52 Ancestors - Week 336: #546 Zechariah Barber (1656-1705) of Medfield, Massachusetts

Zechariah Barber (1656-1705)  is number 546 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #547 Abiel Ellis (1662-1716) in 1683 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter  #273 Ruth Barber (1696-1761) who married #272 Henry Smith (1680-1743) in 1730.

* their son #136 Moses Smith (1736-1806) who married #137 Patience Hamant (1735-1780) in 1762.

*  their son #68  Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) in 1795.

*  their son #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840)   who married  #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.

*  their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.

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

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

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who 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:                         Zechariah Barber[1–3]    

*  Alternate Name:          Zacharia Barbur[4]    

*  Alternate Name:          Zacharie Barber[5]  

*  Sex:                              Male    

*  Father:                         George Barber (1617-1685)    

*  Mother:                        Elizabeth Clarke (1620-1683)  

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

*   Birth:                          29 September 1656, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1,4]    

*  Death:                         11 August 1705 (age 48), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]

*  Administration:          28 May 1709, administration filed; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]  

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

*  Spouse 1:                    Abiel Ellis (1662-1716)    

*  Marriage 1:                 30 August 1683 (age 26) Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[5]    

*  Child 1:                      Benoni Barber (1684-1684)    

*  Child 2:                      Zechariah Barber (1685-1746)    

*  Child 3:                      Joseph Barber (1687-1770)    

*  Child 4:                      Abiel Barber (1691-1718)    

*  Child 5:                      John Barber (1693-1754)    

*  Child 6:                      Ruth Barber (1696-1761)    

*  Child 7:                      Thomas Barber (1698-1705)    

*  Child 8:                      Elizabeth Barber (1700-1722)    

*  Child 9:                      Mary Barber (1703-1756)  

            

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

William S. Tilden edited the book History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886. The family genealogy section of the book provides this summary for Zechariah Barber[1]:

"Zechariah Barber settled on Bridge Street, near the corner of the road leading to Dingle Dell.  He owned what is now the town farm, and appears to have built this house shortly after the Indian war.  He married in 1683 Abiel Ellis who died in 1716.  He died in 1705."

Zechariah Barber was born 29 September 1656 in Medfield, Massachusetts, the son of George and Elizabeth (Clarke) Barber[4].  

Zechariah married Abiel Ellis on 30 August 1683 in Medfield[5].  Abiel was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wight) Ellis.  The marriage record in the Medfield town vital record book says:

"ELLICE (see Elice, Ellis), Abiell and Zacharie Barber, Aug. 30, 1683" 

They had nine children, all born and recorded in Medfield town records:

*  Benoni Barber (1684-1684)

*  Zechariah Barber (1685-1746), married 1717 Deborah Partridge (1694-1723).

*  Joseph Barber (1687-1770), married 1726 Abigail Hawes (1697-1776).

*  Abiel Barber (1691-1718), married 1708 Elkanah Haven (1685-1765).

*  John Barber (1693-1754).

*  Ruth Barber (1696-1761), married 1730 Henry Smith (1680-1743).

*  Thomas Barber (1698-1705).

*  Elizabeth Barber (1700-1722), married 1722 Jonathan Battle (1693-1727)

*  Mary Barber (1703-1756), married 1721 Edward Cole (1694-1724).

Zechariah Barber's father, George Barber, died on 13 April 1685 in Medfield, leaving an estate totaling £368.  There were seven living children at the time, and it is likely that Zechariah received some real or personal property from his father's estate, but there is no distribution information.

Zechariah Barber died on 11 August 1705 in Medfield, Massachusetts at age 48, leaving a wife and seven children between the ages of 19 down to 2 years old[2].  There is no known burial location for Zachariah or Abiel Berber.

Zechariah Barber died intestate, and administration was filed on his estate on 28 May 1709 in Suffolk County Probate Court by his eldest son, Zechary Barbur[3].  A bond of £300 was posted by Zechary Barbur, Theophilus Clark and Samuel Smith.  An inventory was taken on 8 July 1709 by John Harding, Samuell Barbur and Jonathan Boyden.  The inventory totaled £190-6s-6d.  The real estate included:

*  home lot with a meadow and buildings (£42)

*  4 acres of meadow in broad meadow (£20)

*  2 acres of meadow by noon hill (£10)

*  10 acres of meadow and swamp by Boggastow brook (£18)

*  10 acres of upland by pine swamp near pine valley (£16)

*  2 acres of upland in bridge street plain (£6)

*  6 acres of upland old mill land (£6)

*  11 acres of land in black swamp (£2-15s)

*  5 acres of land in Ren???sion (£2-15s)

*  small parcel of land between the bridge and John Bowers meadow (£0-10s)

The inventory was accepted on 23 August 1709 by the Probate Court.

