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

Counties Count

Counties Count

Often when genealogy information is shared I run into a problem with place names. The person who first recorded the name of a place where a life event occurred didn't write down the county name. The result is that we really don't know where the person was living at the time of the event. This is because in some states the same place names were used more than once. It's bad enough when two places in the same state have the same name. Imagine the confusion when there are more than two.

Another problem with place names comes up when a county and a town in that county have the same name. How am I supposed to know whether the person who shared the information was referring to a town within a county or to the county?

When I first started doing genealogy I didn't take this problem into account. I've come to regret that. In recent years I've been working to correct the problem. I decided I'd use the abbreviation, "Co.," after the county name. For example: Bellevue, Sarpy Co., NE or just Sarpy Co., NE when I don't know the town name.

This week I have been editing the place names in my RootsMagic Conger family file. Yesterday I complete a first pass through the place name file associated with this family.

The place name edit project reminded me of another place name issue. Often when cemetery names were recorded, and shared, the person who wrote down the cemetery name failed to include the town and county name. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to determine where the cemetery is located. Another cemetery name issue is failure to accurately record the cemetery name. This probably happens because many cemeteries don't have name signs.

Mr. Dickie
11 Feb 2011

Genealogy Center - Allen County Public Library

Home - The Genealogy Center - Allen County Public Library

The new Genealogy Center website of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN.

I donated at least one document I compiled to this library.

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

State and County Websites of Interest

Photo: Internet

Today I'm posting links to County and State genealogy websites of interest. The source of these links is my AOL Favorites where I stored the URLs of websites I visited during the last couple of years. I tested all links to make sure they work as of today, 2 Jul 2008.

The first link is the the USGenWeb Project. This is a good place to start your search if you are looking for the various county websites.

There is no particular order to the list. I did group the links together by county.

If you have other links that you'd like to share send me an Email and I can post the link to this blog.

After visiting a website remember to use your browser "back" button to return to this page.

Mr. Dickie

The USGenWeb Project - Home Page

Appanoose County, Iowa Home Page - USGenWeb

Louisa County, Iowa IAGenWeb

Erin Springs, Oklahoma

Belmont Co. Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society - The Gateway to the West

Belmont Co., OH - Heritage Pursuit

Monroe Co., OH USGenWeb

Monroe County, Ohio History & Genealogy

Monroe County Chapter

Woodsfield [OH] Public Library Genealogy Holdings Page

Tuscarawas County Ohio GenWeb Page

Guernsey County Ohio GenWeb

Guernsey County Genealogy Links; Ohio genealogy

THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF CLEVELAND

Nebraska - The USGenWeb Census Project

Warren County, Tennessee 1850 Census Database Project

West Virginia Genealogy

West Virginia Biographies / Family Lineage

Wetzel County, WV - Genealogy

Marshall County WVGenWeb Home Page

The Websites of Linda Cunningham Fluharty - West Virginia Genealogy, History &

Pike County Illinois

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