Societies
The Ohio Genealogical Society, 713 S. Main St., Mansfield, OH 44907. OGS is the largest state genealogical society in the country and provides a variety of services to its members. Publishers of the quarterlies, The Report, Ohio Records and Pioneer Families and Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal. Sponsors of First Families of Ohio and the Society of Civil War Families of Ohio lineage societies You can find a list of all 100 of the OGS Chapters, with addresses and URLs at www.ogs.org/chapters/.General Reference and Finding Aids
Gagel, Diane VanSkiver. Ohio Courthouse Records. Ohio Genealogical Society Research Guide series, no. 1. Mansfield, OH: Ohio Genealogical Society, 1997.Overton, Julie Minot. Ohio Towns and Townships to 1900: A Location Guide. Mansfield, OH: Ohio Genealogical Society, 2000. [An outstanding finding aid for those towns that no longer exist.]
Peters, Sunda Anderson and Kay Ballantyne Hudson, editors. First Families of Ohio Roster 1964-2000. Mansfield, OH: Ohio Genealogical Society, 2001. [Listing of the 9,999 pre-1821 ancestors proven for First Families of Ohio through the year 2000. Excellent finding aid for early Ohio ancestors.]
Sperry, Kip. Genealogical Research in Ohio. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.
Major Libraries
State Library of Ohio - Outstanding collection of Ohio materials.Ohio Network of American History Research Centers
Columbus Metropolitan Library - Large collection of out-of-print Civil War books, along with the former genealogy collection from the State Library of Ohio.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County - Large genealogy collection, including a complete set of the US census.
Web Sites to Check Out (not mentioned earlier)
Evolution of Ohio - History of Ohio, broken down by area and time period.Ohio in the Civil War -The best site for finding information about the Ohio units in the Civil War.
Ohio Memory Project - This site is building an online digital scrapbook of Ohio history. Follow the "Links" button on the first page for some other Ohio digital scrapbook sites.
Ohio GenWeb - Includes genealogy resource sites for each of Ohio's counties.