Zechariah Barbur filed an account on 19 May 1710, requesting approval of charges and fees of £6-5s-6d, leaving £184-1s-0d in the estate.  

Abiel (Ellis) Barber, the widow of Zechariah Barber, died on 14 August 1716.

An Inventory of the real estate was taken on 5 November 1717 by Samuell Barber, John Fisher, and Ebenezer Mason.  The real estate was apprised for £152-10s-0d.  A bond of £300 was filed by Zechariah Barber, Nathaniel Partridge and Samuel Ellice, on condition that the real estate be distributed by Administrator Zechariah Barber to his siblings (Joseph, Abiel, John, Ruth, Elizabeth and Mary).  A committee stated that the land holdings were not capable of a division among the children.  On 17 December 1717, the Probate Court ordered Zechariah Barber, the administrator and eldest son, to have the whole estate and pay his siblings, or their guardians,  £19-1s each.  

5)  SOURCES:

1. William S Tilden and John A S Monks, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries (Boston, Mass.: G.H. Ellis, 1887), page 314, Zechariah Barber family sketch.

2. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Deaths, page 194, Zechariah Barber death entry, 11 August 1705.

3. Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Estate File 3180 (20 images) Zechariah Barber of Medfield, 1709; "Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899," digital images, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org: accessed 25 June 2020).

4. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Births, page 19, Zacharia Barbur birth entry, 29 September 1656.

5. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 136, Abiell Ellice and Zacharie Barber entry, 30 August 1683.

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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 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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Seavers in the News -- Julia F. (Haley) Seaver Dies in 1935 in Winthrop, Mass.

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 Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper dated 2 February 1935:

The transcription of the article is:

"SEAVER -- In Winthrop, Jan. 31, Julia F. (nee Haley), beloved wife of the late Christopher H. Seaver, formerly of Charlestown.  Funeral from residence, 143 Revere st., Monday, Feb. 4, at 9 a.m.  Solemn high mass of requiem at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 10 o'clock.  Relatives and friends kindly invited to attend."

The source citation is:

"Deaths," The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper, death notice, Saturday, 2 February 1935, page 19, column 6, Julia F. (Haley) Seaver death notice;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 25 June 2020).

This obituary provides a death date (31 January 1935), a death place, her spouse's name, but not her parents or children names.     

I had Julia Frances (Haley) Seaver (1868-1935) in my RootsMagic database.  She was born July 1868 in Charlestown, Mass., the daughter of John and Eliza (Connor) Haley.  She married Christopher Hammond Seaver (1866-1910) in 1898 in Boston, Mass. They four one children:

*  Christopher Hammond Seaver (1898-1899).

*  John William Seaver (1900-1978).

*  Albert E. Seaver (1901-1949), married 1937 Antonina E. Lavish (1909-1992).

*  Mary A. Seaver (1904-????).

Julia's husband, Christopher Hammond Seaver, is not my relative as far as I know.  His grandfather, Hammond Seaver (1810-1850) came from Germany before 1839.

There are over 9,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and some are widowed for a long time.  I am glad that I can honor Julia Frances (Haley) Seaver today.  

You never know when a descendant will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors, or will provide more information about them to me.

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Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1838 Birth of Hans Lauritzen Hede

My grandsons have Danish ancestry through their father.  His grandparents came from Denmark in 1906 and settled in Chicago.

FamilySearch has a nice list of 28 Denmark record collections, and many of them are indexed and have record images.  I am using the "Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941" collection for these records.

Today, I'm looking for the birth record of Hans Lauritzen Hede who was born 3 October 1939 in Gram, Haderslev, Denmark.  Here is the birth record summary image:

And the actual record image is:

The birth record is the 7th record down the page, and the first one recorded in 1839.  Here is the record:

The birth date is in the second column, the name of the child is in the 3rd column, the baptism date is in the 4th column, the parents names are in the 5th column, and the sponsors are in the 6th column.  .  Hans Lauritzen Hede was born 3 October 1838, baptized 2 December 1838, to parents Lauritz Pedersen Hede and Mette Chatrine Poulsdatter.  The record is from Gram, Haderslev, Denmark.

The source citation for this birth record is:

"Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch , (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QGD4-GS63 : 16 March 2018), Lauritz Pedersen Hede in entry for Hans Lauritzen Hede; Birth, 03 Oct 1838, 6, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.

