I have Berrys in Belmont Co....the earliest was John Berry who was supposedly born in Louden Co, Va (although I've never been able to document it). He was born in 1763 and died in Belmont Co 1827. He was married to Catherine Horn, dau of Valentine and Christina Albright Horn. They had 10 children, one of whom was Thomas Berry, who married Sally Purcell in Belmont Co 2-9-1808. I don't know anything more about Thomas and Sally. S. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 10/27/2006

Thanks a million for that website! I'll definitely post some gravestones there. (I'll post my gravestones today as soon as I have one second). Can't wait to read your blog, too, Randi. Great idea. Thanks for the note. Yes, it is unbelievable to make a breakthrough. Going to Belmont County told me so much about my ancestor's life. It was great. Jae On Oct 28, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Randi Meetzen wrote: > I am always happy to hear of someone elses lucky breakthrough.That > is a terrific story. I had the same experience when I vacationed in > Ohio this summer. I was in the village of Savannah in Ashland > County, Ohio and traipsing along in 100 degrees of muggy weather > when before me was a large monument with my gggrandparents name > across it. It is an indescribable feeling to finally see it after > years of searching isnt it? > There is a website called http:// > ohiogravestones.org/ where you can put your photos if > you like to share them. I contributed several dozen of my Tucker, > Rogers, palmer and Dickson photos. > I also started my own little genealogy blog where I posted about > 80 family tombstone pictures http://360.yahoo.com/ > my_profile-3aZNZP48fqM3elMBsqiyi2PxqPXTUe2OLf7ABjw-?cq=1 > Looking forward to seeing what you got! > Randi > > Jae BROWN <jberry@indy.rr.com> wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > > Some may want to hear about my trip to Belmont County, though perhaps > you might find it uneventful. First, it was very brief -- only about > five hours out of our vacation. But, for me, it was a great > breakthrough in my genealogy of the Berry family. On Saturday > afternoon, I'll send you all a link to the photos I took, including > many graves of Naylor, Powell, Current, Beard, Hinton, Shry, Brown, > Logan, and more. > > Thanks to a member of this list, I have found one of my ancestors in > Belmont County and evidence that links her to the family at large. > Unfortunately, I can't find the list member's name! I'm so sorry and > I hope you will make yourself known to me again. Anyway, this list > member mentioned a book that had inscriptions from a book called > "Tombstones of Belmont County." One inscription in the book was > tantalizingly close to the information I had on one of my ancestors. > But the age was wrong! Blast! > > So we went to Belmont County, hoping to prove the book wrong (and > right) and we did prove it wrong and right. The tombstone > inscription was from a stone at the Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church > graveyard. I suppose I am used to Indiana, because I thought it > couldn't be much trouble to locate a church graveyard. How wrong I > was. > > Pleasant Ridge Methodist is a living church but, like most things > near Barnesville, it is extraordinarily rural. Located in the hilly > country of Wayne Township, the church is surrounded by many Amish and > "English" farms and what land is not grazed by cattle is planted in > beans. While the area is remote, it is not backward, as my husband > discovered when he inadvertently touched a farm fence. It was > electrified. (What an eye opener!) > > The directions normally given to Pleasant Ridge got us in the > vicinity but it took the locals to actually direct us to the church. > These 'township roads' are steep hill roads located in lonely areas > of the county! We drove for a long time, amazed by the beauty of the > hills but also surprised when we saw another human. > > The church itself has a delightful white neo-gothic steeple and it is > situated in a most picturesque location. The fall leaves were maybe > one week past perfect but nonetheless the area of vast and lovely. > The church is situated alone on the ridge and the well-tended > graveyard is across the unpaved road. The graves are old but many > stones are new, suggesting that the families are still in the area > and still involved in their history. At least two family groups of > graves are in disarray -- one because it has a tree growing through > the group and one because the stones have collapsed and been piled up > upon each other. > > We found our stones just as we were giving up the search. Though the > graveyard is small, the oldest stones, and ours were among them, are > severely etched and worn. After a long search in Barnesville, we > couldn't locate chalk to highlight the inscriptions and we settled > for crayons. I am thrilled to tell you we found the grave of my gr-gr- > grandfather's daughter, ADA, who died young (age 10) in Belmont > county. The 'Tombstones' book did not include the complete stone > inscription and, with the added detail, we were left without a shred > of doubt that, on the very spot we were standing, also stood my > pioneering gr-gr-grandparents! How difficult it was to scale these > hills and go to church, we can only guess. We found Ada's grave > adjacent to two other graves of ancestors whose names we recognized > from census