tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53248007849484867262024-03-19T01:48:41.235-07:00Greta's Genealogy BogSeriously obsessed with family research since 2005Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.comBlogger788125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-41059449777330894712017-09-09T12:45:00.000-07:002017-09-09T12:45:33.514-07:00Learning About the Music Our Ancestors Heard, Played, and Sang
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have a
passion/addiction for early American music – most but not all of it
bluegrass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have found several record
stores that stock this kind of music.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I recently
purchased five sets of records – Songs and Ballads of American History and of
the Assassination of Presidents, Echoes of the Ozarks Volumes I and II, Wink
the Other Eye Volume I (my eternal gratitude to anyone who can locate a copy of
Volume II, if there is one), The Right Hand Fork of Rush’s Creek, Dee and Delta
Hicks – Ballads and Banjo Music from the Tennessee Cumberland Plateau in the
Big South Fork Area, and the Edden Hammons Collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are among some of the most expensive L<span class="MsoPageNumber"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ps I have ever purchased (though not all are),
and because many of them are rare/scarce, I was afraid to play them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my husband and I decided to take them to a
professional duplication service – we ended up going to a place called
Professional Duplications south of Greenville – and get main and loaner
copies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They often provide this service
for various church groups as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This turned
out very well for us, and was also educational.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The original copy costs $20 per record/CD, and subsequent copies are
only $3.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Starting
with Songs and Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of
Presidents (here is a link to a description of the record:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>https://www.loc.gov/folklife/LP/SongsofAmHist_opt.pdf,
and you can hear some of the music at http://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-and-ballads-of-american-history-and-of-the-assassination-of-presidents-mw0000601543),
there were a variety of performers, and each gave the provenance of the song,
possible alternate lyrics, and where they learned the song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first two pieces, Phil Sheridan and The
Iron Merrimac, were sung by Judge Learned Hand, followed by The Cumberland’s
Crew sung by Captain Pearl R. Nye, The Battle of Antietam Creek sung by Warde
H. Ford, The Southern Soldier and Washington the Great sung by Mrs. Minta
Morgan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the items were sung
or played by Bascom Lamar Lunsford:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Zolgotz (about McKinley’s assassin, Czolgosz), Mr. Garfield and Charles
Giteau (Garfield’s assassin), Booth Killed Lincoln (sung version), and Booth
Killed Lincoln (fiddle version).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Echoes of
the Ozarks Volumes I and II (Arkansas String Bands 1927-1930) have been both
educational and frustrating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Educational
in that I had to look up the lyrics of one song because it was not listed on
the album, and frustrating because I still have not been able to sort all of
the songs out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The extra song was
“Sally’s in the Garden Siftin’ Sand” on Volume I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I never have been able to sort the
remaining songs – there’s Hog Eye and Jaw Bone plus Cotton Eye Joe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just when I think I have them sorted out,
I’ll see a double entry and know that it is wrong again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wink the Other Eye is old time fiddle band
music from Kentucky – rare classic recordings from the 1920s and 1930s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Edden Hammons Collection is historic
recordings of traditional music from the Louis Watson Chappell Archive.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I also have
some Smithsonian and Library of Congress collections of early American music
(including children’s songs) that I will probably also take to be duplicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Horizon
Records in Greenville has some rare classical records and also a lot of very
good contemporary blue grass recordings, as well as knowledgeable staff (I
learned that only British releases of the Beatles’ recordings have been
remastered, while the American releases have not); however, they do not have
that many historical records for early American music (I’m sure aficionados
know where I got the historic recordings above; the same place has a number of
LPs of one of my favorite Quebecois fiddlers, Jean Carignan).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are two other stores in Greenville that
sell LPs – BJ’s on Augusta Road, and a smaller store around the corner from
Consignwerks on Laurens Road.</div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-87451463255377564962017-08-05T10:26:00.000-07:002017-08-05T10:26:15.593-07:00The Husband Who Wasn’t
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… or, “The Wrong Husband.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Like Wallace and Grommit:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“They’re
the wrong trousers, Grommit… and they’ve gone wrong!”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been researching the second family of
my great-great grandfather George Floyd, because I had an Ancestry DNA match
with a descendant of George Floyd and his second wife, Elizabeth Jane Norris
through their older daughter Mary Etta “Ettie” Floyd. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ettie married Charles Eugene DuBose, and one
of their daughters was named Lorene DuBose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A number of family trees give the name of Alvin Matthews Avrett as
Lorene’s second husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a
Lorene listed with Alvin Avrett on the 1940 census, but based on that census,
she would have been born in 1916, not 1907, which according to all family trees
was the date of her birth (we do not have a date of death, but since she may
have moved to California, it may be possible to find her date of death there).</div>
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On the other hand, the 1930 and 1940 censuses both indicate
that the wife of John D. Sappington, born 1906 in Arkansas, was the right age
to have been born in 1907. The only wife listed for Alvin Avrett is Geneva Y.
Burton, and they were 72 and 65 when they married on 25 June 1985 in Henderson,
Texas; this was probably a second marriage for both, and probably followed the
death of Alvin’s wife Lorene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
date and location of their marriage is given as 30 August 1969 in Dallas
County, Texas, when they were 56 and 49 – perhaps they divorced and remarried?</div>
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What is even more confusing is that the Alice “Lorene”
Bourland Avrett listed on Findagrave is the daughter of William Hansel Bourland
and Alice Jones and was born on 24 October 1910 in Dallas County, Texas –
obviously not our Lorene.</div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-29885307688742111712017-04-02T09:20:00.001-07:002017-04-02T09:20:40.085-07:00Only a Few Clues<style>
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I was recently inspired to work on the line of Josephus
James “J.J.” “Joe” “Jode” Norman when I found a DNA match on Ancestry DNA who
turned out to have a lot of information on Josephus Norman’s daughter Emma
Elizabeth, for whom I previously had very little information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As has been the case with many other Norman
researchers investigating the family of Joseph Madison Carroll Norman, I relied
heavily on Inez Cline’s “Norman Family History” for the general outlines of
this family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently Inez Cline was
not a member of this family, but became interested in it due to the numerous
connections with other Garland County families such as the Powells, Westons,
Kinseys, and Joneses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right after
Josephus Norman is listed, there appears to be a page missing, so there is very
little information on his family.
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When I got to Josephus’ daughter Ola Norman, I had only her
appearance on the 1900 US Federal Census for Precinct No. 3, Fannin County,
Texas (accessed 4 Aug 2008 on Ancestry.com).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, I also had a “Note to Self” indicating that I should look into Ola
Norman m. John Kanard in Fannin County; daughter Hellen born there in 1933.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe this information was taken from the
Texas Birth Index for “Hellen Kanard” on Ancestry.com (I had input Ola Norman’s
name as the mother in the form for the Texas Birth Index to find out whether she had married or had any children).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turned out, Ola May Norman had married a
John R. H. Kinnard in Bryan County, Oklahoma on 22 June 1932 (Oklahoma, County
Marriages, 1890 to 1995, on Family Search, accessed through Ancestry.com on 13
Mar 2017).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Although I knew that a lot of Normans had gone to Oklahoma
to get married, I wasn’t quite sure why they did so and whether or not Ola
Norman had actually done so, so I wanted to dig a little deeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I input the information for Hellen in my
family tree on Ancestry.com, I was lucky to find another clue in addition to
the Texas Birth Index clue:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 1940
census for Justice Precinct No. 1, Fannin County, Texas, which contained the
following information:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1940 US Federal Census,
Justice Precinct 1, Fannin County, Texas, ED 74-6, p. 4B, 15-16 Apr 1940</span></b></div>
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71 Stimpson Road 83 R $3 Yes</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Winkler,
J. L. Head M W 36 M No 9 TX Same place Yes Yes - - - - 56 hrs worked </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Laborer Farm PW 25 wks
worked $150 No 56</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lillie Wife F W M No H-1 TX Same
place No No No No 0 0 No</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sid Father M W 68 Wd No 4 TN Same
place No No No No U 0 $252 No</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leonard M W 21 S No 7 TX Same place
No No No No Other 0 No</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kinnard,
Helen Cousin F W 7 S No 1 TX Same place</span></div>
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There Helen is listed as a cousin of J. L. Winkler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turns out, Sid Winkler, the father of
J.L., was the informant on mother Ola May Kinnard’s death certificate!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Standard Certificate of Death of Ola May
Kinnard, 37065, Texas State Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
accessed 14 Mar 2017 on Ancestry.com)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
suspect that the Winklers may have been maternal relations of John R. H.
