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Death Records

No death records were maintained by the county prior to 1867.

1867 Through 19 December 1908

County level death records were maintained by the Warren County Probate Court and can found found in Registers located in the Edna L. Bowyer Warren County Ohio Record Center & Archives. I believe that the Probate Court Registers were generated from information submitted by the various Township Assessors.

December 20, 1908 to Date

Starting December 20, 1908, official state level death certificate were required. These were issued by the Warren County Health Department with a copy sent to The Division of Vital Statistics of the Ohio Department of Health.

The Records from 20 Dec 1908 through 31 Dec 1952 were archived at the Ohio Historical Society. The Ohio Heath Department continues to hold the records from 1 Jan 1953 to the present. Copies of the Ohio Historical Society microfilms are also available at the Cincinnati Public Library and the Akron Public Library and maybe elsewhere.

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Obtaining Copies of Death Certificates

As of 1 Jul 2003, the state and county health departments stopped providing uncertified copies of death certificates.

• Certified copies from 1 Jan 1955 to present can be ordered from the Ohio Department of Health for $16.50 [price as of 1 Oct 2005]
• Certified copies from 20 Dec 1908 to date can be obtained from the Warren County Health Department.
• Uncertified copies are still available from the Ohio Historical Society for records from 20 Dec 1908 to 31 Dec 1952 using their on-line form. As of 4 Jun 2006 their website indicates the fee is $7. If you visit the Society in Columbus, you can view [and print] a copy of the certificates yourself in their microfilm room.
• The microfilms of the death certificate through 31 Dec 1952 have also been acquired by at least two libraries - Cincinnati & Akron.
• Images of Ohio Death Certificates from 1908 through 1953 are available on line at Family Search Labs BETA site.

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Researching Death Records

• The Death Registers from 1867 to 1908 are available for public inspection at the Edna L. Bowyer Warren County Ohio Record Center & Archives. Copies are $0.15 each.
• The Ohio Department of Health Search Policy indicates that they will search a ten year period for a given surname for $3.
• The Ohio Historical Society Research Policy indicates that they will search for one name in two of their indexes (which you specify) for $25 as of 4 Jun 2006.

Publications

Transcriptions of Death Records have been completed by the Warren County Genealogical Society [WCGS] and Cardinal Research [CARD]. All of these publications can be purchased from the Warren County Genealogical Society. The Genealogical Society has also put the indexes to a number of these publications on line.

PUBLICATION	PUBLISHER	ON LINE INDEX
Deaths 1850 &1860 Mortality Indexes	CARD	1850 & 1860
Death Book #1, 1867-1881	CARD	Index
Death Book #2, 1881-1904	CARD	Index
Death Book #3, 1905-1908	CARD	Index
Warren County Assessors Records Book 1 - Deaths 1886-1907	WCGS	Index
Warren County Death Records, 1909 - 1915	WCGS	Index
Warren County Death Records, 1916 - 1920	WCGS	Index
Warren County Death Records, 1921 - 1925	WCGS	Index
Warren County Death Records, 1926-1930	WCGS	Index
Miami Valley, Ohio Deaths, 1930 - 1977, Gathered by Ina Dearth	WCGS
Oswald Funeral Home Records, Lebanon, Ohio Recorded by Chester Dunn, Vol 1. 1867-1890	WCGS
Oswald Funeral Home Records, Lebanon, Ohio Recorded by Chester Dunn, Vol 2. 1890-1907	WCGS

Other On-Line Indexes

• The Ohio Historical Society
  • provides a searchable database of Ohio Death Certificates 1913 to 1944. You may order a copy for a fee
  • Microfilm indexes are available at the The Ohio Histoical Society for all years from 1909 to 1953.
    
• Ancestry.com [paid site] subscribers can access the Ohio Deaths 1958 - 2002. This database, with over 3.1 million names, lists those who passed away between 1958 and 2002 in the state of Ohio. In addition to providing the name of the deceased the index also provides information such as place of residence, location at time of death, death date, age at time of death, birth date, race, educational level, and father's name. Note: Each entry may not provide ALL of this information.
  
• The LDS Indexing Project for the years 1945 to 1953.
  See http://www.familysearchindexing.org/
  
• Free access to the so called "Social Security Death Index" is on line at a number of place on the interenet to include Ancestery.com, Family Search, Family Tree Maker, New England Historical Genealogical Society, Rootsweb, and others.

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Transcriptions

• "Joy and Sorrow; The Births and Deaths of Warren County during the past year [by township]" f rom the 20 Jun 1895 Western Star
• "Births and Deaths for the Past Year [by township]" f rom the 20 Jun 1901 Western Star

We would be happy to add your images or transcriptions of Death Certificates to the following list.
You can paste this FORM into an email to transcibe the data or email in your own format if you already have it typed up.

