Saturday, April 20, 2019

Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 14 to 20 April 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 20 April 2019, there were 2,469 record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 6 from last week):

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

--- Collections Added ---

New York, Staten Island, Moravian Cemetery, Interment Records, 1866-1967        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3092749); Index only, no images, ADDED 1 Jan 1970

Hawaii, Hansen's Disease Records, Kalaupapa Vital Records Card Index, 1928-1947(https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3155903); 21 indexed records with 21 record images, ADDED 1 Jan 1970

California, Los Gatos, Los Gatos Memorial Park Cemetery Card Index to Burials, 1889-1989        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3161362); Index only, no images, ADDED 1 Jan 1970

South Carolina, Colleton County Marriage Licenses, 1911-1951    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3161369); Index only, no images, ADDED 1 Jan 1970

Peru, Cemetery Records, 1912-2013       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3163400); Index only, no images, ADDED 1 Jan 1970

England and Wales National Register, 1939       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2836130); Index only, no images, ADDED 16 Apr 2019

NOTE:  The collections noted as "ADDED 1 Jan 1970" are listed as "Legacy" on the website.  

--- Collections Updated ---

Denmark Census, 1870    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2778656); 1,760,360 indexed records with 145,352 record images (was 1,760,360 records with 145,352 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists, 1917-1943     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2173944); 3,589,381 indexed records with 244,420 record images (was 2,995,830 records with 244,420 images), Updated 17 Apr 2019

United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2333694); 34,153,325 indexed records with 46,885,712 record images (was 34,154,728 records with 46,885,712 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

Missouri, Pre-WWII Adjutant General Enlistment Contracts, 1900-1941     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2576872); 358 indexed records with 607,070 record images (was 0 records with 607,070 images), Updated 17 Apr 2019

Denmark Census, 1925    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2718007); 3,627,893 indexed records with 960,707 record images (was 3,627,893 records with 960,707 images), Updated 18 Apr 2019

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1951739); 1,294,466 indexed records with 139,194 record images (was 1,287,391 records with 139,194 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

Cook Islands, Public Records, 1846-1989 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2731435); 79,316 indexed records with 96,455 record images (was 75,734 records with 96,455 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2353070); 1,930,558 indexed records with 61,776 record images (was 1,923,637 records with 61,776 images), Updated 16 Apr 2019

Australia, South Australia, Immigrants Ship Papers, 1849-1940   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2613135); 409,185 indexed records with 15,686 record images (was 360,026 records with 12,863 images), Updated 17 Apr 2019

United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2996059); 76,128 indexed records with 2,609 record images (was 75,719 records with 2,636 images), Updated 18 Apr 2019

Mississippi, World War I Army Veterans, Master alphabetical index, 1917-1918    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3010079); 54,610 indexed records with 1,153 record images (was 53,093 records with 1,121 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

England and Wales Census, 1861  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1493747); 19,591,543 indexed records with 1,033,317 record images (was 19,591,543 records with 1,033,317 images), Updated 20 Apr 2019

New Brunswick Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1967766); 24,067 indexed records with 24,015 record images (was 23,947 records with 24,015 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2562514); 5,899,982 indexed records with 271,979 record images (was 5,899,982 records with 271,979 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

French Polynesia, Civil Registration, 1780-1999 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2549721); Index only (55,916 records), no images (was 40,882 records with 0 images), Updated 16 Apr 2019

Colorado Statewide Divorce Index, 1900-1939     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043439); 89,708 indexed records with 82,674 record images (was 87,470 records with 82,674 images), Updated 18 Apr 2019

Oregon, World War I, County Military Service Records, 1919-1920 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3010088); 15,228 indexed records with 15,152 record images (was 15,195 records with 15,126 images), Updated 19 Apr 2019

--- Collections with new images ---

North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2848682); 5,374,446 indexed records with 5,396,425 record images (was 5,374,446 records with 5,393,216 images),  26 Mar 2019

Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2060668); 763,146 indexed records with 2,513,872 record images (was 763,146 records with 2,512,894 images),  29 Nov 2018

--- Collections with records removed ---

Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680831); Index only (345,648 records), no images (was 1,434,142 records with 0 images),  9 Dec 2010

Brazil, Pernambuco, Civil Registration, 1804-2016       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2016195); 8,067,739 indexed records with 5,387,756 record images (was 8,068,939 records with 5,387,756 images),  1 Apr 2019

Minnesota Marriages, 1849-1950  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680832); Index only (438,284 records), no images (was 438,331 records with 0 images),  18 Jul 2016

Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473259); 4,027,386 indexed records with 45,984 record images (was 4,029,171 records with 45,984 images),  23 Mar 2019

Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1949342); Index only (17,102,154 records), no images (was 17,102,155 records with 0 images),  17 Feb 2012

Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1681000); Index only (540,200 records), no images (was 541,107 records with 0 images),  3 Oct 2014

United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2199956); Index only (875,610,866 records), no images (was 875,611,143 records with 0 images),  17 Jun 2015

Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2397260); 529,042 indexed records with 528,618 record images (was 530,836 records with 528,618 images),  29 Nov 2018

England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2072795); 10,680 indexed records with 53,121 record images (was 19,890 records with 53,121 images),  20 Dec 2012

Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680827); Index only (1,203,423 records), no images (was 1,203,965 records with 0 images),  15 May 2018

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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 -- Date Your Grandfather Was Born

It's Saturday Night, 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!


For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), answer the question:


1)  What day of the week was your Grandfather born (either one)? Tell us how you found out.

2) What has happened in recorded history on your Grandfather's birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.


3)  What famous people have been born on your Grandfather's birth date?  Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.

4)  Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook.


Here's mine (I will refrain from sharing how I found things out):

1)  I picked my maternal grandfather, Lyle Lawrence Carringer, who was born on 2 November 1891 in San Diego, California.

2 November 1891 was a Monday.

2)  Important things in recorded history that occurred on 2 November include:

*  In 1889, North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states.
*  In 1895, the prize for the first gasoline powered race in the U.S. was $2000.
*  In 1920,  KDKA in Pittsburgh, starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.
*  In 1947, Howard Hughes made the first and only flight of the Spruce Goose, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
*  In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. day.

3)  Here are some of the famous people born on 2 November (I'll bet my grandfather didn't know this!):

*  In 1460, King Edward V of England was born (died 1473)
*  In 1734, Daniel Boone was born (died 1820).
*  In 1755, Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France, was born (died 1793).
*  In 1795, James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States, was born (died 1849).
*  In 1913, Burt Lancaster, an American actor, was born (died 1994)

4)  That's it!



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Surname Saturday -- HOPKINS (England to colonial New England)

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 #2289 who is Constance HOPKINS (1606-1677). [Note: the more recent ancestral families have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this HOPKINS 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)

142.  Nathaniel Horton (1720-1771)
143.  Eunice Snow (1722-1816)

286.  Jabez Snow (1697-1760)

287.  Elizabeth Paine (1702-1772)

572.  Jabez Snow (1670-1750)
573.  Elizabeth Treat (1676-1755)

1144. Jabez Snow (1642-1690)
1145.  Elizabeth Smith (1648-1733)

2288.  Nicholas Snow, born about 1604 in England; died 15 November 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married  22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
2289.  Constance Hopkins, born before 11 May 1606 in Hursley, Hampshire, England; died 25 November 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins are:
*  Mark Snow (1628-1695), married (1) 1655 Anne Cook (1636-1656); (2) 1660 Jane Prence (1637-1712).
*  Mary Snow (1630-1704), married 1650 Thomas Paine (1627-1706).
*  Sarah Snow (1632-1697), married 1655 William Walker (1620-1703).
*  Joseph Snow (1634-1723), married 1659 Mary LNU (1640-1729).
*  Stephen Snow (1636-1705), married 1663 Susanna Deane (1634-1701).
*  John Snow (1638-1692), married 1669 Mary Smalley (1647-1703).
*  Elizabeth Snow (1640-1678), married 1665 Thomas Rogers (1638-1678).
Jabez Snow (1642-1690), married 1670 Elizabeth Smith (1648-1733).
*  Ruth Snow (1644-1717), married 1666 John Cole (1644-1725).
*  Constance Snow (1646-1682), married 1667 Daniel Doane (1636-1712).

