Lancaster Genealogy (in Fairfield County, OH)

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Lancaster Birth Records

1800-1962 Ohio Births and Christenings Index Ancestry online

1908-1964 Ohio Birth Index Ancestry online

Birth records, 1867-1909 FamilySearch Library

Fairfield County, Ohio birth records : from Fairfield County Probate Court FamilySearch Library

Ohio, Birth Records, 1908-present Ohio Department of Health

Lancaster Cemetery Records

Amish Mennonite Find a Grave online

Asbury Cemetery Find a Grave online

Asbury Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

Asbury Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

Baptist Corners Cemetery Find a Grave online

Beck Cemetery Find a Grave online

Berne Cemetery Find a Grave online

Brandt-Middletown Cemetery Find a Grave online

Carpenter Family Cemetery Genealogy Trails online

Casper Hufford Cemetery Find a Grave online

Crawfis-Emery Cemetery Find a Grave online

East Union Cemetery Find a Grave online

Elmwood Cemetery Find a Grave online

Elmwood Cemetery Billion Graves online

Elmwood Cemetery Genealogy Trails online

Emanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Erick Cemetery Find a Grave online

Fairfield School For Boys Cemetery Find a Grave online

Floral Hills Memory Gardens Find a Grave online

Forest Rose Cemetery Find a Grave online

Forest Rose Cemetery Billion Graves online

Forest Rose Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

Forest Rose Cemetery Genealogy Trails online

Friesner Cemetery Find a Grave online

Grace Lutheran Cemetery Find a Grave online

Green Mound Cemetery Find a Grave online

Green Mound Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

Green Mound Cemetery Billion Graves online

Greenfield Township Cemetery Find a Grave online

Guseman - Thrush Cemetery Find a Grave online

Hamburg Cemetery Find a Grave online

Holderman-Halderman-Strode-Wasem-McCray Cemetery Find a Grave online

Hooker Cemetery Find a Grave online

Huber Cemetery Find a Grave online

Keller-Medill Cemetery Find a Grave online

Maple Grove Cemetery Find a Grave online

Maple Grove Cemetery Billion Graves online

Mount Carmel Cemetery Billion Graves online

Mount Tabor Cemetery Find a Grave online

Mount Tabor Cemetery Billion Graves online

Mount Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

New Saint Thomas Cemetery Billion Graves online

Old German Lutheran-St. John's- Swyer Church Ceme Find a Grave online

Old Lancaster City Graveyard Find a Grave online

Pleasant Hill (Berne) Cemetery Find a Grave online

Riegel-Hedges Cemetery Find a Grave online

Saint Johns Episcopal Church Garden Find a Grave online

Saint Mary Cemetery Find a Grave online

Saint Mary Cemetery Billion Graves online

Saint Marys Cemetery Genealogy Trails online

Sites-Sitz-Greenfiled-Ewing Cemetery Find a Grave online

St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

St. Mary's Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio WorldCat

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Mulberry and Broad St., Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio : with 19th century baptisms, deaths and burials, early 20th century deaths and burials FamilySearch Library

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Mulberry and Broad St., Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio : with 19th century baptisms, deaths, and burials, early 20th century deaths and burials WorldCat

Stonewall Cemetery Find a Grave online

Tent Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Tunis Newkirk Cemetery Find a Grave online

Turkey Run Baptist Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Turkey Run Baptist Church Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

Van Meter Cemetery Find a Grave online

Lancaster Census Records

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Lancaster Church Records

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1800-1962 Ohio Births and Christenings Index Ancestry online

Church record, 1843-1903 (First English Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Ohio)) FamilySearch Library

Church record, 1887-1942 (Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Ohio)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1806-1917 (First Presbyterian Church (Lancaster, Ohio)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1810-1997 (Mills Memorial Evangelical United Brethren (Lancaster, Ohio)) FamilySearch Library

First Presbyterian Church, Session and Register, 1806-1838 (in US Presbyterian Church Records collection) Ancestry online

First Presbyterian Church, Session and Register, 1866-1895 (in US Presbyterian Church Records collection) Ancestry online

First Presbyterian Church, Session and Register, 1890-1910 (in US Presbyterian Church Records collection) Ancestry online

First Presbyterian Church, Session and Register, 1910-1919 (in US Presbyterian Church Records collection) Ancestry online

Historical sketch and program for the sesquicentennial celebration, The First Methodist Church, Lancaster, Ohio : Wheeling and High Streets, 1812-1962 FamilySearch Library

Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration of the First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster, Ohio Ancestry online

Sesqui-centennial history of the Lancaster-Zanesville Presbytery, 1808-1958 FamilySearch Library

