SHELBY COUNTY OHIO INFO

SHELBY COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTH
Auglaize County

NORTHEAST
Logan County

SOUTHEAST
Champaign County

SOUTH
Miami County

WEST
Darke 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

1819

PARENT COUNTY

Miami

COUNTY SEAT

Sidney

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Shelby County Courthouse
Probate Court 2nd floor
Clerk Of Courts 3rd floor
P. O. Box 4249
Sidney, OH 45365
937-498-7226
Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:00 pm.

Shelby County Courthouse Annex
Southwest corner of Main & Court
Recorders Office 2nd floor
Sidney, OH 45365
Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:00 pm.


Shelby County Health Department
202 West Poplar
Sidney, OH 45365
937-498-7249
Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:00 pm.

Amos Memorial Public Library
230 E North St, Sidney
OH 45365
937-492-8354
Hours:
Monday - Thursday 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Friday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sundays (from September to May only) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Shelby County Genealogical Society
c/o Betty Bevans
17755 State Route 47
Sidney, Ohio 45365-9242

Shelby County Genealogical Society

Shelby County Historical Society (SCHS)
P. O. Box 376
Sidney, Ohio 45365-0376

Miami Valley Genealogy Online

Robot for Wright State University Archives
Special Collections and Archives
Paul Laurence Dunbar Library
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
937-775-2092


OTHER INFORMATION

Shelby County was formed from a part of Miami County in 1819. It was named in honor of General Isaac Shelby, a noted officer of the American Revolution and the first governor of Kentucky.

The first court met at Hardin, but Sidney was chosen as the county seat in 1820. The site owned by Charles Starrett and located on the Miami River, eventually saw the founding of many industrial operations.

Clerk of Courts has Naturalizations, Divorces, early Guardianships, Partition Suits and other miscellaneous files including civil court records from 1819; Probate Court has Marriage Records from 1824 to Present (Names of parents given beginning 1900), Birth and Death Records from 1867 to 1908, Estate Records from 1824 to Present(1824 to 1950 on microfilm only); Probate Judge has birth, marriage, death, estate, guardianship & trusteeship records from 1825; County Recorder has Land Transactions 1819 to Present as well as Military Discharges and Military Burials.

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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