Category Archives: Genealogy

Beyond the Internet Geneameme

I found this Meme at Geniaus, who got it from Pauleen at Family history across the seas blog. Jump in and have some fun 😀 I am not sure if I will have many of these bolded. Most of my research has been on the internet.

Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
You are encouraged to add extra comments in brackets after each item[]

 

  1. Looked at microfiche for BDM indexes which go beyond the online search dates.
  2. Talked to elderly relatives about your family history.[ lot more questions I should have asked of a lot more people, but I thought I had time]
  3. Obtained old family photos from relatives.
  4.  Have at least one certificate (birth/death/marr) for each great-grandparent.
  5. Have at least one certificate (birth/death/marr) for each great-great-grandparent.
  6. Seen/held a baptism or marriage document in a church, church archive or microfilm.
  7.  Seen your ancestor’s name in some other form of church record eg kirk session, communion rolls.
  8. Used any microfilm from an LDS family history centre for your research.
  9. Researched using a microfilm other than a parish register
  10. Used cemetery burial records to learn more about your relative’s burial. [WWI burial]
  11. Used funeral director’s registers to learn more about your relative’s burial
  12. Visited all your great-grandparents’ grave sites.
  13. Visited all your great-great-grandparents’ grave sites.
  14. Recorded the details on your ancestors’ gravestones and photographed them.
  15. Obtained a great-grandparent’s will/probate documents.[not actually a will, but Common pleas court, selling of land for debts and dowager rights this was actually 3rd and 4th great-grandparents]
  16. Obtained a great-great grandparent’s will/probate documents
  17. Found a death certificate among will documents.
  18. Followed up in the official records, something found on the internet.
  19. Obtained a copy of your immigrant ancestors’ original shipping records.
  20. Found an immigration nomination record for your immigrant ancestor
  21. Found old images of your ancestor’s place of origin (online or other).[pictures taken by a cousin who actually visited Scotland]
  22. Read all/part of a local history for your ancestor’s place of residence.
  23. Read all/part of a local history for your ancestor’s place of origin.
  24. Read your ancestor’s school admission records.
  25. Researched the school history for your grandparents.
  26. Read a court case involving an ancestor [see # 15]
  27. Read about an ancestor’s divorce case in the archives.
  28. Have seen an ancestor’s war medals.[ have great uncles dog tags]
  29. Have an ancestor’s military record 
  30. Read a war diary or equivalent for an ancestor’s battle.
  31. Seen an ancestor’s/relative’s war grave.[ have a photo]
  32. Read all/part of the history of an ancestor’s military unit
  33. Seen your ancestor’s name on an original land map.
  34. Found land selection documents for your immigrant ancestor/s.
  35. Found other land documents for your ancestor (home/abroad)[see # 15 land description with drawing]
  36. Located land maps or equivalent for your ancestor’s place of origin.
  37. Used contemporaneous gazetteers or directories to learn about your ancestors’ places.
  38. Found your ancestor’s name in a Post Office directory of the time.
  39. Used local government sewerage maps (yes, seriously!) for an ancestor’s street.
  40. Read an inquest report for an ancestor/relative (online/archives).
  41. Read an ancestor’s/relative’s hospital admission.
  42. Researched a company file if your family owned a business.
  43. Looked up any of your ancestor’s local government rate books or valuation records.
  44. Researched occupation records for your ancestor/s (railway, police, teacher etc).
  45. Researched an ancestor’s adoption. [not aware of any]
  46. Researched an ancestor’s insolvency.
  47. Found a convict ancestor’s passport or certificate of freedom.
  48. Found a convict ancestor’s shipping record.
  49. Found an ancestor’s gaol admission register.
  50. Found a licencing record for an ancestor (brands, publican, etc).
  51. Found an ancestor’s mining lease/licence.
  52. Found an ancestor’s name on a petition to government.
  53. Read your ancestor’s citizenship document. (All Aussie or British – no citizenship docs)
  54. Read about your ancestor in an undigitised regional newspaper.
  55. Visited a local history library/museum relevant to your family.
  56. Looked up your ancestor’s name in the Old Age Pension records.
  57. Researched your ancestor or relative in Benevolent Asylum/Workhouse records.
  58. Researched an ancestor’s/relative’s mental health records.
  59. Looked for your family in a genealogical publication of any sort (but not online remember).
  60. Contributed family information to a genealogical publication.

Wow, I have accomplished a bit more then I expected.

Happy Hunting!

“The Moment I Knew”…My addition to the Armchair Genealogist’s post

The Arm Chair Genealogist posted this morning “The Moment I Knew”.

I can honestly say there was not a crystallizing moment when I understood that I was was the keeper of the family story. It was just a matter that it was something I was going to do. My Mother and her siblings are very interested in their family history and genealogy, so I came to this at an early age. Cemeteries are nothing new to me, papers, family stories and pictures have always been around and abound.

There was a moment when I did understand that maybe it was time to that I should actually start doing my work and not just listening to the stories. It was after my father in law passed away. It was his family that had a mystery so I set out to see if I could solve it.
I have in the last 21 yrs figured out some of the puzzle, but I am now faced with a why to solve.  Isn’t that always the way.

