Genea-Musings Makes the Family Tree Magazine's 101 Best Websites for Genealogy in 2018

I received this news this morning from Family Tree Magazine:

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I'm happy to share the news that your Genea-Musings blog has been named to Family Tree Magazine's list of 101 Best Websites for Genealogy in the September 2018 issue. This issue is now being mailed to subscribers and went on sale August 14 at select newsstands nationwide and in our online store, FamilyTreeMagazine.com/store. 

Each year, Family Tree Magazine publishes the 101 Best Websites for family history to guide genealogists to the best websites where they can discover family history information, and to honor the individuals and organizations who create those sites.

A full, clickable list of 101 Best Websites, including your site, can be found in our online Best Genealogy Websites directory at https://www.familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy-websites/ . To locate your listing, use the pull-down menu to choose the “101 Best Websites 2018” category.

You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/familytreemagazine/ , Twitter at https://twitter.com/familytreemag and Pinterest at https://www.pinterest.com/familytreemag/ . 

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I am very pleased that Genea-Musings was included in the list of  101 Best Websites for Genealogy  in the "Online Tools and Tips" category.  I saw the list in the September 2018 issue  that I received earlier this week. The articles was written by David A. Fryxell.

The categories for 2018 are (from the magazine article - they are not listed on the web page):

*  Dot-Com Databases 
*  Data Rich Dot-Orgs
*  Uncle Sam's Sites
*  Volunteer Venues and Wikis
*  Virtual Library Cards
*  State and Regional Sites
*  Archives and Libraries Abroad
*  Other Foreign Finds
*  Online Tools and Tips
*  Real News Online
*  Maps and History Tools
*  Social and Sharing Sites
*  History Lessons
*  Expert Advice

The blurb for Genea-Musings says:

"http://www.geneamusings.com/

Keep up with the latest additions to your favorite genealogy websites at Randy Seaver’s frequently updated blog, where he also shares his own research lessons."

I noted that Genea-Musings was the only genealogy blog listed, although several websites on the list also have a blog component (e.g., Cyndislist, Lisa Louise Cooke, etc.).

My thanks to Family Tree Magazine for this honor - I really appreciate it.  This is, I think, the third year in a row that Genea-Musings has received this honor.

There are many excellent websites on this list - both free and subscription - have you looked at all of them?  This served as an excellent reminder to me that there is more to online genealogy and family history than the commercial sites and FamilySearch.

Disclosure:  I am a Family Tree Magazine subscriber and have been for many years.  I have received no material considerations, other than greetings, photographs and smiles at conferences, from Family Tree Magazine.

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Seavers in the News- Kate Hoffman Seaver Dies in 1934

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, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press newspaper dated 14 July 1934:

The transcription of this article is:

"WAITSFIELD

"Mrs. Kate Hoffman Seaver died last Sunday at her home after an illness of intestinal flu, preceded by several weeks' illness.  She was born June 23, 1848 in Tralee County Carey, Ireland, daughter of Elias and Elizabeth (Sanders) Hoffman.  At the age of 14 she came alone to America in charge of the ship's mate on the boat and landed at Castle Garden, coming from New York to Fayston to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neill, who had been neighbors of the Hoffmans in Ireland.  June 19, 1870, she was married in Fayston to Levi W. Seaver of Waitsfield and came to Waitsfield with her husband to make her home.  Mr. and Mrs. Seaver were the parents of three children, Frank J., who has lived and cared for his mother in their home, Abbie E., who died July 5, 1891 and Clayton P., who died March 6, 1883.  Mr. Seaver died February 23, 1929.  Beside bringing up her own children, Mrs. Seaver took into her home at the death of their mother her two grandchildren, Mark and Marguerite Seaver.

"She was a member of the Methodist Church and a constant attendant and worker as long as her health allowed.  Besides her son and grandchildren, Mrs. Seaver is survived by three sisters and one brother, Mrs. Anne Somerville, Mrs. Alice Neill of Waitsfield, and her sister, Elizabeth, who lives in California, and Thomas Hoffman of Waitsfield.  The funeral services were held at the Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Percival Hewitt officiating.  The bearers were four nephews, Walter Corliss, Emeory Somerville, John Hoffman, William Neill, and two neighbors, Daniel Moriarty and Charles Kew.  Interment was in the family lot in the village cemetery."

