Saturday, July 9, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Ancestor With Most Census Entries

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

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



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 


1)  Do you know which of your ancestors appears the most times in the Census records?  How many years?  Are there duplicate entries?  


2)  Describe that ancestor's entries in the records in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook or Google+.

Here's mine:  

I think my ancestor with the most census entries is probably Henry Austin Carringer (1853 - 1946), whom I've found in every available Federal census from 1860 to 1940.

Here is where he resided in each year:

1860 -- In the 1860 U.S. census, Henry A. Caringer (age 7, born PA, attended school) was son of David J.Caringer (age 31, born PA) and his wife Rebecca Caringer (age 28, born PA) and sibling of brother Harvy E. Caringer (age 9, born PA), and sister Epha E. Caringer (age 2, born PA). The family resided in Columbus City, Louisa County, Iowa (National Archives Microfilm Series M653, Roll 331, Page 857, house #558, family #558). 

1870 -- In the 1870 US census, Henry A. Carenngtr (age 16, born PA, attended school) was son of D.Carenngtr (age 40, born PA) and Rebeca Carenngtr (age 38, born PA), and brother of  Harvy  Carenngtr (age 18, born PA) and Effie Carenngtr (age ??, born PA). The family resided in Jackson township in Washington County, Iowa (National Archives Microfilm Series M593, Roll 424, Page 131, house #49, family #49). 

1880 -- In the 1880 US Census, Henry A. Carringer (age 26, born PA, millwright and carpenter) was son of D.J. Carringer (age 51, born PA) and Rebecca Carringer (age 48, born PA) and brother of Harvey E. Carringer (age 28, born PA). The family resided in Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado (National Archives Microfilm Series T9, Roll 89, Page 525B, Line 15). 

1890 -- not found, but he was probably enumerated.  In 1890, Henry A. Carringer and his wife Della resided in San Diego City, perhaps at a house at 16th and H Street (now Market Street) - they were listed there in the 1891 City Directory.

1900 -- In the 1900 U.S. census, Henry A. Carringer (age 46, born Nov 1853 in PA, a carpenter) was head-of-household with wife Della A. Carringer (age 38, born Apr 1862 in WI), son Lyle L. Carringer (age 8, born Nov 1891 in CA), and mother-in-law Abby A. Smith (age 55, born Aug 1844 in NY). They resided on Watkins Avenue in San Diego city, San Diego County, California (National Archives Microfilm Series T623, Roll 99, Page 172, ED 194, Sheet 19A, Line 43).

1910 -- In the 1910 U.S. census, Henry A. Carringer (age 48, born in PA, a carpenter) was head-of-household with wife Della A. Carringer (age 50, born in WI), son Lyle L. Carringer (age 18, born CA), brother Harvey Carringer (age 59, born in PA) and mother-in-law Abby A. Smith (age ??, born in NY). The family resided on Hawthorne Street in the 4th Ward of San Diego, San Diego County, California (National Archives Microfilm Series T624, Roll 94, page 182, ED 150, Sheet ??, Line 1). 

1920 -- In the 1920 U.S. census, Henry A. Carringer (age 66, born in PA, a cabinet-maker) was head-of-household with wife Della A. Carringer (age 57, born in WI), and mother-in-law Abby A. Smith (age 77, born in NY). The family resided at 2105 30th Street in San Diego city, San Diego County, California (National Archives Microfilm Series T625, Roll 131, Page 225, ED 285 sheet 5B, line 65, taken 8 Jan 1920). 

1930 -- In the 1930 U.S. census, Henry A. Carringer (age 76, born in PA, an aviation mechanic) was head-of-household with wife Della A. Carringer (age 67, born in WI), and mother-in-law Abbie A. Smith (age 85, born in NY). The family resided at 2115 30th Street in San Diego city, San Diego County, California (National Archives Microfilm Series T626, Roll 192, Sheet 1A, ED 116, line 8, taken 2 April 1930).

1940 -- In the 1940 U.S. census, Henry Austin Carringer (age 87, born in PA, millwright and mechanic) was head of household with wife Abbie Della Carringer (age 78, born in WI).  The family resided at 2115 30th Street in San Diego, San Diego County, California 
(National Archives Microfilm Series T627, Roll 451, Sheet 1A, ED 62-63A, Sheet 16B, Dwelling #426, taken 2 April 1940).

So, he was in all of the census records from 1860 to 1940, but the 1890 record is unavailable.  That's nine, but only eight that I have found.


Throughout these records, he is usually listed as Henry A. Carringer (with spelling variations on the surname) - not "Austin" as Della called him throughout their married life. 

Interestingly, they lived in the same house in San Diego from the 1900 through the 1940 census - the street name changed from Watkins Street (in 1900) to Hawthorn Street (by 1910), the address changed to 2105 30th Street (by 1920, but the house didn't move) and the house moved from the corner to the middle of the block (hence 2115 30th) by the 1930 census.



