tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443801499920520452024-03-12T20:40:41.879-05:00Mary's Family TreeFamily Stories, Photos and Family History ResearchMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-39332059372774350712017-02-27T21:22:00.001-06:002017-02-27T21:22:57.231-06:00What I'm Working On...<br />I received responses from both the Schuyler county clerk’s office and the Crawford County, Iowa, recorder’s office. <br /><br />Remarkably, the Schuyler county clerk and recorder’s office has no records of Charles and his brother Philetus’ land transactions in the 1850s and no record of the land being sold by presumably Eunice and Alanson when they moved on to Iowa in the 1870s. The Bureau of Land Management website has images of the original land patents, and I have a photocopy of an index to land purchases, so I know where the land was and when it was purchased. A little further research online suggests that these land records may be available on microfilm through the Family History Library. I have not found them online. <br /><br />The folks at the Crawford County, Iowa, recorder’s office didn’t find any record of the death of Lafayette Swift. They did give me the name of a local researcher. I emailed him and he told me about the online newspapers available through the Dennison library website. I search and found no mention of his death. The Worths were not long-time members of the community. In fact, they moved quite often between leaving Illinois and finally planting roots in western Loup county, Nebraska in April 1884. It is possible there is another newspaper that would have carried the news of a 21 year old man’s death. I will keep looking, but I have a feeling this may remain a mystery. <br /><br />Another question I would ask Grandma if I could: Do you know the circumstances of the deaths of John H. Swift and Lafayette Swift, your mother’s brothers? I bet she did, but I didn’t know to ask. <br /><br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-15058240156809688782017-02-11T20:05:00.000-06:002017-02-11T20:05:37.474-06:00What I'm working on...In the last two weeks, I have received a copy of John H. and Helen or Ella (Willey) Swift’s marriage license from McDonough County. I also received a response to my request from the McDonough County Genealogical Society. They do not have any information about the deaths of John H. Swift or his parents, Charles and Lydia (Bates) Swift. Research volunteers Judy A. and Judy B. did a thorough search of their records and found references to our family, but it was mostly information I already had. It is GOOD to know there are still conscientious volunteers who are ready to help strangers find family info through county genealogical societies. <br /><br />I finished browsing records on familysearch.org of probate records for Schuyler county. I found references to guardianship of Charles and Eunice’s minor children, but no probate records of Charles Swift (1790). McDonough County probate records are not on familysearch.org. <br /><br />Today I mailed letters to the Crawford County Iowa Recorder’s Office to see if they have a death record for Lafayette Swift, and a letter to the Schuyler County Illinois courthouse for information about when Charles’ land was sold. <br /><br />I may have a new blog or even a new website soon. The goal of all of this is to share my research with my children and grandchildren and anyone else who is interested in it. And a blog or website is a low-cost way to achieve that. Daughter Liz is inspiring me to expand beyond this simple blog that no one reads ;) and create a place for stories and photos and research that is user friendly and a fun place to learn about our family. We’ll see what the future brings!Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-32473384308713448542017-01-29T17:34:00.000-06:002017-01-29T17:34:00.438-06:00What I'm working on...I continued to work on adding citations to Charles and Eunice Swift in Legacy Family Tree. Looking through the few files I have, I discovered land records so I’m adding that information. I put a citation on the image. I need to learn about Bounty Land Warrants. I discovered Charles (1790) was given a bounty warrant for his service in the war of 1812. (Exciting find!) But he assigned the warrant to his son Charles F. Swift (1829). Charles was the oldest son. His brother Philetus bought 40 acres next to Charles’ 40 acres in Brownville Township, Schuyler County, Illinois. I need to follow the paper trail and find out what happened to the land. <br /><br />I may see about ordering microfilm of newspapers from Schuyler County in the time frame of Charles’ death. I wonder if any mention was made of his death. It would be interesting to read what was being said about the Civil War. I also would like to see if there is any information about the death of his parents, Charles and Lydia.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-88230374642243377892017-01-24T12:00:00.000-06:002017-01-24T21:48:27.350-06:00Calista A. Worth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Saturday the sad news went over the wire of the death of Calista A., second daughter of G. H. and F. L. Worth, of lung trouble.<br />
