Genea-Musings

Friday, March 30, 2018

52 Ancestors - Week 220: #299 Mary (Farwell) Stone (1709-1804) of Groton, Massachusetts

Mary (Farwell Stone (1709-1804) is #299 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #298 James Stone (1702-1783) in 1726 in Groton, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

* their daughter #149 Abigail Stone (1737-about 1800) married #148 Ephraim Sawtell (1735-1800) in 1757.

* their son, #74 Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) married #75 Hannah Smith (1768-1827) in 1789.

* their daughter, #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) married #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)in 1810.

* their son, #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.

* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.

* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.

* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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

* Name: Mary Farwell[1–3]

* Alternate Name: Mary Stone[4-7]

* Sex: Female

* Father: Joseph Farwell (1670-1740)

* Mother: Hannah Colburn (1673-1741)

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

* Birth: 5 February 1709, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]

* Baptism: 10 June 1711 (age 2), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]

* Distribution: 15 April 1783 (age 74), husband's will proved, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]

* Death: 29 March 1804 (age 95), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]

* Burial: after 29 March 1804 (after age 95), Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6–7]

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

* Spouse 1: James Stone (1702-1783)

* Marriage 1: 28 December 1726 (age 24), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]

* Child 1: James Stone (1727-1788)

* Child 2: Mary Stone (1728- )

* Child 3: Jonathan Stone (1731-1799)

* Child 4: William Stone (1734-1757)

* Child 5: Abigail Stone (1736-1800)

* Child 6: Sarah Stone (1739-1789)

* Child 7: Joel Stone (1742-1806)

* Child 8: Salmon Stone (1744-1831)

* Child 9: Hannah Stone (1747-1839)

* Child 10: Levi Stone (1750-1830)

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

Mary Farwell was born 5 February 1709 in Groton, Massachusetts, the 3rd daughter and 6th child of ten born to Joseph and Hannah (Colburn) Farwell of Groton[1]. Mary was baptized in the Groton church on 10 June 1711[2].

On 28 January 1726, Mary Farwell married James Stone in Groton[3]. James was the son of John and Sarah (Nutting) Stone of Groton. James and Mary (Farwell) Stone had ten children, all recorded in Groton town records between 1727 and 1750.

James Stone wrote his will on 21 December 1778, died on 27 February 1783 in Groton, and the will was proved on 15 April 1783[4]. He bequeathed to his wife, Mary Stone:

"I Give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Stone the Improvement of all the Estate, real and personal which I Shall die seized and possessed off during her Life..."

Mary Stone, widow of James Stone, died 29 March 1804 in Groton, Massachusetts at age 95[5]. She was buried in the Old Burying Ground in Groton[6-7]. The inscription on the gravestone says:

In Memory of

Mrs. Mary Stone

Relict of

Dea. James Stone

who died

March 29^th, 1804

AEt 95.

No probate records for Mary (Farwell) Stone were found in the Middlesex County Probate Court records.

5) SOURCES

1. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Volume 1, Births, page 82, Marey Farwell birth entry.

2. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 1, Births, page 82, Mary Farwell baptism entry.

3. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2, Marriages, page 166, James Stone and Mary Farwell entry.

4. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, 27 November 2016), Case 21,617, 8 images, will of James Stone, 1778, proved 1783.

5. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2, Deaths, page 272, Mary Stone, "widow of Deacon James," entry.

6. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Burying Ground, Groton, Mass., Mary Farwell Stone memorial #112277016.

7. Samuel A. Green, M.D., Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, & Company, 1878), page 121, Mrs. Mary Stone epitaph.

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NOTE: Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Seavers in the News - Joseph R. Seaver Dies in 1922 in Portland, Oregon

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a semi-regular feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the Portland [Ore.] Oregonian newspaper dated 24 January 1922:

The transcription of this funeral notice is:

"SEAVER -- In this city, January 22, Joseph R. Seaver, aged 80 years, father of Mrs. H.L. Angevine of Moline, Ill.; C.L. Seaver, Kingfisher, Okla., and Mrs. T.E. Dwier, Ocean Park, Wash.; brother of Henry Seaver of Webb, Ariz.; C.T. Seaver, Beaver, Okla.; Mrs. Esther Seymour, Mrs. Sadie Walker and Mrs. Ida Wheaton of Orange, Cal. The funeral services will take place at the conservatory chapel of the East Side Funeral Directors, 414 East Alder street, today at 2 P.M. Friends invited. Interment, Rose City cemetery."

