When we learn history in school, we

When we learn history in school, we often hear about the large, dramatic events that affected a nation or the world on a large scale. Occurrences such as industrialization, world wars, and economic depressions are examples of such things. This information is important to understand, but again, it’s just an overview.

A seasoned genealogist applies these events to a specific area by asking, “How did these events affect small American towns and the lives of my ancestors who lived there?”

“Instead of thinking about World War I as a great big topic, what if we think instead about Ohio in World War I?” asked Crow to the RootsTech audience. “And what if we take it even smaller and think about Chillicothe, Ohio, during the war,” she said, zooming in on the map to the small southern Ohio city.

“In 1917, Chillicothe had a population of about 14,000 people. Not exactly a huge town—but big enough to be the county seat,” Crow said. “How could World War I have possibly affected Chillicothe, Ohio?”

Crow said it wasn’t until she asked these types of questions that she discovered the significant role the sleepy town of Chillicothe played in the First World War.

“Chillicothe, Ohio, was actually the home of Camp Sherman, the third largest training camp in the United States,” said Crow. “And Camp Sherman during World War I saw 40,000 men go through and be trained there. You think that didn’t have an effect on Chillicothe, which had only 14,000 people to begin with? All of a sudden, there’s this camp with 40,000 men going through it—a camp that had more than 1,300 buildings.”

But why is Camp Sherman important to Crow’s family story?

“Camp Sherman is pertinent to my genealogy because the construction of Camp Sherman caused my great-grandparents to move with their young family from Dayton to Chillicothe, because it’s where my great-grandfather found work in helping to build some of those 1,300 buildings.”

“That’s why we need to look at the local history,” said Crow. “We need to know what’s going on because the area in which our ancestors lived and when they were living there had such an effect on them.”

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