Portsmouth Genealogy (in Scioto County, OH)

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Portsmouth Birth Records

1800-1962 Ohio Births and Christenings Index Ancestry online

1908-1964 Ohio Birth Index Ancestry online

Birth records, 1856-1962 FamilySearch Library

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

Portsmouth Cemetery Records

Gravestone inscriptions from Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio FamilySearch Library

Gravestone inscriptions from Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio. Volume II, Burials of the 1900's. WorldCat

Greenlawn Cemetery Find a Grave online

Greenlawn Cemetery Billion Graves online

Greenlawn Cemetery Interment online

Greenlawn Cemetery Ohio Gravestones online

Holt Cemetery Find a Grave online

Kuhner Cemetery Find a Grave online

New Hoffer Hill Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Old Bloom Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Old Saint Marys Cemetery Find a Grave online

Saint Thomas Columbarium Find a Grave online

Summers Cemetery Billion Graves online

The history of Greenlawn Cemetery in Portsmouth, Ohio FamilySearch Library

Vaughters Cemetery Find a Grave online

Wait Cemetery Find a Grave online

Portsmouth 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

Portsmouth Church Records

1800-1962 Ohio Births and Christenings Index Ancestry online

Gravestone inscriptions from Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio. Volume II, Burials of the 1900's. WorldCat

Manly United Methodist Church (Portsmouth, Ohio) records 1892-2006 Archive Grid

Portsmouth City Directories

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Directory of Portsmouth and Scioto County, 1899 LDS Genealogy online

Directory of Portsmouth and Scioto County, 1899 Internet Archive online

Polk's Portsmouth, Ohio, city directory : including New Boston, Sciotoville and Star Yards, also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory FamilySearch Library

Portsmouth (Ohio) city directories FamilySearch Library

Portsmouth City Directory 1910 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1912 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1914 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1918 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1924 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1929 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1932 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1939 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1944 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1947 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1949 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1952 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1956 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1957 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth City Directory 1959 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth, OH 1858/59 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Portsmouth, OH 1908-1935 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Portsmouth, OH 1937, 1939, 1941-1942, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1956-1957, 1959-1960 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Portsmouth, OH Business Directory, 1840 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Portsmouth, OH Business Directory, 1844 City Directories Allen County Public Library

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

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1910 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1912 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1914 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1916 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1918 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1920 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1922 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1924 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1926 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

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

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1929 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

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

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

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1935 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1937 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1939 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1941 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1944 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

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

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

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

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

Portsmouth, Ohio, City Directory, 1956 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

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

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

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

Pruden's combined business directory and gazetteer : embracing the following cities, Wheeling, Sistersville, Parkersburg, Huntington, Charleston, &c., &c., W. Va., East Liverpool, Steubenville, Bellaire, Marietta, Ironton, Portsmouth, Ohio, and Ashland and Catlettsburg, Ky., for the years 1899-1900 FamilySearch Library

Sheppard's Portsmouth Directory, 1873-74 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

The Western Address Directory Containing the Cards of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Other Businessmen in . . . Zanesville, (O.) Portsmouth, (O.) Dayton, (O.) Cincinnati, (O.) 1837 Open Library online

The western address directory : containing the cards of merchants, manufacturers, and other business men, in Pittsburgh, (Pa.) Wheeling, (Va.) Zanesville, (O.) Portsmouth, (O.) Dayton, (O.) Cincinnati, (O.) Madison, (Ind.) Louisville, (K.) St. Louis, (Mo.) , 1837 LDS Genealogy online

The western address directory : containing the cards of merchants, manufacturers, and other business men, in Pittsburgh, (Pa.) Wheeling, (Va.) Zanesville, (O.) Portsmouth, (O.) Dayton, (O.) Cincinnati, (O.) Madison, (Ind.) Louisville, (K.) St. Louis, (Mo.) , 1837 Internet Archive online

Wiggins and Weaver's Ohio River Directory for 1871-72 Google Books online

Wiggins and Weaver's Ohio River directory for 1871-1872 : embracing a full alphabetical record of the names of the inhabitants, and business directories of Wheeling, Parkersburg, Marietta, Pomeroy, Gallipolis, Ironton, Portsmouth, Ripley, Bellaire, Bridgeport, Harmar, Middleport, Martins Ferry, Maysville, Owensboro, Paducah, Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Madison, Cairo, Chester, Cape Girardeau FamilySearch Library

Portsmouth Death Records

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1908-1932, 1938-2007 Ohio Deaths Ancestry online

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

Piatt Funeral Home records, Portsmouth, Ohio WorldCat

Russell Piatt Funeral Home records, Portsmouth, Ohio, January 31, 1944 through December 18, 1971 FamilySearch Library

Translated abstracts of death notices in the Portsmouth Correspondent, 1894 to 1908 FamilySearch Library

Translated abstracts of death notices in the Portsmouth Correspondent, 1894 to 1908 WorldCat

Portsmouth Histories and Genealogies

History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio : Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious Ancestry online

Portsmouth Immigration Records

Naturalization records, 1880-1906 FamilySearch Library

Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977 MyHeritage online

Portsmouth Land Records

Deeds, 1803-1876 FamilySearch Library

Portsmouth Map Records

Bryan's new map of the City of Portsmouth and part of Clay Township Scioto Co., Ohio, 1889 Library of Congress online

