Photos from my Visit to the Wisconsin Historical Society Library in Madison WI

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On Day 11 of the Seaver Family History Mystery Tour, I visited the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin.  I wrote about Finding Material in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, which are on the fourth floor of the building. 

In addition to the Archives, the Society also has a Library on the second floor.  After lunch, I did some research here, as described in my Day 11 post.  Here are some photos from this visit:

1)  The reading room is on the second floor.  The photo below shows the room.  My wife, Linda, is in the blue sweatshirt sitting on the right.  The guy asleep in the first row of comfortable seats was there the whole two hours I was there.  There are government publications around the periphery of this room. 

2)  A user can go up or down to the eight levels of library stacks via stairs or an elevator.  On Level 2, here is a photo of the sign denoting the holdings on each floor, and another list of where books from each state are located:

3)  Of course, for the area that I was interested in (Dodge and Dane Counties, Wisconsin), Google was filming the books on the shelf and they were unavailable:

4)  I ordered several local history manuscripts using the call desk on the second floor, and wanted to copy some of the pages.  Their copy machines are designed to not damage the book spines when they are placed on the copy machine.  The copy machine scans them face up rather than face down:

Of course, copying books this way creates distortion in the output.  I had to scan them by holding down the pages with my fingers.  The copy machine uses a pre-paid card.

Tombstone Tuesday - Severt T. Leland (1804-1889) of Deerfield WI

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On our Midwest Family History Mystery Tour, we stopped at the St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church in Deerfield, Dane County, Wisconsin on 17 September.  Linda has at least three ancestors buried here. 

The church, with its graveyard on three sides, is on the west side of Oak Park Road, just north of US Highway 12/18.  It looks like this (taken from the road):

That's Linda in the blue sweatshirt by the door of the church.

It took awhile to find Severt T. Leland's gravestone.  We walked the south side of the graveyard first because it looked like the oldest stones were there.  We finally found Severt on the west side of the graveyard, directly in back of the building, and near the west boundary of the cemetery:

The stone inscription is:

SEVERT T.

LELAND

DIED

MAR.29.1889

AGED

85 YRS.8 MS.

14 DS.

The stone has LELAND on the base. 

Severt T. Leland is Linda's second great-grandfather.  He was born Sjur Torgersen on 19 August 1804 in Tungeteigens, Voss, Hordaland, Norway, the son of Torger Olsen and Anna Sjursdatter.  He married Brita Olsdatter (1818-1895) of Midtun, Voss, Hordaland, Norway on 21 June 1850 in Vinje, Voss, Hordaland, Norway.  They had children:  Torger Sjursen (1850-1933); Ole Sjursen (1851-1914); Mathias Sjursen (1853-1856); Ingeborg Sjursdatter (1856-1939) and Anna Sjursdatter (1859-1892).

After the change of Norwegian surnames in the 1870's Sjur Torgersen was known as Severt Torgerson Leland.

Update: Reader Tom spotted a discrepancy in the age at death.  If Severt was born 19 August 1804, and died 29 March 1889, then he would have been 84 years, 7 months, 10 days old at death, not 85-8-14 like on the gravestone.  This may be "informant error" or the 19 August 1804 date might be a christening date in the Voss, Norway church records, and his birth date might be 15 July 1803 if the 85-8-14 is correct. 

Family History Month Infographic from Archives.com

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I received a link to this infographic from Julie Hill of Archives.com.  The original is on their blog at  http://www.archives.com/blog/industry-news/family-history-month-2011.html.

Archives.com encouraged geneabloggers to embed their infographic on their site, so I have!

What is the most intriguing part of this infographic?  It may be that the USA has about 1 million legal immigrants each year, and that about 65% of them naturalize. 

The bottom part of the infographic provides six things to do during Family History Month.  They include:

*  Build a Family Tree - Get the whole family involved by building your very own family tree.

*  Create a Family History Scrapbook - You can include photos, letters, records, mementos, and more.

