Ottawa County, Ohio

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	Ohio Online Records

Ottawa County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Ottawa County Courthouse 315 Madison St. Port Clinton, Ohio 43452-1993 Ottawa County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Erie, Lucas, and Sandusky Counties 6 March 1840.^[1]
• County Seat: Port Clinton
• Neighboring Counties: Ottawa County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[2]Lucas (north) · Sandusky (south) · Wood (west) · Erie (southeast)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Ottawa County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

Harris-Elmore Union Cemetery (aka) Guss, Union, Elmore

Harrington Cemetery (aka) Old Elmore, Elmore

Rymers Cemetery (aka) Rice, Elmore

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 Ottawa 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 Ottawa County.

- 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies F and I

- 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company G

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

The Ohio Obituary Index includes references to more than 1.5 million death, marriage and obituary notices.  What began as a project at the Hayes Presidential Center grew into a partnership with 40 public libraries throughout the state of Ohio.  Some of the listings date back as far as 1830.  In addition to newspaper obituaries, the index includes entries indexing church records, federal mortality indexes, family papers, etc.

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Ottawa County Courthouse
315 Madison Street Rm 103
Port Clinton OH 43452-1936
Phone: 419.734.6752

County Health Department has birth, death and burial records;
Probate Judge has marriage and probate records; Clerk Court
has divorce and court records from 1840 and naturalization 1905-1929;
County Recorder has land records^[1]

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Libraries

• Harris-Elmore Public Library
  328 Toledo St.
  Elmore, Ohio
• Ottawa County Genealogical Society (OGS Chapter)
  310 Madison St.
  Port Clinton
  They meet at the Ida Rupp Public Library
• Ida Rupp Public Library
  310 Madison St.
  Port Clinton

Museums

Societies

• Elmore Historical Society

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

• 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

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