Map of Scioto County, Ohio 1875 FamilySearch Library

Map of the City of Portsmouth and Wayne Township, Scioto County, Ohio, 1868 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, 1904 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, 1911 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, 1921 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, 1921-1950 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, December 1887 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, February 1884 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, July 1897 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, September 1892 Library of Congress online

Portsmouth Marriage Records

1774-1993 Ohio, County Marriages Ancestry online

Marriage records, 1804-1911 FamilySearch Library

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

Portsmouth Newspapers and Obituaries

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Community Common 12/20/2009 to Current Genealogy Bank online

Daily Times, 1894-1900, 1980-1984, 1990, 1992-1993, 1999 Google News Archive online

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

Portsmouth Daily Times 10/11/2005 to Current Genealogy Bank online

Portsmouth Daily Times 1858-1967 Newspapers.com online

Portsmouth Daily Times 1894-1930 (Newspaper: Portsmouth, Ohio) Ancestry online

Portsmouth Daily Times, 1900-1927, 1984-2004 Google News Archive online

Portsmouth Inquirer 1850-1855 Newspapers.com online

Portsmouth Inquirer, 1850-1855 Ohio Memory online

Portsmouth Times, 1951-1951 Google News Archive online

Portsmouth inquirer (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) (from April 8, 1850 to July 13, 1855) MyHeritage online

Portsmouth inquirer 04/08/1850 to 07/13/1855 Genealogy Bank online

Scioto Simon Pure 08/05/1844 to 10/28/1844 Genealogy Bank online

Spirit of the times 01/05/1853 to 01/29/1856 Genealogy Bank online

The Portsmouth Times 1858-65, 1870-82, 1885-89, and 1892-9 (Newspaper: Portsmouth, Ohio) Ancestry online

The Portsmouth inquirer. (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) (from April 8, 1850 to July 13, 1855) Chronicling America online

Translated abstracts of death notices in the Portsmouth Correspondent, 1894 to 1908 WorldCat

Offline Newspapers for Portsmouth

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.

Daily Dispatch. (Portsmouth [Ohio]) 1840s-1854

Daily Evening Tribune. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1853-1859

Daily Globe. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1870s-1870s

Daily Morning Herald. (Portsmouth [Ohio]) 1855-1856

Daily Portsmouth Dispatch. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1849-1840s

Daily Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1979-1984

Daily Tribune and Clipper. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1850-1852

Democratic Enquirer. (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1848-1849

Life Boat. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1851-1853

Morning Star of Portsmouth. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1914-1916

Ohio Pennant. (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1855-1856

Portsmouth Blade. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1879-1914

Portsmouth Clipper. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1845-1848

Portsmouth Correspondent. (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1857-1914

Portsmouth Courier. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1831-1836

Portsmouth Daily Blade. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1886-1914

Portsmouth Daily Evening Tribune. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1859-1860

Portsmouth Daily Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1905-1930

Portsmouth Gazette and Lawrence Advertiser. (Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio) 1824-1825

Portsmouth Gazette. ([Portsmouth, Ohio) 1818-1819

Portsmouth Inquirer. (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855

Portsmouth Morning Sun. (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1921-1930

Portsmouth Press. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1889-1903

Portsmouth Republican. (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1866-1876

Portsmouth Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1858-1860

Portsmouth Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1861-1915

Portsmouth Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1917-1922

Portsmouth Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1930-1978

Portsmouth Tribune and Clipper. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1848-1853

Portsmouth Tribune and Republican. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1876-1882

Portsmouth Tribune. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1839-1848

Portsmouth Tribune. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1882-1903

Portsmouth Weekly Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1915-1917

Scioto County Democrat. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1897-1899

Scioto Telegraph and Lawrence Gazette. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1820-1821

Scioto Tribune. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1836-1839

Scioto Valley Post. (Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio) 1840-1843

Scioto Valley Republican. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1852-1865

Union and the Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1860-1861

Valley Sentinel. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1896-1917

Weekly Portsmouth Tribune. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1854-1860s

Weekly Tribune. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1903-1904

Western Times. (Portsmouth, Ohio) 1826-1831

Portsmouth Probate Records

1786-1998 Ohio, Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Portsmouth School Records

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Clay High School - Panther Yearbook (Portsmouth, OH), 1941, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1970 E Yearbook online

Clay High School yearbook, 1941, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970 Classmates online

Clay High School yearbook, 1941, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Clay High School yearbook, 1941, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

East High School - Tartan Yearbook (Portsmouth, OH), 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1958 E Yearbook online

East High School yearbook, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

East High School yearbook, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958 Classmates online

East High School yearbook, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Notre Dame High School - Crown Yearbook (Portsmouth, OH), 1953 E Yearbook online

Notre Dame High School yearbook, 1926, 1953, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Notre Dame High School yearbook, 1953, 1975, 1977, 1978 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Notre Dame High School yearbook, 1953, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980 Classmates online

Portsmouth High School - Trojan Yearbook (Portsmouth, OH), 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960 E Yearbook online

Portsmouth High School yearbook, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 Classmates online

Portsmouth High School yearbook, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Portsmouth High School yearbook, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Portsmouth West High School yearbook, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Portsmouth West High School yearbook, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983 Classmates online

Portsmouth West High School yearbook, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Washington High School yearbook, 1954 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online



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