Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2025 - Day 2 (Friday, 7 March) Activities

The RootsTech 2025 Conference continued today live in Salt Lake City, Utah with thousands of persons in attendance, and thousands more watching some of the conference classes online for free.  I chose to be an online viewer rather than an in-person attendee due to my physical restrictions.

Over the past week, I have selected online classes for "My Schedule" and have downloaded syllabus articles for many of the online and in-person classes.   You can see the current list of RootsTech 2025 online and in-person speakers and presentation titles in https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/schedule/.

   Here are the classes that I watched, either partially or completely:

• Lisa Stokes’ class on Genealogy Source Citations 101: Getting Started. She discussed purpose, three main types, consistency, color coding, and templates. Excellent discussion and examples.

• Mindy Taylor’s class on Analyzing Evidence: A Research Game Changer. She discussed the evidence analysis process – question, exhaustive research, analysis, correlate and weigh, and write. This class is based on Evidence Explained (EE), Mastering Genealogy Proof (MGP), and the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS).

• Rebecca Whitford Koford class on Becoming Betsey: Find Female Ancestors with Cluster Research. Use the FAN club to discover them by finding historical and social context, identify family/associates/neighbors, persevere to find answers, and log your research. Excellent case study.

• The panel for RootsTech Innovation and Tech Forum 2025 with:

  • Steven Nielson, Director of Product Development of Adobe, spoke on Adobe Express (free), Lightroom, and Photoshop (image editor) with generative AI tools.

  • Uri Gonen, Sr. VP of Product Management of MyHeritage, spoke about Smart Matches, Cousin Finder (NEW! Like Theory of Family Relativity without DNA).

  • Laryn Brown, CEO of Storied, spoke about Storied Assistant (app that questions user and adds data to family tree); acquired Memory Lane to tell stories on app at nursing homes.

  • Paul Allen, CEO of SOAR, spoke about new FamilyScribe.ai (AI powered tool for audio/video stories)

  • Charlie Green, CEO of Remento, spoke about easy to capture and preserve life stories – a Remento book from voice input to the app. Recordings to transcripts to book. Family memory hub broadcast to family members, into book, including recordings in person’s voice. See https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/expohall/remento

  • Hunter Cannon, Product Manager of Ancestry.com, spoke about AI tools to preserve and enhance family artifacts. The Ancestry app has a new photo and document scanner and image transcript features.

• Gal Zrihen (of MyHeritage) on Uncovering Your Story with MyHeritage DNA. She covered Ethnicity Estimates, Genetic Groups, and Ancient Origins.

• RootsTech 2025 | General Session 2 | Dana Tanamachi. This keynote included a preview of the Ndaba Mandela Keynote address. The MyHeritage platinum sponsor summary featured Aaron Godfrey, who spoke about additions in the past year: MyHeritage added 14 billion records, added OldNews.com newspapers collections, collaborated with FTDNA, acquired of MesAieux.com, introduced LiveMemory on app, introduced MyStories book creation, DNA ethnicity update, introduced DNA Ancient Origins, and introduced Cousin Finder (uses family trees of MyHeritage members with common ancestors). The celebrity keynote speaker was artist Dana Tanamachi who spoke about her business, her artwork, and her family stories about World War II Japanese internment.

• Steve Little class on Beginning with AI Genealogy: Getting Started with Generative Artificial Intelligence in 2025. He discussed foundations, responsible use, and basic AI transformations (including summarization, extraction, generation and translation). This very basic with not many examples.

• Diahan Southard cgass on How Just One Match Can Help You Find Missing Ancestors in 2025. She discusses defining a research goal for a 3rd great-grandparent or later; use Ancestry ThruLines, MyHeritage TOFR, or 23andMe Family Tree tool; use a “Best Known Match” strategy; sort your DNA matches to find a Best Known Match with that goal person; create a genetic network of your matches descended from the goal person; use the Shared Matches of Matches (SMoMs) tools to do genealogy.


