Wellington Genealogy Group - Ohio, USA

Wellington Genealogy Group - Ohio, USA The purpose of the WGG is to aid individuals interested in genealogy, to publish local genealogy materials, and to expand the resources of our library.

The purpose of the Wellington Genealogy Group is to aid individuals with an interest in genealogy, to publish genealogy material of local interest, and to expand the resources of the genealogy department of Herrick Memorial Library. We are an affiliate of the Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Meetings are held at 7:30PM on the first Wednesday of every month. The meetings are

generally held in the south meeting room on the second floor of the Wellington Town Hall, which is accessible via stairs or elevator. Annual dues are $10.00 per household but guests are always welcome.

Anyone here Irish? 🍀🍀🍀
05/09/2024

Anyone here Irish? 🍀🍀🍀

Page 4 of 38 of the 1850 federal census for Wellington, Ohio, showing just some of the railroad laborers living communally in so-called “Irish shanties.” This is a topic I have long wan…

Exciting news! (I hope this link works and isn't paywalled.)
05/09/2024

Exciting news! (I hope this link works and isn't paywalled.)

The National Archives and the genealogy company Ancestry are teaming up to digitize and put online tens of millions of records from the Archives’ vast holdings.

Part two of the history of 210 South Main Street is now up. Enjoy!
03/10/2024

Part two of the history of 210 South Main Street is now up. Enjoy!

Photograph hand-labeled on reverse, “Vischer family & horses back of 210 South Main.” William Bentley Vischer and his young daughter Mary stand at center; note also the mustachioed …

This one is going out to Laura Kostyn! :-)
03/01/2024

This one is going out to Laura Kostyn! :-)

“When Kossuth Rode Up Broadway,” (1897) depicts Lajos (Anglicized as “Louis”) Kossuth being welcomed to the United States by 100,000 onlookers in New York City on December 6…

02/28/2024

This is a shot in the dark but I am stumped. I got a question about why Magyar Street has that name. I've checked every single source I can think of and found nothing. The street already had that name when the village plat map was created in 1852. I thought perhaps an early inhabitant had that family name but I've combed through the census and other records and can only find one single person with that name in the entire history of the town. (It was Steven Joseph Magyar, born in Lorain in 1925, died in Wellington in 1995, interred in Pittsfield Cemetery.) Someone suggested that the word Magyar is another term for people of Hungarian descent and while that is certainly true, I am not aware of anyone in Wellington's first decades of Hungarian heritage. They mostly came from the Berkshires of Massachusetts and had English and/or Dutch backgrounds. By the 1870/80s there were loads of residents in town that were born outside the U.S.--something like 15% of the population--but again, I know of Canadian, Bavarian (German), Irish and even Chinese residents but no Hungarians. By any chance, has anyone ever heard a family story about how Magyar got its name?

Saw this on another social media platform last night and thought this group would appreciate it. 🙂
02/24/2024

Saw this on another social media platform last night and thought this group would appreciate it. 🙂

Happy 2024! Don't know if anyone is still following this page but just a heads up that I'm posting new research on 210 S...
02/21/2024

Happy 2024! Don't know if anyone is still following this page but just a heads up that I'm posting new research on 210 South Main Street over at the blog and it involves members of the Couch, Foote, Dickson and Fuller families. If any of those are names in your tree, you might want to check it out. The next post will talk about Vischers and Tripps.

And FYI, in case it's of interest, I've added new "When Was It Built?" pages for some village residences and churches. Only about 20 structures posted so far but I'm hoping to create a third page for downtown commercial buildings soon.

Hope everyone is keeping warm and doing well!

https://19thcenturywellington.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/the-story-of-a-house-the-story-of-a-town-part-one/

[Image: 210 South Main Street, ca. 1920]

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The purpose of the Wellington Genealogy Group is to aid individuals with an interest in genealogy, to publish genealogy material of local interest, and to expand the resources of the genealogy department of Herrick Memorial Library. We are an affiliate of the Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month. (We meet in the afternoon during cold weather months and in the evening during warm weather months.) We gather at the Lorain County Community College Wellington Campus. Annual dues are $10.00 per household but our meetings are free and open to the public.