I was reading a political news blog and they claimed that Harrison Tyler, a grandson of John Tyler (our 10th President, born in 1790) is still alive, and living in the house that President Tyler built in 1842.
They provided the web site http://www.sherwoodforest.org/ which describes the Natiomal Historic Home. There is a link for Genealogy, which gets you to http://www.sherwoodforest.org/Genealogy.html and there the descendants of John Tyler are listed.
1) John Tyler (1790-1862) married (1) Letitia Christian (1790-1842) and had 8 children; he married (2) Julia Gardiner (1820-1889) in the 1840's, and fathered 7 more children, including:
2) Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935) married (1) Anne Baker Tucker (1857-1921) and had three children; he married (2) Sue Ruffin (1889-1953) and had 3 children, including:
3) Harrison Ruffin Tyler (1928-living)
A grandson was born 138 years after John Tyler was born in 1790. President Tyler and his son Lyon Tyler married second wives much younger than they were and had a second family. They both fathered children at about age 70. Isn't that amazing?
UPDATE: A picture of Harrison Tyler is at http://www.fortpocahontas.org/Besch.html. This page also includes a detailed description of Fort Pocahontas and battles nvolving the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Tell Rootsweb what you think...
Rootsweb has requested input about their web site - it's databases and services. You can access the survey at http://bigfile.rootsweb.com/newsroom/?p=63
After the Rootsweb message board format revamp debacle back in November/December, this is pretty brave of them!
My humble opinion is that the www.Rootsweb.com suite of products and services are the best FREE genealogy resources on the Internet. I use the following all the time:
1) WorldConnect database - over 479 million names (some duplicated) in over 400,000 databases (some duplicated, all user-submitted, at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/
2) Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards -- over 161,000 boards, with 17 million posts - at http://boards.rootsweb.com/
3) Social Security Death Index - 79 million names - at http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
4) Free Web pages at Rootsweb - these include the FreePages (user-submitted), regional resources (including genealogy society) and other pages - at http://www.rootsweb.com/~websites/ There is a surname index when you click on a first letter range.
5) USGenWeb Archives searching - at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsearch.htm
6) Rootsweb Mailing List Threaded Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/.
7) Rootsweb Mailing List Search at http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
8) Surname Resources at Rootsweb at http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/
9) US County Resources at Rootsweb at http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/
10) The Rootsweb Guide to Tracing Famly Trees - articles at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/
These are all very useful FREE resources that anybody, at any experience level, can use effectively to search for research performed by others. The USGenWeb Archives are the only resource listed that provides transcriptions of primary information, however.
Have you used the Rootsweb databases to their fullest? If not - try them out and you may be pleasantly surprised.
UPDATE: 20 February 2007 7 PM PST: Changed the link to the survey so everyone can use it! Thanks to Chris for the message.
After the Rootsweb message board format revamp debacle back in November/December, this is pretty brave of them!
My humble opinion is that the www.Rootsweb.com suite of products and services are the best FREE genealogy resources on the Internet. I use the following all the time:
1) WorldConnect database - over 479 million names (some duplicated) in over 400,000 databases (some duplicated, all user-submitted, at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/
2) Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards -- over 161,000 boards, with 17 million posts - at http://boards.rootsweb.com/
3) Social Security Death Index - 79 million names - at http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
4) Free Web pages at Rootsweb - these include the FreePages (user-submitted), regional resources (including genealogy society) and other pages - at http://www.rootsweb.com/~websites/ There is a surname index when you click on a first letter range.
5) USGenWeb Archives searching - at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsearch.htm
6) Rootsweb Mailing List Threaded Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/.
7) Rootsweb Mailing List Search at http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
8) Surname Resources at Rootsweb at http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/
9) US County Resources at Rootsweb at http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/
10) The Rootsweb Guide to Tracing Famly Trees - articles at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/
These are all very useful FREE resources that anybody, at any experience level, can use effectively to search for research performed by others. The USGenWeb Archives are the only resource listed that provides transcriptions of primary information, however.
Have you used the Rootsweb databases to their fullest? If not - try them out and you may be pleasantly surprised.
UPDATE: 20 February 2007 7 PM PST: Changed the link to the survey so everyone can use it! Thanks to Chris for the message.
