52 Ancestors - Week 166: #239 Martha (Gach) Randolph (1730-????) of Woodbridge, New Jersey

Here is my 52 Ancestors biography for week #166:

 Martha (Gach) Randolph (1730-????)   is #239 on my Ahnentafel List, my 5th great-grandmother, who married #238 Samuel Fitz Randolph  (1730-????) in 1750 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #119 Tabitha Randolph (1752-1841) who married #118 Stephen Cutter (1745-1823),  before 1769.

*  their daughter, #59 Sarah Cutter (1785-1878), who married #58 William Knapp (1775-1856) in about 1804.

*  their daughter, #29 Sarah Knapp (1818-????), who married #28 David Auble (1817-1894) in 1844.

*  their son, #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916), who married #15 Georgianna Kemp (1858-1952) in 1898.

*  their daughter #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) who 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 J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                         Martha Gach[1–3]

* Alternate Name:         Martha Randolph[4]       

*  Sex:                             Female   

*  Father:                        Thomas Gach (1702-1770)   

*  Mother:                      Elizabeth Bloodgood (1703-1770)   

  

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

  

*  Birth:                         29 January 1729/30, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States[1,3]   

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

  

*  Spouse 1:                  Samuel Fitz Randolph (1730- ???? )   

*  Marriage 1:              20 October 1750 (age 20), Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States[2-3]   

*  Child 1:                   Tabitha Randolph (1752-1841)   

*  Child 2:                   Mary Fitz Randolph (1754-????)   

  

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

Martha Gach was the 6th child of 10 of Thomas and Elizabeth (Bloodgood) Gach of Woodbridge, New Jersey, born 29 January 1729/30.  The Quaker Meeting record for the birth of Martha Gach includes[1]:

*  Name of child:  Martha Gach

*  Parents:  Daughter of Thomas & Mary

*  Place of birth:  Woodbridge

*  Time of birth:  11 Mo 29 1729

*  Sex:    F

Note that the mother's name is Mary, perhaps by mistake.

Martha Gach married Samuel Randolph in Woodbridge on 20 October 1750, according to a record that says[3]:

 "Samuel Fitz Randolph who married Mary Gach, Oct. 20 1750, and said he was the son of Jacob, and Thomas Gach, Martha's father, certified he had his permission".

In this record, Martha's name is listed as Mary.

The New Jersey Marriages record says[2]:

"Gach, Martha, Woodbridge and Samuel Randol, Woodbridge; 1750 Oct 20"

The two known daughters of Samuel F. Randolph and Martha Gach are Tabitha and Mary, who were probably born in the 1752 to 1760 time frame. They were baptized at St. John's Episcopal Church in Elizabeth, NJ on 6 September 1761[4].  That these are the children of Martha Gach (daughter of Thomas Gach) and Samuel Randolph (son of Jacob Fitz Randolph) is indicated by the identities of most of the other people baptized that day in that church.  They include:  

*  Elizabeth and Sarah Eddy, adults.  

*  Mary, Esther and Jane, daughters of James Eddy (and of Mary (Gach) Eddy);  

*  Elisha, John and Gage, sons of Elisha Insly (and of Elizabeth (Gach) Inslee);  

*  Thomas, Martha and Abraham, children of Samuel Grow;  

*  Susannah and Elizabeth, daughters of Nathaniel Pike (and of Sarah (Gach) Pike);  

*  Thomas, son of Jacob Shotwell (and of Esther (Gach) Shotwell);  

*  Elizabeth, Phebe and Thomas, children of John Gage; 

*  Tabitha and Mary, daughters of Samuel Randolph (and of Martha (Gach) Randolph).  

Mary, Elizabeth, John, Sarah, Martha and Esther Gach were all children of Thomas and Elizabeth [Bloodgood) Gach who lived in Woodbridge NJ. 

There are no known records for the death, estate or burial of Samuel and Martha (Gach) Randolph.  

 

5)  SOURCES:

1. "U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994, Rahway and Plainfield [N.J.] Monthly Meeting, Births 1705-1901, Deaths 1705-1908, Marriages 1712-1885,"  indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 July 2014), Births, page 8, Martha Gach entry.

