Lucas County, Ohio

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	Ohio Online Records

Lucas County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Lucas County Courthouse 800 Adams St. Toledo, Ohio 43624 Lucas County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Wood and Sandusky Counties 20 June 1835. ^[1]
• County Seat: Toledo
• Neighboring Counties: Lucas County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[2]Monroe County, Michigan (north) · Lenawee County, Michigan (northwest) · Wood (south) · Ottawa (southeast) · Fulton (west) · Henry (southwest)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Lucas County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

• Joy Cemetery, Ottawa Hills BillionGraves

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.
  

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Toledo

Court Records

Directories

Fold3 ($) has Toledo City Directories 1864-1923 (3 yrs. missing) available online.

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Biographies
Church Records
Cemetery Records
Court Records
Histories
Immigration/emigration/migration
Maps
Newspapers
Societies

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

Land and Property

Maps

Military

Civil War

Civil War service men from Lucas 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 Lucas County.

- 1st Regiment, Michigan Cavalry, Company E

- 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry

Company A - many men from Toledo and and Perrysburg in Wood County

Company E - many men from Toledo and northern Fulton County

Company F - many men from western Lucas County, especially Waterville and Maumee

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

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

• Toledo Blade, March 1869 - December 2007 - more than 24,000 issues digitized in the Google News Archive.

Obituaries

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Lucas County Courthouse
700 Adams Street
Toledo, OH 43624
Phone: 419.245.4000

Clerk Court has divorce and court records from 1850;
Probate judge has birth records 1865-1908, death records
from 1935, marriage and probate records; County Recorder
has land records^[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.org. 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

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog

Places

Toledo

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, "Lucas County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).