The resulting returned records will be displayed below the search form in groups of 15. Notice some Indices cover single years, while others are five year spans. The maximum number of records that can be returned with one query is 1000. More information may be found in the Death Certificates themselves. Please see About Birth and Death Records in Ohio for further background information and Guidelines for Offsite Reference Requests for instructions on how to obtain a copy of a certificate.
Errors can occur, particularly with letters of similar appearance.
For use as a guide for county names, a list of the 88 counties can be found here. Please take this into consideration while searching the database. See the Death Index FAQ for more info. We will continue to work on improving the accuracy of the data, verifying it against the hardcopy index. At regular scheduled intervals we upload corrections.