New Tool for New Hampshire Genealogy

The New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association and the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists are collaborating on a new project that will be of interest to Fiske Library users: online access to their master list of burial sites in New Hampshire.

For over 20 years, the NHOGA has been compiling a list of every known burial site in the state. They have tried to include everything from the large urban cemeteries to the small rural graveyards that may have no more than one recorded burial. The new database is available at: http://nhsog.org/nhoga/index.htm  and will give exact map coordinates for locating the remote sites. The database does not record names of individual interments, but if full or partial transcriptions are available online then a link to that website is included.

With each set of map coordinates is a link to a very clear topographic map that appears on your computer screen in one of four levels of magnification. As you put your cursor on the map and move it around, the legend at the bottom of the map shows exactly what the coordinates of your cursor are. As you move the cursor to approach the desired cemetery, you will find that it is already marked with a clear red “+” on the map.

As more cemeteries are transcribed and posted on the internet, the database is updated.

Gary A. Zimmerman

Married in Cleveland?

The Probate Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, has opened to the public a searchable index of marriages in Cuyahoga County from 1810 to the present.

Given the names of both bride and groom, the search will return the specific volume number and page citation for the marriage record. Specific details will still need to be requested of the Probate Court.  Use your web browser to find the search engine at: http://198.30.212.15/  or go to the home page for the Probate Court at: http://www.cuyahoga.oh.us/probate/  and select the appropriate links.

The Historical Marriage License file covers the period from 1810 to April 1998. For marriage licenses since April, 1998, you must use the current court calendar index which is linked to the home page given above. 

In the current calendar index, you must select the specific court action for which you are searching. You can also search for recent probates in that post-1998 database.

Gary A. Zimmerman

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