Saturday, February 23, 2019

Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 17 to 23 February 2019

I am trying to keep up with the new and updated record collections at   FamilySearch   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list) every week.

As of 23 February 2019, there were 2,454 record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 3 from last week):

The added or updated collections are (as Marshall provided them):

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*  Finland, Tax Lists, 1809-1915   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2704794); 12,843 indexed records with 12,843 record images, ADDED 20 Feb 2019

Finland, Viipuri, Tax Lists, 1817-1915  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2290237); 49,790 indexed records with 49,790 record images, ADDED 20 Feb 2019

Missouri Births, 1817-1939      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2524491); 130,075 indexed records with 130,075 record images, ADDED 21 Feb 2019

--- Collections Updated ---

United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2333694); 34,168,489 indexed records with 46,885,712 record images (was 34,168,489 records with 46,885,712 images), Updated 22 Feb 2019

New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1865481); 384,627 indexed records with 5,946,421 record images (was 384,627 records with 5,946,421 images), Updated 21 Feb 2019

Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1463156); 2,739,146 indexed records with 830,893 record images (was 2,739,146 records with 830,893 images), Updated 20 Feb 2019

Illinois, Macon County, Decatur Public Library Collections, 1879-2007   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1447337); 162,567 indexed records with 64,268 record images (was 10,716 records with 64,268 images), Updated 19 Feb 2019

United States Census, 1810      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1803765); 827,020 indexed records with 27,366 record images (was 827,020 records with 27,366 images), Updated 21 Feb 2019

*  North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2848682); 2,613,577 indexed records with 2,764,922 record images (was 2,126,159 records with 2,187,797 images), Updated 21 Feb 2019

Liberia, Marriage Records, 1912-2015    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2100287); 170,646 indexed records with 24,406 record images (was 144,270 records with 24,406 images), Updated 19 Feb 2019

Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1709399); 1,181,038 indexed records with 336,784 record images (was 1,181,038 records with 336,784 images), Updated 21 Feb 2019

Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1536925); 3,817,626 indexed records with 108,704 record images (was 3,817,626 records with 108,704 images), Updated 21 Feb 2019

Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3015626); 3,503,524 indexed records with 13,016,945 record images (was 3,503,524 records with 13,800,831 images), Updated 22 Feb 2019

Ukraine, Zaporizhia Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists), 1811-1858 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2465061); 130,469 indexed records with 62,154 record images (was 0 records with 62,154 images), Updated 22 Feb 2019

Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2843390); 437,702 indexed records with 413,510 record images (was 36,148 records with 36,148 images), Updated 20 Feb 2019

*  Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1882   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1908535); 489,494 indexed records with 58,940 record images (was 489,494 records with 58,940 images), Updated 22 Feb 2019

Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2078555); 18,657,995 indexed records with 2,399,826 record images (was 18,657,995 records with 2,399,826 images), Updated 19 Feb 2019

England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1614792); Index only (4,109,013 records), no images (was 4,109,013 records with 0 images), Updated 20 Feb 2019

--- Collections with new images ---

England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3155913); 7,851 indexed records with 31,503 record images (was 7,851 records with 12,326 images),  2 Feb 2019

Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1307888); 1,871,558 indexed records with 1,875,638 record images (was 1,871,558 records with 1,875,423 images),  21 Nov 2018

England, Shropshire Parish Registers, 1538-1918 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3155854); 12,490 indexed records with 54,235 record images (was 12,490 records with 23,041 images),  5 Feb 2019

--- Collections with images removed ---

England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2556014); 2,071,150 indexed records with 149,463 record images (was 2,071,150 records with 153,685 images),  31 Jan 2019

--- Collections with new records ---

Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2185953); 1,178,785 indexed records with 367,790 record images (was 1,178,705 records with 367,790 images),  9 Nov 2018

--- Collections with records removed ---

Alabama Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674670); Index only (104,079 records), no images (was 105,683 records with 0 images),  25 Feb 2013

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In order to select a specific record collection on FamilySearch, go to  https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list and use the "Filter by collection name" feature in the upper left-hand corner and use keywords (e.g. "church england") to find collections with those keywords.

