One of the most exasperating things about conducting research on a family or families is finding them hip-hopping back and forth across county or some other boundary line. In this case it is the Ohio River. I guess today the region would be called the "Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Area."
Specifically, I'm referring to Kenton and Campbell Counties in Kentucky and Hamilton County [Cincinnati], Ohio.
Several of Simmons and Jennison family members settled in the northern Kentucky region of Kenton and Campbell Counties. Often they plied the "river trades" as engineers, boatmen, traders and the like. Just as often they would move from Newport and/or Covington to Cincinnati and back again.
That sets up searching records of all types in either two or three different counties, which can require some dedicated research. In some cases, a person may have lived in Kentucky for his/her entire life and elected to be buried in Cincinnati.
I've run into the same situation with a few other families along the way. So when I started working on my girlfriend's family, guess what? Back and forth across the Ohio!
Ironically, when we go to a Sunday afternoon Reds game in Cincinnati, guess where we end up parking? You guessed it! Across the river in Covington, KY.
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