Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy

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Lorain County

Guide to Lorain County, Ohio ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Lorain County, Ohio
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Location in the state of Ohio
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Lorain County Courthouse 308 2nd St. Elyria, OH 44035-5506 Lorain County Website

Lorain County, Ohio Record Dates

Known Beginning Dates for Major County Records
Birth*	Marriage	Death*	Court	Land	Probate	Census
1867	1824	1867	1824	1824	1840	1820
Statewide registration for births and deaths started in 1908. General compliance year is unknown.

• Parent Counties: Formed from Cuyahoga, Huron, and Medina Counties 26 December 1822.
• County Seat: Elyria

Description

The county was named by early settler Heman Ely for the French province of Lorraine. It's county seat is Elyria and was founded December 26, 1822. It is located in the Northcentral area of the state.

Populated Places

For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Cities
Amherst Avon Avon Lake	Elyria (county seat) Lorain North Ridgeville	Oberlin Sheffield Lake Vermilion
Villages
Grafton Kipton LaGrange	Rochester Sheffield	South Amherst Wellington
Unincorporated communities
Belden Brentwood Brighton	Columbia Hills Corners Columbia Station North Eaton	Pittsfield Whiskyville
Census-designated places
Eaton Estates Pheasant Run
Townships
Amherst Brighton Brownhelm Camden Carlisle Columbia	Eaton Elyria Grafton Henrietta Huntington LaGrange	New Russia Penfield Pittsfield Rochester Sheffield Wellington
Ghost towns
Murraysville

Neighboring Counties

Erie County  • Huron County  • Ashland County  • Medina County  • Cuyahoga County

Boundary Changes

On 4 July 1805, all lands of the Connecticut Western Reserve from the original Treaty of Greenville line (the Cuyahoga River, Tuscarawas River, and the portage between them) to 120 miles west of the Pennsylvania line between the 41st Parallel and Lake Erie, were purchased from local Indian tribes in the Treaty of Fort Industry, opening the lands of Lorain County to white settlement.

Townships in the Western Reserve were supposed to be surveyed to be five miles square, however, mistakes were made in surveying the line between the lands belonging to the Connecticut Land Company (ending in Range 19) and the Firelands (beginning in Range 20), causing townships in Range 19, which became the western townships of Lorain County (Troy, Rochester, Brighton, Camden, Henrietta, and Brownhelm) to be much narrower. These townships were set aside as "surplus lands" and used to equalize the amounts of land received by stakeholders in the Connecticut Land Company.

• For animated maps illustrating Ohio county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Ohio County Boundary Maps" (1788-1888) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

• All lands in what is now Lorain County were at first part of Trumbull County.
• 1807 - Geauga County created, with the townships of Columbia, Eaton, Ridgeville, Troy (now Avon), Carlisle, Elyria, Sheffield, Russia, Amherst, Black River, Henrietta, and Brownhelm, as part; the others remaining with Trumbull County.
• 1808 - Portage County created, receiving the townships previously attached to Trumbull County, namely Grafton, Penfield, LaGrange, Huntington, Wellington, Pittsfield, Rochester, Brighton, and Camden.
• 1810 - Cuyahoga County receives all of the northern townships previously attached to Geauga County.
• '1811 - Huron County received the townships of Carlisle, Elyria, Russia, Amherst, Henrietta, and Brownhelm, along with the parts of Black River and Sheffield Townships lying west of the Black River. All of Huron County was attached to Cuyahoga County until it was organized in 1815.
• 1812 - Medina County created, receiving the townships previously attached to Portage County. All of Medina County was attached to Portage County until it was organized in 1818.

• 1822 - Lorain County was formed and took in parts of:
  • Huron County: the townships of Carlisle, Elyria, Russia, Amherst, Henrietta, and Brownhelm, along with the parts of Black River and Sheffield Townships lying west of the Black River.
  • Cuyahoga County: the townships of Troy (now Avon), Ridgeville, Eaton, and Columbia, along with the western half of Lenox Township (now Olmsted) and the parts of Black River and Sheffield Townships lying east of the Black River.
  • Medina County: the townships of LaGrange, Wellington, Pittsfield, Brighton, and Camden.

Until the county government was organized in 1824, its parts remained attached to their former jurisdictions.