My friend, Marshall, has come up with a way to determine which collections are ADDED, DELETED or UPDATED.  Thanks to Marshall for helping me out here!

Each one of the collections listed above has a Research Wiki page (use the "Learn more" link).  It would be very useful if the Wiki page for each collection listed the dates for when the collection was added as a new collection and the dates for major updates also.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How Did You Get Started in Genealogy Research?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music!), is to:

1)  Jacqi Stevens recently suggested, in her blog post "The Networks of Life," the question "How did you get started in researching your genealogy?"


2)  This week, let's tell our "getting started in genealogy research" story.


3)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a comment on this blog post to lead us to your answers.

Here's mine:


Unlike many researchers, I did not read the book Roots by Alex Haley, or watch the 1976 TV series, until about 1987.  I was impressed, and was looking for another "hobby" since my then-current hobby was boring me.  I figured, "well, this shouldn't take too long, because Aunt Marion already provided it several years ago."  Aunt Marion was my father's oldest sister, and had been a schoolteacher, and as a class project had extracted family information from a printed town history book on the Seaver family.  

As many of you know, my father came from Massachusetts in 1940 to San Diego, and his mother and siblings and nieces and nephews were still "back east"in the 1950s.  Finally, his mother (my grandmother) and his sister Evelyn, her husband and her granddaughter came to visit us in 1959.  This was the only time I met my grandmother.  Letters and cards went back and forth over the years.  My dad's brother and two other sisters came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and several nieces came while in college and stayed with my parents.  We enjoyed every visit and we always talked about the Seaver and Richmond family, but never wrote anything down.  I visited Leominster, Mass. several times in the late 1960s on business, and was able to meet my aunts, uncles and cousins, who all told me family stories, especially about my father.

In 1982, Linda and I, with our girls, took a New England vacation, flying to Boston, and staying with Uncle Ed in Leominster, seeing all of the local cousins, and then spent a week in Maine with my Aunt Gerry and her husband on Lake Cobbosecontee.  That was a really fun time, and we talked more about the family.  I brought my tape recorded along and made audio tapes with Uncle Ed and Aunt Ruth.  My father suddenly died in May 1983, and I realized that I had not talked much with him about his life.  Aunt Marion came to visit twice in the early 1980s, and I made an audio tape with her about the family.  

After I read Roots, in early 1988 I decided that I should really work on the family history, so I wrote letters to the family asking for records and stories, and then we took several more vacations to New England.  In 1989, Aunt Gerry made four hour long tapes of her life story and all of the family stories she knew, and analyzed the family members - she did a wonderful job in her New England accent.  

I started going to the local libraries, and the local LDS Family History Center in San Diego, and quickly traced most of my ancestry back to the 1600s, including the Pilgrim ancestry of my grandmother.  The family ate that up.  In 1989, I started a Christmas newsletter with family stories, family photos, research summaries, and family news.  That started with six typed pages, but ended up being 16 pages over the 25 years.  In 1990, the family celebrated Uncle Ed and Aunt Janet's 50th wedding anniversary and my brother Scott and I attended that in Leominster, and had a lot of fun.  We went to New England five times in the 1990s, and I did a lot of onsite research, found the cemetery stones and the ancestral homes, etc.

Of course, I worked on my mother's ancestry also, and then my wife's, and then the trees of my sons-in-law, then all the Seaver, Carringer, Auble, Vaux and other family lines I can find.  

So, like Topsy, the family tree sprouted sturdy branches and grew lots of leaves, and after 31 years I now have a tree with 53,000 entries and a wealth of family stories, plus a genealogy cave chock full of paper, a computer filled with records and photos and stories, and many memories of family met and enjoyed. 

What a fun hobby er, obsession!!  Endless mysteries!  Lots of records!  A blog!  E-books!  Online trees!  I'm not done!!!

