If you plan to do research in Monroe County, the courthouse is open Monday - Friday from 8:00 to 4:30. Birth & death records after 1909 are located in the Health Department, which is in the Senior Citizens Building on Home Avenue in Woodsfield. It is two doors away from the Monroe County District Library, where the Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society maintains a Research Room for Local History & Genealogy. The research room is open the same hours as the library. The website for the Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society is www.rootsweb.com/~ohmccogs/. Enjoy your visit. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randi Meetzen" <meetzen@sbcglobal.net> > To: <ohmonroe@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:05 PM > Subject: Re: [OHMONROE] The National Trail- Following maps to find ancestors > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Randi Meetzen" > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:23 PM > > Subject: [OHMONROE] The National Trail- Following maps to find ancestors > > > > > > > I am going to Ohio again this summer for another > > > genealogical visit and part of our plan is to travel the National > > > Road through Ohio >W. Va >and PA I am researching several lines of my > > > family who followed this > > > trail and will visit cemeteries along the way. If I had understood > > > the geography of the area including the National Road, it would have > > > made my genealogical searching much easier. My Triplett ancestors > > > onwed land and the National Road ran through a far corner of > > > their property. Day after day they watched a seemingly endless > > > procession of horses and wagons going out west until they finally > > > joined the parade and went to Zanesville Ohio. After a few years > > > they got back on the trail and settled a military land warrant > > > in Bureau County Illinois. I mapped all of this out one day and > > > realized that they had followed the National Road. It was a real > > > "duh" moment for me. Now when I work on a particular families movement > > > I get out the vintage online maps and see what possible routes they > took. > > > > > > I had for years been researching my paternal line of Capt John Baker who > > > lived in Catfish Camp, also Redstone Old Fort during the Revolution. > > > Simultaneously I had been researching my maternal line of Quaker Tuckers > > > from Washington County PA. If I had gotten out my trusty dusty map I > would > > > have realized they were in the same place. > > > There are some Bowles's families who lived in this general area in > > > Belmont and Monroe Counties . The National Road would have been easily > > > accesible for their migrations. > > > I went to the www.wheelingcvb.com and requested info. They mailed a very > > > nice map and the 2 brochures of the areas around the National Road free > of > > > charge. There are other websites for historical maps which you can find > > > through Google Images . On USGENWEB you will find some very well done > > > infoby visiting Ohio's Belmont, Monroe,and Noble Co websites. Another > > > terrific site which compliments all of this is Alan Buckinghams > > > MidAtlantic Archives site focusing on early PA. And finally the Ohio > > > Memories webpages http://www.ohiohistory.org/index.html features a > > > terrific lot of info on the National Road. > > > If you have traveled this trail I would like to hear from you and if you > > > live in the area let me know where the GOOD EATS are! > > > > > > > http://360.yahoo.com/my_profile-3aZNZP48fqM3elMBsqiyi2PxqPXTUe2OLf7ABjw-?cq=1 > > > > > > researching Bowles ,Tucker, Strickling, Bradt, Rogers, VanAken,McMillan > > > Whitacre, Winland, Baker, Triplett, Yoho > > > > > > Randi Bowles Meentzen > > > > > > > > > Randi Bowles-Meentzen > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > OHMONROE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHMONROE-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 > OHMONROE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMONROE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message