>From a side bar in "The Beacon Journal", Akron, Ohio 15 Dec 1999 Columbus -- Marriage certificate privacy bill introduced. A bill to prevent the Social Security number and mothrs's maiden name contained on a marriage certificate from falling into the wrong hands was introduced this week by state Rep. Bryan Williams, R-Akron. The informanton would still be required for marriage certificates but would be removed for public records requests, said Omar Alvi, legislative aide to Williams. The bill would bring Ohio into compliance with a 1990 federal law banning social Security numbers from being given out as part of public records requests. Ohio lawmakers last year make the number optional on driver's licenses. End. The following is from http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ the legislature of Ohio web page. As Introduced 123rd General Assembly Regular Session 1999-2000 H. B. No. 519 REPRESENTATIVES WILLIAMS-CATES-NETZLEY-HOOD-SCHULER-VANVYVEN- JOLIVETTE-GRENDELL-HOOPS-TAYLOR-COUGHLIN-ROMAN-ALLEN A BILL To amend section 3101.05 and to enact section 101.051 of the Revised Code to eliminate the requirement that social security numbers be included on marriage licenses and to require probate courts, except under certain circumstances, to delete social security numbers and maiden names of the mothers of the parties to a marriage from records pertaining to marriage licenses when those records are requested. End Just what does your mother's maiden name being blacked out,have with a Social Security number? OK a credit card company may use this for ID of an account but why black out this info for future genealogists? Let the credit card companies change their ID method, which should be changed anyway. Robert E. Strock Dalton, Ohio -- Bob & Esther Strock, Dalton, OH. On the edge of Amish Country. Researching family history in Holmes, Medina, Stark, Summit, Wood, Wayne and other Counties of Ohio. Sponsor member of Rootsweb and listowner of Strock-L and Uhl-L message lists. GenConnect Family Association boards: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Strock http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Uhl

Copied this, including the sender's name, from another list I'm on :) The Laws of Genealogy The document containing evidence of the missing link in your research invariably will be lost due to fire, flood or war. The keeper of the vital records you need will have just been insulted by another genealogist. Your great, great, grandfather's obituary states that he died, leaving no issue of record. The town clerk you wrote to in desperation, and finally convinced to give you the information you need, can't write legibly, and doesn't have a copying machine. The will you need is in the safe on board the "Titanic". The spelling of your European ancestor's name bears no relationship to its current spelling or pronunciation. That ancient photograph of four relatives, one of whom is your progenitor carries the names of the other three. Copies of old newspapers have holes which occur only on last names. No one in your family ever did anything noteworthy, always rented property, was never sued and was never named in wills. You learned that Great Aunt Matilda's executor just sold her life's collection of family genealogical materials to a flea market dealer " somewhere in New York City". Yours is the only last name not found among the 3 billion in the world famous Mormon Archives in Salt Lake City. Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate inversely proportional to the value of the data recorded. The 37 volume, sixteen thousand page history of your country of origin isn't indexed. The critical link in your family tree is named "Smith". Regardless of the problems foreseen here, we wish everyone the best of the Holiday Season. [AL DAWSON JOINS IN THIS AND THANKS....] Don Holmes Ontario Al Dawson, Berea, Ohio - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973. "HAVE SPOOL, WILL UNRAVEL" Professional Services Available. My Webpage: www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/ Surnames include ("Mary and John" passengers) GRANT, GILLETT, WOLCOTT, PHELPS, GRISWOLD, HOLCOMBE, FORD, COOK, CHARD ("Mayflower") FRANCIS COOKE, STEPHEN HOPKINS, JOHN ALDEN PRISCILLA MULLINS, THOMAS ROGERS and WILLIAM BRADFORD

For all who may be interested the reprint with index is available from: McKinley Museum Gift Shop 800 McKinley Monument Drive NW Canton, OH 44708 PH. 330-455-7043 The cost is approx. $24.00 and well worth it. Russ

Hi listers, Does anyone know where I can purchase an 1875 Stark Co. Ohio Atlas? Someone told me about it a while back, and I think it would benefit me to own one. Thank you, Judy Uplinger Brannon