I blame Alex Haley and Aunt Gerry!  Thank you, both!

Thank you to Jacqi Stevens for the SNGF idea.


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Surname Saturday -- DUNINGTON (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 #2255 who is Arrold DUNINGTON (1587-1661). [Note: the more recent ancestral families have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this DUNINGTON 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)

34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)

70.  Thomas Dill (1755-1839)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

280.  Thomas Dill (1682-1718)
281.  Mary Pierce (1682-1713)

562.  Nathaniel Pierce (1655-1692)
563.  Elizabeth Pierce (1646-????)


1126.  Thomas Pierce (1617-1683)
1127.  Elizabeth Cole (1619-1688)


2254.  Rice Cole, born about 1590 in England; died 15 May 1646 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 07 June 1612 in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England.
2255.  Arrold Dunington, born before 21 September 1587 in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England; died before 26 December 1661 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 4510. Edward Dunington and 4511. Margaret Cox.

Children of Rice Cole and Arrold Dunington are:
*  Robert Cole (1616-1655), married 1649 Phillip LNU (1620-????).
Elizabeth Cole (1619-1688), married 1635 Thomas Pierce (1617-1683)
*  Mary Cole (1621-1683), married 1641 Richard Lowden (1612-1700).
*  John Cole (1623-1673), married 1655 Ursula Chamberlain (1632-1673).
*  James Cole (1625-1657), married 1655 Ruth LNU (1630-????).

Information about the Cole and Dunington family line was obtained from:

*  
Leslie Mahler, "Colonists from Great Bowden, Leicestershire: Thomas Dexter of Lynn, Massachusetts; Rice Cole of Charlestown, Massachusetts; Rev. Adam Blackman of Stratford, Connecticut"  The American Genealogist, Volume 78, Number 3 (July 2003), pages 181-185.

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Friday, February 22, 2019

Genealogy News Bytes - 22 February 2019


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

1)  News Articles:


 
Findmypast Acquires RootsFinder, Inc.

*   Collectionaire Launches at RootsTech 2019

Gen-Fed 2019 registration tomorrow

*  NERGC Early Bird Registration ends February 28

*  RootsFinder now imports DNA matches from Ancestry.com, 23andMe, My Heritage, and FamilyTreeDNA, with New Analysis Tools

UGA Distinguished Service Award Goes to LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson!
2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

Friday Finds 22 Feb 2019


New Allied POW Records on Fold3

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New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday, 22 February 2019

*  Elephind Update - January, 2019

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

 GeneaWebinars Calendar


*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 26 February, 11 a.m. PST:  What's in a Surname: The History of Surnames and How They Help in Family History Research, by Alejandro T. Rubinstein

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 27 February, 11 a.m. PST:  Spreadsheets 401 : Excel-lent Inspiration, by Mary Kircher Roddy

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Applying Evidence to Genealogical Research Questions, by Melissa Johnson


*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Online Resources for French Genealogy part I: Compiled Records, Church Records and Civil Registration, by Paul Woodbury

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Online Resources for French Genealogy Part II: Military conscription, Census, Maps, Photographs, by Paul Woodbury


*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Using Timelines and Tables to Analyze Your Research, by Cari Taplin


4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #47… Oral Traditions Are Rooted In Truth… But You Have To Find It

*  Genealogy Cafe podcast:  Episode 21 - Why and How to Build a Research Framework

*  Ancestral Findings Podcast:  How to Do More Effective Old Newspaper Searches

5)  Genealogy Education - Video:

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Why Write Your Genealogy When No One Cares?

