There is also a hard-cover index book which contains 226 pages of 5 colums on each page of names. It is called "Index - Women in the Western Reserve Before 1840" and was printed in 1976 by the Genealogical Committee of the Western Reserve Historical Society. I got my book from the WRHS a few years back (but not more than 7 years ago), so I don't know if they still have any copies for sale. The price at that time was $15. This is probably the same information as the microfiche at the Family History Center, but in book form. Perhaps your library may have the book if it was distributed widely. The microfilms the book indexes are also at the Western Reserve Historical Society Library, University Circle, in Cleveland, OH. -- Elissa On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:30:22 +0100 "Joan T. Sullivan" <[email protected]> writes: > There is a wonderful resource at the LDS Family History Centers - > Women in the Western Reserve OHIO before 1840 . Litchfield was in > Medina CO. My Fenn ancestors - I believe - were from Medina Co..The > woman responsible for this county must have had some misfortune, as > her efforts were aborted and the county is scantily covered, if at > all. > > It seems that in 1896 a large group of women protested among > themselves that the men got all the credit for whatever good was > accomplished in the early days - books were largely written about > men > - and they decided to interview women and learn how they lived, > etc..in the various counties - the criteria of selection was pioneer > > women in Ohio between 1796 and 1840 (1850). They then wrote up the > results. It was a fabulous success for researchers. Later came an > index. It's on fiche -2 or 3 fiche-, arranged alphabetically by > surname. Then it is broken down by women's first names. The number > given for each woman corresponds to a page on the film of the same > title. > > Fiche #6087501 Film 1009031 misc. counties and 1009032 Trumbell Co. > Enter the film number in http:www.familysearch.com (library > holdings) > and you can see which counties were covered. > > There you find when your ancestor came to that part of OHIO and her > > last dwelling place if dead. The husband's name is also given and > for > the most part children are right under - not boys however - the > focus > is on women. > > Lastly, but of great importance, there are the accounts. Now should > anyone be fortunate to find the right woman and family in the fiche > > and film, they must take a trip to Cleveland where there are large > volumes in the Western Reserve Historical Society corresponding to > the numbers designated on the fiche and in the film- I think I > remember reading that there were 15 vols.. The details are as > individual and interesting as the ladies themselves. There are also > a > number of memorabilia kept there from that time. > > I hope this is helpful to many of you. Joan > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.