Saturday Night Genealogy Fun --Your (or Your Ancestor's) Personal History Timeline

 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)  Taneya Koonce wrote a Happy Birthday post about her own life in Quick Tip: Create Your Personal History Timeline - The Birthday Edition 🥳.  What a great birthday idea.

2)  This week, write your own Personal History Timeline - every 5 or 10 years, or the most important events.  If you don't want to do yours, write a History Timeline for one of your ancestors

3)  Share your Personal Timeline in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post.  Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.

Thank you Taneya for the idea!

Here's mine:

I choose to do my own Personal Timeline because I know it pretty well, and I've shared almost all of it in my 19 years writing this blog.

1943 (Age 0):  I'm here, the first child of Frederick Walton and Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver.  I was born in Paradise Valley Sanitarium in National City, and my first home was in Chula Vista. I recall nothing!

1948 (Age 5):  We just moved into 2119 30th Street in San Diego near Gram and Gramp.  I am a big brother now, Stan is age 2.  I started Kindergarten in September at Brooklyn School - my teacher is Miss Cleator - she has white hair and is really old but nice!

1953 (Age 10):  I'm in fifth grade with Mr. de la Torre - I love arithmetic!  We walk 8 blocks to school. I'm on the school Safety Patrol.  I collect baseball cards (5 cents a pack with bubble gum!). I listen to the Padres games on radio every night. My best friends are Gordon and Steve.  I play baseball and football games at Grape Street Park with my brother and friends.  We have a TV! My grandparents live in Point Loma now, and have a chimney.  I can hardly wait for Christmas there!  I need glasses.

1958 (Age 15):  I'm still pretty small - only 5 feet tall and 100 pounds.  I'm really shy too.  I have another brother now, Scott, who is age 3.  I'm in 10th grade at San Diego High School and take English, Latin, Trigonometry, History, Biology and Gym.  I love rock and roll music - Elvis, Everlies, Buddy Holly, Mathis, Platters, Big Bopper, oh my.  I ride the bus to school, and ride my bike all over San Diego exploring on the weekends, and love libraries.

1963 (Age 20):  Now I'm almost fully grown - 5'10" and 135 pounds.  I still live at home.  I worked this summer for the San Diego Chargers.  I'm a junior at San Diego State University majoring in aerospace engineering.  My courses are Mechanical Design, Electric Circuits, Materials, Advanced Math for Engineers, and American Government and Politics.  I ride the bus to and from college. I still love music and compile my own Top 40 survey each week.  I started DXing (listening for faraway AM stations).  I helped my father coach his Little League team.

1968 (age 25):  I'm working at Rohr Corporation as an aerospace engineer using FORTRAN programs to simulate flight.  I just moved to my own apartment in Pacific Beach with my friend John.  We go bowling, to Charger games, and drinking in bars trying to meet girls.  I took several vacations this year to DX conventions in Hollywood and Boston, and I visited my father's Massachusetts family while in Boston. I have my first real girl friend - we met at a DX meeting in Sacramento.  I attended a Boundary Layer class at UC Davis in the summer time, and visited my cousin Marcia in San Francisco. I coached my own Little League team.   I also met a school teacher named Linda.

1973 (age 30):   I married Linda in 1970 (she is really pretty, smart, loving, and an excellent cook - I'm now up to 175 pounds) and we bought a home in Chula Vista.  We take care of our home, go out to eat on weekends, go to church on Sunday, and vacationed in San Francisco.  I still work at Rohr and am working on thrust reverser development.  I still coach my Little League team and we were champions.

1978 (age 35):  Big changes at home.  We have two little girls now, Lori is 4 and Tami is 2.  We moved to a larger home with a big backyard in Chula Vista.  We vacationed for a week at a church camp near Redlands and are in a young adult group at church. I was promoted to a Group Engineer position at Rohr, and traveled to England for work at Rolls Royce in Derby.  Linda tagged along and we did sightseeing while church friends watched the girls.  My grandparents died, and my parents moved to their home in Point Loma. I'm still DXing and doing radio wave propagation research in my spare time.  

1983 (age 40):  The girls are now 9 and 7 and attending school.  Linda keeps the house running and takes the girls to school and activities.  We went to the church camp and to Hawaii in the summer time.  We love Disneyland!  My father died in May, and we visit my mother every weekend to help her.  For work, I traveled to Derby in England, LeHavre and Paris in France, and Cincinnati.  I attended an aerospace conference in Virginia.  I became a church elder and Linda became a deacon.