The source citation for this article is:

"WAITSFIELD," The Burlington [Vt.] Free Press newspaper, dated 14 July 1934, page 11, column 2, Mrs. Kate Hoffman Seaver obituary; digital image, Newspapers.com   (www.newspapers.com :  accessed 16 August 2018).

This is a really complete obituary for Katherine (Hoffman) Seaver - it lists the names of her husband, children, grandchildren, siblings and pallbearers; her birth date and place, the cause of her death; the death dates of her husband and two children; and her migration information.  

I had the Levi W. and Kate (Hoffman) Seaver family in my RootsMagic family tree, and all of the information in the obituary is confirmed by vital records, except for the death of son Clayton Philip Seaver.  He was born on 6 March 1883, and died 5 January 1907 at age 23, less than two years after he married Lillian Sleeper.  

The two grandchildren mentioned were children of son Frank Joseph Seaver (1874-1964) by his first wife, Mary Ellen Eagan (1875-1910); they had two other children who died young.  After his first wife died, Frank Joseph Seaver married Marie Louise Lavoie (1894-1983) in 1915, and they had three children, all born in Quebec.

Levi W. Seaver was my 4th cousin, 4 times removed, and their children are my 5th cousins, 3 times removed.

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1796 Death Record of John Horton in Glocester, Rhode Island - Post 425 for 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 1796 death record of John Horton in Glocester, Rhode Island in the Rhode Island Vital Record Extracts:

The  death record is:

The transcription of the death record is:

"HORTON John, at Glocester, aged 99 years, 9 months and 20 days, Jan. 10, 1796"

The source citation for this record is:

"Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 April 2014), Volume 15, "Newspaper Marriages and Deaths," United States Chronicle - Deaths, page 517 (image 574 of 634), John Horton death notice.

John Horton (1696-1796) was born 21 March 1696 in Swansea, Massachusetts to John and Mehitable (Garnsey) Horton.  He married, on 9 July 1719 in Swansea, Massachusetts, Mary Chase (1695-1732) was the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Follansbee) Chase of Newbury, Massachusetts.  

Thomas and Mary (Chase) Horton are my 6th great-grandparents.  I am descended from their son Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819) who married Sarah Pray (1734-1820) in about 1755 and resided in Foster, Rhode Island.

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Has Ancestry.com Indexed the Ancestry Member Trees Yet?

1)  It's August 15, 2018 and I think that Ancestry.com last indexed the Ancestry Member Trees in October 2017.  I wrote When Did Ancestry.com Last Index Ancestry Member Trees? on 17 January 2018 and after that Marcia Philbrick noted that she talked to the Ancestry.com help line and they said it had been October 2017.

My "test" since then has been to see if my "new" Ancestry Member Tree, added in November 2017,  has been indexed.  I added a number of Ancestry sources to several profiles in that tree, and the one I watch for is my second great-grandfather, Isaac Seaver (1823-1901).  Here is his profile in my tree:

Note that the profile has "Ancestry Sources" which is, apparently, the criterion for whether a profile appears in a search for Ancestry Member Trees.  There are several "Ancestry Sources."

When I do a search for Isaac Seaver, born 1823, in Massachusetts, USA (all exact), I still get 17 results.  None of them are for Isaac in my "new" Ancestry Member Tree.

Trust me, my "new" tree isn't on that list of matches.  So the wait for new tree indexing is at least 300 days, if not more.  

2)  On 11 May 2018, Crista Cowan posted information on Facebook about the problems with the search engine - I blogged about it in Ancestry.com Says They Will Work on Technical Problems.  In that message, the VP said they hoped to have all of the search engine problems fixed by May 31 (I assumed 2018, didn't you?).   The message blamed infrastructures issues which some people thought included the switch to Amazon Web Servers for the data.

