Saturday, March 4, 2017

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Lunch With a Fearless Female

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):

1)  This is March, the month for Fearless Females posts, started by Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist blog - see her Fearless Females blogging prompts for 2017 at   
http://www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com/2017/02/fearless-females-blogging-prompts.html.

2)  Answer this question for March 16 (I've changed it a bit): If you could have lunch with any female family member (living or dead), or any famous female, who would it be and why? Where would you go? What would you talk about?

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a comment on Facebook or Google+.

Here's mine:


a)  WHO:  I would choose my 3rd great-grandmother, Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) (Newton) Stone (1797-1882).  She was the daughter of  Isaac Buck (1757-1846) and Martha Phillips (1764-18??) of Holden and Sterling, Massachusetts.  She married (1) Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) of Westborough, Mass., and they had two sons, Augustus Brigham (1820-1909) and Aurelius Brigham (1830-1878).  

After Lambert Brigham died, she apparently married Thomas J. Newton (1800?-after 1835?), who was probably born in Maine.  She had a daughter, Sophia Newton (1834?-1922) and a son, Thomas J. Newton (1836-1915) with this husband, apparently in Vermont.

By the 1850 U.S. Census she is residing in Northborough, Mass. with her daughter, Sophia Newton, who married Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852 in Northborough, Mass.  In 1862, Sophia marries, thirdly, Jonathan Stone (1795-1868) in Westborough.  Sophia died in 1882 in Westborough, Mass.

b)  WHERE:  I think I would go with her to the church in Sterling, Mass. where she married Lambert Brigham.  We could sit in a quiet place in the garden, perhaps have a drink, and talk.  We might go to a restaurant in Sterling for lunch.

c)  WHY:  I have so many questions about her life, especially the fathers of her two Newton children.  But I would want to know all about:

*  Her Buck family - her father was a Revolutionary War soldier, and they were very poor.   What were her parents like?  What was her childhood like?  Where did they live?  When did her mother die?  Did she stay in touch with her siblings?  

*  Her Brigham family - she had two sons by her first husband, Lambert Brigham, who died in 1834.  What was Lambert's occupation, what did he die of, how did she manage after he died?

*  Her Newton family - she had two children, apparently by her second husband, Thomas J. Newton, probably in 1834 and 1836.  What was his birth date and place, and who were his parents?  When and where did she meet and marry Thomas?  Where were Sophia and Thomas born?  Were they really Thomas's children?  Or was one or both a Brigham child?  Why did they go to Vermont after their marriage?  When did she return to the Westborough area with with her children?  What happened to her two oldest Brigham sons after she married Thomas - did they go to Vermont and back, or did they stay with family in the Westborough area?  What stories did she have of daughter Sophia's childhood and marriage to Edward Hildreth?  Did she know and enjoy her grandchildren, including Harriet Hildreth (1857-1920)?  

*  Her Stone family - when did she meet Jonathan Stone, and why did she marry him?  How did she support herself after he died in 1868?  

There are so many questions, and so few answers.  


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Surname Saturday -- EASTMAN (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 skipping many unknown families, all the way up to Ancestor #1763, who is Sarah Eastman (1674-1728) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through three generations of this EASTMAN 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)

12.  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946)
13.  Abbie Ardelle "Della" Smith (1862-1944)

26.  Devier James Lamphier Smith (1849-1894)
27.  Abigail A. "Abbey" Vaux (1844-1931)

54.  Samuel Vaux (1816-1880)
55.  Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1883)

110.  Amos Underhill (1772-1865)
111.  Mary "Polly" Metcalf (1780-1855)

220.  John Underhill (1745-1816)
221.  Hannah Colby (1745-????)

440.  John Underhill (1720-1793)
441.  Joanna Healey (1718-1809)

880.  Sampson Underhill (1692-1732)
881.  Elizabeth Ambrose (1698-1782).

1762.  Nathaniel Ambrose, born 26 February 1678 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died Bef. 26 June 1745 in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.  He was the son of 3524. Henry Ambrose and 3525. Susanna LNU.  He married 08 December 1697 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
1763.  Sarah Eastman, born 08 November 1674 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 August 1728 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Nathaniel Ambrose and Sarah Eastman are:
*  Elizabeth Ambrose (1698-1782), married (1) 1718 Sampson Underhill (1692-1732); (2) 1742 Benjamin Batchelder.
*  Henry Ambrose (1701-1746), married 1722 Hannah Hoyt (1701-1727).
*  Abigail Ambrose (1704-1718).
*  John Ambrose (1707-????), married 1729 Elizabeth Hayes (1706-????).
*  Sarah Ambrose (1716-????).

