During a national conference many years ago, I stopped at the Ohio Genealogical Society booth and was asked if I had any Ohio ancestors. "Definitely, I think it was a requirement." That gives you an idea of how many of my folks resided in Ohio on their way to Indiana.
They came via Massachusetts through New York and/or New Jersey; western Pennsylvania and down the Ohio River; Virginia to the Ohio; Virginia or North Carolina into Kentucky then Ohio.
There was a migration period beginning before statehood [1797] until the mid-1800s [c1868]. Both sides of the family crossed through Ohio before settling primarily in Central Indiana between 1824 and 1877.
Paternal: Prall, Wolary, Faucett, Clark, Hurin, Hubbard, Miller, Fry.
Maternal: Crail, Simmons, Jennison, Crousore, Smith, Jones, Moore.
This may seem like a small number of families, but each represents from two to a dozen generations of families funneling into these few.
Is there a region of the country that drives you crazy trying to research it? Tomorrow I'll discuss mine.
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