tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56606302012-02-16T22:32:43.992-05:00Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-29375646947708135752011-11-18T12:51:00.001-05:002011-11-18T12:53:57.776-05:00

We finally got home for good about a month ago, and it has taken me until this week to began working on my data.  I have three file boxes with things to review and I decided just to work through the papers in their physical order, rather than try some logical system.  As it happens, the first folder I picked up was my copy of pages from The Garnsey - Guernsey Genealogy, second edition.  I'm

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The website at allenandliz.com is available.  Last weekend, at the family gathering here at Heart Lake, I gave the password for the private "Cousins" site to everyone. The only feedback I have received is from a distant connection in Florida who found me by googling.  Meanwhile, I have been working on the housekeeping aspects of the site.  I added a copyright notice, and I'm working on links.

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-51634880971852701262011-08-19T06:59:00.002-04:002011-09-12T06:39:38.942-04:00

On Tuesday, August 17, 2011, I completed uploading the relevant (and some of the irrelevant) part of my genealogical data to my public website and to my private website.  Both websites contain genealogical information on my family, Liz's family, and Jane's family.  The people included are ancestors, descendants, aunts and uncles, and cousins, as well as in-laws of all of these. The public site

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A little under two weeks ago, I announced to some of my cousins and aunts and uncles on my mother's side that I had just put up a new genealogical website at allenandliz,com.  As of today, I am linking this blog to that site, and will use the blog to announce updates of the website. Today, the site now includes genealogical information on the families of all four of my grandparents.  I am in the

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-72130702186002264772010-12-09T13:19:00.000-05:002010-12-09T14:17:54.523-05:00

I use this blog, in part, to keep track of what I am doing.Currently, I reattaching notes that date back to the early 1990's when I was using Brother's Keeper. In that program, notes were stored as external text files. These were imported into TMG as external exhibits, but at some point two things happened. First, some of the notes became garbled and so I combined all of them with an earlier

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Starting with Earl Ashton Goodrich, both as the logical starting person and as an exemplar.Earl was born in 1866 and died in 1933. Using Ancestry.com, I have found him in the census for 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930.Earl appears as person 6789 in The Tingley Family, by Raymon Meyers Tingley, Tuttle, Rutland Vermont, 1910, along with his wife Grace and five children.In The Tingley Family

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Over the past couple of days I have been following leads on my godmother Jessie's ancestry. What I do is just almost willy nilly add people to my tree at Ancestry, based on other people's trees. Some of the reasearch looks good, some is basically unsourced. I wish there were good Mellen leads.

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In 1913 my grandmother, Jessie Green, eloped with Bert Bowman. She was 17 and he was 22. A year later, in 1914, she gave birth to a son, my uncle Glenn. I do not know why their marriage didn't last, but in 1916, when my grandmother was 20, she divorced Bert and married my grandfather, Sidney Mellen, on the same day.I have a photo of Jessie and Bert and a copy of their the registration of their

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See Where I stand at AncestryFIFTH GENERATIONRoot person -- me (1)24 added Chester Brink25 Amy Gerard26 William Gallt27 Martha28 Manzer J Goodrich29 Jennie P Hawley30 Edwin Chesebro Dayton31 Mary Albertina MorganSIXTH GENERATIONRoot person - father (2)32 unknown33 unknown34 Joseph Seymour Allen35 unknown3637383940 unknown41 unknown424344 unknown45 unkown46 James E Conklin47 Catherine E

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OK, From before I have Lucy Miller in my tree. Her father is shown as Eleazur Miller. From yesterday I have another Lucy Miller, father Elizur Miller. They are the same person.Lucy Miller 1 is married the Alfred Tiffany. For her, I have:Father Eleazur MillerMother Dorcas Goodrichno siblingsLucy Miller 2 has no spouseFather Elizur MillerAncestry tells me that Lucy Miller 1 combines info from

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-2557197471376066302010-06-30T14:37:00.000-04:002010-07-01T09:47:22.119-04:00

I've more or less decided to use Ancestry as a working place. I take some kinds of absurd data and link it -- when it comes from other Ancestry trees. I can clean it up later.Today I started with Lucy Miller, then her father Elizur, his father Abijah who Aunt Esther thought was named Abner. I found parents for Abijah -- John Miller and Prudence Hollister. Both have hints. There are also

