Thursday, June 29, 2017

Video Of The Week: Ways To Clean Up Your Family Tree

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!





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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Frasers Of Fife: Generation Four | Janet Fraser and John Jarvis


53 Janet Fraser (Duncan - 18, Alexander - 5, Duncan - 1) born May 29th 1829


married 1854


John Jarvis born 1828



children of this union:

i. Helen Jarvis b. 10/1/1855 d. 10/1/1855

ii. John Jarvis b. 8/14/1856 in Canada

iii. Duncan Jarvis b. 13/1/1859 in United States

iv. George Jarvis b. 14/3/1861 in Scotland

v. Alexander Jarvis b. 19/6/1864 in Scotland

vi. Margaret Jarvis b. 9/3/1866 in Scotland



note: Generation Four was (mostly) still living when the Original Tree was created.

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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©1880 John Fraser - Scotland

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Esther Ann Faulkner {Gen 3}


It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

Esther Ann Faulkner (Robert, Samuel, William) was born in Wayne Co, New York, February 4th 1828 to parents Robert Faulkner and his wife Sally Ann.

Esther Ann married (1) Asa West (b. abt 1820 d. UNK) about 1843 in New York. She married (2) James Ryan (b. abt 1813 d. 1876) on June 19th 1852 in Kosciusko, IN.


One child was born to Esther Ann and Asa West:
  • Sarah West b. 1843 d. UNK m. Alonzo Sherburn


Children born to Esther Ann and James Ryan include:
  • Michael Ryan b. UNK d. 29 Oct 1871
  • James G Ryan b. 1854 d. UNK
  • Esther A Ryan b. 1856 d. 31 Oct 1874
  • Mary Ryan b. 1858 d. 2 May 1873
  • John W Ryan b. 5 Jun 1859 d. 7 Feb 1937 m. Mary J Ralston
  • Alma Emily "Emma" Ryan b. 12 Apr 1865 d. 4 Oct 1910 m. Wilson E Thrush 


Esther Ann Faulkner West Ryan had a perhaps difficult life. It is not know what happened to her first husband, Asa West, but less than 9 years later she was married to James Ryan. Life with husband #2 wasn't any easier. Esther Ann is found on the 1850 census as Esther Ann West living with her parents in Indiana. Her daughter Sarah is not in the household. On the 1860 census Esther Ann Ryan is found living with the McClanahan family, again none of her children are with her. In 1870 she is living with the Leedy family, and in 1880 she is living alone, listed as divorced. Her children appear together on only one census, 1870, living with their father James. Both Esther Ann and James remained in Kosciusko Co, Indiana.

Indianian Republican 2/6/1890
Indianian Republican 2/13/1890
Her obituary 2/6/1890 Indianian Republican, noted that her death was reported a suicide from poison. It was reported that she was partially demented and on more than one occasion had tried to commit suicide. On 2/13/1890 in the Indianian Republican, her son and daughter disputed the suicide because there was no evidence.

Esther Ann Faulkner West Ryan died February 6th 1890. Her burial location remains unknown.



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Monday, June 26, 2017

Notes From My Grandmother | Ashby Lineage and Genealogy, Part 3


Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.


Grandma didn't write a story about the Ashbys. At least not one that I found in my collection. She incorporated some of her research in other family lines and just left typed bios and snippets in her "Ashby" envelope. I will share the contents over the next few weeks - and add the genealogy as I have come to know it.


Ashby Family misc, con't ........




Priscilla B Ashby was the second child and second daughter of the seven Ashby children born to Jesse Ashby and his wife Elizabeth Hays Wilson. Her biography reads as follows:



Mrs Priscilla B Twining Nonagenarian
This Good Lady Is Nearly 92 Years Old and Has Been a Resident of Iowa Since 1839

We this week present the likeness of Mrs Priscilla B Twining. She is well known to most Adams county people as was also her husband, who resided in this city previous to his death in 1897. Her maiden name was Priscilla B Ashby, and she was the daughter of Jesse Ashby, who died in 1879 at the advanced age of 92 years. It will thus be seen that Mrs Twining comes from a long lived stock. She was born in Preston County, Virginia, July 18, 1817, and is at present time almost 92 years of age. For some time after her birth her father owned a plantation in the "Cheat River country" of Virginia. At a later date, 1828, he removed with his family to Ohio, from which state he came in 1839 to Iowa, settling in Washington County where he resided 37 years. It was here that Mrs Twining became acquainted with her future husband, Rev E W Twining, a Methodist itinerant minister, to whom she married August 28, 1849. One son, Jesse L Twining, of this city was the issue of this union, and Grandma Twining makes her home with this son in Corning at the present time, tenderly cared for by her son and his family.