2. "New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965," online indexed database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) , Volume XXII, Marriage Records, 1665-1800, page 161, Marriage License for Martha Gach and Samuel Randol, both of Woodbridge.

3. Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, The Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950 (n.l.: n.p.,1950), page 19, Jacob Fitz Randolph sketch, Samuel Fitz Randolph and Martha Gach marriage and birth entry.

4. Florence Evelyn Pratt Youngs, "Records of St. John's Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, N.J. 1750-1873", no page number, Tabitha Randolph baptism entry, 1761; FHL microfilm US/CAN 1019522, Item 2.

NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.

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Is There Really an Ancestry.com "Big Tree?"

Many users of the We're Related mobile app are puzzled by having generations added to their ancestral lines and having common ancestors that are not in their own family tree.  Why and how does that happen?  I'm finding that about 30% of my "cousin relationships" are not realistic because of this - and as a result I don't trust any of the relationships provided.  They say it is for fun only, but fun things need to be accurate.

Some readers might say "well, you don't have those generations of ancestors because you haven't done a good enough job of researching your ancestry."  That may well be.  However, I am pretty sure I have almost all of my ancestral lines correct back to either an immigrant ancestor or an ancestor for whom I have been unable to find parents.  The app has yet to find a correct set of parents for my "end of my known line" ancestors that I can find a record for.

1)  When the user signs into the We're Related app, we are prompted to add ancestors or connect to an Ancestry Member Tree.  The app shows only three generations of ancestors for the user.  Why doesn't it show more than three when my tree has more generations?  I think the answer may be this:

*  Ancestry.com may use the eight great-grandparents in a person's tree to hook into a "Big Tree" that Ancestry.com has developed in order to enable finding the We're Related cousin relationships.

*  The "Big Tree" may be a consensus approach, based on entries in many (or all?) of the Ancestry Member Trees in the system.  

2)  We see a consensus approach when we click on the DNA Instant Discoveries - when you click on the person you get a statement that the profile is "Compiled from XX Family Trees."  There is a question mark next to that that shows this graphic:

On those consensus profiles there are often several spouses and dozens of children, as one might expect when someone combines profiles from a number of individual trees.  One of my Instant Discoveries is in 77 trees.

On the graphic above, there is a link for "The science behind the compiled tree."  :

The graphic above says the factors that contribute to a positive "quality score" are:

"• Completeness of information. Complete vital information (given name, surname, gender, birth date and place, death date and place, marriage date and place).
• Number of attached records. Ancestry members can attach records to a person as sources for various genealogical events and facts (for example, a birth certificate can be attached as evidence of a birth date or names of parents). The more records that are attached, the higher the quality score.
• Quality of the records. Certain types of historical records offer better genealogical evidence than others. For example, a birth or death certificate offers more information and is more likely to be correct than other records such as city directories. So the quality score increases when a fact has strong genealogical evidence to support it.
• Number of attached media items. Ancestry members can attach their own media items such as photos and stories to a person. Because media items may provide evidence for the vital information, events, or relationships of an individual, they also increase the score."

That's interesting.

3)  Then I read the Ancestry Insider's blog post "Passionate Genealogist is Core - Tim Sullivan at #RootsTech" and he paraphrases Tim Sullivan, the CEO of Ancestry.com, saying:

"...Tim went on to explain more about their Big Tree. Big Tree is an internal term they use for an effort they’ve been engaged in for many years to stitch together the millions of member trees on Ancestry.com. They are applying machine learning technologies and authority systems and are getting more accurate every day.

“'That has always been a little bit of a holy grail, to find that one tree,' Tim said. They are taking a different approach than FamilySearch, but then again, their purposes are different. The Big Tree is not intended to be a product, but something that allows them to develop 'some pretty cool capabilities.' One application is their new We’re Related app."

So there is the explanation - there IS an Ancestry.com "Big Tree," and it likely represents the "Compiled View" mentioned in the DNA Instant Discoveries graphic.  

5)  I haven't found a way to access this "Compiled view" other than by using a Google search.  I did a search for ["william knapp" 1775 1856 ancestry.com] and quickly received this graphic (three screens):

And there are the erroneous parents for my 4th great-grandfather, William Knapp (1775-1856).  The purported parents married in 1783, and the mother was age 4 for her purported son's birth.  How did the "Quality Score" miss that?

