[email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > Am going to be in Mason Co. next week and would like the best places to do > research. My ancestors are from Mason, Jackson, and maybe Galia OH. What names are you seeking? How far > back do the records at the courhouse.? Such as birth and death and tax > lists. The land records go back to 1804--the founding of the county. I can't recall the earliest date on births and deaths, but I have a certification from the Clerk's office on my husband's grandmother's birth, 22 Sep 1874; the earliest marriage is in 1806. The earliest tax records are very fragile, and not available for the general public to handle them. Does Pt. Pleasant Library have a genealogy dept? Yes--a small room with a modest collection of family histories in a hanging file; lots of books--a great help is the group of five books of Mason County Cemetery Inscriptions, by Violette Machir. > Bev