Saturday, January 01, 2005

I found it!

Friday I had a long list of things to do, but I knew that it was my last chance to visit the Salt Lake Family History library in 2004, so I put everything else on hold and went downtown. I took along a thirteen year old son who had to go last time and said he wanted to go next time. This was next time, so he went.

First we checked out the books available for Ohio County, West Virginia. Someone has done an awesome job putting together indexes for the County records, but they were not of the right time period for the people I was searching for. So next we went to the second floor for the US microfilms (that's what my son came along for)

I've been trying to document the vital information of my great-grandmother, Beulah Agnes ROBARE who married Elmer Lee SCOTT. I had a birthdate, but no death date--only a month and year. My grandmother had told me that she died shortly after her ninth birthday in their home in Bellaire, Belmont, Ohio. I searched the online Ohio death certificate database, but didn't find her. I checked the Belmont County Death records last trip to the library, but she wasn't there. This time I checked the Ohio County, West Virginia records and sure enough that's where her death had been recorded. She had died in the Wheeling hospital after a long illness. It was quite an emotional experience to see her name in those records. I'll post the death certificate just as soon as I get the scanner up and running again. The certificate confirmed her birth date and gave the place as Ohio, but as yet I haven't found her birth record. It wasn't in Harrison County or Belmont County.

The library is closed today, so time for a database upgrade.

Happy New Year!

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