<p>This is a very comprehensive guide to the genealogical records and sources in Ohio, written by one of Ohio's foremost genealogists, Carol Willsey Bell. For each of Ohio's eighty-eight counties, Mrs. Bell supplies the following data: the county creation date and the name(s) of the parent county; the county seat; the name and address of the county courthouse, library, historical society, genealogical society, archival district, and health department; a list of relevant land surveys (for land and deed research); the surrounding counties; and the names of all townships in the county. Next is a detailed breakdown of the court records on microfilm (LDS and Ohio Historical Society), listed first by originating office and then by record group. This includes the records of the State Auditor, Clerks of Court, Court of Common Pleas, Children's Homes, Coroner, County Homes, County Commissioners, Probate Court, Recorder, Sheriff, Soldier's Relief Commission, and Treasurer. Then there follows an itemization of the census records available for each county, including special schedules, a listing of the county's records on microfilm in the State Library, plus manuscript collections, newspapers, tax records, articles from periodicals, and an extensive list of published sources for that county. And all of this magnificently detailed data on the counties is preceded by an elaborate listing of statewide and regional records and publications.</p>

Ohio Guide to Genealogical Sources

History

Bell, Carol Willsey

Americas

Genealogical Publishing Company

<p>"Columbiana County, Ohio Marriages, 1800-1870" is no ordinary marriage book. Since many Ohio ministers failed to file returns of marriages with the Columbiana court house and since some Columbiana couples opted to be married in neighboring Pennsylvania, where a marriage license was not required by law, author Carol Bell broadened her pursuit of marriage "evidences" to wills and other probate records, deeds, birth and death records, and, importantly, to local newspapers, where marriage notices were frequently published. The abstracts are arranged alphabetically according to the surname of the groom (a separate index to brides and other persons named in the abstracts may be found at the back of the book). In many cases, the abstracts also provide the name of the person who performed the ceremony, the site of the marriage, the home town and/or age of the bride and/or groom, and other details. In all, Mrs. Bell has produced a compilation of more than 6,000 marriage entries, many from obscure sources.</p>

Columbiana County, Ohio, Marriages 1800-1870, and Other Evidence of Marriages

Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index

Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index by Carol Willsey Bell.

Bell Books

Ohio Lands: Steubenville Land Office, 1800-1820

Reference

Frontier Pr

Ohio genealogical periodical index: A county guide

C.W. Bell

Columbiana County, Ohio, 1820 census

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