Monroe County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society - Homepage

I don't remember when I last posted a link to this site. In recent months I've been helping by making some changes to the website. There's more work to do and I have move to learn. The next project is to get the website search tool, on the homepage working.

If you haven't visited this website for a while, it's worth a look. I checked all links to make certain they worked. I shared some of my own pages with Monroe county information and I also added many easy to use links to pages on the website of Richard Harrington.

Monroe County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society - Homepage

Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

I have offered to help with the maintenance of the genealogy website of the Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. The website resides on the RootsWeb area of Ancestry.com. I don't know much about either RootsWeb or Ancestry.com. It should be an interesting learning experience.

Yesterday, using some suggestions from friends at the computer club, I was able to plug the information supplied to me by my contact in Ohio and gain access using Fire FTP which I have installed on my Mozilla Firefox browser. I'm reasonably confident that I have enough HTML knowledge to be able to make a contribution now that I can access the website. I don't have skill to do fancy things, but I believe what I know how to do will allow me to do some useful projects for the group. I'm looking forward to the challenge and the mental stimulation.

It's really fascinating that today's technology allows us to communicate and work together from widely separated geographic locations.

Mr. Dickie
18 Mar 2011

Dig into your past.

Dig into your past. You may be surprised at what you unearth:
Muscatine, Iowa genealogical society and the county library system.

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Blog

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Blog:

Genealogical news from Spokane, Washington, USA, and the Inland Northwest.

Here's a genealogical society blog you might enjoy visiting. On 16 Feb 2010 there was a posting about three genealogy related television programs of interest.

UpFront with NGS: RootsMagic Releases Free Genealogy and Family Tree Software

UpFront with NGS: RootsMagic Releases Free Genealogy and Family Tree Software

There are two reasons why this link might be of interest.

1. First, a free version of the genealogy program, RootsMagic, called RootsMagic Essentials is now available. The commercial version of RootsMagic is the genealogy program I currently use. An earlier version of the program was called FamilyOrigins. I also used that program, primarily to load GEDCOM files shared with me by others. In my opinion RootsMagic is an excellent genealogy program. If you are not ready to purchase the full-blown commercial version you may want to avail yourself of the free version.
2. The second reason this link is of interest is because it is the blog of the National Genealogical Society (NGS). Did you know the national headquarters is located in Virginia, near Washington, DC? The library collection of NGS has been located in St. Louis, MO for a number of years in the county library system.

National Genealogical Society Library

Did you know that the National Genealogical Society Library is no longer located in Arlington, VA? Several years ago the collection was transferred to the St. Louis County Library in St. Louis, MO. This accomplished two goals. First it physically located the collection nearer to the middle of the country. Second the St. Louis library agreed to make the items in the collection available through inter-library loan.

Yours truly donated two genealogies to the collection, one for the Watson family and the other for a branch of the Henthorn family.

This link will take you to a page where you can find links to other pages which explains all this in more detail.

St. Louis County Library - Special Collections Department

Mr. Dickie