4578.  Stephen Hopkins, born before 30 April 1581 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England; died before 7 July 1644.  He was the son of 9156. John Hopkins and 9157. Elizabeth Williams.  He married before 13 March 1603/4 in Hampshire, England.
4579.  Mary Kent alias Back, born about 1580 in Hampshire, England; died before 09 May 1613 in Hursley, Hampshire, England.

Children of Stephen Hopkins and Mary Kent are:
Constance Hopkins (1606-1677), married 1627 Nicholas Snow (1600-1676).
*  Giles Hopkins (1608-1690), married 1639 Katherine Whelden (1617-1689).

Information about the Hopkins family was obtained from:

*  Caleb Johnson, "The True Origin of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower," The American Genealogist, Volume 73, Number 3 (July 1998), Pages 161-171.

*  Ernest M. Christensen, "The Probable Parentage of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower," The American Genealogist, Volume 79, Number 4, (October 2004), Pages 241-249.

*  John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Six: Stephen Hopkins (Plymouth, Mass. : General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001), Third Edition, Stephen Hopkins.

*  Robert Charles Anderson (editor), The Great Migration Begins, Volume II (Boston : NEHGS, 1995) pages 986-989, Stephen Hopkins sketch.

I have done no original research for this Snow or Hopkins family.

NOTE:  Shirley Edmonds provided additional information on Stephen Hopkins and Nicholas Snow and I have edited this blog post.  My thanks to Shirley.

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Friday, April 19, 2019

Genealogy News Bytes - 19 April 2019


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

1)  News Articles:


Ancestry Reportedly is Preparing for a Second IPO as DNA-Test Industry Booms





2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

Friday Finds 19 Apr 2019




3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

 GeneaWebinars Calendar


*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 23 April 11 a.m. PST:  Censuses Around the World: What You Need to Know About Census Collections and Genealogy, by Mike Mansfield

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 24 April 11 a.m. PST:   Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage 2019 edition, by Sunny Morton

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar:  Transcribing Documents: There is More Than Meets the Eye!, by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Boost Your Germanic Research: Understand Historical Jurisdictions, by Teresa Steinkamp McMillin


*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Organizing (or Reorganizing!) That Family Reunion, by James M. Beidler
4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #63:  Rare Catholic Records

*  The Photo Detective Podcast:  Episode 37: What’s New With Vivid-Pix Restore?


5)  Genealogy Education - Video:


*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  Google Sheets

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  WACKY Wednesday - Vivid-Pix RESTORE

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  Mondays with Myrt - 15 Apr 2019

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  WACKY Wednesday - You, too can ZOOM!


*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  LIVE: 120 DNA Ancestors Explained - Family History Fanatics

*  DNA Family Trees YouTube:  Are you looking in the right place for your Family?


*  James Tanner YouTube:  Exploring Genealogy Series Virtual Pedigree


*  AmericanAncestors YouTube:  Researching Women in Archives


*  Genealogy TV YouTube:  How to Research Your Polish Ancestors

*  The In-Depth Genealogist YouTube:  Three Strikes


7)  DNA Success Stories

*  
Switched at birth



8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 16 April 2019?

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Seeing AncestryDNA ThruLines From Your Ancestry Member Tree Pedigree Chart

I was looking through my Ancestry Member Tree - the one that has my DNA attached to it -  and noted a new "feature" on the Pedigree Chart:


At the bottom of the icons on the left side of the screen is a "DNA" helix icon.  

