Defiance County, Ohio

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	Ohio Online Records

Defiance County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Defiance County Courthouse 500 Court St. Defiance, Ohio 43512-2157 Defiance County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Henry, Paulding and Williams Counties 4 March 1845.^[1]
• County Seat: Defiance
• Neighboring Counties: Defiance County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[2]Williams (north) · Henry (east) · Paulding (south) · Putnam (southeast) · Allen County, Indiana (west)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Defiance County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

BillionGraves (Headstone photos, Google map, transcriptions, searchable database, both by individual cemetery and the entire site):

• Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Defiance
• Evansport Cemetery, Defiance
• Hire Cemetery, Defiance
• Independence Cemetery, Defiance
• Marysdale Catholic Cemetery, Ney
• New Saint Johns Methodist Cemetery, Defiance
• Ney Cemetery, Ney
• Old Saint Johns Methodist Cemetery, Defiance
• Pleasant Bend and Ayersville Cemetery, Defiance
• Riverview Memory Gardens, Defiance
• Saint Michaels Catholic Cemetery, Defiance
• Taylor Cemetery, Defiance

Census

 Church Records

Catholic

• 1796–2004 Ohio, Diocese of Toledo, Catholic Parish Records, 1796-2004 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection includes images of parish registers recording the events of baptism, first communion, confirmation, marriage, and death in the Diocese of Toledo (Ohio), Roman Catholic Church. These records are accessed by browsing the images by county. In addition to traditional parish registers, this collection includes miscellaneous cemetery records, Books of the Elect, Professions of Faith, Sick Call registers, etc.
  

Court Records

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

Land and Property

Maps

Military

• Civil War
  Civil War service men from Defiance County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Defiance County.

- 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company D

- 111th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies E and F

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Defiance County Courthouse
510 Court Street
Defiance, OH 43512-2157
Phone: 419.782.4761 

County Recorder has birth and death records 1867-1908,
marriage records from 1845, land records from 1843,
probate records from 1845, divorce and court records 1800’s,
naturalization records 1872-1903 and military discharge records
1865-1973; County Health Department has birth and death records
from 1908^[1]

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Libraries

Museums

Societies

Taxation

Vital Records

Birth

Marriage

Death

• Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch. Records include such information as birth date of deceased, city, county, and state of death, name of spouse if married, names of parents, maiden name of mother, name of informant, if deceased was single, married, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

Web Sites

• Family History Library Catalog

Places

Populated Places

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), [FHL book 973 D27e 2002].
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Defiance County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defiance_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).