Getting my computer life together
Becky asked in a comment how I was doing with the computer problem. Please note that this is a genealogy-content-free post, but it may be helpful to you as a bad example - we all need to learn from the mistakes of others.
As I mentioned on Sunday, my desktop computer crashed - there is still no fix for it. My son-in-law, the IT wizard, is sending a CD down on Wednesday that might work. The other option is to try to recover the data, install a new hard drive, and reinstall everything that is saved or recovered.
The desktop computer is a Dell Dimension 3000, purchased in October 2004, out of warranty. I had backed up last on 31 January, so I lost about two weeks of work. I haven't done anything significant in the genealogy databases since then. I did lose a few MSWord documents, but am trying to get them back from correspondents.
The BIG loss was my email archives. I use Outlook Express, and had not archived anything since I got the computer. I don't have much hope that they can be recovered, based on my previous experience changing computers back in 2004. The other losses are my email address book and my IE Favorites, plus some music and downloaded web pages..
I am using my Dell Inspiron laptop computer on my home network (just installed last week - lucky that!). I hooked up the printer and the external hard drive, and I spent yesterday recovering files from the backed up archives. The laptop is a pain to type on when sitting at a desk - all of the angles are different, some of the key locations are different, and the keys are smaller with a different feel.
On the desktop computer, all of my IE genealogy Favorites were in several large lists - one for Blogs with about 110 entries, and one for Genealogy with about 200 entries. I recently entered almost all of my blog entries into my Bloglines reader, and I'll continue to use that daily rather than enter all of them into my Favorites. For the Genealogy links, I decided to organize many sub-folders, so that I have links to Rootsweb/Ancestry, Data Portals, FamilySearch, Vital Records, Census, Military, Immigratgion/Naturalization, Education, Libraries, Societies, etc. grouped together. This will be easier than sifting through a very long list hoping to see what you want as it scrolls past. The challenge is to remember and recover as many links as I want to recover. I'm going to review my blog archives for links to save.
I was able to capture several of my email groups into the Cox WebMail address book by asking people to send me an email that I had sent previously to the group list. You can set up the email to capture the email address of anyone you send an email to. When my helpful colleague forwarded my email back to me, I did a "Reply All" and sent an email to everyone on the list, and all of the addresses went into my Address Book. I still have to recover the family and "real-life" friends email addresses, and am working through that. Hopefully, they will write me sometime soon!
The lessons learned here are:
1) Back up more often - like daily. With an external hard drive, this is not hard. I'm going to look into doing it automatically nightly. Don't forget your IE Favorites and email address book.
2) Purge and/or save to files your important email messages. Then back up what you save.
3) Keep an email address book list on paper somewhere.
4) Make a list of your user names and passwords for web sites, and hide it somewhere. I use code words sometimes for important things - my wife or kids will get it if the unspeakable happens to me.
The good news is that I'm able to communicate and work fairly effectively. Thank God I have the laptop. If it had happened next Sunday, I would have gone to my CVGS meeting on Monday with no handouts and a scowl on my face!
As I mentioned on Sunday, my desktop computer crashed - there is still no fix for it. My son-in-law, the IT wizard, is sending a CD down on Wednesday that might work. The other option is to try to recover the data, install a new hard drive, and reinstall everything that is saved or recovered.
The desktop computer is a Dell Dimension 3000, purchased in October 2004, out of warranty. I had backed up last on 31 January, so I lost about two weeks of work. I haven't done anything significant in the genealogy databases since then. I did lose a few MSWord documents, but am trying to get them back from correspondents.
The BIG loss was my email archives. I use Outlook Express, and had not archived anything since I got the computer. I don't have much hope that they can be recovered, based on my previous experience changing computers back in 2004. The other losses are my email address book and my IE Favorites, plus some music and downloaded web pages..
I am using my Dell Inspiron laptop computer on my home network (just installed last week - lucky that!). I hooked up the printer and the external hard drive, and I spent yesterday recovering files from the backed up archives. The laptop is a pain to type on when sitting at a desk - all of the angles are different, some of the key locations are different, and the keys are smaller with a different feel.
