Saturday, June 22, 2019

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your School Graduations

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  Most of us graduated from elementary school, junior high school, high school, and perhaps college.

2)  What schools did you graduate from (and when, if you dare!) - and do you have a photograph?

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.


Here's mine:


I graduated from 6th grade at Brooklyn Elementary School (Ash and 30th Street in San Diego) in June 1955.  I don't have a photo of this august occasion.

I graduated from Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School (Upas Street and Park Blvd. in San Diego) in June 1958.  Here is a photograph of me with my 3 year old brother Scott before we departed for the ceremony:

I graduated from San Diego High School (at Russ Blvd. and Park Blvd. in San Diego) in June 1961, with Honors!  This is my high school yearbook photo:

I graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering in January 1966 with Honors.  I did not attend the graduation, and don't have a photograph from that time frame.  Here is an image of my diploma.



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Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 16 to 22 June 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 22 June 2019, there were 2,516 historical record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 11 from last week):

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

--- Collections Added   ---

*  Colorado, Church Records, 1692-1942     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2353034); 35,030 indexed records with 35,030 record images, ADDED 19 Jun 2019

*  California, Church Records, 1864-1985   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2790461); 1,941 indexed records with 1,941 record images, ADDED 18 Jun 2019

*  New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2843410); Index only, no images, ADDED 22 Jun 2019

*  California, Oakland, Mountain View Cemetery Records, 1857-1973  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3161361); Index only, no images, ADDED 22 Jun 2019

*  Australia, South Australia, Prison Records, 1838-1912   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2613137); 81,971 indexed records with 81,971 record images, ADDED 21 Jun 2019

*  Nebraska, Box Butte County, Funeral Home Records, 1919-1976     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2549775); 3,591 indexed records with 3,591 record images, ADDED 19 Jun 2019

*  Massachusetts, City of Boston Voter Registers, 1857-1920        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3159283); 32,996 indexed records with 32,996 record images, ADDED 20 Jun 2019

*  Arkansas, Church Records, 1922-1977     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2790189); 306 indexed records with 306 record images, ADDED 20 Jun 2019

*  Scotland Presbyterian & Protestant Church Records, 1736-1990    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2421466); 109,064 indexed records with 109,064 record images, ADDED 20 Jun 2019

*  Nebraska, Church Records, 1875-1899     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2790263); 151 indexed records with 151 record images, ADDED 20 Jun 2019

*  Pennsylvania, Huntingdon County, Delayed Birth Records, 1800-1935       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3157976); Index only, no images, ADDED 22 Jun 2019

--- Collections Updated ---

*  England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3155913); 623,648 indexed records with 47,740 record images (was 550,198 records with 40,341 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

*  Arkansas Confederate Pensions, 1901-1929        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1837922); 33,779 indexed records with 159,626 record images (was 0 records with 159,626 images), Updated 21 Jun 2019

*  United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2333694); 34,153,320 indexed records with 46,885,712 record images (was 34,153,320 records with 46,885,712 images), Updated 21 Jun 2019

*  California, Santa Clara County, San Jose, Oak Hill Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions, 1838-1985   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3161103); 62,445 indexed records with 58,823 record images (was 31,517 records with 29,809 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

*  Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Halberstadt, Civil Registration, 1874-1982      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2212665); 91,220 indexed records with 90,636 record images (was 79,160 records with 78,688 images), Updated 20 Jun 2019

*  Belgium, Namur, Civil Registration, 1800-1912   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2138511); 230,310 indexed records with 372,768 record images (was 229,908 records with 372,768 images), Updated 19 Jun 2019

*  United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2061540); 85,116 indexed records with 707,724 record images (was 70,501 records with 707,724 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

*  Nova Scotia Births, 1864-1877   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2243378); 196,764 indexed records with 35,026 record images (was 167,469 records with 35,026 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

*  Lesotho, Evangelical Church Records, 1828-2005  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2146157); 127,602 indexed records with 20,396 record images (was 127,300 records with 20,396 images), Updated 17 Jun 2019

*  England and Wales Census, 1911  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1921547); 36,354,828 indexed records with 36,354,828 record images (was 36,354,828 records with 36,354,828 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

*  Liberia, Marriage Records, 1912-2015    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2100287); 173,118 indexed records with 24,406 record images (was 170,643 records with 24,406 images), Updated 20 Jun 2019

*  Peru, Cemetery Records, 1912-2013       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3163400); 44,488 indexed records with 1,923 record images (was 38,171 records with 1,725 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

*  Texas, Bexar County, San Antonio Cemetery Records, 1893-2007    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1828544); 59,423 indexed records with 38,892 record images (was 58,538 records with 38,892 images), Updated 21 Jun 2019

*  Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2843390); 437,710 indexed records with 413,517 record images (was 437,702 records with 413,510 images), Updated 20 Jun 2019

