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Shelby County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Shelby County Courthouse 129 East Court St. Sidney, Ohio 45365 Shelby County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Miami County in 1819.
  
• County Seat: Sidney
   
• Neighboring Counties: Shelby County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[1]Auglaize (north) · Miami (south) · Darke (west) · Mercer (northwest) · Champaign (southeast) · Logan (east)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Shelby 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

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

History

The county is named after Kentucky's First Governor Isaac Shelby (1750-1826).^[2]

Land and Property

Maps

Military

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Shelby County Courthouse
129 E Court Street PO Box 809
Sidney, OH 45365
Phone: 937.498.7221

Clerk Court has court records from 1819; Probate Judge has birth,
marriage, death and probate, records from 1825; County Recorder
has land records from 1819^[3]

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

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

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Auglaize
• Champaign
• Darke
• Logan
• Miami

References

1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Shelby County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).
2. ↑ "List of Counties in Tennessee," Wikipedia.
3. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Shelby County, Ohio. Page 545 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.