Formed March 1, 1848 from Knox, Delaware, Marion & Richland counties · county seat Mount Gilead. Repository addresses, online record links, and a free printable record checklist below.
Short episodes that walk through Morrow County's records, one record type at a time.
Formation · Settlers & Migration · Probate · Land · Tax · Churches · Newspapers · Where to Look
Watch on YouTube48 E. High St., Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · (419) 947-5575
morrowcountyohio.gov — Probate Court
Estate administration, guardianships, wills, and marriage licenses. Also historically held births and deaths for 1867–Dec. 19, 1908, before the state vital-records system took over.
48 E. High St., Suite 8, Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · (419) 947-3060
morrowcountyohio.gov — Recorder
Deeds, mortgages, liens, and other real-property records. Online record search available.
48 E. High Street, Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · (419) 947-2085 ext. 2224
Divorces, civil suits (including partition suits that divide land among heirs), and Common Pleas journals. Before 1852, this court also handled wills and estates.
48 E. High Street, Room 7, Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · (419) 946-4060
Current tax lists and property transfer records. Early tax duplicates are on FamilySearch and at the Ohio History Connection.
35 E. High St., Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · (419) 947-5866
Thousands of microfiche family records, county histories (1880, 1911, 1989), historical atlases, full cemetery surveys, yearbooks since 1922, published birth/marriage/death compilations, and free in-library Ancestry access.
PO Box 401, Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · meets at the library, 35 E. High St.
Chartered as an OGS chapter in 1977. Meets 4th Saturday of the month, 2pm, at the Mount Gilead Public Library. Effectively runs the genealogy collection at the library above.
17 W. High St., Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · (419) 560-9014
morrowcountyhistoricalsociety.com · Sundays 1:30–4pm, April–November
A separate organization from the Genealogical Society above — a museum/history center in the former First-Knox National Bank building, focused on artifacts and exhibits rather than genealogy records.
480 Douglas St., Mount Gilead, OH 43338 · (419) 947-1545
morrowcountyhealth.org — Vital Records
Certified births anywhere in Ohio from 1908 forward, and Morrow County deaths 1908–present. Records from 1867–Dec. 19, 1908 are held at Probate Court instead.
Not sure which office has what? See Which County Office Holds What.
Many Morrow County record books are filmed and free to view at FamilySearch (free account required).
In Full-Text Search, add Morrow County, Ohio as the place to find names inside handwritten deeds, wills, and court books. How to use it.
Morrow County was formed in 1848 from Knox, Delaware, Marion, and Richland Counties. For records made before then, search the parent counties:
Part of Morrow County lies in the U.S. Military District, federal land set aside to pay Continental Army veterans of the Revolutionary War with bounty land warrants.
Other parts of the county were federal Congress Lands or smaller special tracts. Where land was sold by the federal government, the first purchase appears as a federal patent.
Titles that covered Morrow County, historic and current, with where to search each one. Not every historic title has been digitized — several survive only on microfilm.
| Title | Years | Where to Search |
|---|---|---|
| The Whig Sentinel (Mount Gilead) | 1848-1857 | Chronicling America (Library of Congress) |
| Mount Gilead/Morrow Sentinel | 1857-present | Chronicling America (1860s-1920s); microfilm/current — Morrow County District Library |
| The Union Register (Mount Gilead) | 1861-1900s | Chronicling America (Library of Congress) |
| The Morrow County Republican (Mount Gilead) | 1905-1919 | Chronicling America (1910-1919 digitized) |
| Cardington Independent | 1872-1971 | Ohio Memory; microfilm only — Morrow County District Library |
| Cardington Reveille / Cardington Republican | 1865-1900s | Microfilm only — Morrow County District Library |
| Morrow County Independent / Tri-County Star | 1905-present | GenealogyBank; microfilm/current — Morrow County District Library |
Fill in what you're looking for, print it, and take it with you to the courthouse or library.
Brick Walls & Buckeyes
brickwallsbuckeyes.com · Morrow County, Ohio
Addresses and links last checked October 2026.
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