Research Queries & Services

PRIVATE/EXTENSIVE RESEARCH

If you are interested in private, extensive research within Jefferson County, Ohio, you may contact Flora L. VerStraten, genealogist, at fverstraten@dishmail.net or (home) 740-765-4049 (cell) 740-632-4453. You can contact Flora for more information on sources and fees.

Note: EXTENSIVE RESEARCH would include many various sources and records within Jefferson County and may include neighboring counties/states as well for more in-depth research.

CHAPTER RESEARCH
There is a $10.00 Query Research Fee for each surname searched. Contact ONE of the two researchers below. Tammy conducts southern county research and Kitty conducts northern county research.

• Tammy Hosenfeld - wellspringcpc@verizon.net
• Kitty Kutchmark - kkutchmark@dishmail.net

HOW TO - Researchers will not conduct searches over a wide range of time that include many family members and/or generations. The researcher may contact you in regards to conducting a more extensive research, at which time you may be asked to submit an additional fee. The query person has the choice if they would like the researcher to conduct a more extensive search.

Click here to fill out your Research Query Form

HELPING HINTS - RECOMMENDED READING:

1. STICK to a specific family (surname) in a specific time period.
2. BE SPECIFIC when requesting a search, which would include known information such as: full names, dates, locations, and other pertinent information, when known.
3. RESULTS - Include what specific results you are seeking. For example select from this list:
   • Seeking death date
   • Seeking marriage date
   • Seeking family relationship
   • Seeking parents
   • Seeking land & deed records
   • Seeking church affiliation
   • Seeking birth date, etc.
   
   SOURCES FOR PRIVATE CHAPTER QUERIES - The sources researchers use come from ALL of the Chapter publications and may also include various Schiappa Public Library (Ohio Genealogy Research Dept.) and also the Jefferson County Historical (Vivian Snyder) Library sources. Please be aware of the fact that when you request the Schiappa Library or Historical Library to do a search, you may be limiting your results to just the records they have available. We seek out from all of these various repositories in Jefferson County, Ohio.