This week on the Genealogy Northwest Ohio blog, a look at the usefulness of jail and hospital records in tracking down family history:

"Criminals have very good paper trails even though they are not the best of trails."

Dear Barry:

Ordinarily, I’d address you as Mr. Obama or Mr. President, in deference to your office. But we need to have us a guy-to-guy chat here, so I hope you’ll excuse the familiarity, because I just have to ask:

Edison school district superintendent Tom Roth and district treasurer Anne Arnold will be guests on "Between the Lines Live" at 3 .p.m. Wednesday, April 17. Edison Schools has a tax levy on next month's election ballot.

Excerpt: The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration’s push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown.

This week on the Sandusky History blog, in honor of National Poetry Month, the blogger writes of Sandusky's pioneer poet, Leonard Beatty Gurley:

President Obama strikes out, again

Babe Ruth, “The Sultan of Swat”, was paid $80,000 by the New York Yankees for his 1930 season.

And another thing

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