This is an attempt to bring my blog back to life My last post was eight years ago. There had been asomewhat of a an interval before that.
If I'm going to write here, I need to learn (relearn?) how to use this interface..
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Saturday, November 12, 2016
My grandfather Sidney's mother
From my Facebook page, October 2, 2016:
I just this moment learned that my great grandmother's cremains are unclaimed. I've learned a lot about her (and my great grandfather) in the last 36 hours. Her name was Virginia Ann (Miller) (Mellen) Giroux; at death she was said to been born 9 December 1855, although in the 1900 census she is said to have been born in 1857. She was divorced by my great grandfather in 1895 when my grandfather, Sidney Allen Mellen was 6. That divorce was the subject of articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the three days following the decree. I will post them on my blog soon. In 1900, my great grandfather, William S. Mellen, married Olive A. Kelley. In 1901 my great grandmother married Thillesphore Giroux. She died of cancer in 1905 and was cremated.
I just learned most of this and I will post more later.
I just this moment learned that my great grandmother's cremains are unclaimed. I've learned a lot about her (and my great grandfather) in the last 36 hours. Her name was Virginia Ann (Miller) (Mellen) Giroux; at death she was said to been born 9 December 1855, although in the 1900 census she is said to have been born in 1857. She was divorced by my great grandfather in 1895 when my grandfather, Sidney Allen Mellen was 6. That divorce was the subject of articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the three days following the decree. I will post them on my blog soon. In 1900, my great grandfather, William S. Mellen, married Olive A. Kelley. In 1901 my great grandmother married Thillesphore Giroux. She died of cancer in 1905 and was cremated.
I just learned most of this and I will post more later.
"When He Says Daddy to Me"
My grandfather Sidney Allen Mellen wrote a column called “What’s
Going On,” using the name Mock Allen. It appeared in the Plymouth
Wisconsin newspaper when he lived there in 1917 and maybe after.
Sometimes it consisted of humorous verse.
When my father was about nine months old, this was the column on November 10, 1917. I have transcribed it verbatim as it appeared without editing a couple of likely misprints.
“When He Says Daddy to Me”
When my father was about nine months old, this was the column on November 10, 1917. I have transcribed it verbatim as it appeared without editing a couple of likely misprints.
“When He Says Daddy to Me”
I’ve met with actors erratic,
Who’s antics caused laughter galore;
I’ve met with singers dramatic,
At whom I laughed, til sides were wore sore,
Of all the antics I’ve been lampin’,
There’s none that gives me the glee,
As the baby, when after some vamping,
Tries to say “daddy” to me.
I can speak to him of Horatio,
I can prate of Wagner’s technique,
I can deliver a complex oratio,
I can tell him of Athens in Greek,
I can warble of Browning and Keating,
I can lisp of the old Pharisee,
But he has me hands down and a bleating
When he stutters out “daddy” at me.
I’ve told him of Yaphank and Hoboken,
I’ve whispered of Kalamazoo,
Of the baker whom they’re always a jokin’,
Meaning Bunn of old Baraboo.
I’ve told him a bit about Reno,
I’ve jollied him ‘bout Kankakee,
By the little tyke gets my goatino,
When he tries to say “daddy” to me.
I’ve talked on questions portentious,
And he lends a listening ear;
I’ve expounded on matters momentous,
Of which he seems glad to hear.
He pays most ardent attention,
And I spout entertainingly,
Until he tries intervention,
By saying “daddy” to me.
At times I think he’s most trying,
As a bit of temper’s evinced,
And when that bambino starts crying,
Of his waywardness I am convinced.
His voice I’m sure is projected
Far over the land and the sea,
But from harshness he’s fully protected,
When he tries to say “daddy” to me.
Of tricks he has a full measure,
Each one an accomplishment rare,
To do them gives him great pleasure,
On this “parlor stuff” he is a bear,
But the stunt that makes me most happy,
The one that fills me with glee,
Is when he looks up at his pappy,
And tries to say “daddy” to me.
Who’s antics caused laughter galore;
I’ve met with singers dramatic,
At whom I laughed, til sides were wore sore,
Of all the antics I’ve been lampin’,
There’s none that gives me the glee,
As the baby, when after some vamping,
Tries to say “daddy” to me.
I can speak to him of Horatio,
I can prate of Wagner’s technique,
I can deliver a complex oratio,
I can tell him of Athens in Greek,
I can warble of Browning and Keating,
I can lisp of the old Pharisee,
But he has me hands down and a bleating
When he stutters out “daddy” at me.
I’ve told him of Yaphank and Hoboken,
I’ve whispered of Kalamazoo,
Of the baker whom they’re always a jokin’,
Meaning Bunn of old Baraboo.
I’ve told him a bit about Reno,
I’ve jollied him ‘bout Kankakee,
By the little tyke gets my goatino,
When he tries to say “daddy” to me.
I’ve talked on questions portentious,
And he lends a listening ear;
I’ve expounded on matters momentous,
Of which he seems glad to hear.
He pays most ardent attention,
And I spout entertainingly,
Until he tries intervention,
By saying “daddy” to me.
At times I think he’s most trying,
As a bit of temper’s evinced,
And when that bambino starts crying,
Of his waywardness I am convinced.
His voice I’m sure is projected
Far over the land and the sea,
But from harshness he’s fully protected,
When he tries to say “daddy” to me.
Of tricks he has a full measure,
Each one an accomplishment rare,
To do them gives him great pleasure,
On this “parlor stuff” he is a bear,
But the stunt that makes me most happy,
The one that fills me with glee,
Is when he looks up at his pappy,
And tries to say “daddy” to me.
Friday, November 11, 2016
Ethan's Baby Book and his First Press Notices
My grandmother, Jessie Mae (Green) Mellen, labeled the Notes page of
my father’s Baby Book “Baby’s presents.” The first entry is “Mrs. C. F.
Kade This Baby Book.”
Another page is labeled “My Press notices” and contains six clippings, some dated, some not. Among these are:
FIRST MELLEN OF THE SEASON
The brightest son shines and at the same time joy reigns in superabundance upon one branch of Mellens in our city of late, notwithstanding the fact that the barometer has been doing stunts way below the zero mark this week. It is not Old Sol, but the first son that shines at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mellen on Kensington Avenue, the glad event having transpired on Wednesday about the noon hour. The glad dad thinks that he will soon have some one to help him hustle the news for the REPORTER.
