Lucas County, Ohio Genealogy

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

Places/Localities
Toledo

Neighboring Counties

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

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Toledo

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

Military

 * 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.


 * - 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 – 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.

Web Sites

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