These sources and many others are described in detail in this new Third Edition of Genealogical Research in Ohio, by noted genealogical scholar and former Brigham Young University family history professor Kip Sperry. This completely revised version of Sperry’s classic 2003 Second Edition examines the holdings of major Ohio archives and libraries and focuses on many resources available to researchers, covering everything from census records to church records, from periodicals to probates, from tax records to town records, from Internet resources to military records, from ethnic records to newspapers, from land and court records to vital records, and much more.  The book’s vast bibliography of Ohio books, moreover, is a comprehensive survey of Ohio printed genealogical sources, as well as an extensive list of public and other libraries in the state.

This new edition includes the following enhancements:

• New Ohio content regarding FamilySearch.org, including a listing of FamilySearch Centers and FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries in Ohio.
• Expanded and updated information for the Ohio Genealogical Society, including Library holdings, lineage organization guidelines, a list of chapters and their addresses.
• Revised information regarding major libraries in Ohio, including Ohio History Connection in Columbus, State Library of Ohio, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, and other public, historical, and university libraries.
• Enhanced listings of major genealogical resources, including birth and death, cemetery, ethnic, military, newspaper and periodical records, as well as new coverage of photographic records.
• Up-to-date genealogy websites for Ohio and other researchers.
• Almost 100 pages of expanded Bibliography.

In addition, the work contains addresses of repositories—both in and out of state—that house Ohio historical and genealogical records and oral histories. At the end of the book, researchers will find a collection of Ohio maps of historical and genealogical importance.

This Third Edition of Genealogical Research in Ohio supersedes the Second Edition and is a testament to Ohio genealogical scholarship. No collection of Ohioana is complete without it.

About the Author
Kip Sperry is an Accredited Genealogist_® (Midwestern States), Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, National Genealogical Society, and Utah Genealogical Association.

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Genealogical records for most counties are fairly complete, especially early land records and the quadrennial enumerations, which were taken every four years from 1803 to 1911. So the question is, what is the most efficient way to access these records? We think the best way is to use a guide that offers a quick overview of records, record repositories, and online resources, directing you, without any prior training, straight to your goal. This is precisely what Michael Ports’s Ohio Genealogy Research is designed for.

Like other publications in the Genealogy at a Glance (GAAG) series, Ohio Genealogy Research is a four-page laminated folder designed to cover the basic elements of genealogical research at a glance. The Ohio GAAG provides an overview of the facts you need to know in order to begin and proceed successfully with your research. Focusing on traditional record sources such as vital records, court records, land records, and probate records, it contains useful tips, research advice, analysis of the major record sources used in Ohio research, and clues to finding those records in state and local repositories.

A handy and practical guide for the beginner, Ohio Genealogy Research also includes lists of books for further reference and a list of the principal online resources. In addition, it contains a comprehensive list of Ohio repositories and their websites, and in the spirit of the Genealogy at a Glance series, it attempts to fill in every gap in the beginner’s toolbox.

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Before his death, Smith transcribed the genealogical contents published between 1869 and 1877 in Volumes 1 through 9 of Der Deutsche Pioniere, a monthly magazine issued by the Deutsche Pioniereverein (Union of German Pioneers) founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. (The magazine continued to be published until 1887.) Mr Smith’s transcriptions, which were arranged by magazine volume and thereunder in alphabetical order of surname, were originally published in four volumes (issued in six parts) between 1984 and 1991. For the researcher’s convenience the component booklets are reprinted here in one volume with six distinct parts.

The author provides the following particulars on each German-American pioneer: name, place of origin in Germany, town or county of residence, reference to the original source, and biographical data provided in the original notice. While most of the early entries pertain to Germanic inhabitants of Ohio, later issues of Der Deutsche Pioniere refer to deceased persons living in Kentucky and neighboring states. By the same token, as genealogy took on greater and greater importance in the magazine, the biographical notes became more copious, providing more information about an individual’s life and his/her family members. Taken as a whole, this work provides the German-American researcher with valuable data concerning several thousand individuals whose whereabouts in Germany and the New World might otherwise go unnoticed.