Another page is labeled “My Press notices” and contains six clippings, some dated, some not. Among these are:
FIRST MELLEN OF THE SEASON
The brightest son shines and at the same time joy reigns in superabundance upon one branch of Mellens in our city of late, notwithstanding the fact that the barometer has been doing stunts way below the zero mark this week. It is not Old Sol, but the first son that shines at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mellen on Kensington Avenue, the glad event having transpired on Wednesday about the noon hour. The glad dad thinks that he will soon have some one to help him hustle the news for the REPORTER.
and
“Some Climate” He Says
C. F. Kade has opined that the climate of Wisconsin is some salubrious, when you can raise eight pound Mellens in the winter time.
On another page is a Christmas card to “Ethan Allen” signed “Grandma and Grandpa” Kade. I don’t know who the Kades were, but I’m on the case.
I’m posting images of the relevant pages.
This post first appeared on my Facebook page.
“Some Climate” He Says
C. F. Kade has opined that the climate of Wisconsin is some salubrious, when you can raise eight pound Mellens in the winter time.
On another page is a Christmas card to “Ethan Allen” signed “Grandma and Grandpa” Kade. I don’t know who the Kades were, but I’m on the case.
I’m posting images of the relevant pages.
This post first appeared on my Facebook page.
Monday, November 07, 2016
Begin again
After a five year hiatus, I am resuming this blog with a new focus. Partly in response to queries from my cousin Barbie and my niece Michelle, I have begun again to work on my family history. (Sorry, Barbie, but I'm starting on my father's side.) I plan to post here any family history material that I have posted on Facebook, as well as other pieces. We'll see if I can do it.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Connections
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 pretty sure my entries from this source have been properly cited in TMG, so I simply began reading the pages. I saw that John Garnsey, my 9th great granduncle, married in 1716 at Rehoboth, for his third wife, Elizabeth Miller, widow of John Titus, son of John, son of Robert.
I wondered whether there was a connection to the Nine Partner Ezekiel Titus. I still haven't found the answer to that question, but I do notice that the Tituses are connected to the Carpenter family. (Three of the Nine Partners were Carpenters.)
In order to facilitate the search, I decided that I had to update my data to include the info I have from Stocker's Centennial History of Susquehanna County Pennsylvania and from Weston's A History of Brooklyn Penna. Ezekiel Titus married as his first wife Lois Richardson, who was the daughter of Caleb Richardson, Sr., the Nine Partner. Lois was the niece of Hosea Tiffany, the Nine Partner, and the niece of Hosea's sister Melatiah (Tiffany) Tingley, my 5th great gandmother. Lois and Ezekiel's son Preston Titus married Tryphena (or Triphena) Whitney, whose brother Orange married Clarissa Swetland, my 4th great gandaunt. Triphena's brother Roswell is an ancestor of the Heart Lake Whitneys as well as the father of Permelia Emeline Whitney, who was first married to my 3rd great granduncle Nelson Tiffany and after she was widowed was married to my 3rd great grandfather Joseph Hawley.
I'll keep looking for connections in the generations before they all came to Susquehanna County.
I wondered whether there was a connection to the Nine Partner Ezekiel Titus. I still haven't found the answer to that question, but I do notice that the Tituses are connected to the Carpenter family. (Three of the Nine Partners were Carpenters.)
In order to facilitate the search, I decided that I had to update my data to include the info I have from Stocker's Centennial History of Susquehanna County Pennsylvania and from Weston's A History of Brooklyn Penna. Ezekiel Titus married as his first wife Lois Richardson, who was the daughter of Caleb Richardson, Sr., the Nine Partner. Lois was the niece of Hosea Tiffany, the Nine Partner, and the niece of Hosea's sister Melatiah (Tiffany) Tingley, my 5th great gandmother. Lois and Ezekiel's son Preston Titus married Tryphena (or Triphena) Whitney, whose brother Orange married Clarissa Swetland, my 4th great gandaunt. Triphena's brother Roswell is an ancestor of the Heart Lake Whitneys as well as the father of Permelia Emeline Whitney, who was first married to my 3rd great granduncle Nelson Tiffany and after she was widowed was married to my 3rd great grandfather Joseph Hawley.
I'll keep looking for connections in the generations before they all came to Susquehanna County.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Status
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.
Since the summer is drawing to a close, I'm also working on packing up the things I want to take home so I can continue to work on the project at home. That includes a number of pictures.
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.
Since the summer is drawing to a close, I'm also working on packing up the things I want to take home so I can continue to work on the project at home. That includes a number of pictures.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Uploading Complete
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 includes mostly people who are deceased. There are a few exceptions -- there is minimal information on a small number of persons in my parents' generation. The public site also includes the narrative sections I am writing, starting with my mother's Goodrich ancestors and their connections.
The private site includes living people. It also includes their parents, and in some cases grandparents, in order to provide links to the public site.
Both sites show the relationship, if any, of each person to Earl Ashton Goodrich, Grace Alison Dayton, Victor Hathaway Brink, Richard Ewing Hanson, Margery Frances Day, and Bronson Dudley.
The public site includes mostly people who are deceased. There are a few exceptions -- there is minimal information on a small number of persons in my parents' generation. The public site also includes the narrative sections I am writing, starting with my mother's Goodrich ancestors and their connections.
The private site includes living people. It also includes their parents, and in some cases grandparents, in order to provide links to the public site.
Both sites show the relationship, if any, of each person to Earl Ashton Goodrich, Grace Alison Dayton, Victor Hathaway Brink, Richard Ewing Hanson, Margery Frances Day, and Bronson Dudley.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
My New Site
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 process of adding Liz's and Jane's families, but I ran into a slight hitch. At the risk of boring anyone who happens to read this, I'm going to talk (write) it through here.
My data includes at least three categories of persons: The first is RELATIVES of one or more focus persons, The complete set of RELATIVES is all the ancestors of a given person and all of the descendants of those ancestors. To expand on that, taking me as the focus person, my RELATIVES include me, my parents, grandparents and great grand parents all the way back, my children and grandchildren and any great grandchildren, my neices and nephews including their children, my aunts and uncles including all the great aunts and great uncles all the way back, and my cousins of whatever degree, that is, the children, grandchildren and so on of all those aunts and uncles and great aunts and great uncles.
The second category I'll cal CONNECTIONS. My CONNECTIONS are the spouses (including partners) of my RELATIVES and all of the OTHER relatives of my RELATIVES and their spouses. (If every couple had children, I wouldn't need to specify spouses.) An easy example of OTHER relatives is the grandparents and cousins of my grandchildren on their father's side, as well as theri father himself. None of these folks are related to me.