records. An incredible breaththrough! > > I will post a link to photos tomorrow! > > Jae' > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBELMON- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Randi Bowles-Meentzen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBELMON- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Henry, Can you connect any of your Berrys to Belmont County? My oldest ancestor is Samuel Berry, 1786 to ca 1850, of Wayne Twnship, Belmont County. He and wife Mary Hodgin had 9 children, some of whom could easily have gone to coshocton county. Hannah, Sarah, Ann, William, David, Agnes, Samuel, Thomas (b 1831 -- I note there was a thomas berry in coshocton at some early point. Could it be this one?) Then Jesse Enfield Berry, 1830 to 1864 (killed at Battle of Petersburgh). Then my Berrys are in Iowa. Jae On Oct 28, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Henry Dillon wrote: > Hi, > Could you list a few of your Berry family, their dates and > locations. Do you know if any of your Berry family are connected > to any Dillon/Dillin. I have a goodly number of Berry members in > my data base, many from Coshocton Co. region. > > Henry S. Dillon > > DILLON FAMILY GENEALOGY > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi? > op=GET&db=dillon > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jae BROWN" <jberry@indy.rr.com> > To: <ohbelmon@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:46 PM > Subject: [OHBELMON] My trip to Belmont County > > >> >> Hi, everyone, >> >> Some may want to hear about my trip to Belmont County, though perhaps >> you might find it uneventful. First, it was very brief -- only about >> five hours out of our vacation. But, for me, it was a great >> breakthrough in my genealogy of the Berry family. On Saturday >> afternoon, I'll send you all a link to the photos I took, including >> many graves of Naylor, Powell, Current, Beard, Hinton, Shry, Brown, >> Logan, and more. >> >> Thanks to a member of this list, I have found one of my ancestors in >> Belmont County and evidence that links her to the family at large. >> Unfortunately, I can't find the list member's name! I'm so sorry and >> I hope you will make yourself known to me again. Anyway, this list >> member mentioned a book that had inscriptions from a book called >> "Tombstones of Belmont County." One inscription in the book was >> tantalizingly close to the information I had on one of my ancestors. >> But the age was wrong! Blast! >> >> So we went to Belmont County, hoping to prove the book wrong (and >> right) and we did prove it wrong and right. The tombstone >> inscription was from a stone at the Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church >> graveyard. I suppose I am used to Indiana, because I thought it >> couldn't be much trouble to locate a church graveyard. How wrong >> I was. >> >> Pleasant Ridge Methodist is a living church but, like most things >> near Barnesville, it is extraordinarily rural. Located in the hilly >> country of Wayne Township, the church is surrounded by many Amish and >> "English" farms and what land is not grazed by cattle is planted in >> beans. While the area is remote, it is not backward, as my husband >> discovered when he inadvertently touched a farm fence. It was >> electrified. (What an eye opener!) >> >> The directions normally given to Pleasant Ridge got us in the >> vicinity but it took the locals to actually direct us to the church. >> These 'township roads' are steep hill roads located in lonely areas >> of the county! We drove for a long time, amazed by the beauty of the >> hills but also surprised when we saw another human. >> >> The church itself has a delightful white neo-gothic steeple and it is >> situated in a most picturesque location. The fall leaves were maybe >> one week past perfect but nonetheless the area of vast and lovely. >> The church is situated alone on the ridge and the well-tended >> graveyard is across the unpaved road. The graves are old but many >> stones are new, suggesting that the families are still in the area >> and still involved in their history. At least two family groups of >> graves are in disarray -- one because it has a tree growing through >> the group and one because the stones have collapsed and been piled up >> upon each other. >> >> We found our stones just as we were giving up the search. Though the >> graveyard is small, the oldest stones, and ours were among them, are >> severely etched and worn. After a long search in Barnesville, we >> couldn't locate chalk to highlight the inscriptions and we settled >> for crayons. I am thrilled to tell you we found the grave of my gr- >> gr- >> grandfather's daughter, ADA, who died young (age 10) in Belmont >> county. The 'Tombstones' book did not include the complete stone >> inscription and, with the added detail, we were left without a shred >> of doubt that, on the very spot we were standing, also stood my >> pioneering gr-gr-grandparents! How difficult it was to scale these >> hills and go to church, we can only guess. We found Ada's grave >> adjacent to two other graves of ancestors whose names we recognized >> from census records. An incredible breaththrough! >> >> I will post a link to photos tomorrow! >> >> Jae' >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBELMON- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.0.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: >> 10/27/2006

