Friday, January 15, 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 15 January 2021

 Welcome to Genealogy News and Education 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 since the last issue.    


1)  News Articles:




2)  New or Updated Record Collections:


3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes







4)  Genealogy Education - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):






*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 19 January, 5 p.m.:  Death and Burial Practices in World War I and WW II, by Rick Sayre
*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 20 January, 11 a.m.:  Another 50 Websites Every Genealogist Should Know, by Gena Philibert-Ortega

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Do You Have an Artificial Brick Wall?, by Robyn Smith

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:   From Grandmother to First European Landowner of Canada, by Lianne Kruger

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #241r - Writing Ancestor Stories



6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):







*  Family History Ron:  Q&A with FamilyHistoryRon

*  FamilySearch:  FamilySearch is Live!



*  Genealogy Quick Start:  LIVE: Deep Dive into Dad & Aerial Maps







*  The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society:  New York State Genealogy Records Online: Using the NYG&B's Online Collections




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Findmypast Friday: Brand new Irish family records now online

   I received this from Findmypast today:

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Findmypast Friday
Brand new Irish family records now online

Discover your ancestors' final resting places with this week's latest Findmypast Friday records.


Explore over 70,000 Londonderry (Derry) burial transcripts to discover the details of those laid to rest in City Cemetery. Each record reveals combination of the deceased’s date of death, date of burial, grave location, age, address, place of birth and parents’ names.

Opened in 1853, Derry City Cemetery (colloquially known as the City Cemetery) was the main burial place for locals of both denominations in the local area until the mid-20th Century. It’s the final resting place of over 70,000 people, with details of all classes and includes those who fought in notable conflicts such as World War One and World War Two.

Writer of All Things Bright and Beautiful, Cecil Frances Alexander is among those buried in Londonderry (Derry) City Cemetery.

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Alexander’s record includes her birthplace, residence and parents’ names.


This new collection spans 200 years of burials and covers the following Dublin cemeteries;
  • St John The Baptist, Castle Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin
  • Drimnagh (Bluebell), Old Naas Road, Dublin
  • St Canice’s, Finglas, Dublin
Along with key names and dates, these transcripts of original burial registers include addresses, occupations and marital statuses.


Over 29,000 new burial records from three parishes have been added to the collection – perfect for exploring the Dorset branches of your family tree.

These latest additions cover the parishes of;
  • Melcombe Regis, 1570-1933
  • Weymouth, 1885-2001
  • Wyke Regis, 1887-1992
Check the parish list for full details on what's included in Findmypast’s wider Dorset parish collection.


This latest update sees three new titles and updates to 16 others made available to search on Findmypast. Hot off the press this week are:
While additional pages and years have been added to;
  • Indian Statesman from 1872-1873
  • Witness (Edinburgh) from 1857
  • Newry Telegraph from 1872-1881
  • Bangalore Spectator from 1886, 1888, 1891-1892 and 1894
  • Chelsea News and General Advertiser from 1973
  • Herald of Wales from 1887-1889
  • Voice of India from 1886, 1888 and 1910
  • Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser from 1900 and 1903
  • Nairnshire Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Northern Counties from 1902, 1917, 1928, 1930 and 1935
  • Indian Daily News from 1900-1901 and 1903-1906
  • Madras Weekly Mail from 1877-1881, 1883-1884, 1886-1887, 1889-1890, 1893, 1896-1897, 1899-1900 and 1907
  • North Wales Weekly News from 1889-1895, 1899-1901, 1903-1905, 1912-1922, 1924-1927, 1941-1942, 1953 and 1955
  • Liverpool Daily Post from 1901
  • American Register from 1884-1886, 1889, 1894, 1896, 1900, 1903, 1908 and 1912
  • Nantwich Chronicle from 1975
  • Marylebone Mercury from 1979
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52 Ancestors - Week 365: #576 Ephraim Hildreth (1655-1731) of Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Ephraim Hildreth (1655-1731) is number 576 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #577 Anna Moore (1666-1760)  in 1686  in Stow, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #288 James Hildreth (1698-1761) who married #289 Dorothy Prescott (1702-1774) in 1721.
*  their son #144 Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784) who married #145 Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812) in 1753.
*  their son #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) who married #73 Elizabth Ketyes (1759-1793) in 1777.
*  their son #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married  #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)  in 1810.
*  their son #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married  #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) 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:                   Ephraim Hildreth[1–13]    