One thing about CONNECTIONS is that the CONNECTIONS also have CONNECTIONS, and so on. Sometimes it is difficult to determine exactly why a particular person is in my data, especially if they are a distant CONNECTION.
The third category I'll call ASSOCIATES. These are unrelated people who I want to include for variousreasons -- perhaps they officiated at a wedding or baptism; perhaps they are neighbors who might turn out to be RELATIVES or CONNECTIONs -- there are lots of reasons to include them,. and I haven't always been careful to put down my reasons for including a particular person..
One reason for including an ASSOCIATE is the hope that I can discover a link so that the person becomes a RELATIVE. But on the way I ,ay enter a lot of CONNECTIONS and RELATIVES of that person who do not turn out to be demonstrated RELATIVES of my focus people. An example will make this clearer: I entered a person I know who js descended from the British peerage. It turns out she is my 25th cousin -- that means we have a common ancestor 27 generations back, or about 600 years ago. Now I am interested in keeping in my data the people who form the link between me and my friend, but I am not terribly interested in the extraneous people I entered along the way -- especially those who are not even her RELATIVES but are merely CONNECTIONS.
There is also a group of people in my data who I did not enter directly -- people who I imported wholesale from GEDCOM's produced by other people who made them available on the internet. There are people form at least two such sources -- at this point I have lost track. Of these people, some are RELATIVES of my focus persons and some are CONNECTIONS. The thing is, CONNECTIONS can be CLOSE CONNECTIONS or more distant CONNECTIONS. There are two difficulties -- First, it takes a goos deal of work to determine how close a CONNECTION a given person is, if I don't know already, and second, further research often demonstrates that CONNECTIONS are really RELATIVES or the CONNECTIONS are closer than I thought.
Well, as I have written this, I have realized that despite the fact that they seem to clutter up my data, I am going to leave everybody in for now, regardless of whether they are currently RELATIVES or CONNECTIONS of my focus people. It does no harm, and I can clean it up later. What I haven't said, is that I have also figured out what I have to do to determine who to remove as I get time.
Writing this has helped me think through the course I will follow. If you have read this, I hope I haven't bored, or confused, you too much.
I'll recast some of this as an explanation and post it elsewhere.
Today, the site now includes genealogical information on the families of all four of my grandparents. I am in the process of adding Liz's and Jane's families, but I ran into a slight hitch. At the risk of boring anyone who happens to read this, I'm going to talk (write) it through here.
My data includes at least three categories of persons: The first is RELATIVES of one or more focus persons, The complete set of RELATIVES is all the ancestors of a given person and all of the descendants of those ancestors. To expand on that, taking me as the focus person, my RELATIVES include me, my parents, grandparents and great grand parents all the way back, my children and grandchildren and any great grandchildren, my neices and nephews including their children, my aunts and uncles including all the great aunts and great uncles all the way back, and my cousins of whatever degree, that is, the children, grandchildren and so on of all those aunts and uncles and great aunts and great uncles.
The second category I'll cal CONNECTIONS. My CONNECTIONS are the spouses (including partners) of my RELATIVES and all of the OTHER relatives of my RELATIVES and their spouses. (If every couple had children, I wouldn't need to specify spouses.) An easy example of OTHER relatives is the grandparents and cousins of my grandchildren on their father's side, as well as theri father himself. None of these folks are related to me.
One thing about CONNECTIONS is that the CONNECTIONS also have CONNECTIONS, and so on. Sometimes it is difficult to determine exactly why a particular person is in my data, especially if they are a distant CONNECTION.
The third category I'll call ASSOCIATES. These are unrelated people who I want to include for variousreasons -- perhaps they officiated at a wedding or baptism; perhaps they are neighbors who might turn out to be RELATIVES or CONNECTIONs -- there are lots of reasons to include them,. and I haven't always been careful to put down my reasons for including a particular person..
One reason for including an ASSOCIATE is the hope that I can discover a link so that the person becomes a RELATIVE. But on the way I ,ay enter a lot of CONNECTIONS and RELATIVES of that person who do not turn out to be demonstrated RELATIVES of my focus people. An example will make this clearer: I entered a person I know who js descended from the British peerage. It turns out she is my 25th cousin -- that means we have a common ancestor 27 generations back, or about 600 years ago. Now I am interested in keeping in my data the people who form the link between me and my friend, but I am not terribly interested in the extraneous people I entered along the way -- especially those who are not even her RELATIVES but are merely CONNECTIONS.
There is also a group of people in my data who I did not enter directly -- people who I imported wholesale from GEDCOM's produced by other people who made them available on the internet. There are people form at least two such sources -- at this point I have lost track. Of these people, some are RELATIVES of my focus persons and some are CONNECTIONS. The thing is, CONNECTIONS can be CLOSE CONNECTIONS or more distant CONNECTIONS. There are two difficulties -- First, it takes a goos deal of work to determine how close a CONNECTION a given person is, if I don't know already, and second, further research often demonstrates that CONNECTIONS are really RELATIVES or the CONNECTIONS are closer than I thought.
Well, as I have written this, I have realized that despite the fact that they seem to clutter up my data, I am going to leave everybody in for now, regardless of whether they are currently RELATIVES or CONNECTIONS of my focus people. It does no harm, and I can clean it up later. What I haven't said, is that I have also figured out what I have to do to determine who to remove as I get time.
Writing this has helped me think through the course I will follow. If you have read this, I hope I haven't bored, or confused, you too much.
I'll recast some of this as an explanation and post it elsewhere.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
December 9, 2010
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 version. That accounts for the fact that many of them now have the same information twice. Then the path changed, and the notes became detached from the the data file.
I am currently reattaching the notes, but this time internally, in what I have dubbed an Exhibit tag. I did some of them earlier, at a time I cannot now determine, and edited the notes as I went. This time, in the interest of finishing, I am not doing any editing, except in a very few cases.
Many of the most valuable notes come from Gordon Fisher's data from the early 1990s. Gordon Fisher transcribed entries from several genealogical works, which is a great help.
My data still includes a lot of extraneous, to me, people, because years ago I imported data incautiously from several gedcoms, including Gordon Fisher's.
Because I am working to actually produce something, I am putting off the cleanup of extraneous data until later.
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 version. That accounts for the fact that many of them now have the same information twice. Then the path changed, and the notes became detached from the the data file.
I am currently reattaching the notes, but this time internally, in what I have dubbed an Exhibit tag. I did some of them earlier, at a time I cannot now determine, and edited the notes as I went. This time, in the interest of finishing, I am not doing any editing, except in a very few cases.
