Paulding County, Ohio

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	Ohio Online Records

Paulding County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Paulding County Courthouse 115 N. Williams St. Paulding, Ohio 45879 Paulding County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Shelby, Darke, Williams, and Wood Counties 12 February 1820.^[1]
• County Seat: Paulding
• Neighboring Counties: Paulding County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[2]Defiance (north) · Van Wert (south) · Putnam (east) · Allen County, Indiana (west)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Paulding County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

• Kingery Cemetery, Brown BillionGraves

Census

Church Records

   Court 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.
  

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

Land and Property

Maps

Military

• Civil War
  Civil War service men from Paulding 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 Paulding County.

- 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company I

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Paulding County Courthouse
Perry & N Williams
Paulding, OH 45879
Phone: 419.399.8210

County Health Department has birth and death records;
Probate Judge has marriage and probate records;
Clerk Court has divorce records; County Judge has court
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. 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, "Paulding County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulding_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).