Saturday, February 24, 2018

The Rest of the George W. Seaver Story - Part VI: Searching for "Aunt" Lucinda Fields

Returning to the George W. Seaver research quest, I want to summarize the information found for George's "Aunt," Lucinda M. Fields.  Earlier posts on this quest are in the bibliography at the bottom of this post.

In Part IV, I noted that the "nearest relative" listed on the Soldiers' Home record for George W. Seaver was "Aunt" Lucinda M. Fields.  In the post, I described the limited research I had done for her to date:
"She could be his father's sister or his mother's sister.  If she was the father's sister, then she would be a Seaver surname.  If she was the mother's sister, then that becomes more difficult to research.
"I found a Lucinda R. Fields (born about 1834 in Vermont) married to Alexander N. Fields (born 1833 in Canada) in about 1862, and they were in the 1900 U.S. Census in Santa Barbara, California.  I also found them in Los Angeles in  the 1910 U.S. Census.  Alexander Fields entered the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home in 1908 and died in April 1910.  
"A death certificate for Lucinda R. Fields may provide parents names.  However, I can't find a death record for her in California.  She may have married again and died with a different surname.  
"I did not find a public Ancestry Member Tree with an entry for Alexander N. Fields born about 1833 in Canada and a wife named Lucinda (or similar).
"The FamilySearch Family Tree profile for A. N. Field (born 1823 in Nova Scotia) shows his wife's name as Lucinda R. Pease (1834-1922), born 20 February 1834 in Weston, Windsor County, Vermont, but no parents are listed for Lucinda."
Since then, a marriage record for A. N. Field and Lucinda R. Pease was found in St. Louis, Missouri on 25 October 1863 on FamilySearch:


A search for 1850 and 1860 U.S. census records for Lucinda Pease (with name variations) found nothing helpful.  Perhaps the name was spelled differently.

My friend, Barry Sheldon, helped again and found the 1855 Massachusetts State Census on Ancestry.com with a Lucinda Pease in Lawrence, Mass., born in about 1835 in Vermont:


Four lines above Lucinda Pease (but on the previous census page) is a Lauretta Seaver, age 27, born in Vermont:


Is this just a coincidence, or are Lucinda and Lauretta related?  I need more information.

A search for Lauretta Seaver resulted in an 1859 marriage in Lawrence, Massachusetts in the Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915 on Ancestry.com:


This indicates that Lauretta F. Seaver of Lawrence, age 31, born in Vermont, no parents listed, second marriage, married Gates D. Frye on 1 November 1859.

A second marriage - so her maiden name is probably not Seaver.  What is it?

I searched for a death record for Lauraetta Frye and found one in the Massachusetts Death Records, 1840-1916 on Ancestry.com:


Lauraette Frye (maiden name Pease) died 1 December 1886 in Boston, Mass, aged 58 years, 6 months.  She resided at 1 Auburn Place, was female, white, spouse of Gates, born Chester, Vt., parents Warren (born Weston Vt.) and Fannie [Pease?] (born Chester Vt.), died of Bright's Disease and Paralysis, interred in Andover.

So Lauraetta's maiden name was Pease, just like Lucinda's!  Are they sisters?

I now had the parents names, and searched both FamilySearch Family Tree and Ancestry Member Trees for a Warren Pease married to a Fannie.

I found two of them, but the one for Warren Pease in Vermont had this family structure in FamilySearch Family Tree: 


Warren Pease (1799-1865) and Fanny Rogers Field (1797-1882) married in February 1823 and had a number of children.  Two of them were Lauraetta Pease (1827-????) and Lucinda Pease (1833-????).  No spouses were named for the profiles of Lauraetta and Lucinda.  There was also a Luinda Pease (1833-????) listed which is certainly Lucinda spelled differently.

A search in Ancestry Member Trees found essentially the same information.

So if Lucinda R. (Pease) Fields is George W. Seaver's "Aunt," is Lauraetta (Pease) (Seaver) Frye the mother of George W. Seaver?  If so, who is the father of George W. Seaver?

To be continued!  Barry and I are still discovering documents and records, but we think we have it figured out. 

I really appreciate Barry's efforts on behalf of my Seaver one-name study!  All because of a fascinating news article published in 1899.

