Databases Available

Listed below are the unique databases offered by HCGS. Be sure to also check our pages under Local Records, Records Repositories, and the links within Hamilton Co. Sites for links to numerous databases and content located on other local, county, state, and national websites.

All of the Public databases listed below are in the form of Adobe Acrobat PDF files. These are searchable. For example, once you have opended a file in the Google Chrome PDF viewer press Ctrl+F to open the search box.

Google Custom Search

NOTE: The Google Custom Search feature is currently out of order. We are working on fixing it. Some of the PDF databases listed below are searched, but not most of them. Feel free to try the search. Thanks for your patience!

Many of our public databases listed below are searchable all at one time with this Google Custom Search feature. Other pages of our website are also searched, including legacy Queries and issues of our newsletter The Gazette.

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Members-only databases

Index to Church Deaths 1890 - 1899 (full index record)
Index to Death Notices, 1827-1910 (full index record)
Index to Death Notices Appearing in Der Christliche Apologete 1839 - 1899 (full index record)
Marriage Index, 1808-1884 (full index record)
Master Index to Hamilton County Wills, 1918-1973 (on-going indexing project)
Weil Funeral Home - Funeral Records (OCR searchable PDF images)

Public databases

Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths

Archdiocese of Cincinnati Roman Catholic Baptism Records - Early – 1889 (abbreviated indexes) 1880s Added (Nov 2021)!
Index to Church Deaths 1890 - 1899 (abbreviated index)
Index to Death Notices, 1827-1910 (abbreviated index)
Index to Death Notices Appearing in Der Christliche Apologete 1839 - 1899 (abbreviated index)
Marriage Index, 1808-1884 (abbreviated index)
Index to Marriage Banns, 1900-1949

Burials and Cemeteries

Court Records

Index of Hamilton County, Ohio (Common Pleas) Mutilated Court Records 1852 - 1884
Index to Probate Court Accounts & Inventories, Pre-1884
Index to Probate Court Journals, 1858-1891
Volume 1: Index of Reported Court Records 1841 - 1869 (abbreviated index)
Volume 2: Index of Reported Court Records 1870 - 1879 (abbreviated index)
Volume 3: Index of Reported Court Records 1880 - 1884 (abbreviated index)

Lineage Societies

Miscellaneous

Newspaper Indexes

Index to Death Notices, 1827-1910 (abbreviated index)
Index to Der Christliche Apologete 1839 - 1899 (abbreviated index)

Recorder's Office

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