Hans Lauritzen Hede (1838-1910) is my grandsons' 3rd great-grandfather.  He married Kirstine Sorensen (1842-1911) in 1863.

Note that these records are also on Ancestry.com ($$) and MyHeritage.com ($$).

Previous blog posts for my grandsons' ancestors include:

*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1880 Birth of Jens/Hans Lauritzen Hede (posted 10 June 2020)
*  Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1863 Marriage of Hans Lauritzen Hede and Kirstine Sorensen

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1683 Marriage Record of Zacharie Barber and Abiell Ellice in Medfield, Massachusetts

It's Treasure Chest Tuesday - 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 1683 marriage record of Zacharie Barber and Abiell Ellice in the Medfield, Massachusetts town vital record book:

The marriage record is the first entry for ELLICE:

The transcription of this record is:

"ELLICE (see Elice, Ellis), Abiell and Zacharie Barber, Aug. 30, 1683

The source citation for this record is:

Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Marriages, page 136, Abiell Ellice and Zacharie Barber entry, 30 August 1683.

This is a Derivative Source record for the marriage of Zachariah and Abiel (Ellis) Barber. It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage date, marriage, and the names of Zacharie Barber and Abiell Ellice.  The original record is probably a Medfield town record that has been lost over the centuries.

Zachariah Barber (1656-1705) was the son of George and Elizabeth (Clarke) Barber of Medfield, Massachusetts.  He married Abiel Ellis (1662-1716), the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wight) Ellis of Medfield.  Zachariah and Abiel (Ellis) Barber are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Ruth Barber (1696-1761), who married Henry Smith (1680-1743) in 1730.

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Dear Randy: How Far Back Have You Traced Your Ancestry? It Depends!

I am asked this question several times a month when I tell someone that I do genealogy research.

My first response is "Adam" and they say "You're kidding, right?"  So then I say "Adam Mott of Providence, Rhode Island in the 1640s.  

My second response is usually "I have ancestors who were on the Mayflower" in 1620.  They almost always accept that.

Sometimes they ask "Are you related to British royalty?"  And I answer, "The online family trees say I am."  

But how far back is that?  The book The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies of the United States by Gary Boyd Roberts indicates that I have lines back to Edward III of England through Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet; to Edward I of England through Olive (Welby) Farwell; to Henry III of England through Mary (Gye) Maverick.  And through them back to Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, and William the Conqueror.  But that's only 30 generations back to Charlemagne.

Can anyone get further back?  I found this on Geni.com some time ago:

Yes, Cleopatra, that Cleopatra.  But that was four years ago.  The chart has changed on Geni.com now, so now I am Cleopatra's "31st great aunt's husband's 16th great uncle's wife's great grandmother's fiancé's mother" according to Geni.com.  "No blood relationship" it says.  How disappointing.

Trying someone a bit more recent - how about Attila the Hun (406-453)?  Five years ago, Geni.com said I was his 43rd great-grandchild.  Now it says he is "your 34th great grandfather's fiancée's third great grandfather's wife's father's wife's daughter's fiancé."  Again, "No blood relationship."  I guess I should be glad about that.

Oh well.  There must be someone famous that I am related to.  What about "Superman?"

Ah, Christopher Reeve is my 11th cousin, with common ancestors of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke!  My line from Thomas Dudley is correct as far as I know, but I don't know about Christopher's line.  The "super genes" from Thomas Dudley have probably petered out though.

So that was frustrating but fun!  Will the grandkids care?  I have added most of my known ancestry to Geni.com and connected tham to existing profiles in Geni.com.

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Tami on the Softball Field in 1990 (?) -- Post 623 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! I found some more family photos hiding in Linda's family photo boxes. This is one of my favorite photographs:

Both of our daughters played Bobby Sox softball when they were between 9 and 14 years old.  Lori was a pitcher and Tami was a catcher.  The softball field was a half mile up our nearby main street.  Linda managed a team for several years and I coached.  The girls made the All-Star team almost every year in their age-groupings.  After the regular season was over in June, there were All-Star tournaments in several levels.  Tami also played on a travel team for several years in the summer. It was a fun family activity in the spring and summer and provided some travel experiences.  

The photo above shows Tami playing catch with someone at  a softball field, perhaps in Buena Park, Califronia in Orange County where the regional finals were played, probably in the early summer of 1990 or 1991 (?).  Tami's uniform says "Chula Vista All Stars."  She was probably about 13 at the time.

These photos were scanned from photographs created from developed film prints and are not particularly sharp, but they are what we have!