Bibliography:

* Seavers in the News -- George W. Seaver Disappears in 1899 about a man disappearing from his home in Santa Monica, California (posted 1 February 2018)

* The Rest of the George W. Seaver Story - Part I: Newspaper Articles about George's disappearance (posted 5 February 2018)

* The Rest of the George W. Seaver Story - Part II: More Newspaper Articles about George and his wife, Lida J. Crocker (posted 7 February 2018)

* The Rest of the George W. Seaver Story - Part III: Census Entries with census records(posted 8 February 2018)

* Seavers in the News - Vice President George W. Seaver Drives a Horse Car with a story and photo of George in Santa Monica in 1904 (posted 8 February 2018)

* The Rest of the George W. Seaver Story - Part IV: Military Records with military and personal information from Disabled Volunteer Soldiers home records (posted 9 February 2018)

 The Rest of the George W. Seaver Story - Part V: Timeline for his Life provides information about George's life in chronological order (posted 15 February 2018).


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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Where Were Your Ancestors in 1900?

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)  Where were your ancestors in the year 1900?  Make a list with their ages and location (with the street  address if you know it).


2)  Share your information in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or on Facebook or Google+.  Please leave a link to your post in a comment to this post.

Here's mine (I used my pedigree chart to figure this out):

*  My grandparents Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) and Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) got married in Leominster, Mass. in June 1900.  They were living with their parents in Leominster before that.

*  My great-grandparents Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) and Harriet (Hildreth) Seaver (1857-1920)  resided at 146 Lancaster Street in Leominister, Mass., along with Harriet's mother Sophia (Newton) Hildreth (1834-1923).

*  My 2nd great-grandfather, Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) resided at 7 Cedar Street in Leominster, Mass.

*  My great-grandparents, Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) and Julia E. White (1848-1913) resided in 42 Summer Street in Leominster, Mass.

*  My second great-grandparents, James Richmond (1821-1912) and Hannah (Rich) Richmond (1824-1911) resided in Putnam, Connecticut on Richmond Road.

*  My great-grandparents, Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946) and Della (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944) resided on Watkins Avenue (now Hawthorn Street) in San Diego, Calif., with their son, my grandfather, Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976).

*  My great-grandparents, Charles Auble (1848-1916) and Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952) resided at 515 West Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, with their daughter, my grandmother, Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977).  

*  My 2nd great-grandparents, David Jackson Carringer (1828-1902) and Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer (1832-1901) resided at the corner of Horton and Ella Streets (now 30th and Ivy) in San Diego, California.

*  My 2nd great-grandmother, Abigail A. (Vaux) Smith (1844-1931) resided on Watkins Avenue in San Diego with her daughter's family.

*  My 2nd great-grandmother, Sarah C. (Knapp) Auble (1818-1904) resided at 411 Chestnut Street in Terre Haute, Indiana. 

So I have 20 ancestors living in the year 1900.  Eight were in Leominster, Mass., two were in Putnam, Conn., six were in San Diego, Calif., three were in Chicago, Illinois, and one was in Terre Haute, Indiana.


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Surname Saturday -- PULLEYNE (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2083 who is Mary PULLEYNE (1590-1663). 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this PULLEYNE 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)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)


130.  Samuel Whitney (1719-1782)
131.  Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783)

260.  William Whitney (1683-1720)
261.  Martha Pierce (1681-1759)

520.  Nathaniel Whitney (1647-1733)
521.  Sarah Hagar (1651-1722)

1040.  John Whitney (1621-1692)
1041.  Ruth Reynolds (1623-1706)


2082.  Robert Reynolds, born about 1586 in Aylesford, Kent, England; died 27 April 1659 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4164. George Reynolds and 4165. Thomasyn Church.  He married about1615 in England.
2083.  Mary Pulleyne, born about 1590 in England; died 18 January 1663 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 4166. George Pulleyne.

Children of Robert Reynolds and Mary Pulleyne are:

Ruth Reynolds, born 1623 in Aylesford, Kent, England; died before 1706 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married John Whitney about 1642 in probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

*  Tabitha Reynolds, born about 1625 in Aylesford, Kent, England; died 11 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; married Matthew Abdy about 1646 in probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; born about 1620 in Kent, England.

*  Nathaniel Reynolds, born 1627 in Aylesford, Kent, England; died 10 July 1708 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States; married (1) Sarah Dwight 30 December 1657 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; born 17 June 1638 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 08 July 1663 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; married (2) Priscilla Brackett about 1664 in probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; born about 1641 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 24 January 1744 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States.