On the desktop computer, all of my IE genealogy Favorites were in several large lists - one for Blogs with about 110 entries, and one for Genealogy with about 200 entries. I recently entered almost all of my blog entries into my Bloglines reader, and I'll continue to use that daily rather than enter all of them into my Favorites. For the Genealogy links, I decided to organize many sub-folders, so that I have links to Rootsweb/Ancestry, Data Portals, FamilySearch, Vital Records, Census, Military, Immigratgion/Naturalization, Education, Libraries, Societies, etc. grouped together. This will be easier than sifting through a very long list hoping to see what you want as it scrolls past. The challenge is to remember and recover as many links as I want to recover. I'm going to review my blog archives for links to save.
I was able to capture several of my email groups into the Cox WebMail address book by asking people to send me an email that I had sent previously to the group list. You can set up the email to capture the email address of anyone you send an email to. When my helpful colleague forwarded my email back to me, I did a "Reply All" and sent an email to everyone on the list, and all of the addresses went into my Address Book. I still have to recover the family and "real-life" friends email addresses, and am working through that. Hopefully, they will write me sometime soon!
The lessons learned here are:
1) Back up more often - like daily. With an external hard drive, this is not hard. I'm going to look into doing it automatically nightly. Don't forget your IE Favorites and email address book.
2) Purge and/or save to files your important email messages. Then back up what you save.
3) Keep an email address book list on paper somewhere.
4) Make a list of your user names and passwords for web sites, and hide it somewhere. I use code words sometimes for important things - my wife or kids will get it if the unspeakable happens to me.
The good news is that I'm able to communicate and work fairly effectively. Thank God I have the laptop. If it had happened next Sunday, I would have gone to my CVGS meeting on Monday with no handouts and a scowl on my face!
Monday, February 19, 2007
What happened to Benjamin Franklin Seaver?
There are whole parts of world history that I never learned about in school. I vaguely remember hearing that Simon Bolivar and others who liberated South America from Spanish rule in the 1810's, but I have never looked for or even thought of learning more details.
I knew from my email correspondent that Seaver had served in South america off the coast of Argentina aboard the brig Julieta. So I Googled the string [ julieta "benjamin franklin seaver" ] and found a useful link. One was at http://www.irlandeses.org/blackfrigate.htm which describes the history of the Black Frigate which was the flagship of the Argentine Navy under American-born William Brown. The text includes:
"On 10 March 1814 the Hercules, joined by the Julieta, the Tortugas, the Fortunata and the felucca San Luis, faced the strong Spanish naval fleet commanded by Captain Jacinto de Romarate. The Spanish armada had six war ships, brigs, gunboats and a land battery with four cannons. There was a fierce combat after which the Hercules was stranded. American-born officer Benjamin Franklin Seaver, commander of the Julieta, was killed in action. The Hercules defended herself until 12 March at 10 AM. As a result of this combat Commander Elias Smith, Lieutenant Robert Stacy and forty-five sailors were killed by grapeshot. There were about fifty wounded, which imposed a heavy task for the surgeon Bernard Campbell. The flagship received no less than eighty-two cannon blows and was repaired in the same war zone. Plumb plates were placed under the water line and the hull covered with leathers and tar. Henceforth it was nicknamed as 'the Black Frigate'. Richard Baxter, an English-born officer, was appointed as the new commander. On 17 March 1814 Brown attacked the island Martín García together with the Julieta and the Zephir. The Hercules engaged in combat with the Spanish warships Esperanza and Carmen. "
Read the whole article, because it sheds light on what happened in South America in the decade of the 1810's. William Brown was a swashbuckling captain and Admiral - see his Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brown_(admiral).
It must have been an interesting life for my cousin Benjamin Franklin Seaver (1780-1814). He lost his father as a youth; sailed the world, was thrown in prison in France, shipwrecked off Morocco, held for ransom and tried to escape from the Moors, and ransomed as a young man in his 20's; and died off Argentina in 1814 while fighting for freedom in his 30's. He must have sent letters to his family in Boston, but they are probably lost to time. This life story is one that should be told in more detail.
