Shelby County, Ohio Genealogy

Guide to Shelby County Ohio genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

United States Ohio  Shelby County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Miami County in 1819.
 * County Seat: Sidney
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Auglaize (north)·Miami (south)·Darke (west)· Mercer (northwest)·Champaign (southeast)·Logan (east)

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

Cemeteries
Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

Genealogy
Miami Valley Genealogy Index is an Index to more than a half million pointers to records all over Miami Valley including Shelby County.

History


The county is named after Kentucky's First Governor Isaac Shelby (1750-1826).

Courthouse
Shelby County Courthouse 129 E Court Street PO Box 809 Sidney, OH 45365 Phone: 937.498.7221 Clerk Court has court records from 1819; Probate Judge has birth, marriage, death and probate, records from 1825; County Recorder has land records from 1819

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Death
Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch. 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.

Neighboring Counties

 * Auglaize
 * Champaign
 * Darke
 * Logan
 * Miami