This week I check out two primary sources, land and census records, looking for Smith households in Crawford or Richland Cos., OH, ca. 1840.
Maps Blog Posts
Landed
Land records are particularly helpful for locating where my ancestors lived. In 1785, surveyors adopted the rectangular method of platting land using Ranges, Townships, and Sections. For this week’s prompt, I will describe using online resources to locate where my ancestor lived in Ohio more than 180 years ago.
Maps
Maps can give context to our ancestors’ lives, flesh out a family story, or document a family’s migration. This week I describe how to use online maps and directories to find historic addresses on modern maps.
Free
There is no shortage of free genealogy research materials to be found online, and offline. You just need to look or ask.
Favorite Place
My favorite place is a neighborhood on the east side of Indianapolis: Irvington. My great grandfather, grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and I have all called Irvington “home” at some point.
Power
In 1941 an electric power company built hydroelectric dams on the Holston River to produce power. In the process, they displaced many Tennesseans, alive and dead. My ancestors were among the dead.
Probate of Jesse King 1868
Jesse King was born in Ohio (probably in the vicinity of Chillicothe) in 1805, he was a son of Philip King and Mary Leah Wright, both of Pennsylvania. Philip King was a farmer, he married Leah Wright in 1801 in Somerset, PA, they had six children, of whom Jesse was the third.
David L. Osborne: His Indianapolis Homes
My great grandfather, David Louis Osborne, lived at over 20 addresses around Indianapolis between 1876 and 1942. I thought it would be interesting to see all the old buildings and homes where he lived in my hometown of Indianapolis.