I knew from my email correspondent that Seaver had served in South america off the coast of Argentina aboard the brig Julieta. So I Googled the string [ julieta "benjamin franklin seaver" ] and found a useful link. One was at http://www.irlandeses.org/blackfrigate.htm which describes the history of the Black Frigate which was the flagship of the Argentine Navy under American-born William Brown. The text includes:
"On 10 March 1814 the Hercules, joined by the Julieta, the Tortugas, the Fortunata and the felucca San Luis, faced the strong Spanish naval fleet commanded by Captain Jacinto de Romarate. The Spanish armada had six war ships, brigs, gunboats and a land battery with four cannons. There was a fierce combat after which the Hercules was stranded. American-born officer Benjamin Franklin Seaver, commander of the Julieta, was killed in action. The Hercules defended herself until 12 March at 10 AM. As a result of this combat Commander Elias Smith, Lieutenant Robert Stacy and forty-five sailors were killed by grapeshot. There were about fifty wounded, which imposed a heavy task for the surgeon Bernard Campbell. The flagship received no less than eighty-two cannon blows and was repaired in the same war zone. Plumb plates were placed under the water line and the hull covered with leathers and tar. Henceforth it was nicknamed as 'the Black Frigate'. Richard Baxter, an English-born officer, was appointed as the new commander. On 17 March 1814 Brown attacked the island Martín García together with the Julieta and the Zephir. The Hercules engaged in combat with the Spanish warships Esperanza and Carmen. "
Read the whole article, because it sheds light on what happened in South America in the decade of the 1810's. William Brown was a swashbuckling captain and Admiral - see his Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brown_(admiral).
It must have been an interesting life for my cousin Benjamin Franklin Seaver (1780-1814). He lost his father as a youth; sailed the world, was thrown in prison in France, shipwrecked off Morocco, held for ransom and tried to escape from the Moors, and ransomed as a young man in his 20's; and died off Argentina in 1814 while fighting for freedom in his 30's. He must have sent letters to his family in Boston, but they are probably lost to time. This life story is one that should be told in more detail.
Happy Presidents Day!
Since it is President's Day today (and George Birthington's Washday on Thursday), I thought I would list all of my relationships to American Presidents.
JOHN ADAMS - 4th cousin, 8 times removed
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS - 5th cousin, 7 times removed
FRANKLIN PIERCE - 5th cousin, 7 times removed
MILLARD FILLMORE - 7th cousin, 5 times removed
ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 7th cousin, 4 times removed (assuming his father was Thomas Lincoln)
ULYSSES S. GRANT - 7th cousin, 5 times removed
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
GROVER CLEVELAND - 7th cousin, 3 times removed
JAMES GARFIELD - 8th cousin, 3 times removed
WILLIAM H. TAFT - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
WARREN G. HARDING - 8th cousin, 2 times removed
CALVIN COOLIDGE - 7th cousin, 3 times removed
HERBERT HOOVER - 8th cousin, 3 times removed
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
RICHARD M. NIXON - 10th cousin
GERALD R. FORD - 10th cousin, once removed
GEORGE H.W. BUSH - 8th cousin, once removed
GEORGE W. BUSH - 8th cousin
I figured these out by comparing my ahnentafel chart to the charts in the book "Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts. Obviously, having this many Presidential cousins relates to my extensive New England ancestry. Like my relationships to GWB, I share many colonial ancestors with some of the guys above.
I may try to figure out my relationships to the Vice-Presidents (I know I'm related to Dick Cheney) and Presidential spouses (I know about Barbara (Pierce) Bush) some day.
My New England cousins were impressed by the list. Reciting these to anyone but genealogists seems to make their eyes glaze over.
I often think about what my early colonial ancestors would have thought if they knew that their descendants would be famous and/or leaders of a nation. The colonial guys would not have understood - the King was the leader of the Empire, and they had no relationship to the King, as far as they knew. Of course, some of them were cousins to the King also!
How about you? Any Presidential cousins? Tell me about them.
