Licking County Genealogical Society A Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society 101 West Main Street, Newark, OH 43055-5054 (located on the 2nd Floor of the Licking County Library, main library, downtown Newark, of the Licking County Library.) Phone: (740) 349-5510 The Licking County Genealogical Society's Library is Open to the Public: Tuesday and Thursday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday 1 - 7:30 p.m.; and Friday and Saturday 1 - 4 p.m. Please see Calendar and Info pages for more. The Licking County Genealogical Society is an all volunteer organization.

Find Us On Our New Facebook Page Jump to Main Menu click here -> See Menu Below Also see "Recent Updates" To view PDF files you will need to download and install the free Adobe Reader. Click here to get Adobe Reader Important upcoming dates January 6, 2018, Saturday, 10 a.m.-Noon Genealogical Investigative Service (age 8 and up) 2nd Floor Conference Room, Licking County Library, 101 West Main Street, Newark, OH. Presented by Bonnalee Greenwald, LCGS Youth Advisor For more information see: Below or also the LCGS 2018 Calendar. Next Regular Meeting: January 7, 2018, Sunday, 2 p.m. 1st Floor Meeting Room A of the Licking County Library, 101 West Main Street, Newark, OH. Meeting: Program: "Applying To A Lineage Society" Presented by: Eydie Keim Annual Meeting and Election of Officers Please plan to attend and bring a friend. Meetings are free and open to the public For more information call the LCGS Library at 740-349-5510. DIG (DNA Interest Group) Meeting January 8, 2018, Monday, 7 p.m. Place: Kendal at Granville, 2158 Columbus Rd, Granville, OH                                       Click on map to enlarge view    Check the LCGS Calendar for our Holiday closings. Time to Renew or Join the membership to the Licking County Genealogical Society Click here to go to the L.C.G.S. Membership Form to view and print the current membership form. See New Announcement below     NEW ANNOUNCEMENT - Genealogical Investigative Service (ages 8 and up) Click on the image below to view as an PDF file or click here to view an enlarged graphic.        In conjunction with the Licking County Library's "In the Company of Heroes"; LCGS wants to honor all Licking County Veterans by including them in our reference notebooks. Click on the image below to view the LCGS Veterans brochure in PDF format.     Click on the image below to view, print, fill out the form and return to LCGS to add your Veteran to our records.         NEW Histories of Licking County and other books Prices have been reduced again! - And now others have been reduced also. Now is the time to get these great books. Quantities are limited and will not be re-printed. Click here or the image below to view the order form in a PDF file.   To see all of our Publications including those above, click here.     Bicentennial History of Licking County 1808-2008. Featuring a concise compilation of previous township histories, plus cemeteries, one-room schools, churches, ghost towns, Century Farms, the Bicentennial Quilt, a Bicentennial events schedule and much more. A detailed bibliography and index make this a very user-friendly book. 304 pages 147 photographs. This full size 8-1/2 x 11, spiral bound book (soft cover) features the Courthouse and the Bicentennial Quilt in color on the front and back cover. Click here or below to view the order form for the Bicentennial History of Licking County 1808-2008.      Finding your Ancestors in Licking County LCGS Membership         Single membership $14.00, Joint membership (1 publication) $16.00                 Licking Lantern (newsletter) Hard Copies Add $5.00                Additional charge - mailing outside the U.S. $8.00        Includes the following with no additional fee The Licking Lantern "A Light into the Past" (4 times a year, Feb., May, Aug., Nov.) Monthly Informative meetings: Newark Library meeting room Two queries to be published in the Licking Lantern (Needs to be ready to print with your membership number.Email is the best way to submit for Lantern) One free look-up (when submitted with your membership application) for one surname to the Ancestor, Pioneer, Marriages and Obituary files. Submit an Ancestor Chart for our files for others to look at.        For more help, LCGS volunteers can research the following:                             $$ per surname in advance Quick look-ups: A fee of $5.00 will be charged for up to 5 pages with $1.00 per page after 5 on the Ancestor Charts, Pioneer, Marriage, Obituary, Family Data and Family History files. Obituaries: $2.00 an obituary from around 1972 to current.                      Any before that date are hit and miss.                      Need name and date, if possible, as not indexed by years. All Records: In our library: Effective August 1, 2015 - A fee of $25.00 with .25 cents per page after 12 pages. Note: In 1867, Ohio passed a law that birth and deaths were to be recorded, but not all were. As the Licking County Courthouse burned in 1875 there are no birth or death records prior to 1875. A few marriages were re-recorded but again not all were. Ohio did not issue birth or death certificates until 20 December 1908. The best way to send information and names to be researched is by email, or postal mail. If sent by email, research will not begin until we receive your money order or check. Please indicate the extent of your own research so LCGS work will not be duplicated. LCGS is staffed by volunteers so it can take up to two weeks to hear from us. If you send a letter, please include your email address or telephone number so we may contact you if needed. Note: Long distance calls can not be returned.                                  You can contact us at 740-349-5510, or email:                                 [email protected] for more information      NEW - The L.C.G.S. Library is now open on Wednesday evenings from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm in addition to the Wednesday afternoon hours of 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. This will allow patrons 6 1/2 hours of research time on Wednesdays.

