Lucas County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Lucas County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Wood and Sandusky Counties in 1835.
 * County Seat: Toledo
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Monroe County, Michigan (north)·Lenawee County, Michigan (northwest)·Wood (south)·Ottawa (southeast)· Fulton (west)· Henry (southwest)

Parent County
1835--Lucas County was created 20 June 1835 from Wood, Sandusky, and Henry Counties. County seat: Toledo

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

Places/Localities
Toledo

Neighboring Counties

 * Fulton
 * Henry
 * Lenawee County, Michigan
 * Monroe County, Michigan
 * Ottawa
 * Wood

Cemeteries

 * Joy Cemetery, Ottawa Hills BillionGraves

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Toledo

Directories
Fold3 ($) has Toledo City Directories 1864-1923 (3 yrs. missing) available online.

Germans
Archives, Libraries, and Museums Biographies Church Records Cemetery Records Court Records Histories Immigration/emigration/migration Maps Newspapers Societies

Civil War
Civil War service men from Lucas 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 Lucas County.


 * - 1st Regiment, Michigan Cavalry, Company E
 * - 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
 * Company A - many men from Toledo and and Perrysburg in Wood County
 * Company E - many men from Toledo and northern Fulton County
 * Company F - many men from western Lucas County, especially Waterville and Maumee
 * - 111th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies E and H

Newspapers

 * Toledo Blade, March 1869 - December 2007 - more than 24,000 issues digitized in the Google News Archive.

Vital Records
Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch.org. 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.

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.