JOHN ADAMS - 4th cousin, 8 times removed
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS - 5th cousin, 7 times removed
FRANKLIN PIERCE - 5th cousin, 7 times removed
MILLARD FILLMORE - 7th cousin, 5 times removed
ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 7th cousin, 4 times removed (assuming his father was Thomas Lincoln)
ULYSSES S. GRANT - 7th cousin, 5 times removed
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
GROVER CLEVELAND - 7th cousin, 3 times removed
JAMES GARFIELD - 8th cousin, 3 times removed
WILLIAM H. TAFT - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
WARREN G. HARDING - 8th cousin, 2 times removed
CALVIN COOLIDGE - 7th cousin, 3 times removed
HERBERT HOOVER - 8th cousin, 3 times removed
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
RICHARD M. NIXON - 10th cousin
GERALD R. FORD - 10th cousin, once removed
GEORGE H.W. BUSH - 8th cousin, once removed
GEORGE W. BUSH - 8th cousin
I figured these out by comparing my ahnentafel chart to the charts in the book "Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts. Obviously, having this many Presidential cousins relates to my extensive New England ancestry. Like my relationships to GWB, I share many colonial ancestors with some of the guys above.
I may try to figure out my relationships to the Vice-Presidents (I know I'm related to Dick Cheney) and Presidential spouses (I know about Barbara (Pierce) Bush) some day.
My New England cousins were impressed by the list. Reciting these to anyone but genealogists seems to make their eyes glaze over.
I often think about what my early colonial ancestors would have thought if they knew that their descendants would be famous and/or leaders of a nation. The colonial guys would not have understood - the King was the leader of the Empire, and they had no relationship to the King, as far as they knew. Of course, some of them were cousins to the King also!
How about you? Any Presidential cousins? Tell me about them.
Della's Journal - Week 8 (Feb 19-25, 1929)
This is Installment 8 of the Journal of Della (Smith) Carringer, my great-grandmother, who resided at 2115 30th Street in San Diego in 1929.
The "players" and "setting" are described here. Pictures of some of the players are here. Last week's Journal entry is here.
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Tuesday, February 19, cloudy & wet: We worked inside.
Wednesday, February 20: Emily took Ma out to her house. She visited Mrs. Schmidt, Snyder and Van B. Mr. Van B. brought her home.
Thursday, February 21: I went to town. Mr. Nolan Pd. Ma cash for rent while I was gone. I pd water, gas & A's lodge dues.
Friday, February 22, Washington's birthday, pleasant: I went to Mr. Embrey's funeral. He died last Sun. night at his son's. L[yle] & A[ustin] home. Lyle's took ride in afternoon out to Kensington Heights. Mati Dimmock called, was to a card party acrost street. Mrs. Selwyn brought me home from funeral.
Saturday, February 23, cloudy: Ed over, cut lawn, put ferterlizer on asparagrass bed. Emily took Ma out to fix in house, brought in 2 quilts, took out 2 quilts. Ma pd Mr. Van B. $3.00, he brought her home.
Sunday, February 24: Lyle's went to country.
Monday, February 25: Ma went to hear Roy Cambell.
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It was sort of a bland week, wasn't it? I think Della forgot to write for several days starting the 24th - 5 straight days are one line maximum. I don't understand what happened with the quilts. Ma (Abby Smith, aged 85 in 1929) owned a house on 41st Street in East San Diego and rented it out. The people mentioned on Wednesday are probably the renter and neighbors. Della didn't drive, but Lyle's wife, Emily, did. Kensington was one of the ritzier San Diego neighbodrhoods in 1929, I imagine they went to look down into Mission Valley on Friday.
The "players" and "setting" are described here. Pictures of some of the players are here. Last week's Journal entry is here.
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Tuesday, February 19, cloudy & wet: We worked inside.
Wednesday, February 20: Emily took Ma out to her house. She visited Mrs. Schmidt, Snyder and Van B. Mr. Van B. brought her home.
Thursday, February 21: I went to town. Mr. Nolan Pd. Ma cash for rent while I was gone. I pd water, gas & A's lodge dues.
Friday, February 22, Washington's birthday, pleasant: I went to Mr. Embrey's funeral. He died last Sun. night at his son's. L[yle] & A[ustin] home. Lyle's took ride in afternoon out to Kensington Heights. Mati Dimmock called, was to a card party acrost street. Mrs. Selwyn brought me home from funeral.
Saturday, February 23, cloudy: Ed over, cut lawn, put ferterlizer on asparagrass bed. Emily took Ma out to fix in house, brought in 2 quilts, took out 2 quilts. Ma pd Mr. Van B. $3.00, he brought her home.
Sunday, February 24: Lyle's went to country.
