tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53291222506240200732024-02-14T14:55:00.101-06:00Finding the Flock - A Genealogy Research BlogI'm an amateur genealogist. This blog will show off how my genealogical research is progressing.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-15501067431232386552023-06-18T08:48:00.000-05:002023-06-18T08:48:17.746-05:00Many more to find....So Newspapers.com is doing a free access weekend this week for Fathers' Day. My gift year that I received for being an admin on Wikipedia expired in January, so I took advantage of the free access and did a few more searches. I found some really good information on some of my cousin lines. One that I want to highlight is the story of Eureka (McClure) Keyt. In 1959, her Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-8887915114689383592022-01-16T21:37:00.000-06:002022-01-16T21:37:01.058-06:00In search of.... Rachel S. Hutchinson's parentsAs noted in the last post, FamilySearch.org thinks that I'm a Mayflower descendant. The suggested connection is through my 3rd great grandmother, Rachel S. Hutchinson.Rachel has been one of my brick walls for a while now, so finding out that FamilySearch contributors had linked her not only to her own parents but had linked another eight generations further back to a Mayflower passenger wasSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-27390795427262002162022-01-03T15:30:00.000-06:002022-01-03T15:30:00.510-06:00Connecting to fameSo last month I got an email from FamilySearch.org that they were rolling out a new Famous Relatives page. It shows famous historical figures that connect to my tree in some way, usually a distant cousin. I finally had some time to check it out today and, wow, there are a lot of connections. My maternal line connects back to quite a lot of people; I need to add more connections Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-52173122824118426702021-11-30T22:33:00.000-06:002021-11-30T22:33:00.010-06:00Resurrecting this projectSo it's been a while since I last added anything here. Last week I just upgraded to RootsMagic version 8, and I spent all of my free time going back through what I have and creating a new database with better citations to source documents. I shared some of what I had with family at Thanksgiving, and decided to resurrect this blog to simplify distributing some of the more interesting Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-73761950459287466752013-07-17T17:41:00.001-05:002013-07-17T17:43:58.963-05:00Dead men don’t register for the draft … or …How searching for the FAN club confirms direct ancestor dataSo in recent weeks, there have been a few comments on some of my Mosley research (most recently on a blog post showing marriage license index cards for a few families that I’m researching). One of the comments suggested that I had the incorrect death date for Richard Washington Mosley (b. 22 Feb 1834 in Pennsylvania). The comment noted that his obituary puts his death in February 1918Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-79858576351328562792013-04-27T14:35:00.001-05:002013-04-27T14:35:59.116-05:00I wonder what happened?I had a little extra time this week in between other tasks, so I decided to try some new searches on the recently upgraded FamilySearch website. I found a few items that with scans of original documents that directly answered a few questions, but I also found one that had a bit of a surprise… I started from my grandparents and tried searching back a few generations. My searches were Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-78458375531804437042013-04-18T12:39:00.001-05:002013-04-18T12:39:43.717-05:00Transcription errors are fickle beastsAncestry.com has opened up marriage records for free access this week through Sunday. I was able to carve out a little bit of time today to see what I could find in a quick search on a couple of the lines I’m researching, and found some interesting results… The first couple I searched for was that of Orrin Carstarphen Horne and Mary Ann Lowe. There were two results for the same Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-75133119132879020052012-12-26T16:44:00.001-06:002012-12-26T16:44:58.599-06:00Of the arts and self-employment…Wow, has it really been that long? I guess it has. I’ve spent the majority of my time trying to get my photography business going and wasn’t able to devote much of any of my time to personal projects this year. But through all of it, I haven’t forgotten about my research. Earlier this year, when I was able to read a little more, I found a reference in a book that noted my Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-71804319100600255812012-08-02T12:38:00.001-05:002012-08-02T12:40:07.433-05:0020 years ago today… So there we go leaving the reception in style on our first car ride as a married couple on August 2, 1992. The Continental was owned, restored and driven (in an appropriate chauffeur’s uniform) by a friend of Jennifer’s father. Our ceremony and reception were at the Portofino Inn and Yacht Club in Redondo Beach, California. We weren’t sailors (and with the way I get sick, we Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-34244767426319361072012-05-17T19:25:00.001-05:002012-05-17T19:25:44.231-05:00New cousins, but no way to contact themI’m trying to find out a little more about my Brown line this week. I’ve traced back to my second great grandfather James M. Brown (b. circa 1853, Bloomington, Indiana). I can’t quite get much farther back yet except that the 1880 U.S. census says his parents were both born in South Carolina. I found a potential lead on more information in the Ancestral File database on Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-13940953750024588562012-04-24T15:12:00.001-05:002012-04-24T15:12:34.234-05:00A couple more answers but more questions in Denver…I can’t seem to get away from looking at records from Colorado this week. I’m still waiting for the 1940 census index for Colorado, but still trying to find more information from the area. Today I searched for a cousin in Jennifer’s Dunn line, Roy J. Dunn. I found him with some unexpected family members. What I knew before today’s find was this: William J. Dunn (b. circa 1851, Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-54249587268676975902012-04-22T11:56:00.001-05:002012-04-22T11:56:22.906-05:00More Mosleys but in Philly…For the longest time, I’ve had George H. Mosley (b. 1799, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 12 Feb 1872, Troy, Doniphan, Kansas), his wife Letitia Parsons (b. 28 Feb 1802, Philadelphia; d. 8 July 1850, Philadelphia) as the end of the Mosley line in my database. I haven’t gone farther back yet (maybe there’ll be something once more of the 1812 pension files are online), but I found out a littleSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-1080676964460052312012-04-21T14:47:00.001-05:002012-04-21T14:52:17.893-05:00Mosley matches