During the summer of 2004 I will be traveling for genealogy research in the following areas. I could use plenty of advice. Please email georgeann@msn.com with suggestions.
- www.springfieldohio.org
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Washington County, PA
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www.washpatourism.org
- May 13 – 16 NATIONAL ROAD FESTIVAL ~
Route 40, Fayette, Somerset, & Washington Counties. From Claysville in Washington County to Addison in Somerset County, visit arts & crafts, antique cars & tractors, old time exhibits & demonstrations, wagon train, food, entertainment, Civil War displays, & much more. Numerous towns & villages along Route 40 (the historic National Pike) participate, including the National Pike Steam Gas, & Horse Assn., Inc. (5/15&16/04, 10AM-6PM, 724/267-3878), Scenery Hill (5/15/04 10AM-8PM & 5/16/04 12PM-7PM, 724/945-5385) and Claysville (5/15&16/04, 9AM-6PM, 724/663-5028). - May 15 & 16 STORYTELLING WALKING HISTORY TOURS OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON ~ Meet at the Citizens Library. Sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society. A storytelling walking tour of Washington highlighting historical sites and personalities. Free; donations accepted. 1:30PM. Contact Joyce Mullen 724/225-6740.
- May 13 – 16 NATIONAL ROAD FESTIVAL ~
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www.washpatourism.org
- Greene County, PA
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www.county.greenepa.net
- www.county.greenepa.net/secured/gc/services/visiting.htm
- Covered Bridges of Greene County, PA
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www.county.greenepa.net
- Westmoreland County, PA
- West Virginia
- Jacobs descendents of William & Margaret WHITE - www.irishgenealogy.com/white.htm
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Hugh WHITE b: 24 Jun 1834
in Wellsburg, Brooke Co., W. VA
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Mary Margaret WHITE b: 2
Sep 1836 in Or 1837, Wellsburg, Brooke Co., West VA
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Elizabeth Mitchel WHITE b:
23 Jun 1839 in Wellsburg, West Virginia
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- Wellsburg
- Wheeling
- www.frenchandindianwar250.org/
- Chicago - I will be in Chicago June 3-6, 2004 for www.BookExpoAmerica.com and stay to research where Franklin Odenbaugh, Mary White and Hugh White lived and were buried.
My goals include:
- Visiting areas where my ancestors lived.
- Meeting some of my distant cousins who live in these areas
- Visit friends and family enroute
- Meeting others researching the same families and communities
- Meet alumni of my online genealogy classes
- Meeting people who contribute to www.chartiers.com and making decisions regarding future projects: Gina, Helen, etc
- Visiting local historical festivals, historical societies, libraries, archives and museums
- Enjoying outdoor activities in these areas. Perhaps white water rafting with a group in West Virginia or joining others for a tour of covered bridges. But most of all, having a really FUN summer!