*  Sex:                      Male    

*  Father:                  Richard Hildreth (1605-1692)    
*  Mother:                Elizabeth --?-- (1625-1693)   

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 
Birth:                    about 1655, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-4,12–13]    

*  Distribution:       23 May 1693 (about age 38), father's will proved, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]    

*  Will:                   5 March 1730/1 (about age 76), Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[10]    

*  Death:                5 April 1731 (about age 76), Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[11–13]    
*  Burial:                after 5 April 1731 (after about age 76), Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[13]    

*  Probate:             12 April 1731 (about age 76), will proved; Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[10]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 
*  Spouse 1:           Dorothy Barnes (1664-1686)    
*  Marriage 1:        11 June 1685 (about age 30), Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-4,6-7]    

*  Child 1:             Ephraim Hildreth (1686-1686)    

*  Spouse 2:          Anna Moore (1666-1760)    
*  Marriage 2:       8 October 1686 (about age 31), Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-4,8-9]    

*  Child 2:            Ephraim Hildreth (1687-????)    
*  Child 3:            Joseph Hildreth (1689-1764)    
*  Child 4:            Richard Hildreth (1691-????)    
*  Child 5:            James Hildreth (1692-1696)    
*  Child 6:            Ebenezer Hildreth (1696-1762)    
*  Child 7:            James Hildreth (1698-1761)    
*  Child 8:            Jonathan Hildreth (1701-1752)    
*  Child 9:            Anna Hildreth (1705-1784)    
*  Child 10:          Thomas Hildreth (1707-1707)    
*  Child 11:          Jacob Hildreth (1709-1754)    
*  Child 12:          David Hildreth (1711-????)  
     
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The Hildreth Family Association (https://hildrethfamilyassociation.com/) has compiled five books over about 100 years of existence documenting the history, genealogy and life stories of Hildreth family members.  The life story, based on town records, of Ephraim Hildreth (1655-1731) is in the Second Publication published in 1922[1].

Ephraim Hildreth was born in about 1655 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 4th child and first son of Richard and Elizabeth (--?--) Hildreth of Cambridge[1-4,13].  The Hildreth family settled in Chelmsford before 1658 when their children appear in the town birth records.

Ephraim Hildreth married, first, to Dorothy Barnes on 11 June 1685 in Stow, Massachusetts[1-6].  Dorothy was the daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Goodenow) Barnes of Marlborough, Massachusetts.  They had one child in Stow:

*  Ephraim Hildreth (1686-1686).

Dorothy died soon after childbirth of 17 June 1686, and the son Ephraim, born 11 June 1686, died 22 November 1686.

Ephraim married, second, to Anna Moore on 8 October 1686 in Stow[1-4,8-9].  She was the daughter of John and Anne (Smith) Moore of Lancaster and Sudbury, Massachusetts.  Ephraim and Anna had eleven children, all recorded in the Chelmsford town records:

*  Ephraim Hildreth (1687-????)
*  Joseph Hildreth (1689-1764), married 1708 Deliverance Barrett (1690-1776).
*  Richard Hildreth (1691-????).
*  James Hildreth (1692-????).
*  Ebenezer Hildreth (1696-1762), married 1719 Sarah Swallow (1698-1762).
*  James Hildreth (1698-1761), married 1721 Dorothy Prescott (1702-1774).
*  Jonathan Hildreth (1701-1752), married 1738 Hannah Spaulding (1709-1758).
*  Anna Hildreth (1705-1784), married 1721 John Butterfield (1698-1766).
*  Thomas Hildreth (1707-1707).
*  Jacob Hildreth (1709-1754), married 1730 Abigail Harwood (1710-1761).
*  David Hildreth (1711-????).

Ephraim's father, Richard Hildreth (1605-1693) wrote his will on 11 February 1686/7, and it was proved on 26 May 1693 in the Middlesex County Probate Court (transcribed from  Middlesex County Probate Packet No 11376)[5].  In his will, Richard named his son Ephraim as his executor, and gave to his son Ephraim the following an equal share of the personal property remaining after his mother dies, and requests Ephraim to take care of his mother as long as she lives.