*  Create a Photo Timeline - Use family photos to create a beautiful photo timeline for a grandparent or other relative.

*  Profile a Family Member - Interview an older family member, or document the life story of an ancestor.

*  Research Your Surname History - Research your surname and trace it back to your ancestors.

*  Put Together a Family Cookbook - Compile all your favorite recipes, along with the occasions when you traditionally cook them.

The infographic asks "How Will You Celebrate Family History Month?"

My answer:  By visiting with my family.  We just had my brother-in-law and his wife in town for three days.  I'm flying to Santa Cruz in ten days to be with my daughter and two grandsons for a weekend, and we're hosting our two granddaughters here in two weeks.    We'll be busy.

Then there is, of course, my genealogy society work, my Beginning Computer Genealogy class starts, in three weeks, blogging, entering data into my database, writing several articles, etc.

Thank you to Julie Hill and Archives.com for the infographic and the challenge.

Amanuensis Monday - Probate Records of Samuel Rice (1634-1684) of Sudbury MA

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Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday. What does "amanuensis" mean? John offers this definition:

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

The subject today is the will of Samuel Rice (1634-1685) of Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, son of Edmund and Thomasine (Frost) Rice.  He married (1) Elizabeth King (1635-1667), who bore him six children:  Elizabeth Rice (1656-1727); Hannah Rice (1658-1747); Joshua Rice (1661-1734); Edmund Rice (1663-1726); Esther Rice (1665-1738); Samuel King alias Rice (1667-1713).  Samuel Rice married (2) Mary (Dix) Browne (1639-1675), who bore him three children:  Mary Rice (1669-????); Edward Rice (1672-1741); and Abigail Rice (1674-????).  Samuel Rice married (3) Sarah (White) Hosmer (1643-1711), who bore him one child, Joseph Rice (1678-1772).

Samuel Rice died testate, having written a will on 10 February 1684 at Marlborough, which was proved 7 April 1685. The probate papers are in Middlesex County Probate Records, Probate Packet #18,798 [accessed on Family History Library Microfilm 0,421,502).  The will reads (transcribed by the author, with paragraph breaks for readability):

"I Samuell Rice of Marlborough in the countie of Midlesex in New England being seised by the afflting hand of God and not knowing what the event of the exegent Dispensation may bee, have thought it best while in the enjoyment of the full use of my Reason and understanding to Dispose of that estate god hath given me - and therefore have willed as followeth viz: that after my disseace my Body be decently buried,

"2ly that all my just debts bee honestly paid --

"3ly that Sarah Rice my wife shall have the benefit of the thirds of my houseing and lands for her maintenance as the law allows dureing her natural life, as she hath the thirds of her first husband's houseing and lands, Also while she is my Widow and remains so I allow her a fetherbed and beding to it and one bow, and the easterly end of the House for her own use and the benifit of sum of the utansels of the house for her nesesary use while she remains in the house, But if she think ... to remove herself to annother house or familie, then the beding and other utensils shall be left ... in the house for her use and benifit if she shall so caus to return thither again, But if she so cause to chang her condition by Mariag, then all those things both beding and cow and other utansels shall return into the hands of the Executors and onlie her thirds shall remain to her dureing her naturall life,

