Alongside the county-by-county project, a few standalone series follow single threads all the way through — a soldier, a battle, a paper trail.
Revolutionary War soldiers whose descendants migrated west into Ohio. Each episode traces one soldier from his enlistment roll, through his Revolutionary War service, and follows the family line as it moves — sometimes a generation or two later — onto Ohio soil. The soldier himself never has to set foot in Ohio; it's the family's westward path that anchors the story.
Veterans who personally settled in Ohio after their Revolutionary War service — sourced directly from their NARA M804 pension files. These are the soldiers who broke ground here themselves: their enlistment, their service, the hardship of the pension process, and the land they finally called home.
The engagements that rarely make the textbooks: Fort Laurens, Crawford's Defeat, Oriskany, King's Mountain, Fort Henry, Hanging Rock, Ramsour's Mill, Kettle Creek, Musgrove's Mill, and Blue Licks. Ten stand-alone Shorts on the frontier fights that shaped the country the settlers were about to move into.
Forgotten towns, coal camps, canals, river disasters, frontier settlements, and the people who shaped the Buckeye State — the channel's broadest playlist, growing with every general-history Short.
The overlooked women who helped shape the Revolution — their real stories, told alongside the soldier-focused Patriot Paths and Ohio Patriots & Pioneers series.
A step-by-step guide to the record sets that break down Ohio brick walls — the essential collections every researcher should know, one record type per episode.
Every Ohio county gets the same eight-episode treatment — formation, settlers, probate, land, tax, churches, newspapers, and a full repository list, spoken addresses included.
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