Licking County, Ohio Genealogy

Guide to Licking County Ohio genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

United States Ohio Licking County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Fairfield County 30 January 1808.
 * County Seat: Newark
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Knox (north)·Fairfield (southwest)·Perry (southeast)·Muskingum (east)·Coshocton (northeast)·Delaware (northwest)·Franklin (west)

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Licking County boundary changes.

Record Loss
1875--The courthouse was on fire on 2 April 1875. Records in the Recorder’s, Sheriff’s, Auditors and Treasurer’s offices were saved. The marriage records between 1829-1839 were not available possibly lost completely in the fire. Some estate records also were burned in the fire. There are gaps in records for this county. See Burned Counties.

1879--The tower of the New Licking County Courthouse caught fire, 29 Mar 1879. No records were destroyed.

Cemeteries
Green-Beard Cemetery

Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

Court Records
Harold Henderson composed a blog post describing his recent research at the courthouse in Licking County, Ohio. Many records were burned in a fire in 1875. Here is the link to his blog post titled Not Everything Burned -- Partitions and Mortgages in Licking County, Ohio.

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Local Histories

 * A Bicentennial History of Licking County, Ohio: 1808-2008, (Licking County Bicentennial Commission, 2008).


 * Brister, E.M.P., Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County, Ohio, (Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909). Digital copy at Google Books Volume 1: Volume 2:


 * Hill, Norman Newell, History of Licking County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, (Newark, Ohio: A.A. Graham &amp; Co., 1881). Digital copy at Google Books


 * Smucker, Isaac, Centennial History of Licking County, Ohio, (Newark, Ohio: Clark and Underwood, 1876). Digital copy at Google Books Internet Archive

Military

 * Revolutionary War 


 * - Revolutionary War Veterans of Licking County, Ohio


 * Civil War Civil War service men from Licking County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies or regiments that were formed from men of Licking County.


 * - 1st Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, Companies D and F
 * -113th_Regiment,_Ohio_Infantry, Companies D and F

Newspapers
Online Newspapers Online Newspaper Abstracts Newspaper Extracts and Abstracts in Book Form

Probate

 * 1790–1967 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection consists of probate records and estate files from county courthouses in Ohio. The content and time period varies by county, with more records being added as they become available. This Collection will include records from 1789 to 1996. Currently, (September 2012) the collection is only searchable by browsing the images. A list of Fires that have destroyed records in the courthouses of several counties are listed on the Record Description page.

Courthouse
Licking County Courthouse 20 S 2nd Street Newark, OH 43058 Phone: 740.349.6062 Probate Judge has birth, marriage and probate records; County Health Department has death records; Clerk Court has divorce records from 1876 and court records from 1872; County recorder has land records

County Archives
Licking County Records and Archives Department Mailing Address: 20 S. 2nd Street Newark, OH 43055

Physical Address: 39 S. Buena Vista Street Newark, OH 43055 Phone: 740.670.5121 Online Records Catalog

The office houses a selection of Licking County Government records dating from 1808 to the present and provides direction to customers researching county records.

Family History Centers

 * Zanesville Ohio Family History Center

For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the FHC directory. Put your town name in the top search box.

Societies

 * Licking County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

School Records
Jacksontown Alumni Book 1890-1959. Digitized book which includes the history of the school and numerous class photos.

Birth
Online Birth Indexes and Records
 * various years - community contributed birth records Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives.

Original Birth Records on Microfilm

Marriage
Online Marriage Indexes and Records

Ohio, County Marriages, 1790-1950 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch-Historical Records. Databases include Marriage Records, 1808-1951 available at FHL, and Marriage Returns, 1875-1950 available at FHL. (For Licking County, the 1808-1951 database is variably extracted; often the Volume and Page number are not given. The "image numbers" given in the extracts refer to the image numbers in the microfilm, not to the image numbers as uploaded to Historical Records.  The links to images from search results in the Historical Records for this County are wrong for at least Volumes 7 and 11, but the user can often find the wanted record by going to the next image in sequence.  In Volume 7 the images are about 8 MB each, and in Volume 11 about 5 MB each, so searchers with slow internet connections should be prepared for considerable load time.)

Original Marriage Records on Microfilm

Death
Online Death Indexes and Records

Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch-Historical Records. 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, widowed or divorced, occupation of deceased and disposition of remains.

Original Death Records on Microfilm

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.

Populated Places

 * Granville
 * Johnstown
 * Pataskala