I clicked on that, and a "DNA Discoveries" card opened on the right side of the screen:


The "ThruLines (TM) Icons" button is set to "Off."

I moved it to "On" by clicking on the right side of the gray "Off" button" and set it to "On:"


Immediately, every person on my pedigree chart, back to 5th great-grandparents, sported a blue "ThruLines(TM) icon."

I clicked on one of my 2nd great grandparents, James Richman, and saw:


The card now has a section for "ThruLines(TM) - with a green button to "View ThruLines for James Richman." 

I clicked on it and saw the ThruLines screen for James Richman:


I wondered if the Profile for an Ancestor has a "ThruLines Icon" also, but I don't see it:


I think that this is a useful feature for Ancestry Member Trees.  It's a short-cut - you don't have to wade through all of your ThruLines on the AncestryDNA ThruLines page to find the ancestor you want.

However, it can be used to show ThruLines:

*  on the Ancestry Member Tree with the DNA results attached to it;

*  for the 5th great-grandparents or closer;

*  for common ancestors that have more than one ThruLine to DNA matches;

*  for ancestors for whom you, as the tree owner, are the only DNA match. 

UPDATED:  The last line above was inaccurate - it was not meant to be exclusive.  I added the third bullet, and changed the 4th bullet above.  It does show the icon when there are other DNA match ThruLines from the common ancestor, but it also shows the icon when the tree owner is the only ThruLine. 

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Disclosure:  I have had a paid subscription to Ancestry.com since 2000, and use the site every day.  I have received material considerations from Ancestry.com in years past, but that does not affect my objectivity in writing about their products and services.

The URL for this post is:  https://www.geneamusings.com/2019/04/seeing-ancestrydna-thrulines-from-your.html

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52 Ancestors - Week 274: #449 Maria (--?--) (Abel) Tedrick (1693-1771) of Germany and Morris County, New Jersey

Maria (--?--) (Abel) Tedrick (1693-1771) is #449 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married  #448 Andreas Abel (1690-1751)  in about 1713 in Germany.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #224  Michel Abel (1719-1791), married #225 Christina --?-- (1730-1804) about 1755.
*  their son, #112 Johannes Abel (1758-1818), married #113 Sophia Trimmer (1755-1811) in 1777.
*  their son #56  John Auble (1780-1831), married #57 Anna Row (1797-1860) in 1804.
*  their son #28 David Auble (1817-1894), married #29 Sarah Knapp (1818-1904) in 1844.
*  their son #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916), married #15 Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952) in 1898.
*  their daughter #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977), married #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) in 1918.
*  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:                      Maria --?-- [1-2]    
*   Alternate Name:     Anna Maria Mayer Abel[3]    
*   Alternate Name:     Mary Tedrick[4]  
*   Alternate Name:     Maria Abel[5]    

*  Sex:                          Female  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                        about 1693, Germany[2]    

*  Distribution:             husband's will proved, 9 April 1751 (about age 58), Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[5]    
*  Probate:                    will written, 10 January 1771 (about age 78), Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[4]    

*  Death:                      12 March 1771 (about age 78), Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[3]    
*  Burial:                      after 12 March 1771 (after about age 78), Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Oldwick, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[3]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:             Andreas Abel (1690-1751)    
*  Marriage 1:          about 1713 (about age 23), Germany[2]    

*  Child 1:               Mathias Abel (1715-1783)    
*  Child 2:               Andreas Abel (1717-1782)    
*  Child 3:               Michel Abel (1719-1791)    
*  Child 4:               Paul Abel (1731-1773)  

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

The information on this family was obtained from the book Early Germans of New Jersey by Chambers[1], and the book The Able Aubles by Juanita Hayter Crampton[2].

Maria --?-- was born in about 1693 in Germany, perhaps in Alsace-Lorraine[2].  Her birth date, birthplace, and parents are not known, although some researchers claim she is Maria Maier born in about 1703.

She married Andreas Abel (1690-1751) in about 1713 in Germany[2].  