There are two more days left in Ancestry's "Three free days" promo . . . http://www.ancestry.com/gma/default.aspx?o_iid=24959&o_lid=24959&o_it=21416 Dick Kinkead Lantana, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Saemmer" <patinfla@atlantic.net> To: "List--- Belmont Cty.--- Ohio" <OHBELMON-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:21 AM Subject: [OHBELMON] I need some help > Hi Listers, > > I haven't been doing genealogy for a while, a whole long story. I don't > have my subscription to Ancestry any more either. I received an e mail on > something I posted on Rootsweb and was wondering if I could get some help. > In the 1860 census I found Michael Mitchell, age 50, living in > Steubenville with 4 small children. They were > > Martha E. Burns, born 1854 > Mary A. Burns, born 1856 > Jane E. Burns, born 1857 > Nancy Jane Burns, born 1859 > > If anyone has access to the later censuses and would look any of these > people up I really would appreciate it. Thank you. > > Pat Saemmer patinfla@atlantic.net > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHBELMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You can receive wills from probate court, in St Clairsville....but only certain dates are warehoused at the courthouse. Also, you'll need to give them the exact date of the will (they won't look for it for you), and ask them the current cost. The last time I got any I seem to recall it cost me around $4.00. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 10/27/2006

Hello, I had seen on here a listing about wills on a site, which I have checked out, and was wondering if the actual courthouse in Belmont county does copying of wills for a small fee? I don't think I would want to pay a lot of money to get a copy of a will in order to see if that person is related to my family or not. Any help is appreciated. jamie

