Allen County, Ohio Genealogy

Sites with immediate access to biographies, births, cemetery records, censuses, deaths, histories, marriages, migrations, military records, and obituaries of the county.

Births:

 * Extracted from Allen County newspapers of those who died in Allen and surrounding counties.
 * The USGenWeb Archives for Allen County, Ohio has the following records:


 * 1850 Federal Census transcription and images
 * 1920 index for surnames beginning with the letter "E" and "F"
 * Gravemarker photos
 * Cemetery transcriptions for the following cemeteries: Fisher, Harrods, Ridge, Westminster

Marriages: Pioneer marriages 1836-1851,

Bureau of Land Management Database Transcription It shows the original purchasers of land from the federal government and covers the period from pre-Revolutionary times up to 1908. 

The Allen County, Ohio GenWeb, part of The OHGenWeb Project, an affiliated project with The USGenWeb Project, has the following records:


 * Death Records Transcriptions, December 1908 to 31 December 1959
 * Obituaries 1881-1999, not every obituary is transcribed.
 * Gravestone Inscriptions from the Elida Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery, Rockport Methodist Cemetery,
 * Biographies of Allen County residents

Independent sites have the following:


 * Henry Howe’s History of Ohio, Allen County http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~libeacons/howe_history_allen.htm
 * Personal Histories-1875 http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~libeacons/1875personal_histories_allen.htm
 * Early Pioneer List in 1874 http://www.calweb.com/~wally/darke/people.htm
 * 1880 Business Patron’s References Divided by town and township, each section has a unique set of information about their patrons. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~libeacons/1880_business.htm

Death Records 1909-1953
Delphos, Ohio and Marion Township only


 * http://www.delphos-ohio.com/history/death.htm

Search Engine for the Obituary Index to the Lima News

 * http://www.genealogybuff.com/oh/oh-allen_births.htm

Delphos, Ohio Cemeteries
Includes records of John Cem.htm St. John Evangelist Catholic Church Cemeteries, Walnut Grove,Landeck, Westside,and Hartshorn Cemeteries.


 * http://www.delphos-ohio.com/history/cemeteri.htm

Allen County Social Security Death Index

 * http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?&amp;ls=OH&amp;lc=ALLEN&amp;stat=a&amp;start=1

Allen County Pioneer Marriages 1836-1851

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/marriages/pioneer/

Marriage Records 1832-1952
Not all inclusive.


 * ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/marriages/pioneer/

Marriages 1852-1860

 * ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/marriages/

Marriages Oct 1854
Taken from Lima Democratic News


 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/marriages/1854.txt

Marriage Index Nov 1860
Taken from Lima Democratic News


 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/marriages/marindx11-1860.txt

Marriage Licenses, 1889-1893

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/marriages/1889-1893.txt

Marriages Dec 1900
Taken from Allen County Republican Gazette.


 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/marriages/dec1900.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1876

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1876.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1881

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1881.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1889

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1889.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1890

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1890.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1891

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1891.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1892

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1892.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1896
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1896.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1897

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1897.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1898-1899

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1898-1899.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees for Allen and Van Wert Counties, and Surrounding Areas, 1898-1900

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1898-1900.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1904

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1904.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1905

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1905.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1906

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1906.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1905-1906

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1905-06.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1907

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1907.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1908

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1908.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1909

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1909.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1910

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1910.txt

Divorce Petitions &amp; Decrees, 1919

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/vitals/divorces/1919.txt

Migrations Through Allen County, OH

 * County, OH http://www.migrations.org/county.php3?migcounty=Allen%20County,%20OH

Revolutionary War Pensioners Living in the State of Ohio in 1818-1819

 * http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~jetorres/ohiorev.html

War of 1812 Roster of Ohio Soldiers

 * http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/rosters.html

1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary and Military Services

 * http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840/1840oh_a.html

Civil War Rosters

 * http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw-oh.html

Allen County, OH Men In the Civil War

 * http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~libeacons/civilwar.htm

Men in the Civil War

 * http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~libeacons/civilwar.htm

The Unreturning Brave (from WWI)
Published in 1925.


 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/military/wwi/ub.txt

List of Dead Heroes Whose Bodies Rest in AllenCounty
The names of the soldiers whose bodies were buried in different cemeteries of the county whose graves were decorated May 30, 1907.


 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/military/other/listofde7nmt.txt

1834 Tax Lists for Amanda and Auglaize Townships

 * http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/taxlists/amanda_auglaize.htm

1834 Tax Lists for Bath and Deuchoquette Townships

 * http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/taxlists/bath_deuchoquette.htm

1834 Tax Lists for German and Jackson Townships

 * http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/taxlists/german_jackson.htm

1834 Tax Lists for Marion, Perry and WayneTownships

 * http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/taxlists/marion_perry_wayne.htm

Taxpayers--Personal Property August 25, 1881

 * http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/allen/taxlists/allencou19nms.txt