Washington County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Washington County Washington 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
Washington County Courthouse 420 S Johnstone Avenue Bartlesville, OK 74003-6602 Phone: 918.337-2840 Clerk Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1907

Parent County

 * 1897--Washington County was created in 1897 from Cherokee Lands
 * County seat: Bartlesville

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

Places/Localities
==== Populated Places ====
 * Bartlesville (county seat)
 * Copan
 * Dewey
 * Ochelata
 * Ramona
 * Vera

Neighboring Counties

 * Chautauqua County, Kansas
 * Montgomery County, Kansas
 * Nowata
 * Osage
 * Rogers
 * Tulsa

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records Vol. 21 page 64 - Dewey page 157 - Matoaka

State Census Records

 * 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census 1890 - Oklahoma Historical Societ
 * 1890 and 1907 Oklahoma Territorial Census, 1890 and 1907 at Ancestry — index and image ($)

Federal Census Records
Federal Censuses were taken for Oklahoma starting in 1860. For links to Federal census indexes, see Oklahoma Census.

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Bartlesville

Local Histories
Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma: including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922

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.

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
 * Bartlesville Oklahoma Family History Center

Web Sites

 * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okwashin/index.htm The Washington County OK GenWeb Project], a member of The OKGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project