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Family History Fanatics LIVE ! = Getting Ready for #RootsTech 2019

*  Who is Nicka Smith? YouTube:  BlackProGen LIVE! Ep 78: Tales from the Undertaker: African American Cemeteries and Funeral Homes

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  Collaborating in Family Tree - Kathryn Grant

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  What to Do With Old Genealogical Materials? Can I Donate Them? - Michael Hansen

*  Ancestry YouTube:  Ancestry DNA | More Detail Than Ever | Ancestry

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  THE ARCHIVE LADY: What to do with oversized documents

*  MyHeritage YouTube:  Daughter Reunites With Father Days Before His Death

*  The Family History Guide YouTube:  Detective Discovery Day

*  The In-Depth Genealogist YouTube:  Finding Your Roots: Paul Ryan, Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, February 22,  2019


7)  DNA Success Stories

*  Woman's DNA test exposes nearly 60-year secret about who her father is

*  Using DNA tests, Dwight Manley found his birth father: L.A. politician Mike Antonovich

*  He took a DNA test in search of his birth father — and found a daughter instead

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 19 February 2019?

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New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday, 22 February 2019

K received this information from Findmypast today:

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New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday

There are over 800,000 new records and newspaper articles available to search this Findmypast Firday.

Yorkshire Baptisms

Over 135,000 new additions covering 81 new parishes have been added to the collection.
Each record contains both a transcript and an image of the original register entry that will reveal a combination of your ancestor's baptism date, baptism place, denomination and parent's names.

Yorkshire Banns

Find out if your Yorkshire ancestors were married by banns with over 35,000 new records covering 57 additional parishes.
Each record contains both a transcript and an image of the original register entry that will reveal a combination of your ancestor's banns date, marriage year, residence, spouse's name and spouse's residence.

Yorkshire Marriages

Did your ancestor's tie the knot in god's own county? Over 53,000 additional records covering 68 new parishes.
Each record contains both a transcript and an image of the original register entry that will reveal a combination of the marriage date, marriage location, birth year, residence, occupation, marital status, father's name and witness's names for both the bride and groom.

Yorkshire Burials

Discover the final resting place of your Yorkshire ancestors with over 124,000 additional records covering 86 new parishes have been added to the collection.
Each record contains both a transcript and an image of the original register entry that will reveal a combination of your ancestor's birth year, age at death, burial date and location.

Scotland, Antenuptial Relationship Index 1661-1780

Do you have ancestors that were members of the Church of Scotland? Search over 31,000 antenuptial records from Kirk Sessions registers to find out if there were any family members who were summoned to the ministers and elders of the church to deny or confess their sin as a child had been conceived out of wedlock
In these cases of 'antenuptial fornication', it was the mother of the child who would be summoned first, they would be sternly rebuked and persuaded to name the father of the child if he was not an obvious boyfriend. The father was then told of the accusation, summoned and would either appear or write, to deny or confess his sin. The session would summon the mother and father of the child back to subsequent meetings until the matter was resolved and the mother, or sometimes the couple, made some sort of reparation, often with the mother standing at the church door for 3 Sabbaths. When they had fully repented, and been pardoned, each was welcomed back into the church.

1939 Register update

Over 287,000 additional 'open' records have been added to the 1939 Register. Since the Register was launched, Findmypast has matched more than four million 'closed records' to multiple data sources to correctly confirm the date and location of death for individuals recorded.
The 1939 Register now contains more than 34.2 million searchable records. Each record includes the names of inhabitants at each address, their date of birth, marital status and occupation. A wealth of contextual information, including period photographs never before seen online, infographics, region-specific newspaper articles and historical and contemporary maps, are personally tailored to each record, offering a rich and unique user experience unrivalled by any other family history research tool to date.

New Records from Barbados

Over 736,000 records from the Eastern Caribbean Island of Barbados are now available to search. Sourced via the International Genealogical Index, these new additions consist of six individual collections covering births, marriages, deaths, baptisms and burials between 1637 and 1891.
The Barbados collections currently available to search include:
·         Barbados Burial Index 1854-1885

British & Irish Newspaper Update

This week 134,952 have joined the Archive. We have added two Home Counties titles for England, The East Kent Gazette and the Bucks Examiner for Buckinghamshire. We have also added to ten of our existing titles, including:
·        Birmingham Daily Post - 1965
·        Coventry Evening Telegraph - 1935
·        Drogheda Independent - 1895
·        Irish Independent - 1914, 1925
·        Newcastle Journal - 1995
·        Perthshire Advertiser - 1907
·        Runcorn Guardian - 1909
·        South Wales Daily News - 1910
·        Sunday Independent (Dublin) - 1986-1990, 1992-1993, 1995
·        Sunday Tribune - 1990-1992
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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Findmypast, and have accepted meals and services from Findmypast, as a Findmypast Ambassador.  This has not affected my objectivity relative to Findmypast and its products.

