52 Ancestors - Week 273: #448 Andreas Abel (1690-1751) of Germany and Morris County, New Jersey

Andreas Abel (1690-1751) is #448 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married  #449 Maria (--?--) Abel (1693-1771) in about 1713 in Germany.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #224  Michel Abel (1719-1791), married #225 Christina --?-- (1730-1804) about 1755.

*  their son, #112 Johannes Abel (1758-1818), married #113 Sophia Trimmer (1755-1811) in 1777.

*  their son #56  John Auble (1780-1831), married #57 Anna Row (1797-1860) in 1804.

*  their son #28 David Auble (1817-1894), married #29 Sarah Knapp (1818-1904) in 1844.

*  their son #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916), married #15 Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952) in 1898.

*  their daughter #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977), 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 Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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

*  Name:                   Andreas Abel[1]    

*  Alternate Name:   Andreas Able[2]

*  Alternate Name:   Andrew Ablin[3]    

*  Sex:                      Male  

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

*  Birth:                     about 1690, Germany[2]    

*  Arrival:                 4 September 1728 (about age 38), Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States[2–3]    

*  Property:              7 February 1748 (about age 58), bought 308 acres of Davenport Tract near Fox Hill; Roxbury, Morris, New Jersey, United States[1–2]    

*  Death:                  9 April 1751 (about age 61), Roxbury, Morris, New Jersey, United States[2]    

*  Burial:                  after 9 April 1751 (after about age 61), Davenport Tract, Roxbury, Morris, New Jersey, United States[2]    

*  Probate:               June 1751 (about age 61), Roxbury, Morris, New Jersey, United States[2,4]  

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

*  Spouse 1:             Maria --?--  (1693-1771)    

*  Marriage 1:          about 1713 (about age 23), Germany[2]    

*  Child 1:               Mathias Abel (1715-1783)    

*  Child 2:               Andreas Abel (1717-1782)    

*  Child 3:               Michel Abel (1719-1791)    

*  Child 4:               Paul Abel (1731-1773)  

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

The information on this family was obtained from the book Early Germans of New Jersey by Chambers[1], and the book The Able Aubles by Juanita Hayter Crampton[2].

Andreas Abel was born about 1690 in Germany, perhaps in Hesse Kassel in Alsace-Lorraine, but there are no definitive records.  Some researchers claim that his parents are Mathias and Maria (Reidmuller) Aublein of Ulm, Wurttemburg, but that family is probably not the correct one.

He married Maria --?-- in about 1713 in Germany[2].  Her birth date, birthplace, and parents are not known, although some researchers claim she is Maria Maier born in about 1703.

They had four children, with the first three born in Germany.  They are[2]:

*  Mathias Abel (1715-1783), married about 1750 Margaret --?-- (1729-????).

*  Andreas Abel (1717-1782), married about 1740 Hanna --?-- (1720-1783).

*  Michel Abel  (1719-1791), married about 1755 Christina --?-- (1730-1804).

*  Paul Abel (1731-1773), married Maria Magdalena "Leany" --?-- (1735-1800)

Andreas Able may have been the "Andreas Ablin" who was on a list of thirty Palatines who, with their families, left the port of Portsmouth, England on 22 June 1728 bound for America on the ship Albany, master Lazarus Oxman from Rotterdam.  This ship landed in Philadelphia on 4 September 1728[2-3].

The first mention of him in New Jersey is in the Hunterdon County Court in May, 1731, concerning a debt between Nickles Sayn and Andreas Able[2].

He is also mentioned in the so-called "Janeway Account Books", kept by Jacob Janeway from 1735-1746 for his store at Burnt Mills, New Jersey. Andreas Able is mentioned in May 1738, May 1742 and June 1743[2].

Andreas Able bought 308 acres of the eastern half of the "Davenport Tract" at Roxbury, near Fox Hill, in Morris County, New Jersey on 7 February 1748 from Joseph Recklef.  He paid 103 pounds for the land. The records state he already occupied the land at the time of the purchase, and it is probably that he first settled on the land some years before, making payments on the land each year until the full amount was paid and the deed signed[1-2].

Andreas and Matthias Able subscribed to calling a new Lutheran pastor from the Ministerium of Hamburg, Germany in 1749.  The subscribers sent money for the pastor's passage and guaranteed him a place to live and a salary.  The records show that the land upon which the original Union German Church of Fox Hill, New Jersey stood belonged to the Able family[2].

