Ottawa County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Ottawa County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Erie, Lucas, and Sandusky Counties in 1840.
 * County Seat: Port Clinton
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Lucas (north)·Sandusky (south)·Wood (west)· Erie (southeast)

Ohio Digital Collections

Parent County
1840--Ottawa County was created 6 March 1840 from Erie, Sandusky, and Lucas Counties. County seat: Port Clinton

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

Neighboring Counties

 * Erie
 * Lucas
 * Sandusky
 * Wood

Cemeteries
Harris-Elmore Union Cemetery (aka) Guss, Union, Elmore

Harrington Cemetery (aka) Old Elmore, Elmore

Rymers Cemetery (aka) Rice, Elmore

Military

 * Civil War Civil War service men from Ottawa 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 Ottawa County.


 * - 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies F and I
 * - 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company G

Newspapers
The Ohio Obituary Index includes references to more than 1.5 million death, marriage and obituary notices. What began as a project at the Hayes Presidential Center grew into a partnership with 40 public libraries throughout the state of Ohio. Some of the listings date back as far as 1830. In addition to newspaper obituaries, the index includes entries indexing church records, federal mortality indexes, family papers, etc.

Vital 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 deceased.

Societies and Libraries
Harris-Elmore Public Library

328 Toledo St. Elmore

Ottawa County Genealogical Society, chapter of the OGS

they meet at the Ida Rupp Public Library

310 Madison St. Port Clinton

Ida Rupp Public Library

310 Madison St. Port Clinton

Elmore Historical Society

Elmore

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

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