Scioto County Public Library has a free Scioto County Early Death Index, Scioto County Early Wills Index, Scioto County Early Property Index, Scioto County Early Cemetery Index, Scioto County Early Marriage Index, Portsmouth Daily Times Obituary Indexes 1886-2018; Portsmouth Cemetery Records, Scioto Cemetery Index, Scioto County Oral Histories, Scioto County and Portsmouth HS Yearbooks, and more.

• Scioto County Veteran Interviews

• Portsmouth Early Newspaper Index – The following newspapers were used in this index:

  • The Western Times June 29, 1826 – December 13, 1827

  • The Portsmouth Inquirer April 8, 1850 – April 1, 1853, December 1, 1854 – July 13, 1855

  • The Daily Evening Tribune June 7, 1853 – November 10, 1860

  • The Portsmouth Times September 28, 1858 – December 30, 1865

• Portsmouth Greenlawn Cemetery Records (A-L)

• Scioto County Early Cemetery Index

• Scioto County Early Marriage Index – At this time, the following marriage books are indexed: 1803-1840, Book A; 1840-1856, Book B; 1856-1858, Book C; 1853-1862, Book D

• Scioto County Early Property Tax Index

• Scioto County Early Newspaper Index

• Scioto County Early Death Index – The Local History Department has early death records for Scioto County from 1856-1908 on microfilm. The county was not required to record death records prior to 1856. Deaths were not recorded from 1859 to 1866.

• Scioto County Early Wills Index – The Early Will Index consists of: Scioto County Will Book A – 1810-1842; Scioto County Will Book B – 1842-1860; Scioto County Will Book C – 1860-1876

• Scioto County Digitized History Collections

• • Scioto County Fair

  • Ice Storm 2003

  • Charles Hayward Journals

  • Portsmouth Daily Times Obituary Indexes 1886-2018

• • Jane (Beebe) Hughes Collection

  • 1968 Wheelersburg Tornado Collection

  • Personal Collections

  • Public Contributions

  • Portsmouth Daily Times Building, 2016

  • Ohio Stove Company

  • All Saints Church Ledgers – Episcopal Church

  • Oral/Recorded Audio Histories

  • 1848 Auditor Delinquencies

  • U.S. Grant Bridge Construction 1927, Repair 1940

  • Buckeye Fire Brick and Clay Company Shipping Documents

  • Pictorial Portsmouth – The Peerless City – Past & Present

  • The Portsmouth Blade – Industrial Edition, 1898

  • Southern Ohio Tombstones – Digital photographs of tombstones from several cemeteries within the Southern Ohio counties of Adams, Brown, Highland & Scioto.

  • Roy Rogers Collection

  • Carl Ackerman Collection

  • Taylor Stone Collection

  • 1904 Portsmouth Ohio

  • School Class Photos by Carl Ackerman

  • 1880 St. Paulus Lutheran Church Ledger

  • Shoe Factories (Selby Demolition, 1999)

  • Railroad

  • Flood Views of Portsmouth, Ohio During March and April, 1913

  • A Photographic Story of the Flood – Portsmouth, Ohio – March 1913

  • Flood Views of Portsmouth, Ohio – March 28 to April 2, 1913

  • Flood Views, Portsmouth, Ohio – March 1913

  • Business Letterhead Collection

  • McKinley Elementary School Class Photos

  • Diaries

  • Portsmouth High School Class of 1928 – 50th Reunion

  • Anonymous Donations/Acquisitions

  • Historic Item Collection

  • River Days – 1970’s

  • Flood Photos

  • 2002 Winter Olympic Torch Relay

  • Portsmouth Public Library Photos, approximately 1970-1980

  • Save Our Libraries Rally, 2009

  • The Old Portsmouth High School Building, 1912-2007

  • Barack Obama’s Visit to Shawnee State

  • U.S. Grant Bridge Grand Opening, 1927

  • New Portsmouth High School Site (pre-demolition)

  • Portsmouth Scenes

  • President Bill Clinton Visits Shawnee State University, 2008

  • John McCain Town Hall Meeting

  • The Whittlers’ Gazette by Clyde Brant of Lucasville

  • Portsmouth Churches

  • Scioto County Catholic School History

  • Storm of the Century (1937 Flood)

  • Sports

  • Red Cross Membership Cards

  • Portsmouth in 1903, with added typed information dated 1969

  • Ohio River’s Great Flood – Portsmouth-Cincinnati 1937

  • Industrial Portsmouth, Ohio. The All American City 1880-1980

  • Industrial Portsmouth 1910

  • Henry A. Lorberg Scrapbooks

  • Portsmouth Street Photos

  • America’s Major Flood Disaster 1937

  • Portsmouth City Directories (Parent Collection)

  • 12 Early Portsmouth Businesses

  • Donations

  • Businesses, Buildings, and Street Scenes

  • 1937 Portsmouth Flood

  • 1913 Portsmouth Flood

  • 1910 Gilbert Grocery Fire

  • Written Histories

  • Yearbook Collection– School annuals from various schools in Portsmouth and Scioto County published yearly to commemorate the past school year.

  • View the items in Historic Postcards – 3½” x 5½” postcards of Portsmouth and Scioto County, Ohio