*  Sarah Reynolds, born 1629 in Aylesford, Kent, England; died 01 January 1718 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; married Robert Mason about 1655 in probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; born about 1590 in England; died 15 October 1667 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.

*  Mary Reynolds, born about 1631 in Aylesford, Kent, England; died after 1711 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; married Richard Sanger before 1650 in probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; born about 1620 in England; died 20 August 1691 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Information about the Robert Reynolds family was obtained from:

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-35 (Boston, Mass., NEHGS, 2009), Volume VI, pages 45-49.

*  Susan Rogers Clement, compiler and editor, Reynolds Family Association Centennial Collection (Cullman, Alabama : The Gregath Company,  1992).

*  Stephen Tillman, Christopher Reynolds and his Descendants (Salem, Mass. : Higginson Book Co., 2000).

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Friday, February 23, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 23 February 2018


Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last three days include:

1)  News Articles:


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Behind the Scenes at RootsTech

A Survival Guide to RootsTech 2018

RootsFinder Announces (experimental) DNA Tools!

2)  Record Databases:


*   New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 23 February 2018

*  23 Feb 2018 – New Genealogy Record Releases & Updates

*  NYG&B Labs Releases The Record Map Search

3)  Genealogy Education:

 GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 28 February, 11 a.m. PST:  "Find Your Roots in German Farm Histories," by Gail Blankenau

*  Archived Family Tree Webinars: "Online & On Track: Railroad Records, Indexes, and Finding Aids on the Internet," by Paula Stuart-Warren

*   Archived Family Tree Webinar: "Using Swedish Taxation Records to Solve Tough Genealogical Problems," by Jill Morelli

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: "Tribal Quest: A special project to document the family histories of tribal people" by Golan Levi

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  "Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 2): Adding an Online Document," by Geoff Rasmussen

*  Nicka Sewell-Smith's YouTube Channel : BlackProGen LIVE: Ep 52: Deconstructing the Freedmens Bureau

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  Using the Source Linker in FamilySearch Family Tree - Kathryn Grant

*  DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel:  AmericaGen Study Group - Chapter 2 “Language, Terminology, and Important Issues”

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  FamilySearch Quick Trick - Organizing Your Sources

*  Legacy Tree Genealogists YouTube Channel:  African American Genealogy

*  NYG&B Society YouTube Channel:  NYG&B Labs: Mapping The Record Search Tutorial

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, February 23,  2018



5)  Neat Stuff:


   Britain's Dark-Skinned, Blue-Eyed Ancestor Explained

Become a Master of Ancestry.com’s Search Options

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 20 February 2018?



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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 23 February 2018

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday
There are over 175,334 records available to search this Findmypast Friday, including:

Greater London Marriage Index

Over 94,000 new records from the Royal College of Arms covering historic chapels at St James Duke's Place, Gray's Inn, Somerset House and the Austin Friars Dutch Reform Church are now available to search. Dating back to the early 1500's the records will reveal details of your ancestor's residence, occupation, marriage and spouse. A number of records also include images of original documents.
These new additions are not the only update the Index has received this week. We have also merged a number of existing London marriage collections to make them accessible through one unified search. The Greater London Marriage Index will now also include results from the Middlesex Marriage Index, the West Middlesex Marriage Index, the St Andrew's Holborn Marriage Index and our collection of Docklands and East End Marriages.

England, Mining Disaster Victims

Discover the names and circumstances of those who died in mining accidents with over 9,000 transcripts that list their name, birth year, age, event date, colliery, and incident details. Four counties are represented in the records: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire. This collection has been obtained from the Alan Beales Database of Fatalities in the Coal Fields. Additional information about the records can we found on the source's website.
Included in these records are the 26 children who lost their lives in the Huskar Pit disaster of 1838 as well as 88 of the men who died in the Cadeby Main pit disaster in 1912. The initial explosion at Cadeby Main killed a total of 38 men; however, when a rescue party was sent in, another explosion occurred, killing 53 of the rescue workers.

