Ohio Genealogy Trails A part of the Genealogy Trails History Group   Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy My name is Jeanne and I am the state host for Ohio. Our purpose is to provide free genealogy to help you find your ancestors. Genealogy Trails depends on contributions from you to continuing growing to provide free use. We need help with births, marriages, deaths, burials, obituaries, any information you want to share. We also welcome your comments and will try to answer any of your questions as soon as possible. Please contact me. Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and contact us. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! If you are interested in adding your families' information this website, email us. We'll be happy to help your families' obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at Ohio Genealogy Trails, where it will remain free for all to view. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists   We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. OHIO was admitted to Statehood on March 1, 1803. It was the first state admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. Ohio's State Flag was adopted in 1902.  The Ohio Burgee, as the swallowtail design is properly called, was designed by John Eisemann.  The large blue triangle represents Ohio's hills and valleys, and the stripes represent the original states of the union; the 4 stars added to the peak of the triangle symbolize that Ohio was the 17th state admitted to the union.  The white circle with its red center not only represents the "O" in Ohio, but also suggests Ohio's famous nickname, "The Buckeye State". The origin of state's name was from the Iroquois Indian word for "good river".  Native Americans in today's Ohio included the Shawnee, Iroquois, Miami's, and Wyandots Eight U.S. presidents hailed from Ohio at the time of their elections, earning the state the nickname of "Mother of Presidents". The seven presidents born in Ohio were Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison (grandson of William Henry Harrison), William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding (William Henry Harrison lived most of his life in Ohio, though he was born in VA) The Capitol of Ohio is COLUMBUS, Franklin Co., Ohio State Data Topics Ohio Ghost Towns Stories Of Ohio Civil War Honor Roll World War I Ohio Casualties Ohio Union Civil War Volunteers Civil War Ohio Regiments Union and Confederate The 25th Ohio Vet. Vol. Inf. War of the Union World War I Roll of Honor Partial List State Events Wardens of the Ohio State Penitentiary Military Data Newspaper Data Census Ohio Military Data Early Ohio Merchants Early Ohio Settlers Indian Migration in Ohio First White Settlers More Military Data First Chartered Railroad in Ohio Ohio  Governors Ohio Insane Asylums State News Items 1850 Ohio Atlas (offsite link) 1850 Ohio Atlas- County Facts State Biographies Ohio's Oldest Postmasters & their Biographies Early Ohio Executions Ohio Attorneys  Listed in Graft's Legal Directory 1908 - 09 Recipes of Our Ancestors Early American Marriages   Ohio Trails Updates   Ohio Counties County Host County Host County Host   Adams Formed 1797 Available For Adoption Guernsey Formed 1810 Available For Adoption Morrow Formed 1848 Available For Adoption Allen Formed 1831 Available For Adoption Hamilton Formed 1790 Available For Adoption Muskingum Formed 1804 Available For Adoption Ashland Formed 1846 Available For Adoption Hancock Formed 1828 Available For Adoption Noble Formed 1851 Available For Adoption Ashtabula Formed 1811 Available For Adoption Hardin Formed 1833 Available For Adoption Ottawa Formed 1840 Available For Adoption Athens Formed 1805 Available For Adoption Harrison Formed 1813 Available For Adoption Paulding Formed 1839 Available For Adoption Auglaize Formed 1848 Available For Adoption Henry Formed 1834 Available For Adoption Perry Formed 1818 Available For Adoption Belmont Formed 1801 Available For Adoption Highland Formed 1805 Available For Adoption Pickaway Formed 1810 Available For Adoption Brown Formed 1818 Available For Adoption Hocking Formed 1818 Available For Adoption Pike Formed 1815 Available For Adoption Butler Formed 1803 Available For Adoption Holmes Formed 1825 Available For Adoption Portage Formed 1808 Available For Adoption Carroll Formed 1833 Available For Adoption Huron Formed 1815 Available For Adoption Preble Formed 1808 Nancy Hannah Champaign Formed 1805 Available For Adoption Jackson Formed 1816 Available For Adoption Putnam Formed 1834 Available For Adoption Clark Formed 1818 Available For Adoption Jefferson Formed 1797 Available For Adoption Richland Formed 1813 Available For Adoption Clermont Formed 1800 Available For Adoption Knox Formed 1808 Available For Adoption Ross Formed 1798 Carla Mascara Clinton Formed 1810 Available For Adoption Lake Formed 1840 Available For Adoption Sandusky Formed 1820 Available For Adoption Columbiana Formed 1803 Jeanne Hall Lawrence Formed 1817 Available For Adoption Scioto Formed 1803 Available For Adoption Coshocton Formed 1811 Available For Adoption Licking Formed 1808 Available For Adoption Seneca Formed 1824 Available For Adoption Crawford Formed 1826 Available For Adoption Logan Formed 1818 Available For Adoption Shelby Formed 1819 Available For Adoption Cuyahoga Formed 1810 Available For Adoption Lorain Formed 1824 Available For Adoption Stark Formed 1809 Available For Adoption Darke Formed 1817 Available For Adoption Lucas Formed 1835 Available For Adoption Summit Formed 1840 Available For Adoption Defiance Formed 1845 Available For Adoption Madison Formed 1810 Available For Adoption Trumbull Formed 1800 Available For Adoption Delaware Formed 1808 Available For Adoption Mahoning Formed 1846 Available For Adoption Tuscarawas Formed 1808 Available For Adoption Erie Formed 1838 Available For Adoption Marion Formed 1824 Available For Adoption Union Formed 1820 Available For Adoption Fayette Formed 1810 Available For Adoption Medina Formed 1818 Available For Adoption Van Wert Formed 1837 Available For Adoption Fairfield Formed 1800 Available For Adoption Meigs Formed 1819 Available For Adoption Vinton Formed 1815 Available For Adoption Franklin Formed 1803 Available For Adoption Mercer Formed 1824 Available For Adoption Warren Formed 1803 Available For Adoption Fulton Formed 1850 Available For Adoption Miami Formed 1807 Available For Adoption Washington Formed 1788 Temp Host - Therman Kellar Gallia Formed 1803 Available For Adoption Monroe Formed 1815 Available For Adoption Wayne Formed 1812 Available For Adoption Geauga Formed 1806 Available For Adoption Montgomery Formed 1803 Available For Adoption Williams Formed 1824 Available For Adoption Greene Formed 1803 Available For Adoption Morgan Formed 1819 Available For Adoption Wood Formed 1820 Available For Adoption Would You Like To Adopt A County? Wyandot Formed 1845 Available For Adoption Search Our Sites Submit an Obituary Bureau of Vital Statistics Ohio Department of Health 35 East Chestnut Street, 6th Floor P.O. Box 15098 Columbus, OH 43215-0098 614-466-2531 To Order Birth and Death Certificates, write: Ohio Department of Health Vital Statistics 225 Neilston Street Columbus, Ohio 43215 Phone: (614) 466-2531  State Bird - Cardinal State Flower- Carnation State Flag   Visit our Genealogy Trails websites for these bordering states: INDIANA KENTUCKY MICHIGAN PENNSYLVANIA WEST VIRGINIA Visit the National Genealogy Trails Site   Visitors since March 11, 2006 © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.