ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTH
Lake Erie

EAST
State of Pennslyvania

SOUTH
Trumbull County

WEST
Geauga County

NORTHWEST
Lake County

COUNTY INFORMATION

1895 Map of Ohio
(Click on Thumbnail
for Large Map)

Map modified with permission
of Ray Sterner from http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states

DATE CREATED

1808

PARENT COUNTY

Trumbull, Geauga

COUNTY SEAT

Jefferson

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Ashtabula County Probate Court
25 West Jefferson St.
Jefferson, OH 44047-1027
(1st floor new County Courthouse)
440-576-9090

RECORDS AVAILABLE:

  • Marriage licenses, 1812-present (pre-1900 licenses have scant information, usually giving only names, towns of residence, date of marriage, and officiant.)

  • Births and Deaths 1867-1908


  • Estates 1811-present


  • Copies: $1.00 Non-Certified; $5.00 Certified

Ashtabula County Recorder's Office
25 West Jefferson St, Jefferson, OH 44047
(2nd floor new County Courthouse)
440-576-3762

RECORDS AVAILABLE:

  • Land Records from inception of the county as well as those transcribed from Trumbull and Geauga County Records pertaining to what is now Ashtabula County. Connecticut Land Co. Records in back of first liber of Kingsville deeds. Also soldiers' graves, mortgages, powers of attorney, etc.


  • Copies: $1.00 per page

Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas
25 West Jefferson St, Jefferson, OH 44047
(2nd floor new County Courthouse)
440-576-3686

RECORDS AVAILABLE:

  • Early court records that contain many subjects of interest to genealogists, including naturalizations. Go to office to use index. Make full citation of any pertinent entry and go to microfilming department to view record on film. If you are from out of town, they may look it up and send it to you.


  • Copies: $0.50

Ashtabula City Ohio Health Department
Ashtabula, OH 44004
440-992-7123

Conneaut Ohio Board of Health
327 Mill St, Conneaut, OH 44030-2439
440-593-3087
NOTE: Half of Conneaut is in the State of Pennsylvania

Ashtabula County Health Dept
12 West Jefferson St, Jefferson, OH 44047
440-576-6010

RECORDS AVAILABLE:

  • Births and Deaths after 12/20/1908 for most of county. EXCEPTIONS: For Ashtabula and Conneaut cities go to the cities' Board of Health. Jefferson Village and townships of Ashtabula, Austinburg, Conneaut, Denmark, Hartsgrove, Jefferson, Kingsville, Lenox, Monroe, Plymouth, Saybrook, and Trumbull did not file until the 1920's. Problems with Colebrook and Pierpoint deaths.


  • Copies: $7.00 Certified

Ashtabula County District Library
335 West 44th Street, Ashtabula, OH 44004
440-997-9341

Geneva Public Library
860 Sherman Street, Geneva, Ohio 44041-9101
(440)466-4521
Archivist on duty limited hours. Call to confirm times.

Ashtabula County Genealogical Society
Ashtabula County District Library-Geneva Library
860 Sherman Street, Geneva, Ohio 44041-1227
Depository located at Geneva Public Library
440-466-4521 - Mary Stokes
Email: ACGS, Inc. Archives - Platt R. Spencer
Records/Resources Available

Ashtabula County Historical Society
Route 531, Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH 44041
440-466-7337 (call Wednesdays only)
mailing address:
P.O. Box 36, Jefferson, Ohio 44047
Preserving Your Heritage Since 1838

Conneaut Area Historical Society
c/o Bob Blickensderfer
235 Fifield Ave., Conneaut, OH 44030
Brief History of Conneaut

Conneaut Valley Area Historical Society
PO Box 266
Conneautville, PA 16406
Email: Society@cvahs.org


OTHER INFORMATION

History of Ashtabula County by the Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce.

Ashtabula County is the largest of Ohio's counties, containing 720 square miles. The name comes from an Indian word meaning "fish".

The city of Ashtabula is the largest municipality in the county, an important Lake Erie port. Conneaut and Ashtabula city harbors are important iron ore and coal shipping ports. Route 45, which connects Ashtabula with Warren, Salem and the Ohio River has carried homesteaders in covered wagons inland from the lake and was later the trade route between eastern cities and the frontier.

The main industries in Ashtabula County include; metals, machinery, transportation equipment, fabricated metals, rubber, stone-clay-glass, chemicals, automotive equipment, fiberglass boats, home appliances, microphones and tin cans. Dairy products are the chief agricultural industry.

Probate Court has birth and death records 1867 to 1908, marriage records from 1811, probate records from 1800's, Health Department has birth and death records from 1909; Clerk of Courts has divorce records from 1811 and civil court records from 1800's; County Recorder has land records from 1800.

The county newspaper in Ashtabula County is The Star Beacon. The URL for The Star Beacon is, http://www.starbeacon.com.

Links to cemetery listings:
Conneaut Valley Area Historical Society Menu
Crawford County, PA

INFORMATIONAL LINKS

Bibliography (Includes detailed sources for all the information on this and the connected pages.)
Covered Bridges - Ohio
Discovering Family Histories - Ohio
Favorite Genealogy Web Links
Genealogy Look Up Forum
Hixson Plat Maps, Ohio Townships W. W. Hixson & Company, Rockford, Illinois (These plat maps were published without dates or copyright notice, but are believed to be from the 1920s and 1930s. The W. W. Hixson Company published an Ohio Atlas around 1925 with individual County maps and Township plat maps.)
Individual Ohio County Selection Table
Join the Maggie_Ohio Mailing List! or the OHROOTS-L Mailing List!
Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever
OHGenWeb Archives
Ohio Clickable Map
Ohio County Courthouse Project
Ohio County Information Page
Ohio Government Mapping System - GNIS for land features, historical places
Ohio Memory An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History
Ohio Migration Trails
Ohio Network of American History and Research Centers (This is a descriptiong of the central storage places for groups of Ohio counties.)
Ohio Vital Record Data By Batch Numbers at familysearch.org
USGenWeb Project - Ohio
Vital Statistics (Includes Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce, Land, Will & Estate Records.) This is an area that explains where to look for vital records in the state of Ohio.

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