Page 2015-13 ISSN#1047-0077 Yesteryears’ Trails Quarterly Newsletter Published by the Defiance County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society P.O. Box 7006 Defiance, OH 43512-7006 Web site: Http: www.defiancecountygenealogy.org Email address: defiancegenealogy2002@ yahoo.com http:// Blog site: defiancecountyohiogenealogy.blogspot.com Summer 2015 Vol. XXXIV Issue 2 Defiance County Genealogy Chapter and Board Meetings Table of Contents Chapter Programs 13 Regular monthly meetings of the De- Chapter Contact Information 14 fiance Chapter OGS are held at St. John First Families and Centennial Families 14 United Church of Christ at 7:00 p.m. unless News of the DCGS 15 otherwise stated. The address is 950 Dave’s Corner - Maple Sugaring 16 Webster Street— on the northeastern cor- War of 1812 Records Online 16 ner of the Defiance Colllege campus. Entry Hayes Obituary Index 16 OGS Free Databases 17 is on the north side of the church adjacent 50th Anniversaries 1916 18 to the college gymnasium. Brunersburg School Roster 1897 19 Chapter meetings are the 4th Mon- Streets of Defiance 20 day of each month except May, August, and News of Hicksville 1882 21 December or as noted. Members of Masons Fighting in WW I 22 Board meetings are held at 3:30 p.m. Augusta Louisa (King) Glenn 23 the third Thursday of the month at St. John Printy Arthur 24 UCC at 950 Webster Street. Black Sea School Roster 1915 25 County Physicians 1905 25 Coming Meetings Monday, June 21 “The Moravian Church - History and Highlights from 15th Century Europe to America” with Mary Williams, chapter member Monday, July TBA - Watch for a coming announcement in local nwspapers. August - no meeting Defiance County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society Yesteryears’ Trails Vol.XXXIV Summer 2015 First Families of Defiance County Officers and Trustees and Centennial Families President & Membership Chair Defiance County First Families Cecelia Brown If you can prove Phone: 419-658-2483 your ancestor resided in Email: [email protected] Defiance County before Vice-President & PR- Joanne Allison January 1846, your an- Email: [email protected] cestor will be classified as Recording Secretary - Mary Williams Email: [email protected] a “Pioneer.” If he or she Treasurer - Lavina Boesling lived here between Janu- Email: [email protected] ary 1846 and December First Families - Mary Scranton 1860, that ancestor will be Email - mjscranton [email protected] classified as a “settler.” Newsletter Editor - Mary Williams To prove your lineage back to your ancestor, you Email: [email protected] may use birth records, death records, marriage li- Trustees: censes, census records, Bible records, and other Gladys Donson primary or supportive secondary records. Pat Wise The application fee is $15.00 which covers Dianne Kline as many ancestors as you can prove and also cov- ers your membership pin. You must be a members of the Defiance County Chapter OGS to apply. This membership may be paid at the same time as your Change of Address or Email ? application fee is paid. The cutoff date is August If you change your postal or email address, 1st of the year in which you apply. For more infor- please make sure you email the chapter at mation and to download the application for First <[email protected]> Families, go to the Society’s web site at or send the changes to Defiance Chapter OGS, www.defiancecountygenealogy.org or write to the POBox 7006, Defiance, OH 43512-7006 so that chapter at PO Box 7006 Defiance, OH 43512-7006 your current information is on file. attention of Mary Scranton, chair. Defiance County Centennial Families To acknowledge families which have been in Defiance County for 100 years or more, our chap- Become a Member of DCGS ter has established a centennial recognition pro- Chapter dues are $12.00 for an indi- gram. Just one item of proof showing that a family vidual and $15.00 per family. An additional member was here in 1915 or before is needed to $5.00 is required for mailing the four an- register a family. Upon registration, a certificate will nual newsletters through the U. S. Post be sent from the chapter. For more information, Office. please contact the chapter via email or by postal A membership form may be mail-- attention of Carol Ehlinger. dowloaded at the following website. www.defiancecountygenealogy.org. Page 14 - Yesteryears’ Trails - Defiance Co. Summer 2015 May At the May 18 meeting, chapter member Dianne Kline told how genetic testing can augment one’s genealogical research. Using her personal testing with the company Ancestry.com, Dianne News of the DCGS explained the procedure for submitting DNA which for Ancestry is spitting into a collection tube and Highlights of the DCGS Meetings then sending the tube to the company with an anony- mous, indentifying