Kinnard, which would have made J.L. his cousin and Sid his uncle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, John Kinnard does not appear
in any other family trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few trees
erroneously have a Leonard B. Norman as Ola’s husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I have no further information on Hellen Kinnard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She may still be alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So for this family I really only had three clues:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hellen’s entry in the Texas Birth Index, the
record of John R. H. Kinnard’s and Ola Norman’s marriage in Oklahoma, and the
1940 US Federal Census.</div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-15853705371344366782016-05-01T11:28:00.000-07:002016-05-01T11:28:24.638-07:00The Case of the Two Wives: Using Ancestry Suggested Documents to Sort Out WivesI have had two cases of double wives lately that caused quite a bit of confusion: Both Ancestry and the family trees I was able to connect to indicated that two different wives of two men – George Arrington and Eldon Clide Clement – were one and the same person. Yet there was very strong evidence in both cases that there were definitely two separate wives.<br />
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Case # 1 – George Washington Arrington (7 Oct 1895 (1,2) to 7 Dec 1977 (3,4)).<br />
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First wife – Freddie Gertrude Warren (born July 1898 in Tennessee (5), died before 1940).<br />
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According to the Collin County, Texas, Marriage Index, 1800-2010 Record, accessed on Ancestry.com, they married in 1916.<br />
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They had three children:<br />
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Modine – born 5 Nov 1918 in Texas and died 29 Jul 1919 in Farmersville, Collin County, Texas from a fall. (6) The informant on the Death Certificate was W. H. Warren, and this would later give me a clue as to which Warren family Freddie belonged to.<br />
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James Weldon Arrington, born approximately 1927 in Texas (7), no further information.<br />
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Myra Jean Arrington, born approximately 1927 in Texas (same source as for her brother James Weldon), no further information. (Getting this Myra Jean Arrington sorted out from the daughter of George’s brother Eugene Grey Arrington, also named Myra Jean, also born 1927 in Texas (8), was another matter – Ancestry kept suggesting the wrong document (only one) for her.<br />
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Second wife – Mattie Niece Bratton, born 18 Jan 1898 in Missouri (9, 10)<br />
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Although Ancestry suggested and continues to suggest that Mattie Niece Bratton and Freddie Gertrude Warren were one and the same person, and they were born in the same year, there were some important differences. There were the names, to begin with, and places of birth also differed: Missouri for Mattie and Tennessee for Freddie.<br />
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It was the appearance of Jennie Hughes as the sister-in-law of George Washington Arrington that served as indirect proof and eventually led me to the discovery that Mattie Bratton was not only not Freddie Warren, but showed me who her family was – she was the daughter of Addison Lowery Bratton and Cora Charlotte Worley. When I clicked on the name of Jennie Hughes in the 1940 census, one of the suggested documents was the 1900 census, which showed both Jennie and Mattie as daughters of Addison and Cora Bratton. Both the 1920 (12) and 1930 (13) censuses showed Jennie with her then husband, Delbert E. Hughes, and the 1930 (13) census showed her with her son Neal, who appears with her on the 1940 census with George and Mattie Arrington.<br />
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Once I had Mattie in the right family, all sorts of information popped up for her, including the California Death Index, which showed that she died 20 Feb 1990 in Anaheim, Orange County, California. (14) It also provided her maiden name/father’s name Bratton and mother’s surname Worley. Moreover, a glance at the family trees on Ancestry revealed that Bratton researchers were aware of her marriage to George Arrington, and even had pictures of him that I had not seen. The 1920 (15) and 1930 (16) censuses revealed that Mattie had been married before, to an Isaac Nevit Barto and had children Lucille Fern Barto and Jack Barto from that marriage.<br />
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Meanwhile, I still had no date or place of death for Freddie Gertrude Warren. Searches in the Texas Death Index and Texas Death certificates turned up nothing. A glance at family trees on Ancestry indicated that all agreed that her father was John Bence Warren, but some had her mother as Lula J. Davidson and others gave Mary Tennessee “Tinnie” Hammons, though only Lula shows up on the 1900, 1910, and 1920 censuses. Freddie’s brother Wallace H. Warren also appears on the 1900 and 1910 censuses; since he must have been the informant W. H. Warren on Modine Arrington’s death certificate, this is how I knew which family was Freddie’s.<br />
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Case # 2 – Eldon Clide Clement, born 21 Feb 1911 in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas; died 1 Sep 1968 in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas. (17)<br />
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First wife – Deltha Faye Martin, born 11 Apr 1915 in Milano, Milam County, Texas; died 17 Mar 1937 in Telephone, Fannin County, Texas (18)<br />
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Second Wife – Mary A. “Annie,” born 1902 in Oklahoma , no further information. (19)<br />
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As in the first case, family trees and Ancestry treated (and continue to treat) these two women as though they were the same person. Despite the difference in ages and states of birth, they could in theory have been the same person – perhaps the “Fay Martin” shown on the Texas Birth Index and in the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claim Index, 1936-2007 on Ancestry.com as the mother of Franklin Don Clement was actually the “Annie M. Clement” shown on the 1940 census – her name could have been Fay Ann Mary Clement or Fay Ann Martin Clement, right?<br />
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But the 1940 census showed a curious thing. It showed that the Annie M. Clement on the 1940 census (and in numerous U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 on Ancestry.com) lived in two different counties in 1935: Snyder, Scurry County, Texas for Eldon, and Cross Plains, Callahan County, Texas for Annie M. Five years is not much time to meet, court, get married, and have a four-year-old child (Franklin Don Clement). Although at one point I was convinced that Mary A./Annie M. was not a different person and even deleted her from my Reunion database (because, curiously, a 1930 census popped up that showed a Faye Martin born in 1902 in Oklahoma!), I was now certain that there was no way that these two women could be the same person. When I was able to find a Texas Death Certificate using “Fay Martin” in the search parameters, I was even able to get an Ancestry family tree that gave her correct maiden name: Deltha Fae Martin. She may be the Fay Clement who shows up with spouse E. Clement in the 1933 Fort Worth, Texas, City Directory in the U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 on Ancestry.com.<br />
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So I think I’ve learned my lesson. All the evidence has to be lined up for and against the hypothesis that what everyone else treats as one person may actually be two different people. Ancestry often suggests the same records for two different people, but eventually you may be able to sort them out using those same suggested records.<br />
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1 World War I Draft Card of George Washington Arrington, accessed at Ancestry.com<br />
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2 Certificate of Death 89492 of George Washington Arrington, Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, accessed at Ancestry.com<br />
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3 Certificate of Death 89492 of George Washington Arrington, Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, accessed at Ancestry.com<br />
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4 Social Security Death Index, accessed at Ancestry.com<br />
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5 1900 US Federal Census, District 6, Lewis County, Tennessee, taken 19 Jun 1900, accessed on Ancestry.com 26 Jan 2016<br />
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6 Both dates and cause of death were found in the Certificate of Death of Modine Arrington, Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, accessed on Ancestry.com, as was the name of the informant, W. H. Warren.<br />
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7 1930 US Federal Census, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, taken 8 Apr 1930, accessed on Ancestry.com on 14 Feb 2007<br />
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8 1940 US Federal Census, Grand Island City, Hall County, Nebraska, taken 10 Apr 1940, accessed on Ancestry.com 28 Jan 2016.<br />
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9 Social Security Death Index Record, accessed on Ancestry.com<br />
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10 1940 US Federal Census, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, taken on 4 Apr 1940, accessed on Ancestry.com 27 Jan 2016.<br />
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11 1900 US Federal Census, North Salem, Linn County, Missouri, taken on 13-14 Jun 1900, accessed on Ancestry.com 26 Jan 2016.<br />
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12 1920 US Federal Census, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, taken on 19 Jan 1920, accessed on 1 May 2016.<br />
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13 1930 US Federal Census, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, taken 22 Apr 1930, accessed 1 May 2016 on Ancestry.com.<br />
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14 California Death Index, 1940-1997, accessed on Ancestry.com 26 Jan 2016.<br />
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15 1920 US Federal Census, Precinct 12, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, taken on 5 Jan 1920, accessed 27 Jan 2016 on Ancestry.com.<br />
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16 1930 US Federal Census, El Centro Township, Imperial County, California, taken on 4 Apr 1930, accessed 27 Jan 2016 on Ancestry.com<br />
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17 Certificate of Death 61494 of Eldon Clide Clement, Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, accessed on 20 Apr 2016 on Ancestry.com.<br />
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18 Standard Certificate of Death 14664 of Deltha Fae Martin Clement, Texas State Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, accessed on Ancestry.com<br />
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19 Apr 2016
19 1940 US Federal Census, Vincent, Howard County, Texas, taken on 2 May 1940, accessed on Ancestry.com 19 Apr 2016.