*  Pennsylvania, Berks County, Reading, Charles Evans Cemetery and Crematory Burial Records, 1887-1979     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3241365); 100,986 indexed records with 87,403 record images (was 100,939 records with 87,400 images), Updated 16 Jun 2019

*  England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2072795); 10,680 indexed records with 51,512 record images (was 10,680 records with 53,121 images), Updated 17 Jun 2019

*  Luxembourg, Civil Registration, 1796-1941       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1709358); 191,400 indexed records with 767,518 record images (was 117,499 records with 767,518 images), Updated 20 Jun 2019

*  Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2242886); 23,348 indexed records with 21,950 record images (was 12,893 records with 21,950 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

*  Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2185953); 1,241,695 indexed records with 367,790 record images (was 1,233,115 records with 367,790 images), Updated 18 Jun 2019

*  Michigan, Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, Committee on Civil War Grave Registration, Burial Records (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3246416); 20,664 indexed records with 16,208 record images (was 10,564 records with 8,415 images), Updated 22 Jun 2019

--- Collections with new images ---

*  Spain, Aragón, Electoral Censuses, 1890-1934    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2304578); 4,972,408 indexed records with 53,004 record images (was 4,972,408 records with 42,873 images),  4 Jun 2019

*  Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1417491); 1,678,119 indexed records with 1,676,692 record images (was 1,678,119 records with 1,676,689 images),  16 Mar 2019

--- Collections with images removed ---

*  France, Dordogne, Church and Civil Registration, 1540-1896      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2796817); 7,882,907 indexed records with 3,095,369 record images (was 7,882,907 records with 3,099,653 images),  28 Mar 2018

--- Collections with records removed ---

*  United States Census, 1870      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1438024); 40,350,163 indexed records with 1,049,047 record images (was 40,350,432 records with 1,049,047 images),  20 Jun 2014

*  United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2199956); Index only (875,610,711 records), no images (was 875,610,713 records with 0 images),  17 Jun 2015

*  California Birth Index, 1905-1995       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2001879); Index only (24,589,483 records), no images (was 24,589,484 records with 0 images),  1 Mar 2012

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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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Friday, June 21, 2019

Genealogy News Bytes - 21 June 2019


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

1)  News Articles:


Ancestry® Unveils Over 225 New Communities for Members Who Have Ties to France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand






*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 25 June, 11 a.m. PDT:  Hidden content treasures you might have missed at MyHeritage, by Mike Mansfield

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 265 June, 11 a.m. PDT:   A Month's Worth of Must-Have Tech Tips To Start Using Today, by Gena Philibert-Ortega

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Using Another Library Source: the Government Document Section, by Patricia Stamm

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Researching in New Mexico, by Henrietta Martinez Christmas

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Formatting Your Family History eBook for Kindle, by Lisa Alzo

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #81: Surprising Information

* The Photo Detective Podcast:  Episode 44: Vintage Wedding Photos



5)  Genealogy Videos YouTube):

*  Family History Ron:  Q&A Family History Ron 16 May 2019

*  Family History Ron: Family History Ron 30 May 2019

*  AmericanAncestors:  Using Occupations to Trace Ancestors



*  DNA Family Trees:  NEW! Ancestry DNA Hints Beta!






*  The In-Depth Genealogist:  Talking Archives with Melissa Barker

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Friday, June 21,  2019

7)  DNA Success Stories



8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 18 June 2019?

