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Genealogy Recap 2011

2011-12-30T22:16:00.000-08:00

Met three Gates cousins for lunch and they only live an hour from me.
Presented a Case Study for my genealogy society on "The Four Riddell Brothers and the Civil War"
Completed the ProGen Study Group for Progen8
Connected with a new Riddell cousin I did not know I had and he helped me solve a 5 year brick wall.
Learned to use Roots Magic
Took several small business development courses

Busy Summer!

2011-09-07T13:23:00.000-07:00

I have been keeping my son entertained all summer. He played football on Thursday with his youth group and we took a class together. He went to Vet Tech camp and liked it but he said he was a little disappointed that it was not more about cats and dogs.

I managed to fit in a few ProGen assignments along the way.... I did my marketing plan and I am now working on my business plan. There are not too many left in the Sunday group for ProGen7.

We went to Prescott and I planned to see the genealogy collection at the Prescott Valley Library but I went on a day that the Genealogy Library in Prescott Valley was closed. We went to the Sharlot Hall Museum and other historical spots as well as Lynx Lake and Goldwater Lake.

One of the things I really enjoyed was the night hike at the Heritage Nature Center as part of their "Bug a Boo Bliss". The stars were amazing!

Fall is finally here! My dear boy went back to school today. I miss him already!

Census Questions, Questionairres and Publications

2011-06-22T09:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.census.gov/history/www/reference/genealogy/

The U.S. Census Bureau has the census questions that were asked for all the census years: Click on the URL above. You will see the History section, click on the tab "Through the Decades" and then click on "Index of Questions" Also included in the "Through the Decades" tab are the questionnaires and Census Instructions. (This is also available as a PDF: http://www.census.gov/history/pdf/measuringamerica.pdf with more detailed information on Census history.

The U.S. Census Bureau Publications: in PDF
I also found a publication from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services regarding their Genealogy Program. http://www.census.gov/history/pdf/uscisgenealogyprogram.pdf

The USGS publication: Using Maps in Genealogy

US Dept of Commerce; Factfinder for the Nation, Census, Availability of Census Records about Individuals.

Review of "Portal of Texas History" Website

2011-06-10T10:28:00.000-07:00

The Portal of Texas History site: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ allows you to narrow your search to narrow your search by resource type, county and decade. For a test name I entered Riddell. You can narrow decade results by clicking on the more button for earlier decades. I am interested in the Civil War Era. A slider button allows you to adjust the size of your selected scanned item. The image viewer allows you to view four pages in sequence. You can get the results highlighted but it seems cumbersome to figure out how to do have the image viewer do this.

Potter, Coon, Wescott, Knapp, Darling Family Coonnections

2011-06-01T12:45:00.000-07:00

Repost from a post I made at http://genforum.genealogy.com/potter/messages/6486.html

Ichabod Potter (1753-1845 Manlius, Onondaga Co., New York) +Eleanor
Stokes Potter b. on 16 Dec 1720 in Dartmouth, Bristol, MA. Died in 1808 in Westpport, Bristol, MA)
Zebedee Potter (6 Oct 1753 Tiverton, Rhode Island, d. 08 Dec 1845, Manlius, Onondaga Co. NY) +Phebe Durfee
John Potter (b. btw. 1775-1783 Rhode Island or MA; Died before 1860 in Otisco, Onondaga, NY) + Rosamond Taber (Rev war 1775-1780)
Sarah Potter (b. 21 Jan 1820 in NY, died in Wisconsin+Simon Wescott
Julius Delos Wescott marriage 2 to Ada Coon
(I am descended from Ada Coon’s first marriage to Francis Darling Riddell)

I would like to know about: Please contact me if you have any further information on Darling/Potter/Wescott.

David Potter $460[I have three Potters related by marriage in my genealogy Harriet Potter 1823, Wisconsin; Sarah Potter who married Simon Wescott; and another Sarah Potter married to Andrew Darling, I am unsure how if how David Potter is related to these individuals, another person to research][Arms 92] see footnote 1 below

1. Arms, William Tyler and Masha E. Arms. The History of Leyden Massachusetts 1676-1959. The Enterprise and Journal. Orange, Massachusetts. 1959. p. 93, 96. (Georgina Cole Library, 974.422 H2 ARM.)

I believe there are even more mystery "Potters" in my collateral lines. I will provide info on these when I research further. There may be some in my Gates (New London, Connecticut line - Leyden, Massachusettes- Peter Gates)

Coon/Potter of Jefferson county, Palmyra, Wisconsin
I found three incidences of Coons and Potters:

*1850 Census: Palmyra, Jefferson, Wisconsin
Coon, Leander (son of Ephriam Coon)
married Harriet (?) whose first marriage was to a Potter
Harriet's children from her first marriage are listed in the 1850 census as in the household of Leander Coon:
Francis Potter
Henry Potter
Orilla Potter

* Marana Knapp (18 March 1908 buried in Hillside Cemetery, Palmyra, WI) was married to Ephriam Coon
Is Marana related to the following Knapps in Palmyra?

Orvilla Knapp- did she marry Stacey Potter?
Sylvanus Knapp

*Simon Wescott married to Sarah Potter (genealogy detailed at the beginning of this Email.)
child was Julius Delos Wescott who married Ada Riddell (nee Coon)

This one is just for Potter:

*Sarah Potter married Andrew Darling (b. 1748) in Gloucester, Rhode Island

Hiram Coon Research Report Introduction

2011-05-01T21:47:00.000-07:00

Whew! I have been working on a really long research report on the Coon family.

Before this branch of my tree landed in Palmyra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin they lived in Manlius, Onondaga County, New York and they came to Wisconsin with a large group of related persons and family friends to Palmyra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Lura Dow daughter of Oliver Parker Dow (brother to Eliza Dow) was quoted in Dodge/Jefferson County Genealogical Society's publication "Out on a Limb"

“The first that I know anything about were what I would call “our folks”. There were quite a bunch of them. They came from Chenango county, NY... some were brothers and sisters-in-laws, cousins, etc., probably. They were Mr. and Mrs. Albertus Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. John Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Graves, Mr and Mrs. Elizer Graves."(Out on A Limb)

One of the avenues I intend to investigate further will hopefully answer the question: Who exactly was included in the group of people who migrated from New York to Palmyra, WI?

I wrote a draft of the report on Hiram Coon (it is about 26 pages long) and The rest of the report is waiting for peer review (ProGen 8) at the end of this month. What follows are the names and dates for the subject and his family.

The subject under investigation is Hiram Coon born on 13 November 1819 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York and Died 4 October 1875 in Palmyra, Jefferson, Wisconsin and his first wife Achsah Moore (1816-1846). Hiram’s second wife was Anna Eliza Dow born 19 June 1825 and their children:

Elvira C. Coon born 3 August 1848 in Mendon, Monroe County, New York and died in 1916. Elvira married Robert Charley

Susan Coon was born on 21 Sept 1853 and died 22 July 1910 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Susan married James Wrightson Congdon. (see appendix for timeline) child: Mirah Coon

Frank W. Coon was born on 7 May 1854. He married Agnes Swinton

Ada Martina Coon born 12 January 1855 in Palmyra, Jefferson, Wisconsin and died 1 January 1928 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Married first, Francis Darling Riddell (1854-1905) on 19 August 1876 and second, married Julius Delos Wescott (Westcott) on 25 March 1893.

Anna Eliza Coon was born in 27 February 1844 and died on 7 June 1920, Anna married Frank Edward Donaldson

Marana Coon (b. 1840) married [?] Knapp (Socolich)

(note from gs: Please note that the bolded individuals are my direct line.)

1. Out on A Limb, page 10] [Dodge/Jefferson Counties Genealogical Society, Inc. Genealogy Newsletter, Out on a Limb. Volume 20 No. 1. February 2005. From the Jefferson County Union, Wilbur, S.D. 1924.)

2. Socolich, Gwynn. Research Report on Hiram Coon, Introduction to Subject.

Selected State Repositories with selected counties

2011-04-07T18:33:00.000-07:00

Document Archives: I created these files a while ago: Let me know if you find any broken links:

Wisconsin

http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/wisconsin.html

Illinois
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/illinois.html

Maryland
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/maryland.html

Massachusetts
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/massachusettes.html

New Hampshire
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/new_hampshire.html

New York
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/new_york.html

Pennsylvania
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/pennsylvania.html

Click on the web Url to see which counties are covered.

Researching Hiram Coon Family of Palmyra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin

2011-03-29T12:18:00.000-07:00

I am working on a project for the Coon family (1840 - 1950) as one of my assignments for the Pro Gen study group and plan to post it as soon as I have feedback from my group and have omitted living people. One of my online contacts is a cousin who has the original Coon Bible, family letters and photographs. She was gracious to send me copies of these and photos of the Bible.

I have a few letters written by Thomas Riddell Sankey (my grandfather) to various relatives that gave me clues to family relationships and helped me get started several years ago on the Coon family. The Dow family was also prominent in this area of Wisconsin. There are two items that won't be included in my analysis of sources: I have family photos which include other Palmyra, Jefferson, Wisconsin notables such as Washburn. I also have two letters written by Mirah Congdon to Thomas Riddell Sankey from 1949. In this letter she mentions George Riddell of Jacumba California (my great grandmother's brother who is buried in Fort Roscrans National Cemetery, San Diego County, San Diego) and Ada Charley (Palmyra) who lived at Route 1, Eagle, Wisconsin. Ada Charley was probably the daughter of Ada Coon's sister. (Ada Coon was the mother of Harriet (nee Riddell) Sankey and Ada was Hiram Coon's daughter.) Mirah (Congdon)wrote about family friends who she says are all of her generation in Palmyra Ethel Gates Bannerman, Alice Carlin, Emma Fairbrother Carlin. A letter from Nina Fisher whose grandmother was Susan Coon (sister of Ada Coon) in which Nina writes that she joined the DAR (so there should be an application on file...) and she tells of the Dow genealogy.(Ada Coon's mother's direct line)

The Dows came from Hollis and Hudson, New Hampshire and the Coons came from Manlius, Onondaga, New York to Palmyra, Jefferson, Wisconsin.

Jefferson County Wisconsin
(1850-1924) Other surnames from this time period in Jefferson County, Palmyra, Wisconsin:
Direct lines: Riddell, Bunker, Westcott, Dow, Thayer
Collateral Lines: Charley, Donaldson, Reisen, Wrightson,Congdon, Knapp, Woodruff, Knapp, Moore, Pattee, Brisbin, Avery, Boss, Pattee, Swinton, Bishop, McShane, Malcolmson, Brockway, Potter, Schultz, Phillips
I have quite a bit of info on Carlin family but not sure how they are related or if they were just family friends of the Dows.

New Discovery.... Article about Chicago Genealogy and Railroads

2011-01-30T14:18:00.000-08:00

This is truly a thrilling discovery for me. I have three ancestors that worked on the Chicago North West Railroad during their life times.
http://www.examiner.com/genealogy-in-chicago/whose-been-working-on-the-railroad-a-genealogy-gem-berwyn-il

Christian DeYoung
1892: marriage certificate: ) marriage certificate: Dec 20, 1892. Christian's father is listed as John (could be Jan depending on how Dutch sounds when pronounced) DeYoung; Christian's Mother: Catharina Wassamarr (or Wassenaar) born in Holland. Wife's maiden name is: Jane Hausman.
Registration of Marriages: No. 495
name of husband: Christian DeYoung
name of father of husband: John DeYoung
name of mother of husband before marriage: Catharina Wassaman (or Wassamar) (Friesland, Dutch Archives website: spelling: Wassenaar)
Occupation of husband: Foreman on Railroad
residence of husband: Waukegan, IL
Birthplace of Husband: Holland
Full name of wife previous to marriage: Jane Hauseman, name of mother of wife: Hille Schilsten; Birthplace of wife: Holland: Date Marriage was contracted: Dec 1, 1892; Place or town, and county where marriage was contracted: Racine, Racine Co. WI
Names of subscribing witnesses: John Schlitz and Nellie Schlitz; name of person pronouncing marriage: CK Percival (Racine WI) Dec 15, 1892: Date of registration: Dec 20, 1892. Source: Marriage Certificate, Racine County, City of Racine Courthouse
working as a foreman of Irish and Mexican gangs who laid Chicago Northwestern Railroad in the late 1890's." (page 14) (Christian DeYoung helped build the Chicago NorthWestern Railroad when he brought his PARENTS from Holland to Racine, my mother's birthplace"(page 2)Source: Alice Sankey. Hey Don't Write Me Off . Unpublished Manuscript and interview with Alice Sankey on January 30, 2001
(Alice was my grandmother)

Philip Dahlberg and Gustav Dahlberg:
1903-1906: Illinois, Cook County, Chicago: worked with his step father (Gustave Dahlberg) as a carpenter and on Chicago Northwest Railroad in dining car. [Alice Sankey. "Hey Dont Write Me Off". Unpublished Manuscript.]

This month's assignment for ProGen Transcription

2011-01-30T10:46:00.000-08:00

I felt a little intimidated by this assignment! I really enjoyed it after I got into it. I was unsure if I needed to put all that survey info (Chains and links anyone?) into my abstract. My friend who teaches a course on Land Records for our local genealogy society suggested that I keep the survey info in addition to the land description. I really like deeds because I worked with auditing deeds in mortgage banking. You never know what skills you will need later! Mortgage banking helped me understand some of the legalism that we find in deeds. I look forward to my group comments on my transcription. One transcription I could not do was a monument inscription in Europe. It was in Latin. My friend who is a writer helped me with it by working on it with her daughter when she was homeschooling and learning Latin. They tackled it together. Now we know what that Riddell family member did. I have other things I need to transcribe but mostly they are family letters and one of the other Riddell items has already been transcribed at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/malquery.html search for Key word: John L. Riddell to Abraham Lincoln
Letter is dated December 1863: This one is already transcribed. John Leonard Riddell was my direct ancestor's brother. If you would like to know more about this interesting character please contact me by email and I will be happy to share with you.

My Transitional Genealogy Steps

2011-01-24T13:15:00.000-08:00

Hobby Genealogist: Several years personal genealogy research. Volunteered at Genealogical Society as Photo Archivist, Lost Treasures Chairperson and library volunteer; read blogs for new developments in the field, blogging my research results, updating my website. Scanning and fixing Civil War photos from my own collection.(Photoshop Elements)

1. Genealogy seminars from local genealogical societies and Genealogy Conferences like Jamboree, bus trips to Los Angeles Public Library.
2. Join Association for Professional Genealogists (has directory) and the Southern California Chapter
3. Join the APG forum
4. Pro Gen Study Group - I really like this because we have a CG as a mentor and we can bounce ideas off each other and get feedback.
5. SBDC business classes-- They provide a mentor after the classes to get you started.
6. The Transitional Genealogist Forum was helpful but email intensive so I had to unsubscribe.
7. Future: NGS home study course; conferences as I can afford them.
8. Future volunteer: Unclaimed Persons Group volunteer and possibly Find A Grave volunteer photographer.

Getting Orginized Sate Research Guides

2011-01-12T13:45:00.001-08:00

I finally made a large binder for all those genealogy articles I have collected.
So far I have collected some state guides for:
-Virginia...on the Virginia/Pennsylvania boundary dispute in 1681-1785 where both states claimed the same land. One of those areas was in what is now Washington County, Pennsylvania where I am trying to locate my ancestor Aneas Graham who was the father of Alexander Graham. Alexander Graham was the father of my direct ancestor DeWitt Clinton Graham (of Monongahela)
-Illinois, where my grandmother Alice Sankey was born. Also in Illinois: Kramer, Stonequist, Dahlberg, Nauta (Swedish and Dutch ancestors)in Chicago.
-Massachusetts, where my Dow, Thayer, Riddell, Gates, Darling families resided before the Revolutionary war until about 1850.
-Missouri; where my ancestor Christian DeYoung homesteaded according to family tradition. (I am still working on this one.)
-Ohio, where my Graham, Ward, Pementor, Malcolm, Andrews, Byal, Hawkins, Graff, Palm, and Rowland ancestors lived.
-Pennsylvania (other than Graham mentioned earlier in this post): Applegate, Behanna, Sankey, Runkle, Gilliland, Cowden, Sankey(Centre County), McChesney, Adams, Rose, Lewis, Hawkins, Byal ancestors.
-Wisconsin: Riddell, Dow, Coon, Pattee, Congdon, Bodish, Wescott, Avery, DeYoung, Corrigan, Donaldson, Moore, Knapp, Dahlberg, Sankey, Kramer, DeYoung(Step Dad's family: Bartnicki, Luczynski)

Happy New Year

2011-01-02T18:58:00.001-08:00

Our tradition for the last three years has been to watch Groucho Marx movies and toast with Martinelli's at midnight. This year I did not fall asleep at 10 pm as I have in the past. Also, we always watch the Rose Bowl Parade. My step sister works on at least fifteen of the floats. I don't know which ones she worked on this year. Unfortunately, I slept until 9am and missed half of the parade.