The first mention of Ephraim Hildreth is his appointment as Viewer of Fences in Chelmsford in 1673[1].

Ephraim Hildreth probably went to Stow, Massachusetts in about 1675, when he is on record as a private under Major Willard in a troop of horse rushing from Lancaster 30 miles through woods and swamps to Brookfield, Massachusetts, rescuing there the inhabitants found huddled in the one surviving house - a fortified one - all the other houses having been burned by the Indians.  For this service, he was paid 2 pounds, 7 shillings[1].

In a sketch of Stow, there were 12 allotments of land made in the Stow plantation.  Lot No. 1 was set apart for the first minister, and the other 11 were taken in 1678 or 1679 and were assigned to Ephraim Hildreth, Thomas Stevens and others.  In 1680, he made an agreement with John Haywood of Boston to have a lot of land secured for him in the Stow plantation, and in 1681 he is the recorded owner of Lot No. 5.  When the Stow lots were drawn, it was assumed he came from Concord.  Why he first settled in Stow is not known, possibly his interest there may have come through his father, for whom 150 acres of land there had been allowed by the General Court in 1669.  On the town records of Stow in 1685, he is named one of the "ancient planters" and is granted a license to keep a house of entertainment, or "ordinary" (ie, to be an innkeeper), and in 1686 this license was renewed[1].

On 9 February 1686/7, Richard and Elizabeth Hildreth of Chelmsford deeded to their son Ephraim Hildreth of  Stow nine pieces of real property, including their homestead of 20 acres, the house, barn, orchard, etc.  This gift, acknowledged 6 April 1687, was in return for life support[1].

In 1687 Ephraim moved his family back to Chelmsford to help his parents.

 He served as Surveyor of Highways in Chelmsford in 1688 and 1690; other public service included the charge of "Benj. Haywood's garrison" in the West Regiment of Middlesex in 1691/2; as Tythingman in 1693; and as Selectman in 1694 - 99, 1701, 1703, 1706, 1709 -11, 1719, 1721 - 22[1]. 

He served on various juries during his life and on 17 July 1695 was named guardian of the 14 year old son of his brother Lieutenant James Hildreth. In 1705-7, he served as Chairman of Town Committee for laying out roads and is listed on several tax lists and petitions.  Ephraim was on a committee in 1710 to finish the new meetinghouse, and in 1712 was on a committee to seat the meetinghouse.  Six years later he was voted room for a new pew in the meetinghouse. Highways were laid out to his properties, buildings were erected on them, and he prospered[1].

He resided in that part of Chelmsford which in 1729 was set off and became the town of Westford.

Ephraim and Anna began to convey land to their "dutiful" children, starting in 1724 (to sons James, Joseph, Ebenezer  on 11 August 1724; and to "well beloved sons" Jonathan and Jacob, both of Chelmsford on 23 May 1729)[1].

Ephraim Hildreth died on 5 April 1731 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts[11-12].  He is probably buried in the oldest cemetery in Chelmsford, but there is no gravestone extant[13].

Ephraim Hildreth died testate, having written a will on 5 March 1730/1[10].  His probate records are in Middlesex County Probate Records, Packet #11,316.  The will reads:
"In the Name of god, Amen.  The Fifth Day of March, in the year of our Lord 1730/31.  I Ephraim Hildreth of Westford, in County of Middl-x in New England, Youman, being very Sick & weak  in Body, but of perfect mind & memory, thanks be given unto God;  therefore calling to mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is expected for men once to dye, Do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament that is to ???? & principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, trusting through the Merits, Death and Passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my Sins and to inherit Everlasting Life, and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently Buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God.  And as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:  That is to say,

"First I will that those Debts and deuties as I do owe in Right or conscience to any maner of parson or parsons What so ever Shall be well and truly contented and paid or ordained to be paid in convenient time after my decease by my Executor here after named.

"Item  I give and bequeath to Anne my dearly beloved Wife all my houshold moveables and stuff and one cow during her natural life and after her decease to Return and Remain to my daughter Anna Butterfield as by a deed I signed to her.

"Item  I give and bequeath to my Wife all my money and Bonds which is due or owing or will becom due: and also all my Estate that I have not deeded away all Ready and two cows and four swine to her and her dispose for ever and all so one heffer two years olde to be at her dispose for ever and allso one calf to her and her dispose for ever.

