Tillman County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Tillman County Tillman County, Oklahoma genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Tillman County Courthouse 201 N 10th Street Frederick, OK 73542 Phone: 580.335-3421 Clerk Court has military, divorce, probate and court records 1907; County Clerk has land record from 1907

Parent County

 * 1907--Tillman County was created 16 July 1907 from Comanche and Kiowa Counties.
 * County seat: Frederick

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Neighboring Counties

 * Comanche
 * Cotton
 * Jackson
 * Kiowa
 * Wichita County, Texas
 * Wilbarger County, Texas

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records Vol. 21 page 44 - Chattanooga

Newspapers
Oklahoma Newspapers Online Oklahoma Newspaper Catalogs
 * GenealogyBank - ($), contains images of Oklahoma newspapers
 * Newspaper Archive - ($), contains images of Nebraska newspapers
 * Chronicling America - contains images of some Oklahoma newspapers; searching tips
 * Elephind - Free; search engine that retrieves newspaper images from other free newspaper websites
 * Oklahoma State Historical Society - catalog of known Oklahoma newspapers; lists repositories that have the newspapers
 * U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present on Chronicling America - contains a list of all known newspapers and the dates they cover; once you locate a newspaper name, contact the local library to see if they have copies of the newspaper.


 * NewspaperArchive.com ($) has historical newspapers online including Lawton newspapers that may have included Tillman County residents. This database is free at some libraries.

Probate
Online Records
 * 1801 – 2008 Oklahoma Wills and Probate Records 1801-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1887 – 2008 Oklahoma Probate Records 1887-2008 at FamilySearch — images

School Records

 * 1895 - 1936 at | FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

 * 1890–1995 -  at FamilySearch — index and images

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * The Tillman County OK GenWeb Project, a member of The OKGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project