Methodology Monday with the Fall Ohio Genealogy News

The new issue of Ohio Genealogy News is so packed with information I need two blog posts to cover it. In the methodology department, we have:

* Cross-check Your Sources: Dan Reigle, co-editor of the Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal, amplifies on an earlier article about the Veterans Grave Registration cards, showing how the cards are valuable sources but they do contain errors, and need to be cross-checked against other military records, "as with any thorough genealogical study," using the example of Garnett B. Adrain. More likely his name was Adrian, and he served not one but two separate hitches in the Civil War.

* Know Your History: Neil H. Elvick describes land and property research in Gallia County, which has two different sets of original land records, from the Ohio Company in the east, and from the US government in the western half.

* When Indexes Fail: Marianne Szabo describes how browsing the Cuyahoga County Birth Returns at Footnote.com enabled her to find a Booms relative. Searching alone had failed, because the data was indexed under the name Boomer.

Ohio Records & Pioneer Families 2009 #2

The new issue of ORPF features Wood, Erie, Ashland, Trumbull, Warren, Gallia, and Morgan counties:

"John Hormell, Sr., 1743-1823," by Stanley W. Aultz

"Bible Records of Joshua Cope Baker Found in North Baltimore, Ohio," by Cheryl Warren Conkle

"Wood County Marriages, 1820-1856," comp. Lolita Guthrie

"First Families of Ohio: The Early Years," abstr. Kay Ballantyne Hudson

"Revolutionary War Pension Application Abstracts," comp. Lois Wheeler

"The Bissells of Indiana," by Susan L. Simon* -- the second installment, last time they were in Trumbull County, Ohio

"Invalid Pensioners Living in Ohio During 1850," by Eric Johnson

"Letter to James Lamson Gage from James Gage," tr. Jonathan Scouten Robertson

"Ohio Births Documented from Civil War Pension Files," abstr. Michael Elliott

McCarley & Davis Family Bibles of Gallie County, OH," by E. Paul Morehouse

"Camp Avery: A Forgotten Outpost in Northern Ohio," by Eric Johnson. The monument to the War of 1812 outpost apparently is near the Ohio Turnpike, but just where we do not learn.

*footnoted

Ohio Genealogy News, Summer

If you're not a member of the largest state genealogy organization in the US, here's what you're missing in their magazine:

"Mahoning County Historical Society Archival Library," by Pamela L. Speis, which actually focuses on Trumbull and Columbiana counties as well. As always, a visit will be rewarded by finding unique local records -- for instance, the James Mackey collection. He was a surveyor in the Youngstown area 1849-1901.

"Synopsis of the Year 2007," by OGS Library Director Thomas Stephen Neel

"A Case of Mistaken Identity," by Martha Hamilton, one of the first-place winners in OGS's writing contest, who distinguishes two John Hamiltons in Gallia County.

"2008 OGS Conference a Success," by Kenny Burck, looking back on the April event in Cincinnati

Among the shorter notes, be advised that the Akron-Summit Public Library has made its 1940-2007 Akron Beacon-Journal obituary index available on line. Of course, if you actually go there you can view an obituary index going back another 99 years!