This is a correction to my last email. Mary "Polly" Wills married Alexander Ramsey of Fleming Co., KY, in Bourbon Co., KY, 1795, and had seven children: William Burke, Martha, Margaret, Elisabeth "Eliza", John R., Robert Morton, and Sarah Ann "Sally". Mary (Wills) Ramsey d. 1847 in Putnam Co., IN. It was their daughter Eliza who married Archibald Mitchell.

I notice that Marilyn Wills Rabens lists Wills as one of the families she researches. Do you have any information about Andrew Wills, a school teacher, b. abt 1755, d. 1815 in Fleming Co., KY. Married Martha -?-. Seven known children: Rosanna, Mary "Polly", John, Sarah "Sally", James, Samuel, and Andrew Jr. Polly married Archibald Mitchell of Montgomery/Bath Co., KY. I shall be glad to exchange the information that I have. Anne

We are fortunate here in Elmhurst, IL as our library makes Heritage Quest available to their cardholders. There have been a few times when I could not get access to it, however. Too busy, I guess. HQ does not offer the full complement of censuses (?). But I have found that the HQ census search sometimes is a little easier to use when I don't know exactly who, where or when though. I have a partial subscription to Ancestry, including the census records and a few other options. I use it often and for me it more than pays for itself. I could not afford the travel expenses etc. to find the information I find at Ancestry. Again, I was fortunate because I received my first subscription as a gift from my older sister who was encouraging me to hunt for our ancestors! Now, I continue to renew it for myself. Thank heaven for online genealogy resources. While I would love to be able to travel to Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and North Carolina to delve into all those courthouses and libraries, I do still have to maintain my "day job" and take care of my family. Still, there's nothing quite like spending a day in a library or courthouse pouring over old records. And of course, the thrill of finding that link you've been looking for is just great. I'm hoping to be able to do more research trips when I retire--if I can afford it! Marilyn Wills Rabens Becraft, Carrington, Cassity, Downs, Faulkner, Highley, Hodgkin, Hon/Honn, Pritchard/Pritchett, Rout/Routt, Shultz, Strode, Stull, Wills

Hi Lee, I've been checking out your web page. On your mothers' side you show Jane6 WELLS (567), b. circa 1750 at VA, d. 1835 at MO married to John5 BURBRIDGE (568), b. 1796 at KY, m. 1821 at Bath Co, KY, d. 1857 at KY, pro. 1857 at Bath Co, KY. Do you have any further details pertaining to her family? You also have Jones members from Rowan, NC. I have been trying to locate my paternal ancestor Jonathan Wells b 1791 Mt. Sterling, Mtgmy Cy, KY married to Mary "Polly" Jones b 1794 NC. They were married abt 1812 in Kentucky. This is family information passed down but no definitive records are available. I have been unable to locate any information regarding either of them. I am wondering if there is any connection between my family members and yours? Do you know other family members of Samuel Jones, such as a sister maybe, since they are both born in the same time frame.I know there is always a possibility but wondered if you had run across any other relatives that might give me a clue were to look. Thanks! Jean

Ganmaw4@aol.com wrote: >I use the library here in Lexington and have no trouble using Heritage Quest >from my home. I was not aware there were places that charged for that >service. Heritage Quest does charge for the service. As a patron of the Lexington Public Library, you don't see those charges. That is part of what you pay for as a resident and taxpayer of Fayette County. Lee Hoffman/KY TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

I use the library here in Lexington and have no trouble using Heritage Quest from my home. I was not aware there were places that charged for that service. Mary

Ganmaw4@aol.com wrote: >I use library card and access the site from home. Check and see if your >library has Heritage Quest online; it is free and I have found a lot >of useful >information. A small word of warning about Heritage Quest Online. It is a subscription site itself and many libraries and societies have taken advantage of the service at the low cost (to the library or society). Unfortunately, because of the tremendous number of persons accessing the service, Heritage Quest Online has reduced its offerings to fewer entities. In addition, the service has been sold (I forget the details, see Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter at <www.eogn.com>). That sale may mean nothing or it may mean something, we don't know. But don't be surprised if your local library no longer has that service -- especially if it is a relatively small library. Lee Hoffman/KY TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

