Mercer County, Ohio , How to Post a Family Group Sheet

	Mercer County, Ohio Family Group Sheet Project
Mercer Co. FGS Project Preble Co. FGS Project

SURNAMES: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
SUBMITTERS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Submitting a Family Group Sheet is mostly a matter of your desire to share your information and being able to follow the instructions below. If you have questions or problems, contact fgs_help@ohgenweb.net.

Send submissions to fgs@ohgenweb.net

Provide your name.

Provide your e-mail address.

Provide your location (city & state).

Provide the URL to your web page if you have one.

Provide --ONE-- Family Group Sheet per submission. Group Sheets --MUST-- be in straight text (ASCII) format to be entered into the database. At least -ONE- family member must have a Mercer Co. event. Group Sheets need to follow these formatting rules.
- Example (the most basic format; variations may develop):
  Husband: Newberry YORK
  Birth: 6 Sep 1784 , SC
  Death: 31 Mar 1866 York Twp, Darke Co., OH
  Burial: 7 Apr 1866 Greenlawn Cem, Darke Co., OH
  Marriage: 5 Jan 1804 , GA
  Father: William YORK (b abt 1755)
  Mother: Lydia BURSON (b abt 1762)
  
  Wife: Nancy A. Slade
  Birth: 9 Jun 1784 , MD
  Death: 7 Oct 1874 York Twp, Darke Co., OH
  Burial: Greenlawn Cem, Darke Co., OH
  Father: Nicholas SLADE (b abt 1748)
  Mother: Martha [?Amos?]
  
  Children
  
  1 M Joseph YORK
  Birth: 12 Oct 1804 , Wilkes Co., GA
  Death: 22 Nov 1862 , Mercer Co., OH
  Burial: Petrie Cem, Mercer Co., OH
  Spouse: Mary "Polly" BAKER (m 30 Jun 1825)
  
  2 M William YORK
  Birth: 17 Nov 1806 , Wilkes Co., GA
  Death: 21 Oct 1877 York Twp, Darke Co., OH
  Burial: Greenlawn Cem, Darke Co., OH
  Spouse: Catherine WHITMAN (m 24 Sep 1829)
  
  3 M Jeremiah YORK
  Birth: 7 Apr 1809 , Preble Co., OH
  Death: 27 Jan 1862 Wayne Twp, Darke Co., OH
  Burial: Greenlawn Cem, Darke Co., OH
  Spouse: Nancy WOODS (m 28 Jun 1830)
  Spouse: Deidamia MENDENHALL (m 10 Oct 1846)
  [...example truncated...]
  Sources: Census for Darke Co., OH, 1820-1880, Darke Co. Marriages 1817-1850 and 1851-1898, Darke Co. Cemetery Inscriptions, v.2.
- Family Group Sheet formatting options:
  1. COMPUTER PROGRAMS: most genealogy programs will produce a Family Group Sheet. However, in most cases the format is printer-only or formatted as a graphical report so that it cannot be submitted as is. If your genealogy program produces Adobe (.pdf) reports, you may be able to view such a report on your machine and use the text tool in the Acrobat Reader to copy the text to the clipboard so it can be pasted in NOTEPAD and thus converted to ASCII. Another possible option is a report in Rich Text (.rtf) format that can be loaded in a word processor and converted to text-only format. IT IS THE SUBMITTER'S RESPONSIBILITY TO PRODUCE A GROUP SHEET IN THE CORRECT (TEXT ONLY) FORMAT.
    - The sample group sheet above was originally produced using the genealogy program Family Origins. That program is no longer on the market, but if you have it, you can produce compatible group sheets with it. It requires some further editing (deleting lines and unused events) but produces an easily adapted text format file.
    - The genealogy program Legacy available for free download at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ also produces text-format Family Group Sheets which can be used for submitting data.
  2. E-MAIL: if you need to type out your submission in an e-mail message, click here and a blank form will be sent that you may fill out and return in e-mail.
  3. FORM: [other submission methods are under development and may include submission forms where you fill out the form by typing in the data]

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Main Family Group Sheet Information page
Group Sheet Surname Index: A thru L, M thru Z
Submitters' Profiles: A thru L, M thru Z

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Questions about this Project? Contact Project Coordinator Wally Garchow at darkeman@calweb.com.
Project managed using CCHelper, an application written by Patty Lindsay of Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
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