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Subject: [OHOTTAWA] CAC at BGSU Catholic Records Now Available
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 15:37:24 -0400

THIS A BIG UNDERTAKING AND SHOULD PROVE TO BE BENEFICIAL TO US
GENEALOGISTS!! Please DO NOT contact me as I DO NOT have any further
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Center for Archival Collections-nets a trove of Catholic records

Genealogists, local historians and other researchers have
a new source of information thanks to a unique collaboration among the
Catholic Diocese of Toledo, BGSU and the Genealogical Society of Utah.
Now preserved on micro-film are sacramental records from 174 parishes in
the Toledo Diocese,
which comprises 19 counties: Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton,
Hancock, Henry Huron,
Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Richland, Sandusky
Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot.
Records from roughly 30 pre-cursors of parishes, called stations and
missions, have also been
preserved, as have baptismal records from seven Catholic hospitals. The
data dates from the
1830s--nearlv 80 years before the diocese was established--and is on 414
rolls of microfilm at
BGSU's Center for Archival Collections.
Nothing like this has been done anywhere in the country according to
center director Paul Yon, referring to the three-way cooperation among a
diocese, an academic institution and BGSU, a
society affiliated with the Monnon church that collects genealogical
records worldwide.
The center coordinated the project, which preserved records of baptisms,
first communions, confirmations, marriages, deaths and interments, as
well as membership and cemetery records.
Although work didn't begin until October 2000, the idea for such a
project actually went
back to the 1970s, said Yon, whose interest was both in preserving the
information and
making it accessible to the researching public.

The Utah society a greed to under write one-third of the microfilming
cost, and once the
diocese consented, the legwork began. Staff from the center picked up,
and later returned,
records from parishes wherever they went in northwest Ohio, You said,
noting that only one
volume from one parish couldn't be located.
"Bowling Green did a monumental job,' said the Rev Thomas Quinn, the
dioceses director
of communications, pointing out that the two-year project wrapped up
three months early
diocese, Yon said.
Death and interment records extend to the present , but the agreement
includes a
stipulation that prohibits BGSU from providing access to baptismal and
marriage information
from the previous 70 years unless researchers are searching for
themselves or immediate
The information may be sought from the appropriate parish or the
diocese, Yon said.
Genealogists have already begun using the records, and pubic libraries
are requesting
copies for their collections. A complete inventory of the records can be
seen at the
centers Web site: www.bgsu.edu/colleges/Iihrarv/cac.

SOURCE: The Monitor Vol 27 No. 4 Informing The Bowling Green State
University Community

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