Many of the most valuable notes come from Gordon Fisher's data from the early 1990s. Gordon Fisher transcribed entries from several genealogical works, which is a great help.
My data still includes a lot of extraneous, to me, people, because years ago I imported data incautiously from several gedcoms, including Gordon Fisher's.
Because I am working to actually produce something, I am putting off the cleanup of extraneous data until later.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Goodrich Project Update
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 Revised, volume VIII by Harold E Frye, privately printed, 1996, Earl is person 10-03811, and is shown with Grace and 6 children. Some of the information is cited to Esther Mead.
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 Revised, volume VIII by Harold E Frye, privately printed, 1996, Earl is person 10-03811, and is shown with Grace and 6 children. Some of the information is cited to Esther Mead.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Some Green and Joyner progress
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.
I wish there were good Mellen leads.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Bowman
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 marriage, as well as a copy of the divorce. The marriage registration shows Bert's parents as John Bowman and Mary Loraw.
I posted some of this information on Ancestry, and this morning I got an email from a person who says he has the family back to John's parents. I have responded.
In the meantime, I have found some other information on Bert (whose first nsme was Alpheus) on Ancestry. He married again in late 1917 and raised a family. It would be nice if the person who emailed me is in that family. I await developments.
I have a photo of Jessie and Bert and a copy of their the registration of their marriage, as well as a copy of the divorce. The marriage registration shows Bert's parents as John Bowman and Mary Loraw.
I posted some of this information on Ancestry, and this morning I got an email from a person who says he has the family back to John's parents. I have responded.
In the meantime, I have found some other information on Bert (whose first nsme was Alpheus) on Ancestry. He married again in late 1917 and raised a family. It would be nice if the person who emailed me is in that family. I await developments.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Current Ahnentafel at Ancestry
See Where I stand at Ancestry
FIFTH GENERATION
Root person -- me (1)
24 added Chester Brink
25 Amy Gerard
26 William Gallt
27 Martha
28 Manzer J Goodrich
29 Jennie P Hawley
30 Edwin Chesebro Dayton
31 Mary Albertina Morgan
SIXTH GENERATION
Root person - father (2)
32 unknown
33 unknown
34 Joseph Seymour Allen
35 unknown
36
37
38
39
40 unknown
41 unknown
42
43
44 unknown
45 unkown
46 James E Conklin
47 Catherine E Brown
Root person - mother (3)
48 Abraham Brink
49 Ruth Lyons
50 Charles Gerard
51 Joanna Davis
52
53
54
55
56 Eli Butler Goodrich
57 Cynthia Tiffany
58 Joseph W Hawley
59 Sally Wright
60 Charles Edwin Dayton
61 Prudence Mary Chesebrough
62 Newell V Morgan
63 Lucy Hopkins
EIGHTH GENERATION
Root person -- paternal grandfather (4)
64 - 79
Root person - paternal grandmother (5)
80 - 95
Root person - maternal grandfather (6)
96 William Brink
97 Sara Van Tilburg
98
99
100 Joseph Gerard
1001
102
103
104 - 111
Root person - maternal grandmother (7)
112 David Goodrich
113 Adah Holden
114 Alfred Tiffany
115 Lucy Miller
116 Abel Hawley
117 Marilla Hutchinson
118 Anthony Wright
119 Sally Sweatland
120 Charles Dayton
121 Polly Smith
122 Nathan Chesbrough
123 Cynthia Crary
124 Newel Morgan
125 Mary Groves
126 added Charles Hopkins
127 added Naomi Standish
NINTH GENERATION
128 - 191
Root person - Charles Gerard Brink (12)
192 Nicholas Brink
193 Catrina Decker
194
195
196 - 199
200 William Gerard
201
202 - 207
208 - 223
Root person - Earl A Goodrich (14)
224 Alpheus Goodrich
225 Hepzibah Hubbard
226 Ebenezer Holden
227 Martha Halle
228 Thomas tiffany
229 Melatiiah Tingley
230 Elizur Miller
231 Dorcas Goodrich
232
233
234
235
236 Samuel Wright
237 Ruth Kibbe
238 Theophilus Sweatland
239 Zilpha Sprague
Root person - Grace Alison Dayton (15)
240 Charles Dayton
241 Asenath Guernsey
242
243
244 Nathaniel Chesebrough
245 Mary Hallam
246 Thomas Crary
247 Mehitable Mason
248 added Abijah Morgan
249 Ann Cone
250 Retire Groves
251 Abigail king
252
253
254
255
TENTH GENERATION
256 - 383
Root person - Chester Brink (24)
384 Thomas Huyberts Bink
385 Fransyntjen Schoonhoven
386 William Decker
387 Neeltje Roosa
388 - 399
Root person - Amy Gerard (25)
400
401
402 - 415
416 - 447
Root person Manzer J Goodrich (28)
448 David Goodrich
449 Hepzibah Ann Boardman
450 Ephraim Hubbard
451 Mary Lord
452 Ebenezer Holden
453 Sybil
454
455
456 John Tiffany
457 Deliverance Parmenter
458 Thomas Tingley
459 Martha Day
460 Abijah Miller
461 Dorcas
462 Joshua Goodrich
463 Hannah Bliss
Root person Jennie P Hawley (29)
464 - 471
472
473
474
475
476 Israel Sweetland
477 Dorcas Dewey
478 Ebenezer Sprague
479 Hannah St John
Root person Edwin C Dayton (30)
480 Michael Dayton
481 Mehitable Doolittle
482 David Guernsey
483 Hannah Judd
484 -487
488 Nathan Chesbrough
489 Bridget Noyes
490 John Hallam
491 Abigail Noyes
492 Nathan Crary
493 Dorothy Wheeler
494 Andrew Mason
495 Mary Gallup
Root person Mary Albertina Morgan (31)
496 Abijah Morgan
497 Dorothy Williams
498 Daniel Cone
499 Mary Spencer
500 Nicholas Groves
501 Mary Hubbard
502 Thomas King
503 Abigail Warriner
504 - 511
ELEVENTH GENERATION
512 - 767
Root person Abraham Brink (48)
768
FIFTH GENERATION
Root person -- me (1)
24 added Chester Brink