After their marriage, Mrs Twining and her husband made their home in Washington for a season and later in various places, as is the case in the ministerial life. Mr Twining had assignments at Des Moines, Iowa City and other important places beside being presiding elder of the Muscatine district. From the character of these assignments it will be seen he was regarded as one of the most prominent Methodist divines in the Hawkeye state.

As the wife of an itinerant minister, Mrs Twining has had quite an interesting experience with the frontier life of Iowa, especially in and around Washington and Des Moines. Mr Twining had the latter charge in 1856, preaching in the church where now stands the magnificent Iowa Loan and Trust building.

The family remained in Des Moines for five years and Mrs Twining remembers well when the capital was removed from Iowa City to that place. She also remembers the big war dance participated in by about 500 Indians on the "commons" where the court house and many of the largest business blocks of Des Moines now stand.

Necessarily the record of her life is very much identified with that of her husband, who was more than ordinarily successful in the ministerial field. When advanced age made it necessary for him to retire from active duties of the ministry, he and Mrs Twining came to this city, where they made their home in 1876. Rev Mr Twining was one of the most active gentleman interested in the founding of Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, Iowa, and it is said he personally secured the first teacher for the institution. He died on May 24, 1897, at the advanced age of 84 years, and since that time Grandma Twining has made her home with her son.

Mary Ashby, sister of Mrs Twining and the oldest child in the family taught the first school ever held in Washington, Iowa over 65 years ago, when only a few settlers had squatted on the prairies of Iowa. The school house was a log cabin; her pupils sat on benches hewn out of logs, in front of a fireplace, and wrote with goose quill pens, with ink made from indigo. Mrs Twining's has been an eventful life, and in her old age it is a pleasure for friends and loved ones to minister to her, and in some small measure recompense for the great service her life has been to her family and to the world.

We have remarked upon the coincidence of her birthday anniversary and that of Rev Father Rowley, father of Mrs J L Twining, being on the same day. Both old folks live in the same home and each succeeding year sees a celebration of the event. Ms Twinning is one year the senior of Father Rowley.

~March 31, 1909







Priscilla B Ashby Twining b. July 18, 1817 d. September 2, 1911
Corning, IA


.......... END ..........


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©1950-82 Elizabeth Twining Potwin Thomas - private collection

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Book Of The Week: A History of Adams County, Ohio



A History of Adams County, Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth ...
Nelson Wiley Evans, Emmons B. Stivers
E B. Stivers, 1900 - Adams County (Ohio) - 950 pages




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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Video Of The Week: Understanding the Census of England and Wales

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!






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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Frasers Of Fife: Generation Four | Charlotte Fraser and James Irvine


52. Charlotte Fraser (Duncan - 18, Alexander - 5, Duncan - 1) born July 13th 1825


married November 30th 1849


James Irvine birth not documented
flax dresser


children of this union:

i. John Irvine b. 6/30/1850 d. in infancy

ii. Janet Irvine (twin) b. 11/2/1853 d. in infancy

iii. Helen Irvine (twin) b. 11/2/1853 d. in infancy

iv. Charlotte Irvine b. 6/21/1855

v. Duncan Irvine b. 2/11/1859

vi. John Irvine b. 8/27/1861

vii. Jame Irvine b. 9/12/1865




note: Generation Four was (mostly) still living when the Original Tree was created.

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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©1880 John Fraser - Scotland

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Robert Nelson Faulkner {Gen 3}


It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

Robert Nelson Faulkner (Robert, Samuel, William) was born in Ontario Co, New York, January 20th 1822 to parents Robert Faulkner and his wife Sally Ann.

Robert 'Nelson' married (1) Julia Ann King (b. 1831 d. 1890) on September 26th 1847 in Wabash Co, Indiana. He married (2) Mary J Johnson (b. UNK d. UNK) on October 22nd 1891 in Indiana.



