Local History & Genealogy Resources
Internet Resources
Available only at the Library
- Access Newspaper Archive
- Ancestry Library Edition (census indexes from 1790-1850,1920)
- American Civil War Research Database
- Genealogy.com (Genealogy Library, 1900 census index, World Family Tree, International and Passenger Records)
- Political Family Tree
Non-Internet Resources
Atlases
- Washington County - 1845, 1858, 1875, 1902 Topographic and River maps.
- Sanborn Insurance maps of Marietta, Beverly, and Lowell on microfilm
CD-ROMs
- Civil War
- FamilyTreeMaker
- Heritage Quest
- 1880 United States Census
Family Files
- The Local History and Genealogy Department houses many family files including those of:
Jerry Devol, Bernice Graham, Owen Hawley, Eleanor Martin, Ralph Schroeder, and Clyde Swift.
Local Histories
- Adjacent counties (OH and WV)
- Andrews, 1902
- Belpre
- Beverly-Waterford
- Cayton & Riggs, City into Town, 1991
- Depository for Washington County chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society holdings
- Histories or newsletters from 56 Ohio Counties
- Index to the Tallow Light (Washington County Historical Society)
- Little Hocking
- Lowell
- New Matamoras
- Ohio Histories
- Original Ohio Company Land Purchasers
- Summers, Marietta History, 1903
- Various Township histories
- Washington County to 1980
- Williams, 1881
Microfilm
- Probate and Vital Records
- Marietta Times, 1803-present.
- Woodsfield and New Matamoras newspapers.
- Washington County Census 1800-1920, including 2 tiers of surrounding counties.
- Washington County Poll Books and Tally Sheets (lists of
voters and election results) for all available election
years 1864-1908. A good substitute for finding males in
Washington County in the in-between census years.
List of CDs
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