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March 17th

Posted on by Kathleen

Today is St. Patrick’s Day and so I thought I would look up March 17th in my family tree file and see how many people were born on this day. Turns out so far, only 2 in my clean file. In my old file there are 14. The most significant one for me to celebrate today is Llewellyn Thorward, my great-grandmother. Everyone who has been here awhile also knows her from my Diary of Llewellyn series.

This is Llewellyn’s 1899 birth certificate. You will notice that her name isn’t actually on it. It is her certificate however. Her parents names are there, their address is also correct. I also have that beautiful diary that chronicles three of her birthdays on March 17th 1923 through 1925.

Today I think I’ve decided to use Ancestry’s new Network feature to put together the people from Llewellyn’s diary. I have no idea what the new feature will do, but it would be cool to gather all the people together again and maybe upload some of those crowd pictures and try out the facial recognition search that was also recently released. You can be sure I’ll chronicle it here.

March 2010 is also when this blog was originally started. I was posting every single day for a long time and then it’s been sporadic for a long time now. May will be the 23rd anniversary of this website. Pretty awesome to think I’ve been sharing things here that long. I do wish I had been more consistent over the years but its very nice to have all these thoughts to look back on as I revisit a lot of my old research.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone and I wish you luck in all your searches today! 🍀

Regret Nothing

Posted on by Kathleen
  1. It is 9:24 PM on Thursday night and I am neck deep in Samuel Redfords.
  2. I deleted my Twitter account months ago because I never used it.
  3. I don’t want to bore my family with Genealogy stuff on my Facebook all the time.
  4. That means I have nowhere to post except for here.
  5. 3 Birth Certificates, multiple possibilities, and still no answers.
  6. I love this stuff.

Google Earth Adventure: Dillsboro

Posted on by Kathleen

It is a snowy Saturday here in Southern Maryland. What better way to spend it then going on a Google Earth Adventure! Since I’ve been in a nostalgic mood, I thought I would take a trip to my Grandma’s house. I haven’t made the full journey there since September 2005. I’ve made the partial journey to different destinations, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen her house.

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Southern Maryland Beauty

Posted on by Kathleen

This past week, I had family visiting from Ohio. It’s always so much fun seeing things through other people’s perspectives. Especially if what you are looking at is your own hometown. I’ve lived in St. Mary’s County, Maryland my whole life. Sometimes it feels like I’ve become numb to some of the sights around me.

Solomons Island, Maryland
Solomons Island, Maryland
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SNGF: Who has the most census?

Posted on by Kathleen

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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SNGF: Genealogy Database Statistics

Posted on by Kathleen

It’s Saturday night and time for another round of Saturday Genealogy Night Fun from Randy Seaver! This week Randy tells us to go into our genealogy management program and share some statistics! This means how many people, places, sources, and more!

Since I’m starting a Genealogy Do-Over, I will show both my old file and my new one. There should be a drastic difference here!

Old Family File

In my old family file here are the basic statistics:

  • Number of Individuals: 3957
  • Number of Families: 1170
  • Unique Surnames: 788
  • Master Locations: 821
  • Master Sources: 404
  • Citations: 23,955
  • Events: 7619

Time for the new one!

New, Clean Family File
  • Number of Individuals: 66
  • Number of Families: 25
  • Unique Surnames: 25
  • Master Locations: 38
  • Master Sources: 19
  • Citations: 189
  • Events: 11

Definitely a difference there! I haven’t even finished adding in my first cousins and their children into the new file yet!

If you’d like to participate, head over to Randy’s blog and get the instructions. 🙂

Adobe Spark

Posted on by Kathleen

I watched a great tutorial video from Amy Johnson Crow about Adobe Spark. I was inspired to make a video about my grandmother’s ancestors to share with my family. I also attended a Google Hangout with DearMYRTLE’s distant cousin, Sweet Sadie, which was another great walk-through of creating a video. It was a fun, quick process… well besides hearing myself talk. That’s always strange!

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SNGF: My 2nd Great Grandparents

Posted on by Kathleen

Randy Seaver has a new Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post up! Since all my housework is done for the day and the house is settling down, I decided to jump in on this one and see how it went.

The mission is to list my 16 great-great grandparents with their birth year, their death year, and their lifespan. It should be interesting to see how they vary or if they vary at all. I’m going to list them as they go right down my pedigree, in fact, for fun here is my pedigree. 🙂

Kathleen's Pedigree

You can see their dates up there but I am going to type them anyway.

  1. Robert James Moore Sr. (1871-1925) 54 years old.
  2. Mary E. Johnson (1873-?) She died between 1910 and 1915, so between 37 and 42 years old.
  3. Lewis Thorward (1875-1946) 71 years old.
  4. Jennie Viola Love (1876-1960) 84 years old.
  5. Herbert Redford (1872-1940) 67 years old.
  6. Sarah Ann Sutcliffe (1873-1924) 51 years old. I found her headstone but not her death certificate.
  7. John Walter Parkin (1863-?) I think he died between 1905 and 1910, so between 42 and 47 years old.
  8. Jennie Featherson (1875-?) I think she died between 1900 and 1905, so between 25 and 30 years old.
  9. John Harmon Mays (1842-1927) 84 years old.
  10. Celia Slusher (1844-1914) 70 years old.
  11. Charles Moyer (1861-1940) 78 years old.
  12. Ada May Evans (1873-1925) 52 years old.
  13. George Thomas Taylor (1863-1913) 50 years old.
  14. Mollie Jane Webb (1867-1931) 64 years old.
  15. James William Applegate (1862-1951) 88 years old.
  16. Elizabeth West (1870-1938) 68 years old.

The average lifespan is 62 years. The average birth year is 1866 and the average death year is 1933. Very interesting and I see where I need to do a little more work at too!