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Spotlight on The Sherman Room:
Connect with Local History and Genealogy
Sherman Room Resources
How does someone go about looking up information on his or her
family history? Such questions propel people to visit the Sherman
Room at the Main Library. If you know
nothing about researching your family history, how do you begin?
Come to the Sherman Room and meet with either Boyd Addlesperger
or Laurel Tope.
The John Sherman Room houses the Library's collection of genealogical
materials as well as local and Ohio history materials. The following
is a partial listing of what you will find in the Sherman Room.
Call the Sherman Room at (419) 521-3115 with your genealogy questions.
Research Assistance
For all requests: either by letter or email please make sure you
send your full name, complete mailing address, phone number and
fax number if requests are to be faxed. We are now digitally scanning your requested information such as documents, photos, ect. and sending them to you via e-mail. If making a request by
letter, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Costs
for all requests-email, mail or fax are listed below.
- $2.00 postage and handling
- 25 cents per copy
- Limit of six queries per request
We will include a bill with your completed requests. Your money
will not be due until you receive your requests. All bills should
be paid by check or money order. Please note: At this
time, we can not scan into email but hope to have this available
in the future. We can send your requests either by mail or fax. If
you have questions, you can contact us at 419-521-3115 or email.
Letters should use the following address:
Mansfield/Richland County Public Library
Attention: Sherman Room
43 West Third Street
Mansfield, Ohio 44902
Local History
- Churches, schools, business information and old weather reports.
- Local family histories.
- Histories of Richland County including books of marriages,
wills and cemetery records.
- City directories from 1856-present.
- County directories, 1915-20, 1950-present.
- Telephone books, 1904-present.
- High school yearbooks from Richland County schools.
- Local authors - Books written by people living or having
lived in the county.
Newspaper Index Indexes newspapers we own on microfilm.
The Newspaper Index contains citations only from most Richland County newspapers. The citation will contain the name of the paper, page number and date. For a copy of a complete article cited in the index, call the Sherman Room (419) 521-3115 or
email: genealogy@mrcpl.org. The newspapers that are indexed are a scattering of papers from 1828 through 1899, 1900 though a part of 1903 and a part of 1956 to the present. The indexing is an on-going project. We add about 1 year of newspapers per year.
Note: Please see the Richland County Newspapers Microfilm, for actual dates of films available.
Other Items of Interest
- Ohio history materials.
- Genealogical materials - history and genealogical materials
on states other than Ohio.
- John Sherman's Personal Library - Books donated by the John
Sherman Estate.
- Rare books.
- Atlas case - Old county, state and world atlases and Civil
War atlases.
- Clipping file on Mansfield, Richland County and Ohio plus
local annual reports.
- Photo file containing more than 1,000 photographs of local interest
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