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The Infirmary Director Who Refused to Let Its Poor Vanish
For 60 years, Clinton County’s volunteer Board of Visitors filed annual reports on the infirmary — and never once named the ground where it buried its poorest dead. The director who ended those burials was a genealogist who could not abide a name left unrecorded.
A Strand of Hair, Sixty-Two Cousins: What DNA Can and Can’t Settle
New DNA work on Thomas Jefferson’s hair adds weight to a 200-year-old paternity question. The same kind of evidence helped me find an ancestor’s missing father and relatives the records had scattered. DNA suggests; records confirm.
A Court Was Asked Whether AI Wrote a City’s Emergency Clauses
A Clinton County judge accepted an expert’s opinion that two city emergency clauses were likely drafted with AI. What he wrote next is worth reading closely. The tool is not the question. The checking is.
Sugar Grove's Designer Supplied the Trees Beside the County's Lost Graves
In July 1874, Ohio’s leading fruit men toured the Clinton County Infirmary farm and found scarcely a defective apple — and none of the published accounts mention what lay near the trees. The designer of Sugar Grove Cemetery supplied the orchard that grew beside the county’s lost graves.
Who Built the Stone House on Todd’s Fork?
A stone house stands in the woods near Todd’s Fork in Clinton County, Ohio. An 1834 tax entry seemed to date it. The entry is right, but it was written about a different farm.