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-15358107785904533942015-11-01T08:00:00.001-08:002015-11-01T08:00:13.821-08:00Musical SundayI have started to build a new Pinterest Board, Music I Like, based on and adding to my YouTube favorites. The range of music is quite wide: Eastern European (Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Hutsul, Gypsy, and many more), Scandinavian, Cajun and Zydeco, bluegrass, classical, Acadian, Celtic, classics and standards from movies, and many more.<br />
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I'll occasionally feature items from this board on this blog. Below, Peter Éri plays the "Pe Loc" on flute, Zoltán Farkas and Ildikó Tóth
dance. The melody is known from the Rumanian Folk Dances of Bartók.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/baYRLRCeP5E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-34884033956053800702015-09-12T16:38:00.002-07:002015-09-12T16:38:06.653-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy FunRandy Seaver at <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/09/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-genealogy.html" target="_blank">Genea-Musings</a> has issued his latest Saturday night Genealogy Fun challenge: go to Image Chef and create a genealogy-related image or item.<br />
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Here's mine:<br />
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<br />Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-20362885983281234162015-03-07T16:06:00.001-08:002015-03-07T16:06:40.023-08:00The Lost Weekend<div class="MsoNormal">
My eyes are bleary, my mouth dry, and there is a throbbing
in my head. I’ve lost track of time. I resisted all of yesterday evening, and
even into the afternoon today, but then I lost it and made the plunge. And
since then it has just been one after another, with no letup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And tomorrow will be the same – I won’t stop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The last time it was this bad (and it was worse then,
actually) was back in September 2008.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That was when Family Search made the Texas Death
Certificates available.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hello. My name is Greta, and I’m a geneaholic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the weekend that FindMyPast searches are free.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I thought I’d just put in a few terms, check out the
website, maybe find a few things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t
really need the censuses; thought I’d try newspapers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some names yielded hits; others gave bupkus. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then I discovered filters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I filtered for the state of Texas and input “Brinlee.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bingo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3030 articles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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OK, so 85% of them are on Rex Garland Brinlee, aka the
notorious “Bristow Bomber.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Google it –
not a pretty story.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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But when you get to the Bonham Daily Favorite and the
McKinney Daily Courier Gazette – that’s MY family’s part of the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Genealogy Bank does not have those
papers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And those papers contain my geneaholic’s liquor of choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far:<o:p></o:p></div>
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- Obituaries for most of my father’s family members.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- A story about a Brinlee family reunion (be still my
heart!).<o:p></o:p></div>
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- A story about the Norman and Brinlee families in and
around Fannin County throwing a big Christmas party for my grandmother and her
sister.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- A long article on my father’s eccentric cousins, Bun and
Square Brinlee.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- An article on a Brinlee who is an artist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- Miscellaneous other Brinlee obituaries.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- And an article on my brickwall great-grandmother Elizabeth
Brinlee celebrating her 98<sup>th</sup> birthday (it was actually probably
closer to her 90<sup>th</sup> birthday).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It does not mention parents or even siblings, but at least it’s
something. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-48254476671436495452015-02-16T15:20:00.001-08:002015-02-16T15:20:24.045-08:00Featured Family: Family of Freeman Manson Moore and Clarissa Abbott<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Freeman Manson Moore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-b. ca 1809, Greenville District, South Carolina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-d. aft 1864<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">& Clarissa Abbott<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-b. 1803, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-d. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-m. 5 Oct 1826, Newton County, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">---William S. Moore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----b. ca 1828, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----d. aft 1870<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">---& Nancy A. Dulin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----b. ca 1833, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----d. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----m. 14 Aug 1850, Henry County, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">---J. A. E. Moore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----b. ca 1835, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----d. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">---Sarah Clarissa Moore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----b. 7 Jan 1832, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----d. 8 Oct 1912, New Salem, Rusk County, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">---& Houston J. Skinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----b. 12 Sep 1829, Newton County, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----d. 20 Oct 1904, New Salem, Rusk County, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">-----m. 4 Dec 1853, DeKalb County, Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is the family of one of the older brothers of my
great-great grandfather, William Spencer Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The gaps in my knowledge of this family are so big that you could drive
a truck through them. With the exception of the youngest daughter and her
husband, I know no dates of death and only approximate dates of birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of my information is based on the 1850
census, when this family was in Henry County, Georgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know absolutely nothing about the
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the Georgia Militia; he may also appear on an 1865 tax list and in an 1867 voter
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If you are a descendant of this family or know anything
about them, please contact me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
click on the link “View my complete profile” in the “About Me” section on the
left side of this blog.<o:p></o:p></div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-79478044276916357762015-02-01T13:06:00.000-08:002015-02-01T13:06:16.572-08:00The Temptation Is Great, But<div class="MsoNormal">
… resist it, anyway. The lure of the Ancestry hint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hint you have to shoehorn in to fit the
established data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You find
“confirmation” elsewhere for the veracity of the hint, and if you just make a
couple of "minor" assumptions (or maybe three or four … or seven) about the (lack
of) accuracy of census-takers, then…<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have been doing some basic research on the children of
Wiley Franklin Moore and Mary Hood Busby, or actually filling in some missing
pieces in previous research on this collateral line (the line of Freeman Manson
Moore, a brother of my great-great grandfather William Spencer Moore).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has included filling out one of my
Ancestry trees with data on this family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was working on Arthur Elton Moore, the sixth known
child of Wiley Franklin Moore and Mary Hood Busby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I examined the various hints suggested by
Ancestry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to my previous
research, Arthur appears with his siblings on the 1910 US Federal Census, then
next on the 1930 census, plus there was SSDI information and a World War I
Draft Registration Card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was missing from
the 1920 census, as were some other Moores from this line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But Ancestry gave me a hint for the 1920 census:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1920 US Federal Census, Justice Precinct
1, Hopkins County, Texas, ED 65, p. 7A, 7 Jan 1920<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Line 25 232
Infirmary Street 138 161<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Moore, Elton A.