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Calista was born on the 13th day of June, 1883, in Crawford county, Iowa, and died on the 24th day of January, 1903.<br />
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Prior to this sickness she apparently was in good health until about three days before her death. Previous to her death, when she was taken sick, she was teaching school new (sic) Westerville and making her home with her uncle where she was at the time of her death. Her father received word of her serious illness late Friday evening and started early the next morning but the news of her death met him about half way. The remains were taken to Almeria on Monday and placed in the cemetery beside her four brothers and sisters, Revs Day, of Newton, and Evans, of Brewster, officiating.<br />
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Calista was an estimable young lady, just launching on a successful career as a teacher. All her intimate acquaintances have nothing but words of praise for her. A large concourse of friends gathered in Almeria to pay the last sad rites to their friend and neighbor and offer words of sympathy to the sorrowing parents, brothers and sisters. <br />
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Source: “Died.” The Taylor Clarion, newspaper, (Taylor, Nebraska, USA), 29 January 1903, vol. 20, no. 13, p 1, col 3; microfilm no. 11,854, Nebraska State Historical Society.<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-33577782809496456142017-01-22T17:12:00.000-06:002017-01-22T17:12:08.855-06:00What I'm working on this week...There’s nothing better on a crazy hectic Friday than to come home from work to find some family history love in the mail box! The McDonough County Genealogical Society (Illinois) has publications called Grandma Flack’s Scrapbook. There are 8 volumes of this scrapbook which include wedding articles and obituaries from the Industry area of McDonough County. It’s a wonderful resource, but unfortunately most of the articles have no date and none have the name of the newspaper. <br /><br />Flora Lucinda (Swift) Worth had a brother John H. who died when he was about 24 years old. I didn’t find his obituary because most of the articles are from 1894 to 1957 and he died in 1877, but I did find the obituary of his wife. They were only married 15 months or so before he died. I’m following up with a more specific request for information about John’s death from the MCGS. <br /><br />I worked mostly on correcting and adding citations to the Charles and Eunice (Robinson) Swift family in Legacy Family Tree. It’s time consuming! But going through it slowly helps me see what other information I might be out there. For example, was there a newspaper article or at least a mention of Charles’ death in his hometown newspaper? I hope to look at microfilm through Inter Library Loan to see what I can find. I also sent for a copy of John H. Swift’s marriage license and an email request to the Crawford County Iowa Genealogical Society to see what resources might be available to find out about the death of Charles and Eunice’s youngest son Lafayette’s death in 1883.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-12646309088491480562017-01-15T19:06:00.002-06:002017-01-15T19:07:15.489-06:00What I'm working on this weekThis week I wrote a citation for the Civil War pension file for Eunice (Robinson) Swift Hurlburt. I read through the 207 pages and put more information with the citation in Legacy Family Tree. I also put the citation on images of some of the pages and copied them for the binder. I am almost ready to start writing the story...a few changes to make on old citations to get them worded properly and then it's on to the fun. Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-13744958924667828782017-01-07T20:06:00.000-06:002017-01-07T20:06:37.211-06:00What I'm working on this week...To help me remember what I’ve done as time passes, I’m hoping to post a weekly update about what I’ve been working on and a brief summary of any findings and work completed. My GOAL is to write the stories I find in blog posts that I will link to from Facebook so my kids (or anyone else) can read them if they are interested. I have so much research mostly done but not ready to be passed on. My ultimate goal with all this is to put my research into a usable form - I’d love to say finished form but genealogy is never finished - for my kids and grandkids. <br />
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In December I decided I wanted to start working on breaking down some brickwall ancestors. They are:<br />
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Melissa (Donaldson) Whittecar<br />
Susan (Westervelt) Newcomb<br />
Elizabeth (Robison) West<br />
Charles and Lydia ( ? ) Swift<br />
John Jones<br />
Aaron Robinson <br />
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The first three are on dad’s side and the last three are on mom’s. <br />
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I started with Charles and Lydia Swift. Using old Family Group Sheets from cousin Donna Shepard from the ‘80’s, I was able to find information on ancestry.com and familysearch.org about them, their children and Charles’ ancestors. I found military information on Fold3.com which provides information about Charles’ father, John Swift, who fought in the Revolutionary War. And beyond that, John and his wife Anna Throop are each descendants of people who came over on the Mayflower. I will post more about them in the months ahead. <br />