number. April Ancestry is currently using autosomal test- President Brown noted at the April chapter ing which can be used by either men or women. It meeting, that over 500 visitations have been made uses approximately 700,000 markers to compare to the chapter’s new blog site. The site is with the results of others who have tested at An- defiancecountyohiogenealogy.blogspot.com. It can cestry to identify possible cousins within three gen- also be accessed through the chapter website link. erations. Processing takes about 6-8 weeks be- Rich Rozevink announced that he and Dave fore test results are returned. Bennett are at work to place a cemetery marker on Using her personal test results, Dianne noted the gravesite ofAlbert W. King who was a prisoner her ethnic breakdown and revealed 45 possible of war in the Civil War and also a passenger on the cousins. Sultana which sank carrying prisoners of war home Ancestry will continue to notify those who from the South. A Town and Gown presentation have been tested if any new relationships are re- will also take place aat a future date telling of Mr. vealed in the future. King’s exploits. The chapter authorized the spend- Dianne cautioned that although DNA testing ing of funds from the veterans memorial fund for may connect with possible new ancestors and rela- this project. tives, it is only one avenue for establishing genea- Dave Bennett noted that he has started a logical connections. Standard genealogical re- blog, Dave's History Corner, at blogspot.com. He search is still needed to confirm relationships and will have items of interest in local history. to confirm the genealogies gleaned from the newly Following the business meeting, Steve Char- discovered ”cousins.” Also DNA testing cannot pro- ter of the Center forArchival Collections housed at vide those interesting and unexpected stories that BGSU outlined some of the many types of materi- make genealogy so much fun and addictive. als available . The center is located in the university's library building. The archival collection was one of 8 regions Tell Us About One of Your Ancestors proposed and funded by the Ohio Historical Soci- We all have interesting tales to tell from ety in 1969. The northwest region takes in 19 coun- our family research about that one courageous, ties. Its goal is to collect and preserve historical notorious, beautiful, inventive or… well, you fill records and items. Funding now is through individual in the blank… ancestor. Tell us about one of donations. your ancestors! The website for the archive is www.bgsu.ed/ We are inviting each of our members to colleges/library/cac. There are three main ways to write a brief account (about one page or less) search for materials: use the BGSU catalog, browse about one ancestor for an article in this news- or search the topical listing, or use the search en- letter, “Yesteryears’ Trails.” gine to search the site To browse, click on the or- Please send your article along with ange headers. There then will be a break down into permission to publish to the newsletter editor smaller topics. Items can be sent to the center by Mary Williams in care of the chapter address scanning the materials and emailing. The library is or email it to [email protected]. open Monday 8-9 and Tuesday through Friday from 8-5. Yesteryears’ Trails - Defiance Co. Summer 2015 - Page 15 Dave Bennett’s War of 1812 Pension Records Corner Available at Fold3.com From Dave’s Files- The Federation of Genealogical Societies, Maple Sugar Making in collaboration with Fold 3, is endeavoring to raise funds to make all War of 1812 pension- It is the month of June, a little related records available free. The project is late for tapping the trees and approximately 64% completed. gather the sap, but Dave’scor- According to Fold 3: “This series consists ner for this summer issue is of approximately 180,000 pension and bounty based upon an early article land warrant application files relating to claims describing the importance of based on service between 1812 and 1815. The maple sugar making in our files generally contain documentation submitted area. in support of a claim, such as the original appli- We are in the season of maple sugar making. cation form, affidavits, and statements from The run of sugar water this spring will be but of little witnesses. consequence because of the great drought of the past “The following information will be cap- year which continued through the winter. The season tured with the images and available to research- will probably be ended by the first heavy spring-like ers when it exists in the file. fall of rain. Veteran's name Age Our ridges were once a continuous line of Place of residence Widow name sugar camps; sometimes these were as wide as half Service data & dates Organizations mile.