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Beyond the Internet Geneameme

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

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

 

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

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

Happy Hunting!

SNGF: Ancestors Geneameme

Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun posted by Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings is to fill out the The Ancestors’ Geneameme posted by Geniaus Blog.

This is the list and instructions:

The Ancestors’ Geneameme

The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
You are encouraged to add extra comments in brackets after each item
Which of these apply to you?
  1. Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents 
  2. Can name over 50 direct ancestors
  3. Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents 
  4. Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
  5. Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
  6. Met all four of my grandparents
  7. Met one or more of my great-grandparents[they met me, but I don’t recall meeting them]
  8. Named a child after an ancestor
  9. Bear an ancestor’s given name/s [give name one grandmother, middle name another]
  10. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland [many from England, 1 from Scotland, no Irish yet]
  11. Have an ancestor from Asia
  12. Have an ancestor from Continental Europe [Germany]
  13. Have an ancestor from Africa
  14. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [quite a few]
  15. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings [how large is large?]
  16. Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi
  17. Have an ancestor who was a midwife
  18. Have an ancestor who was an author [great grandmother wrote and published a poem, my mother is published :D]
  19. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones [Three lines of Smith]
  20. Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng
  21. Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
  22. Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z [great Aunt Zetta]
  23. Have an ancestor born on 25th December [Ruth Terry b. 1750, Mary Terry b. 1752, Meredith Martin b. 1851]
  24. Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day [Bridget Winthrop b. 1529]
  25. Have blue blood in your family lines [If Winthrop counts]
  26. Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
  27. Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
  28. Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century
  29. Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier
  30. Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents [ I found census that 2 great grandfather enumerated]
  31. Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X
  32. Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university [Ohio State, Michigan State, Wooster there are others but I am not sure where they attended]
  33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence
  34. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
  35. Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine (Tell us where) [The now defunct AOL Golden Gate Genealogy Forum, also defunct GenealogyForum.org, my own website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mytree/Tree2.html]
  36. Have published a family history online or in print (Details please)
  37. Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries
  38. Still have an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
  39. Have a  family bible from the 19th Century
  40. Have a pre-19th century family bible

If any of my readers would like to do this, post a link!  It will be fun to see how much work we all have done and still need to do.

Happy Hunting!

Meme or not to meme/That is the question

For those who want to know what a meme is: The term Internet meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/; meem) is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet. For an example, Wednesday Wedding, or Following Friday, or any of the other forms that are used as prompts in the Genealogy blogging circles.

Tonight I am going to brave it on my own, without help from a prompt. Here it goes….

While working on my family history this week I stumbled on two awesome finds.

The first one I found while visiting the Ohio Rootsweb site. I was looking through Holmes, Wayne, Knox Counties as my McCartney family have lived in all three and it is one of those cases that they really didn’t move around much, but rather the counties changed around them. While on the Holmes county page I found Holmes County Civil Court Index 1825-1900.  In the index I found Isaiah McCartney (grandfather or uncle) Samuel (grandfather) vs. Lettice McCartney (grandmother or aunt) it was in 1850 after grandfather Isaiah had passed, so most likely Isaiah was his son. As to Lettice I am not sure if it’s a sister or mom. This just makes we wonder why the two would have taken the other to court.  I will be sending off to the Holmes Country Library to get copies of the case. It sure has me  intrigued as to what when on, can’t wait to find out !

The other piece of information I found was on  Google books. I was doing a search on Google for “McCartney in Columbia Co.,PA” one of these results was a book, in which I believe I found an obituary for William D. McCartney the son of Isaiah and Lettice Hudders McCartney. The book is entitled  The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrance of the Church for 1864 by Joseph M. Wilson Volume 6. If you have ancestors in the Columbia Co. Pa during this period you might find it interesting reading even if you don’t find any family information in it.

Happy Hunting!

99 Genealogy Things

On Melissa Corley blog Bayside Blog, I found an interesting exercise.

I thought I would try it and see what I came up with <grin>
Thank you Melissa it was fun!

Key:

Things you have already done or found – bold type

Things you have not done or found /don’t care to.