"Further I will and give to my two Eldest sonns Joshua and Edmond and theire heires forever my Homestal or Houslot with all the Houseing upon it and my first Devision of Meadows together with my town Right and my beaver (?) swamp - to be devided betwene them as followeth - the houslot shal be measured and shal be began in measuring at the easterly end and go to the west and Edmond shall have half the lands only he shall have the west end half, and for the Devision of Meadows Joshua shall have that pease of Meadow that is on the east end of Stirup Meadow Brook, and that which lyeth on the westerly side of the River at Asabeth, and that peice of Meadow that lyeth on the north sid of Stirup Meadow brook where it comes into the River or along by the brook, and Edmond part of meadow shal bee that part of Stirup Meadow that lyeth on the west sid of the brook, and Nonsuch Meadow that lyeth along by Stirup Meadow Brook on the southerly side of the brook, and that hundredth rod of meadow on the Asabet River they shall devided equalie betwixt them, And becaus Joshua hath a part of his Granfather King's out lands, therefor I give to Edmond that twelve acres of land that I bought of James Sawyer that lyeth on the west sid of Abraham Williams his strawbery meadow, My will also is that Joshua shall have all my houseing and my orchard, and berrys I have willed and given them to him, therefor when Edmond ... Joshua shall help him to the value of five pounds and Edmond shal have a considerable part of the fruit of the orchard six yeares. And for the movables, al horses, cattel, sheepe, swine, al husbandry tools, carpendear tooles - and the fourth bed which is the least worth with the beding belonging to it I give it all to them and theire heires forever to bee devided equly betwene them, that so they may be the beter able to pay the legacies that I will shall be paied by them -- I will that they shall pay to their mother her Rent for the thirds of the land and Houseing, I will that they shall pay to their sister Elizabeth Haynes eight pounds in cattel, I will that they pay to theire sister Hanah Hubard eight pounds in cattel or to either of them sum corn in part of the eight pounds a piece if they desire it - I will that my daughter Esther Hubard shall have four pounds in cattel al which cattel before specified shall be paid at a common valuation -

"I will and give to my son Samuel Rice whom I have given to my Brother and sister King as their own to him I say I will and give thirtie shillings in movable goods. And to my other two sonns Edward and Josiah, I will and give thirty two acres of land that lyeth by Midle Meadow and to them I give my Cold ... Meadow, chantie meadow and Midle Meadow, this land and these meadows to be equlie devided betwen them - I will that Edward shall have my Houslott I bought of Deacon Ward asone as the will taks place and my pistols and sword, and when he is twenty years old he shall have of his elder brothers Joshua and Edmond two wel grown steres of four years old and two heifers of two years and a half old and when Joseph my son is twentie years old his elder Brothers Joshua and Edmond shall pay to him also two steres and two heifers of the same age that his brother Edward s are to bee.

"I will also that Joseph my sonn shall have the bed and beding after his Mother that she hath the use of.

"And for my two Daughters Marie Rice and Abigal Rice my will is that when they are eighteen years of age their Brothers Joshua and Edmond shall pay to them three cows a piece or ... to it - and Marie Rice shal have a fetherbed and beding to it, and Abigal Rice shal have a flock bed and beding to it, and becaus I am ingaged by our agreement at Concord to pay to Marie Osmor thre pounds in household things - but she rather chuseing money therefor I will that Joshua and Edmond pay Marie Osmor thre pounds in money, also I will and give to Thomas Osmor my carbine - and for all the rest of my goods as ... Pewter, Iron vessels wooden vessels, linen woolen, chests boxes with all other lumber I give it all to Joshua and Edmond, willing also that they pay to their two sisters Marie rice and Abigal Rice thre pounds a peice out of the rest of these last mentioned things or els thre pounds a peice in money - and further my will is that if god tak away any of my children before they have there portions then that which I have willed shoud be that childs part shal be devided amongest all the rest living equalie, finalie my will is that my two eldest sons Joshua Rice and Edmond Rice shall be my Executors - and my two Beloved Brothers Edmond Rice and Joseph Rice shall be thiere overseers to direct and help them in this theire con... And as a full testimony that this is my last will and testament I have set my hand and seal this tenth of Februwarie in the year of our Lord on thousand six hundred eighty and four.

"In presence of .............................................. Samuel Rice (seal)
Abraham Williams
Joseph Rice"

The will was proved on 2 September 1685 by Jonathan Remington, Clerk of the Court in Cambridge.

An inventory of the estate of Samuel Rice of Marlborough was taken 6 March 1684/5 by Abraham Williams and John Brigham, and totalled 349 pounds, 2 shillings and 6 pence. The real estate (lands at home and abroad together with his meadows and all his town rights and all the housing upon them) was valued at 195 pounds.

