Went out to Sunday School & Church in morning. My cold so bad I couldn’t sing very much. Showered on and off all day. Ma, Pa & I went to Suffern at 5:15. It blew up very cold and I rode in the bottom of cars on the way back. Ernest & his Grandmother went down to Conference Sunday morning.
Okay, so I thought if I took a little time to do some Webb family research, it’d be a break from the frustration of the Mays family. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong I might be right. After finding the treasure trove, I wanted to take another look at the information it gave for Reuben H Webb and his wife Ann Thompson. I’m not doubting the biography but there was something that stood out glaringly for me. I don’t know what to do about it. However, it kind of fits in with the fact that Reuben moved around a bit after losing the land he cleared initially.
You see, on FamilySearch.org it has in two separate databases that Reuben Webb married Ann Thompson on 15 Feb 1806. Why my original family file says 1805, I’ll never be able to tell you. That’s how crazy my file is.
I was a little blocked about what to write about next on the blog. Then Ancestry.com released new Civil War documents!
In the Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 database, I found both Reuben Thompson Webb and his sons Reuben Horace and James A! Unfortunately, I’m still finding no proof that Reuben’s brother James ever served in the Civil War. Hopefully this changes soon. The family legend says that he died of injuries and gave his death date as September of 1863. Maybe this just means that I haven’t found him in the records yet. I’m still looking!
Miss K, Miss Pusch, Miss W, Miss S & myself went to see ‘Little’ Nellie Kelly. Very good show. We met Miss Peters and had lunch at Chin Lee’s. Went home on the 6:24. Went to bed about 9 o’clock.
Choir Rehearsal. I did not go as I was about half sick with a cold. Ernest & a bunch of Leaguers went down to League Rally at conference. Beautiful Day.
I don’t know if my title is explanatory enough. I wanted to call it ‘Planning Trips Tips Welcome’ but that sounded weird. So we’re left with just tips. I’m hoping to make some genealogy trips this summer. One to Ohio and the other to New Jersey. So before I’m in the car on the way there, I want to make a list of the things I’d like to look up.
One of the many things I have to do is update my family file for my Mom’s Ohio side. My Dad’s New Jersey side is as up to date as I can get it. I’m ahead of the game there. I plan on taking my laptop and a written list. However, I recently was able to get a cell phone upgrade. I bit the bullet and got an iPhone. I quickly downloaded the free Ancestry.com app, and I’m pretty sure that if I get my private tree up to date, it will help immensely on a research trip. I don’t know if there will be restrictions, natural or otherwise, that will keep me from having my laptop at my disposal.
Having a basic version of the family file available on my phone is a godsend for me.
Okay, onto the hard part. I need to make a basic list of which records I’d most like to get while I’m in each place. Most likely I will make an Excel file and have it in my Gmail account so that I can view it from my phone.
Here is what I plan on doing over the next two months:
So I think that’s enough to keep me busy, along with my newfound love of quilting. So hopefully I’ll get enough done to be more prepared for research when I’m there. Luckily enough, most of the things above coincide with my 2011 goals. So I’ll be knocking both lists out.
Feel free to leave some tips or tricks for me about researching on location! I could use all the help I can get!
Meeting of Alethea class at Moeser’s. We arranged for supper we are to give on Wednesday night for Teachers Training class & Bible class. Saw Ernest up street before meeting. Was talking to him & Roswell for a while. Dorothy, Irene, Ottile went to a party at Lynch’s. Rainy night.
Boy am I behind on everything! The good news is I had a blast with ‘The Aunts’. Which is what my cousin Summer and I kept referring to them as. Summer from Ohio, me from Maryland. It might take me a little bit to get back in the swing of things but I thought now would be a great time to pull out some of the search terms used recently by people. Hopefully what landed them here was close to what they found.
“obituary for jacob crisp” and “jacob crisp”
Yes you can find Jacob Crisp’s obituary on my blog here. I’m pretty sure that it was Jacob’s grandson who commented on my blog who was searching for the obituary. So score 1 for my blog!
“how we remember marshall taylor today”
I’m not sure what Marshall Taylor the searcher was looking for. I have several in my Taylor tree. None of my Taylor information has been added into the website database yet, but you can read some of my Taylor blog entries here.
“hammett family burial in lexington park mall parking lot”
I knew this would happen! Everyone wonders about it but there’s practically nothing online about it. My website is apparently now the #1 Google item when searching for this search term. You can read about the San Souci Shopping Cemetery here.
“elliott family of rowan county”
I don’t know about the Elliott Family but if you need to know about the Mays, Slusher, Click, Crisp, Adkins, Rowe, and a million others, you found the right place.
“grandma’s kitchen recipes blog”
When I started this blog, I had every intention of going through my Grandma’s recipe book and sharing some. Things happen though and it just didn’t come through. You can still read about her famous fudge recipe here though. There are some Grandma’s Recipe Blogs you can find though, The first few are: here, here, and here.
“brooklyn daily eagle online”
Words can not express how much I love the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online. It was vital in breaking down a mystery for me on my Brooklyn Moores. You can read my write up about the paper helping me here. Or you can just go straight to the source: here.
“tng templates”
This is the top search term for my website. You will land on my writeup of the TNG Software I use. I do not have any links to templates, but it comes with 8 now and they are very customizable! The website for the software is here.
Bible Training & Teacher’s class. Supper served by Mrs Mitchell & class. Mr. Gillespie preached his last at prayer meeting. Topic – love. Last song we sang was God be with you till we meet again. Went down to Mildred C’s for awhile after prayer meeting. Ma & Pa went down to the Shubert Teater in Newark.
Entertainment by the Ladies Aid at Miss Loctecher’s. Pa & I went over to see Ralph & Aunt Grace. Ma went to the social alone. Started to rain about 9:30.