Derbyshire Parish Records

Brand new records covering the parishes of Alvaston, Boulton, Chellaston, Holbrook, Longford, Newton Solney and Wilne have been added to our collection of Derbyshire Parish records, including:


Before the introduction of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in 1837 all such events were recorded in the local parish. Parish records generally begin from 1538 after the Church of England mandated the keeping of parish registers in 1537. Baptisms, marriages and burials were all recorded in a single volume until 1774, when the law changed to require a separate marriage register and another one for Banns (or proclamations of an intent to marry). Standardised forms for these registers appeared in 1812.

Irish Newspapers

Over 54,000 new articles and one new title, the Social Review, have been added to our collection of historical Dublin Newspapers. The Social Review, 'the leading journal of society and fashion in Ireland'. Published between 1893 and 1901, the paper was published weekly on a Saturday with occasional special editions for events such as the Dublin Horse Show. This title is essential for those interested in society and fashion in late nineteenth century Ireland, and is an excellent companion to Irish Society which was published from 1888 to 1924.
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52 Ancestors - Week 215: #294 Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749) of Chelmsford and Westford, Massachusetts

Samuel  Fletcher (1684-1749) is #294 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #295 Hannah --?-- (1689-1759) in about 1712 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter #147 Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761) who married #146 Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781) in 1746.
*  their daughter #73 Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) who married  #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) in 1777.
*  their son, #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.
*  their son, #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920)  who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                        Samuel Fletcher[1]    
*  Alternate Name:        Samuel Flecher [2]    
*  Alternate Name:        Samuel Flatcher[3-4]

*  Sex:                           Male    

*  Father:                      Samuel Fletcher (1652-1723)    
*  Mother:                    Hannah Wheeler (1649-1697)  
 
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                       5 September 1684, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–3]    
*  Death:                     6 September 1749 (age 65), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3-4]    

*  Burial:                    after 6 September 1749 (after age 65), Fairview Cemetery, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Spouse 1:                Hannah  --?-- (1689-1759)    
*  Marriage 1:             about 1712 (about age 28), Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States    
*  Child 1:                  Samuel Fletcher (1713-1716)    
*  Child 2:                  Jacob Fletcher (1715-1716)    
*  Child 3:                  David Fletcher (1717-1804)    
*  Child 4:                  Hannah Fletcher (1718-1788)    
*  Child 5:                  Elizabeth Fletcher (1719-1761)    
*  Child 6:                  Samuel Fletcher (1722-1730)    
*  Child 7:                  Susanna Fletcher (1723-1730)    
*  Child 8:                  Jacob Fletcher (1725-    )    
*  Child 9:                  Joanna Fletcher (1729-1730)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Samuel Fletcher was born 5 September 1684 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the 5th of ten children of Samuel and Hannah (Wheeler) Fletcher of Chelmsford[1-3].

He married Hannah --?-- in about 1712, probably in Chelmsford.  They had eight children born and recorded in Chelmsford between 1713 and 1725, and one in Westford in 1729.  

Samuel's father, Samuel Fletcher, wrote his will in 1713 and stated that his son Samuel was to be given several parcels of land in Chelmsford near Stony Brook, but not the homestead, and that the son Samuel was to pay money to his step-mother and three of his sisters as their portion.  After the father Samuel died in 1723, the court refused to prove the will.  It is unclear if the son Samuel received any inherited land.

The town of Westford was set off from the town of Chelmsford in the 1729 time frame, and Samuel Fletcher Jr. was recorded in the town tax records in 1721.

Samuel Fletcher died on 6 September 1749 in Westford[4].  He is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Westford[3].  The gravestone inscription says:

Memento Mori

Here lies the body of 
Mr. Samuel Flatcher
who departed this Life
September the 6^th 1749
Aged 66 Years

There are no probate records for Samuel Fletcher in the Middlesex County Probate Court records.
 
5)  SOURCES


1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Chelmsford Births, Marriages and Deaths, Samuel Fletcher birth entry, image 359 of 1719.

2. Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Births, page 61, Samuell Flecher entry, son of Samuell and Hannah.

3. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Fairview Cemetery (Westford, Mass.), Samuel Flatcher memorial #35570366.

4. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1915), Deaths, page 277, Samuel Flatcher entry (age 66).

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 
 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.


