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Finding Your Relatives Using Online Cemetery Resources

  • Wakeman Hall 401 Farnsworth Road Waterville, OH, 43566 United States (map)

                        Wakeman Cemetery

The Wednesday, May 16 program from The Waterville Historical Society will be “Finding Your Relatives Using Online Cemetery Resources”, by Don Hengen.  This free program will be presented at Wakeman Hall, 401 Farnsworth Road in Waterville at 7 p.m. 

The program will cover two national and several other local cemetery indexes that are found on the internet.  Also the use of Findagrave.com. 

Mr. Hengen is a native of Nebraska, but has been in NW Ohio for 30 years, and has spent much of his retirement traveling the Midwest researching his descendants.  He is a member of local Genealogy Societies and has served as president of the Genealogy by Computer Society.  He began contributing to Findagrave in 2009 and has photographed 4 cemeteries and half of two others, including Waterville’s Wakeman Cemetery. 

Refreshments will be served following the program.  

 

Earlier Event: April 28
Open Houses and Walking Tours
Later Event: May 19
Open Houses and Walking Tours

P.O. Box 263,  Waterville, OH  43566            watervillehistory@outlook.com

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