Head R M W 30 M Yes Yes TX TX TX Yes Mail carrier Rural<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Neeley Wife F W 24 M Yes Yes TX TN
TX Yes Shoe making At home W<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hoyal Son M W 6 S No TX TX TX None<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alleen Dau F W 3-3/12 S TX TX TX
None<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, I
didn’t trust it, so I decided to review the other hints first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hints included a couple of links to
Findagrave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There I found two children
listed for Arthur Elton and Ruby McClain Moore:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Harley E. Moore and Vida Aleen Moore Handley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This looked
pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there were
discrepancies:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Instead of
Arthur E. Moore (according the 1900 and 1940 censuses, and on the 1910 and 1930
censuses he is Arthur and Arthur L.), the name given is Elton A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His age is
somewhat off.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His occupation is
listed as mail carrier rather than farmer (as it is in the other censuses).<o:p></o:p></div>
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4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife’s name
was Ruby, not Neeley.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His son’s name was
Harley, not Hoyal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the
1930 census, his second child’s name is Jewel B. Moore, not Alleen Moore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. There is no mention of third child Berney Elbert Moore
who, according to the 1930 census, was born around 1919.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here were my explanations:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have often seen
ancestors’ first and middle names used alternately, especially in this family
line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides – Arthur E. vs. Elton A. –
still basically the same initials.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Census-taker or
information provider error.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The census did say
“Rural” after mail carrier, so the change in occupation was possible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ruby’s middle
initial was given as “N” in the 1930 and 1940 censuses – that could be Neeley.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Census-taker error
– and the approximate year of birth – 1914 – did match.<o:p></o:p></div>
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6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hm, this one was a
head-scratcher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the approximate year
of birth – 1916 – did match.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one was also
a head-scratcher, and I actually forgot it in my excitement at seeing Aleen
Moore listed as one of Arthur Elton’s children on Findagrave.<o:p></o:p></div>
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OK, so I blew it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But I didn’t let things stand at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After changing “Jewel B. Moore” to “Vida Aleen
Moore” on my Ancestry tree, I started to examine the hints for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was the California Death Index.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One item on it gave rise to a gnawing
unease:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her mother’s maiden name –
Blunt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So my next step was to see what I could come up with for a
search on Neeley Blunt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then my little house of straw started to collapse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Among the items for Neely Blunt Moore were a picture of her
with her children, Vida Aleen Moore and Hoyal Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And a picture of Aleen’s father, Elton Alexander Moore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oopsie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Though one interesting item was that Aleen’s mother’s name
was actually Ruby Neely Blunt (or Blount).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No wonder people are so confused about these two families.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On my Ancestry tree, the damage was already done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I had to figure out how to remove the
1920 census from the list of sources (it took me a while).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even then, the “fact” – residence in
Hopkins, Texas in 1920 – had to be removed separately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And I should have known to be more skeptical, because I had
just gone through something like this with Arthur’s brother, Wiley A(u)gustus
Moore, and with his uncle, Samuel Alexander Napoleon Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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A lot of people want Wiley to be Wiley William Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, as one researcher has pointed out,
his name on the 1900 census is “clearly” given as Wiley W. Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess you just never know when to be
skeptical of census-takers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is
another case where Findagrave duplicates the assumptions made by some readers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is listed as Wiley W. Moore and is linked
to the Wiley Franklin Moore family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The two census hints given by Ancestry are the right
guy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even if he is Wiley W. on the 1900
census, he is with the right family, and since he is listed as being in the
Kansas State Reformatory in 1910, I’m pretty sure that’s right, too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the next two hints are not so hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The World War I Draft registration card for
Wiley William Moore lists his mother and father as dependents (Mary Hood Busby
Moore died in 1905) and the California Death Index information for this same
Wiley William Moore (the date of birth for both is 20 April 1889) lists his
mother’s maiden name as Smith.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then there is Samuel Alexander Napoleon Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have 11 rejected Findagrave hints for him,
starting with the Findagrave hint for an Alexander Nepolin Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It lists his father as Israel Moore (my guy’s
father was William S. Moore), although it does have Nancy “Dublin” (= Dulin) Moore
as his mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death certificate for
this guy also indicates that Isrial Moore was his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But on the 1860 census there is an Alex N.B.
Moore of about the right age – and his father is Israel Moore. The woman who
appears to be his mother/his father’s wife is named Caroline, however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i>
Alexander Moore eventually married a Mary Delaney Cheeves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a lot of other Ancestry family trees,
probably following the lead of Findagrave and ignoring that inconvenient bit
about Israel Moore being the father, have Mary Delaney Cheeves as “our” Wiley
Moore’s wife.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In other words, these families are totally confused with one
another.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So even when Ancestry hints “seem” to be confirmed by
information found elsewhere, when there any sort of conflicting information, it
pays to be super-cautious.<o:p></o:p></div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-58957920394697201412015-01-25T16:10:00.000-08:002015-01-25T16:10:20.751-08:00My Research Week: 25 Jan 2015<div class="MsoNormal">
Despite some Short Attention Span Theater – flitting from
one family to another – in my research, I can call this a productive and
interesting research week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Though I am not participating in the Geneabloggers’ “Do
Over,” I did go back to revisit my research (hence the flitting) on closer
generations (grandparents, aunts, and uncles) and found quite a few “new to me”
things:<o:p></o:p></div>
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- One of my aunts by marriage committed suicide<o:p></o:p></div>
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- I finally learned the maiden name of the second wife of
one of my uncles<o:p></o:p></div>
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- I learned more about the German background of an uncle’s
wife<o:p></o:p></div>
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- Discovered that my paternal grandfather had filled out a
World War II registration form.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- Found a picture of an aunt for whom I had no pictures
showing her as an adult; the picture also included her second husband and two
sons.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- Entered a lot of 1940 census information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although I am continuing to build up my 23andMe family tree
on My Heritage, I have decided not to subscribe to My Heritage, since at this
point it does not look like there is a lot I can get out of the documents they
have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to admit I was tempted when
I saw that one item was a death notice for my paternal grandfather (I do not
have an obituary or death notice for him), but I suspect it was just a brief
notice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two of my favorite blog posts this week are:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://youngandsavvygenealogists.blogspot.com/2015/01/does-this-couple-in-missouri-own-your.html" target="_blank">“Does this couple in Missouri own your relatives on Find aGrave, too?”</a> on the <a href="http://youngandsavvygenealogists.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Young and Savvy Genealogists</a> blog (it includes a hilarious
and alarming story about David Tennant in the shower – knew that would get your
attention!).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Also this one on the <a href="http://www.thepersonalpast.com/" target="_blank">Personal Past Meditations</a> blog on “link
rot” and “citation rot”:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2015/01/25/going-going-saved/" target="_blank">“Going,Going…Saved</a>.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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And here is a new blog that I have been enjoying – this
author definitely has some colorful ancestors! -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://leavesonmyfamilytree.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Leaves on my Family Tree</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-7057872050490670412015-01-18T10:50:00.000-08:002015-01-18T10:50:01.877-08:002015<style>
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2014 was obviously not a banner year for me, either in terms
of genealogy blogging (I wrote a total of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one</b>
post) or in terms of genealogy research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My main genealogical activity consisted of keeping up with my DNA
results and matches on FamilyTree DNA, 23andMe, and Ancestry (whose adamant
refusal to add a chromosome browser is frustrating and discouraging).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In May I attended the National Genealogical
Society Conference in Richmond, Virginia, but my attendance at lectures was
greatly reduced by ill health (which has improved a great deal since then).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In October I attended Fairfax Genealogical
Society’s Fall Fair, featuring presentations by John Philip Colletta, and was
inspired to get back to serious genealogical research.</div>
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Even in the area of reading genealogy blogs my activity was
much reduced, especially since a number of my genealogy blogging friends had
also cut down their posting activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
did manage to start following at least two (new to me) genealogy blogs that