1988 (age 45):  The girls are now 14 and 12, and doing well in school.  The girls played softball - Lori is a pitcher and Tami is a catcher - and we attended several Padres games. Linda started teaching elementary school again.  We took a family cruise out of Miami to the western Caribbean.  I chaired an Associate Pastor nominating committee at church. I was promoted to be Chief of Aerodynamics in 1984, and have a staff of 8 aircraft engineers, and we support all of the company's commercial aircraft customers - Boeing, Airbus, Douglas, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, and more.  I attended an Executive Program for Engineers at UCSD.  I started doing genealogy research.

1993 (age 50):  Lori is attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Tami is a senior at Hilltop High School and is taking her sixth year of Russian.  She spent six weeks in Belgium as a foreign exchange student.  We vacationed in England for three weeks sightseeing and doing genealogy research.  We also visited my aunts in Florida and South Carolina.  I was promoted to Chief of Aero/Thermo Sciences, traveled a bit to support company programs, and have a staff of 15 after significant cutbacks. I pursue genealogy research in evenings and on weekends and added all of my research into Personal Ancestral File software.  

1998 (age 55):  Lori graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in Human Development and worked at day care facilities in Oceanside.  Tami graduated from Azusa Pacific University and was married in August 1997 to James, and they live in the Los Angeles area.  She went on several summer mission trips to Russia.  I became a Staff Engineer in 1997 at Goodrich (formerly Rohr, same location and programs) working on selected projects, and spent three weeks in Derby on a thrust reverser test program.  Linda is still teaching and shops for angels in Southern California on outings with church friends.  We have season tickets to the Padres and they were in the World Series, but lost before we could use the World Series tickets.  My research continued at repositories and online, and joined several societies.

2003 (age 60):  We lost my mother in January 2002 and Linda's father in June 2002.  Linda retired from teaching in February 2002, and Randy retired from Goodrich in November 2002.  Lori was married in September 2000 to Michael and they live in a cabin in the redwoods near Santa Cruz.  They had Lucas this year - our first grandchild.  Tami and James bought a home in Victorville, got Masters degrees, and she works as a high school teacher and he works as a computer technician.  They have Walter, a fantastic basset hound.  Linda is a Deacon again at church, has a sharing and caring ministry, and enjoys meeting and corresponding with friends. My genealogy research continues and I became the Treasurer of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society. We have Padres season tickets and go to 20 games and watch the games on TV.

2008 (age 65):  Now there are four grandchildren and we love being with them and their parents.  Lori and Michael had Logan, and Tami and James have Lauren and Audrey.  We get to babysit them often, and visit them often in their homes (sometimes for a week at a time!).  We had a wonderful three-week cruise out of New York to the eastern Caribbean with genealogy folks.  We also went to several genealogy conferences.  Linda was the Moderator of the Deacons at church, and I was President of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society, and spoke on genealogy topics in Southern California.  I started writing the Genea-Musings blog in 2006 and haven't stopped since. We still have Padres season tickets and go to 20 games, and watch the other games on TV.

2013 (age 70):  The grandchildren are growing and thriving and we with visit them as often as we can.  They love coming to San Diego and going to the Padres games.  Tami and James moved to Huntington Beach.  Our big vacation this year was a two week genealogy cruise from San Diego to Florida through the Panama Canal.  We also attended several genealogy conferences.  I was the CVGS Newsletter Editor and Research Chair, taught Beginning Computer Genealogy at a senior adult center, and made presentations on the cruise and to California societies. Linda and the girls hosted a 70th birthday party at the church for me with a '50s theme.  

2018 (age 75):  Our fifth grandchild, Charlie, was born in 2014 to Tami and James.  We still see all of the grandkids as often as we can, either here in San Diego or at their homes, but they have busy lives with school and activities.  Linda was diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2016, and no longer drives, but she still enjoys swimming at the YMCA, going out with friends, going to Padres games, and watching TV.  We went to two genealogy conferences, and I made presentations and classes at California societies.  We still have Padres season tickets and go to 20 games, and watch the other games on TV.

2023 (age 80):  Our life has drastically changed.  We survived COVID.  Linda fell and broke her hip in June 2021, had a repair operation, and is bed and wheelchair bound at a Skilled Nursing and Memory Care facility.  I had heart problems after Linda's fall, and had a bypass operation in May 2022. I try to visit Linda every day at her facility.  I am still the CVGS Newsletter Editor and Research Chair. We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary (3.5 years late due to COVID) and my 80th birthday in October at our church hall with an Elvis impersonator entertaining 80 of our friends and family.  This was the first time Linda had seen most of our church friends since her fall.  We gave up our Padres season tickets after Linda's fall, but I still go when the grandkids come to town to visit and watch the games on TV.  The daughters and their families are very busy with school, work and activities, and we don't see them as often.  Lori and Tami have supported us tremendously over these last years as our needs grew.

