Welcome to Athens County Ohio Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! If you have a love for history, a desire to help others, and basic web-authoring skills, consider joining us! Get the details on our Volunteer Page. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] If hosting isn't for you, we can use your help in other ways. More information can be found on the Volunteer Page. The website has been reorganized. MAKE SURE AND REFRESH THE VARIOUS WEBPAGES TO SEE ALL THE LATEST DATA. Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! If you are interested in adding your families' information this website, Email Us. We'll be happy to help your families' obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at Ohio Genealogy Trails, where it will remain free for all to view. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! Strouds Run State Park County Information Founded March 1, 1805 from Washington County Named for Athens, Greece County Seat and Largest City: Athens  Townships Alexander Ames Athens Bern Canaan Carthage Dover Lee Lodi Rome Trimble Troy Waterloo York  Cities Athens Nelsonville Villages Albany Amesville Buchtel Chauncey Coolville Glouster Jacksonville Trimble CDP The Plains Other Communities Beebe Canaanville Carbondale Doanville Enterprise Frost Guysville Hebbardsville Hockingport Imperial Kilvert Millfield Mineral New England New Floodwood New Marshfield Redtown Shade Sharpsburg   Hotel Berry Athens, Ohio Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories and Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles, Diaries and Journals County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Schools Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2013: bio for GRIFFIN Feb 2013: Marriage Records for COTTRILL, RICE, BUTTS, MYRICK, PRATT; RICE family research notes (under bios) Nov 2012: 1890 Census Schedule of Pensioners; Obituaries for PUTNAM, MARTIN, MCDOUGOLD, CAIN, WYNE, STANLEY, HEBARD, GREEN, BROWN; bio for WRIGHT SEARCH OUR SITES SUBMIT A TRANSCRIBED OBITUARY to US Records Availability and Courthouse Information Queries Join our Genealogy Trails Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Midwest States of : Ohio -- Kansas -- Indiana -- Iowa -- Missouri -- Kansas Illinois is covered under its original Illinois Trails List Adjacent Counties Perry County (north) Morgan County (northeast) Washington County (east) Meigs County (south) Vinton County (west) Hocking County (northwest) Wood County, WV (southeast) Ohio State Page Visit our National Site JOIN US! DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY Many thanks to our former host Sandra Cummins who is responsible for many of the transcriptions on this site. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.