Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 6 to 12 July 2023

Welcome to Genealogy Education Bytes, posted on Wednesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.


1) Upcoming Conferences, Institutes and Seminars

* Conference Keeper Calendar



*  Foundation for East European Family History Studies (FEEFHS) 2023 Conference -1 to 3 August 2023 - Virtual and In-person (Salt Lake City) 




*   Family Tree Webinars - Wednesday, 12 July, 5 p.m.:  Indentured Servitude in the Mid-Atlantic States by Craig R. Scott.

*   Family Tree Webinars - Friday, 14 July, 11 a.m.:  Celebrating 2,000 Webinars! Plus 10 tips you can use today by Geoff Rasmussen

*   Family Tree Webinars - Tuesday, 18 July, 5 p.m.:  Andiamo! Finding Your Italian Family by Margaret R. Fortier

*   Family Tree Webinars - Wednesday, 19 July, 11 a.m.:  I Hate Conflict! Mediating Sources that Don’t Agree by Elizabeth Williams Gomoll.

3) Recent Podcasts/Radio Shows:



4) Recent YouTube Videos:

*  Aimee Cross - Genealogy Hints:  Ancestry's LEAST Used Resource










*  MyHeritage:  Introducing Photo Tagger

*  Storied_Social:  The Family Treehouse Episode #001



*  Your DNA Story:  An Unexpected Story

5) Did you miss the last post in this series - Genealogy Education Bytes - 29 June to 5 July 2023?

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Carringers and Aubles in About 1924 -- Post 776 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

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

The persons in this photo are, from the left:

*  Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952), my great-grandmother, mother of Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer.

*  Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), my mother, daughter of Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer.

*  Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977), mother of Betty Virginia Carringer and daughter of Georgia (Kemp) Auble. and wife of Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)..

*  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), my great-grandfather, father of Lyle Lawrence Carringer.

This photograph was probably taken in about 1924 (estimated based on Betty's size), perhaps at a park in the San Diego back country (Dehesa or Descanso?).

I had never seen this photograph before.  I found it in the Bessie (Auble) Pentecost family album in my possession.  The photo was colorized using MyHeritage photo tools.

This photograph is all part of our family history.  

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Look Who MyHeritage Found in Their U.S. Passport Application Collection

 I received this from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today:

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Have you ever found anything interesting in our United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925 collection? Our Research team sure did!

The collection covers a fascinating period in U.S. history when passports were not yet mandatory for international travel. Since it was rare for a single passport to cover multiple trips abroad, many wealthy and influential U.S. citizens appear multiple times in this collection, because they applied for a new passport every time they traveled.



Our Research team recently unearthed records of 4 famous Americans who applied for U.S. passports 100 years ago: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Irving Berlin, and Alexander Graham Bell! Read more and enjoy their colorized, enhanced, and animated passport photos on our blog — and feel free to share them with your followers as well! Who knows, maybe someone will be inspired to search for an ancestor in this fascinating collection and will end up making a breakthrough.

By the way, MyHeritage is now on Threads at @myheritage_official! Come say hi and make sure to follow us :)

 

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product.  I am a subscriber to Family Tree Webinars and love it.  I am a paid subscriber to the Reimagine mobile app.  This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products. 

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Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 5 to 11 July 2023

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news  items that came across our desktop since the last issue.    


1)  News Articles:







2)  DNA Research Stories







4)  Did you miss the last post in this series - see Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 28 June to 4 July 2023.

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Seavers in the News -- 1974 Obituary of Inez M. (Waite) Seaver in Boston, Massachusetts

 Here is this week's 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 18 November 1974, page 31:

The transcription of the article is:

"SEAVER -- In Melrose, Nov. 16, Inez M. (Waite), wife of the late William N. Seaver, mother of Martha Kimball of 60 Gleason Rd., Lexington, Anne Harrington of 3612 Kemp Dr., Endwell, N.Y., and the late Priscilla Anderson. Sister of Flora Sweetser and Leslie Waite.  A Memorial Service will be held at Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church, West Emerson St., Tuesday at 2 p.m.  Gifts in her memory may be made to the Church Memorial Fund."

The source citation is:

"Seaver," The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper, Monday, 18 November 1974, page 31, column 6, Inez M. (Waite) Seaver obituary,   Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 10 July 2023).