Monday, February 25: Ma went to hear Roy Cambell.
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It was sort of a bland week, wasn't it? I think Della forgot to write for several days starting the 24th - 5 straight days are one line maximum. I don't understand what happened with the quilts. Ma (Abby Smith, aged 85 in 1929) owned a house on 41st Street in East San Diego and rented it out. The people mentioned on Wednesday are probably the renter and neighbors. Della didn't drive, but Lyle's wife, Emily, did. Kensington was one of the ritzier San Diego neighbodrhoods in 1929, I imagine they went to look down into Mission Valley on Friday.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
18th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is posted
As many of you know, there is a "Carnival of Genealogy" posted every two weeks, usually by Jasia at the Creative Gene blog. This edition is posted here.
The topic for this edition is "The 5 Best Research Tips for Specific Research Areas." 9 genea-bloggers contributed to this effort. Please take the time to read the entries - they are all good, and you just might learn something helpful (especially if you have New England, Michigan, Indiana, Polish or Mississippi connections).
The next Carnival of Genealogy will have the topic: Shelter from the storm, stories of the home and hearth. Is there a haunted house in your family? Did one of your ancestors live on a boat? Did you research your grandparents' home and find that someone famous once lived there? Did your family share a hunting cabin or cottage at the lake? What have you learned about Aunt Millie's house from census records? Was a family member's home destroyed by fire, flood, tornado, or a hurricane? It's time to tell all about your family's abode! Write your blog post and submit your blog article to the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy using our carnival submission form. The deadline for submissions for the next edition will be February 28, 2007.
I will submit something - I hope you do too. This is only as good as the contributions - and the more there are, the better it will be.
The topic for this edition is "The 5 Best Research Tips for Specific Research Areas." 9 genea-bloggers contributed to this effort. Please take the time to read the entries - they are all good, and you just might learn something helpful (especially if you have New England, Michigan, Indiana, Polish or Mississippi connections).
The next Carnival of Genealogy will have the topic: Shelter from the storm, stories of the home and hearth. Is there a haunted house in your family? Did one of your ancestors live on a boat? Did you research your grandparents' home and find that someone famous once lived there? Did your family share a hunting cabin or cottage at the lake? What have you learned about Aunt Millie's house from census records? Was a family member's home destroyed by fire, flood, tornado, or a hurricane? It's time to tell all about your family's abode! Write your blog post and submit your blog article to the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy using our carnival submission form. The deadline for submissions for the next edition will be February 28, 2007.
I will submit something - I hope you do too. This is only as good as the contributions - and the more there are, the better it will be.
Trouble in Genea-musings - BSOD
Yep, the Blue Screen of Death...on the desktop machine. It says my SYSTEM file in Windows XP is missing or corrupted. Right in the middle of an email message. Rebooting and hitting F8 does not work. It seems fatal. I have a call in to my guru.
So I tried the laptop. Yep, works fine, until my modem went down and it took 30 minutes to figure out how to connect again.
Bottom line -- there may be few posts at Genea-Musings until I get things back to working efficiently.
I'm still trying to figure out what I might lose on the desktop. Definitely 2 years of email files and addresses. Definitely 1000 music files (many on my iPod though). Perhaps the latest database files (I put some on the external drive a week or so ago). My Favorites (I had too many anyway...), some recent CVGS files.
I'll try to keep you posted. If you have suggestions (I already got the message to BACK UP more often!).
So I tried the laptop. Yep, works fine, until my modem went down and it took 30 minutes to figure out how to connect again.
Bottom line -- there may be few posts at Genea-Musings until I get things back to working efficiently.
I'm still trying to figure out what I might lose on the desktop. Definitely 2 years of email files and addresses. Definitely 1000 music files (many on my iPod though). Perhaps the latest database files (I put some on the external drive a week or so ago). My Favorites (I had too many anyway...), some recent CVGS files.
I'll try to keep you posted. If you have suggestions (I already got the message to BACK UP more often!).
Records found at www.Ancestry.ca
I signed up Thursday for three free days using www.Ancestry.ca - for Canadian records. Due to the family obligations on Friday and Saturday, I could only use it on Thursday. That didn't stop me from finding:
1) Kemp and Sovereen/Sovereign data (and images) in the 1851, 1901 and 1911 census records.
