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Montgomery County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Montgomery County Courthouse 451 W. 3rd St. Dayton, Ohio 45422 Montgomery County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Hamilton County 24 March 1803.^[1]
• County Seat: Dayton
• Neighboring Counties: Montgomery County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[2]Miami (north) · Warren (south) · Preble (west) · Greene (east)  · Darke (northwest) · Butler (southwest) · Clark (southeast)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Montgomery County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

BillionGraves:

• Beavertown Cemetery, Kettering
• Calvary Cemetery, Moraine
• Dayton Memorial Park, Butler
• Willow View Cemetery, Dayton

Census

1820 Census of Montgomery County.  Many early residents of Montgomery County migrated north to Miami County.

Church Records

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Dayton

Court Records

Directories

Montgomery County, Ohio Online Historical Directories - identifies historical city, county, business and other directories available online on both free and pay-to-access websites.

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Biographies
Church Records
Cemetery Records
Court Records
Histories
Immigration/emigration/migration
Maps
Newspapers
Societies

Gazetteers

Genealogy

Miami Valley Genealogy Index is an Index to more than a half million pointers to records all over Miami Valley including Montgomery County.

History

Wikipedia has more about this subject: Montgomery County, Ohio

Land and Property

Maps

Military

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

- 1st Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, a battery is like a company in an artillery regiment.

- 4th Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, Company H

- 113th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company I

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Ohio, Montgomery County Probate Estate Files (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Montgomery County Courthouse
41 North Perry
Dayton, OH 45422-0002
Phone: 937.225.6118

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

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Dayton Ohio Family History Center

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

Dayton

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, "Montgomery County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montogomery_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).