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From: "John Hugentober" <>
Subject: Re: [Hamilt'n] Research in Cincinnati
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 22:53:03 -0400
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Phyllis,

Wow, thanks for the great information! Did the old wooden card catalog
list entries by name? What was the best way to search it? I think that is
awesome that you found the scrapbook with your gGrandfather in it!!
Hopefully I can be so lucky! Any other tips that you have for a 'plan of
attack' are appreciated.

Thanks,
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phyllis Garratt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: [Hamilt'n] Research in Cincinnati


> Hi John, last summer I spent 10 days in Cincinnati and then wrote a 3
> page list covering tips on the places I did research. You can access it
> in the Hamilton County List archives at:
>
> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OHHAMILT/2001-07/0996425554
>
> Others on the list added to my information so you might look around in
> the July and August 2001 archives for more great tips. To access the
> archives you can just remove everything after the OHHAMILT in the
> address above. This will give you all the archives by year (and some by
> month) for this list.
>
> Three things I would add about the main library at 800 Vine in
> Cincinnati are as follows:
>
> 1.) They give tours of the genealogy department which I found very
> helpful. Just ask at the desk when the next one will be. Last summer
> tours were at 10 am on Saturday morning.
>
> 2.) As of last summer, 3/4 of all the genealogy books in the library
> were in the back and you had to request them. This is very easy to do
> and you can request quite a few at a time. I don't want you to think
> that all the books are on the shelves. You'd miss a lot of helpful
> information!
>
> 3.) There is a small old-fashioned wooden card catalog near the help
> desk in the genealogy department. Do not miss checking this low tech
> goldmine!! I found a lot of information on my great grandfather in this
> card catalog, which is not cataloged elsewhere. One of the items was a
> scrapbook from 120 years ago which had been donated to the library.
> Inside were pages of news articles about my great grandfather who had
> been an acquantaince of the owner of the scrapbook! The wonderful folks
> at the library had taken the time to list some names of people mentioned
> in the scrapbook and put it in this card catalog.
>
> Have a wonderful time! You can find a lot in a few days, but you could
> easily spend weeks (for me, months) there.
>
> If you have further questions, just email me.
>
> Phyllis in California
>
>
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