• Julia Anderson’s class on Utilizing AI and Full-Text Search to Advance Your African American Research. Julia summarizes how to do African-American research, and also the AI tools on FamilySearch, including the AI Research Assistant and Full-Text Search features. Full-Text Search may find records (especially probate and court records) that identify enslaved persons, slaveholders, free people of color, and Freedmen records.

• Robert Raymond class on The New FamilySearch Catalog. This talk covered the Catalog history and the development of the new catalog.

• CeCe Moore’s class on Telling Stories with DNA: Case Studies from PBS' Finding Your Roots. CeCe told stories about her genetic genealogy journey, Henry Louis Gates’ ancestry (finding his Gates 2nd great-grandfather, fascinating!), and showed a Finding Your Roots segment about the results. If you like genetic genealogy, you have to watch this class!

In the time between class segments, I tried out some of the new features like the MyHeritage Cousin Finder, the Remento website, and created a Storied family tree from the FamilySearch Family Tree.  I also try to get out of my desk chair and walk around occasionally, and went to the grocery store in the second half hour of the Keynote program.

One more day, and I'm tired of sitting and my eyes are tired from all of the watching videos.

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Disclosure:  I am a RootsTech 2025 "Influencer" but will receive no remuneration for my support or posting of RootsTech information.  I will be an online participant this year because of my health issues.

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 1 to 7 March 2025

 The following genealogy record collections were added to the Ancestry.com Card Catalog page by Date Updated during the period from 1 to 7 March 2025:

The ADDED and Updated collections include:

• Pennsylvania, U.S. Westinghouse Employment Records, 1890-1953; 68,162 indexed records with record images, ADDED 3/6/2025.  This collection contains employee records of the Westinghouse Corporation curated by the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Available records may include employee cards, certificates of citizenship, paymaster records, and relief files.

• Pennsylvania U.S., Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1890-1973; 238,831 indexed records with record images, ADDED 3/6/2025. This collection contains personnel records curated by the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. 

• UK, World War II Women's Land Army Index Cards, 1939-1948; 161,216 indexed records with record images, Updated 3/6/2025. This collection contains records of employment for those who served in the Women’s Land Army (WLA) from 1939 to 1948.

• UK and Allied Countries, World War II Liberated Prisoner of War Questionnaires, 1945-1946; 131,521 indexed records with record images, Updated 3/6/2025.  This collection comprises questionnaires filled out by prisoners of war who were liberated at the end of the Second World War in 1945.

• UK, World War II Alien Internees, 1939-1945; 134,409 indexed records with record images, Updated 3/6/2025.  This collection comprises index cards of alien internees in the UK during World War Two.

• Western Australia, Australia, Mines, Farms & Stations 1899-1921; 4,340 indexed records with record images, ADDED 3/5/2025.  This collection contains employment records and records of properties sold between 1921 and 1929 in Western Australia. The data in this collection was originally compiled into a book and published in 1929 by Joseph Charles, a land agent and member of the centenary committee. Most records are formatted as registers.

• South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, Australia, Southern Baptist Series, 1895-1912; 171,921 indexed records with record images, ADDED 3/5/2025. This collection contains the full run of The Southern Baptist newspaper published by the Baptist churches of South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria between 1895 and 1912.

• New York, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1882-1944; 2,851,004 indexed records with record images, Updated 3/3/2025.  Did your ancestors immigrate to New York? You may find their naturalization records among this collections.

• Lwów, Poland, Regional Palestine Bureau, 1924-1939 (USHMM); 25,038 indexed records without record images, ADDED 3/3/2025. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with immigrants residing in Eastern Galicia (Malopolska) regarding immigration to Palestine and preparation of immigration documents.

• Poland, Repatriation of Polish Citizens from Ukraine, 1944-1946 (USHMM); 1,058,770 indexed records without record images, ADDED 3/3/2025. Records of the special office established by the Soviet and Polish Governments for the resettlement of ethnic Poles from the territory of Ukraine after WWII.

• Oklahoma, World War II Historical Collections, 1934-1945; 9,038 indexed records with record images, ADDED 3/3/2025. This collection contains various types of military records from Oklahoma. Although the records in this collection are primarily for veterans of World War II, there are some records available for veterans of World War I and The Korean War. 