Andreas Able left a will written in German, dated 28 February 1750[2,4]. The English translation is, in part:

"For the first part I give my eldest son, Matthias, one great pewter platter and two plates and forty pounds light money.  One year after my decease, a Sermon Book.  I give my youngest son, Paul, two hundred and forty acres of land.  From that shall my son, Michael, have the half one-hundred and twenty acres.  My two sons, Michael and Paul shall maintain my wife, Mary (Maria).  My son Paul shall have my small chest and the wagon and the new saddle and one bea hive and one pewter quart.  And my wife shall live in my house, shall keep her own fowls and they shall find my wife victuals and drink and if they plant, maintain her well.  Shall each of my two sons give her yearly ten bushels of wheat and one fat hog, and shall carry the wheat to the mill for her to be ground when she wants it.  They shall bring the firewood to the house and they shall keep two cows and one horse, winter and summer, feed them and keep them.  My son Paul shall have two cows and a young stallion from his mother's mare and a Bible.

"I give to my wife, Mary (Maria), sixty acres of land by a line joining Court Casper downwards, for a help for her if she should want. My wife shall have two pewter basins and a small pewter basin and two pewter plets, two spoons and one cow.  She shall have her choice out of the flock and one heifer, one mare and a mare called Afso.  She shall have half the orchard or half the apples and two bea hives and her saddle and the great chest, the painted tankard, one iron pot, a copper kettle of one biggest and a little iron pot and she and Paul shall have light sheep and the big iron kettle together.

"I give to my son Andrew one hundred and fifty pound money, which money my children shall make up as soon as they can.  Andrew shall have my new suit of clothes."

Andreas Abel died on 9 April 1751 in Roxbury, New Jersey[2].  He is probably buried on the Davenport Tract in Roxbury, New Jersey, the site of his farm and near the Union Reformed Church in Fox Hill[2].

On 6 June 1762, son Paul and his wife Leany sold their share of 126 acres to his brother Michel for 304 pounds.  On 29 March 1768, Michel gave a mortgage on 240 acres of this tract "whereon said Michel Abel now lives," to Richard Stockton, &c.  On 1 June 1784, Michel gave a mortgage to John Striker, of Somerset, upon the whole original tract of 308 acres for 1,308 pounds (New York money).  These records show that this farm upon which the original Union German Church of Fox Hill stood, belonged to Michel Abel, who must therefore have been the father of Jacob, who afterwards occupied this farm, and of his brothers and sisters[1].

5.  SOURCES

1. Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: their history, churches, and genealogies (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982), page 227, Andreas Abel sketch.

2. Juanita Hayter Crampton, The Able Aubles (Utica, Kentucky: Mcdowell Publications, 1987), pages 1-5, Andreas Able sketch; digital image, accessed on FamilySearch Books (https://books.familysearch.org/)

3. Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke (editor), Pennsylvania German Pioneers; a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, (Norristown, PA:  The Pennsylvania German Society 1934), Volume 2, Facsimiles of Signature (1727-1775), page 9, Andrew Ablin.

4. A. Van Doren Honeyman (editor), Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. Volume XXXII, 1751-1760 (Somerville, N.J. : Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers, 1928), page 5, Andreas Abel will abstract.

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NOTE:  In 2014, 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 2019 to 312 Ancestors in 312 Weeks.

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Seavers in the News -- George W. Seaver Files for Divorce in 1924

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly 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 Courier-Journal [Louisville, Ky.] newspaper dated 14 February 1924:

The transcription of the article is:

"VETERAN ASKS DIVORCE

"On change of revenue from Scott County a transcript was filed in the Circuit Court here yesterday in a divorce proceeding of George W. Seaver against Rosa E. Seaver.

"Seaver asserts that he is 79 years old, a veteran of the War Between the States an that his wife drove him away from home.  He charges she had him arrested on numerous occasions ad he was fined repeatedly."

The source citation for the article is:

"Veteran Asks Divorce," The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Ky.] newspaper, article, Thursday, 14 February 1924, page 5, column 2, George W.  Seaver divorce article;   Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 11 April 2019).

George Washington Seaver (1844-1937) was born and died in Jennings, Scott County, Indiana, the son of Daniel and Julia (Holcomb) Seaver.  He married, secondly, Rosala Frances Foster (1865-1944) in 1880, and they had 12 children.  