6)  In my Friday series of We're Related posts, I have found that about 30% of my lines back to the purported common ancestor are wrong - just flat out wrong - because of errors made by the "quality Score" in the "Compiled View" Tree.   

7)  If Ancestry is going to have a "Compiled View" tree and base "cool capabilities" on it, then:

*  they need to be willing to improve it and remove the obvious errors created by unrealistic relationships, unrealistic number of children, same name-same place problems, same name simultaneously in different places, etc.  
*  there needs to be a "Discussion" feature and/or a review board of experts who can evaluate disputed relationships and information.  

8)  Frankly, just because there is a consensus from N different sources about a fact or relationship, that doesn't mean the assertion is correct.  We, as genealogists and family historians, are really in the business and avocation of developing accurate and complete person profiles, relationships and life events.

It would be terrible to disappoint my grandchildren or your grandchildren when they find out that they relied on the We're Related app, and then they found out they weren't really related to Genghis Khan, Barack Obama, William the Conqueror, or even Beyonce.

I know that Ancestry.com had a "One World Tree" back several years ago, but it was taken off of the database list.  Is this "Compiled View" just an expanded "One World Tree?"

Perhaps Ancestry.com will expound more on how they put this tree together, how they review it and correct it, and how users can access it other than by Googling for a person (that does work well!).

I found this article by Googling a bit:  Where Do We Come From? Ancestry.com’s 19B-Record ‘Big Tree’ Database May Have the Answer 

UPDATED to fix typos and clarify sentences.

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1850 Death Record for Mercy (Plimpton) Smith (1772-1850) of Medfield, Mass. - Post #355 of Treasure Chest Thursday

This week's treasure is the 1850 death record for Mercy (Plimpton) Smith (1772-1850) of Medfield, Massachusetts from the Massachusetts Vital Records:

The record for Mercy Smith:

The extracted information from this record:

*  Death date:  April 13 [1850]
*  Name of deceased:  Mercy Smith
*  Age:  78 years, 7 months, " days [may be 27]
*  Place of death:  " [Medfield]
*  Sex and condition:  Female, Widow
*  Occupation:  [blank]
*  Place of birth:  " [Medfield]
*  Names of parents:  Amos & Mary Plimpton
*  Cause of death:  Old age

The source citation for this record is:

"Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," indexed database and digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 12 August 2011), Deaths, 1850, Norfolk County, Medfield, Volume 49, Page 123, Mercy Smith entry.

The record shown above is a Derivative Source, with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the death of Mercy Smith.  It is a Derivative Source because the death was recorded in the Medfield town records by the town clerk, and then a transcription of the death records for the year 1850 were sent to the state government and was included in the Massachusetts Vital Records files, which were microfilmed and indexed by the FHL, and then digitized on American Ancestors, FamilySearch and Ancestry and put in searchable online databases. 

The new information for me was the cause of death - Old Age.  The age at death is 78 years, 7 months, 27 days.  That works out to 17 August 1771.  There is a Medfield town record that says her birth date is 9 September 1771, daughter of Amos and Mary (Guild) Plimpton.  It appears that she was 77 years, 7 months, and 4 days old when she died.

Mercy (Plimpton) Smith (1772-1850) is my 4th great-grandmother, daughter of Amos and Mary (Guild) Plimpton of Medfield, Mass., who married Aaron Smith (1765-1841) in 1795 in Medfield.  I am descended through their son Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840) who married Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826 in Dedham, Mass.

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More Information on William and Susan (Dill) Trump

I wrote A Husband and Children for Susie Dill last week, and found enough information online to be able to say that she married William Henry Trump in 1910 and had two children, who died in childhood during the 1910s.

I also noted that "I could not find census records for 1920 and 1940."  

1)  In comments, reader Eddie Black did find 1920 and 1940 U.S. census records, and demonstrated that I had not tried as hard as I should have to find them.  Here is what Eddie said:

"I know this isn’t going to help you with your DNA project, but I took note that you were not able to find William Henry Trump and Susan Dill in the 1920 and 1940 census and thought I would give it a try. The 1014 W. Hortter Street is an address that I have passed many times and that made the challenge interesting to me.