I am always happy to hear of someone elses lucky breakthrough.That is a terrific story. I had the same experience when I vacationed in Ohio this summer. I was in the village of Savannah in Ashland County, Ohio and traipsing along in 100 degrees of muggy weather when before me was a large monument with my gggrandparents name across it. It is an indescribable feeling to finally see it after years of searching isnt it? There is a website called http://ohiogravestones.org/ where you can put your photos if you like to share them. I contributed several dozen of my Tucker, Rogers, palmer and Dickson photos. I also started my own little genealogy blog where I posted about 80 family tombstone pictures http://360.yahoo.com/my_profile-3aZNZP48fqM3elMBsqiyi2PxqPXTUe2OLf7ABjw-?cq=1 Looking forward to seeing what you got! Randi Jae BROWN <jberry@indy.rr.com> wrote: Hi, everyone, Some may want to hear about my trip to Belmont County, though perhaps you might find it uneventful. First, it was very brief -- only about five hours out of our vacation. But, for me, it was a great breakthrough in my genealogy of the Berry family. On Saturday afternoon, I'll send you all a link to the photos I took, including many graves of Naylor, Powell, Current, Beard, Hinton, Shry, Brown, Logan, and more. Thanks to a member of this list, I have found one of my ancestors in Belmont County and evidence that links her to the family at large. Unfortunately, I can't find the list member's name! I'm so sorry and I hope you will make yourself known to me again. Anyway, this list member mentioned a book that had inscriptions from a book called "Tombstones of Belmont County." One inscription in the book was tantalizingly close to the information I had on one of my ancestors. But the age was wrong! Blast! So we went to Belmont County, hoping to prove the book wrong (and right) and we did prove it wrong and right. The tombstone inscription was from a stone at the Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church graveyard. I suppose I am used to Indiana, because I thought it couldn't be much trouble to locate a church graveyard. How wrong I was. Pleasant Ridge Methodist is a living church but, like most things near Barnesville, it is extraordinarily rural. Located in the hilly country of Wayne Township, the church is surrounded by many Amish and "English" farms and what land is not grazed by cattle is planted in beans. While the area is remote, it is not backward, as my husband discovered when he inadvertently touched a farm fence. It was electrified. (What an eye opener!) The directions normally given to Pleasant Ridge got us in the vicinity but it took the locals to actually direct us to the church. These 'township roads' are steep hill roads located in lonely areas of the county! We drove for a long time, amazed by the beauty of the hills but also surprised when we saw another human. The church itself has a delightful white neo-gothic steeple and it is situated in a most picturesque location. The fall leaves were maybe one week past perfect but nonetheless the area of vast and lovely. The church is situated alone on the ridge and the well-tended graveyard is across the unpaved road. The graves are old but many stones are new, suggesting that the families are still in the area and still involved in their history. At least two family groups of graves are in disarray -- one because it has a tree growing through the group and one because the stones have collapsed and been piled up upon each other. We found our stones just as we were giving up the search. Though the graveyard is small, the oldest stones, and ours were among them, are severely etched and worn. After a long search in Barnesville, we couldn't locate chalk to highlight the inscriptions and we settled for crayons. I am thrilled to tell you we found the grave of my gr-gr- grandfather's daughter, ADA, who died young (age 10) in Belmont county. The 'Tombstones' book did not include the complete stone inscription and, with the added detail, we were left without a shred of doubt that, on the very spot we were standing, also stood my pioneering gr-gr-grandparents! How difficult it was to scale these hills and go to church, we can only guess. We found Ada's grave adjacent to two other graves of ancestors whose names we recognized from census records. An incredible breaththrough! I will post a link to photos tomorrow! Jae' ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBELMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Randi Bowles-Meentzen

