Oct 2004 activities

Just got the blogger up and running and wanted to let you folks know what lines I have been recently working on the Ramaley genealogy.

Mary Ann and I took a trip to the Allen County Library in Ft. Wayne and spent a couple of days enjoying their new open stacks. As you may know, a new genealogical branch is being built and until it is completed the collections went back to the main branch -- but with open stacks.

Get to the library if possible. Open stacks are a good thing.

Then we stopped off for a day in Mansfield, OH at the Ohio Genealogical Society Library. I decided I would see if I could get any information on one of Ambrose's grandsons Henry (1777- 1847). Henry is a son of Michael.

Henry went to Trumbull County, Ohio in about 1833 with his children -- at least seven boys -- and began populating the northeastern portion of Ohio. The name underwent a couple of spelling changes -- Remalia and Ramalia -- and I have located contempory descendants in Ohio and Michigan.

I am trying to complete that branch as well as the folks who went to the Marietta Ohio area headed by Daniel Remaly (1806-1887), a great grandson of Ambrose.

That's it for this post. Just wanted to set up the blog and get it started.

Jim R