Well - that's my life saga in 5-year word snapshots.  I have photos over the past 25 years, but have shared many in my Wordless Wednesday posts. This post is already too long - there are more paragraphs to write if you are older than Taneya.  I just hope I make it to 2028 to write another paragraph.

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Chula Vista Genealogical Society Meeting on Wednesday, 26 October Features Mary Kircher Roddy

  Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 12 noon PDT

CVGS General Meeting (in a Zoom Video Conference)

Mary Kircher Roddy on 

"Time Will Tell - Using Timelines to Understand Your Ancestors”

Are you using the Timeline tool to analyze your data? It's a great way to organize dates and places for specific ancestors and puts a different perspective on the information you've gathered. 

Mary Kircher Roddy, CG®, grew up in San Rafael, California. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from The University of California, Riverside in 1982 and a Master's in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas in 1984. She earned a certificate in Genealogy and Family History at the University of Washington in 2005.  She was credentialed by the Board for Certification of Genealogists® in 2019. She is a trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and is a former treasurer for the Association of Professional Genealogists. 

She became interested in genealogy in 2000 in anticipation of a sabbatical in Ireland where her husband was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Limerick. She was sure she would complete all her Irish genealogy while her husband taught at UL and her children attended Monaleen school. Two decades later, the genealogy is still a work in progress. Two decades later, the genealogy is still a work in progress. But the trip to Ireland awakened something deep in her Celtic bloodlines, the Irish tradition of the Seanachi, the storytellers and historians of yore.

Mary has published articles in many publications including The National Genealogical Society Quarterly, NGS Magazine, Family Chronicle (now called Your Genealogy Today), Internet Genealogy, FGS Forum, as well as society publications in the US, Australia and Canada. Mary frequently lectures in Washington State as well as at conferences across the US on methodology and records. She is one of the founders of the Applied Genealogy Institute: (https://appliedgen.institute/) She is a member of the National Genealogical Society and the Association of Professional Genealogists. 

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Register on the CVGS website for this meeting at   https://chulavistagenealogysociety.wildapricot.org/event-4993856 and look for the email with the Zoom meeting reminder link on about Monday, 24 October.

This program will be held online using the Zoom video conferencing platform for Meetings. A Zoom meeting invitation will be sent via email to all CVGS members on 24 October. Please note that the meeting starts at 12 noon Pacific Daylight Time (3 p.m. Eastern time, 2 p.m. Central time, 1 p.m. Mountain time). The Zoom Meeting room will be open by 11:45 a.m. PDT for visiting and helping attendees connect.

Attendance is free but only 100 Zoom seats are available, so please register soon.

This invitation is available to non-members by registering at   https://chulavistagenealogysociety.wildapricot.org/event-4993856.  If you register before Tuesday morning, you will receive an email on Tuesday (25 October) with the link to JOIN the Zoom meeting. Contact randy.seaver@gmail.com if you have problems or register too late for the email. 

NOTE: The Chula Vista Genealogical Society offers an annual membership of $30 and an email membership of $10 per year for distant members (outside of San Diego County, California). Besides the monthly General Meeting with a program on last Wednesdays, there is a monthly Research Group meeting on second Wednesdays and a DNA Interest Group meeting on the third Wednesdays, plus a monthly 12-14 page email newsletter chock full of program announcements, research tips and program reviews.

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My MyHeritage 4-Generation Pedigree Chart Timeline

 MyHeritage announced their Timeline feature on Thursday in their RootsTech Keynote talk, and posted Introducing the Family Tree Timeline today.

I played around with it for a few minutes today and made a 4-generation pedigree chart:

You can save this as a PDF in a 100% Zoom view or a one-page view.  The above is a one-page view that I then saved as a PNG file using the Windows Snipping Tool.

Here is the 5-generation pedigree Timeline chart:

The colors, thumbnail photos, and additional information (ages at death and ages of parents at child's birth) are useful.

Another potential Timeline Chart might be to show parents, children and grandchildren in one chart.

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Disclosure:  I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years.  I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product.  This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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Introducing Family Tree Timeline on MyHeritage

 I received this information from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today:

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Introducing Family Tree Timeline

I  hope you're starting to recover post RootsTech but for us the fun isn't over! I want to draw your attention to another exciting announcement we made in the MyHeritage keynote :-) This time, it’s Family Tree Timeline, a new, free feature that allows you to explore how your family history unfolded over time.

