Can anyone please tell me how to go about obtaining adoption records. I contacted the courthouse with no response...

What time frame? The family history library has filmed various court records (common pleas, Supreme Court, District Court)from 1810-1856 and indexes from 1837-1862. They also have guardian bonds from 1853-1870. You may want to check other probate records (wills, estates, administrations, etc.) for information.

The microfilm may be rented from your local Family History Center for $5.50/roll.

The time frame is 1947-1955. It is for for me and my sister... But thanks for the reply

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> Can anyone please tell me how to go about obtaining adoption
> records. I contacted the courthouse with no response...

This page looks fairly definitive:

http://www.odh.ohio.gov/vitalstatistics/legalinfo/adoption.a...

In summary, if you aren't one of the parties involved, you never have access except possibly beginning in 1996. If you are involved, then you may or may not have access.

Legal adoptions are a fairly recent phenomenon (beginning in 1851 in Massachusetts), so this page probably does cover all of the cases. Before that time, adoptions were informal:

http://www.researchetcinc.com/historyofadoption.html

For example, my Guernsey County ancestors, Thomas Cranston and Nancy Commons, "adopted" Mary and Mattie McClellan after their parents died circa 1850.

BTW, Mattie went on to co-found the Women's Christian Temperance Union:

http://books.google.com/books?id=GFSQixpu3h4C&pg=PA15&am...

Scott