• 1827 - Lorain County received the townships of Grafton, Homer, Penfield, Spencer, Sullivan, Huntington, Troy, and Rochester, while the western half of Lenox Township (now Olmsted) was added back to Cuyahoga County. Its northern boundary was set in the middle of Lake Erie along the international boundary with Canada.
• 1840 - Summit County created, with the townships of Homer and Spencer added back into Medina County to compensate.
• 1846 - Ashland County created, which received the townships of Sullivan and Troy.

Record Loss

There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Resources

Cemeteries

Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

Online Grave Transcripts	Published Grave Transcripts	County Cemetery Directories
Findagrave.com	Family History Library	Findagrave.com
Interment.net	WorldCat	Names in Stone
USGW Tombstones		Billion Graves
Billion Graves		Epodunk
OHGenWeb
OHGenWeb Tombstone Photos
Ohio Gravestones
See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

• Cemetery Inscriptions of Lorain County, Ohio (Elyria, OH: Genealogical Workshop of the Lorain County Historical Society, 1980). Comprehensive listing of grave sites and records for public cemeteries all over the county, from the arrival of the earliest settlers from the East on up to 1980. Valuable shortcut to finding information that may no longer be legible on original stones. Available on the Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society website and from local libraries.

Church Records

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about Ohio denominations, view the Ohio Church Records wiki page.

• Pittsfield Community Church Originally two churches, the Pittsfield Methodist Church, formed in 1824, and the Pittsfield Congregational Church, formed in 1836 (and originally organized as the Evangelical Union Church of Christ), which built permanent structures in 1845 and 1846, respectively. Both buildings were destroyed in the Pittsfield Tornado of 1965, at which point both churches elected to combine into the Pittsfield United Church of Christ, which rebuilt by 1966. The church became independent and was renamed Pittsfield Community Church in 1997.

Finding More Church Records

Additional church records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Church Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).
  

Court Records

Lorain County Clerk
Justice Center
225 Court St
1st Floor
Elyria, OH 44036-0749
Lorain County Clerk of Court of Common Pleas
Hours: 10am-4:30pm
Maintains records of Civil, Criminal, Domestic Relations and 9th District Court of Appeals cases

• Lorain County Clerk of Court of Common Pleas Online Case Docket contains records from 1988 onward of Civil, Criminal, Domestic Relations and 9th District Court of Appeals cases.

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

African American

Bigglestone, William E. They Stopped in Oberlin : Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century - Scottsdale, Ariz. : Innovation Group, C 1981. - xxv, 252 p. F499.O2 B53 1981

History

Local histories are available for Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Ohio Local Histories.

Local Histories

• Boynton, W.W., The Early History of Lorain County, (Elyria, Ohio: Lorain County Agricultural Society, 1876). Digital copy at Google Books Internet Archive FamilySearch Digital Library Ancestry ($)(Indexed)

• Williams, W.W., History of Lorain County, Ohio, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Williams Bros., 1879). Digital copy at Google Books Internet Archive FHL film 908846 Item 4; book 977.123 H2h

• Henes, Ernst Louis, Looking Back on Lorain County, (Wellington, Ohio: Southern Lorain Historical Society, 1978). FHL film 1320903 Item 17; book 977.123 H2he

• Lorain County Sesquicentennial, 1824-1974, (Elyria, Ohio: American Mult-Service, 1974). FHL book 977.123 H2L

• Wright, G. Frederick, A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Civic and Social Development, (Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Pub. Co., 1916). Digital copy at Google Books Internet Archive Volume 1:FamilySearch Digital Library; Volume 2:FamilySearch Digital Library FHL film 1000325; book 977.123 H2w v. 1-2

• History of the Western Reserve, Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 by Harriet Taylor Upton (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1910).

Land and Property

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Ohio Land and Property for additional information about early Ohio land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.

• Lorain County Recorder, Administration Building, 226 Middle Ave, First Floor, Elyria, OH 44035. Phone: +1 (440) 329-5148. Hours: M-F 8am-4:30pm. Maintains official county land records, among other documents, going back to the county's beginning. A searchable index, along with certain document images, is available for documents beginning in the late-1980s/early-1990s to present through their website, or in the Recorder's Office.

Finding More Land Records

Additional land records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Land and Property Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog(For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

• The Trumbull County Archives/Microfilm department has online maps and deed indexes
  

Maps

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• Maps of Ohio (1788-1940)

Military

• 1888-1919 - Ohio Soldier Home Records, 1888-1919 at FamilySearch — index and images

Civil War

Civil War service men from Lorain County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Lorain County.