In a message dated 1/18/2007 12:23:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Ganmaw4@aol.com writes: I use library card and access the site from home. Check and see if your library has Heritage Quest online; it is free and I have found a lot of useful information. Mary Thanks Mary. My ancestry.co membership ended this week and I could not afford to renew it. I'll check my local library. Bob in Indiana

I use library card and access the site from home. Check and see if your library has Heritage Quest online; it is free and I have found a lot of useful information. Mary

ScubaRW4@aol.com wrote: >Ancestry.com cost me $299.00 for a year. Most people cannot afford that >luxury. I would agree IF I and others paid that much. You don't have to buy more than one month at a time. Further, I believe, that $299 is for the entire range of databases and other search material they have available. You can pick and choose the areas/databases to which you want to subscribe. In that perspective, the cost is relatively low. In fact, for some users who live in distant, out of the way places, the $299 a year is fairly inexpense considering that they would spend that much and more to travel to a repository for one day's research -- much less two or more days. It's all relative -- including the people you're trying to find <VBG> - Lee Hoffman/KY TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

In a message dated 1/18/2007 11:37:34 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, lhoffman@acm.org writes: The usual on-line census record site is that of Ancestry. com. There are some others, but I do not recall them off-hand. Ancestry.com IS a pay site although the cost is not too bad depending on how much you use it. If you only want a couple of searches about once a year, it may be that you should put it off until you can make a trip to some library. On the other hand, you will probably spend more on that trip than Ancestry costs unless the trip is for other reasons and the library is on the way. Ancestry.com cost me $299.00 for a year. Most people cannot afford that luxury.

Patricia Todd wrote: >Are there any of the census records for Montgomery Cty between >1810-1900 available online? If so, where can I view them? The usual on-line census record site is that of Ancestry. com. There are some others, but I do not recall them off-hand. Ancestry.com IS a pay site although the cost is not too bad depending on how much you use it. If you only want a couple of searches about once a year, it may be that you should put it off until you can make a trip to some library. On the other hand, you will probably spend more on that trip than Ancestry costs unless the trip is for other reasons and the library is on the way. Hope this helps - Lee Hoffman/KY TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

Are there any of the census records for Montgomery Cty between 1810-1900 available online? If so, where can I view them?

Hello Fellow Researchers: I am trying to confirm the marriage of George Washington Stull to Fannie Blevins on 1/23/1853 in Montgomery Co., KY. Can anyone help me? Thanks very much. Karen Jefferson County Indiana lookup Volunteer

Dear Prospective Cousins, A couple years ago I was able to purchase a copy of the 1879 Beers & Lanagan map of Montomery county. The map was quite large, with insets of Mt. Sterling, Jeffersonville, Camargo, etc. To try and keep the map print large enough to be seen, I litterally cut it up and scanned it, left to right and north to south. I called these ranges & made a list of the property owners names associated with each range. I also noted where mills , blacksmiths, churches & the like were located. These can be found on my webshots.com page at http://community.webshots.com/user/pshobson The Mt. Sterling map is posted in a separate album from the Montgomery county map. You do not have to join webshots to be able to view the maps the albums, but they might make you sign up as a guest. There's a primitive range map reference in the first picture in the Mont. County map. Each picture can be enlarged by clicking on tthe magnifying glass to the right of the picture. The mills I found were: Thomas Mill Range 26 C.F.Strouse Mill Range 27 Mill 01 S. Mill 25 Lee Mill 28 Flour Mill 17 Evans Mill 24 Baker Mills 29 Steam Mill -- Jeffersonville Howards Mills -- 19 Pat Hobson