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Surname Saturday - FISH (England to colonial New England)

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 #1439, who is Mehitable FISH (1647-1697) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this FISH family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

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

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)


10.  Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11.  Julia E. White (1848-1913)

22.  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885)
23.  Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)

44.  Jonathan White (1805-1850)
45.  Miranda Wade (1804-1850)

88.  Humphrey White (1758-1814)
89.  Sibel Kirby (1764-1848).

178.  David Kirby (1740-1832)
179.  Martha Soule (1743-1828)

358.  Benjamin Soule (1719-1803)
359.  Meribah Waite (1720-1803)

718.  Thomas Waite (1683-1743)
719.  Mary Tripp (1689-1754)

1438.  Joseph Tripp, born about 1644 in probably Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States; died 27 November 1718 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2876. John Tripp and 2879. Mary Paine.  He married 06 August 1667 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
1439.  Mehitable Fish, born about 1647 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States; died 09 September 1697 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Joseph Tripp and Mehitable Fish are:

*  John Tripp (1668-????).
*  Thomas Tripp (1670-????)
*  Jonathan Tripp (1671-1706), married 1695 Martha Brownell (1678-1736).
*  Peleg Tripp (1673-????), married (1) 1696 Abigail Jenkins (1673-1712); (2) 1712 Elizabeth Cornell (1673-1761).
*  Ebenezer Tripp (1675-1757), married 1703 Abigail Cudworth (1680-1753).
*  James Tripp (1677-1730), married Mary Lawton (1682-????).
*  Alice Tripp (1679-????), married Joshua Sherman.
*  Abiel Tripp (1681-1764), married 1711 Anne Davis (1676-1761).
*  Mehitable Tripp (1683-1743), married 1708 Ephraim Sherman (1685-1772).
*  Joseph Tripp (1685-1754), married (1) 1709 Elizabeth Smith (1687-1736); (2) 1737 Abigail Waite.
*  Jabez Tripp (1687-????), married 17126 Hepsibeth Daggett (1692-????).
*  Mary Tripp (1689-1754), married 1711 Thomas Waite (1683-1743).
*  Danel Tripp (1691-1778), married 1719 Rebecca Mosher (1695-1743).

2878.  Thomas Fish, born before 01 January 1619 in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England; died before 13 December 1687 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.  He was the son of 5756. Robert Fishe and 5757. Alice Fyshe.  He married about 1645 in probably Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
2879.  Mary, born 1625 in England; died before 12 July 1699 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

Children of Thomas Fish and Mary are:
*  Thomas Fish (1646-1684), married 1668 Grizzel Strange (1640-1691)
*  Mehitable Fish (1647-1697), married 1667 Joseph Tripp (1644-1718).
*  Mary Fish (1650-1747), married 1672 Francis Brayton (1634-1718).
*  Alice Fish (1652-1734), married 1674 William Knowles (1645-1727).
*  John Fish (1655-1734), married 1680 Joanna (1655-1746).
*  Daniel Fish (1657-1723), married 1682 Abigail Mumford (1658-1717).
*  Robert Fish (1661-1730), married 1686 Mary Hall (1660-1735).

Information about the FISH family was obtained from:

*  Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, Third Edition (Santa Clarita, Calif. : the author, 1998).

*  Lester Warren Fish,  The Fish Family in England and America (Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., 1948).

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Friday, July 8, 2016

Ancestry Updates LifeStory Capabilities...But It Needs to be Improved

Ancestry.com published a blog post today titled Ancestry Product Update: LifeStory Changes.  The main improvement is:

"Some of our members have shared that they would prefer to jump straight in to writing their own stories without the help of an auto-generated LifeStory. To enable this, we’ve recently added a new option to each tree’s settings page that allows you to enable or disable stories being generated for that tree."

They provide directions - the key one is to unclick the box in Tree Settings that says "Automatically build stories for this tree."


I did that in the screen above, and then went back to my profile for Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in my Ancestry Member Tree, and clicked on LifeStory:


And scrolled down to the Birth Fact:


The automatic birth description is not there.  I clicked on the "Edit" button for the Birth Fact, and was able to click within the text field and type (or copy/paste) text into the field.


I clicked the green "Save" button and saw the birth fact text in the LifeStory field:


The text I put into that Birth field is there.

I wanted to add a biographical sketch to the "Add a Biography to Personalize the LifeStory" at the top of the LifeStory page.  I copied my text from my RootsMagic Notes, and pasted them into the "Add a Biography..." field.  It was formatted in paragraphs and line breaks for bullet items in my Notes and when I pasted it into the field.

Here is what it looks like after I saved it:


When I saved the text, all of the text is run together.  The text has no line breaks or paragraph breaks. 

Frankly, this is unusable at this point in time.  When users find this out, they will be really frustrated because Ancestry listened to them and then provided a feature that doesn't look good and is essentially unreadable if it has paragraphs in it.

This improved feature has real possibilties to replace the "Stories" attachment, but it needs to be fixed.

Please, Ancestry.com , fix this ASAP!!!  Thank you!


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