Last	First	Died	Type of Record	Contributor	Added
Albertson	Annie	19 May 1891	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	24 May 2006
Albertson	Cornelius	25 Jan 1918	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
ALbertson	Irven	18 Dec 1913	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	24 May 2006
Albertson	Josiah	1 Dec 1918	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	25 May 2006
Albertson	Leona	3 Jan 1914	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	25 May 2006
Albertson	Lizzie (Needham)	4 Oct 1976	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Albertson	Martha (McKinney)	27 Jan 1934	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Albertson	Rebecca (McKinney)	21 Jul 1915	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	25 May 2006
Albertson	William	29 Jul 1921	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	25 May 2006
Albertson	William Edward	5 Nov 1958	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Bowker	Mary E. (Simonton)	21 Dec 1922	Death Certificate	Arne H Trelvik	2 Sep 2003
Clark	William Wessley	22 Jan 1926	USGenWeb Archives	Ralph Cokonougher	17 Nov 2006
Colbert	Jane (Evans)	21 Feb 1911	Death Certificate	Arne H Trelvik	23 Apr 2004
Compton	Daniel	16 Feb 1915	Death Certificate	Vivian Combs Moon	26 Jun 2004
Compton	Susanna	3 Oct 1911	Death Certificate	Vivian Combs Moon	26 Jun 2004
Conner	Hannah Jane (Rodgers)	11 Jan 1925	Death Certificate	Vivian Combs Moon	30 Sep 2007
Conner	Robert	11 Jan 1925	Death Certificate	Vivian Combs Moon	30 Sep 2007
Enz	Kathryn Frances (Vignon)	25 Nov 1857	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Enz	Louise Ernst	10 Jun 1939	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Enz	Mathew	15 Jul 1925	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Ernst	Emma (Stamper)	27 Oct 1936	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Fitzwater	Augusta	16 Jan 1883	Warren Co Death Register	Linda Boorom	28 Feb 2006
Fitzwater	Thomas	11 Jan 1883	Warren Co Death Register	Linda Boorom	28 Feb 2006
Haines	Robert Harry	4 Jan 1919	Death Certificate	Arne H Trelvik	5 Feb 2008
Jordan	Edward M.	11 Jul 1939	Death Certificate	Vivian Combs Moon	31 Aug 2003
Jordan	Nettie Florence (Warwick)	19 Feb 1929	Death Certificate	Vivian Combs Moon	31 Aug 2003
Landacre	Dorsey Elsworth	14 Apr 1956	Dearth Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Landacre	Emanual	1 Oct 1922	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	25 May 2006
Landacre	Maude Ann (McPeak)	14 Jun 1976	Dearth Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
McChesney	David	28 Dec 1891	Death Certificate & Funeral Home Record	Vivian Combs Moon	7 May 2004
McKinney	Alexander	23 Jul 1926	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Anne E. (Felter) McKinney	16 Oct 1944	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Cora	28 May 1927	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Edna May	20 Sep 1923	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	E. H.	5 May 1914	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Ernest E.	29 Mar 1944	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	George T.	15 Aug 1914	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Harmon	18 Jan 1916	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	John	29 Aug 1919	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	John Henry	1 Aug 1931	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Josie E. (Surface)	17 Aug 1913	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Margaret Ann (Thompson)	9 Nov 1920	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Marion	8 Jul 1924	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
McKinney	Mary	4 Jun 1918	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
Miracle	John C.	2 Dec 1961	Death Certificate	Jason Tindall, Sr.	10 Aug 2008
Mount	David J.	13 Dec 1925	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	25 May 2006
Needham	James	11 Sep 1918	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
Powell	Mae (Preston) Tindle Powell	31 Mar 1968	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
Runyan	Jackson	5 May 1903	Warren Co Death Register 2	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
Snook	David	3 Oct 1915	Death Certificate	Michael Von Goebel	3 Mar 2004
Snook	Mahala (Mrs.)	5 Jan 1910	Death Certificate	Michael Von Goebel	3 Mar 2004
Snuff	John W.	30 Jan 1938	Death Certificate	John Walker	23 Jun 2006
Starry	Elmer C.	27 Sep 1886	Death Certificate	Vivian Combs Moon	16 June 2004
Tindall	Louis Henry	16 Jul 1930	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
Tindle	Harry	2 Dec 1930	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
Tindall	Louis Nelson	28 Jul 1917	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	17 May 2006
Vincent	Arthur Eckman	14 Feb 1935	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006
Wolf	Eldron C.	18 May 1947	Death Certificate	Bobbi Tindle	16 May 2006

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