have provided fascinating reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://roots4u.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Hoosier Daddy?</a> and <a href="http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/" target="_blank">The Legal Genealogist</a>. </div>
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2015 shows a bit more promise, however. </div>
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There was one enormous (sort of genealogy-related)
development that happened in 2014:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my
husband and I bought a second house in Greenville, South Carolina, the destination
of a genealogy research trip we made in 2010 (described in several of my 2010
posts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only did my husband and I
fall in love with the place, our daughters became almost as obsessed as we are
when we stopped in Greenville on our way back from the National Genealogical
Society Conference in Charleston, South Carolina in May 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I am still working, I can only make a
few trips a year to Greenville, but eventually I plan to make it my “base” for
Southeastern US (SC, NC, GA, TN, and KY) research.</div>
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My research has started to return to “almost normal” – it
may be only a few minutes on weeknights, but I can usually shoehorn at least a
few hours of research into my schedule on the weekends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which brings up some of my current research….</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The “Ew” Factor</b></div>
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The current line I am researching involves a few pretty
scuzzy characters (who shall remain nameless to protect … I’m not sure what);
these are not direct ancestors (though there is plenty of scandal in my direct
line as well), but part of my “all descendants of” research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A number of the men show up in various prison
and reform school lists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One guy in
particular inspires the “Ew” response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He abandoned his wife and their nine children (and did not take
responsibility for the children after her death in 1931), appears with two
different women on the 1930 census, and eventually decided in the case of one
of these two women that he preferred her 15-year-old daughter (his
step-daughter), with whom he eventually had a number of children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is shown on the 1940 census living with
this woman, the 18-year-old stepdaughter, and what I can only assume are two of
his children with this stepdaughter (listed as his grandchildren).</div>
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Other research-related activities at this time are:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trying to get my genealogy materials and
files better organized (not exactly a genealogy “do over,” but still pretty
labor-intensive) and working on my family tree on MyHeritage, since 23andMe
family trees will now be hosted there.</div>
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“Real life” may sometimes interfere, but I will always find
my way back to my ancestors.</div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-69755331626206766092014-05-25T08:26:00.000-07:002014-05-25T08:26:12.458-07:00The Endless Loop<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">All I want to do is check the Collin County, Texas, Marriage Index, 1800-2010 results for the surname Brinlee. So, while working in one of my Member Trees on Ancestry (more about Ancestry Member Trees and New Search later), I obtain results for Martha Jane Brinlee that include this database. I then click on that database to do a search therein. I enter the surname Brinlee and click the box for “Exact Search.” This brings up a nice, juicy list of 102 results. I click on one of the names in the list. That brings me to the following page:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this is the 17th time this has happened to me today (yes, I have been counting). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Um, now to get out of this promotional page I have to go up to “My Account” and then hit the Home page, because there is no other way to get out of this promotional.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Sorry, Ancestry, I’m just not that interested in “Jumping the Pond.”</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is the third time I have been put into this loop (the other 14 logins I have had to do happened right in the middle of searches - and this has not been an uncommon occurrence, especially since the transition to New Search).</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I have even tried pulling up the Collin County, Texas, Marriage Index through the Card Catalog - same results.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So obviously I can forget doing “card catalog” type searches. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not that I’m paranoid or anything (well, actually, I am), but Ancestry takes every opportunity to log me out and offer me a World Membership, but what I’d really like is Ancestry Pro:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But Ancestry is not geared toward pros anymore. It is geared toward the Tree People. the people who never get out of the public member trees, whose research consists of creating a tree, using the matches with other trees to attach to their trees (and sometimes the records suggestions). I have to admit, it is easier to pull up good, relevant results that way than it is through New Search. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And yes, I know how to tailor New Search in Advanced Search - but that is far more time-consuming than Old Search and does not visually present the results in the manner that works best for me. The old, crisp, space-saving arrangement of search results by category let me know at a glance what the records situation for a particular ancestor might be. Need to tweak? I’d add a couple more searches, this time with wildcards or common misspellings or (when possible) the Soundex option selected - that might add a few records. This would take a few minutes and let me know what things might be missing and need some special tweaking to find.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I could put up with New Search if it weren’t for these Endless Loops. I just want the option of a decent records search, whether while I am inside an Ancestry Tree or working through the card catalog.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By the way, just now, as I was writing this post, I hit the “Home” button and got this screen:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Instead of logging back in, I hit the back arrow to get back to some search results, and got the first screen above.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Perhaps this is a bug that has just hit the system this weekend.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But that paranoid voice in my head keeps telling me:</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“This is Ancestry.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Do not leave the Tree.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> Do NOT leave the Tree!!!”</span></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-74752667763108782192013-08-09T18:15:00.000-07:002013-08-09T18:15:06.755-07:00Continuing a Tradition: Forgetting My BlogoversaryAlmost. If it hadn't been for Grant Davis of <a href="http://thestephensherwoodletters.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Stephen Sherwood Letters</a>, who was kind enough to leave a congratulatory comment on this blog, I would have forgotten my blogoversary. <br />
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My relative lack of blogging activity notwithstanding, I have not abandoned genealogy and it has not abandoned me. As you can see from my previous post, I recently broke through a brick wall. I am taking this as a sign not to let my research go dormant, and to keep plugging away, even if it is just a bit every night.<br />
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My husband and I have reserved hotel rooms in Richmond for NGS 2014.<br />
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We have a trip planned next month to my favorite ancestral stomping ground, the Greenville-Anderson area of South Carolina. We are even discussing possible future research trips to Dallas, Texas and Greene County, Illinois.<br />
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And even when I am not doing much of anything, this blog (as well as my website, <a href="http://www.gretasgenealogy.com/index.html" target="_blank">Greta's Genealogy</a>) continue to work for me. So while I miss the regular interaction with readers that accompanies regular posting, the blog is still doing what it was created to do. <br />
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Many thanks to those of you who have "stayed tuned." There are a few posts in the planning....Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-27960504025952585922013-08-01T18:18:00.002-07:002013-08-01T18:18:29.537-07:00Gen ZenThe best results often happen when you aren’t even trying....<br />
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There is no other way to describe it. It’s the Zen of genealogy.
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But I should back up and explain. During my one year plus of self-imposed exile from active genealogy research, I have become pathetic. My research has become pathetic, not to mention almost nonexistent.
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My research muscles are flabby. And I have come to passively accept the existence of my many brick walls. Not brick walls many generations back, but <b>early</b> brick walls, many at the great-great-grandparent level and even one at the great-grandparent level.<br />
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But still, I flit around aimlessly some evenings. I check out blogs on Feedly. A couple of nights ago I checked my genealogy mail, found a Family Search newsletter that links to new databases on family Search. I saw some databases for Vermont, and thought about checking out the Floyds in these records. Hey, look at all the hits I got.<br />
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But I needed to have a better idea of specific locations in Vermont to search. I decided to get that list of the names of the siblings of my great-great grandfather George Floyd, one of those brick walls that I just accept as a permanent part of my family history landscape. I thought I’d try to find a sibling who stayed in Vermont, and start with those locations.<br />
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So I looked around in Ancestry, starting with George Floyd’s two sisters. No luck with Harriet - she ended up in Wisconsin. But for Rachel, who married a Wilkins, I had better luck. Searching under both Rachel Floyd and Rachel Wilkins, I turned up a bunch of documents in the Vermont Vital Records database: a record of Rachel’s marriage to Nehemiah Wilkins, death records for a couple of young children, and ... a death record for Rachel.<br />
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I was not looking for this. But I found it, or more accurately, I found them: Rachel’s parents. My great-great grandfather George’s parents: William Floyd and Betsey Wilson. And even a place of birth for Rachel: Monkton (<b>there’s</b> the location!).<br />
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A brick wall came tumbling down, and I wasn’t even trying.<br />
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[One of my favorite Geneabloggers, Cynthia Shenette, has a blog named <a href="http://heritagezen.blogspot.com/">Heritage Zen</a>. Wise lady.]<br />
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[I must also give a huge amount of credit in this endeavor to two very generous Floyd researchers, Rich and Randy, who a couple of years ago got in touch with me and provided some wonderful old Floyd family letters, including that list of George Floyd’s siblings. Those materials and specifically that list made this discovery possible.]Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-50406415206283396002013-06-28T16:33:00.001-07:002013-06-28T16:33:43.533-07:00How I Feel About Ancestry Getting Rid of Old Search<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sF0zePMxxys" width="480"></iframe><br />