JBolt712@aol.com wrote: >I LIVE IN THE FAR NORTHWEST CORNER OF INDIANA, SO NOT LIKELY IN MY LIBRARY, >BUT I WILL CERTAINLY CHECK. NEVER HEARD OF THIS BOOK BEFORE A FEW DAYS AGO. You local library may not have it, but you are not far from the Newberry Library in Chicago and I would expect that it would have it. Further, the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne also probably has it. Since these are two of the largest genealogical libraries, I would be surprised if they don't have the book. Still, even those two may be to distant for you. In that case, ask about Inter-Library Loan (ILL) where your local library gets the book from some other library and then loans it to you for a specified time. Again, for library use, the citation is: Carl B. Boyd Jr. and Hazel Mason Boyd, "A History of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, 1792-1918" (Mt. Sterling, Kentucky: Self-Pub, 1984) Hope this helps - Lee Hoffman/KY TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

The deed books sometimes have references to mills. I've gone through the deed books for Montgomery Co. in some detail for my families, and have found some references to mills in those deeds. For example: Deed Book 12 [1825-1826] p. 54 -- references a mill yard on Grasslick Creek. It's not clear who owns the mill, or whether John Long, the buyer of the land, is buying the 2 acres where the mill is located. DB 14 [1828-1830] p. 282 -- In 1829, Joseph Long sold to Lewis Moore of Bath Co. 2 tracts on both sides of Hingston Creek. The tract on the north side of the creek bordered on the great road and included a saw mill on the 1 1/2 acre tract. Joseph Long bought his land on Hinkston Creek in pieces from Thomas Jamison over time starting in 1803. The saw mill may have been built many years previously to 1829. I think that Joseph Long did have the mill for awhile because he continued to buy large tracts of land, and being a mill wright would have provided enough of an income to enable him to do that. Also, all the Longs and their relatives moved to Missouri between 1829 and 1835, and a nephew built and owned a mill there. It might be useful to see who your ancestors' neighbors were in the censuses and tax lists. Sometimes you can also figure out what creek they lived on, which might be useful. In some places early on, I think there were mills on every creek. I don't know if Mont Co was that way. Pat Boyd Ward - Long, Wade, Boyd, Hensley, Rayburn

THANKS FOR THE WARNING, I WILL BE CAREFUL HAROLD NEIL

I LIVE IN THE FAR NORTHWEST CORNER OF INDIANA, SO NOT LIKELY IN MY LIBRARY, BUT I WILL CERTAINLY CHECK. NEVER HEARD OF THIS BOOK BEFORE A FEW DAYS AGO. HAROLD NEIL GRIFFITH IN.

Thank you, I hadn't thought of that. Reading your message got me to thinking. Josiah did not own any land so he was probably a tenant on somebody else's. On the 1810 census he's listed next to John Holland (Hollon). John's brother, George, married Josiah's daughter, Elizabeth in 1818. It may be that he was a tenant on the Holland land. The part of Montgomery Co. where the Hollons and Josiah lived eventually ended up being part of Wolfe Co. Josiah married the widow Elizabeth O'Hair for a short time and lived on the O'Hair land near Hazel Green. They then divorced and Josiah went to live at Laurel Hill. As far as we know that's where he lived the rest of his life. He apparently died before 1830 because he's not on the census. In 1820 he's on the Floyd Co. census, which is where the O'Hair land was. I don't know if he lived at Laurel Hill in 1810 or not. Marsha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don and Pat Ward" > The deed books sometimes have references to mills. I've gone through the > deed books for Montgomery Co. in some detail for my families, and have > found > some references to mills in those deeds. > It might be useful to see who your ancestors' neighbors were in the > censuses > and tax lists. Sometimes you can also figure out what creek they lived on, > which might be useful. > > In some places early on, I think there were mills on every creek. I don't > know if Mont Co was that way.