About the Local and Family History Collection

The Local and Family History Department specializes primarily in materials which encompass Freedom, Troy, and Webster Townships in Wood County, Ohio. The supporting sources in this area are continually expanding. In the collection are many manuscript genealogies of local families unavailable anywhere else. In addition, there is a growing collection of German Genealogy research sources.

Leader Index by Date 

Leader Index by Name

Indexing the obituaries from the Pemberville Leader is an ongoing project made possible by volunteers Eleanor Rolf and Victor Schuerman. The holdings for the Leader begin February 25, 1884 and run through August 13, 1980. This current online index runs through 1940. Also included are a few issues of the Gospel Banner (1896), Pemberville Independent (1877-1881), and the Pemberville Press. (1896) This index includes the name of the deceased, date of newspaper obituary, page number, column number and occasional remarks.

Maiden Name Index

General research sources
Pemberville Leader 1887-1980
Wood County, Ohio, source records
Local church records
Many military sources including DAR,
Roster of Ohio Soldiers 1861-1866 and index and Official Roster of Ohio soldiers, sailors, and marines 1917-18
Scattered Ohio county source records
Ohio history
Social Security Death Master File
Ohio Land Records (CD ROM)
German and American Phone Books (CD ROM)
Germany International Genealogical Index
Pennsylvania German sources
MUCH MORE!

Laura Zepernick King, Assistant Director and Local and Family Historian:
Ms. King has been a genealogist for 30 years. She earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education degrees from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Library Science from Kent State University. She teaches genealogy classes, speaks to civic groups and genealogy societies, and conducts in-service training for library genealogy staff.