This obituary identifies her married and maiden name, spouse's name, children's married names and residences, siblings names and residences, but not her age, parents names, occupation, or associations.

Inez Mildred Waite (1893-1974) was born 3 June 1893 in Brockton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Otis Hall and Carrie Angeline (Wood) Waite.  She died 16 November 1974 in Melrose, Massachusetts.  She married William Nathanael Seaver (1877-1960), on 23 September 1922 in Woodstock, Vermont.  William Seaver was the son of Nathaniel and Marietta Mills (White) Seaver.  The had three children:

*  Priscilla Waite Seaver (1924-1969), married 1946 Norman Ray Anderson (1923-????).
*  Anne Codman Seaver (1927-2013), married 1950 Donald George Harrington (1922-????).
*  Martha Lawrence Seaver (1932-2021), married 1953 Richard Kimball (1927-2012).

William Nathanael Seaver (1877-1960) is my 6th cousin four times removed, with the common Seaver ancestor of my 9th great-grandfather, Robert Seaver (1608-1683).

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 person has a relatively short obituary.  I am glad that I can honor  Inez Mildred (Waite) 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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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.


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Monday, July 10, 2023

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 9 July 2023

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

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Board Meeting on Wednesday and reported on the Research Group, DNA Group and the Newsletter.  Wrote, edited and published the July 2023 edition of the CVGS Family History Gazette newsletter.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society program meeting with speaker Rebecca Koford.  She presented "Land Records : Rich Resources for Relationships" and "Indirect Evidence: Finding What Was Not Written."

3)  Continued tagging, enhancing/colorizing, and captioning scanned photos on MyHeritage Photos, then renaming and saving them to my desktop computer photo files.  

4)  Finished scanning my Aunt Gerry's 37 page typed (yes, on a typewriter only) autobiography using the free TextScanner mobile app.  Proofread the entire thing.  Now on to my Uncle Ed's 15 page memories transcribed from an audio tape. 

5)  Found more "goodies" in the boxes on the floor - family letters, more photos, my school report cards, several school yearbooks, and more.  Photographed, renamed and saved selected pages using Reimagine and CamScanner.

6)  Wrote one more StoryWorth sketch about travel experiences.

7)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for  7th great-grandmother #881 Elizabeth (Ambrose) (Underhill) Batchelder (1698-????) of Salisbury, Massachusetts and Chester, New Hampshire for the 52 Ancestors series on Friday.  I've written 487 of these sketches for my ancestors.

8)  Transcribed the two page 1894 Will and Two Codicils of Hannah Seaver (1813-1905) of Enfield, New Hampshire for the Amanuensis Monday series.  

9)  AncestryDNA now has 43,548 DNA matches (up 16 from 2 July) for me today, with one new ThruLines.   I added one Note to my new matches.  MyHeritageDNA now has 11,507 DNA matches (up 14 from 2 July) for me, with no new Theories.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

10)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 9 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 49,588 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 5).  

11) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 71,149 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 12), and 146,084  source citations (up 11). I TreeShared 59 new or modified profiles with my Ancestry Member Tree, and I resolved 176 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 177,903 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

12) Wrote 16 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Finding My School Stuff! Thank You, Dad! with over 111 views.  Genea-Musings had about 69.500 page views last week.  

13)  Real life:  This is week 174 since COVID restrictions started.   I stayed home except for visiting Linda every day at the skilled nursing/memory care facility. Went grocery shopping on Monday and Friday.  I'm still sorting out stuff from the closet and the genealogy cave - save, toss or donate.  Walked every day on the block and talked to several neighbors.  Chopped down branches from one of the side yard bushes.  Finished reading the Jonathan Kellerman book Serpentine, and started the C.J. Box book Dark Sky. The Padres season continued, and I watched all of the games this past week.  They are 43-47 so far (5-1 this past week) and mired in fourth place in the NL West division. 

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1894 Will and Two Codicils of Hannah Seaver (1813-1905) of Enfield, New Hampshire

This week's document for transcription is the 1894 Will (and two codicils) of Hannah Seaver (1813-1905) of Enfield, Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

Grafton County, New Hampshire Probate Records - Volume 88, Page 236:

The transcription of this document on the two pages is:

In the name of God Amen. I Hannah Seaver of the town of
Enfield in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire
being of a sound and perfect mind and memory and desiring
that the following described property may be disposed of at
my decease according to the arrangements herein made, do make
and declare this my last will and testament in regard to
same.

