Adams County, Ohio Online Resources

Sites with immediate access to biographies, births, cemeteries, censuses, deaths, histories, marriages, migrations, military records, obituaries, and wills for residents of the county.

          

Birth
Nothing is online currently. The Adams County,OH Courthouse was destroyed by fire on February 25,1910. All official Probate Court Birth Records were destroyed. Births may be found in the "Adams County,OH Probate Court Assessor Books," (1879 thru 1895) and the "Restored Adams County, OH Board of Health Birth Records," (1857 to 1909).

        

Census
1820 Jefferson Township Census Index

http://web.archive.org/web/20021016113504/www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/3106/genealogy/census.html

1850 Federal Census Transcription

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/adams/census/1850/

1860 Federal Mortality Schedule Transcription

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohadams/death/1860.htm

1870 Federal Census Transcription

http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/oh/adams/1870/

1880 Federal Mortality Schedule Transcription

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohadams/death/1880.htm

1880 Infirmary Census Transcription

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohadams/census/1880_infirmary.htm

Death records, Obituaries, and Cemeteries
 

Adams County Death Information 1913-1937

http://web.archive.org/web/20041010222923/www.scioto.org/Adams/catalogs/deathcatalog.html

Adams County Social Security Death Index

http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?&amp;ls=OH&amp;lc=ADAMS&amp;stat=a&amp;start=1

Obituaries and Death Notices

http://web.archive.org/web/20050305185827/www.scioto.org/Adams/catalogs/obitscatalog.html

1889 Adult Dead

http://web.archive.org/web/20050310014352/www.scioto.org/Adams/deaths/peoples-defender-1889.html

Adams County Cemeteries

http://web.archive.org/web/20041019022952/www.scioto.org/Adams/catalogs/cemeterycatalog.html

Tombstone Transcription Project

http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/ohio/adams.htm?cj=1&amp;o_xid=0001610462&amp;o_lid=0001610462&amp;o_xt=22846292

Ohio Cemetery Photo Project

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/tombpics/adams/adamsco.htm

Morrison Cemetery—Monroe Township

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/adams/cemeteries/morrison.txt

Newland Cemetery—Franklin Township

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/adams/cemeteries/newland.txt

Pemberton Cemetery—Franklin Township

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/adams/cemeteries/pemberton.txt

     

History and Biography
A History of Adams County, Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, 1900

http://books.google.com/books?id=na8CAAAAMAAJ

Adams County Biographies

http://web.archive.org/web/20041019021533/www.scioto.org/Adams/catalogs/biocatalog.html

 

Marriage Records
Marriages 1803-1832

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/adams/marriage/adammar.txt

Marriages 1803-1908

Incomplete listing.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/adams/vitals/marriages/adammar.txt

Marriage Data 1800-1900, 1901-1945

http://web.archive.org/web/20050306145548/www.scioto.org/Adams/catalogs/marriagecatalog.html

1896 Marriage License Issues

http://web.archive.org/web/20050310060211/www.scioto.org/Adams/articles/1896-marriages.html

Migration
   Migrations Through Adams County

County, OH http://www.migrations.org/county.php3?migpassed=Adams%20County,%20OH

Military
 

 

Veterans—Revolutionary War—Biographical Sketches

http://web.archive.org/web/20050305201140/www.scioto.org/Adams/military/revwar/revvetbios.html

Veterans—Revolutionary War—Service and Information

http://web.archive.org/web/20050305184921/www.scioto.org/Adams/catalogs/militarycatalog.html

American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohadams/military/rev/revwarreject.htm

War of 1812 Roster of Ohio Soldiers

http://web.archive.org/web/20041019022952/www.scioto.org/Adams/catalogs/cemeterycatalog.html

Ohio 1840 Census of Pensioners or Military Services

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840/1840oh_a.html

Civil War Rosters

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw-oh.html

 

Wills and Probate Records
 

 

Wills Index Prior to 1910

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohadams/wills/wills.htm

Will Index, Testators 1910-1919

http://www.sampubco.com/wills/oh/ohadams.htm