To my knowledge, I am not related to George.  I don't know the parents of Daniel Seaver (born in 1801 in New York, died 1869 in Indiana), although he may be from the New England branch from Robert Seaver (1608-1683).

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Treasure Chest Thursday - 1888 Marriage Record of Henry Shannon Buntin and Anna Mattison Auble in Vigo County, Indiana

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 1888 marriage record of Henry Shannon Buntin and Anna Mattison Auble in Vigo County, Indiana:

The Buntin-Auble marriage is at the top of the page:

The transcription of this record is:

Be it Remembered, That, on the day therein named, the following Marriage License was
issued, to-wit:
STATE OF INDIANA, VIGO COUNTY:
     Any person empowered by law to solemnize marriage is authorized to JOIN TOGETHER AS HUSBAND AND WIFE
    Henry Shannon Buntin     and     Anna Mattison Auble    
     Witness the Clerk and seal of the Vigo Circuit Court, this   15    day of Decem    18 88
                                                                               John C. Warren   Clerk
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     And afterwards on the   26   day of   Jany   18 89 the following Certificate and Report
of Marriage was filed in the office of said Clerk, to-wit:

STATE OF INDIANA, VIGO COUNTY:
                        This certifies that I joined in marriage    Henry S. Buntin    and
     Anna M. Auble     on the   7   day of   Decr    18 88
                                              S.B. Town

The source citation for this record is:

"Vigo County (Indiana) Marriage Index: 1818-1951," online database, Vigo County Public Library (http://www.vigo.lib.in.us/SPC/marriages/2542/200125.pdf: accessed 20 July 2010), Henry Shannon Buntin and Anna Mattison Auble marriage entry.

The beautiful thing about this record from the Vigo County, Indiana County Clerk's office is that it provides the full names of the groom and bride, and the license, recording and marriage date, plus the name of the officiant.  The only problem is that the license is dated 8 days after the marriage!  The marriage date was probably 17 December 1888, not 7 December 1888, but who knows?

Anna Mattison Buntin (1859-1913) is the daughter of my 2nd great-grandparents, David Auble (1817-1894) and Sarah G. Knapp (1818-1904).  She is the sister of my great-grandfather, Charles Auble (1849-1916), and therefore is my great-grandaunt.

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Guest Post: Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC) by Carole Sobke

This post was written by SDGS and CVGS member Carole Sobke:

The Citizen’s Military Training Camp (CMTC) was a program that was part of the National Defense Act of 1920. CMTC was a compromise to mandatory military training. For one month each summer between 1921 and 1940, about 400,000 young men between the ages of 17 and 24 received the training at 53 military posts around the country. For a few years there was even a camp in Puerto Rico. One of the stipulations of the program was that the young men attending the sessions were not obligated to be called for active duty, although some would later join the National Guard or one of the Armed Forces Reserves.

The training camps occurred during the month of August each year. The program consisted of four separate consecutive courses called the Basic, the Red, the White and the Blue. The first year was basic military training, the Red, White and Blue sessions were for more specialized training. In 1922, training was offered in nine Army branches; Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Corps of Engineers, Signal Corps, Air Service, Medical Department and Motor Transportation Corps. In later years the Air Service, Medical Department and Motor Transportation Corps were dropped from the program. One had to apply every year to be accepted in the next level of training, but it wasn’t mandatory to complete the four-year course. In other words, if you didn’t like it you didn’t have to go back!

The young men who applied would only be accepted if they were intelligent, of good character and physically fit. A thorough physical examination and doctor’s report was part of the application. Many were turned down. Emphasis was also placed on promoting good citizenship, responsibility, good moral values and physical fitness through organized sports.

Around two million dollars would be allocated per year for the CMTC. All the trainees’ expenses were covered by the government; clothing, food, gear, equipment and there was even reimbursement for travel expenses to and from the forts. Some of the forts offered mid-morning milk and cookie breaks, other forts transported the trainees to weekend entertainment in the nearest town, the movies, rodeos, etc. The regular Army enlistees at the forts were often jealous of the special treatment given to the CMTC members, even though they went through the same rigorous training of the regular army.

If one completed the four-year course in consecutive years and enlisted in the Army, he qualified for Officer’s Candidate School. Upon his graduation he would receive the rank of 2nd lieutenant and his gold bar signifying the rank. Only about 5,000 men took advantage of this opportunity. It is estimated that nearly 400,000 men attended at least one year of the program, but these records are scarce.