2) Kemp and Sovereen/Sovereign data in the Ontario birth (1869-1932), Marriage (1857-1922) and death (1869-1932) indexes. The death indexes had images of the actual registration pages.
3) Seaver data in the Ontario Marriage (1857-1922) and Death (1869-1932) indexes.
Unfortunately, the Ontario death indexes are somewhat incomplete (unless I didn't find the right surname spelling) - I had death dates for several Kemp and sovereen people that I did not find. The indexes permit wild card searches, which really helped with the Sovereen/eign name.
Entries in the death index usually provide age, death date, location, parents names, and marital status. The marriage index usually includes names, ages, birthplace (usually state or province only), marriage date and location, and parents names (including mother's maiden name).
Unfortunately, I did not have time to discover my elusive Loyalist William Hutchinson's family in the available New Brunswick or Ontario records.
All in all, a good three hours of work to obtain records I had not accessed previously.
1) Kemp and Sovereen/Sovereign data (and images) in the 1851, 1901 and 1911 census records.
2) Kemp and Sovereen/Sovereign data in the Ontario birth (1869-1932), Marriage (1857-1922) and death (1869-1932) indexes. The death indexes had images of the actual registration pages.
3) Seaver data in the Ontario Marriage (1857-1922) and Death (1869-1932) indexes.
Unfortunately, the Ontario death indexes are somewhat incomplete (unless I didn't find the right surname spelling) - I had death dates for several Kemp and sovereen people that I did not find. The indexes permit wild card searches, which really helped with the Sovereen/eign name.
Entries in the death index usually provide age, death date, location, parents names, and marital status. The marriage index usually includes names, ages, birthplace (usually state or province only), marriage date and location, and parents names (including mother's maiden name).
Unfortunately, I did not have time to discover my elusive Loyalist William Hutchinson's family in the available New Brunswick or Ontario records.
All in all, a good three hours of work to obtain records I had not accessed previously.
Death of Nathaniel Seaver
Another interesting article about one of my Seaver relatives (a distant cousin, interesting to me, at least!) was found in several newspapers in the America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1876) collection (on www.Newsbank.com), which I accessed at the New England Historic Genealogical Society web site, www.newenglandancestors.org (a subscription site).
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"Concord Herald," (Concord MA), dated 16 May 1793, Volume IV, Issue 15, Page 2.
HEADLINE: New-York, Commerce, Samuel Johnston, Cape Chancelly, Arabia, Valentine Bagley, Almsbury.
TEXT:
We have received from New-York the following account of the unfortunate sufferers, who were on board the ship Commerce of this place, Samuel Johnston, master, wrec'd the 10th of July, 1792, Latt. 18:N a little to the northward of Cape Chancelly, on the coast of Arabia -- it was taken from Valentine Bagley of Almsbury, and confirmed by Samuel Luke of Boston, both of whom were seamen on board said ship, at the time of her being cast away.
Names of those who arrived at Muscat, after travelling 300 miles with almost incredible fatigue, and exposed to the rays of an intensely hot sun, without clothes or provisions -- Samuel Johnston of Rhode Island, master. Samuel Boothbay, of Saco; Valentine Bagley, of Almsbury. Lost in the pinnace, King Lapham, of Bradford, Carpenter; Eben. Grant, and Nath. Seaver, jun., son of one of the Supercargoes. Died with fatigue, swellings blisters in travelling - Charles Lapham, of Boston, seaman; Gilbert Foss, of Long Island, New-York; William Leghorn, and Italian, of Boston; Left unable to proceed, viz. Nath. Seaver, one of the supercargoes and owners - the situation of Mr. Seaver was such that the narrator thinks he could not have survived; and, as a confirmation of his death, the first mate who had promised to stay by him till death, was afterwards seen alone by the Moors; Robert Williams left at the foot of a mountain unable to proceed, and swelled and blistered to a shocking degree, and was without clothes; David Ockington of Boston, first mate, had not arrived at Muscat the 17th of August; John Daniels, of Virginia, boatswain, left unable to proceed; Benjamin Williams, of Boston, second mate, returned to the ship; John Quincy, Sherburne, left the 5th day, very much swell'd and blind; Thomas Barnard, of Boston, and John Rowe, an Irishman, left the 4th day, unable to proceed; John Hill, a negro, taken and made a slave by the Arabs. The two seamen who delivered the foregoing account, arrived at Muscat the 12th of August, and remained until the 17th, at which time there was no account of those they left behind.