in ColoradoI’ve been waiting for the 1940 U.S. census indexing to finish Colorado this week. The progress map shows that the state is fully indexed, but the index isn’t quite available to search yet on FamilySearch. So today I took a quick look at the other record sets available for Colorado and found some new information in our lines… When you visit the FamilySearch main page, there are links Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-75737556071699587552012-04-16T17:56:00.001-05:002012-04-16T17:56:36.825-05:00Saved by sounds-like spellingSo as with other branches of the family, I’m going back through record sets on FamilySearch to find more documentation on the people I already know about. Today I worked my way back to the family of John Schenbeck (M; b. 29 Oct 1798, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany; m. Katherine Oesch; d. 24 March 1865) and further reinforced one of the reasons I like to search from FamilySearch… For my search I Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-15046374139291651262012-03-31T23:15:00.001-05:002012-03-31T23:15:57.793-05:00Today’s new documentWell, I was hoping I could have a good April Fool for this weekend, but with the crazy busy way things have gone since November, it didn’t quite work out this year. Instead, I’ve got a new (to me) document to share that furthers my research a little and gives me several more questions to answer. With all of the new records that are being digitized and indexed on FamilySearch, it pays to goSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-57072902154972681182012-03-23T06:39:00.001-05:002012-03-23T06:39:25.888-05:00Is he the guy?Genealogical research often seems like a detective story. In our house, we watch a lot of detective stories on television and we’ve taken a line from Monk, one of our favorite shows of the genre, and applied it to other shows. As soon as we guess who the villain is, we say “he’s the guy.” Or if we disprove someone as the villain, we say “he’s not the guy.” Today I took a quick Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-82536416554862776782012-03-21T20:59:00.001-05:002012-03-21T20:59:19.228-05:00Aaron A. Lowe begins to reveal himselfYesterday, I posed the question asking who was Aaron A. Lowe. One of the references in that article described an entry for Lottie Horne’s death in the Macon Telegraph. I hypothesized that Aaron could have been Mary Lowe’s brother. I haven’t proved that yet, but today I found a little more about Aaron and his family with another connection to Orrin C. Horne. Since I had one Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-28819972768219915442012-03-20T21:39:00.001-05:002012-03-20T21:39:06.833-05:00Who was Aaron A. Lowe?I finally have some time this evening to do a little more looking around in my family history research. Picking up from where I left off last time, which was looking at census records on my Horne line in Georgia, I found some new (to me) information in the Find-A-Grave database for Orange Hill Cemetery in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia. I started back with the people that I know Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-84470727359371522282012-02-26T13:18:00.001-06:002012-02-26T13:18:14.045-06:00More information on the Rice line from 1870Earlier this week I learned that my local public library allows access to Heritage Quest through my library’s website. It originally wouldn’t let me log in and I had to visit my local library branch to learn that my card had been expired (probably since I haven’t had a chance to use it for some time). A few minutes later I had a new card and could log in through the website again. SoSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-19555452991939213162012-02-13T20:58:00.001-06:002012-02-13T20:58:40.542-06:00Where have I been and what am I working on?Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. I noticed in the last year or so that I tend to work on all my projects in waves. I’ll work on building my model railroad for a month or two, then I’ll sort stamps for a few weeks, then knock a couple books off my reading list, then spend some time with my record collection, then do some volunteer work, and…. You get the Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-85190989944433138342011-10-25T17:01:00.001-05:002011-10-25T17:01:38.027-05:00What day of the week was it?We don’t think about this very much, but as I was looking at some dates related to my philatelic pursuits, it struck me that it was likely that a lot of records wouldn’t have been dated on a Sunday. But how do we know what day of the week any particular date fell on in history? UNIX systems include a utility called “date” in almost all distributions. To those of you who don’t Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-41715677316519009032011-10-14T22:45:00.001-05:002011-10-14T22:45:33.939-05:00Links from Geneabloggers RadioI was able to check in at Geneabloggers Radio again tonight, making this my third week participating live. Tonight’s topic was cemeteries. This week’s reading list (in no particular order) from the chat is… The Association for Gravestone Studies RestingSpot The Faces of My Family: Tombstone Tuesday – Genealogy Serendipity Strikes Again! Indiana Historical Society’s Cemetery Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-85426656302183174172011-09-22T15:31:00.001-05:002011-09-22T16:05:42.231-05:00Looking at a land patentI’m doing a little researching around today to try to fill in some of the holes in my database from the 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the resources that I purchased at the FGS conference recently was Family Maps of Montgomery County, Indiana. I bought the book with the intention of looking up some of the original documents that were referenced within it. Today, I finallySeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-53300171313360774182011-09-14T07:19:00.001-05:002011-09-14T07:19:30.626-05:00A silver bullet from FGSLooking through my notes again today before heading out to work, I find the best quote that I heard from my time at the FGS 2011 conference. It was from Dr. David McDonald’s session on Wisconsin history: There is no silver bullet. We’ll show you where to mine the silver and how to make a bullet out of it. Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329122250624020073.post-56453930526510847692011-09-09T21:44:00.001-05:002011-09-11T08:47:47.911-05:00My last day at FGS 2011 in which I scare the bejeebus out of a genealogistYeah, sad to say that I finished my visit to the FGS 2011 conference today. The conference will continue tomorrow, but I’ve got another meeting in another state to get to tomorrow morning. So this will be my last update from the show. But, it won’t be the last post with information and resources gained from attending the show. As to how you scare a genealogist, read on…
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