Butler County Ohio
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Oct 1997-Aug 2001
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1820 census
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When planning a research trip to Butler County and you have pre-planning questions,
ask the group at OHBUTLER, an email list for local genealogy. They had suggestions
for someone's trip to Hamilton.
List emails are archived.
You can check and make room reservations on-line in
as well as Bed & Breakfasts in * Hamilton: Rossville Inn
* Oxford: Maplevale, 1856 - Martindell family
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Finding Your
Butler County Ohio Family History
1. Living Relatives
* Are your grandparents, aunts, or uncles still living? Ask them who they remember of their grandparents, and stories they remember. Warning: questions answered often lead to even MORE questions you'll want to ask.
2. Family Histories
* Build
FREE Ancestor web pages with your own families.
* Browse our collection of local family information, written and contributed by our readers.
* Check or add your family info to the Ohio Family Group Sheets
* Is there a
Family Tree DNA study going on for your family name?
* Set up your own family web site to share your research with others, like these:
4. Surname (Family Last Name) Searches
* at
various genealogy sites and companies. Many search results are free; some are by subscription.
*Interactive Genealogy Surname Searches,
Rootsweb Surname Search, and CousinConnect.com.
*Family Finder Searches (top left) is also a popular resource from The Genealogy Network.
*World Vital Records searches - browse their databases
*Google Butler Co OH
*Explore Butler County cemeteries
*Quick searches (left column)
*Check local Queries
5. Butler County OHGenWeb Search
*Search this site for names and places readers previously added to Butler County, Ohio pages,
and email any contacts, directly.
A FreeFind "hit" will take you to the page containing the word or phrase you requested.
Then you need to use your browser "find" to locate where the word or phrase is on the page.
Remember that it may show up more than once per page.
NOTE: FreeFind is updated each Tuesday, but does not include
queries posted on forums
6. Census Indexes and Searches
The Miami Valley Index shows some names and dates from 1800 censuses for Butler Co (coded BU).
We have a partial county 1820 census on-line.
7. E-Mail Discussion Groups
Join the Butler County e-mail discussion group OHButler to ask your question. Maybe you can answer someone else's question, too. Check the
archive at Rootsweb by date, keyword, author, etc.
There are email groups like OHButler for other counties, states, countries, and also by surname.
8. Look-up Volunteers
Email a
Look-Up Volunteer to ask a short Butler County, OH genealogy guestion.
9. Butler County Maps
*McBride's 1836 Butler County OH Township Maps and more local maps (left column)
*Google Butler Co OH Maps
*Browse Butler County
10. Butler County History
*Discuss local history
*National Register of Local Historic Places
*A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio 1882
* More links, upper left column
11. Butler County Historical Societies
Join and support local Butler County Ohio historical societies:
* BCO Genealogy Society with a second site at Rootsweb
* Historical Society
* Historical Soc Museum
* Records Center & Archives
* SW BC Genealogy Society
How to get older Butler County OH Birth and Death Records and more...
[OHBUTLER-L, 16 March 1999] Misconception about BC Records Center, by
Bob McMaken, Butler County OH Records Center, Senior Volunteer Researcher
"The web site is not intended to be a place where you can view the actual records you are looking
for on your computer screen. Rather, it is intended to let you know what official Butler Co.
records are available from the Archives and provide a means of ordering them via e-mail."