Two of the four Sobke brothers are known to have participated in the CMTC, Llewellyn and Frederick. Frederick trained at Fort McArthur in San Pedro, California in the Coast Artillery program. It is not currently known if the other two brothers, Arthur and William, took part in CMTC. Arthur and Fredrick became members of the Naval Reserve in the late 1930’s.

Llewellyn was the brother to benefit the most from CMTC as he completed the full four year  program. It is not known which camp he attended. When he enlisted in the Army in 1942 during World War II, he was sent to Officer’s Candidate School and received his commission as a 2nd lieutenant upon his graduation. When the war ended in 1945 and shortly after demobilization (1945/46), Llewellyn was offered a commission in the Regular Army with a rank of 1st lieutenant. He accepted, became career Army and achieved the rank of colonel by his retirement.

Frederick Sobke completed three of the CMTC programs, 1935 (he was one of 30,984 to complete the Basic course that year), 1936 and 1937. A Pearl Harbor survivor, he was honorably discharged after World War II and returned to his parents’ home in Chula Vista, California, where he married Alfa Kirk and had three children, Dorothy, Catherine and Robert.

Catherine is in possession of some of his CMTC ephemera, the photo of his 1935 Basic class and two “Gold Brick” Fort McArthur yearbooks from the years 1936 and 1937, his Red and White years.

CMTC Basic class of 1935 - Frederick is sixth from the left 

Frederick Sobke in CMTC camp

The 1937 Fort MacArthur CMTC yearbook

Robert Penn Warren, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner (two for fiction and one for poetry) attended CMTC at Camp Knox in Kentucky in 1922 when he was seventeen. There he wrote his very first poem about his days at Camp Knox.

Prophecy

by Robert Penn Warren

You see no beauty in the parched parade,

The quivering, heat-glazed highways mile on mile,

The fields where beauty holds a debt unpaid,

The gray, drab barracks in monotonous, grim file.

You take no joy when dust wraiths dimly curl

Above the winding column crawling on far hills,

You see but short beyond the present whirl

Of circumstance, your little wrongs and petty ills.

But when it all has passed and you have lost

The swinging rhythmic cadence of the marching feet,

Then you reck as paltry small the cost,

And memory will purge the bitter from the sweet.

Warren would later be honored as America’s first official Poet Laureate.

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My thanks to Carole for providing this information to readers of Genea-Musings, and to future searchers of CMTC.  I had never heard of this program.  I don't think my father participated.  I wonder if there is an index of participants?  

There is a Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Military_Training_Camp.

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Copyright (c) 2019, Carole Sobke

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San Diego Genealogical Society Program on Saturday 13 April Features Kristi Sexton

The next San Diego Genealogical Society meeting is this Saturday, 13 April; starting at 10 a.m. at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church (8350 Lake Murray Blvd., near Jackson Drive, San Diego 92119) in San Diego.  

The program speaker is Kristi Sexton, who will present:

10 a.m.:  Digging in Find-a-Grave

11:30 a.m.:  Hunting Your Heritage in the Unknown Branches

SDGS is phasing out having printed handouts at our meetings.  We respectfully request that you print out and bring your own copy to the meeting. The links are in the Member section of the SDGS website (www.casdgs.org).

There are no 9 a.m. classes this month.

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Betty and Her Nana in the Park -- Post 560 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

An Auble cousin gifted me with a photograph album of her family several years ago which included quite a few photos of my grandmother, Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer and her parents, Charles and Georgianna (Kemp) Auble.

Included in the photo album, created by Bessie (Auble) Pentecost in about 1930, was this intriguing photo:

This photograph is of my mother, Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002) and her maternal grandmother, Georgianna (Kemp) Auble in about 1926.  Georgianna was called "Nana" by Betty, who was an only child.   The caption in the photo album indicates this was taken in Mission Cliffs Park in San Diego (near Park Boulevard and Adams Avenue).  It was probably winter judging by the coats.  

Several years ago, while doing Auble research, a descendant of Will and Bessie (Auble) Pentecost contacted me and offered the album to me, telling me that it had many photographs of the family of my grandparents (Lyle and Emily (Auble) Carringer).  I have kept the album intact in case she ever wants it back, but have digitized many of the photos of my Carringer and Auble families.  Unfortunately, there were no photographs of the parents of Charles Auble, David and Sarah (Knapp) Auble of Terre Haute, Indiana. 

