Lake County Ohio GenWeb Newspapers and Obituaries

Newspapers are a great source of genealogical information. Here are listed many local newspapers and where they can be found. The links are mostly for the obituaries. Do not ignore the Cleveland papers as many people put obituaries in the "big" papers. ILL means Inter-Library Loanable. The links with URLs are off-site.

Table of Newspapers
Indexes to and Abstracts of Newspapers and Obituaries
Other Sources

The Stebbins Collection

Judy J. Stebbins has abstracted and indexed The Painesville Telegraph from 1830 to 1899 and the Willoughby Independent from 1879 to 1888. The project began with the book Guide to the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph 1822-1829, published in 1982 and available in several local repositories. The obituaries have been extracted from her book.

The following issues are entitled Painesville Telegraph Microfilm Notice Selections, Chronological Order. These consist of abstracts of the genealogically useful information from the paper, including death notices and obituaries, marriages, delinquent taxes, letters at the post office, comings and goings of residents, etc. The indexes give page numbers to these online books. Additionally, there are The Willoughby Independent Abstracts and corresponding indexes. Paper copies of all of these are at Morley Library in Painesville.

For the original newspapers, there is microfilm of both papers at Morley Library. The Willoughby Independent is on Internet Archive (Archive.org). The Painesville Telegraph 1850 through 1951 and Telegraph=Republican 1907 through 1916 are on Google News. The Telegraph from 1822-1845 is on FamilySearch under images.