Source Information

Ancestry.com. Summit County, Ohio, U.S., Birth Records, 1866-1908 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data:

Summit County, Ohio, Birth Records, 1866–1908. Digital Publication, 36 rolls. Summit County Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division. Summit County, Ohio.

About Summit County, Ohio, U.S., Birth Records, 1866-1908

Contained in this database are birth records for Summit County, Ohio from 1866 to 1908. The county probate courts of the state of Ohio have kept vital records since the county was founded from a portion of the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1840. When the state began recording information about births as well in 1908, it was to both document the birth rate and track public health information. The records in this database generally contain information such as surname, birth date, birth location, parent’s names, and sometimes additional details such as sex and race.

Three forms of records are in this collection, index cards, registers, and testimonies from witnesses about a birth. Images of these records are arranged by time period and then alphabetically.

Information in this database:

  • Surname
  • Birthplace
  • Birth date
  • Parents’ names

Information that may be in this database:

  • Sex
  • Race
  • Witnesses to birth

For copies of the original file, write to:

  • Summit County Court of Common Pleas - Probate Division
    209 South High Street
    Akron, Ohio 44308-1616