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So what am I working on specifically this week? Yet another goal with my research is to be sure every fact had a citation that shows the source of the information. So this week I have been working on Charles (1829) and Eunice (Robinson) Swift’s family. I found census and marriage records for their children Harriet, John, Leroy, Flora Lucinda (our ancestor) and Lafayette, and created citations to put in Legacy Family Tree. John and Lafayette died in their early 20s and I’d like to find out more. I sent a request on January 4 to the McDonough County Genealogical Society for Swift family information. They have a “Grandma Flack’s Scrapbook” that has quite a few mentions of the Swift family so I’m anxious to see what they have. Maybe with a little bit of luck we will discover the dates and places of death of Charles (1790) and Lydia Swift. I need to contact the Crawford County, Iowa, genealogy community to see what I can find about the death of Lafayette there in 1883. <br />
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Next: write citations for the Civil War widow's pension records of Eunice (Robinson) Swift Hurlburt, specifically the pages that give the births of her children. When I’m satisfied with the Charles (1823) Swift family, move up to his parents. <br />
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Context: How are we related to the two Charles’? Me - mom - Lizzie (Worth) Jones - Flora Lucinda (Swift) Worth - Charles (1829) and Eunice (Robinson) Swift - Charles (1790) and Lydia (Bates) Swift. Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-80166008127353151852014-03-31T19:09:00.001-05:002014-03-31T19:09:20.395-05:00Wow, it's been a while!<br />
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What have I been up to? Well, there's the whole do-over project. I'm embarrassed by the lack of sources in my genealogy software. Some people have a few sources attached to them and some have absolutely no sources attached. So I'm starting over.<br />
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I bought Legacy 8 and NO ONE gets in the door unless they come with sources for facts. Period. I started with my Russell name, and I'm still looking for an actual record that connects my Daniel Russell (1824-1902) to his father Benjamin (1780?-1840?). I have a Delaware County history that presumably Daniel wrote about his father - he should know who is father is, right? But that's not good enough. Not yet, anyway. I'm looking for a will or other document or record that shows the relationship. I haven't come close to a "reasonably exhaustive" search, so Ben is still waiting on the front porch. To Do: On FamilySearch, create a list of Stueben and Ontario County, New York, wills, probate records, letters of administration etc. and cross off as I browse all 14,000,000 of them! That's a little dramatic because there is some order to the records, some indexes in front of the registers. But I need to do this in an orderly manner or I will end up looking in the same record twice. Or three times.<br />
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What if I don't find a definitive record for each fact? Well, after doing all the searching I reasonably can, and if I'm reasonably sure, I will let them in but with notes all over the place that this is iffy and shouldn't be taken as absolute fact. <br />
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The other project is on the other side of the family tree, where I'm chasing Jones and Davis families. In Wales. Like a haystack made of needles, but which one is the right one? I am looking to prove or disprove that Alvina Davis was the daughter of Daniel and Jane (Williams) Davis who were married 26 Dec 1846 in Wales. Census records say she was born about 1845. Maybe her husband gave the information and didn't know when she was born, maybe the census enumerator jotted down the wrong year, maybe Jane was a single mother when she married Daniel. According to "Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry Into the State of Education in Wales," it wasn't that unusual in Wales in that era for a child to be born out of wedlock. So I'm open to anything. I just want to find a record of her connection to Jane and hopefully Daniel, or something that disproves this hypothesis. To Do: Wait for information from Jennifer who lives near the place Daniel and Jane were married. <br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-40757742230224869192013-07-30T20:37:00.003-05:002013-07-30T20:37:53.012-05:00Genealogy Roadshow<div id="story-headline">
<a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2013/07/30/pbs-series-to-test-claims-of-famous-roots.html" target="_blank"><b>PBS series to test claims of famous roots</b></a></div>
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According to pbs.org, "GENEALOGY ROADSHOW will air Mondays, September
23-October 14, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET." Hopefully our Nebraska pbs stations
will carry it then. If so, I'll be catching it online the next day!
Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-70385672076295049972013-04-01T12:31:00.000-05:002013-04-01T12:31:18.771-05:00YMCA Family History classWe are about to wrap up another great Family History Class here at the Y. This is the 5th year we have offered this class. Thank you, Mary, Barb, Karleen, Bev, Becky, and Roy! Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-77524537116058844982012-11-10T20:00:00.001-06:002012-11-10T20:00:28.752-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-90262486685271017892012-04-12T20:34:00.000-05:002012-04-12T20:34:24.334-05:001940 Census Happy Dance!I found dad in the 1940 census! I had a hunch he was working in Wyoming for the Elsom or Patch families. I looked at the 1930 census and found that the Elsom's lived in Election District 5, so I looked in that district in the 1940 census. They are on the first page with the Charles W. and Maude A. Patch family. Dad (Hugh B. Russell) is a hired hand, 27 and single. He completed the 8th grade and in 1935 was living in Sargent, Nebraska. He is listed as seeking for work in column 23 but is listed as a ranch laborer. Dad's brother Wayne R. Russell is listed after dad with the same details except his age, 25, and the number of weeks worked and income.<br />
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Dad liked to talk about his years in Wyoming. He helped the Patch family and the Elsoms do various ranch work, including herding sheep. I don't think he enjoyed that part too much doing it only one season. I remember him saying he thought a lot of the sheep dogs - border collies, I think - and how smart they were. He said in the hottest days of summer, the male sheep dogs would find the shade and the females would keep working. He also talked about mules skidding timber down the mountain. <br />
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I remember visiting the Elsom ranch in the late 60s, I suppose it was. Mrs. Elsom had a huge Christmas cactus in her living room, blooming, in an old wringer washer. They raised goats for milk and that was the first time I tasted goats milk. I liked it! Dad always thought a lot of the Elsoms and Patches. We visited a Patch family in Buffalo in the 1980s. <br />
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The Patches were relatives of dad's mom's first husband, Louis Patch.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-50383703425579852612012-04-03T22:06:00.000-05:002012-04-03T22:06:52.694-05:001940 CensusThe 1940 census was released yesterday. I guess there was a computer glitch in the delivery or I guess I should say so many interested genealogists that the computers couldn't keep up. Anyway, I stayed away yesterday but thought I'd check this evening. I struck gold right away on ancestry.com.<br />
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Nebraska, Custer County, Lillian Township. On the first page:<br />
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Irene Russell, line 10, a school teacher living with Charles and Margie Estes.<br />
Ben T. Russell, line 17, age 61, renter operator of a farm<br />
Predmore family, Rufus, Bula and kids, line 18; Rufus was the father of dad's first wife. She was grown and gone by 1940.<br />
Anton Hansen and his wife Grace and kids, line 37; neighbors when we lived on the Lakeman place. I have a very faint memory of Anton and his wooden leg. Grace was the enumerator of this part of the census. <br />
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But where is dad? If he was renting the Lakeman place in 1940, he should have been listed between the Predmores and Hansens. Hmm. Was he working for someone elsewhere? I don't see him in Lillian, Milburn or Sargent townships. Maybe he was in Wyoming. Maybe he was working as a hired man in another part of the county. Maybe I'll have to wait for the 1940 census index to be completed before I find him. <br />
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Others I see:<br />
On page 2 I see Barent and Annie Ottun and four children on lines 65 thru 70. <br />
Page 3, my grandmother, Della Russell and son Glenn Patch who was dad's half-brother, lines 17 and 18<br />
page 4, Earl Patch, another half-brother, line 75<br />
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Names like Greenstreet, Lacy, Jezbera, Willhoit bring back memories of all the conversations dad and I had about his past. I see Temp and Hazel Wykoff, neighbors my sister and I visited one time, on horseback. I see Andrew Miller and know he was living on what has been immortalized in our family as The Miller Place. We moved there in 1964 - a great place for a kid to grow up! <br />
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If I was better with images I would include them here. Instead, I would suggest anyone interested in seeing the images go to ancestry.com and see if the 1940 census is free. (I have a subscription so I don't know what it looks like if you don't have one.) Another location to check is the <a href="http://1940census.archives.gov/">National Archives website</a>. Keep in mind there is no index. All around the world, dedicated genealogists are working feverishly to get it indexed as quickly as possible. But it will probably be months before that happens. (If you are looking on the National Archives site, you need to look for Nebraska, Custer, then you need to look for Enumeration district 21-27, Lillian.)<br />
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This has been a long and rambley sort of post but it has been fun to travel down the river road again and over the hill to Round Valley and to see the names of loved ones and neighbors and to remember dad.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-30688002841861770842012-01-31T08:02:00.000-06:002012-01-31T08:02:13.335-06:00Who Do You Think You Are? Season 3Ancestry.com has released information on the first two episodes of Who Do You Think You Are, Season 3. NBC, 7 Central; Probably available the next day on <a href="www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/">the Internet</a>.<br />
