PERRY COUNTY OHIO INFO

PERRY COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTHWEST
Licking County

NORTHEAST
Muskingum County

EAST
Morgan County

SOUTHEAST
Athens County

SOUTHWEST
Hocking County

WEST
Fairfield 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

1818

PARENT COUNTY

Washington, Fairfield, Muskingum

COUNTY SEAT

New Lexington

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Perry County Probate Judge
105 N Main St
New Lexington, OH 43764-0000
740-342-2045

Perry County Health Board
121 W Brown St
New Lexington, OH 43764
740-342-5179

Perry County District Library
117 S Jackson St
New Lexington, OH 43764

Perry County Chapter of the OGS
(Ohio Genealogical Society)

P.O. Box 275
Junction City, OH 43748
Please Address Queries to:
Sue Saylor (Local Genealogical Society Member)
Genealogy Research

Genealogy & Historical Information for PERRY COUNTY, OH - This is Timothy Fisher's site. He is currently putting the History of Perry County on this site and had quite a bit of it completed. There are biographical sketches. You may e-mail him for questions.


OTHER INFORMATION

Perry County was first settled by Pennsylvania Germans in the early 1800's. The county is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813.

New Lexington has the world's largest roofing tile firm and is also the county seat. Another noted city in the county is Somerset, where the first Catholic church in the state was built in 1808.

Probate Court has birth & death records from 1867, marriage records from 1818.

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 Tools for Genealogy Researchers
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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