Very cold night about 3 above zero at 10 pm. Mama, Papa, Geo & I played 500 until about 10 o’clock. We got Sparky at noontime.
Author: Kathleen
Diary of Llewellyn: January 20, 1924
Left at 9:15 to go to Lakehurst to see Shenandoah or 3R1. Had dinner at Tom’s River, went to Lakehurst and saw Shenandoah. Left for home at 2 o’clock. Reached home at 5:15. Left for Suffern at 5:30. Geo did not go with us to Suffern. Geo & Florence White did go with us to Lakehurst.
Next Entry: January 21, 1924
Evidence Explained!
I bought myself a copy of Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills shortly after Christmas. I had wanted a copy for a long time, but finally made the leap and purchased it with my genealogy funds. I haven’t been able to dig in as much as I’d like, but I’ve been able to use it to source a blog post and to help with my genealogy file cleanup. I’ve been using my own method for recording census citations in my FTM2012 file since I began the new file, now I’m going back and adding structure to those citations.
Continue reading “Evidence Explained!”Diary of Llewellyn: January 19, 1924
Miss Sweeny, Miss W., Miss P., Miss K., Willa and myself went to see Fred Stone in “Stepping Stones”. Went to movies at night with Mama, saw Tom Mix in “Left Boiled”.
Next Entry: January 20, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: January 18, 1924
Played five hundred with Mama. Took bath & curled hair and went to bed.
Next Entry: January 19, 1924
Did I find Andrew Love’s birth record?
Okay, I’m so behind this week, but I’m rolling with the punches. In my previous Love family posts, I talked about Martha’s birth record leading me to James. Then I talked about James’s birth record adding weight to a document I was hoping was Andrew Love’s birth record.
Above, you see the three children that I found birth records for in parish records. If you have your eagle eyes on, you’ll also notice that in all three records, they show “Andrew Love of Hoodsyard”. I took that and added in an estimated birth date from various records.
Continue reading “Did I find Andrew Love’s birth record?”Diary of Llewellyn: January 17, 1924
We all went down to basketball game at Overbrook. M.E.W.’s played Franklin St. school from Montclair. M.E.W.’s won.
Next Entry: January 18, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: January 16, 1924
Poured like mad. Geo met me in delivery car at station. Mama went to Newark & got wet. Papa went to Newark with Lurch for a load & got wet. Shenandoah broke lose from its hangar. S.O.S. call out came up around Newark.
Next Entry: January 17, 1924
James Love, came out of nowhere
In my previous post about Martha Love’s birth record, I was very surprised to find out that Martha was actually the third child of Andrew Love and Agnes Hamilton.
The problem was that we were going off the records in America and tracing back. I had known there was a first born Robert, through my long lost cousin Grace (is she still long lost if we e-mail regularly?). It was even Grace who clued me into Martha who married Duncan Walker, and through them I was able to identify one of my Mystery Monday posts. Which I was then able to smack myself upside the head because Duncan and Martha were living next door to Andrew and Agnes in the 1880 census.
Just remember folks there is a reason I named my blog the Misadventures of a Genealogist. I don’t do things the easy way, I do them the banging your head against a brick wall way!
Here we have the second child of Andrew Love and Agnes Hamilton. ((Beith Parish (Ayrshire, Scotland). Old Parish Registers, OPR 581/3, James Love birth (1829); New Register House, Edinburgh.)) Unfortunately James doesn’t appear with the family in censuses or any other records so far. Another great thing about this record is another mention of “Hoodsyard”. This place is mentioned on a few of the birth record for Andrew’s children.
In fact, it might just help me find Andrew’s birth record, but you’ll have to stay tuned for that! I have to head to the grocery store before the week begins again and then I have to update my website and e-mail my Love connections with all my progress!
Diary of Llewellyn: January 15, 1924
Went to lecture at church. Dr. Dager on Shams of Society. Mama & Papa did not go. Geo went to basketball practice.