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at   https://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.  

By my count, there were 7 NEW record collections ADDED this past week, per the list above.  There are now 33,739 collections available as of 7 March, an  INCREASE of 7 from last week.  

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Disclosure: I pay for an All-Access subscription from Ancestry.com. In past years, Ancestry.com  provided a complimentary All Access subscription, an autosomal DNA test, material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and hosted events and meals that I attended in Salt Lake City.

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52 Relatives: 2nd Great-GrandUncle James Rich (1817-1885) of Hilperton, Wiltshire and Cardiff, Wales

 James Rich[1-5] was born before 23 June 1817 in Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, the son of John and Rebecca (Hill) Rich.[1] He was baptized on 23 June 1817.[1] 

James Rich and Ann Gray were married on 4 February 1839 at St. John in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.[2]  James was of full age, a Bachelor, profession navigator, resident of St. Mary's, father's name was John Rich, a weaver.  Ann was of full age, a Spinster, no profession, resident of St. Mary's, father's name was Joseph ray, a butcher.

 Ann Gray was born in 1811 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales. She died on 29 August 1870 at the age of 59 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.

 James Rich and Ann Gray had the following children:

• Elizabeth Rich, born before 4 July 1841, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; married Thomas Harding, 11 November 1858, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; died June 1911, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.
•  Ann Rich, born December 1842, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; married Thomas Williams, 10 November 1862, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.
• Sarah Rich, born before 29 September 1844, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; married James Badger, 6 September 1863, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.
• John Rich was born before 26 February 1846 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales. He was christened on 26 February 1846 at Saint Mary in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales. He died in April 1847 at the age of 1 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.
• Hannah Rich was born before 28 May 1848 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales. She was christened on 28 May 1848 at Saint Mary in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales. She died on 12 April 1849 at the age of 0 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.

 James Rich and Eliza Cowham9 were married on 27 November 1871 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.[3]

Eliza Cowham was born before 8 January 1827 in Wrangle, Lincolnshire, England. She died in 1896 at the age of 69 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.  

James Rich died on 27 November 1885 at the age of 68 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.[4]

Two newspaper articles were published about the death of James Rich:

"The Mysterious Disappearance at Cardiff 

"THE BODY FOUND.

"The body of James Rich, who mysteriously disappeared last Friday night, was found this morning by the dock police while dragging the top of the East Dock, and was conveyed to the Bute police-station. On search being made all the money and the watch, the latter stopped at a quarter to two, were found intact, in the pockets of deceased. An inquest will be held in due course."

"THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. 

"At the Town-hall on Tuesday Mr E. B. Reece (borough coroner) held all inquest on the body of James Rich, 2, Longcross-street, messenger in the pay department at the Bute Docks. It appeared that deceased was last seen alive by Fredk. Harbidge, near the Alexandra Hotel, at a quarter after 11 p.m. on Friday. He was then in the act of rising from the ground, and witness heard him remark that he had had a nasty fall. P.S. Sutton stated that he recovered the body that evening from the upper part of the East Dock. A watch, stopped at a quarter to 2, and about £14 were found in his pockets. Most of the money was the pay of workmen which he was charged to deliver. There were no marks of violence on the body. An open verdict was returned in this case also."

James was buried after 27 November 1885 at Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.[5]   

SOURCES:

1. Wiltshire births and baptisms, imaged, "Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1922," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61188/records/2506719 : accessed 27 February 2025); Hilperton > 1813-1939 > page 11 (image 23 of 116), No. 85, James Rich baptism entry, 23 June 1817, son of John and Rebecca Rich.

2. Glamorganshire marriages, imaged, "Glamorganshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1570-1994," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62105/records/26877 : accessed 6 March 2025); Cardiff St. John > Marriages > 1837-1845 > Page 64 (image 45 of 229), No. 128, Marriage of James Rich and Ann Gray, 4 February 1839.

3. "England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915," imaged, Ancestry.com,  (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8913/records/6559371 : accessed 6 March 2025), 1871 > Q4-Oct-Nov-Dec > C > page 64 (image 19 of 25), Cardiff District, Eliza Cowham and James Rich marriage entry, Oct-Nov-Dec, 1871.

