Hello everyone! I have returned from my first ever trip to Jay Co. Had a
wonderful time! The Jay Co. Genealogy Society Folks were a great help. They
have a lot of resources in their office and know alot about the county and
its familes. I also spent alot of time at the courthouse. Unfortunately,
the Salt Lake City folks were there filming wills etc. so I could not
access the orignal documents. I must tell you that the Jay County Genealogy
Society is trying to get "custody" of some of these original documents. I
thought this was an important project of theirs: You know how frustrating
it sometimes is to find death records in Jay Co? Thats because many of the
records were destroyed in a flood. I made a personal donation to the
society to help defray the costs in obtaining and housing these records
properly. While I was there we talked about the web site and the work of
the society and the importance of working co-operatvely. I have already
told you that the web site will at sometime in the near future have a data
base of cemetary inscriptions from Jay County Cemetaries, donated by the
Jay County Genealogy Society and currently being scanned and typed by a
tireless volunteer! These inscriptions were a huge help to me, especially
since I had been unable to obtain death records for a few of my folks. I am
sure they will be of interest to you too! I have been a little slow to
update the site of late, its been very busy here for me, but we also have
another new look-up volunteer and some more additions to the scrap book,
and I hope to post a few photos from my trip this weekend. If anyone out
there has time to proof-read some of the cemetary transcriptions before
they are placed on the site, please let me know. Also, having been there
myself and seeing what they have and what they want to do, I would
encourage you to join the Jay Co. Genealogy Society if you have not already
done so. Hope you all had as nice a summer as me!