applications for Seaman's Protection Certificates, 1916-1940 (includes Cleveland, Ohio) Ancestry online

Cleveland Newspapers and Obituaries (117)


Cleveland Probate Records

1786-1998 Ohio, Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Abstracts of wills, estates and guardianships, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Common Pleas Court, 1811-1852 FamilySearch Library

Ohio, Cuyahoga County Probate Files, 1813-1932 Family Search online

Cleveland School Records (226)


Cleveland Tax Records

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Tax Lists, 1819-1869 Ancestry online

Records, series II, 1852-1986, Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) Archive Grid



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