New at the Family History & Learning Center

Edited October 10, 2021 to include approximately 25 more new books!

New Staff!  New Program!  New Books!  We have a lot of announcements for the Virginia Wheeler Martin Family History & Learning Center!

New Staff

Next week Lisa Rienerth will move from the Medina Library Reference Department, to the FHLC staff.  She’s currently a member of the MCDL Genealogy Team and brings 20+ years of family history research experience to the job.  She’s also an expert at property research and knowledgeable about digitizing photos and videos.  We’re glad to have her onboard!

New Program

Starting in August, the MCDL Genealogy Team will be hosting a new program.  Join us for the Genealogy Discussion Group, the second Wednesday of each month, at noon.  We will meet in Medina Library’s 2nd Floor Meeting Rooms.  The first session will be Wednesday, August 11.  All attendees are welcome  to share your recent family history research successes and challenges.  Collectively, we’ll make suggestions for resources and strategies to help tackle research problems.  For more details, see https://mcdl.info/events. 

New Books

We have approximately 50 new books for you to use.  Stop by the FH&LC to review them for your research needs.  They include:  

Family Histories

• Beltzhoover
• Brinton Genealogy
• 1998 Supplement Brinton Genealogy
• A Family Sketch (Collier Family)
• One Crawford Family in America A Brief History
• The Brothers Crawford: Colonel William, 1722-1782 and Valentine Jr., 1724-1777, vol. I
• The Brothers Crawford: Colonel William, 1722-1782 and Valentine Jr., 1724-1777, vol. II
• Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants
• The Hoopes Family Record: A Genealogical Record of The Hoopes Family, Descendants of Daniel Hoopes of Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, vol. 1
• Miller Family History Descendants of Daniel D. Miller and Lydia B. Troyer
• The Search for Captain Abraham Miller
• The Moore Family in America: Descendants of Shildes Moore of Wales, From 1732-1891
• Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and Some of His Descendants
• The Ancestry and Descendants of George Dwight Moore
• The Benjamin Moore Family of Burlington County New Jersey
• A Brief History and Genealogy of the Moores and their Families, 1635-1942
• Some Descendants of Amos Richardson of Boston and Stonington
• The Sharples-Sharpless Family vol. I
• The Sharples-Sharpless Family vol. II
• The Sharples-Sharpless Family vol. III
• Descendants of Thomas White and Mark Haskell with Notice of The Coombs Family
• A History of The Cobb Family
• History and Genealogy of the Lifer Family 1830-1984: Debolt and Anna Richert Lifer and their descendants 
• The Searles Family In America
• Peter Worrall of Marple

Mayflower & Associated Ships

• Robert Bartlett of the "Anne"  and his Descendants of Four Generations
• Myles Standish of the Mayflower and his descendants for Four Generations
• Francis Eaton of the Mayflower and his descendants for Four Generations

Canada

• In Search of Your Canadian Roots

New England

• Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650
• Digging for Genealogical Treasure in New England Town Records

Connecticut

• The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697

New York

• The Palatine Families of New York, 1710, vol. I
• The Palatine Families of New York, 1710, vol. II
• More Palatine Families
• Historical and Statistical Gazetteer or New York State

Pennsylvania

• The William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records, Vol. II
• The William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records, Vol. IV
• The William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records, Vol. V
• The William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records, Vol. VI
• The William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records, Vol. IX

Ohio

• Ohioans in the California Census of 1850
• Ohio Land Grants
• Early Ohioans' residences from the land grant records
• Ohio Towns and Townships to 1900: A Location Guide
• 1833 Ohio Gazetteer or, Topographical Dictionary
• Ohio Archaeological and History Publications, vol. 6
• Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio

Cuyahoga County, Ohio

• Doans Corners and the City Four Miles West
• The History of Parma: A Township, A Village, A City

Medina County, Ohio

• Wadsworth Area Homicides and Deaths of Suspicious Nature 

Portage County, Ohio

• Pioneer History 1802-1865

Summit County, Ohio

• Saint Bernard's Catholic Church Akron, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions and Funeral Records
• History of Olde Northfield Township
• Stow Ohio Shadows of Its Past
• Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County
• Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County Index
• Summit County Ohio Abstracts of Will Books Books 1 thru 7 1840-1887, Vol. I
• Summit County Ohio Abstracts of Will Books Books 8 thru 15 1887-1901, Vol. II
• Summit County, Ohio Deaths 1873 to 1876 Vol. II
• Summit County, Ohio Deaths 1876 to 1878 and scattered records 1900-1902 Vol. III
• Cemeteries, Summit County, Ohio ... Volume IV
• Our Heritage: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Methodism in Tallmadge, Ohio
• Memories of Stony Hill
• A Centennial History of Akron, 1825-1925

Trumbull County, Ohio

• The Greene Story, 1817 - 1963

Wayne County, Ohio

• Presbyterianism in Dalton, Ohio, 1814-1964
• Index to Marriages Wayne County, Ohio 1813-1898
• Wayne County, Ohio Burial Records
• Seventy-Five Years of Wayne County Ohio Marriages

Western Reserve

• Ohio's Western Reserve, the Story of its Place Names
• Sketches of Western Reserve Life
• Early Years on the Western Reserve

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the MCDL Genealogy Team at 330-725-0588 x5017 or me-team.genealogy@mcdl.info.