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Author: SharleneMiller88
Surnames: STAFFORD - POTTORFF
Classification: queries
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I have an obituary for Donald Joe Stafford, son of Paul Stafford and Genevieve Pottorff. I do not know who Paul's father was. Does anyone on this board know who Paul Stafford's father was??
Donald had a brother Robert L. Stafford of Centerton, Indiana; another brother Paul Delaine Stafford and a sister, Betty Lou who married a Mr. Knipstine.
I would like to correspond with you if you know who these people are. Please e-mail me. I will be happy to share any information I have about the Staffords.
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Tracy,
If they owned their home, and if you know about when they might have bought it, you can go to the Morgan County Recorder's office and get a land description. Someone from the Recorder's office can show you where that is on the map. If they didn't own their own home, tax duplicates may show you who their neighbors were. If those people owned property, you can figure out about where they lived. Then, of course, there is the census, which should show you who their neighbors were, up through 1930 of course.
Sharon Mills
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From: Tracy Jones <tracy(a)tracyjones.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 13:34
Subject: [INMORGAN] Need help finding a location
To: inmorgan(a)rootsweb.com
> I found my great-grandparents listed in a local residents' book
> in the library. Their address is shown as R1, Ashland
> Township, Quincy, IN. I realize this is in Owen
> County. I called the post office for Quincy, and the
> postmaster from that era was still alive, so they put me in
> contact with her. She said Ashland Township was *not* in
> Quincy, so I'm back to square one. How can I find out
> where exactly my ggrandparents lived then?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tracy
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Let me add, the book I found was in the Morgan County Library. Sorry, meant to mention that before.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tracy Jones
To: inmorgan(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:28 PM
Subject: [INMORGAN] Need help finding a location
I found my great-grandparents listed in a local residents' book in the library. Their address is shown as R1, Ashland Township, Quincy, IN. I realize this is in Owen County. I called the post office for Quincy, and the postmaster from that era was still alive, so they put me in contact with her. She said Ashland Township was *not* in Quincy, so I'm back to square one. How can I find out where exactly my ggrandparents lived then?
Thanks,
Tracy
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Betty's comments on her experience at the Morgan County Library can be
helpful in several ways.
I'm sure that when Mr. Ross, the head librarian, heard what the comment was
from his desk person that he has made a point to make sure the people working
at the desk are retrained to give more helpful information.
Last fall I attended a meeting of the MCHGA at the library. The speaker was
from the Indiana State Library. He had several handouts of diagrams of
locations for resources at the state library. A similar drawing for the Morgan County
Library Genealogy Department would be helpful if it was posted a couple places
there. I've seen this method used in a couple of county clerk's offices also.
There's no doubt that libraries are underfunded and short-staffed, that is
true almost everywhere. Last fall we were going to make a short visit to the
library in Harrison County, Kentucky while passing through that area. We knew
that our time there would be limited as we were traveling to a workshop in
Tennessee and we needed to be considerate of another person traveling with us. I had
been given a link to the Harrison County Genealogy website and on there it
gave a list of the resources at the library along with the locations of those
resources in the library. With a print out of this information, we were able to
walk right in a library where we had never been before and locate a number of
pieces of information we needed. Our visit there was fairly short but very
productive. As our way of saying "Thanks" we left a descendant narrative report
and a copy of a Civil War pension file for one family we were researching. A
report for another family was used to start a family file for a related large
family in that county.
On a positive note about the Morgan County Library Genealogy Department, the
first time we visited there we found a family history in a loose-leaf
notebook. In this notebook was a letter written by my husband's grandfather, Claude
Miller, telling of Claude's grandfather and his journey from Germany to America.
This was something we'd never have found anywhere else. Claude's writing gave
my husband an insight not only of his great-great grandfather but also of his
grandfather through his writing as a younger person.
A final suggestion would be to post on the county message board before you
visit a library and ask for suggestions from someone local who is familiar with
what and where things are.
Julie
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All of my father's family were in Morgan Co. before 1850 and I have spent
many years making trips there to do research on them. I have also done research
in many other libraries around the country in over 50 years so think I can say
with some authority that the Morgan Co. library does a remarkable job with the
limited funds at their disposal. I have always found the Morgan Co.
Historical and Genealogica Soc. willing to help with any inquiry I have made and have
found many cousins during my searches.I have to wonder at only allowing an hour
or so in any research library and expecting to find much on a family history.
I am a member of many historical organizations from Mayflower Soc. to DAR
and would never have been able to prove all those lineages if I had not devoted
a lot of time and effort to discovering just who my ancestors were. Libraries
are wonderful places to start but it is up to the researcher to continue to
check land records, cemetary records, and other public records to make any
progress on our more elusive ancestors. This is what makes family tree hunting such
an intellectual and interesting challange. It is true that most of our Morgan
Co. ancestor's moved in from the south, NC, KY, Tenn, VA , and were not
especially well off, and did not leave as many written records as the New England
ancestors did, but a lot of information is there, especially in probate
records, which are indexed but a lot of the information slipped by the indexer and it
is helpful to read by the year. That one must do for oneself. I also try to
leave written records of my research in the family files for anyone else who
may be researching the same family to help them along. I hope everyone who uses
the library will do the same so the we can all share in the new information. I
just wish I were closer so that I could do a little volunteer work there
myself and I, for one, really, really, appreciate the staff who does all the
volunteer work in the genealogy dept. and all the help they have given me over the
years. I would be willing to contribute to a fund for the ailing genealogy
dept. if those in the co. would start a project so that we might all show our
appreciation for a well run and helpful group of volunteers. Phyllis
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