3526.  Nathaniel Eastman, born 18 March 1643 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died 30 November 1709 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.   He married 30 April 1672 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
3527.  Elizabeth Hudson, born about 1648 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died 10 June 1716 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 7054. Jonathan Hudson and 7055. Elizabeth LNU.

Children of Nathaniel Eastman and Elizabeth Hudson are:
*  Sarah Eastman (1674-1728), married 1697 Nathaniel Ambrose (1678-1745).
*  Marah Eastman (1675-1728), married 1696 Samuel Joy (1639-????).
*  Jemima Eastman (1677-1760), married 1698 Joseph Davis (1673-1755).
*  Nathaniel Eastman (1680-1760), married 1704 Sarah Davis (1679-1740).
*  Lydia Eastman (1683-????), married 1701 Ephraim Brown (1677-1750).
*  Hannah Eastman (1687-1740), married 1706 Ephraim Davis (1679-1751).
*  Mary Eastman (1690-1752), married 1715 Philip Eastman (1684-????).

7052.  Roger Eastman, born  about 1612 in England; died 16 December 1694 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before 1640.
7053.  Sarah Smith, born about 1620 in England; died 11 March 1698 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Roger Eastman and Sarah Smith are:
*  John Eastman (1640-1720), married (1) 1665 Hannah Healey (1644-1667); (2) 1670 Mary Boynton (1647-1676).
*  Nathaniel Eastman (1643-1709), married 1672 Elizabeth Hudson (1648-1716)
*  Philip Eastman (1644-1714), married (1) 1673 FNU LNU (????-1678); (2) 1678 Mary Barnard (1644-1717).
*  Thomas Eastman (1646-1688), married 1680 Deborah Corliss (1654-1722).
*  Timothy Eastman (1648-1733), married 1682 Lydia Markham (1660-1697).
*  Joseph Eastman (1650-1692), married 1682 Mary Tilton (1649-????).
*  Benjamin Eastman (1653-1728), married (1) 1678 Ann Pitts (1644-1698); (2) 1699 Naomi Flanders (1656-1716); (3) 1719 Sarah LNU (1654-????).
*  Sarah Eastman (1655-1745), married (1) 1678 Joseph French (1654-1683); (2) 1684 Solomon Shepherd (1650-1731).
*  Samuel Eastman (1657-1725), married 1686 Elizabeth Scriven (1658-1719).
*  Ruth Eastman (1660-????), married 1699 Benjamin Heard (1643-1709).

Information about the Eastman family was obtained from:

*  Guy Scoby Rix, History and genealogy of the Eastman family of America : containing biographical sketches and genealogies of both males and females (Concord, N.H. : Press of I.C. Evans, 1901).

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Friday, March 3, 2017

RootsMagic Shows Ancestry TreeShare and Ancestry WebHint Preview

Michael Booth on the RootsMagic Blog, in the post A Sneak Preview From the Underground Labs, has provided some preview screens of the new TreeShare and WebHints features.  See the post for more information.

I made this visual with the Windows Snipping Tool:

The first screen is how you upload a tree to a new Ancestry Member Tree and connect to it, or download an Ancestry Member Tree into RootsMagic and connect to it.

The second screen shows the comparison of information for a person in RootsMagic on the left with the person in the Ancestry Tree on the right.  The event entries are color coded, similar to how RootsMagic color codes with the FamilySearch Family Tree.

On the second screen, there is an index list of persons with icons that show whether each person is in the RootsMagic tree and the Ancestry Tree.  That's a nice feature.

The WebHints feature is also discussed and shown - the WebHints list for each record provider is familiar, but will have Ancestry.com added with Total, pending, confirmed and rejected numbers.  When you click on the Ancestry WebHints, you get a list of records and then can select each one and transfer data from the Ancestry.com record into RootsMagic, including a source citation and a media image.

I look forward to testing this when it is released.

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