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Episode 1: Martin Sheen learns how family members in Ireland and Spain stood up for their beliefs during times of war.<br />
February 3rd, 8/7c<br />
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Episode 2: Marisa Tomei travels to Italy to discover the truth behind the rumor about her great-grandfather’s murder.<br />
February 10th, 8/7cMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-16484510942042781492011-10-01T20:25:00.001-05:002011-10-01T20:26:27.065-05:00Saturday Night Genealogy FunWhile I listen to the Husker-Badger game, I'll post my entry for <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-list-your.html">Saturday Night Genealogy Fun</a>. GO BIG RED!<br />
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"List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother."<br />
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1. Me<br />
2. Grace Jones (1923 Ferguson, Nebraska-2009 Grand Island, Nebraska) married 1) George Ferguson 2) Hugh Russell<br />
3. Elizabeth Wilmot Jones (1888 Loup County, Nebraska-1985 Sargent, Nebraska) married Frank Jones<br />
4. Flora Lucinda Swift (1859 Macomb, Illinois-1927 Ferguson, Nebraska) married George Worth<br />
5. Eunice Calista Robinson (1832 Ohio-1906 Westerville, Nebraska) married 1) Charles Swift 2) Alanson Hurlburt<br />
6. Rachel Walker (1807 Hudson, Ohio-after 1880 Illinois) married Aaron Robinson<br />
7. Rachel Cochran (1768 Virginia-1847 Hudson, Ohio) married John Walker<br />
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Since my kids might read this, thought I'd do the same for their dad.<br />
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1. Jim<br />
2. Dorothy (living)<br />
3. Bertha Wilhelmina Johanna Noffke (1895 Hall County, Nebraska-1984 Grand Island, Nebraska)<br />
4. Auguste Fredricke Emelia Teichmeier (1862 Falkenburg, Pomerania, Germany - 1951 Grand Island, Nebraska)<br />
5. Albertine Karoline Konn (1831 Germany - 1893 Nebraska)Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-58196980021123558752011-08-07T14:58:00.000-05:002011-08-07T14:58:28.319-05:00The land of our ancestorsOur Worth, Angel and Dugdale ancestors lived in Devon for many decades -- probably for centuries. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14340933">This article from the BBC2</a> tells about some very early residents of the area now known as Devon, England. <br />
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"A chance discovery of coins has led to the bigger find of a Roman town, further west than it was previously thought Romans had settled in England."<br />
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I love to read about archeology. I think it would be fun to work on a site. Genealogy is like archeology, isn't it? Unearthing the facts about our ancestors, piecing together the stories from the things they left behind.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-20615120405658618342011-06-29T20:06:00.000-05:002011-06-29T20:06:27.653-05:00Tapes ReturnLast week I received the tapes and copies of them on DVD. They've been copied and cleaned up and sound ok, considering the shape they were in. The 1978 tape was cheap to begin with and I think I recorded music on it first and recorded the interview over it. Add to that the fact that I didn't have a microphone and used the built-in one...it's no wonder it's still, after being treated by an "audio doctor", almost impossible to hear 50% of the words. As I listen, though, the conversation we had that day comes back to me and I'm able to recall a lot of what dad said.<br />
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The 1983 tape comes with a bonus...or really, two bonuses. I taped it at my parent's house while I was visiting them with my two oldest kids. In the background I can hear Liz talking and I can hear Ben making baby sounds...she was about 3 and he was less than 1 year old. If I knew how to imbed an audio clip, I would include one here. <br />
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Oh well.<br />
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I'm just glad they are home safe and sound (no pun intended!). Now to transcribe and work on a book I've had in mind for a while now about dad.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-71591854751593621702011-05-05T19:41:00.001-05:002011-05-05T19:42:38.672-05:00Precious tapesToday I Fed-Ex'd two cassette tapes to a man in Canada who will work digital magic on them, turning rumbling and roaring noises and broken tapes once again into the clear steady voice of my dad. These are two of five or six tapes I recorded of conversations with my day in the 1970s through 1990s. I've been meaning to get this done for four years and today I did it. I hope all goes well.<br />
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<a href="http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/?action=view&current=1978tapephoto.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/1978tapephoto.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/?action=view&current=1983tapephoto.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/1983tapephoto.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-47724885291642152092011-04-23T17:09:00.001-05:002011-04-23T17:18:14.291-05:00on the 99th anniversary of dad's birth<a href="http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/?action=view&current=8decadesofHughjpeg.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/8decadesofHughjpeg.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />
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A photo from almost every decade. Some weren't dated. The top right may have been taken in his teens, and the one where he's holding me is in his 40s. I included it to show that he lived over half his life before I was born. The bottom center is my favorite photo of him which I took in 1983.<br />
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Still miss you, dad.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-7108569559564075072011-02-05T11:06:00.000-06:002011-02-05T11:06:08.055-06:00Who Do You Think You Are? Season 2Wonderful episode about <a href="http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/">Vanessa Williams</a>. Love how it relied mostly on going to the records, instead of finding everything on ancestry.com or the Internet.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-21353113876393459972010-12-19T10:22:00.000-06:002010-12-19T10:22:02.622-06:00Christmas Past<a href="http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/?action=view&current=1958Christmas.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/1958Christmas.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />
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Our Christmas tree in 1958 when I was 6 months old. That's me at the bottom, the bald headed baby gazing up at the tree.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-2879553615229486082010-11-25T06:00:00.007-06:002010-11-25T06:00:07.007-06:00In memory of momMom passed away a year ago today. This is a collage I put together last night with a photo from every decade of her life, 1920s through 2000s. <br />
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<div style="width:480px;text-align:right;"><embed width="480" height="360" src="http://static.pbsrc.com/flash/rss_slideshow.swf" flashvars="rssFeed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed661.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fuu339%2Fmjrhollowell%2FBlog%2520photos%2Ffeed.rss" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" /><a href="http://photobucket.com/redirect/album?showShareLB=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.pbsrc.com/share/icons/embed/btn_geturs.gif" style="border:none;" /></a><a href="http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu339/mjrhollowell/Blog%20photos/" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.pbsrc.com/share/icons/embed/btn_viewall.gif" style="border:none;" /></a></div>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-40155146350580035772010-11-16T21:08:00.000-06:002010-11-16T21:08:56.667-06:00scanning scanning scanningI just finished scanning 753 of mom's photos. Now I need to be sure all ancestor photos are scanned, then make cd or dvd copies for my brothers and sisters, and be done by Thanksgiving day. The 753 photos are just a fraction of the photos she took in her life. One of the things we will do Thanksgiving day is give each brother and sister a box full of photos of their families that she took. I have only scanned the photos that have members of two or more families in them. So yeah! One part done. Now to figure out how many dvds it will take to copy them!Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-62602364393647083512010-10-28T20:20:00.002-05:002010-10-28T20:31:01.197-05:00Halloween in SargentI subscribe to the Nebraska State Historical Society blog and their post today included <a href="http://blog.nebraskahistory.org/?p=2250&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nebraskahistory%2FoHtm+%28Nebraska+State+Historical+Society+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">a photo of Sargent</a>, with buggies on top of the roof of "Ottun and Martin". I remember dad talking about this particular type of Halloween prank and wondering how they got them up there! I wonder where the Ottun and Martin business was located in Sargent. According to the Sargent Centennial book, J. N. Ottun and/or the Ottun Brothers had a general store in the 1900s.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344380149992052045.post-37249835738815733332010-10-23T21:45:00.000-05:002010-10-23T21:45:55.459-05:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Same Birthday as Yours?1) Is there a person in your genealogy database that has the same birth date that you do? If so, tell us about him or her - what do you know, and how is s/he related to you?<br />
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2) For bonus points, how did you determine this? What feature or process did you use in your software to work this problem out? I think the Calendar feature probably does it, but perhaps you have a trick to make this work outside of the calendar function.<br />
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One ancestor shares my birthday, and he is the end-of-line ancestor at the top of the pedigree chart. James Russell was born 2 Jun 1728 in England. I got this information from a gravestone transcription (Old Gravestones of Ulster County, Town of Plattekill) which was recorded as, "Russell James, Jan. 31, 1805, 76-7-29." My genealogy software tells me that makes his date of birth June 2nd. I would love to see this tombstone but it is not on findagrave.com yet and I have no plans to travel to New York to find it, although I'd love to!<br />
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A lot more research needs to be done on this line. I sent for a copy of his will several years ago. What I have found so far, and this hadn't been verified by other sources yet, leads me to say that James' wife was Anna. They had nine children, four daughters and five sons, including their son Benjamin Russell (Abt 1780-abt 1840) who is my great-great-great grandfather. There are several Russell families in Ulster County and I need to take the time to sort them out.<br />
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I used the calendar feature in Legacy software to find this information.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741933816657780031noreply@blogger.com0