"Item  My Will is that my oxen and all my husbandtre tools and instruments and my Waring appariel be Equibly devided amongst all my sons but only Joseph Heldreath my Eldest son to have a duble share of ye same.

"Item  I give to my well beloved son Joseph Heldreath all the lands that I gave to him by a deed of gift and allso a duble share of my oxen and husbandtre tools and a duble share of my waring apparriel for his full portion of my Estate.

"Item  I give to my well beloved son Ebenezer Heldreath all the lands that I gave to him by a deed of gift and all so a seventh part of my oxen and husbandtre tools and a seventh part of my waring apparrel for his full portion of my estate.

"Item I give to my well beloved son James Heldreath all the lands that I gave to him by a deed of gift and allso a seventh part of my waring apparriel and a seventh part of my oxen and husbandtre tools for his full portion of my estate.

"Item  I give to my well beloved son David Heldreath all the lands that I gave him by a deed of gift and all so a seventh part of my waring appariel and a seventh part of my oxen and husbandtree tools for his full portion of my estate.

"Item  I give to my well beloved daughter Anna Butterfield forty and six pounds at marradg and a deed I signed to her of several things more which is her full portion of my Estate.

"Item  I give to my well beloved son Jonathan Heldreath and to my well beloved son Jacob Heldreath all the land that that I let them have by a deed of sail and Eatch one of them a seventh part of my warring apparriel and all so Each one of them a seventh part of my oxen and husbandtre tools for there full portions of my estate.

"And the sd Jonathan Heldreath and Jacob Heldreath I do likewise constitute make and ordain my ondly and sol Executors of this my last will and testement and I do utterly disalow revoake and disanull all and Every other former Testements Wills Legacies Bequests and Executors by me in any ways before this time named willed and bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last will and testement in Witness where of I have here unto set my hand and seal the day and year above Written.
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Ephraim Hildreth as his last Will and testement in the presence of us the Subscribers
Nathaniel Boynton
Samuel Chamberlin                        Ephraim Hildreth
Joseph Underwood."

Jonathan Hildreth and Jacob Hildreth presented the will of Ephraim Hildreth of Westford, deceased, to the Judge of Probate of Middlesex County on 12 April 1731.  Nathaniel Boynton and Joseph Underwood took an oath that they witnessed the signing and sealing of the will and that Ephraim Hildreth was of sound and disposing mind.  The widow, Anna Hildreth, requested in writing that the will be proved.

Jonathan Hildreth, Jacob Hildreth and Joshua Fletcher, yeomen all of Westford, posted bond of 1,000 pounds on 12 April 1731.The Court approved the will and directed the executors to well and faithfully execute the will and administer the estate of the deceased.

On 5 February 1735, Jonathan Hildreth of Chelmsford and Nathaniel Russell of Littleton posted bond of 250 pounds to support Anna Hildreth, widow of Ephraim.  In 1752, Anna Hildreth conveyed land to Ephraim Hildreth which formerly belonged to Ephraim Hildreth Sr.
   
5)  SOURCES

1. John Lyman Porter, Second Publication of the Hildreth Family Associaton, Genealogical and Historical Data Relating to Richard Hildreth (1605-1693), Freeman, 1643, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Mass.; Thomas Hildreth (died 1657), of Long Island, Southampton, N.Y., Including the History of the Second Generation of Hildreths in America (Hildreth Family Association, n.p., 1922)., pages 57-68, Ephraim Hildreth family sketch.

2. George Adams Parkhurst and Barbara Hildreth Parkhurst, Fifth Publication of the Hildreth Family Associaton, Genealogical and Historical Data Relating to Richard Hildreth (1605-1693), Freeman, 1643, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Mass.; Thomas Hildreth (died 1657), of Long Island, Southampton, N.Y. (Hildreth Family Association, n.p., 1984).

3. George Adams Parkhurst, The Hildreths of Westford (Westford, Mass. : the author, 1984), page 8, Ephraim Hildreth sketch.

4. Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part II: The Ancestry of Amanda Spiller, 1823-1873 (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008), page 184, Ephraim Hildreth sketch.

