Searching in Ohio
For those of us with ancestors who lived in Ohio, here is some good news. The Ohio birth and death data will be availabe in online searchable databases by the end of the year. The bad news is that the records will only be searchable from Ohio county offices.
I have a big branch on my family tree from Ohio, so this is good news for me. I’ll get what I can online and then if I need to make a trip, it would be a fun long weekend. I get 5 weeks off from work, so I could turn it into a vacation.
I don’t know much about this Ohio branch, so I’m eager to learn more. I know one of the surnames I’m looking for is FERBRACHE. In my initial research, I learned that it is fairly common in Guernsey, a small English island in the English Channel. I wonder if this is where my ancestors were from? Could this explain my love of Guernsey milk cows?
After I looked up the surname, I started pulling up records and started digging deeper. It seems this branch has deep roots in Ohio, going back at least 100 years or more. Before that, the trail of vital records and census forms ends, but I found some other people’s family trees that seem to connect me to the surname BUTCHER/BIRTCHER in Delaware. I’m pretty excited about this as it could mean I’m descended from some early colonists, but I’ll try not to get ahead of myself and instead, I’ll focus on Ohio for now, using their new searchable database when it is ready, and get all of my documentation together before moving on to these more elusive BUTCHERs and BIRTCHERs.
Hello Stacy
For 8 years I have been developing a massive family tree of most Ferbrache’s who have lived in the world.
I have many of the Ohio Ferbrache’s starting at 1806 when a largish group of Guernsey Channel Islands people arrived at Norfolk Virginia and trecked to Ohio where they formed Guernsey county Ohio.
If you contact me I will send you your family tree back to 1640—-in the hope you will add to my reference tree
Regards
Rex
Rex Ferbrache
rex@ferbrache.com