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Ms. Gagel presents her subject in six parts. First comes an essay describing the history of early Ohio photography. Here we learn about the evolution of photographic technology and its materialization in the major cities of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo. Next comes hundreds of biographical sketches of Ohio photographers, many of them illustrated, which frequently trace the photographer’s family for two or more generations. A number of these practitioners would achieve celebrity in their chosen field, including the Virginia-born, African-American James Pressley Ball Sr. and his son James Jr., who built their careers in Ohio before ultimately moving on to Montana. The third and longest section of the work, a directory of Ohio photographers, names about one thousand 19th-century Ohio shutterbugs, giving the location(s) of their studios, how many years they were in business, and sometimes more. Culled from city directories, state and local histories, and other sources too numerous to name here, the directory is the best list of 19th-century Ohio photographers in existence. The final three sections cover writings by or about Ohio photographers, pictures of actual studios, and an extensive bibliography.

This edition of Ohio Photographers, 1839-1900 represents a marked expansion of its 1998 predecessor. Nearly three times longer than the first edition, it demonstrates the mercurial appeal of this new profession among persons of varying nationalities, social classes, educational backgrounds, and so on. Ohio Photographers, 1839-1900 is also a beautiful book, reflecting Ms. Gagel’s abiding interest in her subject, one no doubt inspired by watching her photographer father at work. It will appeal to genealogists searching for Ohio and/or photographer connections and students of Ohio history and photography alike.

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The topics covered by Rattermann himself in this work include Dayton’s beginnings and various township histories, daily life and traditions among the German pioneers, Montgomery County’s small businesses, musical life of the early Germans, social clubs and singing societies, and a number of immigrant stories. Equal in importance to the lectures are the nearly fifty pages of annotations provided by Professor Dona, which, among other things, identify the parentage, geographical origins, and even dwelling houses of Rattermann’s subjects. Dona’s inclusion of historical and contemporary photographs of persons, places, and things referred to in the text also helps to bring the original lectures up to the present day. With a Foreword by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.

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Mr. Tolzmann describes in great detail the many factors accounting for this phenomenon. Community leaders such as John Schwaab, A.K. Nippert, and H.H. Fick encouraged their co-ethnics to maintain a lower profile–for example, by renaming the German-American Alliance the American Citizens League, and by maintaining a stoic indifference to nativist attacks. Most German societies (literary organizations, mutual aid societies, marksmen clubs, etc.) survived the war, unless they were underfinanced. While German religious denominations adopted greater use of English in their services, German Catholics, at least, defined their parishes geographically, thereby preserving some ethnic autonomy. Of the city’s fifteen German language publications in 1918, all but five were still in business in 1932. German literature also began to flourish by the middle 1920s, although the teaching of German in public schools was scuttled by nativists. And Cincinatti’s German-Americanism gave generously to the relief program for refugees in Germany that followed the Armistice.

While The Cincinnati Germans after the Great War is, for the most part, a historical essay, genealogists can profit by consulting the name index to the revised edition, which may help them discover Cincinnati German-American ancestors who figure in its pages.

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Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index began as the brainchild of Anita Short, editor of the short-lived periodical, “Gateway to the West: Ohio,” who originally published some of the records found in Ohio Wills and Estates in magazine format. Following Mrs. Short’s exodus from genealogy, Carol Bell took on the project to compile a statewide index to all extant inheritance records in Ohio. The author traveled to court houses throughout the Buckeye State in order to compile her index. She also enlisted a contingent of volunteers to assist with the indexing of inheritance records, which prior to 1852 were filed with the Courts of Common Pleas, in still other Ohio counties. Her remarkable publication, the culmination of a 10-year project, was the end result of that concerted effort.

Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index is probably the most important single book on early Ohio genealogy, for it references no fewer than 72,000 testators named in the will and estate records for all Ohio counties up to the year 1850. Since will records are the richest source of family relationships, researchers can use this index to access a potential treasure trove of information concerning their families.

Each index entry gives the name of the person referenced, the nature of the record (will or estate), the year of the record, the county where the record is filed, and the source of the original record wherein more information may be found. In addition to the index itself, researchers will find a list of abbreviations used in the entries, a glossary of terms common to inheritance records, and a county-by-county breakdown of inheritance record holdings and the individuals responsible for indexing them for the publication.

Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index has been off the market for a number of years; nor can it be found in electronic format on CD-ROM or on the Internet. Clearfield is proud to make the original 1981 edition available to Ohio researchers once again.

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