Records of genealogical value can be scattered throughout a community. This treasure hunt can add some fun and frustration to your research efforts. Listed below are some documents, links to online records and contact information for other repositories of local records.

Cemetery Records (see our research guide)

• Summit County Veterans’ Burials Card File Collection (finding aid)
• Edwin Shaw Hospital – Briar Hill Cemetery Records Collection (finding aid)
• Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Ohio – Interment Records, 1880-1916  (full data listed by name or brief listing by section number)
• Springfield Township Cemetery Transcriptions
• St. Vincent Cemetery Transcriptions

Summit County Index to Ohio State Penitentiary Prisoner Registers, 1840-1938

Summit County Naturalization Records from the Summit County Clerk of Courts.

Ohio Death Certificates (1908-1953) are available from Family Search.

Maps and Atlases of Akron and Summit County are available from Summit Memory’s Online Maproom. 

Contact information for other Summit County Records and Research facilities.