4. "England & Wales General Register Office", database, General Record Office (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp), James Rich entry, 1885, age 69.

5. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/245650774/james-rich: accessed March 6, 2025), memorial page for James Rich (1815–27 Nov 1885), Find a Grave Memorial ID 245650774, citing Cathays Cemetery, Cathays, Cardiff, Wales; Maintained by Gardley (contributor 51324475).

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James Rich (1817-1885) is my 2nd great-granduncle and brother of my 2nd great-grandmother, Hannah Rich (1821-1911).   

I have posted over 500 genealogical sketches of  my ancestors back through the 7th great-.grandparents and a number of close relatives.  Information about his father, John Rich (1790-1868) is in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 35: #42 John Rich (1791-1868).

The "52 Relatives" theme is a weekly series to document the lives of siblings of my ancestors with relatively short genealogical sketches, including important events, and with source citations.  These relatives lived and died within a family structure, and deserve a genealogical sketch - they were integral parts and important persons in the lives of my ancestral families.  

I post the 52 Ancestors and 52 Relatives sketches on the 52 Ancestors/Relatives Biographies page, in my Ancestry Member Tree, in WikiTree, and in the FamilySearch Family Tree. 

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Findmypast Friday: Discover Welsh Stories

  I received this information from Findmypast today:

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Discover Welsh stories this Findmypast Friday.

We've bolstered the Catholic Heritage Archive this week, with three new Welsh record sets. If you've got ancestors from Wales, their names may appear in these baptisms, marriages, and burials from Cardiff.

We've also added seven new titles to our newspaper archive and updated a further seven existing publications.

Wales Roman Catholic Baptisms (Cardiff)

This week's biggest new collection consists of 67,733 baptism records, with both images and transcriptions to explore.

Wales Roman Catholic Marriages (Cardiff)

These 18,741 Welsh marriage records span an impressive 184 years.

Can you find your ancestors' union?

Wales Roman Catholic Burials (Cardiff)

If your Welsh relative was buried in or around the city of Cardiff, their name may appear within these 9,111 new parish burial records.

New stories from Banffshire to Bournemouth

Lady's Pictorial, the Englishwomen's Review and five other titles joined the archive this week, with a grand total of 381,980 new pages added.

Ladies' Field, 11 February 1899.

We've also updated seven existing publications.

New titles:

• English Woman’s Journal, 1858-1861
• Englishwoman’s Review, 1871-1910
• Hastings and Bexhill Independent, 1873-1896, 1899-1910, 1912-1917
• Hastings and St. Leonards News, 1859-1860, 1863-1864, 1882, 1884-1886, 1889, 1891-1892, 1894, 1901-1905
• Ladies’ Field, 1899-1919, 1921-1928
• Lady’s Pictorial, 1881-1908, 1910-1921
• Mitcham Advertiser, 1916-1930, 1932-1933

Updated titles:

• Banffshire Advertiser, 1987-1989
• Bournemouth Times and Directory, 1889
• Caithness Courier, 1981-1982, 1987, 1990, 1999
• Londonderry Standard, 1910-1911, 1913-1916, 1918-1919, 1951, 1953-1959
• Shropshire Star, 1992
• The Queen, 1874, 1918-1945, 1947-1960, 1962
• Wellington Journal, 1969-1970

More on this topic:     welsh records

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Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2025 - Day 1 (Thursday, 6 March) Activities

The RootsTech 2025 Conference started today live in Salt Lake City, Utah with thousands of persons in attendance, and thousands more watching some of the conference classes online for free.  I chose to be an online viewer rather than an in-person attendee due to my physical restrictions.

Over the past week, I have selected online classes for "My Schedule" and have downloaded syllabus articles for many of the online and in-person classes.   You can see the current list of RootsTech 2025 online and in-person speakers and presentation titles in https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/schedule/preview.