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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Seavers in the News - Elizabeth Seaver Marries in Coronado CA in 1942

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a semi-regular feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the Coronado [Calif.] Eagle and Journal newspaper dated 23 July 1942:




The transcription of this article is:

"Seaver - Dowell Marriage Vows Read Here

"Christ Episcopal Church was the scene of the attractive wedding Sunday afternoon at five o'clock of Miss Elizabeth Seaver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Arthur Seaver of New Orleans, La., to LLt. Gelon Hann Doswell, U.S.M.C., son of Mrs. Menard Doswell and the late Dr. Doswell of New Orleans.

"A reception in the home of Capt. Hamilton Lawrence, U.S.M.C., and Mrs. Lawrence followed the ceremony.

"Mrs. Seaver and Mrs. Doswell who both came from New Orleans for the wedding are the houseguests this week of Capt. and Mrs. Lawrence and Col. and Mrs. Arch Howard."

The source citation for this record is:

"Seaver-Dowell Marriage Vows Read Here," Coronado [Calif.] Eagle and Journal newspaper, Thursday, 23 July 1942, page 4, column 2, Elizabeth Seaver and Gelon Doswell wedding article; digital image, California digital Newspaper Collection (http://cdnc.ucr.edu : accessed 22 February 2018).


I searched for "howard seaver" and got this article.  go figure!  

I did not have Elizabeth Seaver in my RootsMagic database, but I did have her parents names (but not herm other's maiden name), but without death dates or children's names.  There are birth and death dates and obituaries for Elizabeth and Gelon on Find A Grave, and birth and death dates for Elizabeth's parents and one brother on Find A Grave.  

Note the date.  Gelon Hann Doswell (1920-1992) is a 22 year old pilot in training for the U.S. Marine Corps station in Coronado (across the Bay from downtown San Diego), probably flying out of Rockwell Field (now North Island).  Gelon's obituary notes that he was one of the U.S. Marines "Black Sheep Squadron" pilots during World War II.  

By finding this article semi-randomly, I was able to add more information to my RootsMagic database.  Elizabeth (Seaver) Doswell (1922-1989) is my 9th cousin twice removed.


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Winners Of My MyHeritage After-Party Tickets

I announced that I had five FREE tickets to give away for the MyHeritage After-Party at RootsTech 2018 in   MyHeritage RootsTech After Party (Friday, 2 March) Ticket Contest on Tuesday.



The deadline for requests for the tickets was Wednesday night at 11:59 p.m PST.

Eight readers submitted an entry.  I wish I had had eight passes to give away!  But I had to choose five.  I did that using the random number generator on www.Random.org.  I numbered the entries 1 to 8 and got five random numbers between 1 and 8. 

The winners of the free tickets (they can invite one other person) are:

*  Jamie Mayhew
*  Tese Gorszwick
*  Wendy Allen
*  Audrey Collins
*  Lisa Wooldridge

I have emailed each of them and provided the link to obtain the MyHeritage party tickets.

The research tips submitted by these folks were:

*  Jamie:  "Come up with a file naming system and a folder system for your online documents, PDFs and pictures sooner rather than later. It’s so much harder to fix it the longer you wait."

*  Tese:  "When you are searching a Mc/Mac… name - sometimes it is indexed that ‘M' is the initial for the first name and the rest of the name is the Surname ~ eg: McBarron (my gg-grandfather) is entered as (first name) ‘M’ and (surname) as ‘Barron’.  So . . . searching out-side-the-box for ‘crazy’ ideas is OK ! ! !"

*  Wendy "Timelines.  I work in a genealogy library and sometimes having the patron write down everything that happened in their ancestor’s life will help me ask questions to help them with their brick wall."

*  Audrey:  "Stop and look around. If you understand how and why a record was made, it will help you understand it better, and help you work out alternative solutions when you don't find what you want first time."

*  Lisa:  "I have found so much information from Newspapers!  About the biggest find - My mother in law was adopted and I had the name of her birth mother and I was able to use the usual research to find her mother (including Newspapers).  I had to use DNA to find her birth father, and it was narrowed down to this one family from Northeastern Iowa.  I knew that the birth mother was from Janesville, WI, and my mother in law was born in New York in the mid 1930's. It was becoming a challenge trying to figure it out until I found an article indicating that the one son was visiting his parents (in Iowa) from Janesville, WI and the date about three months after my mother in law was conceived.  Since then, we found a possible half-sibling who took a DNA test and confirmed the relationship.  So you never know what gems you will find in Newspapers."

Thank you to all of the entrants.  I hope you all enjoy RootsTech 2018.


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