Children born to Robert 'Nelson' and Julia Faulkner include:
  • Barbara Ann Faulkner b. 8 Mar 1849 d. 16 Oct 1918 m. Jeremiah R Hoagland
  • John Wesley Faulkner b. 7 Sep 1850 d. 27 Dec 1936 m. Alice Victoria Norris
  • Rachel Faulkner b. abt 1854 d. bef 1890 m. John O Kegg
  • Isaac Newton Faulkner b. 1856 d. 9 Feb 1912
  • Louisa Faulkner b. 23 Jun 1857 d. 17 Jan 1940 m. William J Klingel
  • Hannah M Faulkner b.  25 Nov 1863 d. 9 Dec 1919 m. William W Munson



Robert 'Nelson' was a farmer who sometimes went by 'Robert', sometimes by 'R N' and most often by 'Nelson'. He was hard to find in the US census schedules due to the fact that the enumerators really butchered his surname! He may have fought in the Civil War - his brother did - but I have not discovered anything conclusive yet.

Robert Nelson Faulkner died July 4th 1892 and is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery in Pierceton Twp, Kosciusko County IN. Julia Ann King Faulkner died June 1st 1890 and is buried with her husband. To date no further information has been found on wife #2, whom Robert married just 8 months prior to his death.



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Monday, June 19, 2017

Notes From My Grandmother | Ashby Lineage and Genealogy, Part 2


Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.


Grandma didn't write a story about the Ashbys. At least not one that I found in my collection. She incorporated some of her research in other family lines and just left typed bios and snippets in her "Ashby" envelope. I will share the contents over the next few weeks - and add the genealogy as I have come to know it.


Ashby Family misc, con't ........


Mary Ashby was the eldest of the seven Ashby children born to Jesse Ashby and his wife Elizabeth Hays Wilson. Her obituary reads as follows:


Mary Ashby First School Teacher in Washington, Very Early Settler, Dies.

~5/24/1899
In the death of Mary Ashby, better known to all the old settlers of Washington as "Aunt Polly", Washington loses one of its most highly esteemed citizens and one whose name will ever be associated with the early education of this city as well as the making of the commonwealth of Iowa. She was the first teacher that ever presided over a school room in Washington, and that was sixty years ago, when only a few settlers had squatted on the prairie here and there over a territory now known as the beautiful city of Washington. Washington's first school and Washington's first school teacher are now no more. 

Her death occurs at a memorable time in the history of our city schools - -in a year when the "old school" is being replaced by the new. The last old school building has been torn down, and after this year Washington young people will go to buildings entirely new or comparatively so. The first school in which "Aunt Polly" taught was a log cabin, located in southwest Washington, on the lot just north of the Seceder church. There her pupils sat in front of a fireplace, on benches hewn out of logs, and wrote with goose-quill pens ans used indigo for ink.

The deceased died last evening at 7:15 o'clock at the home of her sister, Mrs E W  Dicken, on south Iowa Street. She has always made her home with this sister. She had enjoyed very good health until about a year ago when she fell and broke her hip. Since that time she has been helpless.

She often attended old settlers meetings and there it was everyone deemed it a privilege to give her homage and praise, for she had just claims on old citizenship. She was reticent, however, in speaking of her own deeds, yet was appreciative of every good favor in word or works.

She was born in Allegheny Co, Maryland, the 18th day of July, 1812, and was therefore 87 years of age.

When two years of age she moved with her parents to Preston Co, West Virginia, and when sixteen years of age to Perry Co, Ohio. In the year 1839 the family came to Iowa, being among the very first settlers. They resided on what in known as the old Enoch Winter farm for a number of years.

She was a faithful Christian and was loved by all who knew her. She has been a member of the Methodist church ever since she was sixteen years of age.

The brothers and sister who are living are: Mrs E W Dicken and J A Y Ashby, of this city; E W H Ashby of Pilotsburg; and Mrs P B Twining of Corning.

The funeral will take place from the family residence on south Iowa street tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev Thorn. Interment City cemetery.





.......... to be continued ..........