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Ancestry Announces Two Improved Features - User Profiles and Messages

Ancestry has unveiled one improved feature for their website -- User Profile, and has revealed a second improved feature - Messages.

1)  Improved User PROFILE (see https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Ancestry-Member-Profile):

If an Ancestry user (guest or subscriber) clicks on their username in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, they will see their Profile information.

Here is what the top of the old Profile looks like:

Further down the screen are sections for Research Interests, Recently Added Content, Ancestry Public Member Trees, Favorite Message Boards, Activity, About, Family History Experience, and Websites.

Note the gray "Beta Off" switch at the top right of the screen below the user name.

If you click the gray "Beta Off" button, it turns into a green "Beta On" button - and your Profile page changes to (two screens below, some overlap):

The profile information has been moved around - the introduction, some of the member activity information, and the research interests have been moved to the left-hand side of the screen.  There is a green "Edit" button for this information, and a "Settings" button also.

On the right-hand side of the screen, there is information about your ethnicity estimate, your newest DNA matches, up to 10 of your searchable family trees, and a photo gallery of uploaded images.

The above is my "Personal" profile - what I can see about myself.  

The user can see their "Public" profile - what other users will see if they click on your user name - by clicking on the "Personal Profile" button in the upper left corner of the screen, and select "Public Profile."  Here is my "Public Profile:"

The default "Public Profile" shows only your introduction information, your research interests, your searchable family trees, and your photo gallery.

You can change your "Public Profile" by going to the "Settings" link on your "Personal Profile" and selecting on or off for a number of features.  

The default is that only my Matches can see my Ethnicity Estimate" and the "DNA Relationship" items.  The only one I can change right now is the Ethnicity Estimate - I can change that to "Everyone" and it will show up in my "Public Profile."  The benefit here is that this indicates I have done an AncestryDNA test.  Note that "New DNA Matches" cannot be shown to anyone.

Here is my updated "Public Profile:"

This looks useful - but some of the content on the old page has been lost.

This is a Beta feature still in work - there may be changes in the weeks ahead.

2)  Messages

This improved feature has not been released in Beta yet, and it will take several weeks after it is released in Beta to roll out to the guests and subscribers.  New guests and subscribers will see it first, and then all subscribers will get it in the weeks after that.

There will be real-time messaging, see if our messages have been read, and more. 

One feature that will not be included in the improved Messages feature is the "Folders" capability for messages.  That is unfortunate I think.  I don't get many messages, but some people do and the Folders feature was useful.

I was curious as to why I had not received a new message on the Ancestry Message system since September 2018.  I clicked on the "Site Preferences" link on the dropdown menu when I right-click on the user name, and noted that the button in "Community Preferences" was set to "Do not allow other members to contact me."  I have no memory of changing that!  Perhaps I did?  I don't remember that option being available either.

I changed it to "Anonymously through Ancestry's online Messages feature."  It did not add any new messages to my list, so I either never got them or no one has messaged me since I changed it.

3)  There will be white papers and probably blog posts to describe these two improved features - look for them!

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Disclosure:  I have had a paid subscription to Ancestry.com since 2000, and use the site every day.  I have received material considerations from Ancestry.com in years past, but that does not affect my objectivity in writing about their products and services.

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Genealogy News Bytes - 9 April 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  First Announcement: BIFHSGO Conference 2019

*  2019 German Genealogy Conference to be Held in Sacramento, CA, from June 15-17

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 31 March to 6 April 2019

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 31 March to 6 April 2019

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for April 2019

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 10 April 11 a.m. PST: (Swedish) Från DNA-match till släkting (Swedish), by MyHeritage

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 10 April 5 p.m. PST:  Plain Folk Researching Amish and Mennonite Families, by Peggy Clemens Lauritzen
*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Visualizing Ancestral Lines with DNA AutoClusters, by MyHeritage

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #60:  Standards for Family Tree Data Entry

*  Research Like A Pro Podcast:  RLP 39: Tools for Using Your Ancestry DNA Matches

*  The Genealogy Guys Podcast:  Episode #360

5)  Genealogy Education - Video:

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  One to Many Matching: GEDmatch Genesis Tools - A Segment of DNA

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  Come Follow Me Companion by Ann Tanner

*  MyHeritage YouTube:  MyHeritage Reveals Netta Barzilai's Family History

*  Valerie & Myrt's Excellent Genealogy Adventures YouTube:  Sylvia Valentine - Workhouses

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, April 9,  2019

7)  DNA Success Stories

*  California woman finds 22 half siblings through DNA testing site

*  Author Dani Shapiro discovers her dad isn't her biological father after DNA test

*  96-Year-Old Mom Reunites With Daughter She Was Forced to Give Up 82 Years Ago

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 5 April 2019?