"The first thing that I did was look for all of the documents for the Trumps that contained an address.

1911 PA Death Cert - J. D. Trump 515 Westview Ave
1917 PA Death Cert - W. Trump Jr 715 W. Hortter Street
1927 Passenger List 1014 W. Hortter Street
1929 Passenger List 1014 W. Hortter Street
1930 Fed Census 1014 W. Hortter Street
1932 PA Death Cert - M. Trump 1014 W. Hortter Street
1933 PA Death Cert - E. Trump 1014 W. Hortter Street
1935 PHL City Directory 1014 Upsal Street
1942 WWII Draft Registration Alden Park Manor Apts, 5500 Wissahickon Ave
1956 PA Death Cert - W. Trump 8606 Brierdale Rd
1958 PA Death Cert - S. Trump 8606 Brierdale Rd

"In 1920 I found William and Susan Frump at 715 W. Hortter Street.
http://interactive.ancestry.com/6061/4384844_00405/89041260

"In 1940 I found William and Susan? Trumb at 1014 W. Hortter Street.
http://interactive.ancestry.com/2442/M-T0627-03699-00005 

"The 1935 Philadelphia City Directory had the correct house number but Upsal is a parallel street one block south of Hortter.

"The 1920 census would seem to indicate that William and Susan didn't have any surviving children."
My thanks to Eddie for following up here, and finding the answers for me.  His solution, by finding the records by narrowing down the search to addresses, is a very useful tool when you know the addresses from personal knowledge or other records, such as those on Eddie's list.  I'm glad that he took the time and had the interest to help me out, and I learned another lesson, and perhaps my readers will absorb the lesson too.

2)  In retrospect, I did not do a good job searching the 1920 and 1940 census records on Ancestry.

*  If I had searched for "*ump" in the 1920 census, I would have found William H. and Sussan Frump (as indexed):

However, had I searched for "susan" as exact, or born in "New Jersey," I might not have found them.

*  If I had searched for "tru*" in the 1940 census, I would have found William and Juska Trumb (indexed as William and Sophia Truont on Ancestry.com: 

However, it was not easy because the Ancestry match listed the wife of William as Sophia and I'm not sure I would have clicked on it.

I noted that "Juska" was born in Ohio, so I wondered if that was really Susan (Dill) Trump.  I think it is because of the address - that is too much of a coincidence based on Eddie list of addresses.

I have no clue how the enumerator made "Truont" out of "Trumb" or "Sophia" out of "Juska" whatever that means.  

3)  I wondered how the other record providers indexed that 1940 U.S. Census entry:

*  FamilySearch indexed them as William Trumb and Ivaka Trumb.  Ivaka is a reasonable transliteration of the record.

*  MyHeritage indexed them as William Trumb and Inoka* Trumb.  That also is a reasonable transliteration of the record.

*  Findmypast indexed them as William Trumb and Ivaka Trumb.  That's reasonable too.

The crazy thing is that Susan was the one who provided the information, according to the census image.  Was Ivaka or Inoka or Juska a pet name that she had?  Or something she made up to confuse future generations of genealogists?  Strange, eh?

4)  As I always tell my classes - the enumerator didn't have to get the details (name, age, sex, etc) correct, they got paid by the number of names they enumerated.  

So, all's well that ends well.  No blog post is totally useless - it can always be used as a bad example!

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SDGS Meeting on Saturday, 11 March 2017 Speakers

The Saturday, 11 March 2017 program meeting of the San Diego Genealogical Society is from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church (8350 Lake Murray Blvd in San Diego, just south of Jackson Drive).

There are two speakers:

1)  SDGS member Marshall Clow will present "Scanning Your Family Photos"

There are several tutorials available on how to scan your family pictures. Interestingly enough, many of them deal with organizing the physical pictures. After an introduction to the basics of scanning, I will talk about an alternative organizational pattern-on based on the idea that the scanned images are more easily organized than the physical prints.

2)  Author David McCullough:

presenting "A Celebration of Family History" (Originally presented to the National Genealogical Society) via DVD.

The 9 a.m. class in the upstairs class room will be "10 Tips for Beginning Genealogists."