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©1950-82 Elizabeth Twining Potwin Thomas - private collection


Saturday, June 17, 2017

Book Of The Week: The History of America, Volume 1




The History of America, Volume 1
William Robertson
Messrs. Whitestone, 1777 - America








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Friday, June 16, 2017

Photo Friday :: Applonia Rowley


This series was birthed from the large old photo album I rediscovered in the back of my closet. Many of the photos are from my grandmother's side of the family. There are also unknown photos that came with the album. Story goes my dad, an avid garage saler, picked up a celluloid covered Victorian era photo album on one of his scavenges. It already contained photos of an (as yet) unidentified family. My parents put our own vintage family photos in the album alongside the mystery family's.  As children we marveled at the old fashioned clothing and settings, often wondering who these people were and what their lives were like. Of course, we thought that ALL the people in the photos were our relations! It wasn't until my mom passed the album on to me after my dad died that I learned of the mystery family residing alongside our own!

I plan to share these photos over time, sometimes they will be my family, and identifiable, others will be of the mystery family. Thanks to the world wide web, they may find their way home yet!

Enjoy!


{very badly damaged - hand colored}

Applonia Rowley "Plone"
taken about 1873 at Will Chenoweth Studio
Blandinville, Ill.

Plone Rowley was the only daughter of Marcellus M Rowley 
and Drucilla Criss Rowley. 
Born November 11th 1871 in Iowa
Died June 28th 1938 in Mercer Co, Illinois
Married Edward Petrie

Applonia Rowley is my 1st cousin 3x removed
the daughter of my 2nd great grandmother's brother

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Video Of The Week: Can a DNA Test Help You Find Your Ancestors or Relatives? - Part 1 - Jam...

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!







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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Frasers Of Fife: Generation Four | George Johnstone and M MacMillan

51. George Johnstone (Isabella - 17, Alexander - 5, Duncan - 1) born 1838



married 1866



M MacMillan born 1848



children of this union:

i. Thomas Johnstone b. 1868

ii. Alexander Johnstone b. 1870

iii. Charles Johnstone b. 1872



George Johnstone died in 1875.



note: Generation Four was (mostly) still living when the Original Tree was created.

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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©1880 John Fraser - Scotland

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Harrison Horton Faulkner {Gen 3}


It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

Harrison Horton Faulkner (Robert, Samuel, William) was born in New York, (either Orange Co, Ontario Co, or somewhere in between) August 3rd 1814 to parents Robert Faulkner and his wife Sally Ann.


Harrison married (1) Susannah Prentiss (b. 1821 d. 1854) on August 29th 1841 in New York. He married (2) Mary Root (b. UNK d. UNK) on March 23rd 1856 in Indiana. He married (3) Lavina Akerly (b. 1836 d. UNK) February 27th 1867 in Michigan.



Children with (1) Susannah Prentiss: (all born New York)
  • Lydia A Faulkner b. 30 Oct 1844 d. 24 Sep 1901 m. Fernando Kinney
  • Mary Jane Faulkner b. 30 Mar 1847 d. 30 Nov 1904 m. John Masser
  • Charles Edwin Faulkner b. 27 Oct 1851 d. 29 Aug 1910 m. Mary Poe

Children with (2) Mary Root: (all born Michigan)
  • Harrison H Faulkner, Jr b. 1 Feb 1858 d. 1 Sep 1890
  • Lucinda L Faulkner b. 1 Jul 1861 d. 11 May 1919 m. Henry Young
  • William N Faulkner b. 1865 d. 11 Sep 1867

Children with (3) Lavina Akerly: (all born Michigan)
  • George W Faulkner b. Sep 1869 d. 1940 m. (1)Vinie Reist (2)Anna Boom
  • Nancy A Faulkner b. 15 Apr 1872 d. bef 1880


Harrison was a farmer and a stone mason. He may have met his second wife in Indiana while visiting his father. He left Wayne County, New York sometime after 1850 and was residing in Cass County, Michigan by 1867.


Harrison Horton Faulkner died August 7th 1891 and is buried in Eden Twp, Mason Co, Michigan. Susannah Prentiss Faulkner died October 3rd 1854 in New York and is buried in Ridge Chapel Cemetery in Wayne Co, New York. It is unknown when or where Mary Root Faulkner and Lavina Akerly Faulkner died or are buried. 



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Monday, June 12, 2017

Notes From My Grandmother | Ashby Lineage and Genealogy, Part 1


Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.


