Jennings County research
tips;
1. When you visit Jennings County a stop at the
Library to see if they have your surnames on file it may make it easier to find
the records at the courthouse
2. Be sure to
check the Original Record books at the Courthouse, they have Wills, Probate
Records and Marriage Records. The books can be confusing but many
have an index, if you know a date range check each book in that range as all
names are not listed in the index.
3. The County
Recorders office in the Courthouse annex (across the street from the
Courthouse) has a really excellent room for researching Deeds and Property
Records.
4. Birth and death records are difficult as
very little was recorded prior to 1880, they are located at the Health
Department which is also in the annex.
5. Remember
the people who work in these offices are doing County business, they are usually
not Genealogists and although they will try to help you, the research is up
to you.
6. The Chamber of Commerce has an excelllent
map with most area Cemeteries marked on it, having one of those can make your
travels much easier.
7. Have fun, and Happy
Hunting!
Personal
Belief
"I shall
stand by the Union, and by all who stand by it. I shall do justice to the whole
country...in all I say, and act for the good of the whole country in all I do. I
mean to stand upon the Constitution. I need no other platform. I shall know but
one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's, and Truth's. I
was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend
to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my
career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal
consequences. What are the personal consequences? What is the individual
man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good
or evil which may befall a great country, and in the midst of great transactions
which concern that country's fate? Let the consequences be what they will, I am
careless. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he
suffer, or if he fall, in the defense of the liberties and constitution of his
country." - Daniel Webster