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Fulton County was created on February 20, 1850 and was formed from Lucas, Williams and Henry Counties. The County was named for steamboat pioneer Robert Fulton. Courthouse burned on July 16th, 1864,. some records destroyed. The County Seat is Wauseon . See also County History for more historical details. The Health Department has Birth & Death Records from 1908-Present, see the Vital Records section for more details. For birth and death records prior to Dec. 20, 1908, contact the Probate Court of this county. Counties adjacent to Fulton County are Lenawee County, Michigan (north), Lucas County (east), Henry County (south), Williams County (west), Hillsdale County, Michigan (northwest). Fulton County Municipalities Include Wauseon, Archbold, Delta, Fayette, Lyons, Metamora, Swanton. Townships Include Amboy, Chesterfield, Clinton, Dover, Franklin, Fulton, German, Gorham, Pike, Royalton, Swan Creek, York.. Other localities Include Include Pettisville
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All Departments below are in the Fulton County Courthouse 210 S. Fulton, Wauseon 43567-1355, (419) 337-9255, unless otherwise noted below. The Official County website is located at http://www.fultoncountyoh.com/ . NOTE: The record dates below are from the earliest date to present time. Fulton County Clerk of Probate Court has Marriage Records from 1864, Birth / Death Records from 1867-1908 and Probate Records from 1853 . Phone Number: (419) 337-9242 Fulton County Recorder has Land Records from 1835 and is located at 152 South Fulton Street, Suite 175, Wauseon, Ohio 43567; Phone (419) 337-9232 Fulton County Clerk of Court of Common Pleas has Court Records from ?. Phone Number: (419) 337-9260
Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Court Records. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Court Records by clicking the link below:
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Ohio did not make it a law to keep birth records until 1867. Ohio made it a law to record births in 1867. County probate courts kept birth records between 1867 and December 19, 1908. There is no statewide index to birth records from 1867 through December 19, 1908. Go to the list of county probate court birth records held at the Ohio Historical Society. If the Ohio Historical Society does not hold a county's birth records, please contact the county's probate court. Ohio Department of Health, Vital Statistics, 225 Neilston Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215; (614) 466-2531. Same-day service available to walk-in customers (for Ohio birth and death records only)., P.O. Box 570, Jefferson City, MO 65102, Please allow up to approximately 3 weeks to 6 months for processing of all type of certificates when ordered through the mail. They have the following records:
Order In Person: Same day service is available to walk-in customers. This is the fastest way to obtain a birth certificate. When you arrive, you will complete an application and pay the $16.50 required fee. Walk-in address is Ohio Department of Health,
Vital Statistics,
225 Neilston Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215
Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Vital Records. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Vital Records by clicking the link below:
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Countywide Records: Federal Population Schedules that exist for Fulton County, Ohio are 1850 ,1860 ,1870, 1880, 1890 (fragment, see below), 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. Other Federal Schedules to look at when researching your Family Tree in Fulton County, Ohio are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. There are free downloadable and printable Census forms to help with your research. These include U.S. Census Extraction Forms and U.K. Census Extraction Forms. See Also Statewide Records that exist for Ohio Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Census Records. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Census Records by clicking the link below:
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Genealogy Atlas has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for Ohio and other states.
You can view rotating animated maps for Ohio showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at Census Maps Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Maps. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Maps by clicking the link below: |
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The uses and value of military records in genealogical research for ancestors who were veterans are obvious, but military records can also be important to re-searchers whose direct ancestors were not soldiers in any war. The fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and other close relatives of an ancestor may have served in a war, and their service or pension records could contain information that will assist in further identifying the family of primary interest. Due to the amount of genealogical information contained in some military pension files, they should never be overlooked during the research process. Those records not containing specific genealogical information are of historic value and should be included in any overall research design. Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Military Records. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Military Records by clicking the link below:
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Tax records for Ohio began as early as 1800. The archives section of the Ohio Historical Society has a collection of original Ohio tax lists from the state auditor's office. They include lists from the county's organization to 1838, usually arranged by county and township. They are not indexed. County courthouses hold various tax records that have not been inventoried. They are in the office of the county auditor or the county records manager. The FHL has microfilm copies of all known extant tax records 1800-38 for Ohio. The National Archives-Great Lakes Region retains numerous federal tax records for Ohio. These include assessment books for 1867-73 and corporate and personal records for District 10, Toledo, and District 11, Columbus. Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Tax Records. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Tax Records by clicking the link below: |
