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.
* Search for living people - to reconnect with old friends, relatives
2. Family Histories
* 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
* Set up your Family Tree
 at Ancestry:
* 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:
* Record your family's history at Our Story
 - add your family history stories
3. Surname (Family Last Name) Searches
* Search for surnames at
various genealogy sites and companies. Many search results are free; some are by subscription.
*Search free at Interactive Genealogy Surname Searches,
Rootsweb Surname Search, and CousinConnect.com.
*Family Finder Searches (top left) is also a popular resource from The Genealogy Network.
*Google Butler Co OH
*Explore Butler County cemeteries
*Quick searches (left column)
*Check local Queries
4. 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
5. Books: Printed and On-Line
Printed books for your own research library:
* Interactive Genealogy Book Store
* Used Book Search Page
Look through our two on-line books:
* A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio (1882)
* Memoirs of the Miami Valley (1919) (for Butler County) text with some pictures.
6. Census Indexes and Searches
Before 1850, census searches would give you the name of the head of the household, and a count of the rest of the family by age.
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. You can often borrow microfilm copies of early censuses at your local library, but an internet convenience Some census searches (for index info or images of the actual census by page) are available on-line by personal or library subscription from various companies.
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. A less active Butler County OH genealogy and history group is on
Yahoo! where members can post Q&As and pictures.
There are email groups like OHButler for other counties, states, countries, and also by surname. Some of these e-lists
distribute posts made on a corresponding forum, which
originally was an archive of posted messages.
8. Genealogy and History Forums and older Queries
Ask and answer genealogy queries on FORUMS for:
9. Look-up Volunteers
Email a
Look-Up Volunteer to ask a short Butler County, OH genealogy guestion.
10. 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
11. 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
12. Butler County Historical Societies
Join and support local Butler County Ohio historical societies:
* BCO Genealogy Society
* Historical Society
* Historical Soc Museum
* Records Center & Archives
* SW BC Genealogy Society
* USGenWeb Archives for Butler County OH
* Bible records
* Court records
* Photos
* Wills
13. DNA tests and Surname Projects
 A few of the ways in which DNA analysis can help trace our ancestors include:
1. Find a group of researchers already working on your line. If you find an exact match with another researcher or researchers, you can quickly tie into a known line. This can be a very valuable tool for someone just starting out.
2. Stop going down the wrong trail. If you do not have an exact match with another researchers working on a known line, you may have a mistake in your paper trail and can redirect your research.
3. Confirm your research. An exact match with one or more other researchers will confirm the results of your own research.
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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Interactive
Genealogy
When planning a research trip to Butler County and you have pre-planning questions, ask the group at OHBUTLER,
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