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Unlock the Past Announces a Holy Land Tour and Associated Conference in Israel

I received this information from Unlock the Past today:

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Adelaide, South Australia, 8 March 2017 – Unlock the Past announces another innovative event – a Holy Land tour and associated genealogy conference (Israel).

10-day Holy Land tour - 23 October – 1 November 2017
http://www.theisraeltours.com
This is organised in partnership with the Israel Travel Centre. It is a general Holy Land tour timed around, and taking in, the 31 October centenary commemoration of the Charge of the ANZAC Light Horse on Beersheba on 31 October 1917.

The general tour will visit many places of Christian/biblical interest, as well as later Christian and general history – Caesarea built by Herod the Great, the Sea of Galilee, Nazareth, Jerusalem (2 days and 2 nights), the Dead Sea, Masada (the last stronghold of the Jewish rebellion against the Romans) and Abrahams Well and Visitor Center, Beersheba ... and more. 

The battle of Beersheba was part of the wider British offensive collectively known as the third Battle of Gaza. … The final phase of this all-day battle was the famous mounted charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade. Commencing at dusk, members of the brigade stormed through the Turkish defences and seized the strategic town of Beersheba. The capture of Beersheba enabled British Empire forces to break the Ottoman line near Gaza on 7 November and advance into Palestine – from the Australian War Memorial.

2-day genealogy conference – Tel Aviv 1-2 November 2017
This is separate from, but immediately follows the tour. Unlock the Past is organising this in association with Israeli based MyHeritage as conference sponsor and host. It will feature 12 main presentations on a variety of topics – British Isles, Europe, Jewish genealogy, DNA, War in Palestine and MyHeritage’s technologies for genealogy. 

Presenters include Caroline Gurney (England), Daniel Horowitz (Israel) and Judy Russell (US) … and others yet to be announced. 

Follow developments and discussion - on the tour/conference Facebook page.

Unlock the Past
Unlock the Past was established in 2009. It is the event and publishing division of Gould Genealogy & History which has served family and local historians since 1976. It is a collaborative venture involving an international team of expert speakers, writers, organisations and commercial partners to promote history and genealogy through innovative major events and a new publishing brand. It also maintains general and events directories online.

MyHeritage – www.myheritage.com – is the fastest-growing destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. MyHeritage is available in 42 languages. Learn about content, technologies, and services at MyHeritage designed to help you discover new information about your family and to find previously unknown ancestors. 

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Celebrating Our 42nd Anniversary -- Post 454 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

We visited our daughter Lori and her two boys, Lucas and Logan, in the Santa Cruz Mountains in March 2012.  The highlight was a special anniversary dinner prepared by Chef Lori and served by two handsome waiters, Lucas and Logan (who were 8 and 6 at the time).

1)  The menu:

2)  The pre-dinner cocktail:

3)  The waiters before the service, note the candles:

4)  The main course:

5)  The dessert:

6)  Grandma and Logan:

This was a lot of fun.  The boys took it seriously and tried so hard to be efficient and prompt and with a smile almost the whole time.

We loved it!  I wonder if they remember it?  Maybe they'll see this post.

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Seavers in the News -- Someone's a Bootlegger!

It's time for another exciting episode of Seavers in the News:

This newspaper article was published in the Oakland [Calif.] Tribune newspaper dated 27 October 1925, on page 1:

The transcription of the article is:

RAIDERS SEIZE BOOZE IN GARAGE
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SAN Francisco, Oct. 27 -- One man was arrested, two automobiles were seized and more than 200 gallons of liquor confiscated in an early raid by prohibition agents today on the Stanford Garage, 359 Potrero avenue.

Surrounding the garage shortly after 5 o'clock, a squad of agents closed in on the establishment, where they found Chris Seaver, alleged proprietor, attempting to destroy the liquor, which was stored in the car.  He was arrested.  A touring car and a truck were found to be loaded to capacity, evidently prepared for delivery.  The liquor is said to be worth $4000.

The source citation for this article is:

"RAIDERS SEIZE BOOZE IN GARAGE," The Oakland [Calif.] Tribune, 27 October 1925, page 33, column 7, Chris Seaver article; indexed database and digital images,  Ancestry.com   (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2017).