5. "Middlesex County, Mass.: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital images, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, Middlesex Cases 10000-11999, Probate estate file 11376 (4 images), Richard Hildreth will, 1693.

6. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com, accessed 22 February 2014), "Stow, Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 218 (image 113 of 962), Ephraim Hildreth and Dorothy Barnes marriage entry, 11 June 1685.

7. Vital records of Stow, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), Marriages, page 162, Ephraim Hildreth and Dorothy Barnes entry, 11 June 1685.

8. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, accessed 22 February 2014), "Stow, Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 218 (image 113 of 962), Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor marriage entry, 8 October 1686.

9. Vital records of Stow, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Marriages, page 163, Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor entry, 8 October 1686.

10. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, Middlesex Cases 10000-11999, Probate estate file 11316 (7 images), Ephraim Hildreth estate, 1731.

11. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, accessed 22 February 2014), "Chelmsford Births, Marriages and Deaths," Page 5 (image 463 of 1719), Ephraim Hildreth death entry, 5 April 1731.

12. Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Deaths, page 404, Ephraim Hildreth entry, 5 April 1731.

13. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), unknown burial, Chelmsford, Mass., Ephraim Hildreth (1655-1731) memorial #127133547.

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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 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 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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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Seavers in the News -- Virginia Seaver Dies in Chico, California in 1947

 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 Chico [Calif.] Enterprise newspaper dated 15 January 1947:

The transcription of the article is:

"Virginia Seaver, Pioneer Chican, Taken By Death

"Virginia B. Seaver, 80, a resident of Chico for 50 years and the last of a family of 14 children, died last night at her home, 198 East Eleventh Street after an illness of nine weeks.

"Mrs. Seaver suffered a broken hip nine weeks ago and had been confined to her bed since that time.

"Born in Richmond, Virginia, August 11, 1866, Mrs. Seaver moved to Colusa county 60 years ago.  She later moved to Chico where she and her husband farmed on Long Lane.

"She married John H. Seaver November 8, 1889.

"In addition to her husband, Mrs. Seaver is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Anna Sutton and Mrs. Emma Huff, both of Chico; three sons, Henry Seaver, Modesto, George Seaver, Stockton and Frank Seaver, Chico; and by four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

"Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, January 17, 1947, at the Brusie Funeral Home."

The source citation is:

"Virginia Seaver, Pioneer Chican, Taken by DeathChico [Calif.] Enterprise newspaper, obituary, Wednesday, 15 January 1947, page 1, column 4, Virginia B. Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 14 January 2021).

This death notice provides a birth date and place, an approximate death date, the names of her spouse,  children, a marriage date when she came to California, what she did in her life, but not her maiden name or parents names.

Virginia B. Putney was born 11 August 1866 in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of William Robert and Lucy Jane (Burress) Putney.  She married John Henry Seaver (1963-1949) on 8 November 1889 in Colusa County, California.  They had six children:

*  Charles Franklin Seaver (1890-1954), married about 1940 Gladys Jones (1897-1963).
*  Anna May Seaver (1892-????), married (1) 1916 Stephen Layton Owen (1885-1959), (2) Holman B. Sutton.
*  Emma Odesa Seaver (1893-1977), married Thomas Adsil Huff (1888-1961).
*  Minnie B. Seaver (1896-1902).
*  Henry John Seaver (1900-1974).
*  George William Seaver (1902-1965), married about 1921 Gladys Shanks (1903-1942).

John Henry Seaver is my 4th cousin 3 times removed, with common Seaver ancestors of   my 6th great-grandparents Robert and Eunice (Rayment) Seaver.  

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a woman lives her life surrounded by family and dies after a fall. I am glad that I can honor Virginia B. (Putney) Seaver today.  

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

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1686 Marriage Record of Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor in Stow, Massachusetts

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 marriage entry entry for Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor in 1686 in the Stow, Massachusetts town record book:

The marriage entry is the 4th from the top of the left-hand page:

Ephraim Hildreth married two women within two years as noted on this page.  The transcription of this record is:

"HILDRETH, Ephraim and Dorothy Barnes m. June 11, 1685 (Cambridge).
     or
HELDRETH, Ephraim and Anna Moor of Sudbury m. Oct. 8, 1686 by William Brimsmead (Marlboro)"

The source citation for this record is:

"Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 February 2014), "Stow, Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 218 (image 113 of 962), Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor marriage entry, 8 October 1686.

