Ashtabula County Ohio Genealogy Trails A part of the Genealogy Trails History Group     Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption 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 then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) 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. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Ohio is covered under our "Midwest" mailing list. Organized in 1811, Ashtabula County is the largest county in Ohio.  It consists of 723 square miles and it is located on the shores of Lake Erie, which is a major loading area for ships of the Great Lakes.  The county seat is Jefferson, Ohio. The county is named for a Native American word meaning "river of many fish". The county is probably most well known for having 16 covered bridges within the county limits. Grapes are a popular crop and there are several wineries in the region owing to the favorable microclimate created by the nearby lake. During the winter, Ashtabula County receives quite a lot of lake effect snow and is part of the Southeastern Lake Erie Snowbelt.  Townships Andover -- Ashtabula -- Austinburg -- Cherry Valley -- Colebrook -- Denmark Dorset -- Geneva -- Harpersfield -- Hartsgrove -- Jefferson -- Kingsville Lenox -- Monroe -- Morgan -- New Lyme -- Orwell -- Pierpont Plymouth -- Richmond -- Rome -- Saybrook -- Sheffield -- Trumbull Wayne -- Williamsfield -- Windsor Municipalities Andover -- Ashtabula -- Conneaut -- Geneva -- Geneva-on-the-Lake Jefferson -- North Kingsville -- Orwell -- Roaming Shores -- Rock Creek ONLINE DATA BIOGRAPHIES BIRTHS CEMETERIES CENSUS MARRIAGES MILITARY DATA NEWSPAPER DATA OBITUARIES  DEATHS HISTORY WILLS SUBMIT AN OBIT Website Updates: July 2008: SURROUNDING COUNTIES: Across Lake Erie lies Elgin and Norfolk Counties, Ontario, Canada (north) Erie County, PA (northeast) Crawford County, PA (east) Trumbull County (south) Geauga County (southwest) Lake County (west) Visitors since March 11, 2006: Back to the OHIO State Page JOIN US! DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY Submitters retain all copyrights ©2008 Genealogy Trails