Specific places & activities. All dates tentative at this time
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| Seattle - I-90 - Spokane, > > > maybe Red Oak, Iowa to visit mom's cousin, > Indiana > Ohio | |||||||||
| May |
The Heritage
Center of Clark County Library - 10 am - 5 pm Wed - Sat  |
Springfield, Ohio | |||||||
| Clark County Public Library | Springfield, Ohio | ||||||||
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Springfield, Ohio | ||||||||
| get photos of houses Ancestors lived in | Springfield, Ohio | ||||||||
| www.libraries.wright.edu/special/gov_records/clark.html | Ohio | ||||||||
| MML | Springfield, Ohio | ||||||||
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Burton J. Westscott House - www.westcotthouse.org/ | |||||||||
| Catholic Central High School | |||||||||
| Dayton, Ohio | |||||||||
| Collins - re: Garrity research | Cincinnatti, Ohio | ||||||||
| Darlene | Cincinnatti, Ohio | ||||||||
| Davy & Becky | Columbus | ||||||||
| Russ | Painsville | ||||||||
| Columbiana Co., OH - ? | Columbiana Co., OH | ||||||||
| Wellsburg, W. VA | |||||||||
| May 11 | Tour of Thomas Hughes Home in Jefferson, PA - part of
Cornerstone Genealogy Society's monthly meeting - Odenbaugh
group will want to go here because we are related by marriage
to this Hughes family www.greenepa.net/~museum/HughesHouse.html The historic Thomas Hughes House was built by Thomas Hughes in 1814 of hand hewn stone cut by Thomas' slaves from a nearby quarry. This is one of only a few houses built by slaves north of the Mason Dixon line. While one part of the two-story home may have been built as early as 1792, the main part was constructed in 1814. The original one-story section was most likely a kitchen that was attached to a cabin. On the southeast gable of the present structure, an oval stone contains the inscription 1814, T.H. E.H. for Thomas and Elizabeth Hughes. The Historical Society has overseen this site. A lease agreement between the PHMC and the Greene County Library System, for the use of the site as a satellite library for the area, is also underway. |
Greene Co., PA | |||||||
| May 13 – 16 | NATIONAL ROAD FESTIVAL www.nationalroadpa.org - Route 40, Fayette, Somerset, & Washington Counties. From Claysville in Washington County to Addison in Somerset County, visit arts & crafts, antique cars & tractors, old time exhibits & demonstrations, wagon train, food, entertainment, Civil War displays, & much more. | ||||||||
| May 15-16 | STORYTELLING WALKING HISTORY TOURS OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON
~ Meet at the Citizens Library. Sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society |
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| WCHS - Washington County Historical Society. | |||||||||
| www.bradfordhouse.org -figure out if Catherine Frey Odenbaugh Bradford & her husband James and son David Bradford are related to the David Bradford of this house | |||||||||
| Memorial Day Weekend | |||||||||
| June 3 -6 |
www.bookexpoamerica.com
www.newberry.org Newberry Library, Chicago |
Chicago | |||||||
| June | (6/7 - 14 Jane in UT) | ||||||||
| June 8 | Bill Ecenbarger, author of "Walkin' the Line" a journey from past to present along the Mason Dixon at Cornerstone Genealogy Society www.pa-roots.com/~cgs/ | ||||||||
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| www.derryhistory.org Derry Area Historical Society - owns FULTON/GUTHRIE home - see www.irishgenealogy.com/fulton.htm & www.irishgenealogy.com/guthrie.htm | New Derry, Westmoreland County, PA | ||||||||
| Jun 19 Sunday | Waynesburg, PA - Reunion Jim is organizing for the descendants of Thomas Kent and Minerva Kent. Minerva is a great granddaughter of Catherine Frye Odenbaugh. | Greene County, PA | |||||||
| Re: Catherine Frye. The cemetery called "East Waynesburg" that she was buried in was taken over for a housing development in 1935. The graves were moved to the Greene County... Memorial near Jefferson, PA. Jim knows the general area where she was buried as Thomas Kent was buried and moved. We should be able to find a marker in the Greene Co. Memorial. | Greene County, PA | ||||||||
| July 1 - 4 | Fort Necessity 250th Anniversary; George Washington Manuscript on public display www.nps.gov/fone Join the National Park Service and park Partners at Fort Necessity National Battlefield July 1st through July 4th, 2004 in commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Necessity at the Great Meadows. July 1 Pittsburgh Symphony in concert. 7:00 p. m Free and open to the public. July 2 Noted authors discuss the significance of the battle and its repercussions to colonial America. This scholars' panel includes perspectives of the French, British, and American Indians. July 3-4 Grand Encampment and Tactical. Living history presentations. Memorial Service. George Washington manuscript on display. | Fort Necessity, PA | |||||||
