Dear Randy: "What Is Your Most Recent Genealogy Happy Dance?"

A Genea-Musings reader asked me in email "What is your most recent Genealogy Happy Dance?  What did you find, how did you do it, and what did you learn from it?"

1)  My most recent Genealogy Happy Dance experience was last week - the discovery that Ontario, Canada land records were now searchable, and transcribed, on FamilySearch Full-Text Search.  I wrote about this experience in Canadian Probate and Homestead (Land!) Records Are Searchable on FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

The immediate benefit was to identify at least 26 images of land records for my 2nd great-grandfather, James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) in Norfolk County, Ontario.  I downloaded the images, with the transcriptions and source citation, and will work through some of them in my Amanuensis Monday transcription posts.  

The potential benefit is that, since I have several more ancestral families in Ontario, I may be able to find more probate and land records for those families.

2)  Further back in time, I've continued to perform the Genealogy Happy Dance that I learned back in March 2024 about FamilySearch Full-Text Search.  The very first search that I performed yielded an 1831 land deed in Trumbull County, Ohio that mentioned my 4th great-grandfather, Cornelius Feather (1777-1853) and his wife, Mary.  It turned out that Mary was a daughter of Thomas Partridge and Hannah Wakeman who were born in New England, migrated to New York, then Pennsylvania and Ohio.  I wrote about the deed in Amanuensis Monday -- 1830/1 Quitclaim Deeds of George W. Patridge and Others to David Patridge, and Catherine Patridge to David Patridge, in Trumbull County, Ohio.  

3)  Since my new-found 4th great-grandmother Mary Partridge (1792-1855) had been an empty spot in my family tree, I have been able to add ancestors, records and sources to 1/32nd of my family tree back into New England and then back into England in the 1600s.  I am still in this search, find and verify process, and do the Genealogy Happy Dance almost every day.  Once I added Mary Partridge and her parents to my AncestryDNA and MyHeritageDNA family trees, I received quite a few autosomal DNA matches in those lines and, through Ancestry's ThruLines, have added descendants of my Partridge and Wakeman related lines. 

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