My activities today were sandwiched around my visit to see my wife in her memory care facility but I was able to watch some of the classes on my class schedule.   Here are the classes that I watched, either partially or completely:

• Jim Brewster’s classes on Using Genetic Genealogy to Break Down a Brick Wall – Parts 1, 2, 3. This was a Y DNA case study.

• Julia Anderson’s class on Beyond the Brick Wall: Strategies for Pre-1850 U.S. Research. This class was excellent – she worked from death to birth, uncovered 3 marriages of Hannah Jeffries, and identified her parents and siblings using death, marriage, Quaker and census records.

• Alice Childs' class on Intersecting Lines: Pedigree Collapse Helps Identify an Ancestor’s Parents. This class dealt with autosomal DNA matches.

• The FamilySearch Global and Tech Forum 2025 panel with Valerie Villalobos Huitron (discussing the new FS Family Group Family Tree ); Craig Miller (discussing the new AI Help Chatbot); Bryan Austad (dscussing the new Together Family Stories app); Andrew Gold (discussing the new AI Research Assistant); Michelle Barber (discussing the existing Full Text Search -- now with 1.2 billion images, many record types, transcription, summary, source, link); Ryan Parker (discussing Tree Integrity), and Sarah Hammon (with Q&A).

• Thursday Keynote talks in RootsTech 2025 | General Session 1 | Rachel Platten and Steve Rockwood and Ancestry (Crista Cowan). Steve discussed the RootsTech theme – Discover. Crista talked about her career, family stories, the new Ancestry Network, added records (now with 65 billion records from 88 countries (added 5 billion in last year), 1.1 billion photos and stories, 143 million trees, 27 million DNA tests). Rachel Platten couldn’t be there in-person, but discussed her life and family with the moderator Kirby Heyborne on video and sang a song. Matt and Savanna Shaw told family stories and sang several songs.

• Watched Jill Morelli’s class on Tracing Your Danish Roots: Essential Skills for Beginner Genealogists. History, names, words, unique letters, indexes, records. Excellent!

• Crista Cowan’s class on What’s New at Ancestry® in 2025. She shared many life stories, the Ancestry card catalog, and the new Ancestry Network in Pro Tools (where you can put tree persons into groups for shared experiences – community, church members, military units, neighbors, friends, witnesses, etc. in a time and/or place)

• Jill Reilly (NARA) and Ian James (FamilySearch) class on Leveraging Partnerships, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Community Engagement to Improve Discoverability of Records. They discussed the USA's 250th Anniversary in 2026 and indexing Revolutionary War pension files.

• Steve Little’s class on AI Genealogy: Year Two: The 2025 Outlook: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re At, Where We’re Headed. Excellent discussion of the topic, but light on examples.

• Mark Thompson’s class on Learn Genealogy Faster and Easier with Artificial Intelligence. Excellent discussion about prompting, and examples for defining genetic genealogy shared cMs, for creating a locality guide, and for learning old English handwritten transcription.

I also browsed the Expo Hall page (whih first appeared this morning) to get a sense of the companies and organizations that were exhibitors.  The most advanced technology I saw was the Remento life story book feature.

Lastly, I checked the Relatives at RootsTech page and saw that I have 74,052 relatives listed at RootsTech.

My closest relative is a first cousin 1x removed whom I know in my Seaver line, and the next closest cousin is George, a 3rd cousin 1x removed in my Kemp line.  I am randyseaver1 if you want to see how I am related to you.  

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Disclosure:  I am a RootsTech 2025 "Influencer" but will receive no remuneration for my support or posting of RootsTech information.  I will be an online participant this year because of my health issues.

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Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - 28 February to 6 March 2025

 The following Record Collections were ADDED to or updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of 28 February to 6 March 2025:

• MyHeritage Family Sites (Family Trees), Updated Mar 5 2025,   95,486,852 entries
• MyHeritage members (Family Trees), Updated Mar 5 2025, 76,122,312 entries
•  MyHeritage photos & docs (Images), Updated Mar 5 2025, 447,982,587 entries
• Search Connect™ - Searches by MyHeritage Members (Family Trees), Updated Mar 5 2025,  453,140,534 entries
• FamilySearch Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Mar 5 2025, 1,173,102,329    entries
• MyHeritage Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Mar 5 2025, 6,234,653,531 entries
• Geni World Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Mar 5 2025, 360,825,202 entries
• Filae Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Mar 5 2025, 307,087,127 entries
• United States, Flexoline Alien Registrations 1940-1954 (Immigration & Emigration), ADDED 2 Mar 2025,  8,253,845 entries.

