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From: "Allen L. Potts" <>
Subject: Re: [OHMARION-L] About my deed book postings (long)
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 20:16:48 -0600


Jane let me know when the book comes out. I for one will purchase the book.
I understand the time and little ever received from a project like this.
This was how it was with Germans to Marion County. However I learned a lot
and sure have enjoyed it.
al
http://www.genweb.net/~leesue

Jane Peppler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First, thanks to the several people who have written and told me they
> appreciate this information. If you wonder WHY I have been spending
> 20-30 hours per book transcribing this information (it's not just names,
> it's all the genealogical information in the deeds and locations, dates,
> etc) it's because:
> 1) I'm obsessed with the Ebenezer Burt who was one of the Justices of
> the Peace and I am trying to figure out who were his cohorts and I don't
> want to miss ANYTHING (there's nothing like writing things out to help
> you be sure you didn't miss anything)
> 2) I've become interested in the history and the inter-relations of the
> people of Marion back then - it's starting to seem like a docu-drama as
> I see, over time, who is amassing a fortune and who is getting more and
> more mortgages. Who has to give their kids away when the breadwinner
> dies and the new stepfather doesn't want them. Yesterday I found a WILL
> there in the deed book for this incredibly rich southerner named Ross
> who had land holdings in five or six states (including Ohio of course)
> and which actually named about seven of his slaves (including their
> "increase")
> 3) My father and my bestest aunt died this spring and summer and this
> numbing work is just what the doctor ordered.
>
> Second, to remind people - I just cannot do individual lookups for you.
> I want to put all the time I have into making this information available
> for everybody.
>
> Allen Potts is going to put the index information I'm giving him on his
> web site so you can see which books and which pages your ancestors
> appear on. Then you can rent the films from FHC and read them yourself -
> which you ought to do anyway, since my transcriptions are guaranteed to
> be less accurate than what an interested researcher would glean from the
> original.
>
> However, my ultimate goal is to get these records published. Willow
> Bend/Closson books has said they will print at least one book (that is,
> books one through four, the first two reels of film). I included maps
> and information about land descriptions, etc. in with the manuscript I
> sent them.
>
> Since my ultimate goal is to do the first TEN reels, that would be five
> books. I am sure Willow Bend will not put out even a second book if
> people don't buy the first. The reason I want them to come out on paper
> is so people without computers or people at genealogical libraries have
> access to this information, which should make it VERY much easier to
> find what you need in the deeds.
>
> So, please support this project by buying this book when it comes out if
> you think it will help you (I will get only a vanishingly small royalty,
> by the way, and I'm out several hundred dollars already for purchasing
> the films) and maybe more of them can be published.
>
> Jane Peppler

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