The family structure is fairly complicated because he had children by three wives, and one of the children, Samuel, was given to his "brother and sister King" (but I don't know who that was...I probably have it in my notes somewhere). 

Samuel Rice names his third wife, Sarah, in the will.  He also names all ten of his children - his sons Joshua Rice, Edmund Rice, Samuel Rice, Edward Rice, Josiah/Joseph Rice, and daughters Elizabeth Haynes, Hanah Hubard, Esther Hubard, Marie Rice and Abigail Rice.  He named his brothers, Edmund Rice and Joseph Rice as overseers. 

My own line is through Hannah Rice (1658-1747), who married Jonathan Hubbard (1659-1728) in 1681.

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 25 September to 1 October 2011

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Hundreds of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for the genealogy carnivals, or other meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*   What is original? copyright vs. family trees online or otherwise, Government Documents and Public Domain -- What is clearly not covered by copyright, and Get to the point, James on Fair Use  by James Tanner on the Genealogy's Star blog.  James discusses how copyright laws apply to online family trees and your genealogy publications.

*  Native American ancestry research tools available from U.S. Department of the Interior by Sandy on the SpittalStreet.com blog.  Check out Sandy's very useful and helpful list of resources.

*  Rebranding History by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on the Nutfield Genealogy blog.  Heather is dismayed that the historical presentations in the Munroe Tavern in Lexington have been drastically changed. 

*  An Essay on Candy Baskets by Elyse Doerflinger on Elyse's Genealogy Blog.  Elyse writes about the people who treated her mother at the end of her life.  Candy baskets say so much...about the giver.

*  What Do Modern Business Cards for Genealogists Look Like? by Kerry Scott on the Clue Wagon blog.  Kerry shows us hers, will you show us yours?

*  How to Introduce Yourself to Other Genealogists at a Genealogy Conference by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on the Olive Tree Genealogy Blog.  Lorine shows us her business card and tells about her plan to upgrade it.

*  Hit the Books: Genealogy Online and Home Study Courses and Along Came A Spider: Genealogy Webinars and FamilySearch Courses by Susan Farrell Bankhead on Susan's Genealogy Blog.   Susan lists many of the formal and informal education opportunities available for genealogists.

*  BACK STORY: Get Off the Fence and Start Writing  by Pat Richley-Erickson on the DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog.  Ol' Myrt channels her great-grandmother at an FGS luncheon... and has the story, and pictures, to prove it.

*  Book Review: The Red Skirt, Memoirs of an Ex Nun by Jasia on The Catholic Gene blog.  Jasia provides some family background and reviews this interesting book.

*  Conflicting Evidence: What Is It?, How Do We Notice Conflicting Evidence? and Why I Think that Conflicting Evidence Gives Us Great Opportunities by Barbara Mathews on The Demanding Genealogist blog.  A very helpful series with explanations useful for all of us to remember.

*  You can't catch me  by Taco Goulooze on the It All Makes Census blog.  I love research stories - here is one that shows amazing perseverance and postulates a seemingly correct conclusion.

*  Travelogue Writing For Genealogists by Michael John Neill on the Casefile Clues blog.  I'm with Michael on this - I think travelogue writing, especially in blogs, is very helpful to other researchers.

*  Come On Along: Research the Right Way by Susan Farrell Bankhead on Susan's Genealogy Blog.  Susan provides a template for doing research in a repository - an excellent guide!

*  My Most Important Encounter with Indirect Evidence by Ginger Smith on the Genealogy by Ginger blog.  Ginger describes one of her research challenges.

*  DNA Test Spurs Surprising Discovery of Great Grandfather Thomas Jefferson by the writer of the Your Genetic Genealogist blog.  You never know what a DNA test is going to show, or who is on your family tree!  This is a DNA test success story.

*  Family Tree Search – Archives.com by Joan Miller on the Luxegen Genealogy and Family History blog.  Joan interviews Julie Hill of Archives.com - some interesting responses here.

Several genea-bloggers wrote weekly pick posts and news summary posts this week, including:

*  Monday Morning Mentions by Lynn Palermo on The Armchair Genealogist blog.