Several times a year when our children were growing up, Linda sent photographs to her parents and brother in San Francisco. When her father died in 2002, her brother sorted out the photos and gave Linda the ones that were of our family and the ones interacting with them. They were given to us in a big box of stuff back in 2006, and we finally looked at them last year! I've started digitizing them for use in these Wordless Wednesday posts.

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Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop over the past four days.

1)  News Articles:

*  A New Book From Robert Charles Anderson: The Mayflower Migration

*  MyHeritage Photo Enhancer Goes Viral: One Million Photos Already Enhanced!

*  The National Genealogical Society Introduces a New Online Course: Transcribing, Extracting, and Abstracting Genealogical Documents

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 14 to 20 June 2020

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 13 to 19 June 2020

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  FREE! Family History Library Online Classes June 2020

*  MyHeritage Online Events in May–June

*  June 2020 Virtual Genealogy and Local History Calendar

*  More FREE Genealogy Webinars for June 2020

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 24 June, 11 a.m.:  Utilizing the HathiTrust Digital Library for Family History Research, by Colleen Robledo Greene

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday through Sunday, 26-28 June:  Free Webinar Weekends in June: African American Track (6 classes)

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Working with SuperSearch™ to Find the Correct Historical Record, by Daniel Horowitz

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  The Genealogy Professional:  TGP 58 - Brian Sheffey - Author

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 102 - Mary French Case Study

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 333 – Y-DNA Testing Revisited / The Family History Library Makes Progress In Lockdown/ CeCe Moore On Genetic Detective

*  Genealogy Connection:  #070 - John Boeren, Dutch Genealogist

*  fisher's Top Tips: #182r - Digitized Newspapers

*  Ancestral Findings:  Richard Neville: Who's Who in the Wars of the Roses | AF-356

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Locating Records in Archives from Your Couch - Sara Cochran

*  BYU Family History Library:  Duplicates in Family Tree, Part 1: Why They're There and How to Find Them - Kathryn Grant

*  Family History Fanatics:  Writing Family History Books: Where to Put the Citations?

*  Findmypast:  WW2 Memories - Fridays Live 15 May 2020 | Findmypast

*  Findmypast:  International News in Historical Newspapers | Findmypast

*  Findmypast:  Family History - Expert Q&A | Findmypast

*  Lisa Lisson:  FINDING STORIES OF YOUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS | Incorporating Social History Into Your Genealogy

*  Lisa Lisson:  COLORIZE FAMILY PHOTOS WITH MYHERITAGE in COLOR | Spark New Life Into Black & White Photos!

*  NC Summer Series:  Let's Talk NC Genealogy: Summer Series - Episode 2: Marriage Records

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (20 June 2020) - Weekly recap + Tree chat

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains - Tuesday, June 23rd 2020

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 19 June 2020 ?

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Randy's Autosomal DNA Test and Analysis Summary - 23 June 2020

My last list of my Autosomal DNA test and analysis results was posted in Randy's Autosomal DNA Test and Analysis Summary - 9 April 2020.

Here is the update, with comparison to over two months ago (9 April 2020).  I'm curious to see how my numbers have increased:

1)  Ancestry DNA:

*  Total Matches (6 cM or more):  67,743 matches (was 66,726 matches on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more: 25 matches (was 25 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  140 matches (was 140 on 4/9/20)
*  4th Cousins or closer (> 20 cM): 1,487 matches (was 1,466 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with Common Ancestors:  396 (was 386 on 4/9/20)
*  Highest match has 779 cM (11.5%), and is one of my known first cousins.

2)  MyHeritageDNA:

*  Total Matches (8 cM or more):   8,522 matches (was 8,318 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  5 matches (was 5 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5 %) or more:  93 matches (was 91 on 4/9/20)
*  Number of Theories of Family Relativity:  9  (was 12 on 4/9/20)
*  Highest Match has 512 cM (7.1%), and is one of my known first cousins once removed.

3)  23andMe:

*  Total DNA Relatives Matches (7 cM or more):  1,412 Matches (was 1,385 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  9 Matches (was 9 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  109 Matches (was 105 on 4/9/20)
*  Highest Match has 163 cM (2.33%), and is a known 1st cousin twice removed.

4)  FamilyTreeDNA:

*  Total Family Finder Matches (18 cM or more, but counts segments with 3 cM or more):  3,714 Matches (was 3,638 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  18 (was 17 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  2,490 matches (was 2,435 on 4/9/20)
*  Highest Match has 96 cM (1.42%) and is an unknown cousin.

5)  LivingDNA:

*  Total Matches:  247 (was 0 on 1/29/20)*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  0 (was 0 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more: 3 (was 0 on 4/9/20)
*  Highest Match has 45.2 cM and is an unknown relative.