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Findmypast Acquires RootsFinder, Inc.

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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FINDMYPAST ACQUIRES ROOTSFINDER INC.

·         RootsFinder accelerates Findmypast’s development of the Findmypast Tree.
·         Acquisition marks the latest step in Findmypast’s drive to innovate and enhance user discoveries.
·         RootsFinder founder, Dallan Quass, joins the Findmypast team to assist with future integration work and tree development

Leading family history website, Findmypast, has acquired RootsFinder Inc. and their critically acclaimed RootsFinder family tree product, including new features to help customers analyze their DNA results.

The acquisition reflects Findmypast’s drive to innovate and enhance their customer experience by providing users with new ways to curate, share and explore their family history discoveries.

The acquisition will serve to help Findmypast and its partners accelerate development towards the new “Findmypast Tree” – a continuing effort that seeks to connect users anywhere in the world and offer them the opportunity to discover their family history by working together.  

Founded in 2014 by Dallan Quass, RootsFinder is a free online family tree builder that provides users with the ability to collect and store data from a variety of online sources, engaging ways to capture and visualize media, family connections as well as powerful tools to analyze DNA results. RootsFinder has established itself as popular resource for genealogists across the world and was selected as a semi-finalist in the 2017 RootsTech Innovator Showdown.

Findmypast will look to make use of a number of RootsFinder features in the development of the new tree including data storage, enhanced gedcom uploads, community collaboration, DNA visualizations, error checking and 3rd party hints. These features will enable family historians to improve accuracy and uncover new leads through collaboration with fellow researchers.

There are no plans to change the features and services RootsFinder users currently enjoy and RootsFinder will continue to operate as a standalone product for the foreseeable future.

RootsFinder founder, Dallan Quass, will be joining the Findmypast team as SVP of Family History Technology and will assist with future integration work and development of the new tree. Dallan brings with him a wealth of experience in building family history platforms, machine learning, and search technologies.

Dallan Quass, founder of RootsFinder said: “Findmypast's commitment to novice and experienced genealogists alike is inspiring. We are thrilled to be part of their drive to make family history discoveries fun and rewarding for everyone regardless of skill level. Using extensive record collections and leading-edge technology, Findmypast and RootsFinder will help more people than ever before to discover who they are.”

Tamsin Todd, CEO of Findmypast said: “With RootsFinder, Dallan Quass has once again demonstrated his passion for innovating in family history. We are excited to add a product that is so well regarded by genealogists to the Findmypast family, and it will form a key part of our product roadmap as we work to make family history accessible and easy for users at all stages of their discovery journeys.”


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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Findmypast, and have accepted meals and services from Findmypast, as a Findmypast Ambassador.  This has not affected my objectivity relative to Findmypast and its products.

I have used RootsFinder but have not made it my primary genealogy management program.  I think that this is an excellent move by Findmypast because of RootsFinders Web Hint capability and DNA analysis tools.

