St. Marys Community Public Library has resources to help you with your Local History and Genealogy research.

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The most current issues of The Evening Leader that have not yet been microfilmed are shelved in the magazine section to the left of the Local History Room. Gaps in our holdings are the result of a flood that damaged all known copies of the papers before they could be saved to microfilm.

MICROFILM & MICROFICHE

CENSUS RECORDS
1820 1830 1840 1850
1860 1870 1880 1900
1910 1920 1930  
ST. MARYS NEWSPAPERS
St. Marys Courant
January 2, 1873 to September 10, 1874
St. Marys Commercial
October 1874 to November 1876
St. Marys Free Press
December 1876 to November 1877
St. Marys Graphic
December 1891 to December 1893
January 1895 to December 1895
December 1897 to October 1898
January 1902 to December 1902
St. Marys Argus
January 1878 to January 1882
January 1890 to December 1891
January 1895 to December 1896
St. Marys Argus and Democrat
April 1897 to March 1902
Daily Democrat
January 1896 to December 1896
St. Marys Semi-Weekly Democrat
January 1897 to April 1897
Daily News
February 1903 to January 1905
The Evening Leader
February 1905 to June 1905
October 1914 to February 1916
February 1926 to Present

LOCAL HISTORY ROOM

As part of the 2002 addition to the library, a Local History Room was created to serve local historians and genealogists.

Microfilm Reader 
Microfiche Reader
Access to Black & White or Color Printer/Copier/Scanner
Computer with subscription to Ancestry Library Edition***, Heritage Quest, African American Heritage, Fold3, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS

Basic Genealogy Books
Local History Books (St. Marys, Auglaize County, and surrounding areas)
Family Histories 
Cemetery Records
Early Birth and Marriage Records
Phonebooks & Directories
Census Records on Microfilm
Newspapers on Microfilm
Vertical Files*
Memorial High School Mirror Yearbooks**

Special Collections
The Diamond Collection
Ray Zunk Collection
St. Marys Author Collection

*Vertical Files are a collection of various items which are not bound in a book. The vertical files are separated by various categories. Some examples of items collected in to the Local History Vertical Files are:
Newspaper Clippings, Pamphlets, Postcards, and Photographs.

**The library has the following Memorial High School Mirror yearbooks in the Local History Room:
1910, 1913-2009, 1920-2001, 2011 – Present

Available for Checkout: 1922-1975, 1977, 1982, 1985-1990, 1993-1995

Digitized: 1950-2018
Digital Version Coming Soon: 1914-1949

***Ancestry Library Editions in house use only. 

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