Ohio County Deaths 1840 to 2001

I noticed that FamilySearch now has 28 Ohio databases rather than 27. I think the new one is Ohio County Deaths 1840 to 2001. Most will be from the 1867 to 1908 period when Probate Court handled death records. There are 82 counties online so far. Ashland and Richland near the OGS Library are not among them. Also some counties are incomplete as yet. Henry County, for example, begins in 1882, yet the OGS chapter has abstracted earlier death records, so they must exist. However, FamilySearch now has 899,395 fantastic images online that were not there previously! Of course, the death indexes have been posted for a couple years. Enjoy!

Fall Classes at OGS Library

The OGS Fall Conference (Oct. 4) and the OGS Genealogy Librarians' Seminar (Oct 17) are well-advertised on the OGS web site (www.ogs.org) but we have a number of free hour long instructional seminars at the Ohio Genealogical Society Library, 611 State Route 97 W (Exit 165 on I-71), on the calendar yet for this fall:

Saturday, Sept. 13th, at 10 AM - Deborah Abbott, Ph.D., on "The Gift of Legacy: Who's Telling Your Story?

Friday, Sept. 19th, at 10 AM - Tom Neel, MLIS, on "Taking a Look at Common Pleas Case Files"

Saturday, Sept. 20th, at 10 AM - Jennifer Alford, on "Documenting Your Family Heirlooms"

Friday, Oct. 3rd, at 10 AM - Deborah Abbott, Ph.D., on "African American Genealogy from Slavery to Freedom"

Saturday, Oct. 11th, at 10 AM - Susan Zacharias, former Ohio Genealogy News editor, on "Newsletter Rescue: Layout, Design, Content"

Please join us for these educational classes. Call 419-886-1903 and leave a message to reserve a spot or email me at tneel@ogs.org 

Bring non-members too! Class attendees can stay the rest of the day to research in the library with no normal admittance fee - save $5.00!

Last Batch of Ohio Newspapers Added to Chronicling America!

We just received notification from Jenni Salamon at the Ohio History Center that the last batch of Ohio newspapers has been added to the free web site ChroniclingAmerica from the third grant cycle. There are a couple fillers yet but this will be it for Ohio until another grant application is approved down the road. I think our state has done the best job of providing a wide representation of newspapers from all geographic regions and time periods. Here is Jenni's post:

I am pleased to announce that the following papers have been added to Chronicling America!

·         From Cadiz (Harrison County):

o   Cadiz Sentinel (1844), 1844-1846, 1850-1851

o   Democratic Sentinel and Harrison County Farmer, 1851-1852

o   Democratic Sentinel, 1852-1853

o   Cadiz Democratic Sentinel, 1854-1864

o   Cadiz Sentinel (1864), 1864-1868

·         From Delaware (Delaware County):

o   Delaware Gazette, 1858-1871

·         From Somerset (Perry County):

o   Somerset Press, 1873-1882

·         From Upper Sandusky (Wyandot County):

o   Democratic Pioneer, 1845-1850

o   Wyandot Pioneer, 1853-1868

o   Wyandot County Republican, 1869-1873

With this latest update, everything we’ve digitized so far is now available on Chronicling America, for a total of just over 304,000 pages.  This number does not include the extra papers we’ll be digitizing, so there is still more to come!