1st. I desire that at my decease all my funeral expenses and
just Debts shall be Paid at once by the within named executor.

2d. I give and bequeath to my son George W. Seaver the sum of 
Fifty Dollars.

3d.  I give and bequeath to my Son in Law Timothy Kidder the
sum of One Hundred Dollars.

4th.  I give and bequeath to my Grand Daughter Nina C. Kidder
Two Shares in the Concord and Montreal Rail Road.

5th.  I give, bequeath or Devise to my Daughter Emma F. Kidder
all the residue or Balance of my Property or estate whether real
or Personal and wherever found and wherever situated.  But if
the said Emma F. Kidder should Die before Nina C. Kidder the
within named In this Will, the said Property shall go to
Nina C. Kidder her heirs or assigns.  But if the said Nina
C. Kidder should Die before Emma F. Kidder the Two Shares
previously mentioned in Article No. Four shall go to Emma 
F. Kidder her heirs or assigns, meaning all the Property be-
queathed or devised in Articles Four and Five of this Will
shall go to Nina C. Kidder and Emma F. Kidder in the
form above described and in Case of death of either one of these
Parties the other shall inherit the other share.

6th.  I do hereby appoint Frank T Currier to be executor of
this my last will and testament for the disposition of the
above described property, hereby revoking all former wills
aby me made in regard thereto.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this Twenty Ninth day of October A.D. 1894.
                                                    Hannah Seaver {seal}

The above instrument consisting of one sheet was at the date thereof
signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Hannah
Seaver as and for her last will and testament for the within
described property in the presence of us, who at her request
and in her presence and in presence of each other having
subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
F. P. Fisher   Enfield Centre, N.H.
J. A. Leet      Enfield, N.H.
F. T. Currier  Enfield Centre, N.H.
Williason Kimball  Enfield.

Enfield N.H. January 9th, 1895.

I hereby revoke so much of the within will as gives George
W. Seaver and his heirs Fifty Dollars In Section Two of 
this will to Emma F. Kidder, her heirs and assigns, and declare
that he or his heirs take nothing under my Will.  As my
Son George W. Seaver is dead my intention is that none
of his heirs shall have any of my Property.

Witness my hand and seal this ninth day of January 1895.
                                                              Hannah Seaver {seal}

 The above codicil was at the date affixed, signed, sealed and
acknowledged to be her last Will and testament and signed in our
presence and at her request and in presence of each other affixed our
names to this Instrument.
Franklin P. Fisher
Carrie W. Kimball
Marth A. Kimball
Frank T. Currier

Enfield, N.H.  August 31, 1899.

I hereby revoke so much of the within will as given Timothy
Kidder and his heirs One Hundred Dollars in Section Three
of this will to Emma F. Kidder her heirs and assigns.
Witness my hand and seal this 31st day of August 1899.

 The above codicil was at the date affixed, signed, sealed and
 acknowledged to be her last Will and testament and signed 
in our presence and at her request and in presence of each other 
affixed our names to this Instrument.

Addie J. Perley
Lois D. Carr
Franklin P. Fisher, M.D.

State of New Hampshire
Grafton, SS.                               Court of Probate.
At a Court of Probate holden at Canaan in said County, 
on the 6th day of June Anno Domini 1905. 
The foregoing instrument, purporting to be the last Will and codicils thereto of Hannah Seaver 
late of Enfield in said County, deceased, having been presented for probate in common 
form by Frank P. Currier 
The Executor therein named;

It appears to me, the Judge of Probate for said County, by the testimony in Court of  F. P. Fisher one of the
witnesses, whose named are to said instrument subscribed, that at the time of the execution thereof the said deceased was more than twenty-one years of age, and of sane mind; that she did sign, seal, and publish the same as her last Will, and that the said 
F.P. Fisher with J.A. Teet and F.P. Currier attested and subscribed the same together, 
as witnesses to the execution thereof, in the presence of the said testator and Franklin P. Fisher with Carrie W. Kimball, Marth A. Kimball
and Frank T. Currier attested and subscribed said first codicil together as witnesses to the execution thereof in presence of said testator and Franklin
P. Fisher with Addie J. Perley and Lois D. Carr attested and subscribed the same second codicil together as witnesses to the execution thereof in the presence of said testator.

