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I will try to keep this page up to let you know what new goodies I've added since my last update. No promises, Sometimes I just get into the "zone" and just start adding stuff. By the time I'm finished, I have no idea where all of it is. :-). The best judge of what is new or not is to check the date at the bottom of each page you visit. It should have the date that page was last updated.

This page was updated on 2 March 2014

March 2014

Newspaper article, "Interesting Facts about Interesting People - Ma Short" Nell Presley Truitt wrote a piece about "Ma Short" (Bertha Schardt) for her series "Interesting Facts about Interesting People", Manchester Signal, 1963 or 1964. Ma was a midwife in the Blue Creek area. She delivered or helped deliver 3,847 babies, 47 sets of twins and 1 set of triplets. She was also an outspoken advocate for the poor and much more. Ma was born in Higginsport, Nov. 1, 1880.

July 2013

• Added several new names to the surname page. The newest are at the bottom.
• Added a few new links to the links page
• Added two new lookup sources to the lookup page.
• Added a Maddox Family Page
• Added a Johnson Family Page
• Added a transcript to the cemetery page of the 24 graves in the Naylor, also known as Reed Cemetery, on Gift Ridge.
• Created an Obituary page and added one obit.
• Added a new Kelley Family page

January 2013

Fixed and updated links on the "Useful Links" page.

August 2012

• Added the Collings Cemetery It is memtioned in the Evan Stivers Book on Adams Co. OH. and is located under the water tower in West Union. Many
  Collings and a few other families buried there. I do not have any other information on this cemetery at this time.
• Added Clark Blake to the surname page. He is researching the Grooms and Blake families.