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I didn't know what a Supercargo was, so I checked Wikipedia, which says it is a person who manages the ship's cargo, selling and offloading, and buying and onloading, the merchandise onboard; he sails on board the ship.
Nathaniel Seaver (ca 1748-1792) married Susanna White on 4 September 1775 in Brookline MA, and had children Nathaniel, Susan, Benjamin Franklin, Lucretia, Edward, Edward W. and Susan White Seaver. His son, Nathaniel, died when the ship was lost, and his son Benjamin Franklin Seaver, is the one who was in prison in France in 1805, captured by the Moors off Morocco in 1806, and died off South America in 1814.
The sheer volume of the newspaper resources available online is staggering - between Newsbank/GenealogyBank, NewspaperArchives (on Ancestry) and other web sites it is now possible to find historical articles such as the above that help to make their subjects real people who lived and died.
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"Concord Herald," (Concord MA), dated 16 May 1793, Volume IV, Issue 15, Page 2.
HEADLINE: New-York, Commerce, Samuel Johnston, Cape Chancelly, Arabia, Valentine Bagley, Almsbury.
TEXT:
We have received from New-York the following account of the unfortunate sufferers, who were on board the ship Commerce of this place, Samuel Johnston, master, wrec'd the 10th of July, 1792, Latt. 18:N a little to the northward of Cape Chancelly, on the coast of Arabia -- it was taken from Valentine Bagley of Almsbury, and confirmed by Samuel Luke of Boston, both of whom were seamen on board said ship, at the time of her being cast away.
Names of those who arrived at Muscat, after travelling 300 miles with almost incredible fatigue, and exposed to the rays of an intensely hot sun, without clothes or provisions -- Samuel Johnston of Rhode Island, master. Samuel Boothbay, of Saco; Valentine Bagley, of Almsbury. Lost in the pinnace, King Lapham, of Bradford, Carpenter; Eben. Grant, and Nath. Seaver, jun., son of one of the Supercargoes. Died with fatigue, swellings blisters in travelling - Charles Lapham, of Boston, seaman; Gilbert Foss, of Long Island, New-York; William Leghorn, and Italian, of Boston; Left unable to proceed, viz. Nath. Seaver, one of the supercargoes and owners - the situation of Mr. Seaver was such that the narrator thinks he could not have survived; and, as a confirmation of his death, the first mate who had promised to stay by him till death, was afterwards seen alone by the Moors; Robert Williams left at the foot of a mountain unable to proceed, and swelled and blistered to a shocking degree, and was without clothes; David Ockington of Boston, first mate, had not arrived at Muscat the 17th of August; John Daniels, of Virginia, boatswain, left unable to proceed; Benjamin Williams, of Boston, second mate, returned to the ship; John Quincy, Sherburne, left the 5th day, very much swell'd and blind; Thomas Barnard, of Boston, and John Rowe, an Irishman, left the 4th day, unable to proceed; John Hill, a negro, taken and made a slave by the Arabs. The two seamen who delivered the foregoing account, arrived at Muscat the 12th of August, and remained until the 17th, at which time there was no account of those they left behind.
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I didn't know what a Supercargo was, so I checked Wikipedia, which says it is a person who manages the ship's cargo, selling and offloading, and buying and onloading, the merchandise onboard; he sails on board the ship.
Nathaniel Seaver (ca 1748-1792) married Susanna White on 4 September 1775 in Brookline MA, and had children Nathaniel, Susan, Benjamin Franklin, Lucretia, Edward, Edward W. and Susan White Seaver. His son, Nathaniel, died when the ship was lost, and his son Benjamin Franklin Seaver, is the one who was in prison in France in 1805, captured by the Moors off Morocco in 1806, and died off South America in 1814.
The sheer volume of the newspaper resources available online is staggering - between Newsbank/GenealogyBank, NewspaperArchives (on Ancestry) and other web sites it is now possible to find historical articles such as the above that help to make their subjects real people who lived and died.
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