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The Repositories in this section are Archives, Libraries, Museums, Genealogical and Historical Societies. Many County Historical and Genealogical Societies publish magazines and/or news letters on a monthly, quarterly, bi-annual or annual basis. Contacting the local societies should not be over looked. State Archives and Societies are usually much larger and better organized with much larger archived materials than their smaller county cousins but they can be more generalized and over look the smaller details that local societies tend to have. Libraries can also be a good place to look for local information. Some libraries have a genealogy section and may have some resources that are not located at archives or societies. Also, take a special look at any museums in the area. They sometimes have photos and items from years gone by as well as information of a genealogical interest. All these places are vitally important to the family genealogist and must not be passed over. Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Genealogical Addresses. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Genealogical Addresses by clicking the link below:
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There are many churches and cemeteries in Fulton County. Some transcriptions are online. A great site is the Fulton County Tombstone Transcription Project. Religion in Ohio was an early and important factor in settlement. The first Moravian mission was established in 1772. Presbyterians and Quakers were in the state at an early date, the latter having established forty-three monthly meetings and settlements between 1801 and 1883. The Presbyterians founded seventeen towns between 1784 and 1799. Baptists, Congregationalists, several reformed groups, Lutherans, Disciples of Christ, United Brethren, Methodists, and Catholics arrived prior to 1850. By 1890 the latter two denominations were the largest in the state. The Methodist circuit in Ohio was organized in 1798, with circuit riders traveling from log cabins to camp meetings across the territory. In 1831 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints migrated from New York to Kirtland in Lake County. No thorough survey exists of any of the holdings of individual churches in Ohio, although many are on microfilm through the FHL. The Ohio Genealogical Society is presently undertaking a church records survey. According to the Ohio Genealogical Society, the majority of Ohio counties have published cemetery records in one form or another. They suggest contacting local societies or one of the major genealogical libraries in the state. Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Cemetery & Church Records. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Cemetery & Church Records by clicking the link below:
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When view family trees online or not, be sure to only take the info at face value and always follow up with your own sources or verify the ones they provide. Below is a list of online resources for Fulton County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information. Email us with websites containing Fulton County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information by clicking the link below:
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Fulton County Formed On the 28th of February 1850, the General Assembly of Ohio, by an act erected the County of Fulton with its present boundaries, from Lucas, Williams and Henry Counties. Named for Robert Fulton, Inventor of the Steam Boat All the criminal and civil suits which were and should be pending in the Counties of Williams, Lucas and Henry on the first Monday in April 1850, were to be prosecuted to final judgment in said counties as though said County of Fulton had not been erected. All Justice of the Peace were to hold their offices until their service expired or until their successors were elected or commissioned for the County of Fulton. All writs or other legal processes were to be styled as of the County of Fulton, on and after the first day of April, 1850. The legal voters residing within the limits of said County were to assemble on the first Monday in April, 1850, to elect officers of the County to serve until the next annual election in October, 1850. And the Courts were to be held at some convenient house in the Township of Pike, the place to be designated by the associate Judges of said County, until a permanent seat of justice shall be established within and for said County. Laurens Dewey of Franklin County, Mathias H. Nichols, of Allen County and John Riley, of Carroll County, were appointed by the legislature of Ohio, Commissioners to fix and locate the seat of Justice in said new County of Fulton. Accordingly under the provisions of this act, the people of both political parties met in convention at the house of Daniel Knowles, in Pike Township, about the last of March 1850 to nominate officers of the county to be supported at the April elections. This convention was not fully characterized for harmony of purpose but in consequence of the weakness of the then old whig party to succeed in the election of a party ticket, they quietly submitted to a portion of the choice of said convention. That Convention made a choice of Mortimer D. Hibbard, of Dover, for Auditor; George B. Brown of Royalton, was chosen Sheriff; C. C. Allman of Delta, was chosen recorder; Nathaniel Leggett of Swan Creek, was chosen Treasurer; William Sutton, of Gorham, Christopher Watkins, of Fulton, and Jonathon Barnes, were chosen commissioners, and duly elected and qualified as officers of said new county, and severally entered upon the duties of their respective offices. The place having been fixed temporally for the business of the County at the house of Robert A. Howard, in Pike under said act creating the new County of Fulton. Nathaniel Leggett, of Swan Creek, John Kendall, of Franklin, & Alfred C. Hough, of Chesterfield, were chosen the first Associate Judges. Nathaniel Leggett refused to serve, Socrates H. Catley, of Swan Creek, was appointed to fill his place. Samuel Durgin, was appointed Clerk, and John A. Read, Prosecuting Attorney, and in the fall of 1850, Alfred C. Hough was elected to the Auditor's office and resigned his judgeship, and William T. Parmalee, of Chesterfield, and A. M. Flickinger of Gorham, filled said office successfully until the change in the Some time in the season of 1850, the locating Commissioners here to fore appointed by the