The source citation for this article is:

"Funeral Notices," funeral notice, Oregonian [Portland, Ore.], 24 January 1922, page 13, Joseph R. Seaver funeral notice; GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 28 March 2018), Newspaper Archives collection.

This funeral notice is rich in family names, but most of them are with initials and married surnames. I had them all in my RootsMagic family tree database:

I have Joseph Rial Seaver (1841-1922) in my database, son of Joseph Seaver and Sally Dodge. He married Martha Rush Frey (1843-1910) in 1863 in Illinois, and they had five children, but only three were living when Joseph died in 1922:

* Mae Seaver (1865-1946), who married Harry Lewis Angevine (1865-1930).
* Charles Harvey Seaver (1869-1932), who married Lydia Adelaide Crawford (1870-1936)
* Sara Frey Seaver (1879-1966), who married Thomas Everett Dwier (1868-1956).

The living siblings of Joseph R. Seaver mentioned in the notice were:

* William Henry Seaver (1844-1923) who married Arey Permelia Chambers (1847-1911) in 1865.
* Charles Tinker Seaver (1849-1923) who married Sara Matilda Lancaster (1853-1901) in 1873.
* Esther Elizabeth Seaver (1832-1923) who married Daniel T. Seymour (1831-1894) in 1854.
* Sarah Mazilla "Sadie" Seaver (1851-1929) who married Charles Walker (1829-1881) in 1871.
* Ida Eva Seaver (1858-1940) who married Childs D. Wheaton (1858-1919) in 1880.

I am not related to Joseph Rial Seaver. He is descended from Henry Seaver (1740-1810) and Elizabeth LNU (1747-1777), who were in Scott County, Virginia in the 1770s. Their son, Jacob Seaver (1773-1824) married Esther Croberger (1780-1854) in 1799, and moved to Switzerland County, Indiana. Their son was Joseph Seaver (1805-1885), who settled in Rock Island County, Illinois.

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1709 Birth and Baptism Records of Mary Farwell (1709-1804) in Groton, Mass. --- Post 405 of Treasure Chest Thursday

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1709 birth record and 1711 baptism record of Mary Farwell in the Groton, Massachusetts vital record book:

The birth record for Mary Farwell is the 7th entry on the page:

The extracted information of the birth record is:

[FARWELL], Marey, d[aughter]. Joseph and Hannah, Feb. 5, 1709.

The extracted information for the baptism record is:

[FARWELL], Mary, d[aughter] Joseph and Hannah, bp. June 10, 1711. C.R. 1.

The source citation for this record is:

Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Volume 1, Births, page 82, Mary Farwell birth entry.

Mary Farwell (1709-1804) was the 6th of 10 children of Joseph and Hannah (Colburn) Farwell of Groton, Massachusetts. She married James Stone (1702-1783) in 1726 in Groton, and they had ten children between 1727 and 1750, all born in Groton. James was the son of John Stone (1658-1735) and Sarah Nutting (1663-????) of Groton, Massachusetts.

James and Mary (Farwell) Stone are my 6th great-grandparents. I descend through their daughter Abigail Stone (1737-1800) who married Ephraim Sawtell (1735-1800) in 1757 in Groton.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Dear Randy: How do you find the time to research, live life, and do all those posts?

I wrote Dear Randy: Why Do You Write About Your Personal Genealogy Research? last week after a reader asked me the question at RootsTech. In comments to that post, a reader asked:

How do you find the time to research, live life, and do all those posts?!

The simple answer is: I fill up the time when I am not doing "life" (like eating, sleeping, traveling, watching TV, visiting with people, attending church or other events) with doing genealogy research and writing about genealogy. I do "life" but I also do "genealogy" - often eight to ten hours a day. I dislike doing "nothing" with my time, so I do "something." My wife usually knows where I am!

So some history, and then I'll try to define my current process:

1) I retired from my aerospace engineering career in 2002, and started doing genealogy full-time. I worked on my own research, but started attending the local genealogy society programs and started speaking to societies on a regular basis. I went back to work part-time in 2004 and retired again in 2006.

2) By 2006, I had a cave full of paper, but I had put most of it into Family Tree Maker software, but I had very few source citations. I changed my software to RootsMagic because the source citations had templates that used Evidence Explained principles. I decided to add source citations to the information in my family tree database, and am still working on them.