25 Amy Gerard
26 William Gallt
27 Martha
28 Manzer J Goodrich
29 Jennie P Hawley
30 Edwin Chesebro Dayton
31 Mary Albertina Morgan
SIXTH GENERATION
Root person - father (2)
32 unknown
33 unknown
34 Joseph Seymour Allen
35 unknown
36
37
38
39
40 unknown
41 unknown
42
43
44 unknown
45 unkown
46 James E Conklin
47 Catherine E Brown
Root person - mother (3)
48 Abraham Brink
49 Ruth Lyons
50 Charles Gerard
51 Joanna Davis
52
53
54
55
56 Eli Butler Goodrich
57 Cynthia Tiffany
58 Joseph W Hawley
59 Sally Wright
60 Charles Edwin Dayton
61 Prudence Mary Chesebrough
62 Newell V Morgan
63 Lucy Hopkins
EIGHTH GENERATION
Root person -- paternal grandfather (4)
64 - 79
Root person - paternal grandmother (5)
80 - 95
Root person - maternal grandfather (6)
96 William Brink
97 Sara Van Tilburg
98
99
100 Joseph Gerard
1001
102
103
104 - 111
Root person - maternal grandmother (7)
112 David Goodrich
113 Adah Holden
114 Alfred Tiffany
115 Lucy Miller
116 Abel Hawley
117 Marilla Hutchinson
118 Anthony Wright
119 Sally Sweatland
120 Charles Dayton
121 Polly Smith
122 Nathan Chesbrough
123 Cynthia Crary
124 Newel Morgan
125 Mary Groves
126 added Charles Hopkins
127 added Naomi Standish
NINTH GENERATION
128 - 191
Root person - Charles Gerard Brink (12)
192 Nicholas Brink
193 Catrina Decker
194
195
196 - 199
200 William Gerard
201
202 - 207
208 - 223
Root person - Earl A Goodrich (14)
224 Alpheus Goodrich
225 Hepzibah Hubbard
226 Ebenezer Holden
227 Martha Halle
228 Thomas tiffany
229 Melatiiah Tingley
230 Elizur Miller
231 Dorcas Goodrich
232
233
234
235
236 Samuel Wright
237 Ruth Kibbe
238 Theophilus Sweatland
239 Zilpha Sprague
Root person - Grace Alison Dayton (15)
240 Charles Dayton
241 Asenath Guernsey
242
243
244 Nathaniel Chesebrough
245 Mary Hallam
246 Thomas Crary
247 Mehitable Mason
248 added Abijah Morgan
249 Ann Cone
250 Retire Groves
251 Abigail king
252
253
254
255
TENTH GENERATION
256 - 383
Root person - Chester Brink (24)
384 Thomas Huyberts Bink
385 Fransyntjen Schoonhoven
386 William Decker
387 Neeltje Roosa
388 - 399
Root person - Amy Gerard (25)
400
401
402 - 415
416 - 447
Root person Manzer J Goodrich (28)
448 David Goodrich
449 Hepzibah Ann Boardman
450 Ephraim Hubbard
451 Mary Lord
452 Ebenezer Holden
453 Sybil
454
455
456 John Tiffany
457 Deliverance Parmenter
458 Thomas Tingley
459 Martha Day
460 Abijah Miller
461 Dorcas
462 Joshua Goodrich
463 Hannah Bliss
Root person Jennie P Hawley (29)
464 - 471
472
473
474
475
476 Israel Sweetland
477 Dorcas Dewey
478 Ebenezer Sprague
479 Hannah St John
Root person Edwin C Dayton (30)
480 Michael Dayton
481 Mehitable Doolittle
482 David Guernsey
483 Hannah Judd
484 -487
488 Nathan Chesbrough
489 Bridget Noyes
490 John Hallam
491 Abigail Noyes
492 Nathan Crary
493 Dorothy Wheeler
494 Andrew Mason
495 Mary Gallup
Root person Mary Albertina Morgan (31)
496 Abijah Morgan
497 Dorothy Williams
498 Daniel Cone
499 Mary Spencer
500 Nicholas Groves
501 Mary Hubbard
502 Thomas King
503 Abigail Warriner
504 - 511
ELEVENTH GENERATION
512 - 767
Root person Abraham Brink (48)
768
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Using Ancestry after the Miller discursus
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 Miller
Mother Dorcas Goodrich
no siblings
Lucy Miller 2 has no spouse
Father Elizur Miller
Ancestry tells me that Lucy Miller 1 combines info from 11 trees, but I can't get back to the trees.
Similarly, Lucy Miller 2 combines info from 5 trees, which I can't now get to.
What to do?
I add Elizur as a father to Lucy Miller 1. I rename Dorcas Goodrich 2 to Dorcas 2 Goodrich and add her as a mother to Lucy Miller 1.
Now I can delete Lucy Miller 2 so I do. I delete Eleazur Miller and Dorcas Goodrich 1, then rename Dorcas 2 Goodrich back to Dorcas Goodrich.
Now I can look at what I have:
Cynthia Tiffany's parents are Alfred Tiffany, with a hint, and Lucy Miller, without a hint.
Lucy Miller's parents are Elizur Miller and Doercas Goodrich, both with hints.
Elizur Miller's hint is a Connecticut Marriage Record; no trees, but the profile says there are ten new possible connections. They are described as:
Burnside Family Tree; MacPherson Family Tree; Wiener Janski family Tree; kent Family Tree; Alexander-Smith Family Tree//
Reed Family Tree; FrvShell2010; Lehmiller-Ross Family Tree; K Family Tree 6,003; appleton Family Tree.
I have to learn how that works.
In any case, many of these trees have Eleazur rather than Elizur and have him born in Pennsylvania rather than Connecticut. Moreover, they place him in Salem Township in Clarion County rather than Wayne Counbty -- but it is possible that he went on to Clarion County -- I just don't know.
I edited his place of birth to Glastonbury. To do this, I change his father's birth day from 1735 to 1725. Then I changed it back.
Sone tree show Abijah's wife as Dorkas Chubb. I haven't seen any evidence for that.
Note: Google Books tells me that Capt. Abijah Miller is found on pages 560 and 620, as well as the index on page 882 of Hale, House and related families by D L Jacobus. The book costs about $90, so I'll consult it in a library. The Susquehanna County Historical Society does not have ti; the NYPL
More later.
Lucy Miller 1 is married the Alfred Tiffany. For her, I have:
Father Eleazur Miller
Mother Dorcas Goodrich
no siblings
Lucy Miller 2 has no spouse
Father Elizur Miller
Ancestry tells me that Lucy Miller 1 combines info from 11 trees, but I can't get back to the trees.
Similarly, Lucy Miller 2 combines info from 5 trees, which I can't now get to.
What to do?
I add Elizur as a father to Lucy Miller 1. I rename Dorcas Goodrich 2 to Dorcas 2 Goodrich and add her as a mother to Lucy Miller 1.
