Formed March 25, 1803 from Adams and Washington counties — one of Ohio's original counties · county seat Gallipolis. Repository addresses, online record links, and a free printable record checklist below.
Short episodes that walk through Gallia County's records, one record type at a time.
Formation · Settlers & Migration · Probate · Land · Tax · Churches · Newspapers · Where to Look
Watch on YouTube18 Locust Street, Room 1293, Gallipolis, OH 45631 · (740) 446-4612, ext. 1242
[email protected] · galliacountyoh.gov/juvenile-probate
Wills, estate/guardianship files, marriage records from 1803, and historic birth/death records from roughly 1867–1908.
18 Locust Street, Gallipolis, OH 45631 · (740) 446-4612, ext. 1247/1248
[email protected] · recorder.galliacountyoh.gov
Deeds, land/property records, military discharge records, and mortgages.
18 Locust Street, Room 1290, Gallipolis, OH 45631 · (740) 446-4612
Divorces, civil suits (including partition suits that divide land among heirs), and Common Pleas journals. Before 1852, this court also handled wills and estates.
18 Locust Street, Gallipolis, OH 45631 · (740) 446-4612 ext. 213
Current tax lists and property transfer records. Early tax duplicates are on FamilySearch and at the Ohio History Connection.
7 Spruce Street, Gallipolis, OH 45631 · (740) 446-7323
Digitized Gallipolis Daily Tribune/Times Sentinel back to 1895, Ancestry Library Edition, Fold3, HeritageQuest, Sanborn maps, and the R.B. Hayes Obituary Index.
340 Second Avenue, Gallipolis, OH 45631 · (740) 446-7200 · [email protected]
Local history museum with dedicated Medical and Military rooms.
459 2nd Avenue / PO Box 1007, Gallipolis, OH 45631 · (740) 446-4242
[email protected] · galliagenealogy.org
Probate/court record indexes, family files, transcriptions, and cemetery records. Open Wed–Fri 10am–4pm and by appointment.
499 Jackson Pike, Suite D, Gallipolis, OH 45631
[email protected] · galliacohealth.gov/vital-statistics
Ohio birth certificates (1908–present) and Gallia County death certificates, $25/copy.
No direct public phone line found for Vital Statistics — use the email above or VitalChek.
Find A Grave — Gallia County and the Bossard Library's in-house cemetery book collection.
Not sure which office has what? See Which County Office Holds What.
Many Gallia County record books are filmed and free to view at FamilySearch (free account required).
In Full-Text Search, add Gallia County, Ohio as the place to find names inside handwritten deeds, wills, and court books. How to use it.
Gallia County was formed in 1803 from Washington and Adams Counties. For records made before then, search the parent counties:
Part of Gallia County lies in the Ohio Company Purchase, land bought by the Ohio Company of Associates, the New England veterans who founded Marietta in 1788. The first titles came from the company, so start with the earliest deeds at the county Recorder (or the parent county's).
Other parts of the county were federal Congress Lands or smaller special tracts. Where land was sold by the federal government, the first purchase appears as a federal patent.
Titles that covered Gallia County, historic and current, with where to search each one. Not every historic title has been digitized — several survive only on microfilm.
| Title | Years | Where to Search |
|---|---|---|
| Gallia Gazette | 1819–1825 | Chronicling America |
| Gallipolis Journal | 1837–1919 | Chronicling America; microfilm at Bossard Memorial Library |
| The Gallipolis Bulletin | 1867–1920 | Chronicling America; microfilm at Bossard Memorial Library |
| Gallipolis Daily Tribune | 1883–2022 (succeeded by River Cities Tribune & Register) | Chronicling America (through ~1963); GenealogyBank; Bossard Memorial Library digital archive |
| Bossard Memorial Library digital newspaper archive | Multiple titles | bossardlibrary.org — digitized with publisher permission |
Fill in what you're looking for, print it, and take it with you to the courthouse or library.
Brick Walls & Buckeyes
brickwallsbuckeyes.com · Gallia County, Ohio
Addresses and links last checked October 2026.
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