Author: Kathleen

Genealogy Do-Over: My Research Toolbox

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This series of posts are based on the Genealogy Do-Over Workbook by Thomas MacEntee. I highly recommend it. 🙂 I just want to say there are parts of this workbook that I am not posting about, so if you would like the full set of tasks, then visit Thomas’ page or purchase the workbook.

This week, I have been taking a little bit of a break from my genealogy. It was partially to do with the holiday and partially because I just needed a little break from it. Throughout the past month or so, I have been working on one of the month five tasks of the Genealogy Do-Over. That is to build a Genealogy Toolbox. I know this toolbox will continue to evolve, so I know I am not looking to “finish” it anytime soon. It’s nice to have everything I might need in one place though. I will just go over the categories I am using right now.

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SNGF: Who has the most census?

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This week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun from Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings is all about the census. We are tasked with finding out or guessing which of our ancestors has the most census entries. At first I thought this was going to be really hard. I am in the middle of a Genealogy Do-Over so I didn’t want to venture too much into my old family tree file. I couldn’t resist though, and luckily for me I found someone pretty quickly to highlight!

My 3rd Great-Grandmother Josephine Doremus-Thorward!

Here they are at their house in Caldwell, New Jersey.
Here is Josephine and her husband George Thorward/Yohn/Weigel (whatever he calls himself) at their house in Caldwell, New Jersey.
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Treasure Chest Thursday: Llewellyn’s Gifts

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There is a little catch with today’s highlight. Technically, I posted about this in a previous post called, Part 2: I love this lady. That was June of 2010 and this is July of 2016, so I think it’s okay to talk about it again. I didn’t go into the details of the book before, just posted a few pictures from it. I thought, since I’m doing a Genealogy Do-Over, that it would be a good time to actually catalog the people in the book. I had previously transcribed it into a Google Doc, but this time I wanted to do something different.

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Wordless Wednesday: Sarah and John Ward

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Sarah Catherine Bush and John Ward

Wordless Wednesday is a Daily Blogging Prompt from GeneaBloggers.com

Source:

Photo of Sarah and John Ward, Llewellyn’s Boxes, 1986; privately held by Kathleen Moore, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Lexington Park, Maryland. 2005. This collection was taken from Llewellyn Thorward-Moore’s house after her death. They resided with her son until 2005, when they passed to his grand-daughter, Kathleen Moore.

Treasure Chest Thursday: Llewellyn’s Bits and Pieces

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Treasure Chest Thursday is a Blogging Prompt used by the GeneaBloggers community to help bloggers come up with things to write about their ancestors. 

I’ve always known I am very lucky to have inherited a box of things from my Great-Grandmother Llewellyn. I could probably fill a whole year of Thursdays with posts about the many things that she un-intentionally passed down to me.

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