Jim’s, my husband, Aunt gave me a had written family tree on a large piece of paper, many of the names reaching back to pre-revolution in VA and NC. I then started working on his mother’s family tree and trying to fill in the blanks that she left in the tree. I had marvelous success with this. It seems to me that Mountain folk, or maybe southern folk in general have a keen understanding and appreciation for their ancestors and are liable to have much of their lineage either in their heads or actually written or perhaps it was just this  Eastern Kentucky family that had the desire to know their past. I have much more to do on this family, I have tucked them away for a while so that I could concentrate on my paternal lineage. Mom is busy working her lineage and I thought it best that I get some of Dad’s taken care of. This journey as been an exciting one! When I was working on Jim’s family it was his and even though it was fun and challenging it didn’t leave me with as much excitement as I find doing my history.

Now all I have to do is learn to stick with one person at a time and get them all fleshed out before moving on to the next person. If anyone has any clue on how to do this please drop me a note and let me know how you manage it.

Happy Hunting!

Wednesday Wedding/Oct 1886 Marriage Returns Holmes, County, Ohio.

Marriage Records Holmes County Ohio


page 548

Granted- Oct 14, 1886 Marriage License Was this day granted to Alden Roush and Alice Homer
Affidavit-blank
Return -State of Ohio, Holmes County I certify that on the 19 day of October 1886 Alden Roush and Alice Homer were legally joined in marriage by me a Minister of the Gospel I. W. Keiffer no. 5771

Granted- Oct 16, 1886 Marriage Liscense Was this day granted to Thomas Graham and Mary Moore
Affidavit-blank
Return -State of Ohio, Holmes County I Certify that on the 16th day of Octobers 1886 Thomas Graham and Mary Moler are legally joined in marriage by me a Minister of the Gospel J.L.Hook  no. 5772

Granted- 19, October 1886 Marriage License Was this day granted to Issac Kilmer and Mary E. Munnsan
Affidavit-blank
Return-State of Ohio, Holmes County I Certify that on the 19th day of October 1886 Issac Kilmer and Mary Etta Munnsan were legally joined in marriage by me a Minister of the Gospel L.K. Wormer no. 5773

___ Page 549

Granted- 0ct 19, 1886 Marriage License was this day granted to Stuart B. Bailey and Ella T. Robinson
affidavit-blank
Return- State of Ohio, Holmes County I Certify, that on the 19th day of October 1886 Stuart B. Bailey and Ella T. Robinson were legally joined in marriage by me a Minister of the Gospel Jas. A. Williams n. 5774

Granted- Oct 20, 1886 Marriage License was this day granted to Douglas D. Deahl and Helen S. Hecker
affidavit-blank
Return- State of Ohio, Holmes County I Certify, that on the 21 day of October 1886 Douglas D. Deahl and Helen S. Hecker were legally joined in marriage by me a Minister of the Gospel John Gailey no. 5775

Granted- Oct 20, 1886 Marriage License was this day granted to Silas J. McCartney and Nannie C. Terry
affidavit-blank
Return- State of Ohio, Holmes County I Certify, that on the 22 day of October 1886 Silas McCartney and Nancy Terry were legally joined in marriage by me a Minister of the Gospel C.D. Patterson no. 5776

Silas and Nancy “Nannie” Terry McCartney are my second great grand-parents. While I was transcribing this I realized that in my record, I had the marriage date as the 20th of  October. The source I have for this is a marriage record posted at FamilySearch.org.

In my best estimation the transcriber missed the fact that they didn’t get married on the same day that the liscense  was issued. Many of the other licenses were filled on the same day of issue. This is one very good example that having more then one proof in most important.

I also find it interesting that they were married by a C.D. Patterson and that Silas’ grand-parents, Isaiah and Lettice Hudders McCartney, were married by a J.B. Patterson. I wonder if they might be related to each other.  This just might be a fun side trip throught the records to see if they just might be kin.

While doing some research on the internet I came across this pdf file at the Holmes County Library Blog. Holmes County Library  containing a transcription of the 1886 marriage returns for that county from A to Z.

Happy Hunting!

 

Lacking Locks for Love

 

 It once again is breast cancer awareness month. Which tends to remind me of a trip I took with my daughter and her friend to our local Fantastic Sams  so that we could donate our hair to Locks of Love.  These young women went far beyond what I did (call me chicken) I did donate a considerable amount of hair, which was waist long, shortened to my shoulders. I just couldn’t bring myself to do the extra 10 inches or so.

There is a subject that  I would like to clarify. I have heard many people say that they no longer give to Locks of Love, because they charge the children for the hair pieces. That in part is true, but the original hair piece can run from $3,000 to $5,000 dollars depending on the need.  Locks of Love give according to need.

Locks of Love Mission Statement

Our mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children. The children receive hair prostheses free of charge or on a sliding scale, based on financial need.

If you have the hair to donate and then I urge you to do so. I would suggest you look into Locks of Love or other ways of donating your hair.  There are a few others that I found with a quick search of the web:

Wigs for Kids
Angel Hair for Kids-Canadian based

Happy Hunting!
Have a clipping good time!