*  Monday's Link Roundup by Dan Curtis on the Dan Curtis, Professional Personal Historian blog.

*  Links, 9.26.11 by Liz Haigney Lynch on The Ancestral Archaeologist blog.

*  Ruth’s Recommendations by Ruth Blair on The Passionate Genealogist blog.

*  Week In Review by John Newmark on the TransylvanianDutch blog.

*  Genealogy Round Up, September 29 by Megan Smolenyak on Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's Roots World blog.

*  Follow Friday: This Week’s Favorite Finds by Jenn on the Climbing My Family Tree blog.

*  Genealogy News Corral, September 26-30 by Diane Haddad on The Genealogy Insider blog.

*  Follow Friday Gems - 09-30-11 by Deb Ruth on the Adventures in Genealogy blog.

I encourage readers to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Google Reader, RSS feed or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 1060 genealogy bloggers using Google Reader, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - List Your Matrilineal Line(s)

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Hey genealogy buffs - it's Saturday Night again -- time for more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!

2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.

3) Post your responses on your own blog post, in Comments to this blog post, or in a Status line on Facebook or in your Stream at Google Plus.

4)  If you have done this before, please do your father's matrilineal line, or your grandfather's matrilineal line, or your spouse's matriliuneal line.

5)  Does this list spur you to find distant cousins that might share one of your matrilineal lines? 

Here's mine:

My matrilineal line is:

a) Randall J. Seaver
b) Betty Virginia Carringer (1919 San Diego CA - 2002 San Diego CA) married Frederick W. Seaver
c) Emily Kemp Auble (1899 Chicago IL -1977 San Diego CA) married Lyle L. Carringer
d) Georgianna Kemp (1868 Norfolk County, ON - 1952 San Diego CA) married Charles Auble
e) Mary Jane Sovereen (1840 Norfolk Co ON - 1874 Norfolk Co ON) married James Abram Kemp
f) Eliza Putman (1820 Steuben Co NY - 1895 Norfolk Co ON) married Alexander Sovereen
g) Sarah Martin (1792 NJ - 1860 Norfolk Co ON) married John Putman
h) Betsey Rolfe (1766 NJ - ????) married Mulford Martin
i) Sarah Campbell (1746 NJ? -1838 Tompkins Co NY) married Ephraim Rolfe
j) FNU LNU married Robert Campbell (?)
I have had my mitochondrial DNA tested, and I am in Haplogroup K. I reported on it in My mtDNA is in the K Haplogroup, Working with my mtDNA Results - Post 1 and Working with my mtDNA Results - Post 2. There were two exact matches in the GeneTree database, but their end-of-line surnames don't match mine. It appears that mine may be Scottish or Irish, though!

On my Seaver side, the matrilineal line of my father is:

a) Frederick W. Seaver (1911 Fitchburg MA - 1983 San Diego CA) married Betty V. Carringer
b) Alma Bessie Richmond (1882 Killingly CT - 1962 Leominster MA) married Frederick W. Seaver
c) Julia White (1848 Killingly CT - 1913 Putnam CT) married Thomas Richmond
d) Amy Frances Oatley (1826 S. Kingstown RI - before 1870, Killingly CT) married Henry A. White
e) Amy Champlin (1797 S. Kingstown RI - 1865 Killingly CT) married Jonathan Oatley
f) Nancy Kenyon (ca 1765 RI - before 1850 S. Kingstown RI) married Joseph Champlin
g) Anna --?-- (perhaps Kenyon) (ca 1740 RI? - ???) married John Kenyon
My Carringer grandfather's matrilineal line is:

a)  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891 San Diego CA - 1976 San Diego CA) married Emily Kemp Auble
b)  Abbie Ardell Smith (1862 Burnett WI - 1944 San Diego CA) married Henry Austin Carringer
c)  Abigail  A. Vaux (1844 Aurora NY - 1931 San Diego CA) married Devier J. Lamphier Smith
d)  Mary Ann Underhill (1815 Aurora NY - after 1880 KS?) married Samuel Vaux
e)  Mary (Polly) Metcalf (ca 1780 Piermont NH) - before 1860 Aurora NY) married Amos Underhill
f)  Jerusha --?-- (ca 1750 ??? - 1817 Piermont NH) married Burgess Metcalf

