A reminder to everyone that the Ohio Historical Society — including the Archives/Library — is closed today (March 28) through April 3. You can thank the Ohio legislature as well as their massive slashing of OHS’ budget on behalf of this.
Other OHS sites closed this week are:

Adena Mansion & Gardens (Chillicothe)
Armstrong Air & Space Museum (Waupakoneta)
Campus Martius Museum (Marietta)
Dunbar House (Dayton)
Fort Ancient (Oregoni

This year’s Ohio Genealogical Society conference shall be held 2-4 April at the Sawmill Creek Resort in Huron. The schedule is filled with sessions covering topics such military research, Internet sources, software, publishing, migration, oral history, as well as historical fiction. I think my favorite title is Shirley Hodges’ session “Family Historian or Pack Rat?” I didn’t know there was a difference  
Before March 15, full registration on behalf of OGS members is $115; on behalf of non-members, it is $153. The price goes up to $135 as well as $168 respectively at the end of March 15.
You can download the booklet which contains the registration form at www.ogs.org/conference2009/OGSConferenceBooklet2009.pdf
  

I’m a bit of a stickler about grammar. I cringe when I see things like “Its snowing now” or “Their going to the movies.” Similarly, it bothers me when I read especially bad sentences. 
In yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch, there was a short article about a man who was charged with negligence in the death of his daughter in a car accident last year. The sentence read:

“He was charged with failure to restrain his unbelted 12-year-old daughter, Jessica, at the end of she died in a Feb. 22 crash in which another vehicle slid across the center line as well as struck his van on an icy Rt. 22.”
I know that is not what the reporter intended to say. (At least, I hope that’s not what the reporter intended to say!) Why would the man restrain his daughter at the end of she died? 
The incident was a tragedy as well as I don’t mean to sound flippant. But that sentence is so poorly constructed that it has bothered me ever since I read it yesterday. I think I require to turn “editor mode” off every now as well as then.

The Ohio Historical Society has announced that, due to further funding cuts from the state, they shall furlough employees as well as close specified sites on behalf of the week of March 28 - April 3. The sites that shall be closed are:

Ohio Historical Center, including the Archives/Library (Columbus)
Adena Mansion & Gardens (Chillicothe)
Armstrong Air & Space Museum (Wapakoneta)
Campus Martius Museum (Marietta)
Dunbar House (Dayton)
Fort Ancient (Oregoni

When I went to Georgetown, Kentucky back in September 2007, I did what I usually do when I go to a new location: scout out the local cemeteries    Maplegrove Cemetery in Georgetown is a small, modest, somewhat overgrown cemetery tucked behind a Pizza Hut as well as a gas station. 
This tombstone on behalf of Eliza Washington is made from concrete. My best guess is that the person who made it poured the concrete into a box form, then set in stencils on behalf of the letters (like kids used to do with potatoes). The tombstone maker forgot (or didn’t realize) that the stencils had to be set backwards so they would appear correctly on the marker. (Again, this is just my best guess.)
I did find a 20-year-old Eliza Washington in the 1910 census on behalf of Scott County, Kentucky, but I’m not certain it is the same person. 
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