Seeking to make contact with anyone on the list who might have BARBARA AUSTERZARD in their family tree. Barbara's maiden name was MOONEY (believed to be from Cleveland) siblings were: EARL, BERTHA, RICHARD, AND FLORENCE. Please contact me to exchange info: Marie rchesbro@froggernet.com

Happy Holidays, I copied and pasted this info from another list. Thought it might be of interest to many people on our list as well. Barb > >-----Original Message----- >From: Susanne B. Jones <fsc01023@mail.wvnet.edu> >To: WVOHIO-L@rootsweb.com <WVOHIO-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 7:04 PM >Subject: [WVOHIO] History of Allegheny Co., etc. > > >>Happy Holidays, >>I copied and pasted this info from another list, as a lot of people who >>ended up on the Ohio River were from Allegheny Co. This site is >>AWESOME! >>Susie >> >>The "Historic Pittsburgh Collection" is an online collaboration between >>the University of Pittsburgh and the Historical >>Society of Western Pennsylvania. They are making available >>full-text-searchable books published in the nineteenth and early >>twentieth centuries. The History of Allegheny County is among those >>books. So now you can quickly and easily do your own lookup in this >>wonderful reference book and many others. The goal is to put online >>"more than 400 items, over 500 archival finding aids, approximately 600 >>land ownership maps, and access to the Historical Society of Western >>Pennsylvania's catalog." >> >>The website is at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/ >> >>The History of Allegheny County table of contents is located at >> >>http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/pitttext-idx.pl?notisid=00afq9167m & >type=header >> >>This site is amazing - you've got to check it out! >> >> >> >

Thanks to the efforts of distant cousins, I have recently received information on siblings of my ggg-grandmother Sarah HARTZEL. Does anyone have similar information on these siblings and perhaps know who their parents were? All of these families were enumerated in Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio in the 1850 census and lived quite close to one another. Thanks, Michael Cummings Sarah HARTZEL, b. 7 Apr 1817, PA, d. 10 Nov 1872; m. John RIDER 12 Feb 1837, Stark Co., OH John HARTZEL, b. 17 Mar 1820, OH (PA?), d. 18 Dec 1883; m. Elizabeth SECRIST 31 Oct 1841, Tuscarawas Co., OH Elizabeth HARTZEL, b.c. 1822, OH; m. John GROVE Hannah HARTZEL, b. 26 Jun 1824, OH, d. 5 Feb 1892; m. John EVERSOLE 27 Oct 1842, Stark Co., OH

Daniel KEIM b.16,Nov.1806 Adams Co.Pa. married 27 March 1827 Stark Co. Ohio d.16 Jan..1878 Cuba,Ill. Katherine KIMMEL b.20,Aug.1806 Pa. d.5 Jan.1886 Cuba,Ill. Thanks

Levi Shelton MASON b.19-2-1915 Fulton Co.,Ill. d.5-3-1999 Two Rivers Wi. in a car accident Father to Levi Robert James Mason b.3-4-1882 Injured in an accident @ the Water Lilly Coal Mine in Cuba,Ill d.29-4-1933 b.@ Howard Cemetery Smithfield,Ill. Mother to Levi Sadie Bell KEIME b.22-9-1884 Stark Co.Ohio d.1979 b@Howard Cemetery Smithfield Ohio Parents to Robert James MASON Father Samuel MASON #1 11-4-1836 where? who are his parents? Mustered into Union Army 18-9-1861@ Woodland Carroll Co. Mustered out disability discharge 18-11-1862 Marriage 12-5-1855 OMR page 101 License #580 d.6-1-1910 b. in Howard Cemetery Smithfield,Ill. Mother Elizabeth DENNY b.11-3-1837 d. ? b. ? Parents of Sadie Bell KEIME Father Solomon KEIME b.18-3-1833 OHIO I was told Solomon fought for the Union in the Civil war for Illinois d.12-5-1919 Fulton Co.Ill. Mother Lavina MASON (new dates) 1845/46 d.10-9-1922 b.Howard Cemetery w/o Solomon Fulton Co. Ill. d/oSamuel& Elizabeth PORTER MASON ref.death cert. Parents of Lavina KEIME MASON ,Alvin MASON KEIME Samuel MASON#2 b.1810 PA. arrived in Illinois by 1845 d.16-8-1874 Futon Co.,Ill. b. Blackaby/Saunders Cemetery at Putman Twp Mother Elizabeth PORTER b.1816 d.12-5-1902 Fulton Co.Ill. b.at Blackaby/Saunders Cemetery at Putman Twp no stone Parents of Elizabeth DENNY Father George DENNY b.1810 d. ? Lawyer in Savanna,Il. Mother Mariah VINEYARD b.1832 d.? Parents of Solomon KEIME Father Daniel KEIME b.16,11,1806 Adams Co.Pa. d.16,1,1878 Cuba,Putman Township married 27,March,1827Stark Co. Ohio MOTHER Catherine KENNEL b.20,8,1806 Pa. d.5,Jan.1886 Cuba,Putman Township b.Saunders Cemetery