3) I quickly figured out that I needed to organize my digital genealogy files, and to digitize my photographs and obtain digital copies of genealogy records for my ancestors. So I did - and haven't changed much after 12 years of using my digital file system. This is key to working efficiently!

4)  Then I started blogging in April 2006 and determined that I needed to build a following because nobody knew who I was. Writing two or three posts a day was how I achieved being "known" and going to genealogy conferences (SCGS, NGS, FGS, and RootsTech) really helped, because I was invited to be on panels about blogging. I write about my own research, genealogy issues of the day, how-to articles on databases and software, and opinion pieces. I spend 1 to 3 hours a day writing blog posts for my blogs.

5) Reading blogs consumes several hours nearly every day. I have over 1,000 genealogy blogs in my Feedly news reader, but not all of them post something every day. I estimate that I read something like 100 to 200 genealogy-related blog posts each day. I also read political, lifestyle and social media sites. Genealogy blogging has waned a bit since 2012 because of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media.

6) Our life has changed a bit since Linda can no longer drive due to health reasons. I drop her off at the local Y at 7:30 a.m. for swimming and pick her up at 9 a.m., and several times a week we go shopping. I read at home during the time between dropoff and pickup. I've lost about 40 minutes every day because I have to make two round trips.

7) In the late morning, I usually write a blog post and work on my presentations, on society work, answering email, and maybe following a rabbit trail on one of the genealogy providers. I usually eat lunch at home, and often take a 30 minute nap.

8) In the afternoon, I try to write a blog post, do some research to support upcoming blog posts (e.g., 52 Ancestors), check into Twitter and Facebook (but not for long!), work on current research, DNA matches etc. I try to limit my social media time to 30 minutes a day.

9) We usually eat dinner between 5 and 6:30 p.m., and I watch TV news, read the newspaper, and wash dishes during this time.

10) After dinner, I am back in the cave and on the computer to answer email, write the morning blog post for the next day, and do more research. I usually have two hours or more to work on Ancestry Hints, MyHeritage Hints, matching FamilySearch Family Tree, and doing research that adds content and source citations to my family tree database. I do everything in RootsMagic and TreeShare with my Ancestry Member Tree daily.

11) I have some genealogy society activity every week, and the schedule adjusts for that as required. I attend the CVGS Board meeting, lead the CVGS Research Group, and attend the CVGS monthly program, attend the SDGS monthly program, lead the SDGS RootsMagic Users Group, write and publish the CVGS newsletter, etc. I also speak at Southern California societies, teach an OASIS class once or twice a year, and speak to community groups and libraries about genealogy.

12) The daily schedule changes during baseball season (the 2018 season starts tomorrow! World Series hope springs eternal, it's been a long time since 1998 here in San Diego). We go to 21 home games of the San Diego Padres and that cuts about 6 hours out of the daily schedule). But we also watch most of the other games on television. I read books while watching the games, and can read genealogy blogs, answer email or even write blog posts in my recliner on my laptop or tablet. The blog posts for the next morning are usually written before dinner during baseball season, since the West Coast games are usually not over until 10 p.m. or later.

13) So, on average, I spend each day doing:

* 1 hour reading genealogy blogs
* 1 hour reading other news blogs
* 0.5 hour on other social media
* 1 hour (on average) doing genealogy society things, including presentations, conferences, etc.
* 2-3 hours researching and writing my 2-4 daily blog posts.
* 2-3 hours working on genealogy research of some sort - DNA, family tree, transcribing,

14) So that's my so-called life with many genealogy activities - it keeps me busy, it keeps my brain active, and most things get done around the house (well, not the garage cleaning...).

15) So how do you do manage your genealogy work? Please share in your own blog post or in comments.

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Vincent and Heather Rojo Visit in June 2014 -- Post 509 for (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I'm posting family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they aren't Wordless Wednesday posts like others do - I simply am incapable of having a wordless post.

In early June 2014, our friends Vincent and Heather (Wilkinson) Rojo visited San Diego before going on to the SCGS Genealogy Jamboree, and we drove them around the tourist spots. Heather writes the excellent and popular Nutfield Genealogy blog.