| July 4th weekend | |||||||||
| July 9-11 | PHS reunion? http://support.vx.com/internal/geg/PHS_info.htm | Tampa | |||||||
| July 13 | Greene County Historical Barn at the Fair Grounds & picnic - Cornerstone Genealogy Society | ||||||||
| FL | |||||||||
| July 23-25 | TC reunion? | Tampa | |||||||
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www.meadowcroftmuseum.org/calendar.htm
Meadowcroft Museum
of Rural Life & Bonnie Sanford www.meadowcroftmuseum.org |
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| July 31 - Aug 1 |
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| August - 7 | 2 others coming to Washington County for a reunion | ||||||||
Hopewell Twp, Washington County
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| Pennsylvania Museums by County: www.pamuseums.org/directories/Dir-cohs.htm |
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| Lower Buffalo Cemetery: Independence, PA - where Jacob & Elizabeth Mitchell WHITE are buried - www.irishgenealogy.com/white.htm | Washington County, PA | ||||||||
Cemeteries
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| "The American House" - West Middleton | |||||||||
| Citizen's Library www.citlib.org | |||||||||
| Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Library http://wpgs.library.net/ | |||||||||
| Cornerstone Genealogy Society www.pa-roots.com/~cgs/ | Greene County, PA | ||||||||
| www.vicoa.com/cornerstone/ | |||||||||
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Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA | ||||||||
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Harrisburg, PA | ||||||||
| Sep 18-19 | Sep 18 ~ Covered Bridge Ride www.greenepa.net/~gchfh Sep 18-19 ~ Covered Bridge Festival Carmichaels ... FMI: 724-966-9770 Garads Fort ... FMI: 724-966-2357 | ||||||||
| Greene County Historical Society and Museum www.greenepa.net/~museum/ |
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| Fulton Family of Westmoreland County www.irishgenealogy.com/fulton.htm |
Westmoreland County, PA | ||||||||
| West Virginia University Library in Morgantown | W. VA | ||||||||
| Gerry Parchman | Trenton, NJ | ||||||||
| 04/17 - 04/18 |
Launch Weekend of the National Commemoration of 250th
Anniversary of the French and Indian War
http://www.frenchandindianwar250.org/event_details.cfm?EventID=14
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| where John Malowney lived | Maryland | ||||||||
| where Jonas Odenbaugh lived www.odenbaugh.org/biography/jonas.htm | Baltimore, MD | ||||||||
| where James White (1749 - 1815) was buried | Lancaster Co, PA | ||||||||
| Faggs Manor, Chester County, PA where Jacob White was born | Chester County, PA | ||||||||
| Virginia | |||||||||
West Virginia www.wva.state.wv.us/callwva/ Wellsburg BROOKE COUNTY MUSEUMS FORMERLY MILLER TAVERN (1798-1840), THE BUILDING NOW HOUSES A MUSEUM DISPLAYING FURNITURE MANUFACTURED IN WELLSBURG, CLOTHING OF THE 1800S, TOYS, AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST. LOCATION: 6TH & MAIN STS., OPPOSITE THE HISTORIC WELLSBURG WHARF IN WELLSBURG. OPEN: APRIL-OCTOBER, FRIDAY-SUNDAY, 1 TO 5. ADDRESS: PAM COST, PRESIDENT, 600 MAIN ST., WELLSBURG, WV 26070. RUBY GREATHOUSE, SECRETARY (304)737-0506. 600 MAIN ST Wellsburg ,WV 26070. Phone: 304-737-4060 BROOKE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM HISTORIC MUSEUM ORCHARD ST. Follansbee ,WV 26037. Phone: 304-737-2787 Contact Person: SHARI HARPER West Virginia Day Celebration Celebrate the state's birthday. Civil War encampment, mock battles, square dance, food, crafts and more West Virginia State Fair August 13-22, 2004. Family fun and entertainment. 5-star agricultural event. Livestock, exhibits, ca WV Highland Games & Celtic Festival Come celebrate your Scottish Ancestry! Scottish Athletes, genealogy & clan tents, pipe bands, Celtic www.maclachlans.org/internet/WV.HTM www.historicalrivertours.com/Site.htm |
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| where John Malowney & Dennis Maloney lived during the Civil War | Rutland, MA | ||||||||
| maybe a tour of New England when the leaves change | |||||||||
| go south by late October - Florida > New Orleans > Phoenix then back to Seattle |