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-32119901961267668652009-09-30T11:20:00.000-04:002009-09-30T21:15:08.636-04:00

My mother remembered two grandmothers in the house -- there was Grandma Goodrich and Grandma Hawley. Grandma Hawley was Grandma Goodrich's mother-in-law. She took back her maiden name after her husband, Manzer Goodrich, deserted her and moved to Iowa.Grandma Hawley was Jennie Permelia Hawley, daughter of Joseph William and Sally (Wright) Hawley. She was called Permelia, and there is some

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-42856213408292429322009-09-29T15:22:00.000-04:002010-07-07T14:10:44.944-04:00

Ahnentafel:FIRST GENERATION1 meSECOND GENERATION2 father3 motherTHIRD GENERATION4 pat gf5 pat gm6 mat gf7 mat gmFOURTH GENERATION8 William S Mellen9 unknown10 James Green11 Viola Joiner12 Charles Girard B13 Mary Louise Gallt14 Earl A Goodrich15 Grace A DaytonFIFTH GENERATION16 Peter W Mellen17 Mary Elizabeth Allen181920 Ira Green21 Pamela22 David Joiner23 Mary E Conklin24 add25 add26

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Here another year has gone by. Today I signed onto Ancestry and was greeted by the following messages:Recent Member Activity: 16 Sep 20091860 census saved to Eli Butler Goodrich by ksdirk3 records saved to Alfred Tiffany by ksdirkDeath information edited for Alfred Tiffany by ksdirkDeath information edited for Lucy Miller by ksdirk7 new family members added for Anthony Wright by ksdirkI don't

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-44347314474318589622008-10-20T07:22:00.000-04:002008-10-20T07:34:44.936-04:00

I haven't kept up on this blog now, have I? Anyhoo, it's now mid-October and we're on the verge of closing the cottage.I'm also on the verge of taking back with me some of the genealogy related books I brought up here -- thinking I would leave them here permanently. In particular, I am taking back The Tingley Family Revised and maybe some of the local histories that mention my ancestors.As the

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-31124232763766702182008-07-24T06:14:00.000-04:002008-12-12T15:32:15.637-05:00

One of the reasons I started this blog was to record my progress in genealogical research. That includes recording something about both the process and the findings.Taking a step back, I was bitten by the genealogical bug about 25 years ago -- when Liz and I first began using this cottage we found it contained a wealth of family history kept by my great aunt Esther Mead. Some of it she got from

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-44812667149054939502008-07-18T08:58:00.000-04:002008-07-19T07:05:06.621-04:00

When I was in New York earlier this week, I almost finished my preliminary analysis of my data. My goal was to updated the "Related by" flags for both me and Jane. I've got the main values correct -- the flags for potential connections are still a little off. There are also some disconnected people to deal with.But I have put that off for the moment.My principal focus right now is on my

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-14654909992242414982008-07-12T05:40:00.000-04:002008-07-12T05:43:52.282-04:00

Well, like it or not, I found at least two bugs in the program, so I guess I'll have to become somewhat active as a tester. One I'm not sure how to replicate.TMG is so robust that the bugs I found are only nuisances, but still ....Now back to genealogy.

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-37416083240300906272008-07-10T15:34:00.000-04:002008-07-12T05:40:04.913-04:00

This a relaunch of what was previously a TMG blog. I still use TMG (The Master Genealogist) as my genealogy program and, in fact, I am turning to active work on my genealogy data after a hiatus of at least four years. For several years I was an active beta tester for TMG, but I haven't done any significant testing since at least 2003. Now that I am going back to really using the program, I

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-1103730752458054312004-12-22T10:50:00.000-05:002006-10-23T23:54:22.615-04:00

Well, this was an idea that didn't fly. Now TMG 6 is released, and while I can't wait to try it, I haven't an idea as when I'll actually find the time. Hang in there. Allen

Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082981127553205332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660630.post-1060378004222820962003-08-08T17:26:00.000-04:002006-10-23T23:54:22.553-04:00

TMG (Tne Master Genealogist) is currently in the process of releaseof verrsion 5. Today (August 8, 2003) we are up to v5.08 and 5.09 in in the wings. It has been in the wings (publicly) since Bastille Day, July 14. The reason I am starting this blog is to indicate my own take on the program, and to give voice ot others.

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