1) Here are Vincent and Heather at Cabrillo National Monument on the end of Point Loma overlooking the entrance to San Diego Bay:

2) On the west side of Point Loma are the Sunset Cliffs - they are gradually eroding but provide some interesting sandstone vs. waves photos:

3) Linda took a photo of Vincent and Heather with some of Sunset Cliffs in the background

4) That evening, we met mutual friend geneablogger Ruth Himan (then of Chula Vista, but now in northern California) for dinner in Coronado:

We gave Vincent and Heather a fairly long tour of the beaches of San Diego, up to Mission and Pacific Beach and La Jolla, through Old Town and Mission Valley, plus a ride down the Lucinda Street hill with my grandparents house at the bottom of it, around Shelter Island, and through downtown and around beautiful Chula Vista.

More photos next week!

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 27 March 2018

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

1) News Articles:

*  IDG Introduces Their Newest IDG Academy class: "Beginning Genealogy - Starting Off Right"

* NGS to Live Stream Ten Genealogy Lectures During the Family History Conference in May

*  MyHeritage Customer Support is Now Available 24/7

*  New: Easier navigation in your DNA Match list

* Call for Proposals Deadline Extended for NGS 2019 Family History Conference
2) Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Collections - Week of 18 to 24 March 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 18 to 24 March 2018

*  Introducing the Witches of Massachusetts Bay website

*  IGRS Launches Latest Update to its Early Irish Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes

3) Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  FamilySearch Classes Presented at RootsTech 2018 Now Online* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 28 March, 11 a.m.:  Formulating a DNA Testing Plan, by Blaine Bettinger

* Archived Family Tree Webinar:  How DNA testing can reveal your ethnic roots, by Gull Ben-David

* Genealogy Gold Podcast: #171 - How to Trace Your Ancestor’s World War I History

* Extreme Genes Podcast: Episode 229 – Fisher and David Share RootsTech Highlights/ Woman’s RootsTech Miracle

* Genealogy Journey's Podcast: #49 - Dairy Farming in America

* Genealogy Connection Podcast: #040 - Stacey Adger, OGS Officer

* DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel: Albion's Seed: Borderlands to the Backwoods

* DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel: Mondays with Myrt - 12 Mar 2018

* DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel:  Hispanic Genealogy Research 2

* DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel:  Mondays with Myrt - 19 Mar 2018

* DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel:  Mondays with Myrt - 26 Mar 2018

* Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  A Genealogy Crime Author - Nathan Dylan Goodwin

* Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  Scrapbooking: Benefits of Going Digital

* Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  Who owns your DNA test results?

* BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  What's New with The Family History Guide March 2018 - Bob Taylor

* Jennifer Holik YouTube Channel:  What's New at the WWII Research & Writing Center in March 2018?

4) Bargains:

* Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, March 27, 2018

*  Save Over 40% on Legacy Family Tree Webinars Annual Subscription

5) Neat Stuff:

*  Anglo-Saxon settlement and Roman army camp found in A14 bypass dig

*  The History of the British Isles: Every Year

*  Woman Meets Father for the First Time on 33rd Birthday

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 23 March 2018?

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MyHeritageDNA Provides Download of All DNA Match Shared Segments

In addition to the chromosome browser announced several months ago, and the one-to-many chromosome browser announced at RootsTech, MyHeritageDNA now permits a download of all of your shared segments of all of your current DNA matches.

1) On my DNA Matches page, I saw the "Advanced options" feature and expanded it to see two options (in red area below):

[Note that I have whited out the names and tree owner of my first DNA match above]

2) The first option is to: "Export entire DNA matches list:"

I clicked the "OK" button to have them send me an email with the information.

3) The second option is to: Export shared segments with all DNA Matches list:

I clicked the "OK" button to have them send me an email with the information.

4) It took only a minute or two to receive the two emails with a ZIP file of the information. Here is one of the emails:

A ZIP file was attached, which I downloaded to my MyHeritageDNA file folder.

5) I opened it and saw a read-only comma delimited text file that can be imported to my spreadsheet program:

6) I clicked on the "OK" button to open my spreadsheet program and saw (with the match names whited out):

For each person (all 3,354 of them) on my DNAIt is listed with the closest match, in terms of centiMorgans) listed first. The file provides the shared DNA segments by chromosome number. The columns are:

* Chromosome number
* Start location
* End location
* Start RSID
* End RSID
* Centimorgans
* SNPs

I'll leave it to the experts to decipher what all that means.

7) What I do know is that if one or more of my DNA matches match the same area on a specific chromosome with me, then we are related, especially if the chromosome segment length is significant (like 20 cM or more).

There are 7,123 lines in this file of my 3,354 DNA matches. The smallest segment downloaded is 8 cM.

