New Books

New books and material are purchased or donated to our department on a regular basis. Previously, the department librarian would send a list of new material to the newsletter editor of Wayne Ancestors, the newsletter of the Wayne County Genealogical Society. The list would be published in the quarterly newsletter. To reach a wider audience, the list of new material may now be found on the Wayne County, Ohio Online Resource Center.

The books that have arrived in the Department since September 2022 may be found on our New Bookshelves. The books from August 2022 and before may be found on the regular bookshelves.

July 2023

Family History

• 200 Years in Clearfield County by Betty (Ricketts) Welker

Ohio

• Declaration of Intentions for Naturalizations 1917-1929 (Coshocton County)
• Dalton Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, Ohio
• West Lebanon Union Cemetery, Paint Township, Wayne County, Ohio
• Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in Wayne County, Ohio

Virginia

• Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Book 1692-1693
• Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Book 1693-1694
• Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Book 1694-1695
• Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Book 1695-1697
• Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Book 1697-1699
• Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Book 1699-1701
• Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Book 1701-1703
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 1753-1754 and Will Book 1750

June 2023

Family History

• In Memory of a Christian Mother: Martha Etta Rhodes Berkey
• History of the Brallier Family
• Compilation of the Rufenacht and Luginbuehl Families

General Information

• Abandoned Prayers
• Commerce on Early American Waterways
• Genealogy of the Culbertson Families
• James A. Bailey: The Genius Behind the Barnum & Baily Circus
• The Magic of German Church Records
• The National Road: Main Street of America
• 101 Best Genealogy Research Tips
• Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (Cassie Chadwick)
• Research Like a Pro with DNA
• Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors
• 16-3-3 (Historical Fiction of the people who settled on Range 16, Township 3, Section 3 of the U.S. Military District, located in Delaware County, Ohio)
• Uprooted

Military

• Faces of Civil War Nurses
• Faces of the Confederacy

Connecticut

• "Fire Cake and Water": The Connecticut Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment

Delaware

• "Our Troops are in General Almost Naked": The Delaware and New York Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment 1777-1778

Indiana

• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Indiana
• A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 1 & 2

Massachusetts

• New-England Runaways, 1774-1777
• Vital Record of Rehoboth, Mass.

New Hampshire

• Death Seem'd to Share": The New Hampshire and Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge

New Jersey

• "What Can't Brave Americans Endure?": The New Jersey Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment

Ohio

• American Indians of the Ohio Country in the 18th Century
• Central Ohio Legends & Lore
• Disasters of Ohio's Lake Erie Islands
• Historic Black Settlements of Ohio
• Isaly's Chipped Ham, Klondikes, and Oter Tales from Behind the Counter
• Lake Erie Murder & Mayhem
• Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley Personal and Genealogical, vol. 1 & 2
• Ohio Mennonite Sunday Schools
• The Reverse Underground Railroad in Ohio
• War Upon Our Border: Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War

Columbiana County

• Columbiana County, Ohio Plat Directory, 1991
• Historical Sketch of Columbiana County, Ohio

Coshocton County

• Clark Township Cemeteries, Coshocton County, Ohio

Crawford County

• Early Burial Records from: Peace Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church, Obits from Old Newspapers: Union Green Cemetery, Galion, Crawford County, Ohio
• Abstract of Early Wills Crawford County, OH
• Crawford County Directory 1937-1939
• Marriage Consents Crawford County, OH 1832 to 1900

Cuyahoga County

• Haunted Cleveland

Delaware County

• Berkshire Township Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Berlin Township Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Brown Township Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Concord Township Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Delaware-Troy Township Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Genoa-Harlem Township Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Kingston-Porter-Trenton Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Liberty-Orange Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Marlboro-Oxford Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Radnor-Thompson Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Scioto Cemeteries Delaware County, Ohio
• Shaking the Family Tree: A Sampling of Delaware County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records Pre-1900
• History of Delaware Police Department 1852 to 1992
• Underground Railroad: Stories that Need to be Told Again

Franklin County

• A Haunted History of Columbus, Ohio

Hardin County

• Centennial History of Hardin County, Ohio, including Centennial Celebration Program May 28-30, 1933
• Atlas of Hardin Co, Ohio 1879

Holmes County

• Monroe Lutheran Church and Cemetery Holmes County, Ohio

Lorain County

• Oberlin Colony Ohio: The Story of a Century

Lucas County

• 125th Update of Whitehouse Historical Society

Medina County

• Historic Tales of Medina County

Portage County

• Haunting Tales from the Tree City

Ross County

• The Memoirs of a Pioneer Family
• Enumeration of Free Black and Mulatto Population in Ross County, Ohio 1804-1855
• First Annual Directory Kingston, Ohio for the Year 1895
• Excelsior Mailing List 1914
• Frey's Second Interim Report Selected Genealogies from the Area of Laurelville and Adelphi, Ohio
• The Story of Chillicothe's Big Fire April 1st, 1852
• Ross County Marriage Index 1976-2000

