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Early Newspaper Index

Last Name First Name MI Notice Date Newspaper ABBOT SARAH REBECCA JULY 28, 1851 PORTSMOUTH INQUIRER ADAMES MALE OCTOBER 30, 1854 DAILY EVENING TRIBUNE ADAMS FEMALE JULY 27, 1855 DAILY EVENING TRIBUNE...

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Early Property Tax Index

Last Name First Name Other Date OAKS OLIVER 1820 OER JOHN 1818 OFFNERE GEORGE 1820 OFFNERE JACOB 1810-16 OLAHIGH REBECCA 1820 OLDFIELD WILLIAM 1820 OLDRICH BARLOW 1813-18 ORM JOHN 1820 OSBORN EZRA...

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Early Marriage Index

Groom Last Name Groom First Name Groom Middle Initial Bride Last Name Bride First Name Bride Middle Initial Book Page ABBOT JAMES JR. CHAMBERLIN DOLLY A-328 ABBOT ALLEN HATFIELD MARTHA A. D-56 ABBOTS...

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Early Cemetery Index

Last Name First Name MI Township Cemetery ABBOTT TRUBY E. BRUSH CREEK BEECH FORK CEMETERY ABBOTT ZETTA H. BRUSH CREEK BEECH FORK CEMETERY ABBOTT MARY F. NILE MCKENDREE CEMETERY ABBOTT WILLIAM VERNON...

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Greenlawn Cemetery Records (A-L)

The records on this page have not been updated since 2011. Last Name First Name MI Birth Date Death Permit ABBOT EMMA ABBOT CHESTER ABBOTT STELLA B 09-11-1888 ABBOTT MARY ALICE 08-17-1882 18309 ABDON...

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World Vital Records

WorldVitalRecords.com was founded in 2006 to provide simple and affordable access to more than 4.2 billion names in family history record collections worldwide, including: Over 158 million digitized...

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View Our Postcard Collection

Over 400 high-resolution postcards are available for viewing on our new digital archive website. More postcards are being added as we get them. View them here.

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Written Histories

The Local History Department has put together a collection of interesting stories about Scioto County. Subjects include early baseball, the brick industry, early railroad history and much more. View...

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View Our New Digital Collection

All images and texts have been moved to our new online digital collection. Thousands of new items have already been added, and more are being added every week! Click here to view it now.

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Yearbook Collection

The library has a large collection of yearbooks from local schools. Over the past few months we have digitized many of them and are planning to digitize the rest over the coming months. (Some of the...

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2016 Donations

March Davida Spriggs of the Portsmouth Chapter #424 Ohio Eastern Star- plaque, 2 signed membership Bibles and chapter seal February No donations. January No donations.

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2017 Donations

July Jack McGlone- scanned image of a Civil War letter Karen M. Morgan- Richards – “The Descendants of John Morgan and Mary Shaw” Barb Sedlock- 1916 Wheelersburg High School Commencement invitation...

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Public Genealogy Contributions

Introducing “Public Contributions” to the Local History website. If you have family/descendant photos from the Scioto County area that you do not wish to donate at this time, but you would like to...

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2018 Donations

April Blaine S. Bierley – autographed photo of 6 Ohio governors John Zoellner & Mary Pellegrinon – “Industrial Blade”, 4 booklets, “History of Scioto County”, 13 photos & postcards, 3...

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Inaugural Local History Newsletter

Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Time Traveler: Portsmouth Past and Present! Our goal is to bring Scioto County, Ohio’s past to life through engaging articles, archives and images that residents...

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Time Traveler Newsletter #2

Welcome to the second edition of The Time Traveler: Portsmouth Past and Present! Our goal is to bring Scioto County, Ohio’s past to life through engaging articles, archives and images that residents...

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Time Traveler Newsletter #3

Welcome to the third edition of The Time Traveler: Portsmouth Past and Present! Our goal is to bring Scioto County, Ohio’s past to life through engaging articles, archives and images that residents can...

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View Our Postcard Collection

Over 400 high-resolution postcards are available for viewing on our new digital archive website. More postcards are being added as we get them. View them here.

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Time Traveler Newsletter #4

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Time Traveler: Portsmouth Past and Present! Our goal is to bring Scioto County, Ohio’s past to life through engaging articles, archives, and images that residents...

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Time Traveler Newsletter #5

Welcome to The Time Traveler: Portsmouth Past and Present! Our goal is to bring Scioto County, Ohio’s past to life through engaging articles, archives, and images that residents can be proud to share...

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