Shelby County, Ohio Genealogy

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

United States Ohio  Shelby County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Miami County in 1819.
 * County Seat: Sidney
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Auglaize (north)·Miami (south)·Darke (west)· Mercer (northwest at a single point)·Champaign (southeast)·Logan (east)

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

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

See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

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).

Local Histories

 * Hitchcock, A.B.C., History of Shelby County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, (Chicago, Illinois: Richmond-Arnold, 1913). Digital copy at Internet Archive


 * History of Shelby County, Ohio: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: R. Sutton & Co., 1883). Digital copy at Google Books


 * A History of the Communities of Shelby County, Ohio, (Sidney, Ohio: printed for Citizens Baughman National Bank, 1976).

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
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

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

Birth
Online Birth Indexes and Records

Original Birth Records on Microfilm

Marriage
Online Marriage Indexes and Records Original Marriage Records on Microfilm

Death
Online Death Indexes and Records

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 decease{{Template:OH d.

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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.

Neighboring Counties

 * Auglaize
 * Champaign
 * Darke
 * Logan
 * Miami