Isn't it great when you find long lost family? Glad that everything turned out. Cheryl J Skinner Connecting Family Dots Tasy Creations -----Original Message----- From: ohbelmon-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohbelmon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jae BROWN Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:47 AM To: ohbelmon@rootsweb.com Subject: [OHBELMON] My trip to Belmont County Hi, everyone, Some may want to hear about my trip to Belmont County, though perhaps you might find it uneventful. First, it was very brief -- only about five hours out of our vacation. But, for me, it was a great breakthrough in my genealogy of the Berry family. On Saturday afternoon, I'll send you all a link to the photos I took, including many graves of Naylor, Powell, Current, Beard, Hinton, Shry, Brown, Logan, and more. Thanks to a member of this list, I have found one of my ancestors in Belmont County and evidence that links her to the family at large. Unfortunately, I can't find the list member's name! I'm so sorry and I hope you will make yourself known to me again. Anyway, this list member mentioned a book that had inscriptions from a book called "Tombstones of Belmont County." One inscription in the book was tantalizingly close to the information I had on one of my ancestors. But the age was wrong! Blast! So we went to Belmont County, hoping to prove the book wrong (and right) and we did prove it wrong and right. The tombstone inscription was from a stone at the Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church graveyard. I suppose I am used to Indiana, because I thought it couldn't be much trouble to locate a church graveyard. How wrong I was. Pleasant Ridge Methodist is a living church but, like most things near Barnesville, it is extraordinarily rural. Located in the hilly country of Wayne Township, the church is surrounded by many Amish and "English" farms and what land is not grazed by cattle is planted in beans. While the area is remote, it is not backward, as my husband discovered when he inadvertently touched a farm fence. It was electrified. (What an eye opener!) The directions normally given to Pleasant Ridge got us in the vicinity but it took the locals to actually direct us to the church. These 'township roads' are steep hill roads located in lonely areas of the county! We drove for a long time, amazed by the beauty of the hills but also surprised when we saw another human. The church itself has a delightful white neo-gothic steeple and it is situated in a most picturesque location. The fall leaves were maybe one week past perfect but nonetheless the area of vast and lovely. The church is situated alone on the ridge and the well-tended graveyard is across the unpaved road. The graves are old but many stones are new, suggesting that the families are still in the area and still involved in their history. At least two family groups of graves are in disarray -- one because it has a tree growing through the group and one because the stones have collapsed and been piled up upon each other. We found our stones just as we were giving up the search. Though the graveyard is small, the oldest stones, and ours were among them, are severely etched and worn. After a long search in Barnesville, we couldn't locate chalk to highlight the inscriptions and we settled for crayons. I am thrilled to tell you we found the grave of my gr-gr- grandfather's daughter, ADA, who died young (age 10) in Belmont county. The 'Tombstones' book did not include the complete stone inscription and, with the added detail, we were left without a shred of doubt that, on the very spot we were standing, also stood my pioneering gr-gr-grandparents! How difficult it was to scale these hills and go to church, we can only guess. We found Ada's grave adjacent to two other graves of ancestors whose names we recognized from census records. An incredible breaththrough! I will post a link to photos tomorrow! Jae' ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBELMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Weird that the location choice doesn't include Iowa!! But everything about Iowa is hard to find. Ancestry has basically nothing but census. Jae On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:15 PM, dave sherry wrote: > http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/keyword.html

Hi Listers, I haven't been doing genealogy for a while, a whole long story. I don't have my subscription to Ancestry any more either. I received an e mail on something I posted on Rootsweb and was wondering if I could get some help. In the 1860 census I found Michael Mitchell, age 50, living in Steubenville with 4 small children. They were Martha E. Burns, born 1854 Mary A. Burns, born 1856 Jane E. Burns, born 1857 Nancy Jane Burns, born 1859 If anyone has access to the later censuses and would look any of these people up I really would appreciate it. Thank you. Pat Saemmer patinfla@atlantic.net

Hi, everyone, Some may want to hear about my trip to Belmont County, though perhaps you might find it uneventful. First, it was very brief -- only about five hours out of our vacation. But, for me, it was a great breakthrough in my genealogy of the Berry family. On Saturday afternoon, I'll send you all a link to the photos I took, including many graves of Naylor, Powell, Current, Beard, Hinton, Shry, Brown, Logan, and more. Thanks to a member of this list, I have found one of my ancestors in Belmont County and evidence that links her to the family at large. Unfortunately, I can't find the list member's name! I'm so sorry and I hope you will make yourself known to me again. Anyway, this list member mentioned a book that had inscriptions from a book called "Tombstones of Belmont County." One inscription in the book was tantalizingly close to the information I had on one of my ancestors. But the age was wrong! Blast! So we went to Belmont County, hoping to prove the book wrong (and right) and we did prove it wrong and right. The tombstone inscription was from a stone at the Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church graveyard. I suppose I am used to Indiana, because I thought it couldn't be much trouble to locate a church graveyard. How wrong I was. Pleasant Ridge Methodist is a living church but, like most things near Barnesville, it is extraordinarily rural. Located in the hilly country of Wayne Township, the church is surrounded by many Amish and "English" farms and what land is not grazed by cattle is planted in beans. While the area is remote, it is not backward, as my husband discovered when he inadvertently touched a farm fence. It was electrified. (What an eye opener!) The directions normally given to Pleasant Ridge got us in the vicinity but it took the locals to actually direct us to the church. These 'township roads' are steep hill roads located in lonely areas of the county! We drove for a long time, amazed by the beauty of the hills but also surprised when we saw another human. The church itself has a delightful white neo-gothic steeple and it is situated in a most picturesque location. The fall leaves were maybe one week past perfect but nonetheless the area of vast and lovely. The church is situated alone on the ridge and the well-tended graveyard is across the unpaved road. The graves are old but many stones are new, suggesting that the families are still in the area and still involved in their history. At least two family groups of graves are in disarray -- one because it has a tree growing through the group and one because the stones have collapsed and been piled up upon each other. We found our stones just as we were giving up the search. Though the graveyard is small, the oldest stones, and ours were among them, are severely etched and worn. After a long search in Barnesville, we couldn't locate chalk to highlight the inscriptions and we settled for crayons. I am thrilled to tell you we found the grave of my gr-gr- grandfather's daughter, ADA, who died young (age 10) in Belmont county. The 'Tombstones' book did not include the complete stone inscription and, with the added detail, we were left without a shred of doubt that, on the very spot we were standing, also stood my pioneering gr-gr-grandparents! How difficult it was to scale these hills and go to church, we can only guess. We found Ada's grave adjacent to two other graves of ancestors whose names we recognized from census records. An incredible breaththrough! I will post a link to photos tomorrow! Jae'

