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Geauga County, Ohio
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Location in the state of Ohio
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Geauga County Courthouse Chardon, Ohio 44024 Geauga County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Trumbull County 31 December 1805.^[1]
• County Seat: Chardon
  
• Neighboring Counties: Geauga County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[2]Lake (north) · Portage (south) · Ashtabula and Trumbull (east) · Cuyahoga (west)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Geauga County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

Census

Church Records

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 Geauga 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 Geauga County.
  • 1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery, Batteries B and C
  • 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies B and G
  • 105th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies B, C, E, F, and I

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

Public Records

Repositories

Geauga County Courthouse
231 Main Street
Chardon, OH 44024-1243
Phone: 216.285.2222 

Probate  Judge has birth, marriage, death and probate records;
County Health Department has burial records; Clerk Court has
divorce and court records from 1806; County Recorder has land records^[1]

Courthouse

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Libraries

Museums

Societies

Taxation

Vital Records

• Geauga County Birth, Marriage & Death 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, "Geauga County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).