One of the things I would like to do again is to pull apart the British "cracker". These nifty noise makers make a "pop" like the old fashioned pop guns and are filled with little toys and paper hats. It is great fun for kids of any age.

Genealogy Achievements for 2010

2010-12-31T12:10:00.000-08:00

1. Joined ProGen Study group in August. It is a nineteen month commitment.
2. Published "Ballaymeath?" on my website after a year of research
3. Got to know fellow genealogy enthusiasts at the North San Diego County Genealogical Society and volunteered at an event to greet and hand out programs. Part of the genealogy "Lunch Bunch".
4. Wrote an article for the North San Diego Genealogical Society Newsletter, Paths to the Past on the SCGS Jamboree Experience (Vol XL, Number 9, Sept. 2010) and Santa Barbara Trip, Spanish Heritage Anyone? (Vol XL, Number 8, August 2010,page 8)
5. Brick wall buster. Thanks to the Obituary Index at the Rutherford B. Hayes Library in Ohio I found a lead on my elusive ancestor Edward Ward.

ProGen Assignment Gwynn's Favorite Blogs

2010-12-15T12:04:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of my favorite blogs:

1. http://www.geneamusings.com/ by Randy Seavers
Randy Seavers is a friend of mine that I met at the San Diego Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~casdgs/index.shtml. Randy writes the summaries of the SDGS meetings for the newsletter.
He is the past president of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society in California http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacvgs2/ and current newsletter editor for CVGS. We share a common “Stephen Gates” ancestor. Randy has participated in the “Blogging” panel for SCGS Jamboree for the past two years. He encouraged me to start blogging two years ago.

1056. Stephen Gates, born About 1634 in Norfolk, ENGLAND; died 09 July 1707 in Stow, Middlesex County, MA. He married About 1664 in probably Watertown, Middlesex County, MA.
1057. Sarah Woodward, born 03 February 1642/43 in Watertown, Middlesex County, MA; died 21 October 1706 in Stow, Middlesex County, MA. She was the daughter of 2114. George Woodward and 2115. Mary Gibson.(1)

1. Seavers, Randy. Geneamusings post: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Surname Saturday – GATES. blog. email rjseaver@cox.net, copyright 2006-2010.

2. http://genwriting.blogspot.com/
Phyllis Matthews Ziller
Family History Writing
Sample post topics: Photos, “Why I Write”, Newspaper Research, Obits, Family stories, Revisit previous writing, Inferences, Record Types

3. http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/
Diane Haddad: Family Tree Magazine
Genealogy News, basic tips.

4. http://philibertfamily.blogspot.com/
Gena Philbert Ortega
Gena’s Genealogy
VP for Southern California APG, Genealogy Speaker: Spoke to the NSDCGS on Social Networking for Genealogy. GenealogyWise. Topic: Ideas and Resources for Genealogy

5. http://www.staatsofohio.com/
Our own… Chris Staats blog: I appreciate his sense of humor and sharing Ohio resources.

6. http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/
Diana Dretske: collections coordinator for the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois. Subject:
Lake County and Chicago research, photos, history and cemeteries.

Edward Ward Research Plan

2010-12-15T11:54:00.000-08:00

Detailed Analysis

Tests:
1. (Test) Focus
a. Who is the principal person in the problem? Edward Ward
b. What identifiers distinguish this person from all other human beings?
name: Edward Ward
• birth facts: born 1800 in Maryland or Virginia: discrepancy. see timeline. Note: family legend states that the family was from Lynchburg, Virginia.
• marriage facts: 1825 Edward ward Married Margaret Miller in Allegheny County, Maryand.
• death facts Edward Ward dies on 5 Sept 1878: Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
• residences and dates:
1826 was first child John Ward born in Virginia?
1830 Census: Mohican Township, Wayne County, Ohio
1846-1850 Ashland County formed and Mohican Township became part of Ashland County.
1858-1878 Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio

• children: for details see timeline
1826 John Ward is born (In Virginia?)
1831 Joel Ward is born (1850, 1900 Census)
1838 William Ward is born (1850 Census)
1849 Edward L. Ward is born (1850 Census)

• parentage: unknown. This is part of what needs to be found as well as birthplace of Edward Ward.
c. What major life event is the focus? Birthplace and parentage of Edward Ward.
• Where did the event take place, or the circumstance arise or the relationship originate? Virginia (family legend), Maryland (marriage record) or Pennsylvania (where Margaret Miller, Edward’s Wife was born.
• When did it occur (specific or estimated date or duration)? 1800
• Who else should been have been involved? possible siblings

2. (Test) Evidence
a. How reliable is the source or sources from which the data come? (see chapter 17):
• Family Legend: may have kernel of truth in that the Ward family may have come from Lynchburg, Virginia. I would be more inclined to state that they originated near Allegheny County, Maryland.
• 1890 Veteran’s Schedule (scan of original from Ancestry although prone to error like the census)
• Registry of Enlistments (scan of original from Ancestry)- Reliable made at the time of enlistment
• Census 1830,1840,1850,1860,1870: somewhat reliable: digital scan of census from Ancestry (twice I errors in Ancestry’s transcription)
• Marriage Index: Ancestry transcription: not very reliable would need to see original
b. analysis:
Time Line Analysis: see attached
Mathematical Analysis: calculated the ancestor’s age at various events included in timeline.

3. (Test) Methodology:
Land-records Study: Land Office survey for land study:

Ohio Land Office Date County Result Other land owners with Ward Surname
Zanesville 1820 Holmes Edward residence in 1830 Cornelius Ward 1835
Cincinnati 1840 Wayne Edward residence in 1840 Obed Ward 1831
Cincinnati 1846-1850 Ashland Edward residence in 1846-1850
Lima 1837 Putnam Edward residence in 1858-1878 Daniel Ward 1837 (possible DNA Match on Family Tree DNA: Haplo is i1 dates are b. 1825 and d. 1887)
James Ward 1838
William Ward 1838
Knox 1817 Rufus Ward

Whole-Family (or Neighborhood) Study: use census.

Supporting Documentation:
1. ancestor/ descendant charts: provided with chart hand drawn by relatives.
2. detailed lists of associates, collateral kin, in-laws, and neighbors: have some collateral kin, look for living collateral descendants.
3. plats assembled into neighborhoods
4. maps annotated to show migration routes: migration route: National Road: check Wheeling, West Virginia?

Research Methodology: Initial assessment:

• Genealogy Chart supplied by relatives.
• Searched Ancestry for Census, looked two pages ahead and two pages behind.
• Found Edward in the 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1860 census and the following census for Edward’s son Joel Ward: 1880 census, Veteran’s Schedule for 1890 and 1900 census.
• Went to the Los Angeles Public Library
• Found Edward Ward listed in a Registry of Enlistments for 1830 which states birthplace as Baltimore, Maryland. Searched Ward families in Lynchburg, Virginia and Allegheny County, Maryland, found no Edward or birthdate of 1800 among these. Research for land record chart: Scanned deeds from Ancestry.

DNA: Ward

Searched Family Tree DNA for Wards that may have been in Ohio/Virginia during the time periods on the timeline and match with in two differences the genetic markers of other Wards, so I can determine where to look next. ( this methodology was suggested by a friend at a local genealogy society who has Ward ancestors, although it is unknown if they are related to me.)
Get the son of the Ward Cousin to test for DNA.

Probably share a common ancestor 4 generations back: match: vary by 2
Haplogroup G Middle East or South West Asia; Subgroup 17: Nathan Ward m. Ann William Grayson County Virginia in 1809; Columbus Frank Ward b. 1877-1963 North Carolina to West Virginia.
Haplogroup G2a2: ( Sub group 17)British Isles: Turkish: William Ward : Virginia B. 1820 died 1900. James Lemuel Ward born in Virginia. Died in 1808 in Floyd, Johnson, KY.

Haplogroup H: South Asia: Romani people. Gypsies: John Ward Jr. (HVRI 16519C)

Haplo Group i1 (Scandinavia) Daniel Ward (see land record chart) Adams, County, Ohio ; Jonathan Ward of Virginia 1780 (Subgroup I); Shadrack Ward (subgroup II) 1760-1770 VA or (NC or SC) Jonathan and Shadrack Ward are probably not related, they have more than 3 different markers.

Haplogroup N1: (Russian Turks) Joseph Ward: Moorefield, Hardy County, VA b. 1747

Haplogroup R1b1: Albert Ward 1832 of Virginia (Sub group 15) too many differences: more than three- not related to William Ward in R1b1b.

Haplo group R1b1b (Spain, Portugal, Western France and Ireland) Josiah Josas Ward (subgroup 12): Thomas Ward (Ohio) R1b1b2 (close match); William Ward (subgroup 5) vary by 1 probably related to Josiah and Thomas.
R1b1b2a1b5b Charles Ward of Donegal, Ireland

Haplogroup R1b1b2 (Bashkirs of the Bashkortostan and Perm region: Russian Turks) Danforth Ward (Subgroup 6) Huron, Ohio 1825 ; Thomas Ward (subgroup 14A) VA, James River 1761 and Isaac Ward oh Ohio Hamilton County (1880 d.) (vary by 1 or 2) share common ancestor; Handsworth Yorkshire to West Virginia sub group 14b: Jonathan Ward b. 1875; EXACT MATCH with share common ancestor 4 generations back with (R1b1b2a1b4c) George Ward from handsworth, Shieffield, York, England (Sub group 14b) born 1747.

Research Plan:

1. Research “Wards” in Columbus Grove, Putnam County
2. Neighborhood search
3. Need to search Edward Ward’s children for living descendants who may have more information about Edward’s birthplace and parentage: searched for Joel Ward: direct ancestor. (possibly message boards, although sometimes this can take any where from one month to a year to get a reply)
4. Need to search Baltimore, Maryland for Edward Ward born 1800 and his parents.
5. Send Research requests to Putnam County Library. Go to http://www.putnamco.lob.oh.us/localguide.htm see list for Local History and Genealogy Collection: cost is $1.00 per obituaries, probate record or church records. Information from books is 25 cents per page with a minimum charge of $1.00. (Obtained Edward’s death notice through this service.
6. County History search for backgrounds on counties: Georgina Cole Carlsbad Library (see library list), Google Books, Heritage Quest. Search GC Library for Putnam County, Ohio. Any Periodicals that cover this area?
7. Search Western Maryland Historical Society Library: Do they have Interlibrary Loan or research request service?
8. Order Joel Ward’s pension file for Civil War may have birth location information and list of Father’s birthplace?
9. Did any of his siblings fight in the Civil War, investigate this further.
10. Genealogy Bank and News Archive for locality newspapers
11. Order marriage record from Allegheny, Maryland County Courthouse.
12. Search NARA M829: U.S. Military District land-entry case files.

Research Repository: Georgina Cole Library, Carlsbad, California: Look to see if any of these are on Google Books or Family Search first:

1830-1846 Mohican Township, Wayne County, Ohio

Call Number: 977.161S2 IND (Book)
Index to Land Records, Wayne County Ohio.

Call Number 977.161 (Book)
Smith, Richard G. Early Land records of Wayne County, Ohio

Call Number 977.161 R4 SMI (Book)
Wayne County tax list. 1826

Call number 977.161.H2 CAL (book)
Caldwell, J.A. Caldwell’s Atlas of Wayne County.

Call Number: 977.161 H2 DOU (book)
Douglas, Benjamin. History of Wayne County Ohio from the Days of the Pioneer and First Settlers to the present Time.

LH 9734 Microfiche
Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne County, Ohio: Biographical sketches of prominent men and representative citizens and early citizens.

GC Library
1846-1850 Ashland County formed and Mohican Township became part of Ashland County.

Call no: 977.129 NEE (book)
Neel, Thomas Stephen. Ashland County, Ohio, Church Records (paperback book). Ashland, OGS. 2000.

Call no: 977.129 (book)
Knapp, Horace. S. A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County from the Earliest to the Present date. 1863. (found nothing on Edward Ward)

Call no: 977.128 B2 PAS (Periodical)
Pastfinder: (covers Ashland County and Wayne County, OH)

Call no: 977.129 BAU (Book)
Baughman, Abraham J. History of Ashland County. 1909 JS Clark Publishing
(found nothing on Edward Ward)

Call no: LH 7182. Microfilm
Duff, William Alexander. History of North Central Ohio: Ashland and Knox County.

Call No: LH 7259 Genealogy (Microfiche):
GAR/SAR. Military History of Ohio: Indian Wars, War of 1812, Mexican War- War of the Rebellion.

GC Library
1858-1878 Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio

977.18 B22 Put B.5 (book)
Putnam County, Ohio Cemetaries
(note too recent)

LH15780 (Microfilm)
Putnam County, Ohio Marriages, 1834-1877

977.118 POR
A portrait and biographical record of Putnam County, Ohio.
(note: nothing on Edward Ward found)

977.118 H2 CEN
Centennial Celebration, Putnam County, Ohio, USA: 1934
(note: nothing on Edward Ward found)

Christmas Gatherings

2010-12-10T11:54:00.000-08:00

Our family is three members short after the past two years. My son's step-grandpa passed away, my step dad and my uncle. We plan to carry on the tradition of humor that these three people brought to the family gatherings. The step grandpa always sang a Danish song, my uncle played the banjo or guitar and my step dad had funny jokes. This year we are going to find old pictures (like the Dead Horse Investigation photo in Colleen Fitzpatrick's book) and put captions on it. We did this for stress relief when my step dad was in the hospital last year before he died...it was a crack up. We thought it would make a great Christmas Game for this year. How on earth do you judge something like that for prizes? A laugh-o-meter or who makes you laugh until you cry? My favorite photo is one of my ancestor "Ada Wescott" (nee. Coon) wearing a "bird" hat. Their caption was "How do you like us?". These hats were not just feathers but an actual stuffed bird. That is about as appealing to me as a real fox stole that women used to wear. EWWWW! I will look around at the Dead Fred website and see what else I can find.

The three Jeremiah Sankeys of Centre County, PA 1800-1865

2010-11-03T10:23:00.000-07:00

How did I sort them out?
I used three methods of sorting the Jeremiahs, location consistancy, parents and spouses names. There were three Jeremiah Sankeys (one has the middle name of Asher not Alexander) that lived in Centre County at the same time (I used the census records first):

1. Jeremiah Alexander Sankey is born in 1842 he would have been 18 in 1863 or 22 in 1865. I can't find any record of my Jeremiah Alexander Sankey 's Civil war service probably because he is listed as a member of the Centre County Militia 1862 (Linn History of Centre County) He served in the militia.

2. Jeremiah Sankey was 27 years old in 1864 (as corporal) Company L- Regement 3, Artillery, 4-752 Bates reference (shoemaker, deserted on July 22, 1865)

3. Jeremiah Asher Sankey was 25 years old in 1862, the card records him dying at City Point, VA 3-25-1865 of wounds received in action, from Potter's Mills, PA (1st Serg.) Company F- Regiment 3, Artillery, 4-597 Bates ref
(this one was a Farmer from Potter) Also referred to as Jeremiah A. Sankey.
http://cairo.pop.psu.edu/cw/c3.cfm?quest=city%20p

Do you have a research story about several people with the same name you are searching for? How did you sort them out?