The Timeline is a visual representation of one individual from your family tree and his or her direct ancestors. The lifespans of these individuals are mapped on the same axis to allow you to see them in relation to each other, which can provide refreshing insights into your family history. The Timeline shows the ages of your ancestors at various points in their lives: how old they were when they had children, how long they lived, and how their lifespans overlapped with those of other family members, or major world events.



The Family Tree Timeline is a great way to get a feel for the historical context of your ancestors’ lives and a better understanding of the different generations that make up your family tree. It’s bright and colorful, and can be downloaded and shared with family and friends.

Click here to read our blog post announcement and learn how to access the feature.

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Disclosure:  I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years.  I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product.  This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Create An Ancestor's Timeline

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1) Do you use Timelines to help you in your research?  Create a Timeline (a chronological list with dates and events) for one of your ancestors that includes their parents, siblings, spouse(s) and children.  Tell us how you did it, and show us your work.

 

2)  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post.

Here's mine:

I used RootsMagic 7 with the Reports > Lists > Timeline (Chronology List) and selected my grandmother (Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (1882-1962) and selected her parents family and her family with her spouse. 

Here is my timeline:

There are two pages of Events listed chronologically, plus two pages of source citations, and an index page in this RootsMagic report.

It strikes me that almost every event on this list was a time of celebration (births, marriages, etc.) or mourning (deaths, burials, etc.).  Obviously, my grandmother did not participate in every event on this list, but she participated in most of them.  

This report would be enhanced if it listed the relationship of the person with the other persons in the report (e.g., father, mother, spouse, brother, sister, child, etc.).  

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Dear Randy: How Many Details Do You Add To a Family Tree Profile?

A society colleague asked this question in our society newsletter. 

My answer includes these points:

1)  I add as many events to my ancestor's Facts or Events in my desktop software program (I use RootsMagic for all data entry).  From birth to estate settlement - it might include church, town, marriage, tax, land, cemetery, funeral home, probate, directory, census, military, immigration, emigration, passenger lists, society membership, citizenship, school, newspaper, voter, residence, occupation, and other records.  I include biographical information from books, periodicals, newspapers, family stories, photographs, memories, etc.   My goal is to have source citations, media, and notes to support each Fact or Event assertion.  It all adds up to a timeline for the person profile. 

Here is the "Edit Person" screen for my great-grandfather Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in RootsMagic:

NOTE:  The Facts are in chronological order.  The three columns with check marks are for Fact Notes, Sources and Media.  

I add research notes (if there is conflicting or confusing evidence) and person notes (a life sketch) in a "Note" attached to the Name of the person in the profile.  I often add "Fact Notes" to Facts/Events that transcribe, abstract or summarize the information in the record source.

The profile "Note" is in the right section ("Person Details") of the profile with the Name highlighted on the screen above.  Here is a screen with the "Note:"

2)  I don't do as much for collateral lines (for example, siblings of my ancestors, siblings of my wife's ancestors, DNA Match lines from common ancestors, cousin lines, my one-name study profiles, etc.).  For these profiles, I do try to find and source birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial information using the best source records available.  I usually don't add Media or other Facts/Events to these profiles, but I do add obituaries and biographies to profile Notes..

3)  I am a "lumper" rather than a "splitter" when it comes to data entry to the software program. A "splitter" will enter a Fact or Event for every variation of an event - for example, there might be six records for a birth or a death of a person, and they may have slightly different dates, or places, or name spellings.  A "lumper" might pick the earliest event information, or a consensus of the records, and enter that information to represent the event.  A "splitter" might identify a person with only a birth name, or an alternate name, and include all name variations in their profile, with a source for each name.   A "lumper" might add "Alternate Names" and source each one, with a source for each alternate name.  Software usually permits the user to add "Alternate Birth" or death or marriage information too.

As an example, here is my entry for 2nd great-grandfather Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1894) showing "splitter" entries for the birth date:

NOTE:  Devier was born a "Lamphier," was adopted by the Smith family, and had his name changed to Smith in 1866 by a Wisconsin state law.  There are several record dates for his birth date, but only two which give the specific date (but they are three years apart!).  I discuss this conflict in the "Person Details" Note.

4)  All of this information can be used to write blog posts, periodical articles, unpublished manuscripts, or published books at a later date.  When I get "a round tuit!"

5)  It's up to the Individual researcher as to how much to include.  I started as a "lumper" and decided 15 years ago that it was too much extra work to become a "splitter."  Being a "lumper," the narratives and reports created by the software are much more readable!

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Make a Timeline Report for an Ancestor

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) Have you created a Timeline for one of your ancestors using a genealogy software program (e.g., Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Reunion, etc.) or an online family tree (e.g., Ancestry Member Tree, FamilySearch Family Tree, Geni, MyHeritage, etc.), or in a spreadsheet (e.g., Excel)?