I've assembled the clippings I have found for 3 of my families and posted them here. They are each about 18 pages and a 1.5-2.0 MB download. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/images/manley%20daily%20register.pdf http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/images/shanley%20daily%20register.pdf http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/images/sherry%20daily%20register.pdf I can't say you will find as much on yours but it is definitely worth checking out. The best way to go about it is to try different combinations in the search terms. http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/keyword.html I used last name, first name, town name, descriptive terms (e.g. "wharf boat"), etc. to find the various items. When searching for people in Ohio towns, selecting location = West Virginia is important because location refers to the newspaper not the state of the town itself. It's free to try the search. The results shown are small thumbnail images, but they don't always capture the part of the page that contains the words you are searching for. If you type in Robert - Sherry - Bellaire in the appropriate spots, you'll see some examples where you can see his name in the article and some in which you'd need to look at the downloaded file. The other great thing about the downloaded files is that they highlight in yellow the keys terms in the article that you are searching for. I actually found more articles on him by typing in just the last name (and other sets of combinations, including misspellings and split hyphenations of names) because the optical character recognition engine they use to scan and index all the content does not always accurately capture every word. In other words, there is more there than a simple search result shows. I'm really excited by this site because the newspaper clippings provide a depth of information that goes beyond the traditional vital and legal records we typically look at. Reading them breathes life into family lives beyond names and dates. And this method is far, far easier than scrolling through microfilm with the need to skip through many irrelevant pages. In addition, handling the output, the article, is much easier. Just download the .pdf file, cut and paste with your mouse. I want to get other people excited about this site so that its operators will see the surge of users with interest in Wheeling area content and be inclined to additional content, sooner and in greater volume. Try it and enjoy it. best, Dave http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/ dave sherry <davesherry@yahoo.com> wrote: I found this site today, which costs $20/month. http://www.genealogybank.com I found literally scores of articles, mostly a sentence or 2, on my Bellaire families. Marriages, deaths, arrests, business dealings, etc. - comparable to the work that the Belmont OGS had done with the Belmont Chronicle, only better because you can download images of the actual articles. It appears to be related to the Americcan Antiquarian Society, which offers the database through certain libraries. http://www.readex.com/readex/index.cfm?content=145 According to the AAS site they will eventually have 1874-1922 of the Wheeling Register available. I don't plan to be a subscriber for multiple months, but it was the best $20 I've spend on genealogy in a long time. Hope you find it fruitful! --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.