Ballaymeath

2010-11-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

New analysis on "The Mystery Parish of Ballaymeath, Londonderry, Northern Ireland"http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/ballaymeath_.html on my website. I have been working on this on and off for about a year. This work discusses GT Ridlon's Riddell book in regard to his mention of Ballaymeath, Londonderry, Northern Ireland and why it is probably Coleraine, Londonderry, Northern Ireland as the place of origin for my line of the Riddell family.

Edward Ward of Columbus Grove, Putnum County Ohio Timeline

2010-09-27T21:28:00.000-07:00

Edward Ward
Mathematical Analysis: Edward’s Age listed in parenthesis
Time Line
End notes and sources are listed in italics in the text (I could not get blogger to do superscript nimbers)

1794 or 1800? Ward, Edward b. Maryland (What county?)
Discrepancy for birth date: (Census 1850, 1900) MD. Family Legend: Living relative suggests Lynchburg, VA (The Dye family went there to mortician school) and suggested that this is where Edward Ward was born.

1800 Putnam County Sentinel Death Notice 8 says Edward was 78 years old when he died but does not give birth location.

1808 Miller, Margaret birth location discrepancy: b. Virginia (1900 census) b. PA (1850 Census)

1825 Ward, Edward m. Margaret Miller (Ancestry; MD Marriages 1655-1850) Allegheny County, MD
Ward
Edward 8 Sep 1825 Margaret Miller5
(note: this fits with the birth date of the first child) (Age 25)

1826 Ward, John b. to Edward Ward VA(1850 Census5: John is 14) (Age 26)
1830 Census Edward Ward 9, Washington Township, Holmes County, Ohio (Note: This census lists only the head of household and tic marks(age 30)
1830 Census Males Females
under 5 1 1
over 30 under 40 1 1

1830 Census Ward, Edward in Washington Township, Holmes County, Ohio.

1831 DL Ward, Joel b. January to Edward Ward OH (18505 census, Joel is 11 yrs)(age 31)

1838 Ward, William b. to Edward Ward OH (18505 census age 4? hard to read on census.)
(age 38) 1840 Census4 Edward Ward - Mohican township, Wayne County, Ohio (age 40) (note: This census has only the head of household and tic marks for each category of persons: This household has a total of total persons; four females and four males.)

1846 February 24 Ashland County formed (Maybe Edward did not move but a new county was formed) OH, Ashland County formed. (age 46)

1850 Mohican, Ashland County, Ohio Census. At the 1850 Census, Ashland OH, Joel Ward was 18 and his father was Edward Ward5 Edward Ward age 50 (b. 1800) born MD ( Discrepancy: 2 census say he was born in VA) (age 50) Margaret is age 40 and was born in Pennsylvania. Value of real estate is 1,000.

1849 Child of Edward - Edward L. Ward age 1 born in Ohio (b. 1849) 18505 census Edward L. is age 1; 1860 census is age 11)(age 49)

1850 Ward, Edward Census-Mohican township OH, Ashland County (age 50)

1854 Ward, John M. is in the 1860 census and is age 6.

GRANDCHILDREN OF EDWARD WARD: BORN TO JOEL WARD:

1858 Ward, Sarah b. to Joel Ward, Pleasant township: (1860 census) OH, Putnam County, OH (Edward age 58)

1859 Ward, Mary b. to Joel Ward, December (1860 Census) Pleasant township OH, Putnam County, OH (Edward age 59)

1860 Census6. Edward Ward: age 59: Census was taken on the 2nd day Of August, 1860 and Edward was not yet age 60. So, it is possible that Edward’s birthdate falls somewhere between August 2 and December 31 of 1800. (age 59) Birthplace is listed on this census as Va. (Virginia) Margaret is age 52 and her birthplace is Pa. Edward’s Value of Real estate ins 2500 and his personal estate is 500.

1860 Ward, Joel Census: Pleasant twp Oh, Putnam Co., OH (says Edward Ward was born in Virginia) (Edward age 60)

According to the 1870 Census7 Edward is 76 years old and that would mean he was born in 1794. The census also lists Virginia as his birthplace. The column for US citizen is checked. GW Ward is age 25 and is not listed as head of household, occupation is teamster. WJ Ward (probably son of Edward Ward: William based on age) is listed above Edward as head of household in line number 6, dwelling number 26 and family number 28. His age is listed as age 31, a calculated birthdate back from 1870 indicates a birthdate 1839 for William suggests that this is Edward’s son. William’s children are as follows: John (age 11), Margaret (age ), Edward and Hester (9/12). Census date is August 29, 1870. Interesting note: there is no female listed other than Anna (age 29) who is listed as occupation “housekeeper” She is listed as having no surname which means that we can deduce that her surname is Ward and she is probably the mother of the Ward children.
(Note: The relationships between Head of Household and household members are not listed in the 1870 census, so we have to make a best guess based on what we know and correlate it with earlier census records) On the page before 447B we find page 447B in which we find John Ward (age 45) this correlates with Edward Ward’s son John Ward born in 1826. Ancestry erroneously lists him as John Farst, which is inconsistent with the same handwritten “Ward” which Ancestry lists as “Ward” on the next page where we find William Ward, so I suggest this person is John Ward. The birth location for John Ward differs from other census records. This 1870 census lists John as born in Ohio not Virginia. We have another discrepancy which does not help promote the hypothesis that John was born in Virginia one year after Edward Ward married Margaret Miller. John Ward’s occupation is Carpenter and his wife Martha is listed as age 45 and “housekeeper”. There is one child mentioned: Rachel who is age 11. (Note in 1870 Edward should have been 70 years old not 76)

1871 Edward Ward Dies on 5 September 1878: Text of Death notice:
"On Wednesday of last week about noon, Mr. Edward Ward, of this village departed this life after an illness of only a few days, at the advanced age of 78 years. On account of friends living at a distance he was not buried until Friday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Scoles in the Methodist Church"8.

(If Edward was 76 years old in 1870 how could he be 78 years old one year later?)

End Notes/Sources:

1. http://www.familysearch.org (IGI Individual record) Batch no: 7115928; Sheet: 81; Source call No: 1235278 type: film ( Internal Document number 312)

(Note: Los Angeles Public Library call number: 977.1K4Hi2; page 830; published 1881 A.A. Graham and Co., Compiled by N.N. Hill Junior; Mt. Vernon, OH ( Internal Document number 350) )

2. Living Ancestor: Phone Call: family was from Lynchburg, Virginia (?) Apparently there are still Wards there? Possibly e-mail one of them? Maybe.. 1900 census says Edward was born in MD, but one of his children was born in Virginia... Is his wife from VA or PA??

4. 1840 Census. Year: 1840; Census Place: Mohican, Wayne, Ohio; Roll 20; Page: 432; Image: 44, line 29; Family History Library Film: 0020179. Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

5. 1850 CensusYear: 1850; Census Place: Mohican, Ashland, Ohio; Roll M432_658; Page: 75A; Image: 410. ( line number unidentifiable because of fold in scan of document) Dwelling number 185, family number: 287; Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

6. 1860 Census. Year: 1860; Census Place: Pleasant, Putnam, Ohio; Roll M653_1027; Page: 431; Image: 244; line 37, dwelling number: 570 and family number 570; Family History Library Film: 805027. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

7. Ancestry. Online Database. Year: 1870; Census Place: Columbus Grove, Putnam, Ohio; Roll M593_1260; Page: 447B; Image: 326; line 12. Family History Library Film: 552759. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?h=37816660&db=1870usfedcen&indiv=try

8. Ohio Obituary Index: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center: Putnam County District Library: Photo copy of death notice from the Putnam County Sentinel: page 3 Column 5. (Putnam County District Library, Fort Jennings Location (PO Box 218, 655 North Water Street; Fort Jennings, Ohio (419) 286-2351)

9. 1830 U S Census: Washington, Holmes, Ohio, Page: 315; NARA Roll: M19-133; Family History Film: 0337944.Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data: Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Labor Day Memories Back to School

2010-08-29T21:47:00.000-07:00

The Olive Tree Genealogy blog encouraged me with the Labor Day and Back to School Theme.

When I was a kid I remember how excited I was about getting new clothes for school. I really liked the smell of notebook paper and the pearly pink erasers. My mom bought lots of supplies because the was a teacher and I loved to look in her teaching cabinet and play with the felt board shapes. I think she may have kept one in there just for me and hid the one she actually used for class.

I liked the smell of new inky typewriter ribbon too. My grandmother allowed me to plunk away on her typewriter which she kept in her office for writing children's books and human interest newspaper columns for the Racine Journal Times. I remember how messy carbon paper was and how I always got it all over my hands. In those typewriter days, you used a typewriter to make a quick copy and you used a sheet of paper with ink on it that made an impression on the paper below and that was your copy.

Today, Even though I am a college grad, I still love composition books purchased at the back to school sales, I have one for genealogy society meetings, one for writing, one for church, one for Internet Genealogy, business books and lastly I have a mom's idea book that I keep in my car for those hard to remember inspirational moments, when the flicker of imagination is sparked or quotes I enjoy from a well written novel.

I like to scribble and draw so, another item I like to buy are the Crayola "Twistables" because of the rich colors and you don't have to sharpen them. I use these to create my "paper quilts".

Edward Ward, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio

2010-07-27T17:08:00.000-07:00

see post at: http://gsgenealogy.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/edward-ward-of-columbus-grove-putnam-county-ohio/ for my post on this elusive ancestor.

My thoughts about Genealogy degrees at Public Universities

2010-07-27T15:43:00.000-07:00

I was working on an assignment for our ProGen Study group and this issue probably won't be discussed in our group discussion chat time so I wanted to discuss it here.

It saddens me to see that genealogy courses at the college level are sometimes pushed off to instructors who are not as knowledgeable on the subject as some “hobby” genealogists. Instructor qualification would be a important criteria for program evaluation in this case. If history instructors cover genealogical courses then there may be a difference in methodologies or goals as to the outcomes of research. So, this must also be considered if courses are taken at a college. What would be ideal is for a master’s level degree program to be offered online from a public university. In a general survey of (fully)online university programs this may be a long time in coming because change comes slowly in the halls of academia. Maybe the degree programs could be offered through a less computer phobic avenue like an extended studies program.

In regard to the price tag of some of these programs: My father has a Doctorate in education and teaches in a public university and he is appalled at the price of some extended studies programs. The claim from the extended studies departments of many universities is that this division is not funded by public education like the regular college courses and so the higher costs are justified. Should students foot all of the bill if the teachers may not be qualified? It really pays to do your homework and check the teacher’s qualifications and the feasibility of pricing for degree programs for Genealogy. Your thoughts?

Disclaimer: I do not work for any university although I have conducted some personal research regarding Universities and their online programs for a course "teaching online" that I took at Grossmont College.

Santa Barbara Trip, Spanish Heritage Anyone?

2010-06-29T16:12:00.000-07:00

Santa Barbara Presidio: You never know what you will discover when you go on vacation!

One of the Family Group Sheets at the Presidio had the surname Dye listed in the line which is pictured above. I have a Dye relative by marriage from Ohio. I do not know if they are related. Another research project!

We just returned from a trip to Santa Barbara, California. I lived there for a few years. We visited the Presidio which was reconstructed after the time I lived there. They have an ongoing archeological field school. I was delighted when my husband discovered several family group sheets in large poster frames on the wall.

Also at the Presidio:
I obtained a sheet of the Real Presidio de Santa Barbara Founding Garrison (Aril 21, 1782 (list from the Santa Barbara Company, July 1, 1782 and Escolta of Mission San Buenaventura (March 31, 1782) from the 1782 and 1783 baptismal, marriage, and burial records of Mission San Buenaventura. The information was compiled by Mary Triplett Ayers. This lists the Soldados (soldiers and other officers at the Presidio) if you have any ancestors in Santa Barbara in 1782-1783 see the article below:

I just found this article written by Mary Triplett Ayers: The Founders of Santa Barbara at http://www.militarymuseum.org/SBFounding.html and it looks like most of the list and then some are included in this article.

Other Resources:

Where was the Santa Barbara Presidio Cemetery?
http://www.k9forensic.org/La.pdf

Los Californianos: Includes a Query section, links for genealogical and historical societies related to California and research (includes Mexican Land Grants)
http://www.loscalifornianos.org/index.html

Los Angeles Under the Spanish Flag
http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/storage/Northrup3.pdf

Presidio Research Center: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.sbthp.org/research.htm

Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.sbthp.org/index.html

Jamboree Article Published in NSDCGS Newsletter

2010-06-29T16:09:00.000-07:00

Our gracious editor published my three part blog entry in our North San Diego County Genealogical Society Newsletter for June 2010.

Jamboree 2010, Part 3 Other meetings and Internet Resources

2010-06-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

During the course of the three days of Jamboree, we took a group photo for the ProGen Study group and I attended my first Association for Professional Genealogists meeting in which I joined the Southern California Chapter. The vendors offered discounts on books, services and software as they usually do every year. This year Ancestry offered scanning on their high speed scanner but they had some problems when the power went out in our building for a few hours on Friday.

We took the train back to Oceanside and arrived at seven pm on Sunday.

Internet Resources:

Lisa Louise Cook: Genealogy Gems
http://genealogygems.tv/

Guild of one Name Studies
http://www.one-name.org/

Jean Wilcox Hibben
http://www.circlemending.org/topics.html

Arlene Eakle
http://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/

Unclaimed Persons
http://www.unclaimedpersons.org/

Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak
http://www.honoringourancestors.com/aboutus.html

Jamboree 2010 Report Part 2 Jamboree Continued: Seminars

2010-06-14T10:14:00.000-07:00

The first seminar I attended was Katherine Hope Borges seminar “Exploring Your Surname“. Katherine covered the origin of surnames and connected that to DNA results. She is currently administering a One Name Study for Malcolm and affiliated families. I was delighted to hear this because I am a Malcolm descendant. I was actually planning on attending another seminar but wound up in the wrong room: the Jamboree schedule is laid out like a chart with the room numbers across the top and the times for the seminars running down the left side. On Friday during lunch I highlighted the seminars I was interested in attending.

The second and third seminars I attended were given by Lisa Louise Cooke who has a podcast on the internet called “Genealogy Gems” . Lisa spoke on “What You Must Know to Save Your Research From Destruction” and “Google Earth for Genealogists”. Lisa was very interactive with the audience and she had several useful tidbits for us. She validated what I learned previously: if you use a grant deed (like UC Riverside) to donate your research to an archives they become the owners of it and can charge people to access it. The archives can also dispose of it at will if specified in the grant deed. So, be careful to read the fine print. Lisa showed us how to draw up a Genealogy Materials Directive.
She has also created a tutorial DVD on using Google Earth for Genealogy.

I took another class from Lisa on Sunday which was “Tap Into Your Inner Private Eye: 7 Strategies You Need to Find Living Relatives”. Lisa mentioned that she had ancestors in Racine, Wisconsin where I spent most of my childhood. Afterwards I gave her my card and asked her to email me her Racine relatives and I would keep an eye out for them while I do my research. Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak spoke about Michelle Obama’s roots during our Saturday night banquet and Meagan spoke again on Sunday about her work with “Unclaimed Persons“. On Saturday Jean Wilcox Hibben gave a talk on “Shaking the Myth: Proving/Disproving Family Legends” . Jean addressed some components of analysis I remember from logic class and applied them to genealogy. She interwove the two. I also attended Arlene Eakle’s class on American Court Records for a refresher on courthouse research.

Jamboree 2010 summary in three parts: Part 1 Train, Registration, Food and Notes

2010-06-14T10:10:00.000-07:00

It was a relaxing seven a.m. train trip from Oceanside to Burbank. It was nice to catch up with friends from the San Diego Genealogical Society and Chula Vista Genealogical Society. We shared our research stories and helped each other with research problems. Upon arrival at Burbank there was a hotel shuttle from the train station to the Airport Marriott for Jamboree. Several of us opted to walk across the street to the Marriott. If you choose to take the Amtrak train attend Jamboree in the future, you need to be aware that you will have to carry all your luggage on the train because Burbank does not have check in baggage service. I forgot about that this year and over packed my suitcase.