Levi Shelton MASON b.19-2-1815 Fulton Co.,Ill. d.5-3-1999 Two Rivers Wi. in a car accident Father to Levi Robert James Mason b.3-4-1882 Injured in an accident @ the Water Lilly Coal Mine in Cuba,Ill d.29-4-1933 b.@ Howard Cemetery Smithfield,Ill. Mother to Levi Sadie Bell KEIME b.22-9-1884 Stark Co.Ohio d.1979 b@Howard Cemetery Smithfield Ohio Parents to Robert James MASON Father Samuel MASON b.11-4-1836 where? who are his parents? Mustered into Union Army 18-9-1861@ Woodland Carroll Co. Mustered out disability discharge 18-11-1862 Marriage 12-5-1855 OMR page 101 License #580 d.6-1-1910 b. in Howard Cemetery Smithfield,Ill. Mother Elizabeth DENNY b.11-3-1837 d. ? b. ? Parents of Sadie Bell KEIME Father Solomon KEIME b.18-3-1833 OHIO I was told Solomon fought for the Union in the Civil war for Illinois d.12-5-1919 Fulton Co.Ill. Mother Lavina MASON b.28-1-1842 OHIO d.10-12-1922 Fulton Co. Ill. Parents of Samuel MASON #1 UNKNOWN Parents of Elizabeth DENNY Father George DENNY b.1810 d. ? Mother Mariah VINEYARD b.1817 d.? Parents of Solomon KEIME Father Daniel KEIME b.11-28-1806 in York Co.,Pa. d.22-1-1877 Fulton Co. IL. Mother Katherine KENNEL b.18-8-1804 OHIO d.5-1-1886 Fulton Co.,Ill Parents of Alvin MASON KEIME Father Samuel MASON #2 b.1810 PA. arrived in Illinois by 1845 d.16-8-1874 Futon Co.,Ill. b. Blackaby/Saunders Cemetery at Putman Twp Mother Elizabeth PORTER b.1816 d.12-5-1902 Fulton Co.Ill. b.at Blackaby/Saunders Cemetery at Putman Twp no stone

1.Samuel MASON b.11 April 1836 where? parents ? d.6 Jan.1910 Buried in Howard Cemetery CassTownship Smithfield,Ill. Joined Union Army 18,Sept.,1861 @Woodland Disability discharge 18,Nov.,1862 Married in Carroll County 12 May 1855 Elizabeth DENNY b. 11 March 1837 d. ??? Her parents are George DENNY a lawyer in Savannah.Ill. Mariah VINEYARD DENNY Siblings Sarah John James Lousia B. 1853 d. 1927 Samuel and Elizabeth MASON became the parents to Robert James MASON b.4 March 1882 d.29 April 1933 Buried in Howard Cemetery,Cass township Fulton Co. He had been injured working in a coal mine in Cuba ,Ill. His Siblings David MASON Anna John MASON Minnie William MASON married 1st wife Bell WADELL one son Ned 2nd wife Bell KEIME b.22 Sept.1884 d.1979 dau. of Soloman KEIME ans Lavina MASON KEIME Lavina MASON KEIME's parents were 2.Samuel MASON b. 1810 Pa., d.? in Fulton Co. and Elizabeth PORTER b. 1816 d.Fulton Co. Their children John b.OH.1839 Sarah b. OH.1841 Lovina b.OH.1842 Abigal b. Il.1845 Charles b.Il.1846 Howard b.Il.1849 -1850 Children of Robert James MASON and Bell KEIME MASON Mable Living Levi Shelton (My DAD) Lavina nee HOPPING Living Ruth, Living Russell, Nettie Jane nee FORSHEE Elizabeth Calvin