It is therefore decreed that the said instrument be, and it is hereby proved, approved, and allowed as the last Will of  said testator.
                                                                                 Tyler Westgate  Judge of Probate
A true record, -- Attest:  R.G. Bartlett  Register.

The source citation for this probate case file is:

"New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982," indexed database with record images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Grafton County, Probate Records, Vol 88-93, 1903-1926, Volume 88, page 236 (image 123 of 851), will and codicils of Hannah Seaver of Enfield, written 29 October 1894, 9 January 1895 and 31 August 1899, proved 6 June 1905; original data: New Hampshire County, District and Probate Courts.

Hannah P. Averill was born 20 August 1813 in Antrim, New Hampshire, the daughter of Levi John and Mary (Jones) Averill.  She died 29 April 1905 in Enfield, New Hampshire.  Hannah married (1) John Currier Clough (1810-1852) on 14 August 1836 in Lowell, Massachusetts. They had one child:

*  Emma Frances Clough (1844-1928), married 1885 Timothy Kidder (1827-1901).

Hannah married (2) George Seaver (1810-1891) in about 1853, the son of Thomas and Maribee (Bryant) Sever.  They had one son:

*  George Walker Seaver (1854-1894), married 1878 Julia Wyman Gile (1853-1902).

Hannah (Averill) (Clough) Seaver (1813-1905) wrote her will 29 October 1894, with codicils added dated 9 January 1895 and 31 August 1899, and the will with codicils was proved 6 June 1905.  The will bequeathed money to her son-in-law and her son, two shares of stock to her granddaughter Nina C. Kidder, and the residue to her daughter Emma F. Kidder.  After she wrote her will, her son George Walker Seaver died.  The first codicil gives George's portion to Emma in 1895, and the second codicil gave Timothy Kidder's portion to Emma in 1899
 
The Ancestry.com collection of Grafton County, New Hampshire probate records is limited, and is only probate  court clerk transcriptions of wills.  No petitions, letters of administration, inventories, accounts or distributions are available on Ancestry.  On FamilySearch, the probate case files are available for browsing, and there is a separate probate case file index by year and first letter of the surname.  Hannah Seaver has a 53 page case file, including this will  (the case files are not numbered - they are in alphabetical order by last name for each year). 

George Seaver (1810-1891) is my 4th cousin 6 times removed, with our most recent Seaver common ancestor is my 9th great-grandfather Robert Seaver (1608-1683).

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 2 to 8 July 2023

 Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write hundreds of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  40 Places to Find Family History Help by Bob Taylor on The Family History Guide Blog.

*  Unraveling Roots: Where Are The Hidden Clues by Kathleen Brandt on a3Genealogy.

*  Becoming a Genealogist at Age 10 by Jack Palmer on Vita Brevis.

*  Using Websites’ Card Catalogs: Ancestry Tips by Cari Taplin on Genealogy Pants.

*  Genealogy of Billy The Kid by Carol on Piedmont Trails.

*  How to Search For Obituaries For Free by Name by Mercedes Brons on Who Are You Made Of?

*  Clerk Tried to “Copy” Signature by Michael John Neill on Genealogy Tip of the Day.

*  AT LAST! The General Register Office (England & Wales) makes digital image download of birth and death records available by Nick Thorne on The Nosey Genealogist.

*  DNA Q&A: What is Endogamy? (Plus How to Overcome Common Problems) by Diahan Southard on Family Tree Magazine.

*  How to Use the FamilySearch Tree As a Source by Sunny Morton on Family Tree Magazine.

*  BEST NEW App! Reimagine Your Family Photo Projects by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.

*  Getting ThruLines to Work for Me by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology.

*  Back to the Basics with Marriage Records Part 4: Civil Marriage Records by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday's Family History Finds by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  Friday Fossicking 7th July 2023 by Crissoulli on That Moment In Time.

*  This Week's Creme de la  Creme - July 8, 2023 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and  read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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