{"id":25040,"date":"2013-02-24T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T03:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=25040"},"modified":"2013-02-24T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T03:05:18","slug":"jefferson-county-ohio-courthouse-records-digitized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=25040","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson County, Ohio Courthouse Records Digitized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from an article in the February 21, 2013 edition of the <strong>Herald Star<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsconnect.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/583472\/County-courthouse-records-now-in-a-digital-formate.html?nav=5010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Jefferson-County-Ohio-Digitization-Project.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Ohio Genealogical Society, Jefferson County Chapter has reached a milestone in preserving records obtained in 2009 from Probate-Juvenile Judge Samuel Kerr at the Jefferson County Courthouse. All the probate packets now have been digitized from 1797 to 1930 and can be found at a free website. Among those working on the project are, from left, front, Elder Bill Pace, Sister Beverly Pace, Elder Albert Mooney and Sister Lynn Mooney: and back, Elder Brayden Young, Elder Trey Rudd, all from the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints; and Flora VerStraten-Merrin, local genealogical society president and coordinator. Photo by Esther McCoy \" width=\"175\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25041\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>WINTERSVILLE [Jefferson County, Ohio]<\/strong> &#8211; 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&#8217; records, inventories to estates, veterans&#8217; documents and various other records.<\/p>\n<p>A complete updated listing can be found on the free website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffcochapter.com\">www.jeffcochapter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsconnect.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/583472\/County-courthouse-records-now-in-a-digital-formate.html?nav=5010\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from an article in the February 21, 2013 edition of the Herald Star: WINTERSVILLE [Jefferson County, Ohio] &#8211; The Ohio Genealogical Society, Jefferson County Chapter, has completed another chapter in its work for digitizing original records <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=25040\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Jefferson County, Ohio Courthouse Records Digitized<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courthouse-records","category-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25045,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040\/revisions\/25045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}