I think this bounced so I am trying again. Joy Hyde wrote: > Hi, > > HISTORY OF ATHENS COUNTY, OH by Charles M. Walker 1868 > > Do you all understand County Histories. Many Publishers came in to > towns and offered to make a county history. The really nice biographies > were paid for the people themselves. Some people did not want to pay > and did not get in the bios. That does not mean they did not live > there. If your ancestor was the first women to get married. Or was a > sheriff, Judge, first Doctor they will be there anyway. So you have to > look a book like this over very carefully. > > I did get to FHC yesterday. > The Biographies were indexed! Of course there are more names than > that. I tried to do this alphabetical. Then I went to the townships. > > AMES--Lots of stuff. Mostly Judge Silvanus Ames. pages > 146,202,363,365, 370 421, 422, 424. William Ames.You should get this > film and copy all the pages. > > CURTIS, Lodi Township Rev Goodard Curtis pg 482. DUTTON Did not see > anything for it. Some on BARTLETT which you may not need, William > Bartlett 381 land owner. > > BURT. Nothing. He may have moved on by then. Or did not want to pay > for a bio. Try the tax records > > CONNER OR COLLINS, found nothing > > HOOPER and Tracy , nothing there. May be the wrong time. > > LOVELL, Capt. Thomas S. War of 1812 430, 431, 432. Might be worth > seeing > > HOLDREN, John pg. 591, 478-479-480 war > > STEWART, Daniel pg 511, 512, 513, Ezra, 512, William 512, 216, 240, > 246. > > THOMAS-JUDY nothing found > > WOODYARD, SHRY, MICHAEL, DOUGHERTY- You might try your library for > publications your library may have bought from the Athens County > Historical Society & Museum. They, Athens County Historical Society & > Museum, have a lot for sale and many libraries bought them. The Athens > County Historical Society & Museum has a web site and you can see a list > of their publications online. > > http://www.seorf.ohiou.edu:80/~xx024/ Hope that is right > > I hope you know that my word on this means nothing to any one else. You > need to copy the First page (with the date) and the pages themselves, > especially for DAR, SAR or Pioneer Family Societies, documentation for > a book. Believe me some day you'll wish you had the proof. > > I hope to get back to FHC next week. I can't do the microfilm very long > at a time. The glare gives me a headache. > > You NEW people send me your SURNAMES and TOWNSHIPS. > > Remember this book was written 1869 pretty old. Most were written in > 1880's. The Goodspeed did a lot of them. > > Joy Pixler Hyde > List Owner OHATHENS-L