Actually, in the mid 1850's there are a few birth & death records that were, I understand, "tests" for what information they would finally request in the records that started in 1867. They were in the Auditor's records. Some county records still exist. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Ferguson" <ferg@ntelos.net> To: <ohbelmon@rootsweb.com> Cc: <WKALBRECHT@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [OHBELMON] Crum > No Ohio deaths were officially recorded before 1867, at the state or county > level, so the only place to find a death 'record' in this timeframe would be > in extant church records...or, as an obituary in a local newspaper. > However, in those days obits were not put into the paper as they are today, > and had to be paid for by the family, if they wanted one printed...so, many > folks didn't bother doing so. > I looked in Hinshaws Quaker Encyclopedia, for a Christina > Crumb/Crumm/Crum, and none was found. This record includes many Ohio mm > records. The only Crums I find in any of these records appear in the Upper > Springfield Meeting, located in Columbiana Co...the earliest one is in 1869, > a Laura, dau of C.C. and L.C. (just using initials sure isn't very helpful, > is it!) The next ones are in the mid to late 1880s. So, I don't see any > reason to think your Crums were Quakers. > I checked THE STORY OF BARNESVILLE, by Shephard, and the only Crum > mentioned is a Harley, who operated a Cigar factory in the 1930s. There is > no mention of the surname Crum, any spelling, in McKelvey's CENTENNIAL > HISTORY OF BELMONT COUNTY OHIO. > Sandra > > > > " I did a quick search on Ancestry.com of Quaker records and there are > Crums in the Quaker records. If you don't have access to Ancestry, I'll > look again for Christiana. > > But if your ancestor turns out to be Quaker, you probably will have more > luck with Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy Vols 4 & 5. > But I don't know that there were many records in Belmont County 1830 and > before. I rather doubt you could find a death certificate, but maybe > someone on the list knows better than I do." > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.1/470 - Release Date: 10/10/2006 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBELMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.6/486 - Release Date: 10/19/06 > >

Thank You ...im reading this its verry good Tessi On 10/24/06, EBBurcher@aol.com <EBBurcher@aol.com> wrote: > > Okay, I found it. I am not as bad off as I thought. If there are any > newbies out there and you have relatives that were in Barnesville > from the early > 1800's on, you should check this site. I put this article on there a > couple > years ago, but it was a special in the Barnesville Enterprise and was > very > extensive. > > Pam > > > _http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schooling/Barnesville/Barnesville.ht > ml_ > ( > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schooling/Barnesville/Barnesville.html > ) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHBELMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- GRINNNNNNN

Henry, did you mean this site? I found this site today, which costs $20/month. http://www.genealogybank.com I found literally scores of articles, mostly a sentence or 2, on my Bellaire families. Marriages, deaths, arrests, business dealings, etc. - comparable to the work that the Belmont OGS had done with the Belmont Chronicle, only better because you can download images of the actual articles. It appears to be related to the Americcan Antiquarian Society, which offers the database through certain libraries. http://www.readex.com/readex/index.cfm?content=145 According to the AAS site they will eventually have 1874-1922 of the Wheeling Register available. I don't plan to be a subscriber for multiple months, but it was the best $20 I've spend on genealogy in a long time. Hope you find it fruitful!

_http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schooling/Barnesville/Barnesville.ht ml_ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schooling/Barnesville/Barnesville.html) It has the whole article and then a lot of other information that has been posted over the ast couple years.

Okay, I found it. I am not as bad off as I thought. If there are any newbies out there and you have relatives that were in Barnesville from the early 1800's on, you should check this site. I put this article on there a couple years ago, but it was a special in the Barnesville Enterprise and was very extensive. Pam _http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schooling/Barnesville/Barnesville.ht ml_ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schooling/Barnesville/Barnesville.html)

Ages ago I put the History of Barnesville on a website-anyone know where I put it. This sounds dumb even for me. But I stuck it somewhere because we had the space out there and I have totally forgotten. Pam (do I have to put my last name?) Klemm

Could someone give me this site again please? Thanks. Henry S. Dillon

Thanks for mentioning this site! I tried it yesterday morning and found interesting detailed articles about my Westlake family in Elm Grove, Bellaire, Martins Ferry, even Independence, PA. The image quality is very good and it's easy to print or save a pdf version of any article. Linda