The Knowles Collection: Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003 at FamilySearch

25 January 2013

Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003 at FamilySearch

The latest additions to the Historical Record Collections at www.familysearch.org, includes a great resource for those with Jewish families in Ohio. Almost one million images, which are indexed and search able for free were added to the Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003 collection. The collection is very easy to use, and can be done from the comfort of home.

When looking for a record of your ancestor, simple fill in the information on the search screen (as shown above). I was searching for the birth records of Rachel Cohen, who was born in 1903. I entered that information into the search box and received the following result (below).

Clicking on the view Image icon I was then able to access the original record (below). The original record added the age of the parents as well as their places of birth.

Since the histories of so many Jewish families included Ohio, this should be an incredible database to find the records of our ancestors.

1 comment:

Jeff RiveraFebruary 3, 2013 at 7:20 AM
This appears to be a really nice tool with an extremely strong and rich database of people born between the two dates.It is always amusing to know more about our ancestors, since most of the time information passed from one generation to another gets depleted. So it is nice to see technology coming to our aid and let us rediscover our ancestors, some thing which lets us keep their heritage alive.

I am sure many of those reading this blog, have already typed out the url and must have started to search and explore about their forebears,
So happy searching!

Jeff Rivera

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Growth and Change

In the 12 years since the Knowles Collection was first published, the numbers have climbed from 7,500 to over 1,4000,000. So many of our ancestors left their native lands for new homes. Because of that movement the collection will now be in 6 different databases. All of them will be under the Knowles Collection umbrella. They are Jews of The British Isles; Jews of the North America; Jews of Europe; Jews of South America and the Caribbean; and Jews of Africa and the Orient and the newest one, Jews of the Southern Pacific.. This is a great indication of how universal our families are, and of how much still needs to be done.