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NOTE: I have received many letters with additional information regarding the Grimm families of the Ohio River Valley. I have updated this site with much of that information. I extend my sincere thanks to those of you who have written to me with additional material. You have performed an invaluable service. |
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This web site provides genealogical information for descendants of the Grimms who settled in the Ohio River Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Several problems for the genealogist are presented by the settlement in this locale. Easy transport across the Ohio River put antecedents sometimes in the state of Ohio, sometimes in the state of Virginia, and later, sometimes in the state of West Virginia. And if the people themselves weren't moving, borders were. What was part of Kanawha County, Virginia became in 1804 Mason County, Virginia, and in 1863 Mason County, West Virginia. So if a family moved across the river, today's researcher now has two state archives to visit. Birth, marriage and death records for one generation of Grimms will be found in Richmond, Virginia, but the same type of records for their children are found in Charleston, West Virginia, even though those children were born on the same land as their parents. |
| A second problem arises with the spelling of the surname. Early generations, such as Simon Grim, used the one 'm' spelling. But Simon's sons John and Silvester were known to use both. And by the time John and Silvester's sons were grown the family used the two 'm' spelling almost exclusively. Tracing branches of the family is obviously complicated by these different spellings. |
| This web site is being developed for informational purposes, and as such is short on frills. Fancy fonts, graphics and animations all require increased computing resources, from processing power and memory to bandwidth and site storage. The developers anticipate that this will become a dynamic site, growing as more facts about the family become available. To this end, the site's resources will be reserved for the inclusion and distribution of genealogical data. |