Saturday, June 10, 2017

Saturday Activities at Jamboree - 10 June 2017

This was the second day of the SCGS Genealogy Jsmboree 2017.  We were up bright and early at 6:30 a.m., and headed down for breakfast at 7:30.  We talked to the Castros in the lounge about our plans for the day.

I wanted to hear Michael Strauss at 8:30 a.m. on "Descendancy Research" and it was an excellent presentation.  After that, I headed for the Exhibit Hall and picked out the door prize I won on Friday night.  I picked a 23andMe bag with a t-shirt and two children's books about DNA and genes.  I also had good discussions with a number of the exhibitors, tried to fill up my passport card, and took some photos.

At 11 a.m., I had lunch thinking I would go hear Shsnnon Christmas taslk about GEDMatch at 11:30 a.m.  The room was full by the time I got there.  I went to the room and read email and blogs instead, and rested my eyes.

I was out the door at 1 p.m. and found Linda and the Manesses and they had lunch.  I left after awhile and went back to the Exhibit Hall for more photos, and then went to hear Drew Smtih at 2 p.m. on "Your Ancestor's FAN Club: Using Cluster Research."  It was another excellent presentation.

At 3:30 p.m. it was time for Michael Lacopo's talk on "'She Came From Nowhere...' A Case Study Aproach to a Complex Genealogical Problem."  It was, and I missed some details I guess, probably because I nodded off several times.

I headed back to the room  at 4:45 p.m. and read on the computer while Linda took a nap.  At 6 p.m. we met Mark and Steve and headed for dinner at Lancers.  We had a great conversation about baseball and software and genealogy, and we were back to our room by 8:30 p.m.

So I went to 3 presentations today and 2 yesterday, out of 11 total.  I will try for 2 out of 4 on Sunday.

We go home tomorrow night.  I'm not sure if I will have a report on Sunday night - we'll see!

Some photos from the Exhibit Hall today:

1)  Bruce Buzbee helping customers at the RootsMagic exhibit:


2)  Kathy Meade at the ArkivDigital exhibit.  I got a neat Norway map from her:


3)  Anna Fechter at the Ancestry.com exhibit:


4)  Rick Cree at the Internet Genealogy magazine exhibit:


6)  Lisa Louise Cooke had a full house in her mini-theater:


I have more photos - I'll put them in another post on Sunday.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Recent Ancestor Photographs

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


For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:


1)  Do you have photos of all of your ancestors back to the 1850 time frame?  Which recent ancestors do you not have a photograph of?  

2)  Review your files, and list the ancestors for whom you want and/or need to find a photograph.  Also list where they resided and where they died.  Where would you look to find a photograph of them?

3)  Share your answers on your own blog post (and leave a comment here with a link), or on Facebook or other social media.

Here's mine:

I have decent photographs of my parents, four grandparents, and 7 of my first great-grandparents.  The exception is Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) for whom I have only a small photograph from a larger photograph.

For my 16 2nd great-grandparents, I have decent photographs of 7 of them.  I have small photographs from a larger photograph for several more of my 2nd great-grandparents.  I have no photographs whatsoever of:

*  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who resided and died in Leominster, Massachusetts.

*  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who resided and died in Killingly, Connecticut.
*  Amy Frances (Oatley) White (1826-1864) who resided and died in Killingly, Connecticut.

*  David Auble (1817-1894) who resided and died in Terre Haute, Indiana.
*  Sarah (Knapp) Auble (1818-1904) who resided in Terre Haute, Indiana and died in Bushnell, Illinois.

*  James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) who resided in and died in Windham, Norfolk County, Ontario.
*  Mary Jane Sovereen) Kemp (1840-1874) who resided and died in Windham, Norfolk County, Ontario.

For the 32 third-great-grandparents, I have photos of only one of them - John Richman (1788-1867) of Hilperton, Wiltshire.

Where might I find photographs of my ancestors?  I thought of:

*  Family members - 2nd to 4th cousins who may have photographs of my ancestors in their photo albums.  This is one reason i'm doing descendancy research on my 4th great-grandparents.

*  In local and regional historical or genealogical societies - there may be photo collections or newspaper photos in vertical files of collected papers or local history books.

*  In county, state or regional archive manuscript collections donated by family members.

*  Thrift shops and antique shops in the places where they lived.

*  In online photograph collections (e.g., Google Images, Dead Fred, etc.)

Where else would you look?

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Surname Saturday -- deMANDEVILLE (Holland to colonial New York)

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 #1895, who is Aeltje deMANDEVILLE (1650-????) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this deMANDEVILLE 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)

28.  David Auble (1817-1894)
29.  Sarah G. Knapp (1818-1904)

58.  William Knapp (1775-1856)
59.  Sarah Cutter (1785-1878)

118.  Stephen Cutter (1745-1823)
119.  Tabitha Randolph (1752-1841)

236.  William Cutter (1722-1780)
237.  Mary Kent (1726-????)

472.  Richard Cutter (1682-1756)
473.  Mercy Kelsey (1698-1760)

946.  Joseph Kelsey (1673-1742)
947.  Joannes DeCamp (1677-1739)

1894.  Laurens Jansen DeCamp, born 1645 in Picardie, France; died 1719 in Queens, New York, United States.  He married 1676 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States.
1895.  Aeltje DeMandeville, born about 1650 in Garderen, Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands.  She was the daughter of 3790. Gilles Jansen DeMandeville and 3791. Aeltje Henrickse.

Children of Laurens DeCamp and Aeltje DeMandeville are:
*  Joannes DeCamp (1677-1739), married 1697 Joseph Kelsey (1673-1742).
*  Johannes DeCamp (1679-1766, married 1701 Mary Praal (1674-????).
*  Styntje DeCamp (1681-????), married Christopher Christofel (1676-1726).
*  Hendrik DeCamp (1682-1771), married 1704 Maria de Lamars (1685-????).
*  Agidius DeCamp (1683-1763), married Hendrikje Bastiansed (1692-????).
*  Maritje DeCamp (1686-1781), married (1) Rut Vandenbergh (1684-1718); (2) 1718 Charles Ellens (1675-????).
*  Aeltje DeCamp (1690-????), married 1717 Cornelis Egmont (1687-????).

Information about the DeCamp and deMandeville families was obtained from:

*  Geoerge Austin Morrison, Decamp Genealogy: Laurent DeCamp of New Utrecht, N.Y.. 1664 and His Descendants (n.p. : Joel Munsell & Sons, 1900).

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