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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Tiffin (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Tiffin. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Tiffin is located in Seneca County and is the County Seat.

To see how the shape of Ohio's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Seneca County: Crawford, Hancock, Huron, Sandusky, Wood & Wyandot.

Below are the counties that are near Tiffin. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tiffin:

  • Seneca County     (The home county of Tiffin)
  • Crawford County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.
    • Benton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Lemert
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Broken Sword
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Chatfield
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Chatfield is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 178 people
    • Oceola
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • New Washington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • North Auburn
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Bucyrus
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Tiro
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Tiro is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiro
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 262 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tiro <1>
    • North Robinson
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • North Robinson is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Robinson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 198 people
    • Leesville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Erie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.
    • Castalia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Bay View
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hancock County
  • Hardin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.
    • Forest
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Patterson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Patterson is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
    • McVitty
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Huron County
  • Marion County
    • Morral
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Morral is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morral
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 382 people
  • Ottawa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.
    • Elmore
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Oak Harbor
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Lacarne
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Rocky Ridge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Rocky Ridge is located in Ottawa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 407 people
    • Genoa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Port Clinton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Richland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.
    • Plymouth
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Forest ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Forest is located in Richland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
    • Bethlehem
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Sandusky County
  • Wood County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.
    • Risingsun
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • West Millgrove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • West Millgrove is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Millgrove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 176 people
    • Bradner
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Wayne
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Bloomdale
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Eagleville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Six Points
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Bairdstown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Jerry City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jerry City is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerry City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 437 people
    • Pemberville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Cygnet
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • North Baltimore
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Wyandot County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Tiffin, see our County-by-County Page for Tiffin.

Cemeteries Near Tiffin ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tiffin.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Tiffin - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Tiffin covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Tiffin had a population of 10,801 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Tiffin had a population of 17,359 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Tiffin, with the one closest to Tiffin listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Tiffin. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tiffin.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Tiffin ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 82 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tiffin.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Tiffin. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Tiffin and those printed in the larger area surrounding Tiffin.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 23 miles [37 km]<4> of Tiffin.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Tiffin:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Tiffin, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Tiffin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.