Elms Family History Research Resources
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Free 14-day trial to online family history documents, records, and family trees. Database offers over five billion individuals with more than 4,000 databases of family history information. User-friendly tools and comprehensive indexing make it easy to start discovering the people in your family's history. Monthly subscriptions are available at modest cost. Perfect resource for family searching at home. |
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Free with ANY public library card number. From any computer you can access Heritage Quest from the Akron-Summit Library. You can search the US Federal Census anytime without a password if you enter through the Akron Library site's database page. Click on Genealogy and Local history. Click on HeritageQuest and enter your public library card number. |
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Akron Summit County Public Library's Resource Page for Family History in the Classroom contains many useful links and copies of Elms handouts and checklists. |
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Free. The Clerk of Courts of Summit County has all the naturalization records online. Access them directly through their website. You have to type in the first 3 letters of the last name of the person correctly or so that it matches what's on their handwritten record. If the person became a citizen in a different county than Summit, you'll have to check that county's clerk of courts. |
| Free. The Akron-Summit Library has digitized most volumes of the Akron City Directory starting with 1871.They will begin downloading immediately in PDF format. Larger files take a minute or two to download. When open, you can scroll to find your ancestor. Warning: it will print the whole volume unless you check "print current page." | |
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Click on the image on the left to see a picture tour of the Special Collections Room. Try to visit the downtown branch of the Akron Public Library soon. The Special Collections Room has everything you need to research your Family History. It's fully equipped so you won't have to wait to do anything when you get there. |
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Free. Arrivals from 1892-1924. 22 million passengers are searchable online for free. Includes actual ship's manifest and photos of nearly every ship. |
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Free. Genealogists and family history researchers can look for census and military records at this site sponsored by the Federal Government. |
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Free. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), provides a large and freely searchable archive including: the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), U.S. Federal Census for 1880 or the 1881 census for both the British Isles and Canada, a vital records index containing birth, marriage, and death records from around the world. You can download free software for managing your family tree on your computer. Free Personal Ancestral File or PAF is both powerful and easy to use even for a novice computer user. |
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Free. Talk to others on "Message Boards" who are looking for the same family names. Find your family tree already begun and posted by a cousin. A great way to team up with other searchers. Remember to list all the the surnames you're seeking. |
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Free. Ancestors Online from PBS |
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Free. Excellent list of free sites to look for records of marriages, cemeteries and deaths and more. |
| Our Lady of the Elms Family History Tea 2009 | |