Samuel MASON b.11 April 1836 where? parents ? d.6 Jan.1910 Buried in Howard Cemetery CassTownship Smithfield,Ill. Joined Union Army 18,Sept.,1861 @Woodland Disability discharge 18,Nov.,1862 Married in Carroll County 12 May 1855 Elizabeth DENNY b. 11 March 1837 d. ??? Her parents are George DENNY a lawyer in Savannah.Ill. Mariah VINEYARD DENNY Siblings Sarah John James Lousia B. 1853 d. 1927 Samuel and Elizabeth MASON became the parents to Robert James MASON b.4 March 1882 d.29 April 1933 Buried in Howard Cemetery,Cass township Fulton Co. He had been injured working in a coal mine in Cuba ,Ill. His Siblings David MASON Anna John MASON Minnie William MASON married 1st wife Bell WADELL one son Ned 2nd wife Bell KEIME b.22 Sept.1884 d.1979 dau. of Soloman KEIME ans Lavina MASON KEIME Lavina MASON KEIME's parents were Samuel MASON b. 1810 Pa., d.? and Elizabeth PORTER Children of Robert James MASON and Bell KEIME MASON Mable Living Levi Shelton (My DAD) Lavina nee HOPPING Living Ruth, Living Russell, Nettie Jane nee FORSHEE Elizabeth Calvin

Dear List Members, Several of you have contacted me about our Index to Stark County, OH Naturalizations 1809-1852. If you would like to request research by mail, please contact us at our departmental e-mail address listed in the signature below, or by using the request forms on our website, also listed below. If you just click "reply" and send it to me personally, it may get lost in the shuffel. (I hate to admit it, but it is true.) Also, please be sure all email correspondence sent to the Genealogy Dept. at the library includes your snail-mail address. This allows us to send copies of the records you requested without having to contact you again. We are currently getting over 300 research requests per month. It really saves us time if we don't have to root through our files trying to find your address in previous correspondence or contact you for it. If those of you who have contacted me through the list will please re-submit your requests using our departmental e-mail or our website, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks for your understanding. Sincerely, Miss Lauren K. Landis, Genealogy Division Mgr. Stark County District Library 715 Market Ave. North Canton, OH 44702-1080 Phone: (330) 4520-0665 Library E-mail: scdlgen@oplin.lib.oh.us ********************************************************************* DID YOU KNOW that you can order certain Stark County records right over the internet? Just go to our website at www.stark.lib.oh.us/gene.html, click on “request forms”, and follow the instructions. *********************************************************************

Is there an easy way to look up a marriage from the 1920's. My great-grandmother remarried sometime between 1920 and 1929, presumably in Stark County. Anna Specht Green m. John Allen (Specht was her maiden name and Green was her 1st marriage) Any help would be appreciated. Ruth Ann O'Hara

I am searching for the eleven children of Daniel BAIR. Daniel was born in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., PA, Nov. 8, 1794, and died about September 1835, in Paris Twp., Stark Co., OH. Daniel was the youngest son of Rudolph BAIR and Maria Barbara YERIAN BAIR. Daniel married Mary THOMA, April 1, 1816, in Stark Co., OH, and married Catherine FREYFOGLE, July 11, 1826, in Stark Co., OH. The eleven children are (possibly): Barbara BAIR, born Dec. 31, 1816, married Daniel BOSSERMAN; George BAIR, born 1817-1820; Elizabeth BAIR; Rebecca BAIR (Possibly born 1830 and known later as Rebecca NEWMAN or NUMAN); Rachel BAIR (John NEWMAN or NUMAN, Guardian); Amanda BAIR (John NEWMAN or NUMAN, Guardian); Abbalona (Abbie, Abigail, Appolonia) BAIR, born Sept. 29, 1829, married John Franklin BAIR, (John NEWMAN or NUMAN, Guardian); David BAIR (John NEWMAN or NUMAN, Guardian); William BAIR, born Jun 22, 1833, married Mary Ann UNKEFER, (Henry BAIR, Guardian); Eliza Ann BAIR (Zedekiah Welker, Guardian); Catherine BAIR (Zaddock Deppen, Guardian). Some documents show the names of the children as BAER, not BAIR. Daniel’s widow, Catherine, married John NEWMAN or NUMAN about 1838 and they lived in Osnaburg Twp., Stark Co., OH, until their deaths. Any confirming or correcting information would be greatly appreciated. Howard Slater hslater@pacbell.net