6)  GEDMatch:

*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  1 (was 1 on 4/9/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more: 41 (was 42 on 4/9/20)
*  Highest Match has 86.8  cM and is a known 3rd cousin

7)  Observations:

*  In 2+ months, I added only 1 match with 68 cM or more, on FamilyTreeDNA.  

*  My AncestryDNA 4th cousins or better has increased only 1.4% in 2+ months, and total matches have increased 1.5%.  "Common Ancestors" ThruLines are 0.58% of the total common ancestors.

*  MyHeritageDNA total matches have increased 2.5% in 2+ months, and 34 cM or higher matches increased 2.2%.  I lost 3 Theory of Family Relativity matches, but 2 of them were wrong.

*  23andMe total matches have increased 1.9% in 2+ months, and 34 cM or higher matches have increased 3.8%.

*  FamilyTreeDNA total matches have increased 2.1% in 2+ months.  

*  I finally have matches at Living DNA, but the highest match is only 43 cM.

*  It appears that the problems at GEDmatch has stabilized, and I lost only one more match with 34 cM or more.

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Tombstone Tuesday -- John Horton (1696-1796) in Jones-Hammon Lot in Foster, R.I.

I have collected a number of gravestone photographs from my own camera and from Find A Grave memorials over many years, and thought I would share them one at a time for Tombstone Tuesday.

Here is the gravestone of my 6th great-grandfather, John Horton (1696-1796) in Jones-Hammon Lot in Foster, Rhode Island:

The inscription says:

"John Horton

Born 21 March 

AD 1696

Died January 10

AD 1796"

John Horton died at age 99 years, 9 months and 20 days - just 71 days shy of 100 years old.

The source citation for this gravestone is:

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 June 2020), memorial page for John Horton (21 Mar 1696–10 Jan 1796), Find a Grave Memorial no. 20723516, citing Jones-Hammon Lot, Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave.

Thank you to Superkentman for creating this Find A Grave memorial and to Janglo for taking the photograph.

John Horton (1696-1796) and Mary Chase (1694-1735) are my 6th great-grandparents.   John Horton was the son of John and Mehitable (Garnsey) Horton of Rehoboth, Mass.  Mary Chase was the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Follansbee) Chase of Newbury, Mass.  They married in 1719 in Swansea, Mass., and had 5 children, including Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819), my 5th great-grandfather, who married Sarah Pray (1734-1820) in 1753.

A biographical sketch for John Horton is in  52 Ancestors - Week 239: #364 John Horton (1696-1796) of Bristol County, Mass. and Providence County, Rhode Island.

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Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 22 June 2020

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

1)  Moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group meeting on Wednesday, 17 June, via Zoom with 15 attendees, including DNA expert Kitty Cooper.  In the first hour, we discussed the Ancestry cease and desist letter about clustering and the implications of it, Shared Clustering new spreadsheet tool, demonstrated the MyHeritage use of the Genetic Affairs clustering tool, and my progress on AncestryDNA ThruLines. In the second hour, the attendees shared their DNA test analysis successes and challenges.

2)  Participated in the Mini-Myrt Zoom meetings on Tuesday through Saturday.  Offered some commentary about my research and genealogical resources.

3)  Watched the CeCe Moore keynote video from I4GG 2020.  Watched Family Tree Webinar
Finding Your 18th Century Ancestors in England by Paul Milner.

4)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of 7th great-grandmother #545 Sarah (Clarke) (Bowers) Smith (1646-1704) for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.  

5)  Transcribed the 1683 Will of Henry Smith (16097-1687) of Medfield, Mass.  for Amanuensis Monday.  

6)  Downloaded the Chromosome Ethnicity file and the DNA Match Chromosome Browser file from 23 and Me.

7)  Added Notes to 14 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors.  Added one more ThruLine to my RootsMagic tree.  Ancestry added 131 new DNA Matches this week.  Reviewed new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

8) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 36,224 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 163).

9)  Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 57,990 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 154) , and 122,859 source citations (up 487).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree two times this week updating 319 profiles, and I resolved 1090 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 131,804 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily.    

10)  Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which one was a press release.  The most popular post last week was  Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 7 to 13 June 2020 with over 427 views.  

11)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Thursday, and Costco on Friday, and it wasn't too busy.  Daughter Lori came on Friday night to visit and made dinner twice and cleaned up the kitchen and bathroom - a darling girl!  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing genealogy, eating and sleeping, plus reading ebooks on my laptop while watching TV.

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