• 1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery, Batteries B and E
• 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies F and H
• 107th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company G

World War I

• 1914-1919 - Ohio, World War I Statement of Service Cards, 1914-1919 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1914-1918 - Ohio, World War I, Enrollment Cards, 1914-1918 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1916-1920 - Ohio, WWI Index and Return Cards, 1916-1920 at FamilySearch — index

Naturalization and Citizenship

• 1800-1977 - Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977 at FamilySearch — index and images

Newspapers

Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy newspapers may contain genealogical value including obituaries, births, marriages, deaths, anniversaries, family gatherings, family travel, achievements, business notices, engagement information, and probate court proceedings.

To access newspapers, contact public libraries, Ohio Genealogical Society chapters, college or university libraries, the Library of Congress, Google News, or the Ohio Historical Society. The Ohio Genealogical Society Obituary Database is another source of newspaper information.

For more Ohio newspaper information see the Newspaper Guides on the wiki page Ohio Newspapers. Chronicling America:  Historic American Newspapers at the Library of Congress lists a plethora of local newspaper titles along with libraries and historical societies which retain archives of them.  Please note that their listings are extensive, but not comprehensive, as local libraries may retain archives which are not listed.

Daily newspapers have been published since the 1800s in Elyria and Lorain.  Elyria newspapers often published information and announcements relevant to the entire county (being that Elyria is the county seat) with much focus on areas in the central and southern parts of the county, including at times western Cuyahoga and Medina Counties, eastern Erie and Huron Counties and northern Ashland County.  Lorain newspapers usually focused on the lakeshore communities.  Information published in both cities often includes births and deaths, marriages and divorces, hospital discharges, legal notices, court filings, land transfers, and personal news (for example, "Mr. John Smith and family from Wellington spent the day with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Whitney in LaGrange on Saturday.").

Daily newspapers in Cleveland also cover news and events in Lorain County, including obituaries.

• NewspaperARCHIVE contains an extensive number of newspaper issues from both Elyria and Lorain, which are browsable and searchable, although not every issue of each newspaper is available (a fee is required, however it is availabe free of charge if accessed from this Elyria Public Library web page); their archives are also available with membership at Ancestry.com.
• Microfilm and original archives are kept at local libraries.
  

Weekly community newspapers have been published for over 100 years in Amherst, Oberlin, and Wellington.  More recently, The Sun Sentinel covers Avon, Avon Lake, and North Ridgeville.

• The Oberlin College Library Special Collections include fully-searchable images of the Oberlin News-Tribune from 1941-1945, and an index to three Oberlin newspapers from 1860-1936.

Online Newspapers
Online Newspaper Abstracts
Newspaper Extracts and Abstracts in Book Form

Obituaries

• Oberlin High School obituaries from the 1800s to present.
• Lorain County Obituaries More recent obituaries. Free.

Probate

Probate records created after 1852 are held by the Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Court. From 1797 or the creation of the county, probate records were held by the Court of Common Pleas. Most counties transferred all records to the Probate Court, but in some circumstances, Court of Common Pleas records should be searched for records prior to 1852. Most records are housed at the Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Courthouse. Some records are on microfilm at the Ohio Genealogical Society and the Family History Library. For more complete information about the location of county probate records see:

• Carol Willsey Bell, Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index (1981).  Carol Willsey Bell, Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index (Columbus, Ohio: the author, 1981).FamilySearch Digital Library - Free online copy.
  

See the wiki page Ohio Probate Records for information about how to use probate records.

Content: Probate Records may give the decedent's date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, neighbors, associates, relatives, and their place of residence.

Record types: Wills, estates, guardianships, naturalizations, marriage, adoption, and birth and death records (1867-1908 only).

Online Probate Records

• 1786 - 1998 Ohio Wills and Probate Records 1786-1998 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
• 1789 - 1996 Ohio Probate Records 1789-1996 at FamilySearch.org — images
• 1790–1967 - Ohio, Probate Records, 1790-1967 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection consists of probate records and estate files from county courthouses in Ohio. The content and time period varies by county, with more records being added as they become available. This Collection will include records from 1789 to 1996. Currently, (September 2012) the collection is only searchable by browsing the images. A list of Fires that have destroyed records in the courthouses of several counties are listed on the Record Description page.
• Lorain County Probate On-line Records Search contains all probate related records, including marriages, since 1990. The search also includes marriage records (bride's and groom's names only) back to about 1930.
• Lorain County Probate Court, Justice Center, 225 Court Street, 6th Floor, Elyria, OH 44035. Phone: +1 (440) 329-5175. Fax: +1 (440) 244-6261. Holds marriage and probate records from 1824 to present, along with countywide birth and death records from 1867 to 1908.