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 21 June 2019

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday



There are over 6.4 million new records and newspaper articles available to search and explore this Findmypast Friday including over 264,000 new and exclusive parish records that have been digitised and made available online for the first time in association with the Lancashire Archives.
Over 31,000 additional records are now available to search amongst out collection of Lancashire Baptisms. The new additions cover the parishes of:
·        Edge Hill, St Nathaniel -1869 to 1918
·        Liverpool, St John - 1785 to 1898
·        Liverpool, St Silas, Pembroke Place - 1841 to 1918
·        Liverpool, St Stephen the Martyr – 1851 to 1918
·        Newburgh, Christ Church – 1860 to 1917
·        Seaforth, St Thomas - 1839 to 1918
·        Stoneycroft, St Paul – 1916 to 1918
·        Toxteth Park, St Bede – 1882 to 1918
These records include both transcripts and images of the original documents. Each result will reveal when and where your ancestor's baptism took place, the names of their parent's and father's occupation.
A further 179,000 records have also been added to our collection of Lancashire Banns & Marriages. These new marriage registers add coverage for a selection of new Liverpool parishes, including:
·        Edge Hill, St Nathaniel - 1871 to 1943
·        Everton, Emmanuel – 1835 to 1943
·        Liverpool, St John – 1785 to 1898
·        Liverpool, St Stephenn the Martyr – 1852 to 1943
·        Seaforth, St Thomas – 1870 to 1943
·        Stoneycroft, St Paul - 1916 to 1943
·        Toxteth Park, St Bede – 1887 to 1943
Learn when, where and to whom your ancestor was married, as well as the happy couple's ages, occupations, marital status, residences, parent's names and father's occupation.
Over 54,000 new records from the central Liverpool Parish of St John. These new records span the years 1767 to 1883 and will allow you to discover when your Liverpool ancestors were laid to rest.
The transcripts and images within this collection will enable you to discover when your ancestor died, their occupation, the date and location of their burial, as well as their age at death.
A whopping 5.7 million new records are now available to search within our collection of United States Obituary Notices.
These records, obtained from the tributes.com and currentobituary.com websites will enable you to discover your ancestor's name, birth and death years as well as the original obituary text. Additional information such as images and details about the records can be found on the source's website.
Explore the records of investors in The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, also called the Scottish Darien Company. It was funded by investments from people across Scotland. These transcripts will provide you with information on those who invested money and their representatives.
The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to establish a colony called "Caledonia" in Panama in the late 1690s. Opposed by commercial interests from England, the company of Scotland raised subscriptions for the scheme in Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London. English investors soon raised their share but withdrew their money after King William and the English Parliament turned against the venture. However, by August 1696 the Scottish investors raised £400,000 themselves.
As the scheme was backed by approximately 20% of all the money circulating in the country at the time, its failure left the entire Lowlands in substantial financial ruin and was an important factor in weakening Scottish resistance to the Act of Union. In July 1699, the colony was abandoned due to inadequate provisions, the unfamiliar hot and humid climate had caused fever to spread, and many settlers died. Of the 1,200 settlers, only 300 survived.
To mark Icelandic National Day this week, we have made over 287,000 baptism and marriage records from the land of fire and ice available to search on Findmypast.
These two new indexes span the years 1730 to 1920 and will generate hints against your Findmypast Family tree.
A bumper crop of new and updated titles have been added to the collection this week, with 163,404 new pages added. We have seven brand new titles added this week, covering both England and Scotland. We have three new London publications joining us – the Harrow Midweek, the Middlesex Gazette and the Middlesex Independent – as well as one Scottish title (the Northern Ensign & Weekly Gazette) and one new Essex title (the Essex Guardian). We are also delighted to welcome two specialist sporting titles – namely, the Volunteer Record & Shooting News, which 'warmly supports the interests of the shooting man,' and the Fishing Gazette, a publication which covers all types of fishing across the world.
Further to these new arrivals, we have also updated sixteen of our existing titles. Updates this week cover the length and the breadth of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with updates incorporating publications from Aberdeen to Jersey, from Kingston to County Down, from Bristol to Kensington, from Crawley to Strabane.

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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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52 Ancestors - Week 283: #479 Elizabeth (Bloodgood) Gach (1702-1770) of Woodbridge, New Jersey

 Elizabeth (Bloodgood) Gach (about 1702- before 1770) is #479 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married  #478 Thomas Gach (1702-1770)  in 1721 in Woodbridge, New Jersey.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #239 Martha Gach (1730-????) married #239 Samuel Fitz Randolph (1730-????)  in about 1750.
*  their daughter, #119 Tabitha Randolph (1752-1841) married #118 Stephen Cutter (1745-1823), in about 1769.
*  their daughter #59 Sarah Cutter (1785-1878), married #58 William Knapp (1775-1856) in about 1804.
*  their daughter, #29 Sarah Knapp (1818-1904), married #28 David Auble (1817-1894)  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:                    Elizabeth Bloodgood[2–3]    
*  Alternate Name:    Elizabeth Bloetgoed[4]    
*  Alternate Name:    Elizabeth Gach[5]  

*  Sex:                       Female    

*  Father:                  Jan Bloetgoet (1672-1716)    
*  Mother:                Mary Morgan (1672-1730)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                    29 May 1702, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States[2]    
*  Baptism:               29 June 1702 (age 0), Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States[4]    

*  Distribution:         12 April 1763 (age 60), husband's will written; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States[5]    

*  Death:                   before 9 March 1770 (before age 67), deceased when Thomas Gach will was proved; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States[5]  

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

*  Spouse 1:               Thomas Gach (1702-1770)    
*  Marriage 1:            after 17 August 1721 (after about age 19), permission to marry granted; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States[3]    

*  Child 1:                Elizabeth Gach (1722-1724)    
*  Child 2:                Mary Gach (1724-1789)    
*  Child 3:                Elizabeth Gach (1726-1778)    
*  Child 4:                John Gach (1727-1770)    
*  Child 5:                Sarah Gach (1727-    )    
*  Child 6:                Martha Gach (1729-    )    
*  Child 7:                Anna Gach (1732-    )    
*  Child 8:                Thomas Gach (1734-    )    
*  Child 9:                Esther Gach (1736-1757)    
*  Child 10:              Phillip Gach (1744-1780)  

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

Information about the early generations of the Frans Bloetgoet family and his descendants was provided in:

*  Howard L. Swain, "Frans Bloodgood (Bloedtgoedt) of Flushing, New York," New Netherland Connections, Volume 12, Number 1 (January-March 2007), pages 1-11[1].