This is an abstract from a copied town record book for Stow, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage of Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor.
   
Ephraim Hildreth (1654-1731) was the son of Richard and Elizabeth (--?--) Hildreth of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.  Anna Moor (1666-1760) was the daughter of John and Anne (Smith) Moor of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 

Ephraim and Anna (Moor) Hildreth are my 7th great-grandparents, through their son James Hildreth (1698-1761) who married Dorothy Prescott (1702-1774) in 1721 in Chelmsford.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Dear Randy - "What is Your Work Flow With An Ancestry Hint?"

 Reader Nancy emailed me asking:

"...For now I will continue with RootsMagic 7. I have once again read your post:    https://www.geneamusings.com/2017/07/my-best-practices-for-rootsmagic.html and you are very clear on what you do not do with respect to Ancestry hints but I am not clear on what you actually do. Do you go to the hint, accept or reject, and then if you want the information you add the record (image) to RootsMagic with your own citation, as if the hint never existed? Where do you store the image? When you sync RootsMagic with your ancestry tree how does this record appear, i.e. is the image and your EE source online?"

My response to Nancy (edited a bit):

1)  When I see an Ancestry Hint, I decide if it is one I want to use in my family tree.  For non-ancestors, I don't bother with the compendium type of Hints - e.g., Millenium File, Public Records, Phone and Address Directories, City Directories, School Yearbooks, Family Histories, etc.  For ancestors, I look at them more closely and add them if they have value.  For other records that come from a real record (e.g., BMD vital records, indexes of BMD vital records, Find A Grave, draft registrations, Social Security, church records, census records, some military records, passenger lists, passports, etc.) In RootsMagic, I create an Event (or use an existing event), and add the date, place, and a free form source citation.  Many of my Events have more than one source citation.  I also  create Alternate Names in RootsMagic when the entry has a different name for the person, and add the source to them. 

2)  I almost always check "Ignore" rather than "Accept" the Record Hint to my Ancestry tree because I don't want to spend the time dealing with the Ancestry Member Tree, which I will eventually delete.  The "Ignore" Hints are still on the Hints page on the Ancestry profile if I want to see them again, and they are in the RootsMagic WebHints for each profile.  I don't download the record image unless it is for an ancestor.

3)  If I do download an image, I rename it and put it in a family file folder in my digital file system.  I've written about the file system in Dear Randy: "What Is Your Naming Convention for Downloaded Documents?" and My Genealogy Digital File Folder Organization.

4)  When I TreeShare my RM tree to my Ancestry tree, all of my RM sources appear as "Other Sources" in my Ancestry Member Tree (even the Evidence Explained sources) and are linked to the event in the timeline.  I mainly use free-form sources in RootsMagic because the EE source templates don't export well in a GEDCOM file.

5)  If I have an image connected to the RootsMagic person, I usually choose not to upload it to the Ancestry Member Tree because of the time it takes to upload and the relatively short-lived Ancestry Member Tree.  

6)  The above reflects my goals for my RootsMagic family tree (and by extension my online family trees):  I want to gather every bit of information on my ancestors and include them in my trees.  For the profiles in my collateral lines, surname studies, and descendants studies, I want to gather names, relationships, birth or baptism date/place, marriage date/place, death date/place, and burial date/place.  

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Disclosure: I have a complimentary all-access subscription from Ancestry.com, for which I am thankful. 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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Randy in the Garden in 1945 -- Post 652 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

  I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:

This me in about 1945 (so 1-1/2 to 2 years old, in my blond hair, cool sailor's cap, and my jumper (and probably a diaper too).  My father was in the U.S. Navy at this time aboard the USS Halford, a destroyer, as a Mailman 3rd class.  My guess is that this is a summer 1945 photograph in the back yard of my grandparents home at 2130 Fern Street in San Diego.  We lived with them from the time my father went in the Navy until he was released in early 1946.  My grandparents had green thumbs, and the yard and greenhouse were filled with flowers and plants, not to mention fish ponds, birdbaths and bird feeders.

This photo (originally black and white) has been enhanced and colorized using the MyHeritage photo tools.  

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