Kelly O'Hair at Rootsweb
Genealogy Data Compiled by Kelly Thomas O'Hair
Dedication
To my wife, children, parents, and all my future descendants. I hope
someone somewhere cherishes this information as much as I have.
The DataBase
Start here to enter into the
automatically generated webpages that my Reunion for the Macintosh
software has created for me. have fun browsing, and let me know if you
see mistakes or problems.
Where did I get my information?
Over half of the information came from family members word of mouth,
some written documentation, some past searches by other family members
(with
some marriage/birth record copies), and also the big Blue O'Hair Book
that
contains literally 1000's of O'Hair's from Michael O'Hair of
Revolutionary War fame down. This book was recently put online and is
available at http://www.iei.net/~toolman1/.
I have not added all the O'Hair's that I have written information
on into my database, other O'Hair researchers have done this and it did
not seem necessary for me to repeat that work. The other half of the
information came from discovery of friends and distant family members
on the Web. I
have done my best to document where and who I have gotten the
information
from and it is not my intent to claim this information as my own. All
the
information I have here is for sharing, so feel free to browse and let
us
know if you see anything wrong or of interest to you. Some of
the
documents I have scanned into the computer and converted to text form,
including:
The Stockwell Family
The Blank Family
The Bates Family
The Peetom Family
The Frazier Family
The William O'Hair Family
(Donated by Richard Gearheart)
Harvey Zink O'Hair Story
The Petersen Family
The 1864 Charleston Riot
in Coles County Illinois
Opposed
to the War
Addie Zollman OBIT
Public Sale of Floyd O'Hair
Farm in 1927
Floyd O'Hair OBIT
Picture of K. R. O'Hair
Book on Michael O'Hair
Court Records
Augusta County (From Richard Gearheart)
Letter from Adin Baber
in 1957
Doing Genealogy Research on the WWW
Using the WWW for genealogy and surname searching is GREAT! Everyone I
have been in contact with concerning WWW and genealogy has been
extremely helpful and willing to share whatever they have. I cannot
begin to list all the people who have provided me help, I thank them
all and I will continue to share my information as they have shared
their information with me. Since web sites seem to come in and out of
existence so quickly, I won't try and list web sites too much, besides
there are just too many. I would recommend using the web search engines
from RootsWeb, or going to the home page of the company that wrote your
Genealogy software. Here are just a few that I
found useful:
Reunion Software
(Leister Productions)
The Genealogy Home Page
Journal of Online Genealogy
RootsWeb
Livermore-Amador Genealogy Society
I support RootsWeb.com at https://sites.rootsweb.com and encourage others
to support them too. And if your local community has any kind of
Genealogy Society I encourage you to support those organizations also.
Hardware and Software I use
I have used Macintoshes since they were introduced and have yet to move
to anything written by Microsoft, that is my choice and nobody should
view that as any kind of religious Apple following. I have just felt
that the Macintosh has served me well and I will probably continue to
use them for as long as it makes sense. With a Mac I can read just
about any file format that exists, and unfortunately Windows machines
can't do that. Fortunately with GEDCOM files, this isn't a big problem
when doing genealogy, most of the programs available on all platforms
will understand and can share GEDCOM files. I have chosen to use some
software called Reunion and have over 2300 people in my own database.
In 2002 I changed to using MacOS X (10.2) and the latest Reunion
version for MacOS X.
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Last updated on 23 Nov 2005.
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