• United Kingdom Newspapers from OldNews.com (Newspapers), Updated Mar 1 2025, 8,105,394 entries.
• Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 (Draft, Enlistment & Service),   ADDED Mar 1 2025, 8,325,620 entries
• Canada, Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 (Passenger Lists), ADDED Mar 1 2025, 829,852 entries.
• United Kingdom & Commonwealth, British Jewry Book of Honour, 1914-1919 (), ADDED Mar 1, 2025, 58.707 entries
• Spain Newspapers from OldNews.com (Newspapers), Updated Mar 1 2025, 13, 721, 512 entries 
• Germany Newspapers from OldNews.com (Newspapers), Updated Mar 1 2025, 12,891,405 entries.

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There are 4 ADDED record collections this past week, and MyHeritage now has a total of  7,461 record collections (an increase of 5 collections from last week), with 33,508,654,317  entries (an increase of over 22 million entries).  

The FamilySearch Family Tree, and all other Tree collections added no entries for the past three weeks.  

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Randy's Famous Cousins - 5th Cousin 4x Removed Abigail (Powers) Fillmore (1798-1853), the Wife of the 13th President of the United States

 This week's famous cousin is my 5th cousin 4x removed Abigail (Powers) Fillmore (1798-1853), the wife of the 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore.

Here is Abigail (Powers) Fillmore's Family Search Family Tree short biography:

When Abigail Powers was born on 13 March 1798, in Stillwater, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States, her father, Lemuel Powers Jr., was 41 and her mother, Abigail Newland, was 40. She married President Millard Fillmore on 5 February 1826, in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 30 March 1853, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.

The Wikipedia profile for Abigail (Powers) Fillmore includes this information:

Abigail Fillmore (née Powers; March 13, 1798 – March 30, 1853), wife of President Millard Fillmore, was the first lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853. She began work as a schoolteacher at the age of 16, where she took on Millard Fillmore, who was two years her junior, as a student. She continued her teaching work after their marriage in 1826 until the birth of her son Millard Powers Fillmore in 1828. She lived in Buffalo, New York, while her husband advanced his political career in Albany, New York, and Washington, D.C. She would occasionally join him in these cities, becoming involved in local social life. She became the second lady of the United States in 1849 after her husband was elected vice president on the Whig Party presidential ticket, and she became the first lady of the United States in 1850 after her husband succeeded to the presidency.

Fillmore's most noted achievement as first lady was the establishment of the first White House Library. She had a lifelong appreciation for literature and refused to live in a home without books. The library became a popular reception room in the White House and functioned as the home of a literary salon. She was also involved in the political aspects of the presidency, and her husband often sought her opinion on state affairs. She took less interest in the role of White House hostess, and she suffered from ailments that prevented her from carrying out some of her duties, including an injured ankle that limited her mobility. Many of her social responsibilities were delegated to her daughter Mary Abigail Fillmore. Fillmore died of pneumonia in 1853, mere weeks after the end of her tenure as first lady. She has received little historical attention; she is considered one of the most obscure first ladies, and much of her correspondences are lost.

Here is the Relative Finder chart showing my relationship to Abigail (Powers) Fillmore:

My most recent common ancestor with 5th cousin 4x removed Abigail (Powers) Fillmore are my 8th great-grandparents Ralph Shepard (1603-1693) and Thankslord Perkins (1612-1693).  

Are you related to Abigail (Powers) Fillmore?  Check out her profile on the FamilySearch Family Tree and click the "View Relationship" link at the top of the page.  Note that you have to have your profile connected to the FamilySearch Family Tree in order for this to work.

This shows that you never know to whom you might be related!!!  I'm having lots of Genealogy Fun.  Click here to see all of my famous cousins.

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