Author: Kathleen

Notice: Hurricane Irene

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As of 3:36 Sunday afternoon, I am currently without internet service. Due to the severity of the power issues in St. Mary’s County, I am unsure if my Diary of Llewellyn series will continue on September 1st.

I do have power at my house, thank you SMECO! However I don’t know if the Internet will be back in time for my entries to continue after the last day of the month. I usually write up two weeks worth of entries at a time. My current scheduled entries end August 31st.

There is still plenty of time for it to come back, I am just giving you advance notice of the situation. The way my life goes, the second I publish this entry, the internet will come back. If the Internet does not come back in time, I will just continue my one entry a day posting until we catch up. Heck I might use the nifty app I’m using to type this entry.

If you are a family member who regularly keeps up with Llewellyn’s diary, drop me an email at leeny.moore (@) gmail.com. I am going to start putting together a regular Word document transcription to share with family members who are also researching the Love and Thorward families. I just want to have a bit of control over who the diary goes out to.

Good luck and stay safe everyone who is dealing with this hurricane, she was a nasty one!

I’ll Never Do That Again

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I don’t know what I was thinking. I’m in the middle of rehabbing my whole family tree and website. How on earth did I think I could keep going at this pace without my since-2003 Ancestry.com membership? I know what I thought. The problem was I splurged last year on the World Membership and the only way to downgrade this year was to cancel and then re-subscribe. I thought that maybe now was the time to try a genealogy life without an Ancestry.com membership.

I was fooling myself. I understand it’s a big expense even for the US Membership. However, there is no website with as complete access to the census than Ancestry.com. Feel free to prove me wrong! I’m also very attached to the Kentucky Death Records for 1852-1952. I mean, hello! My Mom’s whole family was in Kentucky for those years! They have an Ohio Death Index for more recent years. They have Ohio Marriage and Divorce records for my cousins who are super hard to pin down.

By the way, this is no way an advertisement for Ancestry. It might seem like it, but it’s not. It’s just that Ancestry is one of the tools I use on a daily basis. I lasted 2 days without my Ancestry membership, and I’m never doing that again!

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Clifford and Jane Redford’s Wedding

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This scan was sent to me from my Aunt a few years back. It was one of my first and only clues about the Parkin family. Their name has constantly changed through all my years of researching them.

Family Record of Clifford and Jane Redford’s marriage

Having this allowed me to send away to New Jersey for an official record of Clifford and Jane’s marriage.

Official Record of Clifford and Jane Redford’s marriage

This record had much more information for me to digest. I already knew Clifford and Jane’s estimated birth years and residences. I had known from the 1930 census that Clifford was a plumber by trade. I also knew that his father’s name was Herbert and his mother’s was Sadie. However I did not know that his mother’s maiden name was Putcliff or is that Sutcliff? To this day I’m still not sure!

On Jane’s side it was all knew information. This record actually broke down my Parkin/Parker/Perkins brick wall. It most definitely is Parkin now and I learned that her parents names were John Walter Parkin and Jennie Featherson. I have a lot more information on John Walter Parkin now, but before her marriage Jennie is still a mystery to me.

I’ve had this record for a number of years and still I come back to it for clues every once and awhile. It’s always good to look over things you’ve had awhile. You never know what you might have missed in the excitement.