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Mulberry and Broad St., Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio : with 19th century baptisms, deaths and burials, early 20th century deaths and burials FamilySearch Library

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Mulberry and Broad St., Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio : with 19th century baptisms, deaths, and burials, early 20th century deaths and burials WorldCat

Synod of German Reformed Church minutes - Lancaster Classis, 1851-1869 FamilySearch Library

Lancaster City Directories

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Circleville (Ohio) city directories FamilySearch Library

Lancaster (Ohio) city directories FamilySearch Library

Lancaster City Directory 1908 MyHeritage online

Lancaster City Directory 1947 MyHeritage online

Lancaster City Directory 1949 MyHeritage online

Lancaster City Directory 1952 MyHeritage online

Lancaster City Directory 1954 MyHeritage online

Lancaster City Directory 1957 MyHeritage online

Lancaster City Directory 1959 MyHeritage online

Lancaster, OH 1859 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Lancaster, OH 1906-1934 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Lancaster, OH; 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1960 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1902 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1904 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1906 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1908 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1928 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1930 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1932 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1934 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1936 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1938 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1940 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1942 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1945 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1947 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1949 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1952 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1954 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1957 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1959 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, City Directory, 1960 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Lancaster, Ohio, city directory : also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory FamilySearch Library

Williams' Circleville and Lancaster directory, city guide and business mirror, volume 1, 1859-60 FamilySearch Library

Lancaster Death Records

1908-1932, 1938-2007 Ohio Deaths Ancestry online

Infirmary records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1848-1910 and death records from the infirmary records, 1911-1980 FamilySearch Library

Ohio Death Index, 1913-1944, 1954-1963 MyHeritage online

Ohio, Death Records, 1908-present Ohio Department of Health

Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index, 1810s-2013 Ancestry online

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Mulberry and Broad St., Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio : with 19th century baptisms, deaths and burials, early 20th century deaths and burials FamilySearch Library

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Mulberry and Broad St., Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio : with 19th century baptisms, deaths, and burials, early 20th century deaths and burials WorldCat

Lancaster Histories and Genealogies

Centennial History of Lancaster, Ohio, 1898 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection) Ancestry online

Centennial History of Lancaster, Ohio, and Lancaster People : 1898 Ancestry online

Centennial history of Lancaster, Ohio and Lancaster people : 1898, the 100th anniversary of the settlement of the spot where Lancaster stands FamilySearch Library

Centennial history of Lancaster, Ohio, and Lancaster people : 1898, the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the spot where Lancaster stands LDS Genealogy online

Centennial history of Lancaster, Ohio, and Lancaster people : 1898, the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the spot where Lancaster stands Internet Archive online

Commencement of the Ohio Canal At the Licking Summit : July 4Th, 1825, Lancaster, Ohio Ancestry online

Lancaster Townstead Ancestry online

Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio Ancestry online

Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio FamilySearch Library

Lancaster Immigration Records

Index to naturalizations of Fairfield County, Ohio FamilySearch Library

Naturalizations, 1879-1904 FamilySearch Library

Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977 MyHeritage online

Lancaster Land Records

Deeds, 1801-1898 FamilySearch Library

Lancaster Map Records

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1904 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1910 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1919 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, April 1884 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, December 1899 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, June 1889 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, May 1893 Library of Congress online

Lancaster Marriage Records

1774-1993 Ohio, County Marriages Ancestry online

Marriage records, 1803-1880 FamilySearch Library

Ohio Marriages, 1803-1900: Fairfield County, Ohio Marriages, 1851-60 Ancestry online

Lancaster Newspapers and Obituaries

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American Lancaster Gazette, 1855-1860 Ohio Memory online

American Lancaster gazette (Lancaster, Ohio) (from Feb. 15, 1855 to March 29, 1860) MyHeritage online

American Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) (from Feb. 15, 1855 to March 29, 1860) Chronicling America online

Gazette and Democrat, 1860-1860 Ohio Memory online

Gazette and democrat (lancaster, ohio) (from april 5, 1860 to nov. 8, 1860) MyHeritage online

Genealogical Abstracts from the Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle Newspaper, 13 July 1815 To 14 October 1837 FamilySearch Library

Genealogical abstracts from the Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette 1826-1910 FamilySearch Library

Lancaster Daily Eagle 1915-18, 1920, 1923-24, 1926-28, and 1963 (Newspaper: Lancaster, Ohio) Ancestry online

Lancaster Daily Gazette, the 1926 (Newspaper: Lancaster, Ohio) Ancestry online

Lancaster Eagle Gazette 1927-28, 1936, 1958-60, 1962-63, and 1973-74 (Newspaper: Lancaster, Ohio) Ancestry online