8) First, I need to save my Shared DNA Segments file as a spreadsheet file - I use OpenOffice Calc, so it will be an .ODS file.

This is just the beginning of what a researcher can do with this file. This presentation is really helpful, but even more helpful would be to see who matches on a specific chromosome in a specific segment.

Since this is a spreadsheet, the data can be sorted by chromosome and by Start location to accomplish the desire to see who matches on a specific chromosome in a specific segment.

I'll work with the spreadsheet in another blog post.

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Treasure Chest Tuesday - 1945 San Francisco City Directory for Lee S. Leland

This week's Tuesday's Treasure is the 1945 City Directory record of Lee S. Leland in San Francisco, California:

The record for Lee S. Leland is (right-hand page, left column):

The transcription of this record is:

"[Leland] Lee S (Edna M) br mgr Standard Sta h1726 47th av"

This indicates that Lee S. Leland and his wife Edna M. owned the home at 1726 47th av in San Francisco, and Lee was a branch manager for Standard Stations in 1945.

There is also an entry for Lee's mother and sister:

Alda Leland is Lee's youngest sister, and Mrs. Amelia Leland is his mother. They resided at 1287 37th av. in San Francisco. Alda was a resident, and Amelia owned the home. Lee's father, Severt O. Leland died in 1940.

The source citation for the Lee Leland entry is:

"U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com , : accessed 26 March 2018), California > San Francisco > 1945 > "San Francisco, California City Directory, 1945," page 1035, Lee S. Leland entry.

In 1945, Lee and Edna (Schaffner) Leland resided in the house they bought in 1941 at 1726 47th Avenue in the Sunset District of San Francisco, only two blocks from the ocean. This is the house that my wife, Linda, grew up in with her parents and her brother.

Lee Severt Leland (1911-2002) is my wife's father, who was born in Gardiner, Montana to Severt Oliver and Amelia Anna (Brocke) Leland. He married Edna May Schaffner (1913-1979) in 1937 in San Francisco. Edna was born in San Francisco to Paul F. and Edna C. (McKnew) Schaffner.

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Monday, March 26, 2018

IDG Introduces Their Newest IDG Academy class: "Beginning Genealogy - Starting Off Right"

I received this from The In-Depth Genealogist organization over the weekend:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 24, 2018 | Utica, OH

Email Terri O’Connell for contact details, photos, and an author bio.

IDG INTRODUCES THEIR NEWEST IDG ACADEMY CLASS:

BEGINNING GENEALOGY- STARTING OFF RIGHT

The In-Depth Genealogist is pleased to announce the launch of the IDG Academy (http://www.idgacademy.com) class “Beginning Genealogy – Starting off Right” in April 2017. The IDG Academy is an online learning experience to expand skills in Genealogy. Classes are taught by In-Depth Genealogist writers, past and present, as well as recognized professional genealogists. The online classroom incorporates best practices in the field using the Moodle classroom. Moodle is an intuitive learning management system which allows for easy navigation and community building. The online class environment will be a combination of interaction with the instructor and fellow students via discussion boards and synchronous activities. Classes are 4 weeks in length and the schedule can be found at http://www.idgacademy.com. Classes will cost $99 each.

The April 2018 class offered by IDG Academy is “Beginning Genealogy – Starting off Right” taught by Cheri Hudson Passey and begins on April 1^st 2018. Cheri Hudson Passey is a Professional Genealogist, Instructor, Writer, and Speaker. She is the owner of Carolina Girl Genealogy, LLC which provides research services as well as instruction and coaching through her Genealogy 1-on-1 classes. Born in South Carolina, Cheri has roots in the state for many generations. Her blog Carolina Girl Genealogy has helped tell the story of these ancestors and the research process. Cheri writes the Modus Operandi column which teaches genealogy methodology for Going In-Depth Magazine and is a contributor to the Worldwide Genealogy Blog.

“Beginning Genealogy – Starting off Right” will teach the basics of beginning your genealogy journey. During the four-week class we will learn how to start, understand terminology, organize your research, avoid common mistakes, and learn what types of records are available and where to find them.

Enrollment for "Beginning Genealogy – Starting off Right" is now open at idg.moodle.school. The class fee of $99 can be paid through PayPal. Students will need to create an account on idg.moodle.school before enrolling. Subscribers to the digital magazine, Going In-Depth, will receive a 10% refund on their purchase of each class.

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