Now I can delete Lucy Miller 2 so I do. I delete Eleazur Miller and Dorcas Goodrich 1, then rename Dorcas 2 Goodrich back to Dorcas Goodrich.
Now I can look at what I have:
Cynthia Tiffany's parents are Alfred Tiffany, with a hint, and Lucy Miller, without a hint.
Lucy Miller's parents are Elizur Miller and Doercas Goodrich, both with hints.
Elizur Miller's hint is a Connecticut Marriage Record; no trees, but the profile says there are ten new possible connections. They are described as:
Burnside Family Tree; MacPherson Family Tree; Wiener Janski family Tree; kent Family Tree; Alexander-Smith Family Tree//
Reed Family Tree; FrvShell2010; Lehmiller-Ross Family Tree; K Family Tree 6,003; appleton Family Tree.
I have to learn how that works.
In any case, many of these trees have Eleazur rather than Elizur and have him born in Pennsylvania rather than Connecticut. Moreover, they place him in Salem Township in Clarion County rather than Wayne Counbty -- but it is possible that he went on to Clarion County -- I just don't know.
I edited his place of birth to Glastonbury. To do this, I change his father's birth day from 1735 to 1725. Then I changed it back.
Sone tree show Abijah's wife as Dorkas Chubb. I haven't seen any evidence for that.
Note: Google Books tells me that Capt. Abijah Miller is found on pages 560 and 620, as well as the index on page 882 of Hale, House and related families by D L Jacobus. The book costs about $90, so I'll consult it in a library. The Susquehanna County Historical Society does not have ti; the NYPL
More later.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Update on Ancestry
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 a number of children. The "absurd data" usually is duplicate entries for the same child, with slightly different names.
John Miller has parents William Miller and Mary Bushnell. Both have hints. There are also a number of children.
William Miller has parents William Miller and Patience Bacon. Both have hints. There are also children.
This William Miller is an immigrant. There are multiple spouses and children. His parents are William Miller and Margaret Dennis. Both have hints.
This William Miller has children and parents John Miller and Agnes Kellet. Both have hints.
John Miller has children and parents William Miller and Eilzabeth Cutler. Both have hints.
This William Miller has parents John Miller and Alice Lawe. They have hints.
This John Miller has parents Johannes Miller and Margaret Carter. They have hints.
Johannes Miller has children and parents William Miller and Johanna Rolph. They have hints.
This William Miller has children and parents Hans Miller and Magdalena Welser. They have hints.
Hans Miller is the end of the line
Magdalena Welser has another spouse and children and parents Lukas Welser and Ursula Launger. They have hints.
Lukas Welser has children and parents Bartolomaus Welser and Catharina Ridler. They have hints.
Bartholomaus Welser has children, other spouse(s) and parents Bartholomaus Welser and Radegunda Suelmann. They have hints.
This Bartolomaus Welser has children and parents Hans Welser and Elisabeth Rehlinger. They have hints.
Hans Welser has another spuse and parents Bartholomaus Welser and Catharina Parth. They have hints.
This Bartholomaus Welser has children and parents Conrad Welser and Elisabeth Langenmantel. They have hints.
Conrad Welser has an alternative wife, child, and parents Bartholomaus Welser and Margaretha Wildberger. They have hints.
This Batholomaus Welser has alternative wife, and father Seifreid Welser. He has a hint.
Seifreid Welser has children and parents Heinrich Welser and Elisabetha Eggenberger. They have hints.
Heinrich Welser has parents Conrad Welser and Catharina Ilsung. She has a hint.
Catharina Ilsung has parents Friedrich Ilsung and Anna DeStein. They have hints.
Friedrich Ilsung has another child and is end of line.
Anna DeStein is also end of line.
Suddenly Conrad Welser has a hint so he has parents Bartholomaus Welser and Anna Stolzhirsch. They have hints.
This Bartholomaus Welser has parents Lucas Welser and Elisabetha VonWartensee. They have hints.
Lucas Welser ... well you get the idea. I'll just keep going.
I find I need this ist to go back down the tree. There are:
Paulus Welser and Anne Eggenberger
Octavianus Welser and Sibylla VonWildeck
Julius Welser
Anton Welser here I stopped in the 10th century. This all seems very fanciful to me.
But I continue back down the tree.
Sibylla VonWildeck is end of line.
Anne Eggenberger is end of line. I left her hints there as a way of indentifying the trees from which the hints come.
Elisabetha VonWartensee is end of line. Hints left.
Anna Stolzhirsch has father Sebald Stolzhirsch who is end of line.
Elisabetha Eggenberger is end of line. I'll stop saying hints left.
Anna Speet is end of line
Margaretha Wildberger is end of line.
Elisabeth Langenmantel vom Sparren has parents Heinrich Langenmantel vom Sparren and Elisabeth, then
Marquard Langenmantel vom Sparren and Elsbeth -- there's nore but I stop. This is the 13th century.
Catharina Parth is end of line.
Elisabeth Rehlinger has parents in some tress, but I am just leaving the hints because this all very uncertain.
Radegunda Suelmann also has parents. This is still the 14th century; I'm skipping them.
William Miller (1470) is first Miller shown in England. His wife is Johanna Rolph. She has hints in 16 trees. Many copy each other (as I have been doing) and give her mother as Mrs. John Rolph. If I select all, Ancestry chooses Mrs. John Rolph. I'm leaving this one too.
In fact, I'm leaving the whole thing for now. See next post.
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 a number of children. The "absurd data" usually is duplicate entries for the same child, with slightly different names.
John Miller has parents William Miller and Mary Bushnell. Both have hints. There are also a number of children.
William Miller has parents William Miller and Patience Bacon. Both have hints. There are also children.
This William Miller is an immigrant. There are multiple spouses and children. His parents are William Miller and Margaret Dennis. Both have hints.
This William Miller has children and parents John Miller and Agnes Kellet. Both have hints.
John Miller has children and parents William Miller and Eilzabeth Cutler. Both have hints.
This William Miller has parents John Miller and Alice Lawe. They have hints.
This John Miller has parents Johannes Miller and Margaret Carter. They have hints.
Johannes Miller has children and parents William Miller and Johanna Rolph. They have hints.
This William Miller has children and parents Hans Miller and Magdalena Welser. They have hints.
Hans Miller is the end of the line
Magdalena Welser has another spouse and children and parents Lukas Welser and Ursula Launger. They have hints.
Lukas Welser has children and parents Bartolomaus Welser and Catharina Ridler. They have hints.
