Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Genealogy Resource Are You Thankful For?

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)  Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal has a monthly blog party for geneabloggers to write about a certain topic.  This month the topic is "What genealogy 'resource' are you thankful for this year?"

2)  Please join the blog party and write about your response on your own blog post, in a comment on this post and/or Elizabeth's post, or on Facebook.  

Here's mine:

The genealogy resource that I am thankful this year for is the RootsMagic family tree software program.  I have been using it for over ten years now, and the program owners continue to provide more features and improvements on a regular basis.

This year, RootsMagic created and released the TreeShare and Ancestry WebHints features in Version 7.5 (it's now up to 7.5.4).  I add content (names, relationships, dates, places, notes, sources, media, etc.) to RootsMagic on a daily basis as my research and whim dictate.  Before TreeShare, I could not easily add content to my Ancestry Member Tree, or other online trees, without duplicating effort - typing or copy/pasting in the information.  With TreeShare, I can update my Ancestry Member Tree one person, and one event, at a time.  After updating my Ancestry Member Tree, Ancestry.com then finds Record Hints for tree person data that was added and/or modified.  I then add those Hints to my RootsMagic database and the cycle continues.

Using TreeShare, I can keep my Ancestry Member Tree up-to-date, can easily generate additional Record Hints, and can keep the "cousin-bait" machine going as other researchers find my Ancestry tree.  It has made me more efficient in adding content and sources to my RootsMagic family tree database.

In an earlier version, RootsMagic enabled adding and editing person data with the FamilySearch Family Tree, which I use almost daily.

I hope that RootsMagic will work with MyHeritage, Findmypast, WikiTree and Geni to enable a TreeShare-like feature so I can keep all of my online family trees up to date. 

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Surname Saturday -- HALE (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 #2041, who is Mary HALE (1678-????) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through three generations of this HALE 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-????)

510.  Ephraim Rolfe (1743-1818)
511.  Sarah Campbell (1745-1838)

1020.  Jonathan Rolph (1714-1791)
1021.  Hester LNU (1720-1798)

2040.  Moses Rolfe, born 14 October 1681 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died before 24 April 1746 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  He was the son of 4080 John Rolfe and 4081. Mary Scullard.  He married  04 June 1702 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.
2041.  Mary Hale, born 28 November 1678 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.

Children of Moses Rolfe and Mary Hale are:
*  Samuel Rolph (1703-1774), married 1730 Judith Tappen (1711-1794).
*  Elizabeth Rolph (1705-????).
*  Esther Rolph (1707-????).
*  Apphia Rolph (1708-????)
*  Richard Rolph (1710-1711).
*  Nathaniel Rolph (1712-1758).
*  Jonathan Rolph (1714-1791), married 1737 Hester LNU (1720-1798).
*  Richard Rolph (1717-1719).
*  Robert Rolph (1719-????), married 1751 Elizabeth Guerin (1723-????).
*  Sarah Rolph (1721-????).
*  Henry Rolph (1723-1804).

4082.  Samuel Hale, born 02 February 1640 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died 05 November 1709 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  He married 21 July 1673 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
4083.  Sarah Ilsley, born 08 August 1655 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died 16 January 1681 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  She was the daughter of 8166. William Ilsley and 8167. Barbara Stevens.

Children of Samuel Hale and Sarah Ilsley are:
*  Sarah Hale (1675-????).
*  Mary Hale (1678-????), married 1702 Moses Rolfe (1681-1746).

8164.  Thomas Hale, born before 15 June 1606 in Watton, Hertfordshire, England; died 21 December 1682 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 16328. Thomas Hale and 16329. Joan Kirby.  He married 11 December 1632 in London, Middlesex, England.
8165.  Thomasine Dowsett, born before 15 May 1606 in Harlow, Essex, England; died 30 January 1683 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 16330. Gabriel Dowsett and 16331. Mercy LNU.

Children of Thomas Hale and Thomasine Dowsett are:
*  Thomas Hale (1633-1688), married 1657 Mary Hutchinson (1630-1713).
*  John Hale (1635-1707), married (1) 1660 Rebecca Lowell (1641-1662); (2) 1663 Sarah Somerby (1645-1672); (3) 1673 Sarah Simonds (1644-1699).
*  Samuel Hale (1640-1709), married (1) Lydia Musgrove (1645-1673); (2) 1673 Sarah Ilsley (1655-1681).
*  Apphia Hale (1642-1708), married 1659 Benjamin Rolfe (1638-1710).

Information about this Hale family line was obtained from:

* Robert Safford Hale, Genealogy of Descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and Newbury, Mass. (Albany, N,Y,; Weed, Parsons and Company, printers, 1889).

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