Lancaster Eagle-Gazette 1915-2023 Newspapers.com online

Lancaster Gazette (1846), 1847-1852 Ohio Memory online

Lancaster Gazette (1863), 1863-1870 Ohio Memory online

Lancaster Gazette 07/02/1847 to 06/30/1870 Genealogy Bank online

Lancaster Gazette 1847-1936 Newspapers.com online

Lancaster gazette (Lancaster, Ohio) (from July 2, 1847 to April 22, 1852) MyHeritage online

Lancaster gazette (Lancaster, Ohio) (from June 18, 1863 to June 30, 1870) MyHeritage online

Ohio Eagle, Lancaster, Ohio, 1814-1840: Genealogical Abstracts FamilySearch Library

Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index, 1810s-2013 Ancestry online

Political Observatory, and Fairfield Register 09/08/1810 to 09/15/1810 Genealogy Bank online

The Lancaster Gazette 1936 (Newspaper: Lancaster, Ohio) Ancestry online

The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) (from July 2, 1847 to April 22, 1852) Chronicling America online

The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) (from June 18, 1863 to June 30, 1870) Chronicling America online

The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) (from April 5, 1860 to Nov. 8, 1860) Chronicling America online

The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) (from May 6, 1852 to Feb. 8, 1855) Chronicling America online

The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) (from Nov. 15, 1860 to June 11, 1863) Chronicling America online

Weekly Lancaster Gazette (1852), 1852-1855 Ohio Memory online

Weekly Lancaster Gazette (1860), 1860-1863 Ohio Memory online

Weekly Lancaster gazette (Lancaster, Ohio) (from May 6, 1852 to Feb. 8, 1855) MyHeritage online

Weekly Lancaster gazette (Lancaster, Ohio) (from Nov. 15, 1860 to June 11, 1863) MyHeritage online

Western Oracle and the Farmers Weekly Museum 02/06/1807 to 05/29/1807 Genealogy Bank online

Offline Newspapers for Lancaster

According to the US Newspaper Directory, the following newspapers were printed, so there may be paper or microfilm copies available. For more information on how to locate offline newspapers, see our article on Locating Offline Newspapers.

American Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860

Fairfield County Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1890-1926

Fairfield County Republican. (Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio) 1879-1906

Fairfield Times. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1940-1943

Gazette & Enquirer. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1832-1835

Gazette and Express. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1838-1839

Gazette and Express. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1840-1844

Gazette. (Lancaster [Ohio) 1831-1832

Independent Press. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1811-1810s

Lancaster Daily Eagle. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1890-1936

Lancaster Daily Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1901-1935

Lancaster Eagle-Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1936-Current

Lancaster Enquirer. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1831-1832

Lancaster Fairfield Advertiser. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1974-Current

Lancaster Gazette and Express. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1839-1840

Lancaster Gazette and Express. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1844-1846

Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster [Ohio]) 1829-1831

Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1826-1827

Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1835-1837

Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852

Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886

Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1891-1901

Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1935-1936

Lancaster Ohio Express. (Lancaster [Ohio]) 1837-1838

Lancaster Ohio Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1827-1829

Lancaster Telegraph. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1850-1854

Lancaster Weekly Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1901-1910

Ohio Adler. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1810s-1840

Ohio Eagle and Fairfield Advertiser. (Lancaster [Ohio) 1831-1839

Ohio Eagle and Fairfield County Advertiser. (Lancaster [Ohio) 1830-1831

Ohio Eagle. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1810-1830

Ohio Eagle. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1839-1935

Political Observatory, and Fairfield Register. Volume (Lancaster, Ohio) 1810-1811

Semi-Weekly Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1886-1891

Times-Tribune. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1943-1946

Weekly Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855

Weekly Lancaster Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863

Lancaster Probate Records

1786-1998 Ohio, Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Lancaster School Records

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Fairfield Union High School yearbook, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Fairfield Union High School yearbook, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1985, 1991, 1998 Classmates online

Fairfield Union High School yearbooks, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1985, 1991, 1998 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH), 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1968, 1971 E Yearbook online

Lancaster High School yearbook, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Lancaster High School yearbook, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1979 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Lancaster High School yearbook, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Classmates online

Ohio University yearbook, 1892, 1914, 1919, 1926, 1927, 1933, 1936, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1976 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Stanbery Freshman High School yearbook, 1976 Classmates online

Stanbery Freshman High School yearbook, 1976 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Stanbery Freshman School yearbook, 1976 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

State of Ohio boys industrial school inmate case records, 1858-1918 FamilySearch Library

Thomas Ewing Junior High School yearbook, 1965 Classmates online

Thomas Ewing Junior High School yearbook, 1965 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Thomas Ewing Junior High School yearbook, 1965 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online



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