Bartholomaus Welser has children, other spouse(s) and parents Bartholomaus Welser and Radegunda Suelmann. They have hints.
This Bartolomaus Welser has children and parents Hans Welser and Elisabeth Rehlinger. They have hints.
Hans Welser has another spuse and parents Bartholomaus Welser and Catharina Parth. They have hints.
This Bartholomaus Welser has children and parents Conrad Welser and Elisabeth Langenmantel. They have hints.
Conrad Welser has an alternative wife, child, and parents Bartholomaus Welser and Margaretha Wildberger. They have hints.
This Batholomaus Welser has alternative wife, and father Seifreid Welser. He has a hint.
Seifreid Welser has children and parents Heinrich Welser and Elisabetha Eggenberger. They have hints.
Heinrich Welser has parents Conrad Welser and Catharina Ilsung. She has a hint.
Catharina Ilsung has parents Friedrich Ilsung and Anna DeStein. They have hints.
Friedrich Ilsung has another child and is end of line.
Anna DeStein is also end of line.
Suddenly Conrad Welser has a hint so he has parents Bartholomaus Welser and Anna Stolzhirsch. They have hints.
This Bartholomaus Welser has parents Lucas Welser and Elisabetha VonWartensee. They have hints.
Lucas Welser ... well you get the idea. I'll just keep going.
I find I need this ist to go back down the tree. There are:
Paulus Welser and Anne Eggenberger
Octavianus Welser and Sibylla VonWildeck
Julius Welser
Anton Welser here I stopped in the 10th century. This all seems very fanciful to me.
But I continue back down the tree.
Sibylla VonWildeck is end of line.
Anne Eggenberger is end of line. I left her hints there as a way of indentifying the trees from which the hints come.
Elisabetha VonWartensee is end of line. Hints left.
Anna Stolzhirsch has father Sebald Stolzhirsch who is end of line.
Elisabetha Eggenberger is end of line. I'll stop saying hints left.
Anna Speet is end of line
Margaretha Wildberger is end of line.
Elisabeth Langenmantel vom Sparren has parents Heinrich Langenmantel vom Sparren and Elisabeth, then
Marquard Langenmantel vom Sparren and Elsbeth -- there's nore but I stop. This is the 13th century.
Catharina Parth is end of line.
Elisabeth Rehlinger has parents in some tress, but I am just leaving the hints because this all very uncertain.
Radegunda Suelmann also has parents. This is still the 14th century; I'm skipping them.
William Miller (1470) is first Miller shown in England. His wife is Johanna Rolph. She has hints in 16 trees. Many copy each other (as I have been doing) and give her mother as Mrs. John Rolph. If I select all, Ancestry chooses Mrs. John Rolph. I'm leaving this one too.
In fact, I'm leaving the whole thing for now. See next post.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Wright Family
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 doubt as to whether Jennie was her first or middle name. I have her date and place of birth as 11 August 1846 in Brooklyn, PA and her date and place of death as 24 November 1927 in Port Dickinson, NY. These data come from The Tingley Family Revised and were supplied to the comiler by my great-aunt Esther.
Permelia's mother, Sally Wright, was the daughter of Anthony Wright and Sally Swetland. They lived on Martin's Creek (also called Marten Creek.) This is where I will begin. [In what follows, I am indebted to Weston's History of Brooklyn and to Two Centuries of Memories -- Lathrop and Hop Bottom and to research in other sources.]
In 1799, Joseph Sprague lived in a cabin on the Marten Creek meadows. He was referred to as a hermit, which I surmise means that he did not have a family. In 1802, Joseph's nephew, Ira Swetland, came to live with him. Ira was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, 20 November 1780, his parents were Zilpha Sprague and Theophilus Swetland.
Ira Swetland married, in Connecticut, Ruth Wright, a daughter of Capt Samuel Wright and Ruth Kibbe. Two of Ira's sisters married two of Ruth's brothers. Almira Swetland married Samuel Wright and Sally Swetland married Anthony Wright. All three couples settled along Martin's Creek.
to be updated
Grandma Hawley was Jennie Permelia Hawley, daughter of Joseph William and Sally (Wright) Hawley. She was called Permelia, and there is some doubt as to whether Jennie was her first or middle name. I have her date and place of birth as 11 August 1846 in Brooklyn, PA and her date and place of death as 24 November 1927 in Port Dickinson, NY. These data come from The Tingley Family Revised and were supplied to the comiler by my great-aunt Esther.
Permelia's mother, Sally Wright, was the daughter of Anthony Wright and Sally Swetland. They lived on Martin's Creek (also called Marten Creek.) This is where I will begin. [In what follows, I am indebted to Weston's History of Brooklyn and to Two Centuries of Memories -- Lathrop and Hop Bottom and to research in other sources.]
In 1799, Joseph Sprague lived in a cabin on the Marten Creek meadows. He was referred to as a hermit, which I surmise means that he did not have a family. In 1802, Joseph's nephew, Ira Swetland, came to live with him. Ira was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, 20 November 1780, his parents were Zilpha Sprague and Theophilus Swetland.
Ira Swetland married, in Connecticut, Ruth Wright, a daughter of Capt Samuel Wright and Ruth Kibbe. Two of Ira's sisters married two of Ruth's brothers. Almira Swetland married Samuel Wright and Sally Swetland married Anthony Wright. All three couples settled along Martin's Creek.
to be updated
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Where I stand at Ancestry.
