Check out History Press

Thanks to fellow blogger Marian Pierre-Louis for the heads up about History Press.  If you haven't taken a look at their catalog, you really should.  I think I've just found some new titles to add to my Christmas and wish list.

Several of their titles look interesting, including the Civil War sections, and the prices seem reasonable.  They are also on Facebook and Twitter, so they just gained me as a friend and follower.


It pays to be a member of the genea-blogger community....

Marriage of William Smith to Prudence Maxson

Source: "Ohio, County Marriages, 1790-1950," index and images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org): accessed 30 July 2011. entry for William Smith and Prudence Maxson, married 5 October 1836; citing Marriage Records, FHL microfilm 466399; Clark County Courthouse, Springfield, Ohio.

Spent some time searching through Ohio marriage records database at FamilySearch and made a discovery - I had the date wrong in my database for the marriage of my paternal 3rd-great grandparents, William SMITH and Prudence MAXSON.

The image clearly shows they were married on the 5th of October 1836 in Clark County, Ohio.  Previously, I had the date as the 3rd of October 1836 without knowing the county.  Both the "Biographical and Historical Record of Jay County, Indiana (1887) and "The Maxson Family. Descendants of John Maxson and Mary Mosher of Westerly, Rhode Island" (1954) by Walter Brown had this incorrect date.  Brown probably received his information from the 1887 history.

It was good to get the correct date, and even better to confirm the place of their marriage.  Previously, I had searched Jay County, Indiana for a record - but their marriage date was too early for that county.  The families were from the Clark County, Ohio area prior to the move to Jay County by the time of the 1840 census.

Now on to search for the rest of the families in Ohio...

Fun With Search Terms

This past month has brought some interesting search terms to my blog.  Always fun to find out how someone finds me. These were the top search terms, according to my Blogger stats:

• freezer slaw - Wow, Grandma Wright's recipe was extremely popular this month.  Of course, a lot of folks have cabbage on and were probably looking for a good recipe.  I hope they enjoyed it. 
• Harry Pierpont - Not surprised at all to find his name in the list.  Harry is my bad-boy cousin, Dillinger gang leader, and only known relative to be executed via the electric chair.  Probably my main obsession of late has been tracking down newspaper articles on his early bank robbing career.  Look for more posts in the future.

The following search terms didn't get near as many hits, but they made 

• U S Navy records online -  My May post about Ancestry posting U S Navy muster rolls online has been popular.
• 1900 "portland indiana" -  Not surprised to find this search brings folks here, as most of my paternal ancestry lived in the Portland, Indiana area.
• anna hunnicutt economy indiana - Don't have this lady in my database, though am familiar with the Quaker settlement there.
• cora wehrly -  Someone was looking for my Wehrly tree, wish they would have stopped and left a comment.
• easterday family tree -  Same with the Easterday family tree - which married into my Haley line in Jay County, Indiana.
• open faced peach pie -  Someone was hungry, hope they liked my family's recipe.
• ruby june lambertson - Ruby is my maternal great-aunt, and recently I posted some pictures of she and my grandmother.  Was this visitor a relative?  They didn't leave a comment.