Historical Societies & Libraries
Fairview Branch
Cuyahoga County Library
System
21255 Lorain Road
Fairview Park, OH 44126
Library is open 7 days a week
Fri & Sat 9-5:30; Sun 1-5
Special collection includes genealogy books, microfilms, census records,
records of old churches, magazines of genealogical organizations, necrology
file, etc.
Admission and Parking: Free
Directions from Westlake Holiday Inn: Take Crocker Road south to Center Ridge Rd; turn left on Center Ridge to Clague Rd; turn right on Clague Road, proceed south to Lorain Rd; turn left on Lorain Rd to the library which is on the right side, just beyond W. 213th St. (Set back, tall glass front). They serve coffee!
Cleveland Public Library
ATTN: Newspaper & Historical Room
325 Superior Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
216-623-2800
Library is open 7 days a week
Mon-Sat 9-6; Sun 1-5
Special Collections includes newspapers, microfilm, necrology file, city directories, New England town records, German genealogies, English Parish Registers, exceptional Map Collection, and Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings & Records.
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Library
11075 East Blvd
Cleveland OH
216-368-3600
Library Reference Desk is open Mon-Thurs 9-8; Fri 9-5; Sat 1-4:30
Provides access to the First De-cennial Digest, a nationwide index to court cases through 1911. Case Western is also a member of the RLIN (Research Library Information Network) system, a powerful computer system for locating manuscript material throughout the country.
The Library of the Western Reserve Historical Society is the largest
American history research center in Ohio, its holdings consist of 235,000
books; 25,000 volumes of newspapers; 30,500 rolls of microfilm, 1,000,000
prints and photographs; and more than 3,000 collections of manuscripts and
archives that comprise more than six million items. The Library is the
principal repository for histories, records, and papers relating to the growth
and development of Cleveland and that portion of northeastern Ohio once known
as the Connecticut Western Reserve. The Society was one of the first
institutions in America to collect genealogical materials and is, today, one of
the largest family history research centers in the country. Although the focus
of the collections is on source materials for the region east of the
Mississippi River, major sources for other states are collected, especially
through donation.
Hours: The Library is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $7.50 for adults, $6.50 for, and $5.00 for students. Members of the WRHS and children 5 years and younger are admitted free. The admission fee includes entry to the History Museum, Library and Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. The fee to park in the museum lot is 90 cents per 1/2 hour to a maximum of $7.
Directions: We're located in Cleveland's University Circle, 5 miles east of downtown. Our address is 10825 East Boulevard. Take I-90 to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. exit. Follow MLK for approximately 2 miles until you reach E. 105th St. In front of you is a traffic circle - enter at the bottom of the circle, and exit at the top. Now you are on East Blvd. Follow East Blvd. for one block, and we are on the left side.