The Licking County Genealogical Society's Library is Open to the Public: NEW - Beginning January 1, 2017 the LCGS Library will be open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 p.m. On Wednesday the library will be open from 12:00 Noon to 7:30 p.m. Please see Calendar and Info pages for more. The Licking County Genealogical Society is an all volunteer organization.

The Info page has lots of information about how to contact LCGS, become a member of LCGS, how to join First Families of Licking County, Ohio, how to join Civil War Families of Licking County, information about the L.C.G.S.Pioneer Families Project, a brief description of our holdings, how to search much of our holdings, and much more. Licking County Courthouse at Christmas, 2013 Click on the picture above to see an enlarged picture. (Photo courtsey of Ronna Eagle) L.C.G.S. is located in Licking County Library/Main, 101 West Main Street, Newark, OH Click on the picture above to go to the Licking County Library web site. L.C.G.S. Library on the 2nd floor of The Licking County Library/Main, 101 West Main Street, Newark, OH Select From Menu Below or use the Search Box Below index sitemap advanced search engine by freefind

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AWARDS	INFORMATION Officers, Chairman, Lantern Staff Library Holdings, etc.	PHOTO GALLERY
BASIC RESEARCHING IN LICKING COUNTY	L.C.G.S. LIBRARY	PIONEER FAMILIES See also: Licking County Bicentennial Pioneer Applications
BEGINNER'S CORNER	LICKING COUNTY RESEARCH	PUBLICATIONS L.C.G.S. Publications & other items for sale
BIOGRAPHIES	LICKING LANTERN and L.C.G.S. Quarterly Table of Contents from 1976-current issue	PUBLICATIONS & Other Items for Sale ORDER FORM
CALENDAR of Meeting & Events for 2017 2018 CALENDAR of Meeting & Events	LICKING LIBRARY	PUBLICATION "ATLAS" INDEX
CEMETERY PHOTOS Hosted by The Licking County Genealogical Society	LINKS A Good Place to Start for Research Resources (Licking County Resources Licking County Cemeteries, Deaths &Obituaries, and much more.	PUBLICATION "THE GREEN TREE"INDEX
COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP (inactive)	MAP OF L.C.G.S LIBRARY	PUBLICATION "PROBATE RECORDS 1829-1904" INDEX
EDUCATION	MEMBER'S WEB SITES Check out our members web sites with Surnames,	RESEARCH Sources
F.A.Q.	MEMBERSHIP FORM Join L.C.G.S. Time to renew your membership. Click for the 2016 Membership Form.	REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS Of Licking County
FAMILY NAMES in the Family History Section of the L.C.G.S. Library	OBITUARY INDEX You can search just the Licking County Genealogical Library by selecting us from the list Click Here-Select Licking County Genealogical Society	SCHOOL PICTURES from Licking County
FAMILY PICTURES Pictures that have been donated to L.C.G.S. Help us identify those that are unknown.	OHIO CENSUS L.C.G.S Microfilm Holdings	SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR FAMILIES of Licking County
FAMILY SEARCH.COM	OHIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER DATABASES	TOWNSHIP MAP With Year Formed, Range &Township
FAMILY SEARCH.COM RECORD SEARCH FOR CANADA, U.S. & MEXICO	ONLINE PUBLICATION Pre-1808 Transcribed Land Records	"WHAT'S NEW" web page.
FAMILY SEARCH.COM OHIO DEATH CERTIFICATES (1908-1953)	ONLINE PUBLICATION Index to 1812 Licking County Tax Duplicate	YESTERYEAR PICTURES from Licking County
FIRST FAMILIES OF LICKING COUNTY Application & Rules now online	ONLINE PUBLICATION Index to 1816 Licking County Tax Record	1820 CENSUS Head of Household
HERITAGEQUEST ONLINE  Licking County Library Card needed for access from home.	ONLINE PUBLICATION Index to Early Licking County Home Register 1838-1872	1982 HISTORY OF LICKING COUNTY, OHIO INDEX