. . . and take a good long look at your target records and counties in the Family History Library catalog.
If the records you want are on films that have been digitized (those are camera icons in the right-hand "format" column), then you may get to have a genealogy staycation instead.
I just viewed the index books (also digitized) and pulled two key deeds for an ancestor in Ashtabula County, Ohio, whose property was sold to satisfy a court decree in 1844 (after he had paid the then-princely sum of $2400 for it six years earlier). Most likely he borrowed money on it and couldn't pay, but we'll see.
Actually I still need that road trip, because the underlying court records -- which hopefully will explain how he got into this fix -- were not filmed, and due to the current Microfilmpocalypse may never be. But now I can zero in on them instead. Jefferson, Ohio, is nice in the summer.
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Postpone that genealogy road trip . . .
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Labels: Ashtabula County Ohio, deeds, digitization, Family History Library, Jefferson Ohio, microfilm, staycation
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