Tri-County Researcher

I Seek

Does anyone have back issues of the West Virginia Tri-County Researcher that you want to sell?

I'm also interested in obtaining a copy of a 1983 volume about the history of people of Wetzel county, West Virginia. Title: History of Wetzel County, West Virginia, 1983, published by the Wetzel County Genealogical Society.

If the price is right I may be interested.

Dick Henthorn

11 Jan 2018

The Miltonsburg History Project

The Miltonsburg History Project:

'via Blog this'

Here's a very nicely done website about the town of Miltonsburg, Monroe County, Ohio.

This a project of, Paul E. Young.  Home Page

Dick Henthorn

10 October 2014

Long Ago

Long ago, before printing presses, telephones, and instant replays, our ancestors kept records of people, information, and history by telling the same stories many times.  These stories passed down from generation to generation.
(Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 17 May)
8 June 2014

Bible Lineages

What do we learn from the lineages of Jewish leaders [as recorded in the Bible].

• They remained connected to their heritage.
• They saw their place in history and gained perspective from it.
• They were able to honor and pay respect to their forefathers.
• They saw their lineage as a family blessing and passed on their blessing.
• They used their heritage to provide a sense of stability for their children.
• They sensed tendencies of ancestral giftedness and calling.
• They could retain their identity even when exiled to a foreign land.

(John C. Maxwell, Leadership, 1 September)
28 November 2013

Relatives and Ancestors

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as your ancestors. You create yourself out of these values. (Ralph Ellison)

Our pool of ancestors is vast. When we take time to study our history, we need to recognize the individual greatness, dignity, and style of our ancestors -- and use their lives as models for our own. (Both of the above from Black Pearls by Eric V. Copage, 25 August) 25 August 2011

Hardesty's History of Monroe County, Ohio

This morning I uploaded to the MonroeCountyOhio folder of MyBox an "Index of Personal History Department" created by yours truly from History of Monroe County, Ohio, published by H.H. Hardesty and Co., in 1882. The file, an HTML table, is named, Hardesty.htm.

I hope you like how it turned out as much as I do. Perhaps I'll post a short description of the steps I went through to create this file on this blog. You might be surprised at how easy it was once I had the right free tool on my computer.

I regret that I didn't make this finding aide available sooner in the HTML format which can easily be viewed with your browser. Sometimes it takes me a long time to find a way to accomplish what I want to do.

There is also a "text" file of extractions from other pages of the Hardesty publication (Monroe.txt) available on MyBox. It's been there since December 2010. The extractions are paragraphs that were of interest to me during my active days of researching. I'd forgotten about this document. (My memory issues are becoming more evident with the passing months.)

BTW, I own a copy of the History. I'm willing to do look-ups for friends who have access to MyBox.

Mr. Dickie
2 Mar 2011

Hardesty's History of Monroe County, Ohio

Hardesty's History of Monroe County, Ohio
Published about 1882

This evening I uploaded extracts from Hardesty's History of Monroe County, Ohio to My Box. The paragraphs extracted pertain to families of interest that lived in this county about 1882 or prior. There are seven pages in this "text" file. The file resides in the MonroeCountyOhio folder.

Access to My Box is by invitation only.

Mr. Dickie
10 Dec 2010

Remember the Days of Long Ago

Remembering our history can give us strength when we face challenges. Reflections on the generations that have gone before gives us continued inspiration and motivation... (after Tamara Elizabeth Lewis in The Upper Room Disciplines - 2008, 5 November)

Self-justifying Historian

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it. (Anthony G. Greenwald in The Promise of a New Day, 22 May) 6 Jun 2010

Townships - Mitton, Henthorn and Coldcoats | British History Online

Townships - Mitton, Henthorn and Coldcoats | British History Online

'Townships: Mitton, Henthorn and Coldcoats', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 388-392.

URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53138

Book Week

Combined - History of Monroe County, Ohio., H.H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Chicago and Toledo. 1882. and Caldwell's Atlas of Monroe County, Ohio. Atlas Publishing Company, Mount Vernon, Ohio. 1898. [Reproduction of the two books was sponsored by the Monroe County Historical Society, Woodsfield, Ohio.]

How to write a compelling family history - Helium

How to write a compelling family history - by Jared Garrett - Helium:

"Writing a compelling family history is much like almost any heavy writing task. First, you have to know your subject. Second you need to have a vision of how you will present it. And third, you have to present it with your audience in mind. Let's see how these three principles apply to writing a compelling family history."

First of twenty-one articles about this subject found on Helium.com.

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