My Seaver grandfather's matrilineal line is:

a)  Frederick Walton Seaver (1876 Leominster MA - 1942 Leominster MA) married Alma Bessie Richmond.
b)  Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857 Northborough MA - 1920 Leominster MA) married Frank Walton Seaver.
c)  Sophia Newton (1834 Springfield VT - 1923 Leominster MA) married Edward Hildreth
d)  Sophia Buck (1797 Holden MA - 1883 Westborough MA), married (2) Thomas J. Newton
e)  Martha Phillips (1757 Shrewsbury MA - after 1820 Sterling MA), married Isaac Buck
f)  Hannah Brown (about 1725 MA - before 1774 Shrewsbury MA), married John Phillips

To my knowledge, none of my female-line cousins have had their mitochondrial DNA tested. Now I'm wondering if anybody connected to these people have had their autosomal DNA tested and put in a database.  Those are two more items for my to-do list, I guess!

Surname Saturday - BOYDEN (England > Medfield MA)

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It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week. I am up to number 279, who is  Mary BOYDEN (1708-????), one of my 6th-great-grandparents. [Note: The 6th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts]

My ancestral line back through four generations of BOYDEN  families 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 (1791-1969)

68. Aaron Smith (1765-1841)
69. Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850)

138. Amos Plimpton (1735-1808)
139. Mary Guild (1735-1800)

278.  Nathaniel Guild, born 20 March 1712 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 10 September 1796 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 556. Nathaniel Guild and 557. Mehitable Farrington.  He married 12 June 1733 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
 279.  Mary Boyden, born 09 February 1708 in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Nathaniel Guild and Mary Boyden are:  Mary Guild (1735-1800); Nathaniel Guild (1741-1793); Mercy Guild (1744-????); Samuel Guild (1746-1816); Susan Guild (1750-1822); Mehitable Guild (1752-1816).

558.  Thomas Boyden, born 16 March 1682 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 27 September 1771 in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 29 April 1707 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
559.  Deborah Wight, born 01 December 1685 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died about 1714 in Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 1118. Ephraim Wight and 1119. Lydia Morse.

Children of Thomas Boyden and Deborah Wight are:  Mary Boyden (1708-????); James Boyden (1709-1779); Deborah Boyden (1711-????); Beriah Boyden (1714-????).

 1116.  Jonathan Boyden, born 20 February 1652 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 30 May 1732 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.    He married  26 September 1673 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
 1117.  Mary Clark, born 12 March 1649 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died before 1732 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2234. Joseph Clarke and 2235. Alice Fenn.

Children of Jonathan Boyden and Mary Clark are: Jonathan Boyden (1674-1719); Mary Boyden (1677-1718); Elizabeth Boyden (1678-1756); Mehitable Boyden (1680-????); Thomas Boyden (1682-1771); John Boyden (1685-1754); Joseph Boyden (1687-1758; Sarah Boyden (1690-????).

 2232.  Thomas Boyden, born 1613 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died 1682 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before 1639.
 2233.  Frances, born about 1620 in England; died 17 March 1658 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Thomas Boyden and Frances are:  Thomas Boyden (1639-1719); Mary Boyden (1641-????); Rebecca Boyden (1643-????); Nathaniel Boyden (1650-????); Jonathan Boyden (1652-1732); Sarah Boyden (1654-???).

Useful publications include:

* William S. Tilden (editor) History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 (Boston, Mass.: Geo. H. Ellis, 1887).

*  Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration:  Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), Volume 1, pages 366-268.

*  Town vital record books for Dedham, Wrentham, Medfield, Walpole, etc.