Registration for Jamboree is usually done by surname groups to expedite the registration process, I was in S-Z line. I was given a tote bag with my nametag and tickets to the meals I purchased in advance. It is wise to put your meal tickets behind your name tag for easy access. Other options in the area are the “lunch cart” (not too impressive with a soggy turkey sandwich), the café in the hotel (this option is pricey and be prepared to wait) and a food court in walking distance (Panda Express, a Japanese restaurant, a smoothie place etc..)

I relied on a netbook for notes and a composition book in case I needed to write notes. This worked out well because by the time I reached the last two classes on Saturday I had a cramp in my calf from propping up the netbook on my lap and I resorted to the composition book for note taking.

Disclaimer: I am a Southern California Genealogical Society Member.

San Diego County Library , Vista Genealogical Reference part 2

2010-05-28T16:23:00.000-07:00

Part 1 covered some reference books about military service, census and the Revolutionary war. In Facts About American Immigration by David M. Brownstone and Irene M. Frank (2001) I found general information on the immigration of different ethnic groups. The book covered Native Americans, Restrictions on immigration and immigration from Europe. the countries covered were Britain, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Germans, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, and Jewish immigration. This work also contained immigration from Asia, the Americas and Oceania. The appendix of Facts About American Immigration an appendix with tips for genealogy, NARA, the Soundex and a glossary of immigration terms. This may be a useful book for someone who is just starting to research an immigrant ancestor, it provides general background on immigration by ethnic group.

Also in the Vista reference section: R (before call number means Reference)
929.4 Our Sacred Identity: Indian Names
929.4 First Name Reverse Dictionary
929.40973 Black Names in America
Black's Surnames of Scotland
929.373 Passengers to America
929.4 British family Names

Vista's newspaper collection includes the San Diego Union Tribune on ProQuest--1983 to present from NewsBank. They have the Fallbrook Enterprise 1915 to the present and the Vista Press from 1926-1973. The Fallbroom Enterprise and the Vista Press are on Microfiche.

Genealogists will find some familiar genealogy titles in the reference section as well such as: Kemp's International Vital records (R929.3) and New England Court Records by Rapaport (R929.3)

San Diego County Library , Vista Genealogical Reference:

2010-05-28T16:03:00.000-07:00

I have been looking at local resources. I thought I would start with the San Diego County Library in Vista, California. The following is not a library catalog but a list of genealogy resources available in this library.
Are you searching for...

Revolutionary War Ancestors?
Call No: R303.64
Three Volume Set - Revolutionary Movements in World History, Encyclopedia of the US (NARA)

Background on the Census?
Census Catalogs for 1790-1780, 1900, 1910 and 1920
call no: R304.60973

Military service and/or medals? Do you have any Civil War photos?
R355.134 American Badges and medals
R355.14 Uniforms of the Civil War by Philip Haythornwaite (1990)
R355.14 Civil war Uniforms, A Photo Guide by Philip Katcher (Photos and detailed chronologies)
R317.3 Your Guide to Federal Census by Kathleen Hinkley (2002)
R355.14 US Army Headgear by Edgar Howell
US Government Printing office's Catalog of US Army Uniforms in the Collection of the Smithsonian Institution Volume 2 (1975)
R355.140973 American Civil War Armies 4, State Troops: for each state there are photos and illustrations by Philip Katcher and Don Volstad (Men at Arms Series) (1987)

Part two will be about Facts About American Immigration which is a book by Irene M. Frank in 2001. Indian names, First name Reverse dictionary, Black names, American Family names, Immigration, Newspaper resources at the Vista Library and genealogy books.

ProGen Study Group, SDGS visit to North County

2010-05-28T15:59:00.000-07:00

Our ProGen Study group is starting in June. I am looking forward to meeting my group on Friday at Jamboree.

A small group from SDGS will come and visit in North County tomorrow. We will take the tour of the Leo Carrillo Ranch, eat Mexican food and go to the Georgina Cole Library in Carlsbad.

I still need to get a Hawaiian shirt for Jamboree. Aloha!

Response to Randy Seavers Saturday Night Gen Fun Matrilineal Line

2010-05-08T18:10:00.000-07:00

1) List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!

2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.

3) Post your responses on your own blog post, in Comments to this blog post, or in a Note or status line on Facebook.

My matrilineal line starting with me:
1. Gwynn Socolich (me)
2. Living Sankey (my mother)b. Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin
3. Alice Dahlberg 16 Feb 1910 - 28 Apr 2004 ( born in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois and Died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The next two persons are the subject of my biographical piece "Dutch Origins":
4. Katherine DeYoung (DeJong in Dutch)(b 16 May 1889 Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin; death 9 October 1972 Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin)
5. Susan Kramer (dutch name is Sytske) Geboorteakte Het Bildt,(Frisland, Netherlands) 1863 Aangiftedatum 9 september 1863, akte nr. 178, geboren 9 september 1863. (b. 9 September 1863 in Sint Jacobiparoche (Parish), Het Bildt, Frisland Netherlands) cause of death: typhoid fever; 1 September 1889 in Racine, Racine county and is buried in Mound Cemetery in Racine.
6. Maartje Dijkstra (listed on birth certificate of Systke Kramer)

My father's mother's line:
1. Gwynn Socolich (me)
2. Living Malcolm born in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio
3. Beatrice Wilma Ward born 12 July 1903 probably in Brandon, Knox County, Ohio died on 12 Nov 1973 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio.
4. Anabel Graham born 13 November 1872 in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio and died in 2 December 1952 in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio.
5. Rebecca Behanna born 12 January 1844 in Monogahela, Washington County, Ohio and died 30 March 1901 in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio.
6. Susan Applegate

I have not had my matrilineal DNA tested. I have birth and death certificates for my mother, Alice Dahlberg, (Wisconsin delayed birth certificate for Katherine, and Susan (aka Sytske) DeJong or DeYoung.

North San Diego County Genealogy Society program summaries on Genealogy Wise Blog

2010-03-25T08:55:00.000-07:00

I will put general program summaries on my Genealogy Wise blog. The purpose of this blog is to record my own research.

Short Term goals

2010-03-23T20:38:00.001-07:00

Jamboree
Genealogy programs at my local genealogy society
Progen study group wait list: Study Professional Genealogy book by Elizabeth Shown Mills
small business research, business license (SBA classes or SCORE), quickbooks class
Fill in gaps in my genealogical research knowledge.
time typical genealogy research tasks
invite people to my local genealogy society meetings
library tech certificate
genealogy writing projects
blogging projects: Vista Library genealogy resources
explore local genealogy library periodical section in depth: what issues and volumes are available in my research locality
learn more about Jewish genealogy research
learn more about Native America genealogy research
learn more about African American genealogy research

No longer blogging about society meetings and deleted facebook site

2010-03-23T20:36:00.000-07:00

I will no longer be blogging about upcoming society meetings. Deleted posts regarding the society. I will use my Blog on Genealogy Wise page to summarize meetings.

Took down FaceBook site for NSDCGS per NSDCGS.

New Facebook Group Page Created for NSDCGS

2010-03-22T11:54:00.000-07:00

I created a Group FaceBook page for NSDCGS last week. I like the calender feature its easy and fast. Happy Searching!

Per the board removed it.

Los Angeles Library Trip with SDGS

2010-03-22T11:38:00.000-07:00

On Saturday I went on a bus trip to the Los Angeles Library (Central). I had several lines of descent I wanted to research and was eager to see what I could find. The genealogy department is in the basement of the library. They are known for their directory collection. Some of the books I found were crumbling. It was a good thing I brought my white cotton gloves! I learned to use the cotton gloves when I was doing inventory for the SDGS Lost Treasures. Those old photos can get damaged with the oil from my fingers if cotton gloves are not used. I found one place that carries the gloves, Nelson's Photos in Little Italy, downtown San Diego. I bought a dozen white gloves the last time I was there. The library books were in such frail condition the pages were coming out and I had to carefully support the book like a newborn baby's wobbly head. Due to some home maintenance today I will have to blog about the actual research findings later this week. I found more questions to my question than actual answers which is the normal progression of things when you work with your family history.

Disclaimer: I am not an employee of the LAPL or Nelson's Photo.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

2010-03-17T10:34:00.000-07:00

A Celtic psaltery: being mainly renderings in English verse from Irish ...
By Alfred Perceval Graves
Publisher: The F. A. Stokes company, 1917

THE BREASTPLATE OF ST. PATRICK
Otherwise called " The Deer's Cry." For St. Patrick sang this hymn when the ambuscades were laid against him by King Leary that he might go to Tara to sow the Faith. Then it seemed to those lying in ambush that he and his monks were wild deer with a fawn, even Benen (Benignus) following him.

I arise on my way,
With God's Strength for my stay,
God's Might to protect me,
God's Wisdom to direct me,
God's Eye to be my providence,
God's Ear to take my evidence,
God's Word my words to order,
God's Hand to be my warder,
God's Way to lie before me,
God's Shield and Buckler o'er me,
God's Host Unseen to save me,
From each ambush of the Devil.

Digitized 2008 by Google Books

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Eddie Fish GATES

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Eddie Fish GATES
Originally uploaded by Midge Frazel

Midge Frazel has some wonderful photos of the Fish Cemetery on her flickr site. This tombstone correlates with an earlier post I did on the Gates family of Groton and Mystic.

DeWitt Clinton Graham and Rebecca Behanna

2010-03-03T10:51:00.000-08:00

I have DeWitt Clinton Graham's Civil War pension file from the National Archives. Please contact me if you are interested in this family.

Graham in Ohio on Family Serch Beta part 3

2010-03-03T10:30:00.000-08:00

I was thrilled to find my Graham Ohio ancestors on http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/.
I was able to locate the following:
Death certificate Scans for:

Clinton M Graham of Knox County, Clinton, Ohio death date 1943. Parents were Rebecca Behanna and Dewitt [Clinton] Graham.

Anabelle Graham Ward of Richland County, Shelby, Ohio. Died Feburary 16, 1952. Her parents were DeWitt Clinton Graham and Rebecca Behanna. Informant was Charles Dye and Funeral director too. (Charles was a mortician and Anabelle's son in law, Lucille his wife was my grandmother Bea Malcolm's sister.)

Francis Evelynn Graham (nee Graff) of Knox County, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Death date was July 24, 1926. She was DeWitt Clinton Graham's second wife. Her parents were Catherine Smith and Hesikiah Graff. Witness was Rev. Frank L. Graff.

David Graham of Franklin County, Marion Township, Ohio. He died on April 19, 1931. His parents were Clinton D. Graham [DeWitt Clinton Graham] and Rebecca Behanna.

Disclaimer: Family Search Beta: Posts 1-3 I am not affiliated with family search.org in any way.

Ward Ohio on Family Search Beta part 2

2010-03-03T10:19:00.000-08:00

I was thrilled to find my Ward Ohio ancestors on http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/.
I was able to locate the following:
Death Certificate Scans for:

Herman W. Ward, Knox County, Miller Township, Ohio. Death date: June 29, 1919
parents were Joel M. Ward and Althea Rowland.

John Edward Ward, Knox County, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Died December 24, 1932. parents were Joel M. Ward and Althea Rowland.

Glays Ward. Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. February 1, 1911. Parents were William L. Ward and Anna Graham.
Family tradition said that she was standing too close to the fireplace and her nightgown caught fire and she died of her burns. The scan of the death certificate says "accidental burn".

Malcolm Ohio Death Records on Family Search Beta, part 1

2010-03-03T10:02:00.000-08:00

I was thrilled to find my Malcolm Ohio ancestors on http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/.
I was able to locate the following:
Death Certificate Scans for:
James Curvaso Malcolm, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. d. Sept 18, 1924
wife was Mary Anne Parmentir (b. England) and his father was William Malcolm (b. in Scotland)

Mary A. Malcolm wife of James C. Malcolm (see above). Death Date was 2 January 1948. Her father was William Clark (born in England) and her mother was Esther Philpitt (born in England. Mary died in Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio.

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"Finding Your Ancestors in the Old Country" Program Reveiw for the NSDCGS

2010-02-23T15:52:00.000-08:00

Once again Anne Miller provided a informative program with several excellent examples. She warned us to analyze documents carefully. She discussed several different immigrant ancestor record types which could be used to find an elusive ancestor. She also mentioned researching collateral lines to solve those brick walls.

She mentioned a special seminar she will be giving at Jamboree. See her website at http://www.AJMresearch.com

Also, our special events chair mentioned the upcoming Spring Seminar: Family Tree DNA and You, which will be presented on Saturday march 27 2010 at the Carlsbad Senior Center on 799 Pine Street in Carlsbad, California. The cost for this seminar is $25.00 for members and $30.00 for non members. Currently we have about eighty people that have signed up to go to this seminar. Lunch includes a turkey sandwich, salad and drink. Family Tree DNA will be presenting the Spring Seminar and topic include: Y-DNA and mtDNA Genealogy and Website Tools; Haplogroups: Deep Ancestry & Migration Patterns, Medical Testing and the Future of Personal DNA Testing and Without a Surname to Follow: What Can You Do? There will be a new type of genetic test announced, so you probably won't want to miss this seminar. Contact ninaanderson@sbcglobal.net to register for this seminar.

Peter Gates' brother Ephiam Gates b. 1783 and wife Desire Avery

2010-02-22T13:15:00.000-08:00

Desire Avery [Avery 347] was the daughter of Christopher Avery, Desire Avery died in Leyden, Massachusetts in 1831. (Leyden is also where Peter Gates lived and where my ancestor Lephe Gates was born)Desire's which were born in Leyden were:

Anna Gates
Avery Gates
Peter Gates (nephew of my ancestor Peter Gates father of Lephe)
John Gates
Joseph Gates

Avery, Elron McKendree, 1844-1935; The Groton Avery Clan. 1912. http://archive.org [digital image].

Update to post 3 Gates--bold items are additions

2010-02-22T13:03:00.000-08:00

Gurdon Gates: Marriage 1: Esther Miner Gurdon Gates and Esther Miner were double cousins as they shared Isaac Denison and Esther Williams in common as great grandparents, their mothers were sisters. Marriage 2: Esther Denison: [Research question He married his Aunt?] [Burrow 453]
Gurdon Gates Children
1. Gurdon Gates [1860 Census, Groton]
"Gurdon Gates 1879-1881 was for many years a clipper ship captain and afterward was commander of steamer "Victory" of the Mallory line, He lived at Mystic where he died in 1842." [Stark 100]
2. Henry Gates [1860 Census, Groton]
3. Joseph Gates [Denison Society]
4. Kariska Gates [Denison Society]
5. Nathan Stanton Gates in 1888 Ann Borodell Denison Gates who founded the Denison Society at Pequosepos Manor is Stonington. [Denison Society]
6. Louise Phelps Gates [Denison Society]
Isaac Gates [Barbour] was born 7 October 1852 [Gallup 228]. Isaac Gates served in the Civil war transport as captain. [Stark 317] He married Prudence P.Gallup 24 September 1851 at Mystic River. Prudence was the daughter of Abagail Spicer and James Gates[Gallup 228] Prudence was a teacher at Mystic Academy (about 1850) [Stark 368]
Isaac Gates Children:
Edmund Gates born 7 October 1852 and died 14 March 1865 [Gallup 228]
Abbie S. Gates Married Charles L. Stark [Gallup 228]. Charles Stark was the author of the "History of Groton" and "Starks Family Genealogy", He died January 23, 1930 at 101 Carver Road in Newton Highlands, MA at age 83. He was born 27 May 1848 a son of Henry Stark and Mary Rathburn to Providence, Rhode Island [Rhode Island Historical Society member] and member of Rogers Baptist church in 1924 he moved to Massachusetts. He is buried at Elm Cemetary in Mystic [Stark Obit]
Genieve S.Gates married Charles Westcott of Providence, Rhode Island [1860 Census]

Additional References
Stark, Charles Rathbone, Groton Connecticut, 1705-1905. 1922.
Stonington, Connecticut. Palmer Press. Http://www.archive.org. Internet Archive Database [Digital Image]

Upcoming North San Diego County Genealogy Society Meeting on Friday Feb 9, 2010

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The program meeting for February 23, 2010 at the North San Diego Genealogical Society will be presented by Anne Miller at 10:00 am. Her presentation will be "Finding Your Ancestors in the Old Country." in the Carlsbad City Council Chambers located behind the Georgina Cole Library. Anne Miller is a psychologist, professional genealogist and historian. She is currently the Education Director for the Temecula Valley Genealogical Society. Ann Miller is also involved with an orphaned photo and bible project.