Well, it's 76 days after 31 May 2018, and the search problems are still with me (how about you?).  Trust me, I just tried to find the Isaac Seaver mentions in the trees, and it showed me 3 matches before it showed me 17 matches.  

3)  Another message from Ancestry.com management would be helpful, and I hope it includes a commitment to indexing the Ancestry Member Trees.  

Of course, not every Ancestry user knows that these problems are still occurring months after they were pointed out to Ancestry.com.  

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Disclosure:  I have always had a fully paid Ancestry.com subscription since 2000.  Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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Expanded Ellis Island Immigrant Records 1820-1957 Online at FamilySearch

I received this information from FamilySearch yesterday:

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Expanded Ellis Island Immigrant Records 1820-1957 Online

Salt Lake City, Utah (14 August 2018), What do over a 100 million Americans have in common? Their ancestors immigrated through Ellis Island or one of the New York Harbor immigration stations that preceded it. FamilySearch and The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. announced today the entire collection of Ellis Island New York Passenger Arrival Lists from 1820 to 1957 are now available online on both websites giving the opportunity to the descendants of over 100 million arrivals to discover their ancestors quicker and free of charge.

Originally preserved on microfilm, 9.3 million images of historical New York passenger records spanning 130 years were digitized and indexed in a massive effort by 165,590 online FamilySearch volunteers. The result is a free searchable online database containing 63.7 million names, including immigrants, crew, and other passengers traveling to and from the United States through the nation’s largest port of entry.

“The Foundation is delighted to make these immigration records accessible to the public for free for the first time,” said Stephen A. Briganti, President and CEO of The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. “This completes the circle of our decades-long collaboration with the team from FamilySearch, which began with providing the public with unprecedented access to their genealogy and sparking a world-wide phenomenon linking past and present.”

The expanded collections can be searched at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation’s website or at FamilySearch in three collections, representing three distinct periods of migration history.

New York Passenger Lists (Castle Garden) 1820-1891

New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island) 1892-1924

New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists 1925-1957​

The ship manifests list passengers, their names, age, last place of residence, who is sponsoring them in America, the port of departure, and their date of arrival in New York Harbor and sometimes other interesting information, such as how much money they carried on them, number of bags, and where on the ship they resided during its sail from overseas.

For millions of Americans, the first chapter in the story of their lives in the New World was written on tiny Ellis Island located in upper New York Bay off the coast of Manhattan Island. An estimated 40 percent of Americans are descended from those who emigrated, primarily from European countries in the period from 1892 to 1954. Millions of them passed through Ellis Island’s immigration center in route to lives in “the land of the free”.

A lesser known fact is that what we know today as “Ellis Island” didn’t exist before 1892. Ellis Island’s predecessor—Castle Garden—was actually America’s first immigration center. Today it is known as Castle Clinton National Park, a 25-acre waterfront historical park located within The Battery, one of New York City’s oldest parks and the departure point for tourists visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

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About the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to raise funds for and oversee the historic restorations of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, working in partnership with the National Park Service/U.S. Department of the Interior. In addition to restoring the monuments, the Foundation created museums on both islands, The American Immigrant Wall of Honor®, the American Family Immigration History Center®, and the Peopling of America Center® which transformed the museum into the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. Its newest project will be the new Statue of Liberty Museum. The Foundation’s endowment has funded over 200 projects at the islands.

About FamilySearch

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 5,000 family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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More Jamboree 2014 Photos - Post 528 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

Linda and I attended the SCGS Genealogy Jamboree conference in Burbank, California in early June.  We took the Amtrak out of San Diego on the Thursday morning of the conference and returned to San Diego on the Sunday afternoon. 

Here are some of the photographs I took at the bridal shower for Elyse Doerflinger and Jesus Morales on Saturday night, 7 June, at the SCGS Genealogy Jamboree 2014:

35)  Here is the happy couple before the party - note Elyse's tiara and the "Bride to be" sash:

36)  The cake table with the happy couple:

37)  The cake:

38)  The room had round tables and about 25 in attendance:

39)  More attendees, with Vincent Rojo (he was the only male with a crown) taking a picture:

40)  After the gift opening and the cake, we had a fun balloon volleyball game, with 5 to 10 balloons in the air at a time:

41)  Jesus and Elyse cutting the cake together (practicing for the real thing in two weeks):

41)  More balloon volleyball:

More photos next week.