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This pretty much sums it up.Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-79361313316180976852013-05-19T13:57:00.000-07:002013-05-19T13:57:53.661-07:00Checking In<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Long time, no write. Thank you to readers and followers who have stuck with me during an online absence that has lasted longer than I thought - my last post was in 2012!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My research: Still plugging away on the last family in my “all descendants” research for all of my known great-great grandparents. Still entering information, one person at a time, in my family trees on Ancestry. This approach has turned up some interesting information that I hope to write about eventually. Doing a little bit of transcribing of documents from my 2010 Greenville research trip and hope to write about that as well. Still trying to tabulate and analyze my DNA results from FamilyTree DNA, 23andMe, and Ancestry DNA (see whine #1, below). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I attended the Fairfax Genealogical Society’s Spring Conference and had a great time. Continued my “winning streak”: this time a free book from Arphax Publishers. Judy Russell, and Dear Myrtle and daughter Carrie were some of the speakers - wonderful presentations!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We are starting to plan a fall vacation in Greenville, South Carolina. I will do some more research in Greenville and also plan to go over to Anderson County for research. Not that I have absorbed all of the research I did last time, but I just needed an excuse to get back to the Greenville area. I also plan to attend the NGS conference in Richmond in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1. “Tweaking” done by the various DNA companies that results in ... results dropping out, as in, “Oh, this person matched me on the Smith line, but now the Company (Ancestry/FamilyTreeDNA/23andMe) has rejiggered the results and they have disappeared from my list of matches.” Perhaps the intention really is to fine-tune the matches, but it is pretty difficult to map, calculate, and do statistical studies/spreadsheet comparisons, etc. when the results keep changing.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2. The disappearance of Google Reader. I’m sure that plenty of whining has been done on this subject, so I won’t add anything. Thanks to all who forged ahead, found alternatives and wrote about them. I have already migrated to Feedly.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have noticed that I am not alone in my “involuntary” exile, and hope that my fellow bloggers who have also been smacked up side the head by the demands of real life will also be able to return to the blogosphere.</span></div>
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Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-32619272709470131962012-12-28T17:20:00.000-08:002012-12-28T17:20:15.440-08:00Why I’m Creating a Junk Tree on Ancestry<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nor is it a psychological experiment to see just what kind of ridiculous garbage people will copy into their own trees (grandmothers born after their grandchildren, etc.).</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nor is it a post-modern statement on the futility of associating ourselves with long-dead people.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s not even a decision to go over to The Dark Side of Sloppy Research because I’m just too darned busy and tired to bother with the Genealogical Proof Standard.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Specifically, the sets of DNA matches that I have been able to (tentatively) tie to specific lines.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Because some of my DNA matches appear to be in those “fuzzy” parts of my ancestral lines.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And some of the matches I am getting are interesting - no, make that <b>very</b> interesting. And some of those tentative matches appear to be supported by other matches, some of which go even farther back along the same lines. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So, here’s the deal. I am not including any information that I <b>know</b> to be false. I am, however, going back a generation or two farther than the documentary evidence with which I am familiar would cover, i.e., some of these are “reputed” parents (or parents of parents) that are commonly encountered in online trees or claimed in a family history, online post, etc., without citation of sufficiently thorough supporting evidence. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I do not do this with my other, “main” Ancestry trees; additions are only made to these trees when I can document the connection. However, for several reasons, these trees have not been useful to me with Ancestry DNA connections. For one thing, I have three personal trees, divided up into my father’s ancestors, my maternal grandmother’s ancestors, and my maternal grandfather’s ancestors. So if I connected any single tree, it would leave out large chunks of my ancestors. If I elected not to choose a particular tree to connect, Ancestry would give a person viewing my DNA connection the option to choose among my trees - but I am fairly certain when some people saw my name in the list with “No family tree” indicated, they would think that I had no tree to connect and would not even click on my name. Or, they might click on my trees and see my husband’s trees listed as well, which might be confusing. Better to have something which covers all of my lines, if not necessarily in extensive, documented detail.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So, I created a pedigree tree. During my first couple of years of research, I looked into what kind of research had been done previously on various lines, took notes, and could reconstruct a pedigree based on this research and some original discoveries of my own. There were roughly four different categories of research in terms of quality of the material that was online:</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So now it is true confession time: my pedigree tree on Ancestry includes some connections from these last two categories. Before I connected this tree to my DNA results, for the most part I had to search out connections on my own, trying to remember in my head established and tentative family connections. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">[Side note on why I am focusing on Ancestry DNA: right now it is the major source of my DNA “matches”; I also participate in Family Tree DNA, but so far only have three matches (out of a total of 437 so far) where I can definitely identify a connection, though I hope this will increase as I contact more people. I just received my kit from 23 and Me, but from what I have heard it also has a low rate of responses to inquiries. From Ancestry, however, I already have a list of 43 connections of interest (for 39 of which I can directly connect family lines) plus a few additional “maybes,” and of course Ancestry is just getting into the game - so far it appears that new matches are added every week, compared to something like twice a month for Family Tree DNA. Ancestry itself will show the connection if it can, but it’s often possible to figure it out yourself.]</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is, of course, a major fly in the ointment: at this point Ancestry is not including the actual genetic information, i.e., the precise chromosomal location of the matches. And this eliminates the main tool for verifying and correlating matches. My message to Ancestry: <b>Ancestry, your autosomal matching would be the most useful in the field if you included this information</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The other people I would send a message to would be Ancestry subscribers who are participating in the DNA testing: if you do not have a tree on Ancestry, create one. If your tree is private, either make it public or create a separate pedigree tree as I have for connection to match results. If there is “sketchy” information in your connected tree, by all means make that clear when you correspond with your matches.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Below are some of the findings I have from Ancestry DNA (for readers not related to me, you can skip straight to the end past these specifics, but just a glance will tell you that there is some substantial evidence here). What is interesting (and persuasive) are the consistency of many of the matches: I can already see trends - multiple matches along certain lines - which confirms the fact that we do not inherit genetic material equally from all ancestors, and may not share genetic material, or at least significant genetic material, with many of our distant ancestors. Obviously, it is easier to make connections for well-researched lines than for those that are not as well researched, and this makes me wonder about the family lines where I have significant brick walls: if I could correlate the family lines of my matches, would I turn up some major, multiple overlaps that would give me a hint as to where some of my connections actually are? (Another idea for Ancestry: Could you make such a tool available for Ancestry DNA participants? Just a thought.)</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1. <b>Norman-Monk</b>: One connection through my great-great grandparents Joseph Madison Carroll Norman and Rebecca Monk. This is exciting because JMC Norman had three wives, and I am mostly in touch with descendants of his other two wives, so to get an actual connection to one of Rebecca’s descendants is wonderful. Furthermore, both the Norman and Monk lines get confirmation:</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Norman-Read</b>: This is a 6g-level connection and is significant to me because it goes beyond the 5g-level where, for me at least, the documentary trail seemed a little bit lacking - the will of 5g-grandfather James Norman mentions son Joseph Norman, but I was not sure how he was identified as Joseph Madison Carroll Norman (the older - my 4g-grandfather, the grandfather of my 2g-grandfather with the same name).</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Norman-Courtney</b>: This, at the level of my 7g-grandparents, is a big payoff, and I not only have three connections at this level (plus another possible, but not established connection), I have an independent connection at the next level up for Courtneys (Courtney-Jenkins, the parents of my 7g-grandmother, Frances Courtney).</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And from there it gets more interesting and goes into some of those uncharted (for me) waters:</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>(Monk-Pool-)Bullock-Hood</b>: This is an independent connection to my 6g-grandparents, David Bullock and Elizabeth Hood (my Bullock connection comes through a Monk-Pool connection, but the match has no Monk connection), and there is another possible separate Bullock connection.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2. <b>Brinlee-McKinney</b>: Two connections at the 2g-level (my great-great-grandparents Hiram Brinlee Senior and Elizabeth Ann McKinney).</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3. <b>Poole-Manning</b>: one connection at the 4g level (I also have a match at this level on FTDNA). Next along this line:</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4. <b>Johnson-Moorman and Johnson-Massie</b>: These would be at the 6g and 7g level. There are a number of connections here, plus other possibles. Not surprising that this line, while distant, has a strong showing - these families, plus the Clarks (for whom I have a 7g and possibly an 8g connection) intermarried with incredible (and confusing) frequency. I always know when I see a man named Moorman Johnson (or Clark Johnson or a family full of Micajahs and Bollings) that there is a family connection. One of my contacts has a Benjamin Johnson who married a Margery Massie; this Benjamin Johnson was originally posited as a relative of my Johnsons (I think he may be a brother of my 6g-grandfather) and subsequent DNA testing has shown that this is so, plus his Massie wife is almost certain to be related to my Massies. One of my matches has so many Clarks, Johnsons, Massies, and Clarks in his line that I cannot even figure out all of our connections.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5. <b>Hamilton line</b>: One connection at the 6g (Hamilton-Kincaid) level and two at the 7g level (Hamilton-Adams).</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6. <b>The Tarrant line</b>: I am almost 100% certain that my great-great grandmother Emily Tarrant came from the Tarrants of Greenville, South Carolina, all of whom were descended from a Leonard Tarrant (and one of my matches is descended from this Leonard Tarrant), but I do not know precisely who her parents were. However, I have been pulling up matches (three so far) with people who have connections to the Dalton families that married into these Tarrants - specifically, Leonard Tarrant’s son Benjamin married a Mary Dalton, and their sons Robert and Wyatt also married a pair of Dalton sisters (apparently cousins). There is also a Tankersley connection (which may not the actual point of connection with this particular DNA match, as it points to a different son of Leonard Tarrant) and one or two tentative Terry connections (which might point to Emily’s father being one of the two sons of Benjamin Tarrant who married Dalton girls, since their father, Solomon Dalton, married a Terry - yes, I know, this is making my head hurt, too.) </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Obviously, the absence of information on the chromosomal location of my matches, as well as the big gaps in my family lines left by some major brickwalls (two great-grandparents are missing and 16 great-great-great grandparents are missing) means that I may be misidentifying connections. However, I believe that the information above indicates some real trends, and will be checking all my new connections as well as contacting matches without Ancestry trees (or with private trees) to try to support these findings.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I <b>will</b> be amending and extending this pedigree tree as I turn up genetic and documentary evidence for and against the various connections that it indicates, and I hope that one day it will rise above the level of a “junk” tree, but in the meantime, I am definitely finding that it is a useful (not to say absolutely reliable) tool.</span><br />