During a previous meeting on November 10th, 2009. Anne Miller and David Armstrong gave an excellent presentation on using Google maps for genealogy research. They gave an excellent presentation and made something that is rather complex easy to understand. I am sure Ann will give an informative presentation at the meeting tomorrow with the same high caliber instruction she provided in her last presentation in November 2009.

Gates Part 3: Peter Gates to Zebediah 9 Gates

2010-02-15T16:50:00.000-08:00

Peter Gates6 (Zebadiah5 Zebadiah4 Thomas3 Stephen2, Stephen1)
[This is my direct line: Gwynn Socolich]
Peter, s. Zeb [ediah]5 and Sarah b. Feb. 15, 175 [ ] [Barbour 130]
Peter Gates6 15 Feb 175 [ ] [Barbour 129; Arms 65] aka Allen [Arms 110] Came to Leyden abt 1780 w/ Mary Allen of Groton, CT Lived on River Road ; Land: Gate’s Hill Lat 42.721472 – Long. 72.648147, NNW of Leyden [USGS]
Colrain Franklin County, MA. Building Valuation: Peter = 150.00 and David $180.00 [Arms]
Children of Peter:
Lephe Gates (aka Leafie, Lephe)(my direct ancestor) born in Leyden, MA marries John Riddle (later Riddell) "She was born opposite Henry Thorn’s Saw Mill." [Arms 96], "The house was torn down in 1908 and family antiques were discovered in the walls". [Arms 157] John Riddle lived on River Road. Leafie, (Lephe, Lephie) Gates +John Riddle in Leyden, MA:Children: George Riddell [note: This is my direct ancestor, Dr. John Leonard Riddell
Ephriam Gates b. 1783 carried on the family farm [Arms 196] married Desire Avery and a son of Ephriam Gates named Allen Gates had a daughter named Hannah who married James Baldwin Miner [Arms 196]
Sarah Gates 1751: Note that Sarah’s twin Zebediah7 was also born 1751
Zebadiah Gates7 born 1751 twin with Sarah. (brother to Lephe Gates born in 1751 m. Nancy Denison in Stonington 1820 [Barbour 130].

Zebadiah Gates7 (Peter6 Zebadiah5 Zebadiah4 Thomas3 Stephen2, Stephen1)
Zebadiah Gates7 Children:
Zebadiah8 Gates born October 22, 1782
Zebadiah8 Gates (Zebadiah7 Peter6 Zebadiah5 Zebadiah4 Thomas3 Stephen2, Stephen1)
Zebadiah8 was born at the “old homestead one mile north of Fort Hill [research question: in Groton, CT?] , where his father and grandfather had lived and died before him. [Zebediah8 was born on] October 22, 1782 where he lived until a few years ago, when he was persuaded to come to Mystic River and take up his residence with his son”[Probably Gurdon Gates of Mystic]”. [Mystic Journal 1859] Zebediah8 married. Abagail who died 3 Feb 1820. Secondly, he married Mercy Denison born 1784 [1850 Census,Groton;Denison Newsletter] Zebediah Gates [4] died on 7 April 1816 age 66. [Mystic Journal 1859] Probate notice on estate dated June 10, 1816 in the Connecticut Gazette, executors are Zebadiah Gates and Rufus Smith.[Connecticut Gazette, 1816]
Zebadiah8 Gates Children:
Zebediah9 Gates b. d. 15 July 1859

Zebediah9 Gates (Zebadiah8 Zebadiah7 Peter6 Zebadiah5 Zebadiah4 Thomas3 Stephen2, Stephen1)
The New London gazette published an article on 15 March 1837 about Zebediah9 Gates and his assistance to Poquonock who was under quarentine because of small pox. He disobeyed the ordinance to help his fellow man. Later he moved to Mystic River. He married who married first Eunice Packer who was born in April 1803, married in April 1803.Eunice died 3 Feb 1820. After his first wife died Zebediah9 [5] married Mercy Denison on 7 June 1820. Mercy and Zebediah’s9 mothers were sisters. Zebediah9 died on 15 July 1859 of “quick consumption” [Mystic Journal 1859] [Research Zebediah9. Obituary in Mystic Journal 1859.

Zebediah9 was a probate Judge for New London County in 1848 and he also filled several town offices. He was “troubled for a number of years with a cancer near his eye, and was confined to the house by it for about 19 months previous to his death. ..His funeral took place last Sunday at his late residence…His remains were taken to the Mystic River Cemetery”.[Mystic Journal 1850] [Groton, New London, Connecticut]

Children: Zebediah9 Gates
Charles Gates married Jane E. Latham 1 August 1851
Gurdon Gates: Marriage 1: Esther Miner Gurdon Gates and Esther Miner were double cousins as they shared Isaac Denison and Esther Williams in common as great grandparents, their mothers were sisters. Marriage 2: Esther Denison: [Research question He married his Aunt?] [Burrow 453]
Gurdon Gates Children
1. Gurdon Gates [1860 Census, Groton]
2. Henry Gates [1860 Census, Groton]
3. Joseph Gates [Denison Society]
4. Kariska Gates [Denison Society]
5. Nathan Stanton Gates in 1888 Ann Borodell Denison Gates who founded the Denison Society at Pequosepos Manor is Stonington. [Denison Society]
6. Louise Phelps Gates [Denison Society]
Isaac Gates [Barbour] was born 7 October 1852 [Gallup 228]. He married Prudence P.Gallup 24 September 1851 at Mystic River. Prudence was the daughter of Abagail Spicer and JamesGates[Gallup 228]
Isaac Gates Children:
Edmund Gates born 7 October 1852 and died 14 March 1865 [Gallup 228]
Abbie S. Gates Married Charles L. Stark [Gallup 228]
Genieve S.Gates married Charles Westcott of Providence, Rhode Island [1860 Census]

1880-1900 Mystic Seaport in Connecticut History Online Database has a photograph (stereopotical) the title and description are as follows. “Gates homestead, Clift Street, Mystic. “A man and woman stand in front of a large house with a pitched and wing identified at the gates homestead, Clift Street, Mystic. Chimneys are visible on the main structure and on the wing to the right. A porch extends across the front of what appears to be the main structure.” part of Scholfield Collection: file name is IMG0080-3231.434 [ http://www.cthistoryonline.org/cdm-cho]
Warren 1765 brother of Zebadiah9[Barbour 129]?

Gates part 2 Stephen Gates1 to Zebediah Gates 5

2010-02-15T16:47:00.000-08:00

Preliminary Analysis of Information on Gates Family excludes microforms from Georgina Cole Library: includes books, newspapers and digital images.
Copyright 2009
The Five Zebediah Gates
Revision date January 27, 2010

Stephen Gates1
Stephen Gates1 was born in Norwich Co., England , Norfolk about 1600 [Torrey NEGHR 677]. He was from Hingham, England [CO Gates 9] Immigrated 1638 Aug 10 on the DILIGENT [LC Gates 2, Torrey NEGHR 677, CO Gates 9] Stephen Gates1 m. Anne Veare 5 May 1628 [LC Gates 2] in Hingham England [Torrey, NEGHR 678, CO Gates 9]He immigrated to the Location of Lancaster , MA [Torrey, NEGHR 678]
Anne Veare’s second husband M2 Richard Woodward [ Stowe , MA ] [Torrey (need page number)]
Stephen Gates1 died on b4 Sept 1662 [Torrey, NEHGR 678, Rogers 114]
Will at loc in Middlesex Probate file, proved Oct 1662 (Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA [ Rogers 114]
Stephen Gates1 Children:
Stephen2, spelled Steffene; will of Stepten Gates [Rogers 114]
Simon Gates [Rogers 114, see also Rogers 121]
Thomas Gates [Rogers 114]
Elizabeth Gates [Rogers 114]
Court Record: Will Inventory of Stephen Gates1
Ann his wife remarries Richard Woodward of Watertown, MA [Rogers 119], Estate at Lancaster.

Stephen2 Gates (Stephen1)
b. [Norwich] Norfolk England probably 1634 [Torrey NEGHR 679] b. circa 1640 [LC Gates 3]
Loc: Cambridge [CO Gates 9] 1652
Hingham [LC Gates 3]
Lancaster, MA [CO Gates]
m. Sarah Woodward 3 Feb 1642 [LC Gates 3] resided in Stow , MA to Preston , CT [CO Gates 12] 3 Feb 1642/43 [Torrey NEGHS 679]
d. 9 July 1707 [CO Gates 10]
d. 1706 Acton , MA [CO Gates 10]
d. after Sept 1707 [Torrey NEGHR 679]
Loc: Boston , Marlborough , Stow Massachusetts [Torrey NEGHR 679]

Thomas3 Gates (Stephen2, Stephen1)
1726 Thomas3 was deeded 3 parcels of land in North Preston, New London, Connecticut [Blackman 76]
b. 31 Dec 1669 [LC Gates 5,Torrey NEGHR 679 and 683,Torrey NEGHR (adds Boston ) 679, CO Gates 12]
m. Margaret Geer in 1695 and resided in Preston [CO Gates 15]
Locations: Marlborough and Stow Massachusetts and Preston, New London, Connecticut [Torrey NEGHS 683]
d.before 1752[LC Gates]; d. . 1740 in Preston, New London, Connecticut [CO Gates 15]; 1752? [Torrey NEGHR 683]
d 10 Aug 1726 [Geer 18]
d. 6 Jan 1768 died at Preston, New London, Connecticut age 78 [Weekly Oracle]
Children: Zebediah 4 (1699), Robert Gates (1696), Prudence Gates (1703), Daniel Gates (1707), Thomas Gates (1709), Margaret Gates (1715) [CO Gates 15]

Zebadiah Gates4 (Thomas3 Stephen2, Stephen1)
b. 4 Sept 1699 in Preston, [ New London County ], Connecticut [CO Gates 25, Torrey NEGHS 683. Geer 18]
marriage 1. Jerusha Geer June 12, 1737 [CO Gates 25, Bailey; Geer 18] Jerusha Geer is daughter of Jeremiah and Esther Geer [Blackman 76]
marriage 2 Mehitable Downing June 13, 1737 [CO Gates 25, Blackman 76]
Children:
Jerusha (b. 14 May 1747) m. Thomas Kiegwin [Blackman 76] Jerusha and Thomas had one child. Andrew born 29 March 1727 married Olive Starkweather.
Zebadiah Gates5
On 24 May 1739 Zebadiah Gates4 buys Stone Hill from Hezekiah Lord [Blackman 76]
Zebadiah Gates4 dies in on Feb 12 [Blackman 76], 1759 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut [CO Gates 25]

Zebadiah Gates5 (Zebadiah4 Thomas3 Stephen2, Stephen1)
b. 1720 [Cook, Mystic Journal 1859]
note: not listed as child of Zebediah4 Gates and neither is Peter in CO Gates 25] although they are listed in Barbour Collection index.
m. Sarah Woodmansay Nov. 9, 1742 [Barbour Collection 130; Mystic Journal 1859]: spelling variations on surname: Woodmansy, Woodmansee. Sarah’s death was 16 Jan 1798 age 77. [Mystic Journal 1859] (My Direct Line)
[note that the farm that belonged to “Judge Zebadiah Gates” of Groton was sold to Denison Woodmancy whose son was Edward Woodmancy who was age 15 on 29 Oct 1859. An article appears about them in “An American Eagle” in which Edward captures an young bald eagle in Groton and tames it to eat out of his hand. [Mystic Journal 1859]
Children:
Easter 15 Nov 175[ ] [Barbour 129]
Elisha 28 Feb 1768 [Barbour 129]
John 13 Dec 174[ ]) [Barbour 130] Advertisement in 1777 for general store goods by John Gates in Groton.[Connecticut Gazette 1777 and 1783.]
Mary 1 Sept 174[ ] [Barbour 130]
Mary 1759 [1 Sept 1759]
Abigail Gates b. 5 Feb 1762 [Barbour 130] possibly Abby Gates [Connecticut Courant Matrimony notice dated 25 Sept 1826] who married Sylvester Clark [Burgess 75] and possibly later John Edgecomb at Stonington [Connecticut Courant Matrimony notice dated 25 Sept 1826]
Anna Gates b. 2 May 1757 [Barbour 130] married Squire Phillips
David Gates b. 4 Feb 1749 [Barbour 130] “ran away from the Subscriber in August last an apprentice boy named DAVID GATES, between 20 and21 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches high, and will made, has red hair, and a black spot on the back part of his Head and a sear on one of his insteps, occasioned by a cut with an ax. Who ever will return said apprentice to his Master in Groton shall receive One Dollar reward. Joseph Lewis, Groton April 6, 1769” [Connecticut Gazette 1769]
Peter Gates6. Peter, s. Zeb [ediah] and Sarah b. Feb. 15, 175 [ ] [Barbour 130]
Zebediah5 Gates died 14 July 1783. He was age 63. [Cook; Mystic Journal]

Gates Bibliography Gates part 1

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The following constitutes the resources I used for the Gates analysis in post 2 and 3.

Bibliography
1850 Census, Groton, New London, Connectitut. Roll M653_90, p688. Imae 63. Family History Film no: 803090. Ancestry.com Database: [Digital Image]

1860 Census, Groton, New London, Connectitut. Roll M653_90, p. 683. Image 58. Family History Library Film: 803090. Ancestry.com Database: [Digital Image]

A Card. Database. Newspaper. Digital Image. News Article. Genealogy Bank 2004. New London Gazette. New London, Connecticut. 15 March 1837. http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers.

“The American Eagle”. Database. Newspaper. Digital Image. Genealogy Bank 2004. Mystic Journal Oct 29, 1859. [Mystic Journal 1859]
Arms, William Tyler. History of Leyden, Massachusetts. The Enterprise and Journal. Orange, Massachusettes. 1959 p. 65,78 [Arms]

Bailey, Fredrick William. Early Connecticut Marriages. Volume 5. Internet. http://books.google.com [online]

Barbour Collection, Connecticut town Birth Records; Pre 1870 (1704 to 1853) B16-31, Groton Vital Records. Georgina Cole Carlsbad Genealogy Collection. Index [transcription] p. 179-130 [Barbour]

Blackman, Nathan Lincoln by Alfred Holman NEGHS, 1928.[Blackman]

Burgess, Charles F. Historic Groton. [Burgess]

Burrows, R. Earl. Robert Burrows and Descendants 1630-1974 [Digital Image] Cleveland, Ohio, 1975. Ancestry.com [Database] [Burrows]

Connecticut Gazette. 21 April 1769, 30 May 1777, 21 Feb 1783, 26 June 1816. Advertisement. Database. Newspaper. Digital Image. Genealogy Bank 2004. http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers. [Connecticut Gazette]

Cook, Mary Jane Lewis. slwmjc. Tombstone Photo. http://trees.ancestry.com [Internet].[Cook]

Cutter, Carl C. Mystic The Story of A Small New England Seaport.Marine Historicla Association. Dec 15, 1945. Reprinted at Mystic Seaport. Sept. 1951. [Book}Photo of Gurdon Gates and Medium Clipper “Twilight”.

Gallup, John Douglas. The Genealogical History of the Gallup Family of the United Sates [Google Books] Online Database. Digital Image. [Gallup]

Gates, Charles Otis. Stephen Gates of Lancaster, Massachusettes and his descendants [online] Google Boonk. Http://books.google.com. P. 9-10,12,15,25. [search terms: Zebediah Gates] [OC Gates].