Canadian Genealogy Websites and Blogs

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Over the past month, Genealogy Canada blogger Elizabeth Lapointe has been finding and listing Canadian genealogy websites and blogs.  The posts include:

*  New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs - Week 1 (5 September 2011)

*  New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 2  (12 September 2011)

*  New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 3 (19 September 2011)

*  Top Five Canadian Genealogy Sites (23 September 2011)

*  New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 4 (26 September 2011)

If you have Canadian ancestry, or an interest in Canadian genealogy research, you might check out the links in Elizabeth's posts.

Follow Friday - Weekend Genealogy Fun

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Here are my recommendations for some Genealogy Fun this weekend:

1) Listen to Geneabloggers Radio tonight (Friday night, 10 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. CT, 8 p.m. MT and 7 p.m. PT) hosted by DearMYRTLE. This week's topic is "Digging Deeper: Dealing with Conflicting Genealogy Evidence." The special guests include:

* Barbara Mathews, CG℠ certified genealogist and author of The Demanding Genealogist blog;
*  Accredited genealogist and Family History Library employee Claire V. Brisson-Banks, BS, MLIS, AG® of Timeless Genealogies, and
*  Certified genealogist Michael Hait, CG℠ of Hait Family Research

These experts will help us understand the role of conflicting evidence in genealogy research.

2) Listen to the FGS Radio - My Society show on Saturday (2 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. CT, 12 noon MT, 11 a.m. PT) hosted by Randy Whited this week. The topic is "State Society Panel Discussion – Issues and Projects."
 
The special guests are:

*   Harry Ross, President of the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies
*  Joyce Homan, Associate Director of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
*  We’ll be highlighting The Friends of the Bohemian National Cemetery in our weekly Society Spotlight feature.

3) Check out the recent Webinars on:

* Researching Your Connecticut Ancestors. by Marian Pierre-Louis (free until 3 October 2011)
* Exploring FamilyLink.com and WorldVitalRecords.com by their founder, Paul Allen.
* "Newspapers for Genealogists: Using GenealogyBank.com to document every day of your ancestors' lives" with Tom Kemp.
* "Organizng for Success" with Karen Clifford (available free indefinitely from Legacy Family Tree)
* "The Power of DNA in Unlocking Family Relationships," with Ugo Perugo (available indefinitely from Legacy Family Tree)
* "Leveraging the Power of "We": a Watershed Event in Discovering Where to Find Your Ancestors (Research Wiki, Research Courses, and FamilySearch Forums)," with Michael Ritchey (available from Legacy Family Tree).

* RootsMagic Webinars (all free) available at http://www.rootsmagic.com/Webinars/

* National Genealogical Society (NGS) Videos (some are free to view) at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/videos_online

* Thomas MacEntee's Explorinar on Easy Website Creation (free to view).
* Thomas MacEntee's Explorinar on Evernote - Easy Note Taking UPDATED (free to view)

4) Respond to my Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge, posted on www.geneamusings.com soon after 12 noon Pacific time (that's 1900 GMT for those who understand time zones).

5) Go to a local genealogical society program. Unfortunately, there is no San Diego area presentation scheduled. 

6) Go to a local or close repository with genealogy and family history material. Do some research in traditional resources or order FamilySearch microfilms online with original source records.

7) do some online research in the latest record collections at FamilySearch (free, https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list), Ancestry ($$, http://www.ancestry.com/cs/reccol/default), Fold3 ($$, www.fold3.com), WorldVitalRecords ($$, www.WorldvitalRecords.com), American Ancestors ($$, www.AmericanAncestors.org), GenealogyBank ($$, www.GenealogyBank.com), etc.

8) Add material (names, dates, places, notes, images, sources, etc.) to your genealogy software program. I still have three inches of paper collected from my vacation, and will try to enter some of it into my database this weekend.

9) Spend time with your family doing fun things.  Linda's brother, Paul, and his partner Deb are flying in on Saturday for the weekend.  We will do some sightseeing, talk about family and share family stories, and introduce Paul and Deb to their grand-nieces. 