Hi and thanks .. My one Grandpa Samuel MASON was born in 1810 in PA.He married an Elizabeth PORTER.I believe they were in Stark Co. Ohio when married.Their daughter Lavina MASON married Solomon KEIME. My other Grandpa Samuel MASON was b. 1836 - I don't know where. I find a him in Carroll County Ill. where he married an Elizabeth DENNY b.1837 in 1855. He died 1910. thanks again, Karen

Dear List, The book Index to Stark County, OH, Naturalizations 1809-1852, is quite accurate. The book Mr. Gardner was thinking of was a previous effort by our library that didn't turn out so well. It was the Index to Death and Marriage Notices 1815-1834. That work does have many errors, and it is best to contact us about any references listed in it. We do our best to find the correct information. Just thought I would clarify this. Thanks. > The book refered to in the message below is ONLY an index giving volume and > page #s to the Stark County Common Pleas Journals housed on microfilm at the > Genealogy Division of the Stark County District Library. Please contact this > division as the index has several errors. We also can make copies of these > naturalization records for you. See our website for 'request forms' to order > by e-mail. -- Miss Lauren K. Landis, Genealogy Division Mgr. Stark County District Library 715 Market Ave. North Canton, OH 44702-1080 Phone: (330) 4520-0665 Library E-mail: scdlgen@oplin.lib.oh.us ********************************************************************* DID YOU KNOW that you can order certain Stark County records right over the internet? Just go to our website at www.stark.lib.oh.us/gene.html, click on “request forms”, and follow the instructions. *********************************************************************

Hi Cheryl, Would there by chance be any listings of the surname TERRY? My ggg-grandfather Carman L. Terry moved to Stark County, OH in the late 1840's with his brothers Thomas Terry and wife Adelia Shurts and John Terry and his wife Harriet Runyon from Westfield, Essex County, New Jersey. Carman married Sarah Elizabeth Shurts (yes, Adelia's sister) in Canton on 31 December 1849. John and Harriet Terry moved to Massillon by the 1860's. Thomas and Adelia Terry moved to Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana and Carman and Sarah Terry moved to Holmesville, Holmes County, Ohio. Approximately ten years ago I came across a book in the Dallas Public Library which was a history of some sort, either on Stark County or the City of Canton, which made mention of the "Terry Brothers Bakery" in Canton, Ohio. All three are listed in the Stark County, Ohio 1850 Census with an occupation of "BAKER". Would you be able to direct me to this book so that I may list it with the correct detail as a source record and help me rectify my neglect ten years ago? Thank you for your time and consideration in this request. Best wishes, Dan Terry - dsterry@home.com CherylQ@aol.com wrote: > Closet cleaning has yielded a book entitled the Massillonian 1916, it seems > as though this is the very first volume of the Massillon High School year > book. Not only does it contain names and pictures of the 4 levels that were > currently enrolled but also a list of alumni going back to 1858....We have > this because my father in law Clement Quinn was a sophomore that year. I > will be delighted to look up any names that anyone might have.... > Cheryl Quinn > > ==== OHSTARK Mailing List ==== > Please visit the Stark County GenWeb site at > <http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohstark>

Closet cleaning has yielded a book entitled the Massillonian 1916, it seems as though this is the very first volume of the Massillon High School year book. Not only does it contain names and pictures of the 4 levels that were currently enrolled but also a list of alumni going back to 1858....We have this because my father in law Clement Quinn was a sophomore that year. I will be delighted to look up any names that anyone might have.... Cheryl Quinn

Searching Daniel KEIME His wife Katherine KENNEL abt 1858 Samuel MASON & Elizabeth PORTER Thanks,Karen