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Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-65551114692859297022012-11-12T16:06:00.000-08:002012-11-12T16:06:31.158-08:00What’s Been Happening, Part 1 (or: Fun with DNA)<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Regular” life is same-old, same-old = too much work, but in my exhausted stupor in the evenings, I’ve managed to make a little bit of progress over the past year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There have only been two “active” areas for me this year: putting my existing genealogy database information in my Ancestry Public Member Trees (I do this in a labor-intensive, ancestor-by-ancestor way, but I think the attention to detail makes up for the amount of time that it consumes) and DNA testing with Family Tree DNA and Ancestry.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To address the last one first: Interesting experience. I would say that it is definitely worthwhile to do the DNA testing, although you have to sift through a lot of dross to hit paydirt. And, of course, new information is always being added, so that can always change the significance of the information that is already there. I tested with Family Tree DNA first, and now have something like 42 pages of matches. Of those, I can only positively identify the connection for three matches. One of these was for a family line that I felt of lot of confidence in, but it was still exciting to see the connection confirmed: the McKinneys of Texas (think Collin County and the city of McKinney). Not because this is a “minor celebrity” branch, but because it was one of the earliest genealogical references I ever heard my relatives make (one that I dismissed at the time) and one of the clues that I pursued when I first started family research.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I contacted the person in question, but did not receive a response. Then how did I know that these were “my” McKinneys? After all, McKinney is not an uncommon name. The person did at least have family names listed, and there were two that caught my eye: Blatchley and Coffey. That clinched it for me, and even pretty much pinned down where the connection is.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The second connection was through the Pool/Poole (I actually have two lines for this name, one on my father’s side and one on my mother’s side) and Manning families (Adam Poole m. Esther Manning). This was exciting because it confirmed the connection from the Lewis line; I believe I was the first Lewis researcher to identify Elisha Berry Lewis’ wife as Martha Poole, daughter of Manning Poole (and previous work done by other researchers has established his connection to Adam and Esther). I have since found a second connection on this line (through a different sibling of Manning) on Ancestry DNA.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The third connection goes to my Hamilton-Calhoun line: my first Hamilton is my 4g-grandmother Elizabeth Hamilton, wife of Henry Skiles III, and the Calhoun connection is several generations up from that. I know that due to migration patterns, etc., there are often multiple family connections, so that this might not be the actual shared DNA, but still ... the possibility that this is where the match lies is intriguing, and I will be keeping an eye on future matches through this segment to see if the connection is confirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ancestry DNA, though it has a shorter list of matches, has more identifiable connections - 11 at last count. Two Brinlee matches - no surprise, though I am enjoying corresponding with one of these matches, who is a relatively new researcher. There are two McKinney matches, and one has an interesting McKinney connection: due to a first cousin marriage, he is descended both from my ggg-grandfather Daniel McKinney and from Daniel’s brother Collin McKinney. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are two Norman matches: one is descended from the full sister of my great-grandfather (he also had many half-siblings), and one is descended from from my Norman-surnamed 6g-grandfather. This latter connection is also welcome news, as it confirms the connection between my 5g-grandfather (whose affiliation with my line I am confident of) and the alleged progenitor of the family in this country (my 7g-grandfather Isaac Norman). I knew that some pretty sound research had been done on this line, but had not seen enough documentation for these generations. To make a nice set with the Norman connections, there is a match through my Monk line - the sibling of Rebecca Monk, my great-great grandmother and first wife of Joseph Madison Carroll Norman. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The remaining matches are on my mother’s side: another Poole confirmation as well as two other matches that confirmed some of my original research - the Lewis connection to the Dalrymple family and a Tarrant connection, which provides support for the sole documentary evidence I have (so far) that my great-great grandmother Emily Moore, wife of Spencer Moore, was a Tarrant, and specifically one of the Greenville Tarrants.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So why am I able to ascertain the connections for more of my Ancestry matches? I imagine the answer to that is that most of them have family trees on Ancestry. There are a number of my matches on FTDNA who post their pedigrees, and many more who post the family names they are researching - but perhaps not enough. While I was able to figure out one of the matches without a pedigree, for the most part it is the context in the trees that helps me out.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And none of my FTDNA matches has responded to my messages to them. To be fair, after testing with FTDNA, I was quickly contacted by several matches, but none of us has been able to pinpoint our connection. I have had more responses on Ancestry, but only a couple of them seem to be actively researching the lines in question. One contact for whom I provided the maiden name for a female ancestor who was not very far back in his family tree was polite, but did not seem to be interested in finding out more about the new family connection.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So what is behind the indifference of all of the people who went to the trouble and paid their money to get their DNA tested, but have provided little or no family information, do not bother to respond, do not want to pursue the information further? I am aware that I need to be patient - some of the people may not check their results or e-mail regularly or may have had to put their research on hold - heck, I’ve been in that situation myself for most of the past year. Even then, even in my most comatose state of tiredness, a contact from a new cousin could always get me going. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And why do so many people provide little or no family information? I have heard that there are a number of people who test with Family Tree or 23 and Me who are adopted, so they have no information to post, but other than that situation, how do people expect to get results? Even I figured out how to post my pedigree on FTDNA - if I can do it, anyone can. I even submitted it to Gedmatch (though there seem to be a number of glitches/problems/bugs with this site), and I’m going to switch the only one of my Ancestry trees that is private to public so that that information will be accessible as well. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It occurs to me that the same people who start research but then get discouraged after the first few “finds” when they learn that they are going to have to do some real digging are the ones who take the DNA test and then do not pursue it when they see that it takes some real work to find out what their connections are with various people. Correlating DNA evidence, like correlating documentary evidence, is not simple or easy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here is what I am doing to pursue the DNA evidence:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Writing to all people shown as my DNA matches for whom: (a) there is a strong match or (b) I can pinpoint the connection; if they do not have an Ancestry tree, or it is a private tree, or if they are on FTDNA and have not posted either a pedigree or a detailed name list, I am offering to exchange pedigrees.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Continue to fill out my Ancestry trees, and also direct people to my website and blog, so that they can have more complete information to calculate our connections.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Use Gedmatch, Excel/Numbers, and FTDNA’s Chromosome Browser to correlate information: sort out people by chromosome and then chromosome segment, and then see who lines up with my known connections; keep spreadsheets of some names that pop up with a lot of my matches; and whatever else I can think of.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My fourth blogoversary comes at the end of my “quietest” year in blogging. Real life, mainly my job, claimed a lot of the time I would have preferred to spend on research and blogging. I have been gratified to see that my readers and fellow genealogy bloggers are a loyal lot and have not forgotten this blog. While my schedule does not look as though it will return to a completely normal state, I do hope to have at least a bit of weekend time for my avocations. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I continue to read genealogy blogs and follow the research, observations, and views discussed in those blogs with interest. To those of you who live, breathe, read and write genealogy: You all exemplify one of the least heralded benefits of “networking”: pure enjoyment.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And my laggard state, Texas, is finally fully indexed. I think of the state as being the slow one, not the indexers. Texas seems to have had a lot of people with bad handwriting, and I’m sure that was a challenge. Not to mention some of those loopy Southern nicknames, the type that took root among my ancestors and elbowed out their given names.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When I saw the announcement of the completion of indexing on Ancestry, and to celebrate my semi-freedom (= not working this weekend), I decided to see whom I could find on the 1940 census. Earlier I had found my mother’s parents and younger siblings in Baylor County, Texas using Morse and Weintraub’s Universal 1940 Census Image Viewer.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Could I find my mother? Yes. But I wasn’t so sure that I would be able to at first. When I clicked on “Search the 1940 Census,” the only choices that appeared under the state of residence were All, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Nevada, and New York. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Then I tried going to Search, Census and Voter Lists, 1940 United States Federal Census, and there the choices for state of residence were All, Delaware, and Nevada.