Hocking County, Ohio Genealogy

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County Courthouse

 * Welcome to Hocking County, Ohio
 * The Hocking County Home Page
 * Hocking County Chamber of Commerce

Parent County
1818--Hocking County was created 3 January 1818 from Athens, Ross, and Fairfield Counties. County seat: Logan

Populated Places

 * Hocking County, Ohio Townships
 * Profile for Hocking County, Ohio
 * Histopolis for Hocking County, Ohio

Neighboring Counties

 * Athens
 * Fairfield
 * Perry
 * Pickaway
 * Ross
 * Vinton

Cemeteries

 * Hocking County, Ohio Cemeteries
 * Cemetery Index
 * The Tombstone Transcription Project
 * Cemeteries In or Near Hocking County
 * The Political Graveyard
 * Hocking County Cemeteries
 * Ohio Gravestones (Hocking County)
 * Find A Grave (142 Cemeteries listed)
 * Ohio Tombstone Photo Project
 * Hocking County Cemeteries

Census and Directories

 * 1820 United States Federal Census $
 * 1830 United States Federal Census $
 * 1840 United States Federal Census $
 * United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850 (About this Collection)
 * U. S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880 $
 * United States Census, 1850
 * United States Census, 1860
 * 1860 United States Federal Census$
 * United States Census, 1870
 * United States Census, 1880 (index only)
 * 1880 United States Federal Census $
 * 1890 Veterans Schedule $
 * United States Census, 1900
 * 1910 United States Federal Census $
 * 1920 United States Federal Census $
 * 1930 United States Federal Census $

Church

 * Church and Family History Research Assistance for Hocking County, Ohio

Land

 * Land Patent Search

Local Histories

 * History of Hocking Valley Ohio, Together with sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens...Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.. 1883.
 * Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe Vol. 1 1888, Hocking County
 * Hocking County Ohio, Biographies
 * Hocking County, Ohio 1908 Souvenir Book (36 pages)
 * Postal History
 * History of Hocking County, Ohio
 * Hocking County Biography (WorldCat)
 * A Brief History of Hocking County
 * Hocking County, Ohio (WikipediA)
 * National Register of Historic Places

Maps

 * Atlas of Hocking County Ohio
 * Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Military

 * Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
 * Hocking County, Ohio Civil War
 * Civil War Research Database $
 * Civil War Pension Index: General Indes to Pension Files, 1861-1934 $
 * 58th Ohio Infantry Regiment (Union)
 * 63rd Ohio Infantry Regiment (Union)
 * World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918$
 * U. S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 $
 * Hocking County, Ohio WW II Army Enlistment Records 1838-1946
 * United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
 * Young America Patriots 1941-1945
 * World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing

Newspapers

 * The Logan Daily News
 * Newspaper Abstracts
 * Hocking County, Ohio Newspaper Extractions

Schools

 * Benton Local High School, 1950

Taxation

 * Ohio Tax Records 1816-1838, About this Collection

Vital Records

 * Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch – Pilot. 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.
 * Ohio Death Certificate Index, 1913-1944
 * Hocking County, Ohio Deaths 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2002
 * Hocking County Marriages 1818-1885
 * Hocking County, Ohio Marriages 1851-1855

Societies and Libraries

 * Logan-Hocking County District Library
 * Hocking County, Ohio Libraries

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Dust in the Attic Under History, click on Hocking County for cemeteries and other records.
 * Family History Library Catalog
 * Genealogy Trails
 * My Ohio Genealogy
 * Cyndi's List for Hocking County, Ohio