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WRHS Library Catalog Online
The Western Reserve Historical Society's Collections Catalog is now available online!

New genealogy index available on the WRHS website!
The index to the 25,000 marriage and death notices printed in the Jewish Independent and The Jewish Review and Observer between 1889-1964 is now available.
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1907 Voter Registration Index
Cleveland, Ohio, Board of Elections Registration Records, 1907-1908, contains duplicate sets of voter registration records for each precinct of Cleveland's twenty-six wards for the years listed.

Cleveland Servicemen Photo Database
This collection consists of photographs of northeast Ohio men and woman who served in the armed services during WWII and the Korean Conflict.

Bible Records Index
The Bible Records Index is an index to Family Bibles and other records either in the possession of or loaned for copying to the Western Reserve Historical Society. The Index contains over 35,000 entries in which vital dates (births, baptisms and other sacraments, marriages and deaths) of family lineages have been written.

Ohio Obsolete Paper Money Collection
This collection consists of over 750 units of pre-Civil War bank notes and scrip from over 100 Ohio cities. Searchable database in- cludes city of origin, issuer, note type, date, denomination, signers, description and more.

 

    

Allen E. Cole Collection
A valuable source of Cleveland history is accessible to researchers and serves as a major collection documenting mid-twentieth century African American life, history, and culture.

Automotive Marque Files
This collection consists of photographs, owners' manuals, parts manuals, shop manuals, color charts, and all sorts of other types of paper material regarding domestic and foreign automobiles from the early days of the horseless carriage to the sophisticated luxury cars of today.

Biographical Sketch Name Index
The Biographical Name Index is an index to twenty-eight publications containing 26,720 articles in which biographical information about Clevelanders has been published between 1886 and 1998. This index will be of interest to persons researching Cleveland and northeastern Ohio biography, history, family history and genealogy.

WRHS Bookplate Collection
Stop, look, and read within if it so please thee friend; but pray return the book to me when thou hast reached the end.
An artistic collection of 19th and 20th century bookplates, representative of the various periods and themes of this craft, is available for viewing and research.

 

 

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