Thursday, January 2, 2014

My Genealogy Research Adventures in 2013

I tried to figure out what genealogical research adventures (and/or accomplishments) I enjoyed or completed during 2013.  I wrote so many blog posts that I cannot remember all of them.  I'm including not only my own research but also research I performed for others.  So I want to collect them in one post so that I can refer to them.

Here is my list, in chronological order:

*  Chasing Down Original Sources for My Spengler Families - I Love Digital Microfilm! (7 January 2013)

*  Finding Family Information about the Brocke Family (8 January 2013)

*  Using New Brunswick County Deed Registry Books (16 January 2013)

*  Putting the Land Records Together for James Vaux (1787-1839) (4 February 2013)

*  Finding Plat Maps for the James Vaux Land Holdings (5 February 2013)

*  Tombstone Tuesday - Samuel and Mary Ann Vaux (12 February 2013)

*  Finding Pennsylvania Donation District Land Maps (21 February 2013)

*  Mining Cornelius Feather's Probate Records for Genealogy Nuggets (20 February 2013)

*  Day 1 in Salt Lake City - At the FHL (20 March 2013)

*  How Can I Resolve This Evidence Conflict? (27 March 2013)

*  Problems with John Richman's (1788-1867) Line in FamilySearch Family Tree (28 March 2013)

*  Breaking Down the Mary Smith Brickwall (or is she a Bell?) (1 April 2013)

*  Finding Martin Carringer's Revolutionary War Rolls on Ancestry.com - Difficult! (11 April 2013)

*  The Samuel Vaux Death Date Evidence Conflict - is it Resolved? (15 April 2013)

*  Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986 Available on FamilySearch - Digital Microfilm (20 May 2013)

*  Found Newspaper Articles for Linda's Parents in 1937 in San Francisco (22 May 2013)

*  Mining the Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986, for Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) Deeds (28 May 2013)

*  My Canadian Mystery - Sarah Sephrona? (Fletcher) Kemp (1802-????) (1 July 2013)

*  Finding Henry Carringer's Land Patents, and Location, in Cheyenne County, Kansas (24 July 2013)

*  More Land Patents in Cheyenne County, Kansas for Devier Smith and Della Smith (26 July 2013)

*  Finding More Information About Land Grants in U.S. BLM Tract Books on FamilySearch (30 July 2013)

*  Working in the Massachusetts Town and Vital Records Collection (2 August 2013)

*  Hunting for Hannah Brown's Birth Family in Colonial Massachusetts
(5 August 2013)

*  Searching for Hannah Brown's Parents - Post 2 (6 August 2013)

*  Searching for Hannah Brown's Parents - Post 3 (8 August 2013)

*  Elizabeth --?--, the Wife of John Goodrich (1616-1680) of Wethersfield, Connecticut (9 August 2013)

*  Searching for Hannah Brown's Parents - Post 4 (12 August 2013)

*  Finding Henry Carringer's Land in Louisa County, Iowa (21 August 2013)

*  A Forrest Gump Moment - Ancestry.com Immigration and Travel Collection Free Through 2 September (29 August 2013)

*  Answering Sue's Extracting Challenge - A Simple Massachusetts Deed (22 October 2013)


*  My Line of Descent from Charlemagne - 42 Generations! (30 August 2013)

*  CrowdSourcing Opportunity: When and Where did John Louis Powell Die? (29 October 2013)

*  My Cause of Death Pedigree Chart (31 October 2013)

*   Crowdsourcing Results: Louis B. Powell Attacked in Drumright, Oklahoma. (4 November 2013)

*  Crowdsourcing Results: Louis B. Powell Death Notice and Obituary (5 November 2013)

*  Finding Ethel - Post 1: Candidate Search (7 November 2013)

*  Finding Ethel - Post 2: Ethel Found. Who Were Her Parents? (8 November 2013)

*  Finding John's Other Grandmother, R.A. (--?--) Collins in Online Resources (14 November 2013)

*  A Dill Cousin Connection, and More (3 December 2013)

*  Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Packet Files Now on AmericanAncestors.org (9 December 2013)

*  First Look at MyHeritage Scandinavian Matches (11 December 2013)



Then there are these series of blog posts which very much contribute to my research adventures and accomplishments:

*  Amanuensis Monday - transcriptions of documents (usually my ancestors)

*  Treasure Chest Thursday - summaries and transcriptions of ancestral records

Not included in the above list are the typical day-to-day research activities of finding content and adding source citations to persons in my genealogy database. 

Also not included are the blog posts concerning my genealogy presentations at genealogy societies, attending RootsTech 2013 in Salt Lake City, NGS 2013 in Las Vegas, SCGS 2013 in Burbank, and the Legacy Family Tree Cruise 2013 in September/October.

Looking back, I now recall most of those blog posts!  I don't remember writing some blog posts after six months or more, and find them when "looking back" over the year's genea-musings.  


Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver



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