The Andreas Abel family left the port of Portsmouth, England on 22 June 1728 bound for America on the ship Albany, master Lazarus Oxman from Rotterdam.  This ship landed in Philadelphia on 4 September 1728[2].  They settled in Fox Hill in what is now Morris County, New Jersey.

They had four children, with the first three born in Germany, and the last in New Jersey[2].  They are:

*  Mathias Abel (1715-1783), married about 1750 Margaret --?-- (1729-????).
*  Andreas Abel (1717-1782), married about 1740 Hanna --?-- (1720-1783).
*  Michel Abel  (1719-1791), married about 1755 Christina --?-- (1730-1804).
*  Paul Abel (1731-1773), married Maria Magdalena "Leany" --?-- (1735-1800)

Andreas Abel died on 9 April 1751 in Roxbury, New Jersey(AA).  He left a will written in German, dated 28 February 1750[2,5]

He bequeathed to his wife, Maria (the English translation is, in part):

"My two sons, Michael and Paul shall maintain my wife, Mary (Maria).  My son Paul shall have my small chest and the wagon and the new saddle and one bea hive and one pewter quart.  And my wife shall live in my house, shall keep her own fowls and they shall find my wife victuals and drink and if they plant, maintain her well.  Shall each of my two sons give her yearly ten bushels of wheat and one fat hog, and shall carry the wheat to the mill for her to be ground when she wants it.  They shall bring the firewood to the house and they shall keep two cows and one horse, winter and summer, feed them and keep them.  

"I give to my wife, Mary (Maria), sixty acres of land by a line joining Court Casper downwards, for a help for her if she should want. My wife shall have two pewter basins and a small pewter basin and two pewter plets, two spoons and one cow.  She shall have her choice out of the flock and one heifer, one mare and a mare called Afso.  She shall have half the orchard or half the apples and two bea hives and her saddle and the great chest, the painted tankard, one iron pot, a copper kettle of one biggest and a little iron pot and she and Paul shall have light sheep and the big iron kettle together."

Maria (--?--) Abel, likely married, secondly, a man with the last name of Tedrick.  On January 10, 1771, Mary Tedrick of Roxburry township, Morris County, wrote her will, and the abstract of the will is as follows[4]:

"To eldest son, Matthias Auble, 20 shillings.  To son, Paul Auble, 10 pounds.  Sons Michael Auble and Andreas Auble, 60 acres of land where I live.  To Samuel Drake's wife, my best cow and the bell she has on, with a strap, for attending me while sick, and I give Samuel four bushels of wheat and three of buckwheat for the favor he has done me. Son, Michael Auble's daughters, Caty and Eve, each a pewter basin. The rest of my estate I give to my grandchildren."

This will finds Mary with the same 60 acres that was left to her by her husband, Andreas Able and also mentions their four sons(AA).

Mary (--?--) (Abel) Tedrick died in March, 1771[3].  She is probably buried on the Davenport Tract in Roxbury, New Jersey, the site of their farm and near the Union Reformed Church in Fox Hill[2].

5.  SOURCES

1. Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: their history, churches, and genealogies (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982), page 227, Andreas Abel sketch.

2. Juanita Hayter Crampton, The Able Aubles (Utica, Kentucky: Mcdowell Publications, 1987), pages 1-5, Andreas Able sketch; digital image, FamilySearch Books (https://books.familysearch.org/)

3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Oldwick, N.J., Anna Maria Mayer Abel memorial #27040729.

4. A. Van Doren Honeyman, editor, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey:: First Series -- Volume XXXIV: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc., Volume V -- 1771-1780 (Somerville, N.J.: The Unionist Gazette Association, Printers, 1928), page 517, Mary Tedrick will abstract; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

5.  A. Van Doren Honeyman (editor), Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. XXXII; Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. Volume IV, 1751-1760 (Somerville, N.J. : Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers, 1928), page 5, Andres Abel will abstract; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

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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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