This is not a government office or records custodian. Ohio Residents Directory is privately operated. It cannot retrieve or certify a record, confirm a person's current address, or change a government roll. Send record requests to the office that keeps the material. For an emergency, call 911. Report stalking or harassment to local law enforcement.
Where Ohio Records Are Held
Ohio has no single office for resident records across all 88 counties. Start with the custodian for the record type and jurisdiction:
- Property and deed records: contact the County Auditor or Fiscal Officer for a parcel record and the County Recorder for recorded instruments. The Ohio street directory page explains how those address records connect.
- Older households: ask a local-history library, historical society, or archive about its directory, census, newspaper, and obituary holdings. The Ohio city directory page describes collection access.
- A person's records: route voter questions to the Ohio Secretary of State or county Board of Elections, court questions to the proper clerk, and birth or death requests to ODH or a local registrar. The Ohio resident lookup page maps those routes.
- General public-record requests: make a specific request to the office that keeps the record under the Ohio Public Records Act, ORC ยง149.43. The state's 88 counties and its cities do not share one record desk.
For help understanding Ohio's request rules, the Ohio Attorney General's Sunshine Laws Manual is the statewide reference. The Public Records Unit can be reached at 614-466-2872 or Sunshine@Ohioago.gov. It explains the law; it does not replace the Recorder, Auditor, court, registrar, or other custodian that holds a particular record.
Ohio Residents Directory does not receive public-record requests on behalf of government offices. For a correction or access request about a government-held record, use the contact details published by that custodian.