99 Genealogy Things

  1. Belong to a genealogical society Tenney Family Assoc., Tackett Family Association.
  2. Joined a group on Genealogy Wise.
  3. Transcribed records.
  4. Uploaded headstone pictures to Find-A-Grave or a similar site
  5. Documented ancestors for four generations (self, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents) [not quite done]
  6. Joined Facebook.
  7. Cleaned up a run-down cemetery.
  8. Joined the Genea-Bloggers Group.
  9. Attended a genealogy conference.
  10. Lectured at a genealogy conference.
  11. Spoke on a genealogy topic at a local genealogy society/local library’s family history group.
  12. Joined the National Genealogical Society.
  13. Contributed to a genealogy society publication.  Not yet, but I will.
  14. Served on the board or as an officer of a genealogy society.
  15. Got lost on the way to a cemetery.
  16. Talked to dead ancestors.
  17. Researched outside the state in which I live.
  18. Knocked on the door of an ancestral home and visited with the current occupants.
  19. Cold called a distant relative.
  20. Posted messages on a surname message board.
  21. Uploaded a gedcom file to the internet.
  22. Googled my name (and those of ancestors)found a cousin by googling my name, there was a Julia Hogston in husbands family 😀
  23. Performed a random act of genealogical kindness.
  24. Researched a non-related family, just for the fun of it.
  25. Have been paid to do genealogical research.
  26. Earn a living (majority of income) from genealogical research. I’d love to be able to do this, but haven’t found the right formula!
  27. Wrote a letter (or email) to a previously unknown relative.
  28. Contributed to one of the genealogy carnivals.
  29. Responded to messages on a message board.
  30. Was injured while on a genealogy excursion.
  31. Participated in a genealogy meme.
  32. Created family history gift items.  Cook book for daughter with so of Grandma’s recipes
  33. Performed a record lookup.
  34. Took a genealogy seminar cruise.
  35. Am convinced that a relative must have arrived here from outer space.
  36. Found a disturbing family secret.
  37. Told others about a disturbing family secret (but not all of the secrets).
  38. Combined genealogy with crafts (family picture quilt, scrapbooking).
  39. Think genealogy is a passion and/or obsession not a hobby.
  40. Assisted finding next of kin for a deceased person.
  41. Taught someone else how to find their roots. I was a host in the beginners chat at the Golden Gates Genealogy Forum on AOL for several years. I hope I taught someone something 😀
  42. Lost valuable genealogy data due to a computer crash or hard drive failure.
  43. Been overwhelmed by available genealogy technology.
  44. Know a cousin of the 4th degree or higher.  Married my 7,8,9 cousin hee hee hee!
  45. Disproved a family myth through research.
  46. Got a family member to let you copy photos.
  47. Used a digital camera to “copy” photos or records. Always
  48. Translated a record from a foreign language.
  49. Found an immigrant ancestor’s passenger arrival record. Found that travels of a great Aunt to Hawaii then Singapore, but no such luck with immigrants yet.
  50. Looked at census records on microfilm, not on the computer.
  51. Used microfiche.
  52. Visited the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
  53. Used Google+ for genealogy.
  54. Visited a church or place of worship of one of your ancestors.
  55. Taught a class in genealogy. Again on AOL in the Beginners Chat, special presentation.
  56. Traced ancestors back to the 18th Century.
  57. Traced ancestors back to the 17th Century.
  58. Traced ancestors back to the 16th Century. 
  59. Can name all of your great-great-grandparents.
  60. Know how to determine a soundex code without the help of a computer. Does a cheat sheet count?
  61. Have found many relevant and unexpected articles on internet to “put flesh on the bones”.
  62. Own a copy of Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills.
  63. Helped someone find an ancestor using records you had never used for your own research.  
  64. Visited the main National Archives building in Washington, DC.
  65. Have an ancestor who came to America as an indentured servant. My children do.. grandfather in there Dad’s lineage.
  66. Have an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 or Civil War.
  67. Taken a photograph of an ancestor’s tombstone.
  68. Can “read” a church record in Latin. Wish I could half bold! I took Latin in HS not sure if it would serve me or not 😀
  69. Have an ancestor who changed his/her name, just enough to be confusing.
  70. Joined a Rootsweb mailing list. Moderate two
  71. Created a family website.
  72. Have a genealogy blog.
  73. Was overwhelmed by the amount of family information received from someone.
  74. Have broken through at least one brick wall.
  75. Done genealogy research at a court house.
  76. Borrowed microfilm from the Family History Library through a local Family History Center(s).
  77. Found an ancestor in an online newspaper archive.
  78. Have visited a NARA branch.
  79. Have an ancestor who served in WWI or WWII.
  80. Use maps in my genealogy research.
  81. Have a blacksheep ancestor.
  82. Found a bigamist amongst my ancestors.
  83. Attended a genealogical institute.
  84. Taken online genealogy (and local history) courses.
  85. Consistently (document) and cite my sources.
  86. Visited a foreign country (i.e. one I don’t live in) in search of ancestors.
  87. Can locate any document in my research files within a few minutes.
  88. Had an ancestor married four times.
  89. Made a rubbing of an ancestor’s gravestone.
  90. Followed genealogists on Twitter.
  91. Published a family history book.
  92. Learned of a death of a fairly close family relative through research.
  93. Offended a family member with my research.
  94. Reunited someone with precious family photos or artifacts.
  95. Have a paid subscription to a genealogy database.
  96. Submitted articles for FamilySearch Wiki.
  97. Organized a family reunion. working on one for next year
  98. Hogston family reunion in MI in 2012!
  99. Used Archives in countries where my ancestors originated.
  100. Converted someone new to the love of all things genealogy.

Happy Hunting!