Genealogy of the Descendants of William Cheesbrough, The Founder and First town Settler of Stonington, Connecticut. [Digital Image] Ancestry.com Database. [Cheesbrough]

Geer, George and His Descendants, p.18. [Geer]

Mystic Seaport.org- Photo of Spyglass that belonged to Gurdon Gates.

Roberts, Gary Boyd. Connecticut Families from the New England Genealogical and Historical Register. Vol I. Adams-Gates. Baltimore. Genelaogical Publishing Co. 1983. NEGHR Vol CXX p. 162. Torrey, Clarence Almon. PhB. [Update to CO Gates. Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster and Cambridge, Mass, and some of his Descendants. p. 677-679; 682-683 [Torrey NEGHS] [Book] Georgina Cole Library [Roberts]

Rogers, Robert. Middlesex County Probate Records. March 1660. Stephen Gates of Camridge. [book] ;. 114-122. New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, 2001. Georgina Cole Carlsbad Genealogical Collection 974.4452 [Rogers]
USGS. http://geonemes.usgs.gov/getgooglemap [USGS]
Wheeler, Richard Anfon. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut. Google Books [Database]

“Zebediah Gates” Obituary. Database. Newspaper. Digital Image. Genealogy Bank 2004. Mystic Journal. 23 July 1859. http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers. [Mystic Journal 1859]

My other Interests..Randy Seavers' Challenge for Saturday... Its Monday now

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My other interests other than Genealogy related activities:

Homework mom for a fifth grader
Photography
Crafts, needlework, card making, drawing and digital scrapbooking
Gospel/Christian music
Inductive Bible Study, now studying Malachi.
Biblical and American Archaeology
Linguistics: I like Native American Indian languages.
Baking sweets and feeding them to my husband and son.
Reading: I enjoy Amish fiction and Historical romance books by Christian authors.
Line Dancing
Folktales
Snoopy and Peanuts
Writing

2009 Genealogy Recap

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Note: I would like to credit Randy Seavers of Genea-musings for the topic headings in his post "Grading on my Progress on 2009 Goals and Objectives" I did not use a grade but did a recap instead.

My Genealogy Research
oPosted to gs Genealogy blog Research Blog on Blogger
oGates research on the internet and in the Carlsbad Georgina Cole Library.
oResearched step family: Bartnicki and identified step father’s siblings in photograph.
oMore research on the DeWitt Clinton Graham family of Washington County, PA on World Vital Records website. Discovered that there were two possibilities of Graham families at this location at this time. George Graham, Peter Graham or (the most promising one…Aneas Graham) according to an email contact.
oDiscovered that a fellow Lost Treasures committee member and I were related by a second Wescott marriage (she was a descendant from Wescott and I am descended from Coon)
oWashington County, PA research for Coon
oResearch in Jefferson County, Palmyra for Coon, Congdon, Charley, Dow, Graves.
oConducted land Research for Leander and Milton Coon in Palmyra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin

Obtained a external hard drive for back up.
Sorted step dad’s family photos emailed some to his relatives.
Interviewed step dad’s family.

Genealogy Education:
Joined NSDGS in October 2009: attended program meetings, learned about Google Earth and its applications for Genealogy mapping, attend COG Computer User’s Group: learned about Ancestry new and old searches..Thanks to Randy Seavers of CVGS and his blog: Genea-musings. Learned to search Genealogy websites more effectively. Purchased “More Evidence” by Elizabeth Shown Mills and I am currently reading it.

I took a Photo Shop Elements online class to learn to repair damaged family history photos.

Genealogy Society:
member and chair of the SDGS Lost Treasures Committee: inventoried society collection of items to place with descendants, placed 150 photos which contained five branches of one family with a University Archives, Wisconsin diary, family bible, Rachel Wedgeforth will copies with San Diego Zoo/Wild Animal Park Archives, placed military documents with Sacramento Military museum library. Placed ten items total 2008-2009 average per placement was three months.
Obtained estimated auction value for Brooklyn Bridegooms photos, wrote project volunteer guidelines, conducted orientation for three project volunteers, contacted Ken Kramer (NBC) regarding media coverage of Lost Treasures.
New Chair of Lost Treasures given orientation in August.
Provided internet resources and printed resources to help project researchers get started in finding living descendants.

Monthly volunteer in SDGS library: gave tours, assisted patrons with research, wrote volunteer guidelines for Raw Notes project. Created and maintained website for Lost Treasures. Created Lost Treasures blog regarding item placements.

Genealogy Writing:
Briefly attended Genealogy Writers group at SDGS. Wrote draft regarding my Dutch ancestors. I took an online adult ed class on Biography writing and read three books on the subject. Read four books about writing a family genealogy book.

note: I am not affiliated with Ancestry, although I am a subscriber, I am not affiliated with World Vital Records, although I am a subscriber. I am not an employee of NBC.

My Favorite Christmas Gift

2009-12-13T08:49:00.000-08:00

I really don't remember the gifts so much as the food! I grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and they have a delectable pastry that they make in the region. It is called Kringle. It is similar to strudel but is lighter and flakier with a sugar topping and fruit fillng. My step dad's relatives still order it and send it to us a Christmas Time. I also remember those ribbon candies and caramels with Christmas trees on them. Yum! My great grandmother made wonderful foods from scratch. My favorite was Swedish Meatballs. I also remember the gift of being able to have the day to play with my myriad of cousins which were all close to my age. The best gift was my large extended family who lived in town and being able to be with them.

Christmas Illness?

2009-12-13T08:40:00.000-08:00

The saddest Christmas I can recall was about two years ago. I got the flu for Christmas! I could not go to the family Christmas celebration so I stayed home and was miserable. My son took video greetings from the family to me and took pictures with his digital camera to share with me when he got home. I was so sick I could not enjoy the Christmas goodies they brought home. I could not make my traditional sugar cookies much less eat them.

Another Christmas my son and husband ate too much bratwurst and both felt ill on Christmas Day and they could not eat the ham I had prepared. Both went to sleep and ate the ham alone, not the whole thing of course.

So, I guess having a cold during Christmas is better than the flu, at least you can eat goodies like ham and sugar cookies.

Bartnicki, Luczynski research

2009-12-13T08:19:00.000-08:00

I am working on a genealogy project as a gift for my step-brother's family. It is by no means a comprehensive genealogy but a family picture in which each of my step dad's ten siblings are identified. I cooberated by email with two of his remaining living siblings to get the names corrected. I also found the father whose name was Leon Bartnicki in the 1920 Milwaukee census, draft registration cards and immigration records. All of which I located on Ancestry. The family surname is Bartnicki and the family is of Polish descent. My step father's mother's (Josephine) surname was Luczynski and the US WWII Draft Registration card for 1942 for her brother Walter M. Luczynski states that he was from Witowo, Poland. His address was 5203 Racine Avenue, Chicago, Cook, IL. His wife's name was Helen Luczynski. They had a child whose name was Wandz (pronounces "Vash") and she shows up in the 1930 census as Martha (name change per my step aunt). Lastly I located some of my step dad's deceased relatives on the website for the Catholic Archdiosese (Bartnicki)

References are listed below:
Bartnicki:
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Year: 1920;Census Place: Milwaukee Ward 11, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll T625_2001; Page: 27B; Enumeration District: 143; Image: 379.

Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Year: 1912; Microfilm serial: T715; Microfilm roll: T715_1830; Line: 21;
Original Data:
* Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls); Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
* Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; (National Archives Microfilm Publication T715, 8892 rolls); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm. Registration Location: Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; Roll 1674811; Draft Board: 11.

Ancestry Family History Facts for 1920: Search Bartnicki: map

Ancestry.com. Database: Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997

Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries
7301 West Nash Street
Milwaukee WI 53216
Telephone
414 438 4420 Fax
414 438 4427
Online Database

Luczynski:
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. 1930; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll 437; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 509; Image: 461.0.

www.ancestry.com database: U.S. World Ward II Draft Registration cards, 1942:Detail: roll: 30955_165871; Local Board: Chicago, Illinois

(I am not an employee of Ancestry. I am a subscriber to their basic and world database services)

Family Christmas Performances and games

2009-12-02T12:33:00.000-08:00

Extended Family Christmas celebrations have been a tradition since before I was born, probably influenced by my great grandmother’s close knit Dutch ancestors. We were fortunate to have a large extended family located near where we lived in Racine, WI. One of the elements that was always included were our own created games and performances.

One year I remember my mom put a piñata up in the basement and all my cousins took a whack at it. It was filled with wonderful Christmas candies that melted in our mouths. Several of the Dahlbergs were musically inclined so we always had piano, guitar, banjo etc. to dance to on Christmas Eve.

When my mom remarried in 1979, mom and I carried our extended family gatherings with performances with us to California.

Some of the performances we have enjoyed over the years have been: puppetry (my mom, me and Josh) Christmas joke monologs (my brother or step dad) Christmas carol sing along by my step brother who plays Christmas carols on my mom's slightly out of tune piano and we gleefully sing along, sports related made up games (popsicle stick ball with ping pong balls and paper snowball fights) by my son, singing or signing by me, one year we made a clay model out of playdough of a family member and have others guess who it is, we tried to stump each other with word games and Christmas Quizzes: Christmas celebrations around the world. We always offer little prizes too.

This year my game will be: Funny captions for old pictures in honor of my step dad who first thought of it and used clip art, collected captions and put them in a special family book.

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T19:52:00.001-08:00

I have never made a turkey in the oven but have made ham for Thanksgiving. When I was little the kids used to go out and fly kites in the brisk winds on a bluff where my uncle lived overlooking Lake Michigan in Racine, Wisconsin. I still have two kites but my son is not interesting in kite flying. I think I forgot how to make the tail out of cotton fabric scraps. The kites now a days are made of plastic instead of the paper ones we used to have. During the past few years I have been making crafts for Christmas time on Thanksgiving. Last year I made some craft items for our local church woman's ministry fundraiser luncheon. I am having difficulty with creative ideas for crafts this year. I am drawn to embroidery. I found an embroidery encyclopedia from the library but unfortunately it was published in the UK. I have an aunt from the Dahlberg (of Chicago, IL) family who made quilts and other needlework. I tried quilting but the rotary cutter and I did not get along too well. Last year I made fleece lizards for Christmas and embroidered felt pillow ornaments.
I am thankful for my family and especially for my Lord Jesus Christ. I am thankful for good health and that I can do genealogy!

Gates Family clues on Ancestry

2009-11-09T13:02:00.000-08:00

I just finished a search of Ancestry for Peter GATES my ancestor. I found an index to the Barbour Collection which lists Peter Gates father as Zebadiah Gates and all of Peter's siblings match my friend's Ancestry list for Peter's siblings. The Georgina Cole library has the Barbour Collection for Connecticut Vital records in microfilm and now I know that I can check the B16-31 (Ga-Gaz)rolls for Gates names and B35-5 for Groton 1704-1853. The library published a Genealogy aid for finding things in the Barbour Collection at: http://www.carlsbadca.gov/services/departments/library/research/Pages/genealogy.aspx , I clicked on user guides and found the Barbour collection user guide. I can't wait to see what else I will find while researching Connecticut.

Disclaimer: I am not an employee of Ancestry or in any way affiliated with the company except as a subscriber.

Who was Peter Gates Father?

2009-11-06T12:20:00.001-08:00

Looking for the Father of Peter Gates from Groton, New London, Connecticut. Peter was born 26 Feb 1750. An ancestry tree puts Peter as the son on Zebadiah Gates and Sarah Woodmansey but the Book (found on Google Books) Stephen Gates of Hingham and Landcaster, Massachusetts and his descendants by Charles Otis Gates does not support this. It has a completely different list for children of Zebadiah Gates which does not include children: Mary, John, David (brother of Peter who owned land with him in Leyden (Gate's Hill)), Peter (my direct ancestor), Zebediah, Sarah, Esther, Anna and Mary Gates.

My Peter Gates had a daughter named Lephy (aka Lephe, Lefy) Gates who was born in Leyden.

I have searched through many books on New London, CT but many of them are too early to list Peter's birthdate on 26 Feb 1750.

History of Leyden, MA by Arms with Gates genealogy

2009-10-28T10:29:00.000-07:00

"Gates--Coming to Leyden about 1780 with his bride, mary allen of Groton, Conn., Pter Gates soon erected a sturdy Cape Cod home on the Rider Road close to the homestead and mill of Henry Thorne. This house, according to West Leyden historian, Clifford Carey, exactly like the Newcomb homestead on Leyden's East Hill. Nearby, David Gates, peter's brother built a home and put up a mill on Green river. Gates Hill, east of the River road was named for these brothers.
On November 22, 1787, a daughter, Lephe, was born to Peter and Mary Gates. This girl later became the mother of John Leonard Riddell... A son, Ephriam, born in 1783 carried on the farm, as did his son Ephriam Allen Gates. "Allen Gates", as he was known married Eunice Franklin of Mayflower stock. Allen's daughter, Hannah, married James Baldwin Miner--thus uniting two of Leyden's pioneer families.[Arms 196]

1. Arms, William Tyler and Masha E. Arms. The History of Leyden Massachusetts 1676-1959. The Enterprise and Journal. Orange, Massachusetts. 1959. p. 196. (Georgina Cole Library, 974.422 H2 ARM.)

Part 3: Leyden Houses from Arms History of Leyden

2009-10-28T10:11:00.000-07:00

Leyden Homes: bolded for emphasis
"Beginning at the North end of River Road in the northwest corner of the town was the 1858 home of Nathaniel Avery; next down the road lived Crandall Thorn. Opposite him was Allen Gates' [I think this should be Peter Allen Gates?] home, birth place of John Riddell's mother [Lephe Gates]. At the foot of the hill was the Thorn Mill. Next down the road lived R. Miner on the old Benj. Baker place, and off to th4e left was the Crandall Homestead, E.G. Miner lived on the thre preent Louise Johnson place...The Mowry home site where John Wells has recently rebuilt, may have been the birthplace of John L. Riddell [father was John Riddell]." [Arms 110]see footnote 1

"The Peter Gates house in West Leyden, home of John Riddell's mother, was torn down in 1908, but it is said to be an exact replica of the Newcomb gouse. When demolished, many unusual antiques, including spinning wheels, oxen equipment and old-time utensils were distovered in the walls." [Arms 196] see footnote 1

1. Arms, William Tyler and Masha E. Arms. The History of Leyden Massachusetts 1676-1959. The Enterprise and Journal. Orange, Massachusetts. 1959. p. 157,196]. (Georgina Cole Library, 974.422 H2 ARM.)