Finding More Probate Records

Additional probate records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Repositories

Courthouse

Lorain County Courthouse
226 Middle Avenue;
Elyria, OH 44035;
Phone: 440.329.5428 

Probate Judge has birth, marriage and probate records;
Clerk Court has divorce records from 1850 and court
records from 1824; County Recorder has land records;
Elyria Public Library and Loraina County Historical Society
have books of genealogical interest

Lorain County is located in Northeast Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie just west of Cleveland.  It has long been home to great agriculture and industry, though both have declined due to suburban sprawl spilling out of Cuyahoga County, and the emigration of manufacturing jobs to other regions. Although the county was created in 1822, records were not kept by it until the county government was organized and began to function in1824. 

Family History Centers

Family History Centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes.

• For current information about a center near you, go to the Family History Center Map

• Westlake Ohio Family History Center

For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the FHC directory. Put your town name in the top search box.

Libraries

Elyria Public Library System Central Library
320 Washington Ave
Elyria, Ohio 44035
Telephone: 440-323-5747
Fax:440-323-5788
The Ohio Room
Elyria Public Library System Central Library
M-R 10am-7pm, F-Sa 12pm-4pm, Su 1pm-5pm.
contains an extensive collection of local history and genealogy books, atlases, maps, obituary indexes, city directories, and high school yearbooks, also included are microfilm archives of county newspapers beginning in 1832, the United States Census for local counties, and Lorain County Probate Court birth, death, and marriage records and indexes.

Hours: M-R 9am-8:30pm, F-Sa 9am-5pm, Su Oct-Apr 1pm-5pm.

Barbara and Mike Bass Library/Community Resource Center
Lorain County Community College
1005 N Abbe Rd,
Elyria,Ohio 44035
Telephone:440-365-4026
Toll-free: +1 (800) 995-5222 Ext. 4026
Barbara and Mike Bass Library/Community Resource Center
Lorain County Community College

Oberlin College Library
148 W College St
Oberlin, Ohio 44074
Telephone 440-775-8285
Fax: 440-775-6586
Oberlin College Library
Oberlin College

• Lorain Public Library System
• Cleveland Public Library
• Herrick Memorial Library,

Societies

The Connecticut Western Reserve  was a part of northeast Ohio originally intended for settlement by Revolutionary War refugees from Connecticut. The former Connecticut Western Reserve  lands were in the modern counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Trumbull fully, but also in parts of Ashland, Mahoning, Ottawa, Summit, and Wayne counties in Ohio.

The Research Library at the Western Reserve Historical Society History Center  is the premier repository for Cleveland, Ohio and Connecticut Western Reserve history material. One of the principal strengths is its manuscript collections. The WRHS collection has original land records, genealogies of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, biographies, histories, and family Bibles.

Other Societies

Lorain County Historical Society
509 Washington Ave
Elyria, Ohio 44035
Telephone: 440-322-3341
Website

Western Reserve Historical Society
10825 East Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Telephone: 216-721-5722
Website

Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society
PO Box 865
Elyria, Ohio 44036-0865
Website contains user-contributed birth, death, marriage, and court records, as well as obituaries.

Black River Historical Society
09 W 5th St
Lorain, Ohio
Telephone: 440-245-2563
Website

The Southern Lorain County Historical Society/Spirit of '76 Museum
PO Box 76, 201 N Main St
Wellington, Ohio 44090
Telephone:440-647-4367
Website
Museum is housed in Downtown Wellington in a former cold storage warehouse during Wellington's cheesemaking heydey. Contains extensive collection of local and period artifacts and exhibits, along with a library containing historical maps, Wellington High School yearbooks, and an archive of the Wellington Enterprise.
Admission is free.

• Sheffield Village Historical Society

• 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Society for descendants of soldiers who fought in this regiment during the Civil War.