Ahnentafel:
FIRST GENERATION
1 me
SECOND GENERATION
2 father
3 mother
THIRD GENERATION
4 pat gf
5 pat gm
6 mat gf
7 mat gm
FOURTH GENERATION
8 William S Mellen
9 unknown
10 James Green
11 Viola Joiner
12 Charles Girard B
13 Mary Louise Gallt
14 Earl A Goodrich
15 Grace A Dayton
FIFTH GENERATION
16 Peter W Mellen
17 Mary Elizabeth Allen
18
19
20 Ira Green
21 Pamela
22 David Joiner
23 Mary E Conklin
24 add
25 add
26 William Gallt
27 Martha
28 Manzer J Goodrich
29 Jennie P Hawley
30 Edwin Chesebro Dayton
31 Mary Albertina Morgan
SIXTH GENERATON
Root person - my father (2)
32 unknown
33 unknown
34 Joseph Seymour Allen
35 unknown
36
37
38
39
40 unknown
41 unknown
42
43
44 unknown
45 unkown
46 James E Conklin
47 Catherine E Brown
Root person -- my mother (3)
48 add
49 add
50
51
52
53
54
55
56 Eli Butler Goodrich
57 Cynthia Tiffany
58 Joseph W Hawley
59 Sally Wright
60 Charles Edwin Dayton
61 Prudence Mary Chesebrough
62 Newell V Morgan
63 Lucy Hopkins
FIRST GENERATION
1 me
SECOND GENERATION
2 father
3 mother
THIRD GENERATION
4 pat gf
5 pat gm
6 mat gf
7 mat gm
FOURTH GENERATION
8 William S Mellen
9 unknown
10 James Green
11 Viola Joiner
12 Charles Girard B
13 Mary Louise Gallt
14 Earl A Goodrich
15 Grace A Dayton
FIFTH GENERATION
16 Peter W Mellen
17 Mary Elizabeth Allen
18
19
20 Ira Green
21 Pamela
22 David Joiner
23 Mary E Conklin
24 add
25 add
26 William Gallt
27 Martha
28 Manzer J Goodrich
29 Jennie P Hawley
30 Edwin Chesebro Dayton
31 Mary Albertina Morgan
SIXTH GENERATON
Root person - my father (2)
32 unknown
33 unknown
34 Joseph Seymour Allen
35 unknown
36
37
38
39
40 unknown
41 unknown
42
43
44 unknown
45 unkown
46 James E Conklin
47 Catherine E Brown
Root person -- my mother (3)
48 add
49 add
50
51
52
53
54
55
56 Eli Butler Goodrich
57 Cynthia Tiffany
58 Joseph W Hawley
59 Sally Wright
60 Charles Edwin Dayton
61 Prudence Mary Chesebrough
62 Newell V Morgan
63 Lucy Hopkins
Ancestry links
Here another year has gone by.
Today I signed onto Ancestry and was greeted by the following messages:
Recent Member Activity: 16 Sep 2009
1860 census saved to Eli Butler Goodrich by ksdirk
3 records saved to Alfred Tiffany by ksdirk
Death information edited for Alfred Tiffany by ksdirk
Death information edited for Lucy Miller by ksdirk
7 new family members added for Anthony Wright by ksdirk
I don't know who ksdirk or why she has these people in her family tree (called Snyder Family Tree - NE Pennsylvania.) So I begin to do a little mongoosing in the Snyder Family Tree:
First, I look up Eli Butler Goodrich and find birth, death, and marriage information (to Cynthia Tiffany) For Cynthis Tiffany, the place of birth is given as Salem, Susquehanna, PA. There is no Salem in Susquehanna County -- so that's an error. It's in the "Family Data Collection" and in "One World Tree" on Ancestry.
There are pedigrees given for both Eli and Cynthia that seem to be more or less accurate -- I didn't check in detail.
The pedigrees include Cynthia's parents, Alfred Tiffany and Lucy Miller, so that leaves Anthony Wright.
The Snyder tree has parents for Samuel Wright (Anthony's father) which I don't have. They are given as Charles Wright, born 5 January 1719 in Northampton, Massachusetts and died 23 December 1793 in Pownal, Vermont and Ruth Boltwood, born 25 April 1722 in Amherst Massachusets and died 15 April 1806 in Pownal Vermont. Their marriage is given as 19 Oct 1742 in Amherst.
Anthony's mother is given as Azuba Gibbs, (Samuel's second wife.) This is a mistake I have seen before.
At least some of Anthony's children are given, including Sally. Her marriage to Joseph Hawley is shown as are at least some of their children, including "Pamelia," but not her marriage.
Oops, back to Samuel Wright -- this is the wrong guy. His dates are given as 1745 - 1815 whereas the correct Samuel Wright weas born in 1751 and died in 1829.
So that was a brief flash thinking I had a lead, but I don't.
Today I signed onto Ancestry and was greeted by the following messages:
Recent Member Activity: 16 Sep 2009
1860 census saved to Eli Butler Goodrich by ksdirk
3 records saved to Alfred Tiffany by ksdirk
Death information edited for Alfred Tiffany by ksdirk
Death information edited for Lucy Miller by ksdirk
7 new family members added for Anthony Wright by ksdirk
I don't know who ksdirk or why she has these people in her family tree (called Snyder Family Tree - NE Pennsylvania.) So I begin to do a little mongoosing in the Snyder Family Tree:
First, I look up Eli Butler Goodrich and find birth, death, and marriage information (to Cynthia Tiffany) For Cynthis Tiffany, the place of birth is given as Salem, Susquehanna, PA. There is no Salem in Susquehanna County -- so that's an error. It's in the "Family Data Collection" and in "One World Tree" on Ancestry.
There are pedigrees given for both Eli and Cynthia that seem to be more or less accurate -- I didn't check in detail.
The pedigrees include Cynthia's parents, Alfred Tiffany and Lucy Miller, so that leaves Anthony Wright.
The Snyder tree has parents for Samuel Wright (Anthony's father) which I don't have. They are given as Charles Wright, born 5 January 1719 in Northampton, Massachusetts and died 23 December 1793 in Pownal, Vermont and Ruth Boltwood, born 25 April 1722 in Amherst Massachusets and died 15 April 1806 in Pownal Vermont. Their marriage is given as 19 Oct 1742 in Amherst.
Anthony's mother is given as Azuba Gibbs, (Samuel's second wife.) This is a mistake I have seen before.
At least some of Anthony's children are given, including Sally. Her marriage to Joseph Hawley is shown as are at least some of their children, including "Pamelia," but not her marriage.
Oops, back to Samuel Wright -- this is the wrong guy. His dates are given as 1745 - 1815 whereas the correct Samuel Wright weas born in 1751 and died in 1829.
So that was a brief flash thinking I had a lead, but I don't.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Goodrich
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 closing up process was winding own, I began using the Tingley books to record my sources on the Goodrich family. This led me to tentatively research one of Manzer Goodrich's siblings on Ancestry. and I was led to One World Tree which shows a pedigree for Manzer's grandmother, Lucy Miller, in particular a Miller ancestry. (Included is a pedigree for Lucy's mother, Dorcas Goodrich.)
I am noting this here to help me remember to follow up on this matter later.
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 closing up process was winding own, I began using the Tingley books to record my sources on the Goodrich family. This led me to tentatively research one of Manzer Goodrich's siblings on Ancestry. and I was led to One World Tree which shows a pedigree for Manzer's grandmother, Lucy Miller, in particular a Miller ancestry. (Included is a pedigree for Lucy's mother, Dorcas Goodrich.)
I am noting this here to help me remember to follow up on this matter later.
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