GUIDELINES FOR PAID RECORD SEARCHES
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The Corresponding Secretary will conduct record searches (at the Museum) at $15 per hour, non-refundable, and payable in advance (to ACHS&M). Photocopying and postage are additional, and you will be billed for these costs. Photocopies are 20 cents per page.

Please indicate below which resources you want us to search.

Certified copies of birth and death certificates from 1909 to the present are available from the Athens County Health Department, 278 West Union Street, Athens, OH 45701. Non-certified copies are no longer available.

I, ______________________________, want you to search the records checked below for my ancestor ______________________________, who was in Athens County in the year(s) ____________. Enclosed is $________ for  _____hour(s) search.

Please search the records indicated by a checkmark for the name given above and make copies of the records checked.

____ 1. Census Records for the year(s):

    ____ pre-1820 ____ 1850 ____ 1900

    ____ 1820      ____ 1860 ____ 1920

    ____ 1830      ____ 1870 ____ 1930

    ____ 1840      ____ 1880

____ 2. Birth Records (1867-1920)

____ 3. Delayed Birth Records & Corrections (1867-1977)

____ 4. Death Records (1867-1908)

____ 5. Wills (1805-1915)

____ 6. Cemetery Records, where available

____ 7. Marriage Records (1805-1958)

____ 8. Deeds (1803-1895)

____ 9. Obituaries in compiled obituary books-death date must accompany request ____________________. We do not search microfilmed newspapers for individual obituaries.

____ 10.Other: _______________________________________