The search for Portage County’s dead

Megan Foreman has been investigating her family history for years. But gaps in Portage County cemetery records hinder her search for graves. Roger Hoover/The Portager

The search for Portage County’s dead

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Megan Foreman is looking for her family.

She knows her father’s folks, the Derthicks and the Kuchenbeckers, helped to settle Portage County back in the 1800s, but where are they now?

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