At the annual banquet of the Ross County Genealogical Society Tuesday night, May 15th, 2021, three young researchers were acknowledged.
Decades younger than the society's members, 11-year-old Breeana Williamson and 10-year-old twins Laila and Makenzie Hoffman traced their ancestors back more than 200 years for their 2020 4-H projects...and qualified for several lineage awards in the Genealogical Society.
All three were listed in "First Pioneers of Ross County" and "Settlers & Builders of Ross County," and Breeana was listed in "Civil War Families" and "Century Families." They received certificates for those accomplishments in the banquet.
Breeana said she worked online in Ancestry.com but had to travel get certified copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates to prove her ancestry.
Do they want to go beyond their 4-H projects? All three emphatically answered "yes."
Breeana listed what more she would like to learn: how they lived, how they did things, now they cooperated with others, where they lived, "how they somehow did everything in one single place" like a one-room cabin.
Kevin Coleman reports on Chillicothe & Ross County government, politics, & culture. Photo courtesy of Carrie Woods.