Grandma didn't write a story about the Ashbys. At least not one that I found in my collection. She incorporated some of her research in other family lines and just left typed bios and snippets in her "Ashby" envelope. I will share the contents over the next few weeks - and add the genealogy as I have come to know it.



photo found on Ancestry.com
Jesse Ashby  - b. August 31st, 1787/8 in Allegheny County, Maryland, and was the youngest son of a family of nine children. At the age of 21 years he was married to Miss Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson, and soon after they removed across the line into the celebrated "Cheat River country" in Virginia, where they resided until 1834 when they remove to Perry County, Ohio. Here they were dissatisfied with the country, but remained until the spring of 1839, when in company with his nephew, Jonathan H Wilson, Mr Ashby came to this county (Washington Co, IA) and bought the claim of Thomas Baker, known in later years as the Nelson Stewart farm, adjoining our town on the south.

In the older states as well as in Iowa, he was always known as a honest, industrious, and hardworking farmer, which occupation was continued by him long after the time when most people are compelled, by the infirmities of old age, to withdraw from further active labor. Being an early and respected settler here, the name of "father Ashby" is frequently and honorably mentioned in the history of our county, in connection with many positions of trust and responsibility confided to him by his fellow citizens, all of which he discharged with fidelity and credit; and while never aspiring to be a great man, he was universally regarded as being a good man.

At the age of 22 years he was united with the M. E. Church of which he remained a faithful, trusted and exemplary member during life. Shortly after coming here, he, with his wife, and daughter Polly, became constituent members of the first Methodist church organized in Washington Township, and was appointed its first class leader as well as the first S S superintendent in out county. Now the daughter is the only constituent member of the M. E. church of this city living within its bounds.

For some years before his death Father Ashby owing to the infirmities incident to declining years, was compelled to retire from active life and for the last few months was confined to his room, where he received all the kind and tender care that an affectionate family could bestow.


GENEALOGY

Jesse Ashby b. 31 Aug 1787/8
                     d. 25 Feb 1879
                     m. (1)Elizabeth Hays Wilson
                                    b. 12 Nov 1791
                                    d. 27 Aug 1850
                         (2)Frances Brown Littler Ritchie
                                     b. 15 Jan 1806
                                     d. 15 May 1891


children (with both wives) include:

  • Mary Wilson Ashby b. 1812 d. 1899
  • Priscilla B Ashby b. 1817 d. 1911 m. E W Twining
  • Julia F Ashby b. 1818 d. UNK m. Morgan Hart
  • Elizabeth H Ashby b. 1828 d. 1878 m. Wm Bickford
  • Hester W Ashby b. 1834 d. UNK m. A B Dickens
  • Eusebius Wade H Ashby b. 1834 d. 1910 m. Elizabeth A Thrig
  • Child b. UNK d. UNK
  • Jesse A Y Ashby b. 1852 d. 1926 



Notes on Elizabeth Hays Wilson Ashby: For thirty years prior to her death she was a daughter of affliction in consequence of the failure of her health, but in all her afflictions she was patient and resigned to the will of the Lord and was supported and cheered by the hope of a glorious immortality beyond the grave. She was the mother of seven children, six of whom she raised to years of accountability, bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Her house both in Virginia and Iowa was a home for the wayworn itinerant, to whose wants she always delighted to minister as her health would permit. She often talked of dying expressing a readiness and willingness to leave this world of trouble and sorrow and go home to rest in Heaven. She lived religiously and died in peace with God and man, triumphing over the last enemy - which is death.



.......... to be continued ..........


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©1950-82 Elizabeth Twining Potwin Thomas - private collection


Saturday, June 10, 2017

Book Of The Week: History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut



History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut
Edward Elias Atwater
author, 1881 - Connecticut - 611 pages






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Friday, June 9, 2017

Tools For The Dig: State Focused Research | Minnesota


State Focused Research | Minnesota


Some of my favorite research sites are slightly off-radar by today's definition.

First I'd like to talk about Genealogy Trails. From their homepage: "Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We are all about adding data for you to use in researching your family lines!!!We know that what you're looking for is data -- and we have LOTS of it right here.
Our hosts work continuously to bring you fresh, interesting and NEW data (well.... as new as hundred year old data can be!!!)" Pretty much everything you need to know to begin your Minnesota research is contained within the pages of  Minnesota Genealogy Trails. This is a thorough, well thought out site - and they are always looking for volunteers!

Companion Yahoo! Group: Genealogy Trails/Upper Midwest

Next up, RAOGK. Another volunteer site. A treasure trove of links, well organized and easy to understand. From this site you can request look-ups from a team of Minnesota volunteers. Or add you name to the volunteer list if Minnesota is your home-base.