2)  If not, try to create a timeline using the program/website of your choice.  If so, create another one for the ancestor of your choice!

3)  Show us your Timeline creation, and tell us how you did it.  Which program/website, the process you used, and how you captured the images to display your timeline.

4)  Share your Timeline creation on your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook.

Here's mine:

I chose to use the RootsMagic 7 genealogy software program, which has both a Timeline View and a Timeline Report.

Here is the "Timeline View" format in RootsMagic 7 for my 3rd great-grandmother, Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) (Newton) Stone (1797-1882):

The "Timeline View" for a person has columns for "Age," "Facts," "Date," "Details," "place" and icons for Notes, Sources, and Media (the green check marks)   The "Timeline View" added the immediate family members (parents, siblings, spouses, children) to the list without my having to request it (you can select the options in the "Options" button on the "Timeline View" menu).  I really like this view, but, other than using a screen capture like above, I could not find a way to print out this list in color.  Also, it extends over several screens.

The second option to produce a Timeline is to use the Reports menu > "Lists" item > "Timeline (chronology)" item, and select "Individual Timeline list," select a person, from the "Select others to include in timeline," select the person, click on "Mark group" and select "Family of selected person," then check the "Include place for each event" and click on "Generate Report."

Here are the two pages for the Timeline (captured as images using the Windows Snipping Tool):

 I also requested "Sources" in an Endnote format:

The "Timeline (chronology)" report is very plain - but it is very useful.  I would like to see a little more information about the relationships - for instance, identify the family persons as son, daughter, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, etc.  I would also like to see this report formatted with some graphics and color so it would be more visual.

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The Rest of the George W. Seaver Story - Part V: Timeline for his Life

In order to try to keep the information I've gathered for George W. Seaver, I have created a timeline for his life and a bibliography for my blog posts:

TIMELINE for GEORGE WASHINGTON SEAVER (1845-1918)

Date	Event	Location	Source
Ca 1845	Birth	Prob. Wisconsin	1880, 1900, 1910 U.S. Census Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record
8 December 1863	Enlistment in U.S. Army	N. Andover, Mass.	Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record
11 July 1865	Discharge from U.S. Army	Boston, Mass.	Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record
1 June 1880	Census	Celilo, Wasco Co., Oregon	1880 U.S. Census (George is single, age 34)
19 October 1882	Residence	Ventura County, Calif.	1882 Calif. Voter Registration, (George is age 34, born WI)
13 October 1886	Residence	San Francisco, Calif.	1886 Calif. Voter Registration (George is age 38, born WI)
18 July 1890	Pension Application	California	Civil War Pension Card File (Certificate 919,589)
13 August 1892	Residence	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.	1892 Calif. Voter Registration (George is age 45, born WI)
17 October 1893	Residence – Enters Soldiers Home	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California	Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record (George is age 48, Protestant religion, 5'7-1/2” tall, a Teamster)
5 June 1896	Residence	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.	1896 Calif. Voter Registration
29 September 1897	Residence	Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Calif.	Los Angeles Herald Newspaper article (acquainted with Lida Crocker)
17 July 1898	Marriage to Lida J. Crocker	Yuma, Yuma Co. Ariz.	Arizona County Marriage Records (George is age 50, born WI)
21 to 28 May 1899	Residence	Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Calif.	Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles Times Newspaper articles (leaves home, goes to Oregon)
6 July 1899	Residence – Leaves Soldiers Home	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.	Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record
3 November 1899	Birth of daughter Hazel May Seaver	Oakland, Alameda Co., Calif.	California Birth Record for Hazel May Seaver; Find A Grave record for Hazel Knapp
1 June 1900	Census	Vallejo, Solano Co., California	1900 U.S. Census (George born May 1849 in MA. Lida J., and Hazel Seaver)
8 August 1901	Residence – Enters Soldiers Home	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.	Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record
26 June 1904	Residence	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.	Los Angeles Herald Newspaper Article (about George driving horse car)
1 April 1910	Census	Malibu, Ventura, Calif.	1910 U.S. Census (George is age 65, widower, born WI)
13 June 1918	Residence – Leaves Soldiers Home	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.	Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record (suspended due to libel)
31 October 1918	Death	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.	California Death Index, 1905-1939 Sawtelle Soldiers Home Record (died of pneumonia)
Aft. 31 October 1918	Burial	Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.	Find A Grave memorial #3751035

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)

I did not include every newspaper article in the timeline - the blog posts cover them.

I should have added a column for comments and put actual source citations into the Source column.  But then it wouldn't fit on the blog page.

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