This new index has been compiled from the death and burial records of twenty-four churches in Hamilton County, Ohio. It contains nearly 11,000 deaths recorded in the death and burial registers of individual priests and ministers before 1850. Although index entries vary considerably in detail from church to church and year to year, a particular entry may contain any of the following valuable information: full name and maiden name (where applicable) of the deceased, names of parents, surviving spouse, date of death, age at time of death and date of burial. Entries are alphabetized by surname and are coded with a letter or letters corresponding to a key of churches, allowing researchers to consult the original records for clarification; an "*" preceding the church code denotes an original record containing birth information for the deceased. An alphabetical listing of maiden names and corresponding married names follows the index. Hamilton County, Ohio, Church Death Records, 1811-1849 is intended to supplement the cemetery extractions published in the Hamilton County Burial Records series (also published by Heritage Books, Inc.). Although these church registers do not provide a complete record of Hamilton County deaths and burials for this time period, they can be used to fill in gaps in the official record and suggest new avenues for genealogical research. This volume is particularly valuable for family researchers whose ancestors may have passed through Hamilton County during the western migration but were not residents. The deaths of transient pioneer families are often unaccounted for in county court and cemetery records and were seldom noted in the obituaries of Cincinnati's newspapers; in some cases church registers are the only record of the deaths of these individuals.

The scope of this index covers death, marriage, and other miscellaneous notices that were published during this time period in the early Cincinnati newspaper named Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette. This index contains over 15,750 deaths, over 4200 marriages, and over 3000 miscellaneous notices which were reported and published in this early Cincinnati newspaper. It should be noted that the names in this index are not only from the Cincinnati and Hamilton County area, but for much of the former Northwest Territory during the early years, and as far north as Dayton, as far east as Columbus and Chillicothe, south to Lexington and Shelbyville, Kentucky, and west as far as Indianapolis and Richmond, Indiana during the later years.

The Cincinnatier Zeitung was published in German from July 1887 until September 1901 for German speaking immigrants of Cincinnati. What makes this newspaper valuable to family history researchers is the list of German death records which were reported to the Cincinnati Health Department on a daily basis. Many of these deaths were reported due to the fact that these individuals died in a city institution. These were typically people who lived in mental institutions, orphanages, the "poor house" and homes for widows and the aged. These people normally could not afford to pay for a death notice to be published in a newspaper. While the death records do not contain much information about the deceased, they contain the name of the person, their age, their street address and sometimes the disease from which they died. Since not all of this vital information can be contained in this index, the date(s) of the death notice is supplied after the person's name so that the reader may look for this additional information in the original notice if desired. Surviving issues of the Cincinnatier Zeitung can be found in Cincinnati at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. This index contains the names of more than 20,000 people who died between 1887 and 1901 and includes such information as: the full name of the deceased, sorted alphabetically by last name; the dates that the death notice appeared in the newspaper; and the actual date of death, if published. Also listed is the age of the person in (YY-MM-DD) format, the page on which the notice was printed, the maiden name of the woman (if listed), and if the city of birth was mentioned in the notice, an asterisk appears before the page number. A separate alphabetical list of maiden names provides the corresponding married names under which the death notices are listed.