I was in high school and I wanted to join First Families of Ohio. The reason was simple: I wanted to prove something well enough for someone else to believe it, not because I really wanted to join anything. And it was the only lineage society I knew I was eligible for at the time. […]

The original post, “Money for Land I Cannot Find: Part I,” mentioned an estate that includes a receipt for sale of real property for which a deed of acquisition cannot be found. Unfortunately this early 19th century probate record from Coshocton County, Ohio, provided no other detail other than the amount of money received. There was […]

Probate inventories and accountings should always be mined for clues as to other records and research leads. This one for the estate of Thomas Johnson Rampley (the use of James in the image shown is incorrect) in March of 1829 in Coshocton County, Ohio, is no exception. There’s a notation that the administrator of the […]