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Ethnic Groups

Online Resources

• African American Cemeteries Online, Ohio
• African American Census Schedules Online OHIO
• African American Ohio Name Index to 1850
  
  

For a brief discussion of the many minorities who immigrated to Ohio, see the Ohio Emigration and Immigration page.

African Americans

See African American Resources for Ohio.

American Indians

See Indians of Ohio.

Germans

See Germans in Ohio wiki page

Jews

• Access Jewish Cleveland.org has a database of over 70,000 burials in 16 Cleveland area cemeteries. Details about the database along with a list of cemeteries can be found at Jewish Cemeteries in Cleveland.

Societies

• Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland
  27100 Cedar Road
  Beachwood, Ohio 44122
  E-mail: president@clevelandjgs.org
  Internet: Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland

• The Ohio Historical Society, the Western Reserve Historical Society, and many university libraries maintain collections of records for ethnic, racial, and religious groups in Ohio. SeeOhio Archives and Libraries for more information.

• Fabela Lozano Solis Villanueva
  Genealogy Record
  7747 Wildwood Road
  Findlay, OH 45840-9538
  Telephone: (419) 424-1199

• Afro-American Genealogical Society, Cleveland
  P.O. Box 201476
  Cleveland, OH 44120-9998
  Internet: Afro-American Genealogical Society, Cleveland

• Afro-American Family History Association
  8716 Harkness Road
  Cleveland, OH 44106

• Ohio State University
  Black Studies Library
  1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Rm 226
  Columbus, OH 43210-1286
  Phone: (614) 688-8676
  Fax: (614) 292-7859
  E-Mail: pillow.2@osu.edu
  Internet: Ohio State University

Family History Library

Other records and histories of ethnic, racial, and religious groups in Ohio are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

OHIO - MINORITIES

OHIO - EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION

The name of the minority, such as:

• BLACKS
• AFRO-AMERICANS
• JEWS
• AMERICAN LOYALISTS
• ITALIANS
• QUAKERS - OHIO.

Handbooks on how to research specific groups (such as Czech, German, Hispanic, Indian, Irish, Polish, etc.). For example under the heading POLES - UNITED STATES, you can find a book called Polish Genealogy Heraldry.

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