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“All” it was, then. When necessary, I could still use the state of birth to limit the number of results. And on the third page of results, there she was - Madeline Roberts - living with her first husband, Howard C. Roberts (entered as Harry C. Roberts) and her brother Harrison Moore in Visalia, Tulare, California. I had not expected them to be living there; I remembered her talking about what an awful place Visalia was, and had mistakenly thought that she, my father (her second husband), and I had lived there when I was too young to remember. Apparently not. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How interesting. Well, her age had been shown as 73 in the 1930 census. But on the 1920 census it was 50, and on the 1910 census it was 41; moreover, the December 1891 marriage license for her and Hiram Brinlee gave her age as 23. In a letter appended to her Confederate Widow’s pension application, written on 10 September 1929, she admits “I have lost my age I am some where in 60 I am not 75.” While most researchers stick to the 1868-1869 time frame, some quote a family Bible for the date of 4 April 1856 for her birthday. I suspect that date was entered in the Bible some time between 1930 and 1940, and that by 1940 it was taken as an accepted fact. However, no one bothered to do the mental math that would have made her 52 when her last child, Cecil Odell Brinlee, was born on 23 September 1908 (possible but not likely).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Then there is the problem of my Great Uncle Obadiah “Oby” Norman. I have found Uncle Oby (born 31 March 1895) on the 1900 census. That’s it. I have not been able to find his parents, William Henry “Jack” Norman and Sarah Jane Sisson Norman, on the 1910 or 1920 censuses. Oby was married to Edith Watson by 1920, but I do not find them on that census. I find Edith living alone as a boarder on the 1930 census, and Oby was not with her. I find her on passenger lists going to Honolulu Hawaii on 29 March 1930 and returning to Wilmington, California on 6 April 1930 and still Oby is not with her. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the 1940 census is more of the same. I find an Edith Norman of the right age (40; “my” Edith Watson Norman was born on 2 July 1899), born in Texas, and living alone; she is listed as married, with the “M” lightly crossed out and the 7 added to indicate that no spouse was living with her in the household at the time of the census. I have tried some variations for Uncle Oby, but with no success so far.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where was Uncle Oby? There was a time when I thought that Uncle Oby’s absence in 1930 might have meant that the couple had experienced some strains in their marriage following the death of their only child in 1928 and were separated. However, my Uncle Bill reported that Uncle Oby was an itinerant preacher (probably Primitive Baptist) and that he was shattered by Aunt Edith’s death in 1956. So the chances are that Oby was just off somewhere preaching.... But why the heck can’t I find him on any census after 1900?!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So, even without being able to fine-tune searches by state of residence, my searches on the 1940 census are turning up some information. But some mysteries still remain.</span></div>Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-57397317153799691822012-06-05T18:27:00.000-07:002012-06-05T18:27:16.082-07:00How to Spot a Genealogy Impostor<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks a Flip-Pal is someone who helps a gymnast practice.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks Tom Jones the Rock Star is a singer.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks a “Keep Out” sign at a graveyard means what it says.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks Fold3 is a brand of laundry detergent.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks Samford might be a school in California.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks pedigree collapse is caused by really big storms.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks an online tree is, well, you know, a picture of a tree on the Internet.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks a brickwall ancestor was a mason.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks naturalization is what happens when you stop dying your hair.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinks that genealogical research has something to do with shaky leaves. </span></div>Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-15432695664281868332012-05-22T16:43:00.001-07:002012-05-22T16:43:59.494-07:00I Got my Invitation for Ancestry DNAAnd Gmail put it in the Spam folder.<br />
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Still pouting....Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-7135094159226849482012-04-14T17:18:00.000-07:002012-04-14T17:18:59.809-07:00SNGF: Sayings Around the World<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here is Randy Seaver’s (<a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-latin.html" target="_blank">Genea-Musings</a>) latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1) Find some of your favorite sayings, aphorisms, jokes, etc. They can be genealogy-related, or not.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2) Translate them into Latin using Google Translate (<a href="http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT"><span style="color: #001ba6; letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT</span></a>).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3) Share them with us in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook status line or Google Plus Stream post (impress your non-genealogy friends with your Latin skills!).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is something you would say about a person you do not trust:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pokud se jeho slova most, nechtěl bych jít na to.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">თუ მის სიტყვებს იყო ხიდი, მე არ მინდა სიარული იგი.</span></div>Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-45763415737288518962012-04-08T13:57:00.000-07:002012-04-08T13:57:44.006-07:00Not Too Tired to Browse<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So enough whining and pining for my ancestors. I have at least been able to spend a few hours of quality time with them since the 1940 census was released on 2 April.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My approach is to start with Texas counties where I know my parents’ families lived, especially counties with smaller populations. Not all of them would be living there in 1940, of course, but I can probably count on quite a few of them still being there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My father, his parents, and many of his siblings should be in Fannin County, though some of his older siblings might be in other Texas counties and even in other states. Other counties to check will be Collin, Hunt, and Grayson.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Many members of my mother’s family, possibly including her and her first husband, may have started to move to California around this time; I am not really sure when the exodus from Texas started, but I would guess around the late 1930s or early 1940s, and I know that my older half-brother was born in California in 1945. However, I was pretty sure that there would be any number of relatives still living in Baylor, and on this score I was correct.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Using Steve Morse and Joel Weintraub’s <a href="http://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html" target="_blank">1940 Census ED Finder page</a>, I started at the beginning of the Enumeration Districts listed for Baylor County, 12-1. I made it through 30 of the 46 pages and did recognize many names of families that I knew when I lived there, but did not find any relatives. The second night I decided to search on the last ED listed (12-7), since the lower-numbered ones appeared to be for the town of Seymour and I knew that my relatives lived on farms outside of town.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The first family I found were actually not direct relatives, but the family of my half-brother’s grandfather, Officer Roberts. The other people shown in the household were one of Officer’s daughters (my brother’s aunt) and two grandsons whose parents (my brother’s uncle and his wife) had died a few years previously. Officer was widowed by this time and would die not long after the census, and my mother and her husband would then take the two boys in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The next family to be found were my mother’s parents and her three youngest surviving siblings (the youngest sibling died in the early 1930s). I was surprised to see that my grandfather Kirby Moore was listed not as a farmer, but as a laborer for some kind of county project. It did not surprise me that my grandfather received schooling only through sixth grade, but it did surprise me that my grandmother finished high school (though it was reported that her father was anxious to see that his children received a good education, including music lessons, my grandmother was still a child when he died and the family fortunes may have suffered after his death).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Other finds were relatives of my mother’s mother, several families who married into my mother’s family, the family of the father of one of my friends, and the family of the stepfather of another of my friends (these last two were on the same page, which was only three pages from my grandparents - perhaps we were fated to be friends).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Not bad for a start. My next steps will be to finish browsing Baylor County, check the Lancaster area of Dallas County (where many of my mother’s aunts, uncles, and cousins would probably still be living), and then go on to Fannin and nearby counties. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(And there has been other genealogy-related activity as well. A researcher with whom I have corresponded in the past sent me the link to a newspaper article on <a href="http://chroniclingamerica.com/" target="_blank">Chronicling America</a> with a fabulous story about my great-great grandfather Spencer Moore - stay tuned!)</span></span></div>Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324800784948486726.post-62844831227671845742012-03-24T15:28:00.000-07:002012-03-24T15:28:46.209-07:00Memorable Quotes from Thomas Jones<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“My genealogical program of choice is Microsoft Word.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mine, too. Though I copy a lot of what I put down into the notes page on my Reunion program. He explained that there are just so many things you can do in Word - timelines, tables, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“It would be extremely hypocritical for me to talk about organizing your office” (with just the hint of a beginning of a grin). You could hear the intake of breath in the audience, followed by chuckles. Take comfort, fellow slobs - even the great ones struggle with those piles of paper! </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Great presentations - attended all of Thomas Jones’ presentations (and I think I’ve only seen one of them before), two of Dear Myrtle’s (she’s just amazing - so informative and inspiring and makes genealogy so much fun (and funny!)), Chuck Mason’s “Defining the Problem and Mapping the Research Plan” (I so have to pay serious attention to this and get my act together), and Pam Sayre’s “Effectively Using NARA’s Finding Aids and Website” (brilliance and energy in action - when she explains how to “drill down” in the website and shows two or three different ways to attack a search on the website, it’s awe-inspiring (and would be overwhelming if she didn’t have great notes in the presentation summary)). </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’m finally getting my autosomal DNA testing done with Family Tree DNA! Bob McLaren did a mini-presentation on DNA testing for genealogy on Friday night and announced conference sale prices for Family Tree DNA. So on Saturday I sat down at Bob’s booth, did the swabs, filled out the info, and out it will go. Plus I’m going to see if my male Moore cousins will do the 67-marker test.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Won a door prize - a subscription to Archives.com!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was soooo wonderful to have a genealogy weekend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I miss my blog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I miss my fellow genealogy bloggers and commenters and research cousins.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I miss my ancestors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I <b>will</b> be back.</span></span></div>Greta Koehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.com17