Belmont County, Ohio GenWeb

Belmont County Bibliography & LookUps Page

This is a list of the history, genealogy, biography and geography books relating to Belmont County, some are available online, others may be available by inter-library loan through your local public library or genealogical society. Unfortunately many of the titles, like most Genealogy items, may not be available on a circulating basis. However, many libraries may offer to make photocopies of indexes.

If you find a mistake, or can add other materials or locations to this list, please contact us.

Many of these were available in the past on our "LookUps" page, and if you have a book and are willing to help, we would be glad to your name here.

Also see our list of Barnesville Library Genealogy Room holdings

Look-Ups Available:

A Sketch History of the Bone, Pyle, Ashton, Bailey, and Kiger families (In the 19th Century significant in the Life of Eastern Ohio and Northwestern Virginia Around Wheeling)
It was written in 1959 by John H. Kiger.
Contact: L. Davis

Other Books:

Centennial history of Belmont County, Ohio, and representative citizens. McKelvey, A. T. (1903). - Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co.

Available Online at: Archive.org

History of the upper Ohio valley, with family history and biographical sketches: A statement of its resources, industrial growth and commercial advantages ... Brant & Fuller, p. (1890). - Madison, Wis.: Brant & Fuller.

Belmont Biography Index and Book Link available Online at: Jefferson.OHGenWeb.org

Belmont County Before 1830 Ochsenbein, Irene Mount & Fedorchak, Catharine F., - Anundsen Publishing Company, Decorah, Iowa. 1977

Can not find available online, please help with this resource.

History of Belmont and Jefferson counties, Ohio: and incidentally historical collections pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley. Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander)., Newton, J. H. (1880). - Wheeling, W.V.: The Historical Pub. Co..

Available Online at: Archive.org

Tombstone inscriptions & family records of Belmont County, Ohio Powell, Esther Weygandt - Belmont County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

Can not find available online, please help with this resource.

Somerton Area Heritage: A History of Somerset and Wayne Townships, Belmont County, Ohio, Including the Villages of Boston, New Castle, Somerton, and Temperanceville Bruce A. Yarnall - Gregath Company, 1986 - Belmont County (Ohio) - 654 pages

Can not find available online, please help with this resource.

Sunset Heights bicentennial history (1776-1976) Sunset Heights Bicentennial Historical Committee - Publisher: Sunset Heights Bicentennial Historical Committee 1976 - 149 pages

Can not find available online, please help with this resource.

Hanlons' Illustrated Year Book of Barnesville, Containing a Complete Record of the Local Events of 1887 Hanlon Bros. & Co - Barnesville, O., Hanlon Bros. & Co., 1888.

Reprints for sale at Belmont Genealogical Society.

Also see books for sale at the Belmont Genealogical Society

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Page updated July 2025

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