FREMONT ROSS STUDENTS RESEARCH FAMILY VETERANS
Students of Fremont Ross History teacher Mike Gilbert learned about the service and sacrifice of America's veterans through historical research and interviews with their own family members. Click on the link above to read the front page Toledo Blade article featuring the Veterans' Project. Students' research was donated to the Hayes Presidential Center and is now part of the Local History Collection . Selected veterans' interviews from 2005 through 2007 can be viewed online.
GENEALOGISTS REQUEST WOOD COUNTY PROBATE FILES
Genealogists around the country are already requesting photocopies of Wood County probate case files donated to the Hayes Presidential Center. Thanks to the hard work of Wood County Records Manager Brenda Ransom, her staff, and dedicated Hayes Center volunteer Dorothy Wagner, more than 3/4 of the 5,000 case files (through 1908) are processed and available to researchers at the Hayes Presidential Center or by request through the Online Hayes Obituary Index . The next several months will see the arrival of the remaining files (through 1922).
LOCAL NEWSPAPERS INDEXED FOR CIVIL WAR ARTICLES
Check the Hayes Center's Civil War Research Page for links to new sources. Included is the work of our volunteers who have indexed letters, by and articles and reports about local Civil War soldiers and their regiments that appeared in the 
Fremont Journal, Sandusky Register, and the Norwalk Reflector from 1861 to 1865. Organized by regiment, the index provides the date of the newspaper, if the item is a letter, report, or article and a brief subject note. Also indexed are homefront articles by local editors in Sandusky, Erie, and Huron Counties of Ohio. All issues are available for research at the Hayes Presidential Center. Click on the image to access links to all three newspapers.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF RUGGLES BEACH & MITIWANGA ONLINE
Through the Hayes Presidential Center's continuing partnership with the Sidney Frohman Foundation and OhioLINK, Lake Erie's Yesterdays now features more than 1,500 historic photos from the Charles E. Frohman Collections . Recently uploaded to OhioLINK's new Digital Resource Commons are photos of the Lake Erie summer communities of Mitiwanga and Ruggles Beach. Sandusky, Ohio photographer Ernst Niebergall took the photographs around 1910.
PATTERNS OF THE PAST: QUILTS OF NORTHERN OHIO
If you're planning a visit to the Hayes Presidential Center this summer, take the opportunity to see Patterns from the Past: Quilts of Northern Ohio. More than 130 people were in attendance for the June 17th opening reception. Patterns from the Past features 30 vintage quilts displayed in the Museum and the Hayes Home. Created by 19th-century women who settled in Northern Ohio, the quilts are subtle reminders of the cultures and deeply held values of the diverse groups who made Northern Ohio their home. Rich in color and detail, the quilts are a reflection of the women and the communities that would shape the future of Northern Ohio. Read more about the exhibit on Ohio's Yesterdays blog.
IN RECOGNITION OF DONORS
TO THE
HAYES PRESIDENTIAL CENTER MANUSCRIPTS FUND
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Pat Dwyer
Anonymous Donor
Carolyn Bahnsen
Anonymous Donor
Jeanne Larson
Jack Felt
Clark Hill
Dr. and Mrs. Rodney B. Hurl
The Manuscripts Collections at the Hayes Presidential Center are available to all researchers who wish to discover, learn, and share new information about our historic past. We deeply appreciate your continuing support. As a donor, your name appears on our web site, in the Statesman newsletter, and in the Hayes Presidential Center Annual Report.
You can donate safely and conveniently online at Donations to the Hayes Presidential Center Manuscripts Fund . - or you can send your donation to Hayes Presidential Center Manuscripts Fund, Attn: Nan Card, Curator of Manuscripts, Hayes Presidential Center, Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio 43420
THANK YOU!
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS USING THE HAYES PRESIDENTIAL CENTER'S PHOTOGRAPH AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Kelleys Island: An Island Story by Claudia Brown
Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America by Walter E. Rideout
Walter & Doris Elenz, Their Life & Memories by Jerry Elenz
Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush by Richard J. Ellis
William McKinley: Apostle of Protectionism by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-century America by John R. McKivigan
First American Women Architects by Sarah Allaback
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PLEASE JOIN US SATURDAY AUGUST 9TH
FOR A DAY OF
CELEBRATING PRESIDENTIAL MEMORIES!
Click on the picture of Admiral Webb C. Hayes II and his family for an entire schedule of events .