Paulding County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Paulding County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Shelby, Darke, Williams, and Wood Counties 12 February 1820.
 * County Seat: Paulding
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Defiance (north)·Van Wert (south)·Putnam (east)· Allen County, Indiana (west)

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

Cemeteries

 * Kingery Cemetery, Brown BillionGraves

Military

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


 * - 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company I

Courthouse
Paulding County Courthouse Perry &amp; N Williams Paulding, OH 45879 Phone: 419.399.8210 County Health Department has birth and death records; Probate Judge has marriage and probate records; Clerk Court has divorce records; County Judge has court records; County Recorder has land records

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

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.