The following excerpt is from an article in the February 21, 2013 edition of the Herald Star:
WINTERSVILLE [Jefferson County, Ohio] – The Ohio Genealogical Society, Jefferson County Chapter, has completed another chapter in its work for digitizing original records obtained from the Jefferson County Courthouse that include common pleas records, naturalizations, criminal records, coroners’ records, inventories to estates, veterans’ documents and various other records.
A complete updated listing can be found on the free website at www.jeffcochapter.com.
Now all probate packets have been digitalized through the work of Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints missionaries Albert and Lynn Mooney, who have been working to get the important documents from 1797 to 1930 unfolded, the wrinkles ironed out and mended when needed and rehydrated, making papers ready to lay flat on the photography table for missionaries Bill and Beverly Pace to digitalize for prosperity.
