Center for Archival Collections

Starting Your Research | Manuscripts | Local Government Records | Newspapers
Historical Collections of the Great Lakes | Genealogy | Search Site

For Beginners:

• Getting Started--Things to do, people to talk to, keeping records, finding information...
• How to Write a Query--Get better results with better queries
• Learning about Sources--Where to find them, what they tell you, what they don't tell you...

Northwest Ohio:

• Helps by County--Information about the 19 Northwest Ohio counties
• Elsewhere in Ohio--Information sources for the rest of Ohio
• Non-Ohio Resources at the CAC--Looking beyond our borders
• Family Manuscript Collections--Northwest Ohio families and their histories

Internet Sites:

• Ohio Resources--Statewide online information sources
• National Resources--Federal information, other regions, topics, ethnic groups...