Resource Persons - Volunteers needed

This Page Was Last Updated Tuesday, 28-Aug-2012 22:25:40 MDT

(The form of this page was updated 16 Jun 2018 but the lookup persons and emails are quite old.  Let me know if you cannot reach them, Karen)

If you have access to Knox County resources, or have such resources in your personal collection, please volunteer to help others by listing your name and resource on this page.

The following volunteers are very special people, with a real love for Knox County. They are giving of their time and expertise to help others. Please take the time to thank them for performing this service.

These look ups are to help folks find connections. Please don't use this service to verify information you already have. Some guidelines:
1 - Keep requests brief and to the point
2 - Not too many surnames at one time
3- An idea of the time frame
4 - What part (town, township) of the county where the person might be found

Lookup Volunteers

Will do lookups for Knox Co. cemeteries,
excluding Moundview and Mt. Calvary cemeteries.
John Page
pjpage35@verizon.net

I can do look-ups for the following:
Marriage Records of Knox County, Ohio 1808-1875
Knox County, Ohio Will Abstracts 1808-1877 vol.1
Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index - by Carol W. Bell
Denise Crawford
crawford937@gmail.com

Carol is willing to provide minor help in Knox County. Her names in Knox County are VIAN, PERKINS, DOWN(E)(S), HARDESTY, GRUBB, and LYBARGER.
Carol Montrose
The_Yellow_Rose@hotmail.com

Dave has been working on sorting out the early SMITHs in Knox county. In doing so, they have been in contact with many BROWN researchers.

Extraction of all names from THE OHIO REGISTER 1812-1813 - They purchased the films from the Ohio Historical Society, as Dave's family is descended from Samuel Hoy Smith, owner of that paper. By clicking on the name above you can go to a page that lists all of the names that they extracted.
Dave Ketterer
ketterer@empireone.net
Glenville, NY

A history of the Workman family - Information on WORKMAN and related families of Knox County, OH & elsewere (indexed)
Grace Hackwell
Shortyhack@aol.com

Genealogists/Historians

Knox County Genealogist/Historian
Ernest L. Moreland
3660 Simmons Church Road
Centerburg, OH 43011

Knox County Genealogist/Historian
Mrs. Evelyn Winter
The Knox County O.G.S.
658 N. Sandusky Street
Mt. Vernon, OH 43050

Researching Surnames

Researching the ROOP surname
James M. Roop
wb9qiu@ix.netcom.com
2018 Lawson Blvd.
Gurnee, IL 60031

Researching the MCMAHON Family in Knox County. Other Surnames in my data base include: CARSON, PURCELL, MORGAN, RICHERT, SHAFER, CLEMENTS, DIAL/DILE, LEPLEY, LYBARGER, PARKER, CRITCHFIELD, MCGUGIN, EALY, JOLLY, ESTABROOK, POPHAM, WAGNER, SYNDER, REED, SCOLES, BAILES, KING, HARLE, WELKER, FREET, SNEDEKER, SPINDLER, PERKINS, MONTIS, JENKINS, SPAKE, SINGER, VERNON, and FREHSE.
Dave McMahon
David.McMahon@axom.com

Researching the SCHISKA & SHOULTS surnames in Knox County. I am a Kenyon grad, and my maternal line all came from the Knox County area. My mother had been our family genealogist, and had taken my paternal ancestry back to the late 1700s when the Schiskas emigrated to America (she even has the original letters of passage). Unfortunately, my mother passed away on June 27 leaving a huge amount of information on the Schiskas Shoults side but very little completed work. I was wondering if it would be possible to have the Shoults name added to your Knox County site so those with information may be able to offer it more readily. I know there is some exciting history to be learned. My grandfather, for instance, was Joseph F. Shoults, a deputy sheriff in Mt. Vernon under Paul Lynde's father Hoy Linde. My great-great grandfather was Samson Shoults, an "Indian trader" who owned the land upon which they built the covered bridge near the girl scout camp in Martinsburg. I am sure people would have information to offer to assist me in my new endeavor of genealogical mapping.
Joseph R. Schiska
jschiska@columbus.rr.com
Coordinator of Technology
Franklin County Educational Service Center
1717 Alum Creek Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43207-1754
Voice: (614) 445-3750
Fax: (614) 445-3767