Online Genealogy Research Groups

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• U.S. Midwest Genealogy Research Community - FamilySearch Facebook Research Group
• Ohio Ancestors - FamilySearch Community group, must have a free FamilySearch account to join
• U.S. and Canada Genealogy Research - FamilySearch Community group, must have a free FamilySearch account to join

Taxation

• 1800-1950 - Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850 at FamilySearch — index and images
• Lorain County Records Retention Center, Early Years Tax Duplicates Digital scans of county tax duplicate records from1824 to 1969 available for free in PDF format.

Finding More Tax Records

Additional tax records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Tax Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Vital Records

Vital records consist of birth, death, marriage and divorce records. Although Ohio enacted a statute in 1856 -1857 requiring registration of births, deaths and marriages, many counties did not comply. A second law was written in 1867 but, again, was not always followed. By 1908, the law was more clearly defined and kept. Any existing birth and death records from 1867 through December 19, 1908 are located at the Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Court. The Ohio Department of Health has birth records filed after December 20, 1908 and death records filed after January 1, 1954 while the Ohio Historical Society houses death records from December 20, 1908 through December 31, 1953.

Original marriage records are held at the office of the Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Court with divorce records located with the Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Clerk of Courts.

See also How to order Ohio Vital Records or order vital records electronically online.

Birth

Online Birth Indexes and Records

• 1841-2003 - Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003 at FamilySearch — index and images

• Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962 (FamilySearch). Name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state of Ohio. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. 

• The probate court in Lorain County began keeping birth and death records when required by state law in 1867. Birth and death certificates have been recorded as of 20 December 1908. 

• Lorain County Records Retention Center, Probate Court Early Birth and Death Records Digital images of county birth and death records from 1867-1908 available for free in PDF format. These records may also be obtained through the probate court. 

Original Birth Records on Microfilm

Marriage

Online Marriage Indexes and Records

• 1789-2013 - Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1800-1958 - Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958 at FamilySearch — free; Index.

1800-1942 - Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1942 at FamilySearch — index

• 1800-1958 - "Finding Lorain County Marriage Records Using the 'Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958' database" is a blog article by Chris Staats that offers helpful tips for locating marriage records when visiting the probate court. 
• 1930 - Lorain County Probate On-line Records Search contains all probate related records, including marriages, since [[1990. The search also includes marriage records (bride's and groom's names only) back to about 1930. 
• 1824 Lorain County Probate Court maintains countywide marriage records from 1824 to present. 
• 1950 to present - Ohio Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics maintains an index of marriages that occurred in Ohio from 1 January 1950 to present, and divorces that occurred in Ohio from 1 January 1954 to present. 

Original Marriage Records on Microfilm

Death

Online Death Indexes and Records

• The probate court in Lorain County began keeping birth and death records when required by state law in 1867. Birth and death certificates have been recorded as of 20 December 1908.
• 1840-2001 - Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1854-1997 - Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997 (FamilySearch). Name index to death and burial records from the state of Ohio. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. 
• 1867-1908 - Lorain County Records Retention Center, Probate Court Early Birth and Death Records Digital images of county birth and death records from 1867-1908 available for free in PDF format. These records may also be obtained through the probate court. 
• 1908-1953 - Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 (FamilySearch). Name index and images of Ohio statewide death certificates.

Original Death Records on Microfilm

Finding More Vital Records

Additional vital records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Lorain County, Ohio Genealogy Vital Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Divorce

• Lorain County Clerk of Court of Common Pleas Online Case Docket contains divorce records from 1988 onward. 
• Lorain County Clerk of Court of Common Pleas retains divorce records from its Domestic Relations Division.

Divorces are stored in the Records Division, Room 109 Phone 440-329-5511 or 440-329-5489 Fax 440-329-5400 chart@loraincounty.us

Civil Records

Beginning Dates for Lorain County Records
Birth	Marriage	Death	Census	Land	Probate	Court
1867	1824	1867	1830	1824	1824	1824

See also: Ohio Vital Records 

Official birth and death certificates are available from: 

• Lorain County General Health District's Vital Statistics Office for births and deaths occurring countywide from December 1908 to present except in the City of Lorain. 
• Lorain City Health Department for births and deaths occurring from December 1908 to present only within the City of Lorain. 
• Ohio Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics for births throughout the entire State of Ohio from December 1908 to present, and deaths occurring in Ohio from 1 January 1954 to present.

Websites

• Lorain County, OH History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
• Lorain County OH Genealogy
• Ohio Genealogy Network Community on Google+
• Ohio Genealogy Network Group on Facebook

Family History Library