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Butler County Surname & Queries
| Older Queries and Posts for Butler Co OH |
| 2002-current |
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| Feb 24 2000 to Oct 14 2001 | search "FreeFind" | Mostly A-I Queries & Surnames |
| Aug 25 1999 to Oct 14 2001 | search "FreeFind" | Mostly J-Q Queries & Surnames |
| Mar 4 2000 to Oct 14 2000 | search "FreeFind" | Mostly R-Z Queries & Surnames |
| Oct 1 1999 to Feb 23 2000 | search "FreeFind" | Mostly A-I Queries & Surnames |
| Aug 17 1999 to Feb 29 2000 | search "FreeFind" | Mostly R-Z Queries & Surnames |
| Apr 13 1999 to Sep 30 1999 | search "FreeFind" | Mostly A-I Queries and Surnames |
| Apr 13 1999 to Aug 16 1999 | indexed (SH) | J-Z Queries and Surnames |
| Oct 1998 to Apr 1999 | alphabetized | Mostly A-I and J-Z Queries and Surnames |
| Oct 1998 to Feb 1999 | alphabetized | A-I and
R-Z Queries and Surnames
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| Jul 25 through Oct 20 1998 | not alphabetized |
Miscellaneous Queries and Surnames |
| April to July 1998 | indexed (SH) | Miscellaneous Queries and Surnames |
| Feb to July 1998 | indexed (SH) | Miscellaneous Queries and Surnames |
| Sep 1997 to Feb 3 1998 | indexed (SH) | A-Z Queries and Surnames; large file (94K) |
Older alphabetized surname list from 1995 - 1997:
A,
Ba-Bo,
Bp-Bz,
C,
D,
E,
F,
G,
H,
I,
J,
K,
L,
M,
N,
O,
P,
Q,
R,
S,
T,
U,
V,
W,
X,
Y,
Z
Originally on GeoCities.com:
Aug-Sep96,
Nov-Dec96,
Jan97
Older postings:
Back in 1995, readers started contributing history and questions on families with Butler
County ties. By providing their email addresses, people with family history to share make
it possible for others researching similar surnames from Butler County to make contact with them.
Early postings were alphabetized.
Some queries and surname data posted to this site since the fall of 1997 were indexed through
Surname Helper (SH), an early surname search program.
This site can now be searched with FreeFind, above.
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Marriage Records
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Local Marriages: 1803-1879,
posted on OHBUTLER-L |
1803-1840, GenealogyTrails
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| 1803-1885: Butler County Ohio Marriage Record Search through LDS
1. Click here.
You will open another window so you can check back here for the following instructions.
2. Find "Butler"
3. Click on the IGI number M514511 for marriages in 1803-1879 or M514512 for marriages in 1878-1885
4. Specify your search criteria with either a family surname, both spouses' surnames, or leave blank to see the whole list
5. Click on "Submit Query"
An alternate method:
1. Click here.
You will open another window so you can check back here for the following instructions.
2. Fill in just the last name of the person you seek. This helps if the first name is abbreviated or if you are interersted in the whole family
3. Click "Event" to display "Marriage"
4. Click "Region" to display "North America"
5. Click "Country" to display "United States"
6. Click "State" to display "Ohio"
7. Enter the IGI number M514511 for the "Batch Number"
8. Click "Search" at the bottom
9. Later you can also use M514512 for the "Batch Number" for Butler Co marriage records 1878-1885
IGI numbers
to find Marriage Records in other counties and other states |
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Ancestors
Add your ancestor info to the Butler County OH forums. Can you answer any recent queries there?
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Address changes
If you posted your
ancestor info here at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler between 1995 through mid-Oct 2001, and
need to change your email address, please
email both the old and new addresses, the surnames involved,
and the address (URL) of the file [ie: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/sur-a798]). This does not apply to any other sites.
Butler County Web Pages
If you have a web page about a Butler Co OH family line, historical, historical event, cemetery, etc. send the URL. (Please mention Butler County.)
You also help a lot if you find a link not working, and tell the webmaster.
Local History: looking for research volunteers
What kind of debates did Miami University students have in the 1840s when local
Native Americans were being forced to move west?
Butler County OH obituaries on-line
This page includes some options on how to post your own local obituaries
Pictures of Butler County
Scan or take digital pictures of cemeteries, families, class pictures, historic houses, etc. for this site.
More pictures are here.
Volunteer or Ask A Volunteer
Volunteer to check info from local cemeteries or answer short queries from a
book you own or to which you have access.
Special thanks to Audrey Hancock, Sondra Peterson, and ALL the other volunteers who made the
"A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio"
1882 on-line book project possible.
Google Butler County OH books; free on-line access
Please help edit links that don't work.
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The Butler County OHIO Discussion Group: OHButler
Join the Butler County Ohio E-Mail Discussion List. We ask and answer questions about our ancestors and the history of Butler County. To subscribe, e-mail a message to OHBUTLER-request@rootsweb.com
with the single word
subscribe
as the message. It doesn't matter what you have as the subject.
Just be sure that IF you have an automatic signature file that adds on to the message area,
that you disable it first. You will get a message after you join the list that explains how
to get messages in digest form or to leave the group.
Subscribers send messages to
OHBUTLER@rootsweb.com.
List messages are archived at Rootsweb.
Between 7/29/98 and April 2001, messages were archived, searchable, at
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