Stark County

• Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II

Tuscarawas County

• Haunted Tuscarawas County

Wayne County

• Dalton Cemetery
• Fairview Methodist Cemetery
• The German Reformed Congregation: Mt. Zion Church, Milton Township, Wayne County
• Kidron Mennonite Church Cemetery: Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, Ohio
• History of Law Enforcement in Wayne County, Ohio
• Wooster 1974

Wood County

• Wood County, Ohio Source Book Seven from Newsletters 2016-2022

Pennsylvania

• The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania who had Held Office Between 1733 and 1776
• Deserter Country: Civ8il War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians
• Virginia Claims to Land in Western Pennsylvania, published with An Account of the Donation Lands of Pennsylvania
• The Johnstown Flood
• My Partner, The River
• The Hills of Home

Clearfield County

• Registration for Students at Law and Admission to the Bar 1866-1971
• Lumbering and Rafting
• Clearfield (Postcard History Series0
• Clearfield Today and Tomorrow
• Ghost Towns and Vanishing Villages of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
• A History of the French Settlers of Covington and Girard Townships, Clearfield County, PA
• A History of Italian Immigration into East End Clearfield, Pennsylvania and the 100th Anniversary of the Due Palme Sons of Italy Lodge No. 189
• Hunting Camps of the Allegheny Plateau, Clearfield County, PA
• Indians of Clearfield County 10,000 BC to 1800 AD
• A Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (1900-2000)
• Marriage Records of Clearfield County, PA Prior to October 1, 1885
• Bloody Knox December 13, 1864: Clearfield County's Resistance to the Civil War & the Bloody Knox Saga 1864-2004
• John Bard's History of the Old Bucktails

Virginia

• Shenandoah Valley Family Data 1799-1813
• Housekeeping in Old Virginia

Essex County

• Essex County, Virginia Land Records 1752-1761
• Essex County, Virginia Land Records 1761-1772
• Essex County, Virginia Land Records 1772-1786

May 2023

General Information

• The Women who Came in the Mayflower

Family History

• Buckwalter Bookwalter: A Pennsylvania Dutch Family
• Valley of the Pines (some surnames include Conrad, Ivory, McMullen, and Sutton)
• Hubbell Manuscript: A Family History of Rev. Will H. Hubbell and Jeannette A. (Imgard) Hubbell

Ohio

• Still Standing: An Illustrated History of Northeastern Ohio Roofs Vol. II (Medina, Ashland, Lorain, Wayne & Summit Counties)
• Ashland County, Ohio Birth Records vol. 3: 1887-1908 (Ashland County, OH)
• Denbow-Gasche Funeral Home Records vol. 1: 1908-1963 (Ashland County, OH)
• Holmes County, Ohio Hair Raisers (Holmes County, OH)
• The Historic Licking County Jail (Licking County, OH)
• Death Notices & Obituaries from the Chillicothe Gazette 1974-1977, 1979, 1993-1996, 1998-2000, 2010 (Ross County, OH)
• Army Life of John Morgan of Fredericksburg, Wayne County, Ohio: As Told by Himself (Wayne County, OH)
• Wooster in the 1960s: Childhood Ohio: Memories of growing up in Wooster, Ohio, in the 1960s (Wayne County, OH)
• Wooster in the 1970s: Memories of life in a small Ohio town, half a century ago (Wayne County, OH)
• A Murder in Amish Ohio: The Martyrdom of Paul Coblentz

Pennsylvania

• Caldwell's 1878 Atlas of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

Virginia

• Essex County, Virginia Consolidated Index to Wills and Fiduciary Accounts, etc. 1692-1903
• Essex County, Virginia General Index to Deeds No. 1 1797-1867: Deed Books 35 to 51
• Essex County, Virginia General Index to Deeds No. 2 1867-1904: Deed Books 52 to 61
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1721-1724
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1724-1728
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 1728-1733
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 1733-1738
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 1738-1742
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1742-1745
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1745-1749
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1749-1751
• Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 1751-1753
• Essex County, Virginia Land Trials Abstracts 1711-1741
• Essex County, Virginia Will Abstracts 1751-1842 and Estate Records Index, 1751-1799, revised edition
• Essex County, Virginia Will Book Abstracts 1730-1735
• Essex County, Virginia Will Book Abstracts 1735-1743
• Essex County, Virginia Will Book Abstracts 1743-1744
• Essex County, Virginia Will Book Abstracts 1745-1748
• Essex County, Virginia Will Book Abstracts 1748-1750
• Peter Randolph: Sketches of Slave Life and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit

Military

• Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors
• No Man Knows This Country Better
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
• Black Patriots and Loyalists
• Journal of the Woman's Relief Corps, Department of Connecticut, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic
• The Tuskegee Airmen: The History and Legacy of America's First Black Fighter Pilots in World War II

March 2023

Family Histories

• The Nickles Family 1858-1986
• Sheriff Glenn A. Rike
• The Lawrence Winkler Family 1771-1993
• The Family of Henry Zimmerman of Pennsylvania and Ohio

General Information

• A Guide to Cherokee Documents in the Northeastern United States

Indiana

• Elkhart County Plat Book, 1984

Maryland

• Abstracts of the Debt Books of the Provincial land Office of Maryland Volumes I-V: Baltimore County

Mayflower Families

• Volume 16, Part 6, Alden
• Volume 19, Part 2, Rogers
• Volume 24, part 2, Brewster
• Volume 24, Part 3, Brewster
• Volume 25, Winslow

Ohio

• Crawford's Campaign Against Sandusky 1782
• Delaware, Union and Morrow Counties, Ohio
• The Legends: Ohio State Buckeyes: The Men, The Deeds, The Consequences
• Old Delaware: The Way We Were
• Old Delaware II: A Glimpse Back in Time
• Imagine Your Story: 2021 Writing Contest Anthology, Wayne County Public Library

January 2023

• Murder in Amish Ohio: The Martyrdom of Paul Coblentz
• Ohio Heists: Historic Bank Holdups, Train Robberies, Jewel Stings and More

September 2022

General Information

• DNA for Native American Genealogy
• Downsizing with Family History in Mind

Biographies and Family Histories

• My Polish Grandmother: from Tragedy in Poland to her Rose Garden in America (Anna Chmielewska)
• The Descendants of George Elias Coombs & Rebecca Wink
• Irish Midlands Ancestry: Dunne/Coyne Family History
• Memories of Dziadka: Rural Life in the Kingdom of Poland 1880-1912 and Immigration to America (Stefan Zuchowski)
• Weber or Weaver Family History

Delaware

• Vital Records of Kent & Sussex Counties, Delaware 1686-1800

Ohio

• Divorce Proceedings Applications Dismissals Granted and Some Cases Indicating a Divorce: Crawford County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records: Records of the Early 1830's to about 1977
• Index of Applications of The Pioneer Families of Crawford County, Ohio
• Naturalization of Crawford County, Ohio
• Early Whitehouse History (Lucas County)
• Wood County, Ohio Marriage Records Volumes 25, 26, 27, and 28: January 1929 through May 1930

Pennsylvania

• Blue book of Schuylkill County; who was who and why in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in colonial days
• The Hunting Pioneers 1720-1840: Ultimate Backwoodsmen on the Early American Frontier
• Miracle at Quecreek Mine (Somerset Co, PA)

Virginia

• Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book Abstracts 1787-1788
• History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia
• Virginia 'Publick' Claims: Culpeper County

United States

• Your CCC: A Handbook for Enrollees

August 2022

General Information

• Algic Researchers: Indian Tales and Legends vol. I and II
• A Gazetteer of Indian Territory
• Ireland: Kings County (Offaly) & Queens County (Leix, Laois) Genealogy & Family History

Family Information

• Eastern Shore Genealogies, 4 volumes
• Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family, Containing Records of Nearly Every Person of the Name in America from 1635-1874

Delaware

• Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800
• Sussex County, Delaware marriage References, 1648-1800
• Land Records of Sussex County, Delaware, 1753-1763

Maryland

• Marylanders and Delawareans in the French and Indian War, 1756-1763

Ohio

• Denbow-Gasche Funeral Home Records vol. 1, 1908-1963 (Ashland County, Ohio)
• The Cemeteries of Crestline (Crawford County), Ohio: Burials to May 1998
• Footpaths to Ancient Campsites in Copley Township, (Summit County) Ohio
• North Baltimore and Henry Township (Wood County) Pioneer Days

Pennsylvania

• Ancient and Historic Landmarks in the Lebanon Valley
• Annals, Comprising Memoirs, Incidents and Statistics of Harrisburg, PA
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Erie County, PA 1873-1874

Virginia

• Culpepper County, Virginia Marriages 1780-1853, revised ed.
• Fauquier County, Virginia Minute Book Abstracts 1763-1764

July 2022

Delaware

• Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Orphans' Court of Sussex County, Delaware: Libers, 1, 2, 3, 4 and A (1708-1709 and 1728-1777)

Maryland

• Frederick County, Maryland Land Records Abstracts 1788-1792: Liber WR8 through WR10

Virginia

• Clarke County, Virginia Will book Abstracts: Books A-I (1836-1904) and 1A-3C (1841-1913)
• Shenandoah County (VA) Gazetteer & Historical Geography

Military

• In View of the Great A=Want of Labor: A Legislative History of African American Conscription in the Confederacy