Information about the Jan/John Bloodgood family was provided in:

*  George M. Bloodgood, Mrs. William C. Cahill, Mrs. William V. Callaghan, Ancestors and Descendants of Captain Frans Jans Janse Bloetgoet, Volume II, Descendants of John Bloodgood, the Youngest Son, 1966, Family History Library US/CAN FHL Microfilm 0,824,077, Item 2[2].

Elizabeth "Bloetgoed" was born 29 May 1702, and baptized 29 June 1702 in the Dutch Reformed Church in Flushing, Long Island[4].  Her parents were Jan/John Bloetgoet/Bloodgood (1672-1716) and Mary Morgan (1672-after 1730). Her father died without leaving a will in Flushing, New York.  Her mother married, secondly, James Savage by 1719[1-2,4].

Elizabeth Bloodgood married Thomas Gach (1702-1770), son of Thomas Gach and Elizabeth (Hunt) Vail) Gach, after 17 August 1721 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, when permission to marry was granted as recorded in the Quaker book for the Rahway and Plainfield Meeting[3].  The record says:

"Thomas Gach & Elizabeth Bloodgood Marriage permitted by Wood. Mtg. 6 mo 17 1721"

They had ten children, all born in Woodbridge and six of them were recorded in the Quaker church records:

*  Elizabeth Gach (1722-1724)
*  Mary Gach (1724-1789), married James Eddy (1710-1792) in 1743.
*  Elizabeth Gach (1726-1778), married Elisha Inslee (1722-1750) in 1744.
*  John Gach (1727-after 1770), married Sarah Dunham (1729-????) in about 1752.
*  Sarah Gach (1727-????), married Nathaniel Pike (1727-1766) in 1747.
*  Martha Gach (1730-????), married Samuel Fitz Randolph (1730-????) in 1750.
*  Anna Gach (1732-????), married Isaac Dunham (1737-1802) in 1759.
*  Thomas Gach (1734-????), married Keturah Clawson (1739-????) in 1759.
*  Esther Gach (1736-1757), married Jacob Shotwell (1729-????) in 1754.
*  Philip Gach (1744-1780), married Jennet Pike (1747-1821) in about 1768.

Thomas Gach wrote his will on 23 April 1763, noting[5]:

"Item: I give and bequeath to my well beloved Wife Elizabeth the Use of all the above mentioned Lands and Premises, or so much thereof, as She shall be fit to demand, during her natural Life or Widowhood; Also I give and bequeath to my said Wife all my Moveables and Personal Estate whatsoever, and wheresoever, to be at her own proper Use and Disposal, she paying thereout all my just Debts and Funeral Charges."

He also named his wife Elizabeth as one of the executors of his will.  

Elizabeth (Bloodgood) Gach died after her husband wrote his will in 1763, and before it was proved on 9 March 1770.  The other executor, James Eddy of Woodbridge, filed an affidavit stating that the other executor (Elizabeth) was deceased.  The exact date of Elizabeth's death is not known, and her burial place is not known[5].

5.  SOURCES

1. Howard L. Swain, "Frans Bloodgood (Bloedtgoedt) of Flushing, New York," New Netherland Connections, Volume 12, Number 1 (January, February, March 2007); online archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org) : accessed 31 May 2011), pages 1-11.

2. George M. Bloodgood, Mrs. William C. Cahill, Mrs. William V. Callaghan, Ancestors and Descendants of Captain Frans Jans Janse Bloetgoet, Volume II, Descendants of John Bloodgood, the Youngest Son, 1966, (accessed at Family History Library on US/CAN FHL Microfilm 0,824,077, Items 2), page 2, Elizabeth Bloodgood birth and baptism entries.

3. U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994, Rahway and Plainfield [N.J.] Monthly Meeting, Register of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1687-1871, Marriages, page 3 (image 41 of 129), Thomas Gach and Elizabeth Bloodgood entry; indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 July 2014).

4. "U.S. Dutch Reformed Church Records from Selected States, 1639-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), New York>  Jamaica > Albany, Vol IV, and Jamaica, Book 4, page 165 (stamped), image 4 of 125, Elizabeth Bloetgoed baptism entry.

5. New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1656-1999, indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com (no longer available) :, accessed 2 September 2015), Middlesex County, Wills, 4575L-5330L, No. 4713 (image 98 of 532),Thomas Gach will, 1763; citing original data from New Jersey County, District and Probate Courts.

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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.


Copyright (c) 2019, Randall J. Seaver

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