Ohio History and Genealogy

Ohio Genealogy is being developed as a genealogical and historical resource for your personal use. While the original thought was to provide this website as a resource for finding genealogy and historical data concerning Ohio on the web, we have begun adding specific data to this site, or to our sister site Access Genealogy for your personal use.

In an attempt to further expand our offerings and refine your search, we have begun the creation of county websites. Our first is for Athens County, as we found the available online information to be lacking for this area of the state. You will find the link below. Enjoy!

The "Search Ohio Genealogy" search on the right side will search all of the Ohio Genealogy website, but will not search the data linked to from our offsite data pages.

Featured Sections:

A Book of Clevelanders, A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men of the City of Cleveland
The remarks following each name are autobiographical. Not a word has been added and except for unimportant changes affecting the phraseology employed, every man's description is his own.

Athens County, Ohio History and Genealogy
Our first county for Ohio, the vast majority of information on this website is based upon History of Athens County, Ohio, by Charles M. Walker, Cincinnati, R. Clarke, 1869

Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812 - offsite
The roster of the war of 1812 for Ohio consisted of a total of 26,280 men who enlisted from Ohio to assist the nation in this war. They comprised of 3 regiments, 464 companies, 13 cavalry troops, and 1 artillery battery. This dataset has broken up this list for easier perusal by the company, troop, or battery of the soldiers.

World War II Army and Army Air Corps Casualty Lists - offsite
Ohio honor List of Army and Army Air Corps during World War 2.

World War II Navy, Marines and Nurses Casualty Lists - offsite
Ohio honor List of Navy, Marines, and Nurses during World War 2