Vital Records Resources
Access official birth certificates, death records, marriage certificates and divorce records.
- Ohio Department of Health Office of Vital StatisticsFive easy ways to obtain a birth or death record
- Ohio Vital Records Marriage and Divorce InformationSearch for limited information from marriage and divorce abstracts that may be used to locate actual licenses or decrees
- Ohio Probate Courts Marriage LicensesSearch for county court where marriage took place
- Ohio Clerk of Courts Divorce RecordsContact county clerk where divorce was filed
- Ohio Historical Society Archives and LibraryAbout birth records before 1867 to the present
- Request form for a certificate from 1909 to 1953Death certificate index from 1913 to 1944 searchable database Archives library fees for certificates from 1909 to 1
- Ohio Newspaper IndexesArranged by county, find obituaries, death mentions and marriages on microfilm at the archives library
- Ohio Laws and Rules on Vital StatisticsCodes governing health, safety and morals including chapter 3705 on vital statistics