Riddell, Gates and Crumb in The History of Leyden, MA part 2 1795-1806

2009-10-28T08:53:00.000-07:00

1795-1800 [bracket items are my comments]

1797 Direct personal property tax on houses:
Nathaniel Avery (2 houses) $150 and $350 [ Desire Avery married Ephriam Gates, Ephriam was the brother to my direct ancestor Lephe Gates I am still in the process of searching for Desire Avery.]
David Gates $180 [David is a brother to my direct ancestor Peter Gates]
Peter Gates $150 [Peter is my direct ancestor, his daughter Lephe Gates married John Riddle (Riddell)].
Oliver Noyes $200 [this person if possibly related to Nathan Noyes who married Susanah Riddle (Riddell)in Colrain. Sussanah was the daughter of Gawn Riddle , MA]
David Potter 460[I have three Potters related by marriage in my genealogy Harriet Potter 1823, Wisconsin; Sarah Potter who married Simon Wescott; and another Sarah Potter married to Andrew Darling, I am unsure how if how David Potter is related to these individuals, another person to research][Arms 92] see footnote 1

Lephe Gates and her son John Leonard Riddell:

"Of immediate interest, however, is the 1806 record of the marriage intentions of "Leafe Gates of Leyden to John Riddle of Colrain'. The Caeer of John Leonard Riddell: Inventor, Botanist and Doctor of Medicine It was in 1787 that Lephe Gates, daughter of Peter and mary Gates, was born in West Leyden in a house nearly opposite the Henry thorn up-and-down saw mill. Lephe grew up on her father's farm which was colse to a side road lieading to a Green river fordway. Ant it was near this fordway that Lephe was courted by John Riddle, son of Robbert Riddle whose fine Scotch-Irish ancestry could be traced back to the 8th century. It was in the West Leyden area, on Vebuary 20, 1807, that John L. [Leonard] Riddle later to be written Riddell) was born. It was doubtless during his long walks to and from "Hollow School house" that young John, later to beocme an outstanding Americal botanist first became interested in wild flowers." [At a later time I will devote a series of posts about John Leonard Riddell. I own two books that were written about him as well as a .PDF file on the Riddell Genealogy written by his brother William Pitt Riddell and edited by John Leonard Riddell.] At this time I will include condensed and brief chronology of Dr. Riddell's life: [John Leonard Riddell was the brother of my ancestor Dr. George Riddell]
1826 Riddell's personal journal [currently housed at Tulane University, Special Collections Library] on aeronautics, philisophy, geology and personal accounts of his life which covers his life in the West (Ohio) and South (New Orleans, Louisiana)
1835 Riddell earns his professorship in botany and chemistry at the Cincinnati Medical College
wrote "A Synopsis of the Flora and Fauna of the United States"
1836 Riddell accepts post as chemistry professor at Louisiana Medical College (Now Tulane University)Riddell was selected as melter and Refiner at the New Orleans mint.
1844 research in bacteriology, invented the binocular microscope and demonstrated it in 1852 and the Army Medical Division in Washington used it.
1847 aerial navigation lecture (space travel)
(he had several more accomplishments which will be posted at a later date)
1865 Riddell dies [of a heart attack] at age 58: [A few months before his death Dr. Riddell proclaimed himself victor in the Louisiana's governor election but Lincoln and the delegates refused to acknowledge that because he allowed the black population and women to vote for him. It also did not help that the state of Louisiana chose to succeed from the Union at about that time. Riddell wrote a letter to Lincoln reassuring him of his faithfulness to the Union see http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mal:1:./temp/~ammem_1AGK::] (Arms 97) see footnote 1

1. Arms, William Tyler and Masha E. Arms. The History of Leyden Massachusetts 1676-1959. The Enterprise and Journal. Orange, Massachusetts. 1959. p. 93, 96. (Georgina Cole Library, 974.422 H2 ARM.)

Riddell, Gates and Crumb in The History of Leyden, MA part 1

2009-10-23T13:05:00.000-07:00

1775-1791

I found another very useful book in the Georgina Cole Library. This book covers the History of Leyden. on page 65, 1781 Census, under the heading "Yorkers" I found David Gates listed on River Road East and his brother Peter Gates on River Road North, grand father of John L.{Leonard] Riddell.

Also listed on page 65 under Leyden and Mountain are Phineas Crumb who lived on River Road east and Billington Crumb (descendant of Mayflower stock). The Crumb family married into the Riddell family when Ruel Crumb married Lephe Mirah Riddell who was the sister of John Leonard Riddell Lephe Mirah and John Leonard were daughter and son of Captain John Riddle and Lephe Gates (Peter Gates was Lephe's father).

Again on page 65 is Robert Riddell on River Road, Grandfatehr of J.L. Riddell. Robert was the immigrant ancestor from Coleraine, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

"An especially interesting event in Leyden, was the birth of Miss Lephe Gates on November 22nd (1787). Lephe was the daughter of mary and Peter Gates of West Leyden. She was later to become the mother of John L. Riddell, World-renowned scientist" [He was a brother to my direct ancestor Dr. George Riddell]". (page 78)

"Robert Riddle, grandfather of the Leyden scientist, is listed this year as a "sealer of leather." he saw to it that hides were properly tanned and cured. A road record of this period places Riddle's house in West Leyden on the old Ianthe Cook Place."(page 83) 1.
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1. Arms, William Tyler and Masha E. Arms. The History of Leyden Massachusetts 1676-1959. The Enterprise and Journal. Orange, Massachusetts. 1959. p. 65,78,83. (Georgina Cole Library, 974.422 H2 ARM.)

Riddell Family from Coleraine, Northern Ireland to Colrain, Massachusetts

2009-10-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

I have been spending some time in the Georgina Cole Library researching the Gates/Riddle (Riddell) family of Colrain, Massachusetts. I found a plat map in the back with my ancestor: Gawn Riddle. His property was located on the border of the Original South East Corner of Colrain near the Green river, close to the Gore Tract which was annexed in 1779. Gawn Riddle settled in Colrain in 1781. Gawn's nearest neighbors were James Wallis who had 100 acres and Charles Stewart. Another relative of Gawn's was the Reverend Samuel Taggart whose daughter Margaret Taggart was married to Gawn. The Reverend Samual Taggart settled in Colrain in 1777 and his property is situated about 495 acres south of Gawn Riddle's property. 1.

1. Patrie, Lois McClellan. A History of Colrain Massachusettes, With Genealogies of early Families.(Georgina Cole Library Gen 974.422 D2 PAT)

Note: Some of the Riddell (Riddle) genealogy is listed in this book but I believe I have already copied it for my research files. The plat map was not in the book I originally copied and I was thrilled to have found it in this book.

More on Chicago Research

2009-10-23T10:59:00.000-07:00

A new friend in the NSCGS recommended that I check the County Assessors office website for Cook County http://cookcountyassessor.com/Property_Search/Property_Search.aspx but I could not obtain any results without a pin number. I was searching for 5100 Avondale Drive, 2362 Avondale Drive and 3901 Sheridan Road. The Avondale drive addresses were for Ericka Dahlberg and Gustav Dahlberg. The Sheridan Road address was for Leonard Titus Stonequist.

I am also looking for photos of gravestones from Ridgewood 1900 Lawrence Street: Charles Stonequist,
I have other relatives buried at Union Ridge Cemetery located at 6700 West Higgins, Chicago, Illinois: Sandburg, N.J. and Wihilmina and Mormor (buried next to Sandburgs). Other ancestors that are buried in this cemetery include Martin Dahlberg and Ericka Dahlberg. I suppose its off to explore some other mapping sites.

Chicago Street name changes 1909 to 1911

2009-09-28T13:00:00.001-07:00

Pondering a pre 1909 locality in the Windy City? This may help:
go to http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~itappcnc/pipcnstreet.htm and you can search for Chicago Street names and name changes, one of the links listed is for 1909 which explains the street name changes: http://www.chsmedia.org/househistory/1909snc/start.pdf and another link which refers you to conversion changes in the heart of the Loop in 1911. I still need to make full use of this site because I keep finding more Chicago ancestors. For more information on the pre 1909 addresses this website refers you to the Chicago Historical Society files. Lets see what they have online....http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1205.html
This article comments on the background of the decision to change the street names. The Chicago Historical Society also has a list of "zoomable" maps of Chicago from 1812 to the present. http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/700011.html. Another resource is a Publication by the Chicago Historical Society Your House Has A History which also mentions the street name and address changes. http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/pdf/Your_House_Has_A_History.pdf and also contains another link to the digitized address conversion guide from 1910 and an additional publication from 1948. The Chicago Architecture History page is on the following page:
http://www.chicagohistory.org/research/resources/architecture

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun on Monday....

2009-09-21T10:52:00.000-07:00

I really liked Randy Seavers' Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Ahnentafel Roulette on his Genea-Musings blog dated September 19, 2009 here is my reply.

My father is 72 and after I divided that by 4, I came up with #18.

#18 Ada Martina Coon

Facts about her:

o She had a heart for children and worked in an orphanage.
o She was one of the first of my ancestors to move to California, where she resided in Long Beach.
o I do not know what happened to her first husband but Ada remarried Julius Delos Wescott, son of Sarah Potter and Simon Wescott on 25 March 1893.
o I several pictures of Ada, some are cabinet cards and two tintypes.

A curious coincidence: I was working with the Lost Treasures committee at the San Diego Genealogical society with another society member and discovered we were distantly related through the marriage of Ada and Juluis. She was related to Sarah Potter and I was related to Ada (nee Coon). We were able to trade information and fill in holes in our research.

Preparation for Library Trip Next Month

2009-09-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

In order to prepare for my research trip in October, I have downloaded research guides from the Georgia Cole Library (Carlsbad, CA) Genealogy website and now I am in the process of looking at the electronic catalog for items pertaining to my research. I just barely started Ashland, OH and the Ward and Malcolm families. The Ward family is still stumping me. I can't seem to be able to go back any further than Ohio. I found a database reference to a marriage record for Edward Ward and Margaret Miller in Allegheny county, Maryland but that is all I have so far. My aunt claims that the Wards were from Lynchburg, Virginia and that they were confederates. I looked for the supposed confederate ancestor "Joel Ward" but he was in Ohio by the time of the Civil War were there people who fought on the confederate side from Ohio? I thought most Ohio folks of the Civil War era were either neutral or Union sympathizers. Anyone who could shed some light on this problem?

Google Maps App, Thanks Randy!

2009-09-16T17:06:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Randy Seavers' for his tip in his Genea-Musings blog dated: Monday, September 14, 2009: Using Google Earth to find land location in the Public Land Survey System States: I was able to locate land for Leander Coon in Ohio: NEQ, NWQ; Sec 35; TWP 5N; Range 16E. I used Google Earth with the website Randy suggested. Thanks Randy!

Catching up on my Legacy database entries

2009-09-06T19:25:00.000-07:00

I have been using this time of infirmary to catch up on my Legacy genealogy data entry. Here are excerpts from the items entered

Alexander Graham:
One entry that I need to do more research on is an email I received from a Graham researcher. The email states that Alexander Graham was the oldest of 6 children of Aeneas and Sarah Graham. The sender deduced that he was born after the 1810 census but before the1830 census. He was counted in 1830. I have Alexander's wife as Elizabeth Rose. (DeWitt Clinton Graham's pension records)

Robert Malcolm:
I also have a copy of an email from genealogy.com in whiche the sender mentions three brother Robert, Archibald and Thomas Malcolm and that they were from Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Their parents were Alexander Malcolm and Barbara Ritchie. The email contains the name of a book "The Hills of Home" by Rober K. McLain. I will check Google Books or a university library for the book. This is also a lead I need to follow.

I also entered some obituaries:
John W. Priaulx of Racine WI who passed away on March 6, 2004
and Robert E. Richards of Peoria, AZ who passed away Oct 7, 2008
(these were uncles of mine.)

Dahlberg:
I also transcribed the captions from the Edith Dahlberg Woods' Photograph Album, whose daughter Geraldine Woods Urban identified the photos. I also have these scanned into my computer as well as in my genealogy files. This Dahlberg family lived in Jefferson Park, Chicago, Illinois where they lived at 5100 Avondale. I also have a scrapbook which lists the Dahlberg family and Deyoung family kept by Katherine (nee DeYoung) Dahlberg and given to me by Katherine's daugter Phyllis Dahlberg's children. This is digitized.

Stonequist:
Arthur, Titus, and Fredrick Stonequist who were sons of Charles Stonequist: scans of Marriage Licenses from Family Search collection of Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1920.

Coon:
Milton Coon: census records and land records from Ancestry
Leander Coon: census records and land records from Ancestry

From a publication Index to Names in the History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin Illustrated: Coon, Congdon and Dow listed in this index which I found at the San Diego Genealogical Society library.

Randy Seavers' Suggestion

2009-08-30T11:23:00.000-07:00

I really liked the suggestion Randy Seavers, Genea-Musings made in his repost from April 22, 2008 on Friday, August 28, 2009 which he titled: The Place of Genealogy Research-Post 1:
After I recover from a recent surgery I plan on joining the North San Diego Genealogical Society and will take Randy's advice when he blogged on his idea of offering a free hour of research consultation at the genealogy library for the society's monthly meeting drawings. I don't think the North San Diego Genealogical Society has a research group that currently meets, so this would be a good way for me to mentor others in using the computer for genealogy research and get to know other genealogists in North County. I agree with Randy in that I don't do the research for the inquirer so they can have their own successes with genealogy research databases.

Internet is finally up and running

2009-08-24T10:32:00.001-07:00

I am amazed at how many dishes I accumulated. Combining a household is tough. I discovered an heirloom vase from my great great grandmother. Its not very fancy but its made of smokey colored glass and I am keeping a close watch on it to make sure it does not get discarded! Off to preop visits to the Dr. and have surgery on Friday. I will be out of commission for a while again.
I have enjoyed keeping up with Randy Seavers posts on Geneamusings but have been too busy unpacking to venture over to the genealogy library, hopefully I will make it there after the Dr. says I can drive post surgery.

Coon Family of Palmyra, Jefferson County, and Mendon, Ontario County, NY

2009-08-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

I am researching collateral lines to the Coon family: Congdon, Charley (Palmyra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin) and from Honeoye Falls Village, Mendon Township, Ontario County, New York: Surnames are: Strong, Knapp, Avery, Pattee, Brisbin, Potter.

Also regarding Potter in Palmyra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin) Ada Coon married Julius Delos Wescott who was the son of Simon Wescott and Sarah Potter.

Changed blog name

2009-08-01T09:37:00.001-07:00

I looked at Genealbloggers and discovered that there was another blog called "Genealogical Treasures" so I changed my blog to gsgenealogy.

I am in the process of moving and my access to reference materials is somewhat limited. I will blog more in a few weeks after I get my new cable modem router set up.

I have been pondering the Chicago address problem. There is one city directory ( I think it was in the 1920s) that lists all the address and street name changes that can be a nightmare for genealogists. I will research this more in a few weeks and post more details. My Stonequist, Dahlberg and Samuelson family tree branches hail from Chicago.

I am a genealogist and I collect dust bunnies and lots of genealogy books!

Wisconsin Civil War GAR post resource

2009-07-04T15:54:00.001-07:00

I found this book on Google Books today, If you have any Civil War Ancestors from Wisconsin check search in this book at http://books.google.com

Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Wisconsin

By Thomas J. McCrory

http://books.google.com/books?id=JeuBye82K0EC&lpg=PA138&dq=GAR%20%2BJefferson%20County%20%2BWisconsin&pg=PA138

You may also want to try a Google Books search with +Wisconsin +GAR

Coon, Congdon, Dow families of Palmyra WI

2009-06-24T20:08:00.001-07:00

I am following up on previous research on the Coon, Congdon and Dow families. My grandfather had written Myra Congdon, daughter of Susan (nee Coon) Congdon. It took a second look to realize the letter said "my mother frequently spoke about her grandfather Coon". Gary Corrigan gave me the clue that this was Susan (nee Coon) Congdon which I verified with the census. I am working on other collateral lines to this family. I keep coming up with the surname "Potter". Potters in Palymyra, Wisconsin who are you? Never be afraid to go back and look for something you missed on the first reading. Apparently the Congdons were from Whitewater and I need to investigate more photos from the cabinet card album that say the photographer is from Whitewater. These may be photos of Congdons.

County Formation Maps of PA and Graham Family

2009-06-24T19:50:00.000-07:00

Thanks to a tip from Randy Seaver's (Genea-Musings blog) where he recommended the county formation maps on: http://www.familyhistory101.com/maps I was able to track two ancestor localities. One was the Graham family of Monongahela, Washington County, Pennsylvania during the years 1776, 1779 and 1781. In 1776 part of what was then Yohogania (Virginia) is now Washington County. The Grahams I am seeking were in Washington County (possibly near Cross Creek) in Monongahela, PA. DeWitt Clinton Graham, whose father and two sisters died of consumption, lived in Monongahela and California in Washington County, PA before the Civil War. I am in the process of scanning DeWitts NARA Pension file which is quite large. DeWitt's mother remarried a man named Samuel Lewis who was a ship's carpenter. DeWitt (aka Clinton Graham) or just Clint in the pension file filed for disability due to consumption he contracted while on guard on Cheat Mountain in Virgina during the civil war.

The second ancestor locality that I found was the Edward Ward (born about 1800) and supposedly migrated from Allegheny County, Maryland with new wife Margaret Miller. He migrated to an area of Wayne County, Ohio which later became integrated into Ashland County, Ohio in 1846.

Another resource I frequently use is "The Census Map Book", by William Dollarhide.