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Treasure Chest Tuesday -- 1810 United States Census Record for Philip J. King in York, Pennsylvania

This week's Tuesday Treasure is the 1810 United States Census record for Philip J. King in York, Pennsylvania:

The Philip J. King household is at the bottom of the first page:

The extracted information for the Philip J. King household is:

*  Head of household:  Philip J. King
*  1 make under age 10 [probably son Jacob, born 1803]
*  1 male age 16 to 26 [probably son George, born 1794]
*  1 male over age 45 [certainly Philip J. King, born 1764]

*  1 female under age 10 [probably daughter Barbara, born 1808]
*  2 female age 10 to 16 [probably daughter Salome born 1797 and daughter Elizabeth, born 1796]
*  1 female age 26 to 45 [certainly wife Catherine, born 1770]
The source citation for this marriage record is:

1810 United States Federal Census, York county, Pennsylvania, York township, page 156, Philip J. King household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M292, Roll 57.

Several children born between 1790 and 1810 are not included in this enumeration.  The odlest daughter, Anna, married in 1806. Daughter Catherine, born in 1792 certainly died before 1801, when daughter Catherine was born, and she died in 1806.  Daughter Lydia was born in 1799 and probably died before 1810.  Daughter Rebecca was born in 1805 and probably died before 1810.

Philip Jacob King (1764-1829) and his first wife, Catherine Ruth (1770-1813) are my 4th great-grandparents, through their daughter Elizabeth King (1796-1863), who married Daniel Spangler (1781-1851).

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Monday Genea-Pourri - 8 April 2019

Here is a summary of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) board meeting on Wednesday, and reported on the Newsletter, the Research Group and the DNA Interest Group.  

2)  Wrote and edited the CVGS Newsletter for April 2019, and I will send it via email tonight.  I will publish it and mail it to the postal members on Monday.

3)  Taught the first class of my "Beginning Computer Genealogy" class at OASIS (a senior adult education center) on Thursday.  I have seven students eager to learn about genealogy and using the computer to find records and record family history.  We covered the basics principles of genealogy research, an introduction to genealogy software, and free online resources.

4)  Found and transcribed the 1843 mortgage release of 3rd great-grandfather Zachariah Hildreth for land in Townsend, Mass. to James Hildreth for Amanuensis Monday.

5)  Wrote and posted a biography of 6th great-grandmother #445 Melatiah (Hamant) Metcalf (1704-1751) of Medfield, Mass. and Keene, N.H.  for my 52 Ancestors post on Friday.  

6)  Watched two Family Tree Webinars - No Purchase Necessary: Free Genealogy Tools for Your iPad/iPhone, by Devin Ashby; and An Introduction to DNA Painter, by Jonny Perl.

7)  Participated in today's Mondays With Myrt.  Today's webinar discussed the NERGC Conference; Gaylord Archival products; two new books by Jim Beidler and Angela Waton-Raji; health issues, memories and stories; Yvonne's newspaper find; my Dear Randy post about Family Tree Maker and online trees; FamilySearch Family Tree records; the SSDI and SSA&C collections; Vivid Pix. 

8) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and other ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 30,307 of my RootsMagic persons with FSFT.  Updated and cleaned up the Family Tree profiles for three ancestors, including life sketches, sources and notes.

9)  I continue to use Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 53,205 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 103,304 source citations.   I did not TreeShare this week, but I did resolve about 520 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 106,379 to be resolved, but I work on them weekly.

10)  Baseball season started two weeks ago, and we have watched every game so far.  We went to the game on Tuesday against Arizona. The good news is that the Padres are 6-4 on the season so far.

11)  Linda's brother Paul came to visit on Saturday, and we spent all afternoon looking at photographs and ephemera from the two boxes that we received after their father died.  Paul picked out about 40 photographs to scan that he wants, so we spent some time scanning, editing and naming them, and I need to email them to him this week.  There are many photos from 1970 until about 1990 of our family showing the girls as they grew up.  This was fun!!

12) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which one was a press release.  The most popular post last week was Treasure Chest Thursday - 1751 Death of Melatiah Metcalf in Keene, New Hampshire with over 610 views.  I wonder why?

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