I wondered who this Chris Seaver was, and if I had him in my database.

Nope, he wasn't in my database.  But there was a Christopher Lemar Seavers who resided in San Francisco in the 1900, 1910 and 1920 censuses.  There are several San Francisco City Directory entries for a Chris L. Seavers also in that time frame, and World War I and II draft registrations that have the same birth date as the death record.  This Christopher L. Seavers was probably born 24 January 1891 in Nebraska, and died 13 May 1969 in Santa Clara County, California.  His parents were George Arista Seavers (1859-1918) and Ella Melissa Stahl (1863-1945) of sonoma County, California.  Christopher Lemar Seavers may have been married twice, first to an Ethel, second to a Mabel.

It appears from the census records that George A. Seavers is the son of Christopher Seavers (1815-1905) and Deborah P. --?-- (1815-1891), both of whom died in Sullivan County, Missouri.  Christopher Seavers was born in Germany, and served on the Union side during the Civil War.

So I have another small Seaver "bush" to input into my RootsMagic database.  

That was genealogy fun for me - I wonder if was charged and convicted of this offense in the article, and if there are living descendants of Chris who know about his little scrape with the law?

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Treasure Chest Tuesday - 1920 U.S. Census Record for Jane McKnew Household in San Francisco, California

This week's Tuesday treasure is the 1920 United States Census record for the Jane McKnew household enumerated in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California:

The Jane McKnew household:

The extracted information for the household at 4137 19th Street:

*  Jane McKnew -- head of household, owns home with mortgage, female, white, age 72, widow, unknown immigration year, unknown citizenship status, able to read, able to write, born in Australia, mother tongue English, father born in England, mother tongue English, mother born in England, mother tongue English, can speak English, no occupation.

The source citation for this record is:

1920 United States Federal Census, San Francisco County, California, population schedule, Assembly District 26; Enumeration District 116, Page 10A, Dwelling #62, Family #93, Jane McKnew household,  online database with digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 September 2007); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T625, Roll 135.

While Jane is enumerated in the house at 4137 19th Street in San Francisco, her family is probably nearby, but is not next door.  This page of the enumeration is a "catch up" for missed persons.

This is the last entry for Jane in a census record - she died on 7 February 1921.  Her death certificate shows that she died at 1288 30th Avenue in San Francisco.  Perhaps that was the home of one of her children or a convalescent hospital.

Jane (Whittle) McKnew was my wife's great-grandmother;  her grandmother is Edna Catherine (McKnew) Schaffner (1884-1974), who married Paul Frederick Schaffner (1879-1934) in 1906 in San Francisco.

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Episode 181 of the Extreme Genes Podcast is Available

Scott Fisher's weekly Extreme Genes podcast for 5 March is now available -- see Episode 181 – Of Creoles, Slaves, Spaniards, and French / Tom Perry On Separating Stuck Pictures.

In this episode:

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist for the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David is on the road in Louisville, Kentucky. The guys start by discussing Fisher’s bizarre find of an 1807 church record where all of his ancestors and their relatives seem to be marked with a cross! David then begins Family Histoire News with the story of a woman whose 122-year-old house is getting some very unique treatment from the government of St. Louis. Next, it’s the story of a 99-year-old Dutch woman who just checked something off her bucket list that most of us would never think of. Find out why. Then, a Santa Barbara couple planned their wedding and then learned something very unique? concerning them? about this ancient venue.

Next (starts at 10:38), Fisher begins his two-part visit with Michael Henderson of Atlanta, Georgia. As an African-American Creole from New Orleans, Michael took an early interest in his family history, taking his lines back to numerous Revolutionary soldiers and branches to several Europeans countries. Wait til you hear about the two century old document concerning his ancestor he found and was able to hold.

In the second segment with Michael Henderson, he talks about the experience of becoming Georgia’s first African-American member of the Sons of the American Revolution. It’s a terrific wrap up to Black History Month!

Then (starts at 36:35), it’s Tom Perry from TMCPlace.com, back to talk preservation. Tom answers a question about what to do if you have pictures that are stuck together. Yes, they are salvageable! Hear what Tom has to say.

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