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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 ABBOTT JAMES 1813-18 ABBOTT JEREMIAH 1813-18 ADAMS FRANCIS 1810-14 ADAMS HARVEY 1820 ALLEN JOHN 1814 ANDERSON ELIJAH 1820 ANDERSON RICHARD 1820 ANDRE PETER 1806,...

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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

June Anna Biggs- 19 old photos of the area Dave Huffman- 46 old photos of Herms’ history Gordon Pike- “The Enslow Family of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Anonymous- 1951 & 1952 Holy Redeemer...

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2017 Donations

March No donations. February No donations. January John McHenry- photos of police department, construction of the C & O Bridge and Chamber of Commerce. Anonymous- “Images of America”, “History of...

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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

February Fred S. Charles- 1890 Photo Dogwood Ridge School students Jan SuverKrop- 2 framed local prints, “Reflections 1850-1968” and Portsmouth city schools calendar Betty Wellman- 4 3-ring binders of...

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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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