Welcome To Jackson County Ohio Genealogy
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This is where I put site info that I think you should read, and it doesn't have any better place to go. (last updated 17 Sep 2002)Click to make changes to your e-mail address if you have submitted queries, surnames, or data to this site in the past and now have a different e-mail address. This is NOT to change your address on the mailing list. You need to do that yourself or send me a message.
Jackson County Mailing List
There is now a mailing list for Jackson County. This is a great place to ask those questions like: "Where do I find such-and-such source" or "Does anyone know the history of such-and-such place" as well as asking about families. These general questions are difficult to ask in queries on this web site.
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USGenWeb and other Useful Links
- The World GenWeb home page
- The United States USGenWeb home page
- The Ohio OHGenWeb home page
- Counties adjacent to Jackson County
- Browse the Library of Congress Memories section Be sure to click on and read the search tips on the page to use it most efficiently.
- A Site With Some Info About Ohio Research
Jackson County Links
- Jackson, Ohio Chamber of Commerce Site
- Wellston Forum, an independent site
- The Telegram Newspaper Web Site
- The Times-Journal Newspaper Web Site (they have a obituary request service for recent obits)
- Jackson County profile from www.census.gov
- Jackson City Library Web Site
- Oak Hill Library Web Site
- Sylvester Memorial Wellston Public Library Web Site
- Sylvester Memorial Wellston Public Library Genealogy Page
- Lillian E. Jones Museum in Jackson
- Welsh-American Heritage Museum in Oak Hill
Jackson County Maps, Place Names and Photographs
(Not great maps, but the best I can do right now)- 1877 Jackson County map from Military History of Ohio, Illustrated
- 1875 Township Maps from the 1875 Jackson County Atlas (shows landowners names)
- Detailed Jackson County
- City of Jackson
- City of Wellston
- Village of Oak Hill
- Village of Coalton
- Southeast Ohio Map from U. S. Geological Survey (1:500000, contour interval = 200 feet) 398KB
- Jackson County Population Graph, 1820-1990
- Jackson County Place Names from U.S. Geological Survey - National Mapping Information
- How Jackson County's Borders Have Changed With Time
- Origin of Jackson County Place Names (last updated 03 Feb 1999)
- Photos from around Jackson County (last updated 17 Feb 2009)
- TopoZone, A Good Site For Detailed Topological Maps
Jackson County People Being Researched
- Queries
- Submit a Jackson County Query
- Dead Queries. These are queries that have been submitted but the submitter's e-mail address is no longer valid. If anyone knows of a new address for any of these people, let me know.
- View Jackson County Queries Since Last Archive Date (updated every few days)
- Archived Queries from February 2006 thru June 2007 inclusive
- Archived Queries from August 2004 thru January 2006 inclusive
- Archived Queries from July 2003 thru July 2004 inclusive
- Archived Queries from October 2002 thru June 2003 inclusive
- Archived Queries from January 2002 thru September 2002 inclusive
- Archived Queries from May 2001 thru December 2001 inclusive
- Archived Queries from September 2000 thru April 2001 inclusive
- Archived Queries from March 2000 thru August 2000 inclusive
- Archived Queries from August 1999 thru February 2000 inclusive
- Archived Queries from April 1999 thru July 1999 inclusive
- Archived Queries from January 1999 thru March 1999 inclusive
- Archived Queries from August 1998 thru December 1998 inclusive
- Archived Queries from March 1998 thru July 1998 inclusive
- Archived Queries from October 1997 thru February 1998 inclusive
- Archived Queries from June 1997 thru September 1997 inclusive
- Archived Queries from February 1997 thru May 1997 inclusive
- Archived Queries from July 1996 thru January 1997 inclusive
- State-wide or unknown county queries. These are on an OHGenWeb page.
- Surnames
- Jackson County Surnames Being Researched
- Submit Your Jackson County Surnames This is for submitting surnames only, not queries.
- Web sites of individuals with connections to Jackson County
Jackson County Research Help
- Jackson County Sources - Request Lookups (last updated 6 Jun 2008)
- Genealogy Page of the Sylvester Memorial Wellston Public Library
- Biography of Andrew Roy from "Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes", by Henry Howe
- Biography of Kermit Daugherty from "Out of the Red Brush", by Kermit Daugherty
- Jackson County Apple Festival Queens and Attendants (last updated 6 May 2011)
- Jackson County Chapter of the OGS Info and Publications (last updated 12 Nov 2007)
- Jackson County Funeral Homes (last updated 04 Oct 2001)
- Index to the 1820 U.S. Census of Jackson County (last updated 16 Jun 1997)
- The 1850 U.S. Census Mortality Schedule
- Census Enumeration Districts in 1900 (last updated 01 Dec 1997)
- Jackson County Histories (last updated 21 May 2003)
- Jackson County section from "Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes", by Henry Howe
- "Military History Of Ohio, Illustrated", Jackson County soldiers edition (mostly Civil War) (an excellent source!)
- Index to Will Book "A" of Jackson County (last updated 08 Aug 2001)
- Index to Lew Ogan's History of Vinton County Ohio, 1954 (part of Vinton County used to be in Jackson County) (last updated 17 Jun 1997)
- Biographies from the 1875 Jackson County Atlas (last updated 11 Jan 1998)
- Jackson County Covered Bridges (remaining)
- Membership Records 1880-1920 of Limerick Branch of the RLDS Church
- Old Mt. Zion Cemetery Transcription
- 1930 Rural Directory of Jackson County transcription
- Jackson County Postmasters and Post Offices from 1832 to about 1970
- Jackson County State Representatives to the Ohio House of Representatives from 1816 to 1966
- The Political Graveyard for Jackson County Ohio
- Index to Cemetery Inscriptions of Jackson County Ohio, Vol. I & II
- Fairmount Cemetery Burials Online (378 page PDF file)
- Limerick Cemetery - transcriptions, photos, history and an index A series of large PDF files on the Jackson County OGS site
- The Wales-Ohio Project, Jackson and Gallia Counties, Ohio
- Old Schools in Jackson County (on another site)
- Jackson County Vital Records and County Offices info
- County offices, records availability, addresses, phone #'s (last updated 25 Apr 2002)
- Birth, Death and Marriage Records Online Index (last updated 22 Feb 1999)
Other Ohio Links
- State Library of Ohio
- State Library of Ohio (Genealogy Services)
- Southeastern Ohio African-American Research Page
- Ohio Genealogical Society Home Page
- Ohio Government Home Page
- Ohio Historical Society
- Ohio University Library Use The "Collections" Link For Historical And Genealogical Items
- United States Census Bureau Home Page
- Ohio Memory Project Virtual Scrapbook
Military Information Sites
- Revolutionary War Research Info
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (National Park Service)
- Union Army Regimental History Index
- Ohio in the Civil War
- Civil War, World War I, II, and Korean Casualties Search
- The Korean War Project
- The Vietnam Casualty Search Page
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page
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The maintainer of this page is Charles R. Weese: cweese@hughes.net
Please do not ask the page maintainer any specific genealogical questions unless he has volunteered to do lookups in specific sources on another page of this site. Specific questions, such as where do I find such-and-such and do you know anything about so-and-so's family are best handled in queries or on the mailing list.
I am required to tell you the current year is 2011 and this page is copyrighted by me although almost none of the data on this site is copyrightable.Last updated: Friday, 06-May-2011 10:35:48 MDT