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52 Ancestors - Week 266: #435 Elizabeth (Wills) Laver (1730-1796) of South Petherton, Somerset

Elizabeth Wills (1730-1796)  is #435 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #434 John Laver (1722-1799)  in 1750 in Lopen, Somerset, England.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, son, #217 Joanna Lavor (1763-1836), married #216 John Vaux (1747-1806), in 1785.
*  their son, #108 James Vaux (1787-1839), married #109 Mary Palmer (1790-1845) in 1808.
*  their son, #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880), married  #55, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1882) in 1839.
*  their daughter, #27 Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931), married #26 Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894) in 1861.
*  their daughter, #13 Abby Ardell Smith (1862-1944), married #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), in 1887.
*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977).
*  their daughter #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

 *   Name:                           Elizabeth Wills[1–3]
*  Alternate Name:              Elizabeth Lavor[3-4]  

 *  Sex:                               Female
*  Father:                           Thomas Wills (1705- )
*  Mother:                         Mary Screven (1706- )   
 
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                             before 16 August 1730, Merriott, Somerset, England[1,3]
*  Christened:                   16 August 1730 (after age 0), Merriott, Somerset, England[1,3]    

*  Death:                            before 1 January 1796 (before age 65), South Petherton, Somerset, England[3-4]    
*  Burial:                           1 January 1796 (after age 65), South Petherton, Somerset, England[3-4]
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:                   John Laver (1722-1799)    
*  Marriage 1:               16 April 1750 (after age 27), Lopen, Somerset, England[2-3]    

*  Child 1:                     Thomas Laver (1750-1750)    
*  Child 2:                     Jane Laver (1751-    )    
*  Child 3:                     Betty Laver (1753-    )    
*  Child 4:                     John Laver (1755-    )    
*  Child 5:                     Jacob Laver (1757-    )    
*  Child 6:                     William Laver (1759-    )    
*  Child 7:                     Joanna Laver (1761-1762)    
*  Child 8:                     Joanna Lavor (1763-1836)    
*  Child 9:                     Samuel Laver (1764-1834)    
*  Child 10:                   Hannah Laver (1766-    )    
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Elizabeth Wills was baptized on 16 August 1730 in Merriott, Somerset, England, the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Screven) Wills[1,3].

She married John Laver (christened at South Petherton, Somerset on 30 October 1722) on 16 April 1750 in Lopen, Somerset[2-3].  They had at least 10 children, all born in South Petherton, and some were christened in the South Petherton Parish Records of the St. Peter and St. Paul church:

*  Thomas Laver, born about 1750.
*  Jane Laver, christened 14 August 1751, married 5 January 1779 to Francis Sturton in South Petherton.
*  Betty Laver, charistened 28 March 1753.
*  John Laver, christened 31 January 1755.
*  Jacob Laver, christened 4 February 1757.
*  William Laver, christened 17 January 1759, married 14 May 1789 to Elizabeth Stuckey.
*  Joanna Laver, christened about 1761, buried 17 May 1762.
*  Joanna Laver, christened 5 January 1763, buried 4 November 1836, married 2 August 1785 to John Vaux.
*  Samuel Laver, christened 7 July 1764, buried 25 April 1834, married 4 September 1788 to Susannah Hebditch.
*  Hannah Laver, christened 31 December 1766. 

Not much is known about this Laver family, perhaps because they were Non-Conformists.  The Old Meeting house (Presbyterian) records start again in 1747, and many baptisms, marriages and burials of the Laver family were recorded in the South Petherton parish church[3].

Elizabeth Lavor was buried 1 January 1796 in South Petherton, at the age of 65[3-4]. 
 
5.  SOURCES

1. "English Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," indexed database, FamilySearch  (http://www.familysearch.org), Merriott, Somerset, Eliz. Wills christening entry.


2. "Somerset Marriages (pre-1754) Transcription," indexed database, Findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com), Lopen, Somerset, John Laver and Elizabeth Wills entry, 1750.

3. Sara Anson Vaux, The Vaux Family of England, the United States, and Australia, digital manuscript (available at http://www.southpethertoninformation.org.uk/vaux_family_of_england_index%20page.htm), Chapter 6, Laver family information, pages 21-27.

4. Hanna Nicholas and Liz James, "South Petherton Parish Records," online database, South Petherton Information (http://www.southpethertoninformation.org.uk/index.html), "Burials, 1795-1799," Elizth Lavor entry.

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NOTE:  In 2014, 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 2019 to 312 Ancestors in 312 Weeks.


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