Midwesterners in the latest Genealogist

The Genealogist, published twice yearly, is one of the less well known of the top five US genealogy publications. The Spring 2013 issue includes two articles chronicling Midwesterners -- and Marjean Holmes Workman's article makes a significant revision in the Burris family: "Robert James Burris" and his wife "Susan Rebecca Miller" were not two people but four -- brothers who married sisters. In this first of two segments, this family of Burrises inhabited at least nine Ohio counties (Franklin, Madison, Ross, Hardin, Fayette, Van Wert, Marion, Paulding, and "Piqua" [Pickaway!]), eight Indiana counties (Jay, Adams, Jefferson, Grant, Allen, Montgomery, Hamilton, and Henry), and one county in Iowa (Guthrie). It pays to keep up with the latest research!

In the first installment of Gale Ion Harris's account, the James and Lydia Waters family were mainly in Kentucky but also in Clermont (now Brown) County, Ohio, and Bureau County, Illinois.




Marjean Holmes Workman, "The Family of Joseph Burris[s] of Maryland and Madison County, Ohio: Discovering an Unrecorded Marriage," The Genealogist 27, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 51-74.

Gale Ion Harris, "Descendants of James1 and Lydia (Guyton) Waters of Harford County, Maryland: Ohio River Valley Families," The Genealogist 27, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 75-98.



Harold Henderson, "Midwesterners in the latest Genealogist," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 5 June 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

Plain City gets noticed

You'd think Garrison Keillor had a hand in naming Plain City, a small town straddling the line between Union and Madison counties just west of Columbus, Ohio. I haven't had occasion to work there, but in this week's NEHGS E-news, the oldest and largest US genealogical society takes note of the local library's burial database.

The database is arranged alphabetically, and for most entries it gives name, death date, death place, burial date, and cemetery (or where removed to if not local). The underlying source or sources of the database aren't given, but will be of interest if you find leads here. (I have rarely consulted an original record that didn't somewhere tell more than the on-line version!) On the plus side, in placing it online, the librarians appear to have resisted the impulse to mix in information (such as "wife of...") that "everybody knows" but that does not actually appear in the original document.