10) Go to a local cemetery and clean stones, take gravestone pictures, or transcribe epitaphs for your local society, for Find-a-Grave, or a similar online service.

Whatever you decide, please tell us about your genealogy endeavors on a social network or in a blog post. You never know when your experiences may stimulate or encourage others to do useful genealogy work.

The Seaver Family History Mystery Tour Compendium

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I'm having trouble finding all of my blog posts about our upper Midwest vacation, so here is a compendium of posts in case anyone else really cares:

*  Planning for my visit to Dodge County, Wisconsin (25 August 2011)
*  Planning for my visit to Dane County, Wisconsin (31 August 2011)
*  I'm almost ready now to go research! (2 September 2011)
*  Leaving on a Jet Plane... (5 September 2011)
*  We're in Springfield, Illinois for the FGS Conference (6 September 2011)

*  FGS Conference Day 1 Summary (7 September 2011)
*  Day 2 (Thursday) at the FGS Conference (8 September 2011)
*  Day 3 (Friday) at the FGS Conference (9 September 2011)
*  Day 4 (Saturday) at the FGS Conference (10 September 2011)

*  Day 7 on the Seaver Midwest Genealogy Tour (Fort Wayne IN, 12 September 2011)
*  Days 8 and 9 of the Seaver Midwest Genealogy Tour (St. Joseph MI, 14 September 2011)
*  Day 10 of the Seaver Family History Mystery Tour (Dodge County WI, 15 September 2011)
*  Day 11 of the Seaver Family History Mystery Tour (Madison WI, 16 September 2011)
*  Day 12 of the Seaver Family History Mystery Tour (Dane County WI, 17 September 2011)

*  Day 13 on the Seaver Family History Mystery Tour (Eagle WI, 18 September 2011)
*  Day 14 of the Seaver Family History Mystery Tour (Chicago, 19 September 2011)
*  FGS Photos - the Geneablogger Lounge (19 September 2011)
*  Day 15 of the Seaver Family History Mystery Tour (Chicago, 20 September 2011)
*  FGS Photos - some Vendor shots (20 September 2011)

*  Photos from the Allen County Public Library Visit (21 September 2011)
*  FGS Photos - More Vendor Shots (21 September 2011)
*  Visiting the Beaver Dam (Wisconsin) Community Library (22 September 2011)
*  (Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 172: Rolling Prairie, Wisconsin (28 September 2011)
*  Finding Material in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives (28 September 2011)

*  Tombstone Tuesday - Severt T. Leland (1804-1889) of Deerfield WI (4 October 2011)
*  Photos from my Visit to the Wisconsin Historical Society Library in Madison WI (4 October 2011)
*  (Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 173: Hunting for Natvig Land in Cottage Grove WI (5 October 2011)
*  Treasure Chest Thursday - A Certificate of Naturalization for T.S. Leland (6 October 2011)
*  Follow-Up Friday: Creating a Naturalization Source Citation (7 October 2011)

*  My picture is in the newspaper (10 October 2011)
*  Tombstone Tuesday - Anna and Torger Leland in Deerfield, Wisconsin (11 October 2011)
*  (Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 174: The Four-Mile House in 1930 (12 October 2011)
*  Treasure Chest Thursday - the 1876 Leland/Natvig Marriage Record (13 October 2011)
*  Tombstone Tuesday - Anna (Leland) Woelffer (1859-1892) in Deerfield, Wisconsin (18 October 2011)

*  (Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 175: Inside The Four-Mile Inn at Old World Wisconsin (19 October 2011)
*  Using Google Maps to Document Your Way (19 October 2011)
*  Follow-up Friday - Dane County, Wisconsin Naturalization Records (21 October 2011)
*  Tombstone Tuesday - Levi Holcomb (1763-1854) in Burnett, Wisconsin (25 October 2011)
*  (Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 176: Inside the Four-Mile Inn Kitchen (26 October 2011)

I will add posts to this compendium as necessary.

Last update:  Wednesday, 26 October.