Ohio Genealogy Trails A part of the
Genealogy Trails History Group
Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
My name is Jeanne Hall and I am the Ohio state host. Our purpose is to provide free genealogy to help you in your search to find your ancestors. Genealogy Trails depends on contributions from you to continuing growing to provide free use. We need help with births, marriages, deaths, burials, obituaries, any information you want to share. We also welcome your comments and will try to answer any of your questions as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you and you can contact me HERE .
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers.
We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and contact us.
(Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required)
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We're looking for DATA for this site!!!
If you are interested in adding your families' information this website, email us. We'll be happy to help your families' obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at Ohio Genealogy Trails, where it will remain free for all to view.
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We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks.
All data we come across will be added to this site.
We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site.
About OHIO
OHIO was admitted to Statehood on March 1, 1803. It was the first state admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance.
Ohio's State Flag was adopted in 1902.
The Ohio Burgee, as the swallowtail design is properly called, was designed by John Eisemann. The large blue triangle represents Ohio's hills and valleys, and the stripes represent the original states of the union; the 4 stars added to the peak of the triangle symbolize that Ohio was the 17th state admitted to the union. The white circle with its red center not only represents the "O" in Ohio, but also suggests Ohio's famous nickname, "The Buckeye State".
The origin of state's name was from the Iroquois Indian word for "good river".
Native Americans in today's Ohio included the Shawnee, Iroquois, Miami's, and Wyandots
Eight U.S. presidents hailed from Ohio at the time of their elections, earning the state the nickname of "Mother of Presidents". The seven presidents born in Ohio were Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison (grandson of William Henry Harrison), William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding (William Henry Harrison lived most of his life in Ohio, though he was born in VA)
The Capitol of Ohio is COLUMBUS, Franklin Co., Ohio
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