legislature of Ohio, permanently fixed the seat of Justice at Ottokee, near the center of the County. Aetna, Delta, Spring Hill and Fluhart's Corners having been competing points before the Commissioners. The decision of, said locating Commissioners afterwards was confirmed by the people. The first election resulting in no choice, but bringing the second contest between Ottokee and Aetna, and upon the second trial resulted as aforesaid. The Commissioners of the County immediately thereafter proceeded to erect a Court House at, said new site, and the contract for building was duly awarded to A. H. Jordan of Royalton. Said Court House was afterwards burned July 16th, 1864, and again rebuilt in 65. Wauseon in 1863 and Delta in 1864 under an enabling act for the removal of the County seat were defeated. In 1869 Wauseon again entered the field under an act of the legislature for the removal of the County Seat, which was affected by a small majority, and as soon as a Court house was built, which I believe was in the latter part of the year 1871, or the beginning of the year 1872, the books and papers were all moved to Wauseon, the new County seat, and thereafter all business has been transacted at Wauseon, and is to day a flourishing town. But to return to a historical enumeration of the earlier days within the present limits of the now County of Fulton, then the County of Wood, and other counties named, the first settlements began in the year 1833, at Phillip's Corners, Aetna, upon Bean Creek (Called Tiffin River) in the Township of Franklin; Delta and Swan Creek, and at Spring Hill in Dover Township. At the time of the first settlement at these points from 1933 to 1836, there were many Indians roaming over and hunting in the County, the most favorable game being Deer, Bear,Racoon, Mink, Otter, the two latter killed mostly for their furs; Wild turkeys still being very plenty furnished food as well as sport for both the Indian and the pioneer White man. The Indians upon this territory, were chiefly of the Pottowatomies tribe, extending through a part of the Maumee valley and north eastern Indiana and southern Michigan, they were the original owners of the soil. Tradition says, having inhabited this country for many generations. Intermarriages with the Ottawas who inhabited Maumee valley proper and had occasionally taken place, so also with the Chippewas further up the peninsula. The intermarriages gave the Pottowatomies strength and powerful allies in war. The principal village in this County was located upon both banks of Bad creek, near Aetna in Pike Township, on the lands entered by Jacob McQuillen and Edward Howard, and now owned and embraced in the farm of the Hon. D. W. H. Howard, and occupying mainly the present site of his orchard and buildings. The site was favorable for an Indian village as the ground is high and rolling, and furnishing some of the finest springs of pure sweet water in the County. In 1834 at the date of the first settlement there were still in a flourishing condition, and bearing fruit, a number of very old peach trees, which no doubt were planted by early French traders. A more favorable site for an Indian village could not be found within the now circle of Fulton County. Wauseon is the county seat of Fulton County. Residents named the town in honor of Wauseon, a Potawatomi Indian chief. Although the Ohio legislature established Fulton County in 1850, Wauseon did not become the county seat until 1870. The village formed in 1854, and E.L. Hayes constructed the town’s first building. Wauseon grew quickly, attaining a population of 1,905 people in 1880. In 1886, twenty-five percent of the town’s residents were school-aged children. The city contained three newspaper offices, six churches, and one bank. Most Wauseon businesses either processed crops or sold agricultural implements to the farmers in the neighboring countryside. The same held true for the twentieth century. In 2000, Wauseon was Fulton County’s largest population center, with 7,091 residents. In the past several decades, thousands of residents of nearby Toledo, Ohio, have moved to Wauseon or other parts of Fulton County, hoping to escape the larger city’s busyness. Available at the Fulton County Records Center and other places to check. DEATH RECORDS: Started records in 1867 we have those volumes - Health Dept has Death records from 1880 to present however they only have a handful from the years 1880 to 1900. Fulton Co Health Dept., 606 S. Shoop Ave, Wauseon, OH 43567, Phone: 419-337-0915, Vol 1 thru 4 here in the Records Center. Years 1908 to 1921(check with the Health Dept first) if they do not have then check the Death Records in Columbus. Ohio Historical Society, 1985 Velma Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43211, Checks to State Treasury-Info needed for Death Record through the State: Name at Death/Place of Death/Date of Death. Allow 3-4 weeks to process. Certified copies - $9.00 - phone 614-466-2531/ http://www.odh.state.oh.us/odh_home.html From August 1951 to the present - death records located at the Fulton Co. Health Dept. Certified Death Records are $10.00 and uncertified Death Records before 1945 that have not been located at the Records Center here or at the Fulton County Health Dept. next door check with BIRTH RECORDS The Health Dept has Birth Certificates starting with 1870 to present, however from 1870 to 1900 only have a handful. Birth Records not found here at the Records Center or the Health Dept. for 1908 or Before, try the Ohio Historical Society, 1985 Velma Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43211, at Phone 614-297-2300., MARRIAGE LICENSE OR RECORD & and Wills MARRIAGE LICENSE OR RECORD We can certify any record here for $1.00 plus the cost of 25 cents per copy. Be aware that the BMV DOES NOT accept our Birth Record Certifications. You must get a Certified copy from the Health Dept. However, if the Health Dept. does not have the Birth on file you may need to contact the Bureau of Vital Stats in Columbus, Ohio. (see address above) Forms to request Birth & Death Certificates are available at this sight: Courthouse Annex (New Administration Building) For Land Transactions Many of these records were also lost in the courthouse fire of 1864. (1850-1864 lost) There are Lucas County transfers available before 1850 for what is now Fulton Co. Ohio.. Contact: Fulton County Recorder's Office, 152 S. Fulton St., Wauseon, OH 43567, phone: 419-337-9232,
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