Washington County, Ohio, Public Library Local History & Genealogy Department


Ohio Web Library (formerly OPLIN )
Use your Ohio library card for statewide research databases
(depending on your library's subscriptions; click on Locally Purchased;
Washington County Public Libraries subscribe to HeritageQuest Online )

Washington County (Ohio) 

Society (note cemetery database)

Washington County, Ohio, county government

MySpace for Marietta, Ohio

MySpace blog for Marietta, Ohio

Batch numbers for Washington County, Ohio, births 1867-1875
Insert a name or just click Search for an alphabetical listing

Batch numbers for Washington County, Ohio, marriages 1864-1880
Insert a name or just click Search for an alphabetical listing

Linkpendium for Washington County, Ohio (link to geographic genealogy links)

Public Records for Washington County, Ohio

Washington County, Ohio, Health Department
(birth and death records for events in Washington County, Ohio, excluding Marietta, since 1908; no online local records,  
but see FamilySearch® Record Search for digitized state copies of death certificates 1908-1953)

Washington County, Ohio, Auditor
(current landowners)

Washington County, Ohio, Recorder (recent deed transfers)

Genealogy Trails for Washington County, Ohio
(has marriages 1790-1822, some early probate records)

GenForum for Washington County, Ohio

US GenWeb, Washington County, Ohio

US GenWeb Searchable Archives for Washington County, Ohio

Washington County, Ohio, Newspaper Transcriptions 1808-1843 by Ellen Knowles Bisson

Washington County, Ohio, RootsWeb Message Board

Washington County Biographies from Deb Murray

U S War Department Papers 1784-1800 (much local content)

Upper Ohio River Maps 1877 from Bob Moyer (large files, including Marietta and Harmar)

Pictures of Washington County, Ohio, from OhioPix

National Register of Historic Places, Washington County, Ohio

Buildings of Washington County, Ohio

Washington County, Ohio, Cemeteries from Interment.net

Washington County, Ohio, Cemeteries, from RootsWeb

Washington County cemetery photos from RootsWeb


Campus Martius Museum of the Ohio Historical Society, Marietta, Ohio,
managed by the Friends of the Museums, Inc.


Ohio River Museum of the Ohio Historical Society, Marietta, Ohio,
managed by the Friends of the Museums, Inc.

Washington County Censuses from CensusFinder

Marietta, Ohio, Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution

Sons of Union Veterans Database of Civil War Soldier Burials in Washington County, Ohio

Research Links in Marietta, Ohio

City of Marietta

Marietta, Ohio, City Board of Health (purchase birth and death certificates 1908 to present) click City Government, then click Health Department, then click Vital Statistics,
but see FamilySearch® Record Search where you can sign up for free online digitized state copies of Ohio death certificates, including Marietta and Washington County, Ohio, 1908-1953

Marietta College Name Index to 1850

Marietta College Special Collections

Marietta Ohio Monument Committee

Pictures of Marietta, Ohio, from OhioPix

Historical Marietta, Ohio, blog

History of The Castle, Marietta, Ohio (Families of Clark, Clarke, Newton, Davis, Nye, Lindsay, Bosley)

Research Links in Ohio

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center obituary index, with more than 1,500,000 Ohio obituaries, including more than 20,000 obituaries from Washington County, Ohio

Ohio Civil War Genealogy Center

Ohio Death Certificate Index 1913-1944 (from Ohio Historical Society)

Digital Shoebox
(southeastern Ohio visual history,
with more than 1,000 images of Washington County, Ohio)


Ohio Memory Project
(Ohio visual history)

Ohio Historical Markers

African American Genealogy and History in Southeastern Ohio