COOKIE WALK:  March 27, 2010 (Sat.) we will be holding our annual Cookie Walk at 210 North Court Street (library location).  Hours are from 9 a.m. until the cookies are gone (usually by noon).  If you can bake cookies for us (any kind) please let us know.  They are a delicious way to add to your Easter festivities.  Plan to visit us then.

    PICKAWAY PLACES VOL. 2:  Newspaper articles (200 of them) from the early publications of Pickaway Places, Pickaway People by Darlene Weaver is now available.  The cost of this book is $18.00 plus $1.26 tax and $3.00 p&h.

    MARRIAGE RECORDS 1810-1862:  This popular book, out of print for several years, is back in print.  It is indexed by both males and females.  The cost is $15.00 plus $1.05 tax and $3.00 p&h.

    SELECTED GENEALOGIES :  David Frey published a book containing families from the Laurelville, Saltcreek Township Pickaway County and Colerain Township Ross County area.  If you have relatives from that area, this book is for you.  Cost of the book is $15.00 plus $1.05 tax and $2.00 p&h.

    FRIVOLOUS CONGLOMERATION OF SUPERFLUOUS INFORMATION:  This is a great collection of miscellaneous information put together by Linda Thompson.  It sells for $12.00 plus $.84 tax and $2.00 p&h

    The library has received approval to take over the first 100 years of Common Pleas Court files.  After some shelf building, we will be transferring these records to the library, where they will be unfolded, marked with case numbers, and a new index made.  These will be available to the public as soon as possible after the move.

    SURVEYING-DEED SEMINAR:  We will be holding a workshop to teach patrons what deeds provide in your quest for ancestral information.  What happens in a partition, how to locate the land on maps, what poles and perches are and more basic information in a deed description.  Robert Brown, retired from the Department of Transportation, State of Ohio will be presenting this informative program.  No date and time have been scheduled yet but we hope to hold this workshop the beginning of April.  We will post information soon.

This book prepared by Terry L. Frazier is the Bicentennial project of the Historical Society .  It contains place names such as "Black Mountain", "Bunker Hill", "Strawberry Prairie" and "Liberty".  It is the answer to all your place name questions when you are reading a Pickaway history.  The book contains maps of various dates ranging from the earliest known map of a portion of the county to the circle to township and road maps.  It also contains plats of the various villages in Pickaway County.  Road names have changed over the years.  Cemetery Road is now Hitler #1 Road and Hornbeck-Gaver Road is Plummer Road.
Place Names sells for $35.00 plus $2.45 tax and $3.50 p&h.  Order from PCHGL, 210 North Court St., Circleville, OH  43113.

As a Bicentennial project, all records which can be located from the year 1810 (when Pickaway became a county) will be placed on this web site. These include lawsuits, deeds and other documents, marriages, estates, wills, and other documents.

Research will be completed by library volunteers on a first come, first served basis for $25 per surname. Requests must be made by regular mail to PCHS, 210 North Court Street, Circleville, OH 43113 and must include a letter of request with background information.

A check or money order for the research fee must accompany your request. All appropriate library collections will be researched and copies made of findings. Copies of large files will result in a request for copy costs at the rate of $.25 per copy.

Orders for books or CDs may be sent to the address above with the appropriate fees. Materials will be mailed within one week of receipt.

The History Detectives aired a program segment called "Cemetery Alarm" on PBS, Monday, July 6, 2009. "Cemetery Alarm" is a story about grave robbing and the finding of a grave torpedo that was invented in Pickaway County. Segments of the story were filmed in Circleville with one segment at our Historical and Genealogical Library. Library volunteer, Paul Mayberry, author of Busy Bodies (a book about the invention of grave torpedos and grave robbing in Pickaway County) was featured.