Socolich Surname and Locality in Croatia

2009-06-24T19:43:00.000-07:00

My father in law found this post from Joe Staugaitis from 10 Mar 2000 on Croatia-L Archives:
http://listsearchers.rootsweb.com/th/read/CROATIA/2000-03/0952669006
"The Sokolich surname (also Soccolich, Socolich, Soccoli, Rocchi and Falchi) is prominent on otoci Losinj and Cres, and is on the larger families in Nerezine, dating back to its founding in the mid-1500s. Sokolich is also seen in Mali and Veli Losinj, Cunski and Osor as well as Venezia, Milano, Genova, California, and NY. There is a painting of Mary which was in the old church of Sb. Marija Magdalena in nerezine, which family legend says was protected by the original Sokolich to arrive on Losinj, as they fled from the Ottomans in Bosnia centures ago."

This is a very interesting clue, I will see what I can find out about the church and blog about it at a later time.

Found on Family Search Labs!

2009-06-24T19:36:00.000-07:00

I found scans of marriage licenses for five Chicago relatives:
in Family search Labs collection: Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1920

Edith M. Dahlberg and David P. Hanson married 6 May 1915

Charles Stonequist (age 55) and Bertha E. Blume (age 22) married 7 October 1918
Children of Charles above:
Arthur J. Stonequist and Minnie Hall married 12 May 1908
Titus Stonequist and Flora W. Petry married 31 March 1920
Fredrick C. Stonequist married Esther Salling on 14 May 1913

Last Placement for Lost Treasures, new adventures ahead

2009-05-16T08:57:00.001-07:00

I am shipping the Emma Weaver documents to the Champaign County Ohio Museum Archives in Ohio. This is my last assignment for Lost Treasures. I am no longer Chair of this committee.

Our family will be relocating to a different area and I will join the Genealogy Society there in the fall. Hopefully I can volunteer at their library and help people with their research.

I really enjoyed working with the people at the San Diego Genealogical Society. Our head librarian at the Genealogical Society Library is very knowledgeable and she was patient with me when I needed to discuss committee and library issues with her. Our President always had workable solutions to sticky issues that came up and she is a skilled negotiator and organizer.

Lost Treasures Committee is fortunate to have a skilled researcher on their team. She is adept at finding living descendants for placement of our items and helping our volunteers with research and organization. One of our other researchers came from the British Isles Research group and she is lending us her wisdom and expertise which is an asset to the committee. Another committee member is excited over her first descendant placement of a family Bible. She expanded the foundational work of a previous committee member and was successful in her research outcome. Our project volunteers are gracious to step up to the plate and help with the placement of documents. I appreciated the opportunity to work with the Lost Treasures Committee and the SDGS Library.

This blog will no longer be for Lost Treasures... It may take me a few months to get sorted and packed but I will post my personal research efforts when possible in the midst of packing boxes.

I will be working on my own personal placement of a Darling Bible and Photos. Darling is the surname of the items which I will obtain from a fellow SDGS member. I hope to be able to come and attend some of the general SDGS meetings, I really like the variety of speakers we have at the society.

Randy Seaver gave me an idea in regard to how I can maintain the skills I have obtained with my own genealogical research and Lost Treasures to help with Unclaimed Persons cases. In the Fall I plan to join him and many other genealogical sleuths in their research for Unclaimed Persons: http://www.unclaimedpersons.org/

More Lost Treasures Placements for May

2009-05-05T12:54:00.000-07:00

I am in the process of placing will copies from Rachel Wegeforth with the San Diego Zoo archives. Rachel's husband Harry Wegeforth started the San Diego Zoo. I will be meeting with the Zoo Archivist to personally deliver these will copies. The Junior League of San Diego is housed in the original Wegeforth house.

I am also in the process of placing Helen McKinnon documents with the University of California at Berkeley Archives. Helen was a librarian at the university for several years.

I am working on Henry and Emma Weaver documents which include deeds with Urbana, Ohio museum in Champaign County.

The San Diego State University Special Collections was not interested in our George Sands literary notebook. There was no definitive author of the notebook and no established provenance. We will be putting this item up on the San Diego Genealogical Society's eBay website.

Also, another candidate for the eBay site are two photos one each of Fanny Friend and her husband Edward Friend who were shop owners in Riverside, California. I contacted the genealogy society in Riverside for assistance but they received no response. Apparently, a member recognized the surname but knew of no descendants. Along this line I pursued the search for a living descendant of a sister of Fanny Friend: Saloma Paisley which resulted in no living descendants.

I am hoping that the Sacramento Military Museum Library in Sacramento will take the Frank Wood, Spanish American War military documents for their collection.

The search continues!

Lost Treasures Placements

2009-04-10T12:27:00.000-07:00

We had our monthly Lost Treasures meeting on April 8 and we invited the project volunteers to join us. They are working on Photographs, a Family Bible, a DAR Certificate and a Marriage Certificate. I conducted an orientation for Lost Treasures and our newest Lost Treasures committee member brought a box of documents to be inventoried from the Bean/Hill family of Los Angeles. Our new committee member will research and attempt to place these documents.

As of April 8, 2009, I have placed two more items. One collection of Deeds is from the Byam family of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The Chelmsford Historical Society is in the process of digitizing deeds and this will be the perfect addition to their collection. No living descendant from this Byam branch was located.

Also, I placed the Cora Hanson (Hauptmann) diary with the Black River Falls Public Library in Jackson County, Wisconsin.

I am working on placing a literary notebook with San Diego State University, Special Collections.

I sent an email to the Military Museum in Sacramento, Library. I am hoping they will take the Frank C. Woods military documents because no living descendant could be located for placement. The Miller Stevens papers were placed with a descendant of Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens (of Steuben County, NY). A copy was sent to the Steuben County Historian in New York. This Miller/Stevens family is no relation to any other items we have in our inventory. Although the names Miller and Stevens do occur in the inventory the names and locations do not match, this has been verified several times.

My Search continues for McKinnon, Weaver, Ringstrom, Lewis, Hendricksons, Thayer, Clark, Trebes and Edward and Fanny Friend (photos of Riverside,CA).

Ed and Fanny Friend of Riverside

2009-03-23T21:49:00.000-07:00

I am working with the Genealogy Society of Riverside (GSOR) to try to identify descendants of William Edward Friend and Fanny (nee Hunter) Friend.

Hopefully a descendant will come forward and claim the two pictures we have, one each of William Edward Friend and Fanny Friend.

I am also working on a collateral line for Fannie (nee Hunter) Friend. In the 1920 census Saloma Paisley is listed as "Aunt in Law" to William Edward Friend. Saloma filed for divorce from an abusive husband (George Paisley) in 1891 (newspaper article), when she was awarded custody of her three children: Paul Paisley, b. 1880 (census in 1900 and 1930 tracked him to Los Angeles County along with voter registration). Saloma's other children were George Paisley(the second) (born after 1881 but before 1891) and Elizabeth Paisley (b. 1881).

Lost Treasures Placements April 2008 to March 2009

2009-03-04T13:46:00.000-08:00

The Lost Treasures Group placed the following items for this year April 2008 to March 2009:

Two sets of newspaper clippings
Family Bibles: Samuel Clark, Edwin Clark / Butler, Britton / Moon and Mosher / Forbes Family Bibles.
Family Photos: The Edna Banta Photo Collection: Simmons, Harve, Simmons, Dodge, Barrow, Bunn, Galbraith, Walker and Wyatt; the Gulick photo collection; and the Blanchard photos.
Miscell. Documents: Lastly we found a home for the Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens document collection which included Land Deeds, an account passbook, a general inventory of documents, a will for Jedediah Miller. If you would like further information on these Documents please contact the San Diego Genealogical Society email SDGSinfo@yahoo.com

Our average time for placement was 3.5 months. This average will probably increase due to increased complexity of the miscellaneous documents and scanning and transcribing Family Bibles that have not yet been published in the San Diego Genealogical Society's publication "Leaves and Saplings". We will offer short term research projects for other researchers in the San Diego Genealogical Society.

Miller/Stevens Documents placed with descendant

2009-02-27T19:23:00.000-08:00

The two volume collection of Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens documents was placed with a descendant of this family (both Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens). The collection included original land records and a will for Jedediah Miller. An inventory was completed more than ten years ago by a SDGS volunteer. One of the interesting things in the pass book (account book) for Jonas Stevens from the 1800s.

Ed and Fanny Friend more information

2009-02-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

Searching for descendants of Ed Friend who married Fanny Hunter who lived on Vine Street in Riverside, Riverside County, California (1910) Census. The 1920 Census shows Fanny Friend born in Kansas, living with William Friend (age 45 at the time) Ed working as a foreman at a gas company. Frances Friend (Aunt) is LVN nurse, Saloma Paisley is Aunt in Law and is 78. (possibly Fanny's mother's sister?) Hunter, William B. , Father in law to William Friend. 1922 San Diego County: Fannie Friend and Walter Friend (Salesman). We have city directories in the SDGS library and I will check these for years after 1922 in the attempt to locate a descendant.
(I believe Ed Friend and William Friend are the same person)

My Personal Genealogical Research

2009-02-06T13:24:00.000-08:00

If you are researching the following surnames: Darling, Dow, Thayer, Stonequist, Socolich, Thayer, Riddell, Sankey, Malcolm, Graham or Hawkins, please see my personal website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gwynngenealogy/ On my genealogy site I have a beginner's genealogy research tutorial, timelines, photos and research brickwalls.

I have two related blogs: http://gsgenealogy.wordpress.com/ (my current genealogy research and problems with research)

Back to Lost Treasure Hunting!

2009-01-09T12:31:00.000-08:00

The holidays were full of craft making and strengthening family ties. I am recovering from the flu and am thankful that I have this week to rest. Next week the hunt for new homes for our homeless bibles, photos and other documents resumes with our monthly meeting. I will have my hands full with scanning and photographing our documents for the SDGS archives.

Any one know about silver stars? One of our document collections includes three Army silver stars and original veteran records of Frank C. Wood. Free except that we would ask for a donation for shipping.

Miller Stevens Papers and Riddells Is there A Link?

2008-11-18T22:27:00.000-08:00

In my work for the Lost Treasures Committee of the San Diego Genealogical Society, I just finished a lengthy inventory of the Jedidiah Miller and Jonas Stevens papers of Steubin County, NY.

I have some of my own Captain John Riddle or Riddell and Lephe Gates ancestors from Chenango Twp. in Steubin County, NY

I found a Henry Bull (mentioned in Miller exhibit 10 and 12 as a Medical Doctor), of the Lost Treasures documents, buried in the same cemetery as Lephe Maria (nee Riddell) who married Ruel Crumb and who is also daughter of Lephe Gates my ancestor.

It will be interesting to see what else pops up in Steubin County, NY!

William Edward Friend photos

2008-10-23T14:13:00.000-07:00

I am trying to place two photos one is of William Edward Friend and the other is of his wife Fanny Friend (nee Hunter). They both appear in the 1910 census and 1920 census, in both years they lived on Vine Street in Riverside. I just placed pictures from the Banta family with the Sonoma State University archives and wonder if William Edward Friend and Fanny Hunter are related in some way to the Banta family. I am seeking to donate the photos to a descendent in the direct line of William Edward and Fanny nee Hunter Friend. I emailed one person from RootsWeb whose information matched what I discovered on the Friend family.

More Lost Treasures Work and online classes

2008-10-18T21:14:00.000-07:00

I updated the Lost Treasures website with more Treasures from the San Diego Genealogical Society. I am working on a binder of letters to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Milton, Washington and two photos of Ed and Fanny Friend.

I am taking two online classes one is a Memoir writing class and the other is a Photo Shop Elements class. They are taking alot of time but I am really learning alot from them.

Computer Problems and Solutions

2008-10-18T21:08:00.000-07:00

I just finished almost a month long headache! I unistalled Norton Antivirus and installed another security virus system and I could not access the Internet, I could not get any downloads for updates for computers, I could not update the Lost Treasures website.
I spent two hours on tech support with my DSL provider and another two hours on tech support for my new virus security system. If you ever uninstall Norton Antivirus please use this program: http://www.symantec.com/symnrt (Norton Security removal tool). If you only use the Windows uninstaller program your internet access may be blocked too! Thanks Best Buy Geek Squad for the advice!

Edna Banta Munford Photo Collection Donated to Sonoma State University

2008-10-10T14:30:00.000-07:00

Last week I sent the Edna Banta Munford collection of 120 photographs to Sonoma State University. There were several related lines included, Banta/Simmons/Wyatt/Phinney were the main surnames. My favorite photo was of James Simmons who was a fireman for the LA fire department, possibly Long Beach. I emailed the firehouse museum there but nobody replied.
Lloyd Simmons of Sonoma and his family were the subjects of half of the photos. There were two pictures of him in his Pharmacy/general store in Sonoma. I worked on these all summer and am glad to see them go to an accessable archives.

Miscell. Documents Inventoried, Listed here

2008-10-10T14:20:00.000-07:00

The following documents have been inventoried by the Lost Treasures Committee for the San Diego Genealogical Society and are ready to be donated to a direct descendant or a regional archives. (The wills can be donated to an indirect descendant)

Vital Records

Sharon Leigh: Baptismal Certificate (1976) San Diego, CA
Bergin/Brockman: Marriage Certificate and Will Probate
Wright/Shield: Marriage document
Nelson Fish and Lulu James: copy of marraige certificate (June 1869)
Holland William Campbell and Lola Lean Brashear (Dec 13, 1949): original marriage certificate (San Diego, CA)
Diane Ruth Tunis: Baby book with genealogy: related surnames: Dysart, Hill, West Munday of Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, CA
Arthur A. De Titta death certificate copy, Riverside County (death date 17 May 1992): other names mentioned: Mother was Rose Truncellilo ot Italy and wife was Helen (nee Hurt) De Titta. Cameraman for 20th Century Fox

WILLS

These wills are all from San Diego:
Will of Rachel Wegeforth (1961)Will and instructions of Nell Grant Cronan (1929-1930)
Will of Ellen Robb and the will of her daughter Frances M. Robb (Jan 14, 1959)
Will of Charles Christianson (July 7, 1967)

BOOKS:

Stam Register der Familie Lendeke: Possibly of Hamburg Germany, written in German (1898)
Schwab Family History (written in German)(1886)

MISCELL. DOCUMENTS

Mildred Bergin: Passport (1926)
Marion Thompson Ogden: British Passport (1950) El Cajon, CA
Sue Lovell: Letters to the Milton Methodist Episcopal Church, Milton Washington, regarding the 25th anniversary celebration of Church: most of the letters are addressed to Dr. Ethel M. Short, Tacoma Washington
David Whitten: High School Diploma (June 1984)
F. Johnston Day: Masters Degree of Philosophy from University of Divine Science in Seattle, Washington (1940)
DAR Certificate Edna Estelle Van Orsdall Craig of Colorado for Conrad Hogmire (Revolutionary War ancestor)

Dutch Origins, My Genealogical Writing Project

2008-09-11T16:52:00.000-07:00

I am writing a genealogy of female line in Kramer/DeYoung/ Nauta/Dahlberg/Sankey family. So far I have completed the first chapter on Susan DeYoung (Sietske DeJong in Dutch). The chapter includes her parish Sint Jacobeparichie, Het Bilt, Friesland, Netherlands and her subsequent immigration and life in Racine, Racine County, WI. I am researching several books acquired from local universities to see if I am able to gain more insight into immigration from Friesland. I want to add insight to develop a sense of place but I don't want to be to wordy.

Bergin/Brockman and Gulick photo research

2008-09-11T16:30:00.001-07:00

One of the SDGS Lost Treasures talented researchers, Bonnie Fago is tackling the research of our photos from the Bergin/Brockman and Grover Gulick families. She has some good leads for direct descendants.

Time for more Inventory of our collection

2008-09-11T16:24:00.000-07:00

Just when I thought we have inventoried all of our photos... I just found some more! We also have some miscell. documents which need to be inventoried, scanned and put on the SDGS Lost Treasures website .
We also have two binder volumes of original documents with records listed on fading (photostat..purple paper) which need to be transcribed. Our Raw Notes files have some original documents and photos as well.