Saturday, October 28, 2017

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Source Have You Used the Most?

It's Saturday Night - 
time for more Genealogy Fun! 



Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:


1)  Have you done a good job of citing your sources in your genealogy management program or online family tree?  How are you doing?  How many source citations do you have, and how many people are in your tree?  What is the sources to persons ratio?


2)  Which master source (e.g., 1900 U.S. census, Find A Grave, specific book, etc.) do you have the most citations for?  How many?  How did you figure this out?


3)  Tell us in your own blog post, in comments to this post, or on Facebook or Google+ in a post.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your post on this blog post.


Here's mine:


1) I'm trying!  I'm not nearly done.  I'm almost obsessive now...I've been adding source citations almost every day based on new research, on MyHeritage Record Matches, on Ancestry Hints, etc., all for persons and events that are in my database without a source citation (due to slacking off for many years).  I'm also trying to "improve" existing source citations when I find them by adding better citation details.


At present, my RootsMagic 7 database statistics file (File > Properties) says that I have 89,399 source citations in 1,579 master sources, and there are 48,881 persons in this tree.  My source/person ratio is 1.83, but not every name or event has a citation. 


2)  I think that Find A Grave is the master source in my database that has the most individuals and source citations.  I found this out by:

*  In RootsMagic 7, I created a Source List report (selecting Reports > All reports > Source list > select "Print all sources in database sorted by source name") and browsed the list.  The list for all 1,579 master sources was 3,111 pages long.


The number of citations for some of the master sources were:


**  Find A Grave:  21,702 (26.0% of the total)

**  Social Security Death Index: 3,512
**  Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1920:  3,205
**  1920 U.S. Census:  2,806
**  Social Security Applications and Claims Index:  1,616
**  World War I Draft Registrations:  1,592
**  California Death Index:  1,449
**  Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2003:  1,441
**  1930 U.S. Census:  1,320
**  1940 U.S. Census:  1,001
**  Medfield, Mass. Vital Records book:  865
**  Roxbury, Mass. Vital Records Book:  779
**  Woburn, Mass. Vital Records book:  703
**  Concord, Mass. Vital Records Book:  699
**  1900 U.S. Census:  620
**  World War II Draft Registrations:  590
**  1910 U.S. Census:  568
**  California Birth Index, 1905-1995:  550

3)  I expected to find a better statistics report that listed the master sources with the number of individuals and citations, and in numerical order.  Oh well.



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Surname Saturday -- HIGGINS (England to colonial New Jersey)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #2039, who is Rose HIGGINS (1686-1715) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through three generations of this HIGGINS family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver (1943-????)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)


6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

14.  Charles Auble (1849-1916)
15.  Georgianna Kemp (1862-1952)

30.  James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902)
31.  Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874)

62.  Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907)
63.  Elizabeth Putman (1818-1895)

126.  John Putman (1785-1863)
127.  Sarah Martin (1792-1860)

254.  Mulford Martin (1763-????)
255.  Betsey Rolfe (1766-????)

508.  Thomas Martin (1737-1767)
509.  Elizabeth Ayers (1745-1767)

1018.  James Ayers (1716-1794)
1019.  Hope Bloomfield (1716-1776)


2038.  Timothy Bloomfield, born 11 February 1681 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died after 20 September 1748 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  He was the son of 4076. Ezekiel Bloomfield and 4077. Hope Fitz Randolph.  He married  02 April 1707 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.
2039.  Rose Higgins, born 06 November 1686 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died before 23 April 1715 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States. 

Children of Timothy Bloomfield and Rose Higgins are:

*  Rivard Bloomfield (1708-1758).
*  Rebecah Bloomfield (1709-????)
*  Sarah Bloomfield (1710-????).
Hope Bloomfield (1715-1776), married 1744 James Ayers (1716-1794).

4078.  Jediah Higgins, born 05 March 1657 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 20 May 1715 in Kingston, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.   He married 12 May 1684 in Burlington, Burlington, New Jersey, United States.
4079.  Mary Newbold, born before 23 May 1661 in Eckington, Yorkshire, England; died Aft. 23 April 1715 in Kingston, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.  She was the daughter of 8158. Michael Newbold and 8159. Anne Cleaton.

Children of Jediah Higgins and Mary Newbold are:
*  Anne Higgins (1684-1702).
Rose Higgins (1686-1715), married 1707 Timothy Bloomfield (1681-1748).
*  Mary Higgins (1688-1699).
*  Thomas Higgins (1690-????).
*  Jediah Higgins (1691-1772), married 1715 Hannah Stout (1694-1779).
*  James Higgins (1692-1718).
*  Joshua Higgins (1694-????).
*  Phoebe Higgins (1696-????).
*  Michael Higgins (1698-1753), married 1727 Anna Bryant (1699-1730).
*  Mary Higgins (1700-1773), married 1720 Freegift Stout (1693-1769).
*  Joseph Higgins (1702-1781).

8156.  Richard Higgins, born before 01 August 1603 in Langley, Hertfordshire, England; died before 01 June 1675 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  He was the son of 16312. Edward Higgins and 16313. Julian Meals.  He married 10 October 1651 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
8157.  Mary LNU, born before 03 May 1630 in England; died after 02 December 1702 in Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States.

Children of Richard Higgins and Mary are:
*  Eliakim Higgins (1654-1698), married 1684 Alice Newbold (1654-1692).
Jediah Higgins (1657-1715), married 1684 Mary Newbold (1661-1715)
*  Zerah Higgins (1658-1695), married 1680 Elizabeth Oliver (1660-1695).
*  Thomas Higgins (1661-1702), married 1690 Elizabeth Hull (1669-1730).
*  Rebecca Higgins (1664-1715), married 1683 Thomas Martin (1662-1715).
*  Lydia Higgins (1664-1665).
*  Sarah Higgins (1672-1703), married 1693 Samuel Morse (1670-1703).
*  Ruth Higgins (1672-1709), married (1) 1692 Isaac FitzRandolph (1664-1694); (2) 1695 Stephen Tuttle (1673-1710).

Information about this Higgins family line was obtained from:

* Katherine Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and His Descendants (Worcester, Mass. : for the author, 1918)

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