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Genealogy News Bytes - 14 August 2018

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

1)  News Articles:

*  ISFHWE Excellence-in-Writing Competition Winners Announced

*  Don’t Panic! OLD Find-A-Grave Shutting Down August 20th, 2018

*  #FGS2018 Conference App Is Available

*  A Fort Wayne, Indiana, City Councilman Proposes Eliminating the Annual Budget for the Allen County Public Library

2)  New or Updated Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 5 to 11 August 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 5 to 11 August 2018

*   August Update: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 68 Titles!

*  Complete Archive of Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Records—Now Online for Free

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Classes and Webinars for August 2018

* BYU Family History Library Webinar Series (August 2018)

*  Upcoming American Ancestors Webinar - Thursday, 16 August, 12 noon PDT:  Applying for Dual Citizsenship by Descent, by Rhonda Mcclure

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 15 August, 11 a.m. PDT:  Untangle the Web of German Websites, by Teresa Steinkamp McMillin

*  Research Like a Pro Podcast:  RLP 5: Locality Research Part 2

*  The Genealogy Guys Podcast:  Episode #348

*  Extreme Genes Podcast:  Episode 247 – Edison’s Great Grandson Talks Thomas Edison- His Legacy, And Family Stories

*  Lisa Louise Cooke Genealogy Gems YouTube:  Lisa Interviews Find My past CEO Tamsin Todd and Ben Bennett

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  How do you write about the dark stories on your family tree? - Genealogy Jamboree

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  A Finnish Question - A Segment of DNA

*  The NextGen Genealogy Network YouTube:  Faces of NextGen Live - Brooke Schreier Ganz

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  FamilySearch Communities by Nicky Smith

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  Working as a Professional Genealogist by Katy Barnes

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  WACKY Wednesday - Indexing

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube: Mondays with Myrt - 13 Aug 2018

*  Findmypast YouTube:  Walking in Your Ancestors' Footsteps | Findmypast Fridays10 August 2018

*  Findmypast YouTube:  Visiting My British Ancestor's Local Church | Findmypast

*  Kenneth R. Marks YouTube:  7 Time Management Hints for Genealogy Researchers

*  Kenneth R. Marks YouTube:  Where to Find High School and College Yearbooks Online

*  Ancestral Findings YouTube:  AF-191: Who’s Who in the American Revolution: Samuel Adams

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, August 14,  2018

5)  DNA Success Stories:

*   EXCLUSIVE: From a long line of strong women: Beyonce's family tree reveals her great-great-great grandmother was a slave who married a wealthy white merchant in a 'love match'

*  Internet DNA test leads to emotional reunion between Houston woman and her mother

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 10 August 2018?

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Treasure Chest Tuesday - 1913 City Directory for Charles Auble in San Diego, California

Today's Tuesday's Treasure is the 1913 City Directory entry for my great-grandfather Charles Auble in San Diego, California:

The entry for Charles Auble is on the right-hand page of the image above:

The extracted data is:

Auble Chas, painter, h 767. 14th.

The source citation for this record is:

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (N.p.:n.p., n.d.), San Diego, California, 1913, page 119 (image 67 of 708), Chas Auble entry; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 January 2014).

Charles Auble and his family, wife Georgianna (Kemp) Auble and daughter Emily Kemp Auble, moved from Chicago, Illinois to San Diego in about 1911.  The first San Diego City Directory he appeared in was the 1913 edition.

While Charles was alive, the family resided at 767 14th Street (near the southeast corner with F Street) and Charles worked as a "painter."  I believe it was house painting, since he was a member of the painter's union.

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Monday Genea-pourri - 13 August 2018

Here are some of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)   Moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society's Research Group meeting on Wednesday with 15 attendees.  In the first hour, I discussed the new New York Births database, the New Jersey Deaths database, finding Los Angeles death certificates on FamilySearch, working with the Henry White deeds, and the SDGS seminar.  In the second hour, the attendees described their research challenges and talked about their successes.