MNGenWeb is an oldie but a goody! Volunteer based also, this database was founded in 1996! From their home page: "MNGenWeb isn’t an ordinary genealogy website. Ordinary websites are those where text and sometimes pretty pictures are present, but trying to get in touch with a real person to help you with your research… impossible. The strength of MNGenWeb is its many volunteers, some of whom have spent over a decade assisting others with their Minnesota research. Using our county page visit the Minnesota county your ancestors lived in and first try and find any information the county may freely provide on their pages (most have some sort of search built in). If the particular fact isn’t available online, then reach out to the county coordinator (cc) and they will try and assist you as best they can. Most county coordinators have their email address available on their website, though some will use contact forms."

Linkpendium is another all around resource hub. So What is Linkpendium, Anyway? "Linkpendium is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties. We cover both free and subscription sites, with a strong emphasis upon free resources provided by libraries, other government agencies, genealogical and historical societies, and individuals. We are particularly proud of our unique indexes to online biographies."

Cyndi's List Minnesota page.

Helm's Genealogy Toolbox/Minnesota


FamilySearch:


State societies and archives include:


A comprehensive list of newspapers can be found at The Ancestor Hunt's Minnesota page.


For social context look at LOC Minnesota Collection and Minnesota Digital Library.


As I discover more resources I'll update this post. Do you have any Minnesota favorites that I've missed? Please share!


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Thursday, June 8, 2017

Video Of The Week: Finding your ancestors in historic newspapers

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!






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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Frasers Of Fife: Generation Four | William Johnstone and UNK

50. William Johnstone (Isabella - 17, Alexander - 5, Duncan - 1) born 1853



married 1866



UNK wife



children of this union:


i. Robert Johnstone b. 1869

ii. Thomas Johnstone b. 1869



William Johnstone died 1886 Australia



note: Generation Four was (mostly) still living when the Original Tree was created.

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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©1880 John Fraser - Scotland

All Rights Reserved

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | George Washington Faulkner {Gen 3}


It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

George Washington Faulkner (Robert, Samuel, William) was born in New York, (either Orange Co, Ontario Co, or somewhere in between) December 12th 1814 to parents Robert Faulkner and his wife Sally Ann.

George married Harriet P Smith (born Aug 22, 1819 in New York) on July 3rd 1841 in Porter Co, Indiana.

The couple had 7 children: (born in Indiana and Wisconsin)

  • Clarence W Faulkner b. 25 Mar 1842 d. 25 Mar 1926 m. (1)Alice Sullivan (2)Ella A Stebbins (3)Lovina Lansing
  • Catherine M Faulkner b. abt 1844 d. 1874 m. Charles M Baker no issue
  • Rodolphus Nelson Faulkner b. 14 May 1847 d. 20 May 1933 m. Addie Whitcomb 
  • Emery George Faulkner b. 29 Dec 1849 d. 2 Jul 1916 m. Marion B Johnson no issue
  • Ensley Faulkner b. 4 Mar 1853 d. 18 Aug 1890 m. Christina Elizabeth Nehm
  • Joanna G Faulkner b. 1855 d. 24 Jul 1940 m. (1)James G B Atwood (2)Clayton Wiley no issue
  • Elizabeth A Faulkner b. 29 Mar 1860 d. 16 Sep 1949 m. (1)Franklin J Pierce (2)J Nelson Yakes (3)George W Lincoln no issue

George was a wagon maker and the family traveled between Porter Co, Indiana, Baraboo, Wisconsin and Oceana Co, Michigan. Sometime after 1870 and before 1880 George and Harriet divorced.

George Washington Faulkner died October 2nd 1897 in Pentwater, Oceana Co, MI. Harriet P Smith Faulkner died February 22nd 1913 in Los Angeles, CA. G W Faulkner is buried in Pentwater Township Cemetery, Pentwater MI and Harriet Smith Faulkner is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA


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Saturday, June 3, 2017

Book Of The Week: History of Lucas County, Iowa



History of Lucas County, Iowa: Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc.
 a Biographical Directory of Many of Its Leading Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Iowa and the Northwest, Map of Lucas County, Constitution of the United States, Reminiscences, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc

State Historical Company, 1881 - Lucas County (Iowa) - 743 pages






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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Video Of The Week: Genealogy Methodology: View Your Family Tree a Different Way

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!









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