Ron Jackson wove the threads of names and dates he pulled from census data, marriage records, and the family Bible to reconstruct lost history.
His quest unraveled details of his family’s background and revealed a few surprises.
Jackson, 71, of Toledo, Ohio, began his research around 2000, and participates in Journey, a program of the African-American Legacy Project of Northwest Ohio that connects and supports genealogists. The former Toledo police deputy chief of investigation knows how to follow clues, but this search was personal.
