Book Of The Week: The Manual of Statistics

The Manual of Statistics, Volume 8

The Association, 1886 - Corporations

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Field Notes: Challenges ~ To Do or Not To Do?

Challenges.

Love them?

Hate them?

In our genealogy/family history world there seem to be quite a number of challenges, and I'm not speaking of those challenging ancestors either, no I'm talking about the daily, weekly, monthly, challenges that seem to be constantly on my radar. There's the Family History Writing challenge, the 52 Ancestors challenge, the A to Z blogging challenge, the Do-Over, Fearless Females, oh the list goes on and maddeningly on!

I jumped in with both feet this year. I was going to do them all!

The Fates would have it differently ......

First, on Day 3 of the FH Writing Challenge I had emergency detached retina surgery. Had to do the whole face down 24/7 thing (on a massage table - so not fun!) and when I surfaced I could not even use my 'good' eye for almost a week. No reading, no writing, even watching the television was too much of a strain.

Scrap that challenge.

I've since learned to function moderately well with one eye (12 weeks in an eye patch is a whole other level of challenge!) I can type, read, walk - no driving (no depth perception!) Perfect opportunity to hunker down in the Cave and pound out some genealogy!

I went into the Fearless Females challenge with my hopes high. Plan in place, I set aside my normal blogging schedule for the month to focus on the challenge. Well, wait. I set aside SOME of my normal blogging schedule, replacing part of it with the Fearless Females. Should be easy, right?

Bwahahaha!

Not so fast. As the month dragged on it got increasingly hard to produce. Quite the 'challenge'! And guess what I discovered? I don't like challenges! I'm very much a creature of routine, new things often throw me off course for a while. I have a good, solid blog and research plan that's doable - even when life throws a little something my way.  It took two years of fits and starts to get to this settled point, and here I went driving the whole thing off course.

My steady plan went out the window as I struggled to meet this (self enforced) challenge and my well organized schedule was/is shot to H-E-double-hockeysticks.

I hope I learned my lesson.

Do I feel like I failed? Maybe a little. I'm not one to say I'm going to do something and then back out - a rule I've inflicted upon myself that really only hurts me, as I force myself to do something I no longer find desirable.

So, starting today I have made a (new) promise to myself. No more challenges. Writing challenges anyway, or maybe I should say organized writing challenges. I'm still up for a challenge or two of my own creation (um, hello! Brick wall anyone?) But for me, the challenge I levied upon myself when I committed to my research and blog is more than an adequate test and will happily occupy me for some time to come.

On my own terms.

Onward ..............

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Video Of The Week: Proving Parentage

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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Frasers Of Fife: Generation Four | David Fraser and Mary Kydd Findlay

the 1880 John Fraser Family Tree

40. David Fraser (John - 11, William - 3, Duncan - 1) born September 5th 1841 in Arbroath.


Emigrated to Australia October 1858


married September 11th 1868 at Melbourne


Mary Kydd Findlay born July 5th 1852 in Arbroath



children of this union: (all born Australia)


i. John Findlay Fraser b. October 22nd 1869

ii. Norman Brown Fraser b. August 16th 1871

iii. Albert Alexander Fraser b. January 26th 1873

iv. Annie Littlejohn Fraser b. August 18th 1874

v. Douglas Fraser b. May 8th 1878

vi. Jessie Elizabeth Fraser b. April 5th 1880

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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Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Franklin Houston {Gen 3}

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

Franklin Houston (Sarah, James, William) was born in 1809 in Middletown, Orange Co, New York to parents Sarah Faulkner and Thomas Houston.

Franklin married Caroline L'Hommedieu January 13th 1842 in Middletown, Orange Co, New York. Caroline was the daughter of Braddock L'Hommedieu and his wife Lois Vail.

The couple had at least two children:

• Carrie L'Hommedieu Houston b. Aug 1843 d. aft 1925 m. J Spencer McWilliams
• Braddock L H Houston b. Jul 1851 d. 17 Jun 1929 m. Jennie L Ryerson no issue

Franklin and Caroline spent their entire married life in Wallkill, Orange Co, New York. Franklin died in 1881, Caroline died in 1882. They are both buried in the Wallkill Cemetery in Phillipsburg, Orange Co, New York.

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