2)  Found and transcribed the will of  7th great-grandmother Susannah (West) Barber (1666-1756) of Charlestown, Rhode Island in the Charlestown Town Council Records volumes on Family History Library microfilm, and used it for today's Amanuensis Monday post.

3)  Searched for recent Seaver obituaries on GenealogyBank and found 28 so far in 2018.  Added information for about 15 of them to the database, in addition to adding family information from the obituaries.

4)  Took part in the Mondays With Myrt webinar today.  We discussed the Allken County Public Library budget problems, Ireland Townland Valuation records, my David Auble deed on FamilySearch digital microfilm, FamilySearch record access (30% indexed, some browsable, and many only in the FamilySearch Catalog), records not digitized in archives, Catholic church records in NY, NJ, PA and MA, and more.

5)  Watched one webinar at Family Tree Webinars ("Logic and Deduction as Step 3 of the Genealogical Proof Standard" by Shellee Morehead).  

6)  Added  3 more charts to the presentation for my project researching the ancestry of a local personality, and will present what I find at the CVGS Family History Day in September with him and his family in attendance.  The presentation is about 75% done now, but will need to be pared down.  I didn't work on this RootsMagic family tree during the week because of higher priorities, and the tree has grown to 527 persons with 1,601 citations.  

7)  Added about 50 more charts to my presentation on "Attending a Genealogy Conference" which I will give on 15 August to the SDGS German Interest Group.  The new batch of slides discussed the SCGS Genealogy Jamboree and RootsTech in more detail, along with photographs of conferences.  I need to finish this up!

8) There were several sessions working in RootsMagic to update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and other database families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 25,094 of my persons with FSFT.  I now have 50,563 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 95,412 source citations.   I TreeShared twice during the last week, but didn't resolve any Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 71,353 waiting to be resolved, but I'm working on them occasionally.

9)  Have 299 Shared Ancestors on my AncestryDNA list (I had 297 last week), 954 4th cousins or closer (I had 948 last week), and 866 pages (over 43,250 matches with at least 6 cM) (was 861 pages last week) of  matches.  I have 23 DNA Circles (was 23 last week).  I have 15 matches that are third cousins or closer, and 102 matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 100 last week).  My highest match has 779 cM (11.5%), and is one of my first cousins.  My ethnicity estimate has not been modified yet.

10)  Have 4,321 DNA Matches on MyHeritage (up from 4,290 last week) with at least 8 cM (0.12%), with 25 matches with more than 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 24 last week).  I have three close relatives, including a first cousin once removed, and two first cousins twice removed.  The highest DNA match is 512 cM (7.1%).

11)  Have 989 DNA Relatives on 23andMe (I had 987 last week) who share at least 0.10% (7 cM) with me.  The two closest relatives are third cousins.  Of these, only 3 share 1.0% or more, and 48 share 0.50% or more (was 47 last week), with the highest match being 1.54%. My highest match is an adoptee.  I struggle to find out anything about most of these testers.

12)  Have 2,741 autosomal DNA Matches on FamilyTreeDNA (up from 2,733 last week) who share 0.25% (18 cM) or more, with the highest match being 96 cM (1.42%).  I have 12 who share at least 1.0% (68 cM) with me, and 1,482 who share at least 0.50% (34 cM) or more (was 1,476 last  week) with me.

13)  Updated my AncestryDNA spreadsheet showing names, shared cM/segments, known common ancestors, and whether they have an Ancestry tree, are on GEDMatch, and known common chromosome segments.  

14) Wrote 19 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were press releases.  The most popular post last week was "Finding David Auble's Land Records in Sussex County, New Jersey" with over 457 views.  

15)  Daughter Lori and sons flew down on Saturday to visit until Tuesday, and daughter Tami and family came down on Sunday for lunch and playing at Jump Around with Lori's boys.  We got some family photos (Christmas? :)) taken in front of the house.  All five kids are growing up.  It was fun seeing them individually and together.  We went to the beach today for 3.5 hours - the boys and Lori had fun in the water.

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