Task 2b - Sync Family Tree Maker 2012 File to Ancestry Member Tree

In Problems in RM5, LFT7.5, FTM2012 and Ancestry Member Trees  (3 September 2012), I noted two problems when I went from my RootsMagic 5 file to a GEDCOM file to a Legacy Family Tree 7.5 file to a second GEDCOM file to a Family Tree Maker 2012 file to as new Ancestry Member Tree.  The two problems with the resulting tree were that:

*  Some of the "double dates" were wrong (one said "0001-20 March 1630" when it should have said "20 March 1630/1")
*  Some long Source Citation details (more than 255 characters) were truncated.

I showed in the previous post that the GEDCOM created by RootsMagic 5 had correct double dates for Sarah Pray and a complete source citation detail for the 1920 U.S. census for Frank Walton Seaver.  

In the previous post, I set out three tasks to investigate where these problems occurred.  The first task was to create a GEDCOM file from my RootsMagic 5 database and upload it to a new Ancestry Member Tree, which I did in Task 1 - Upload RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM file to Ancestry Member Tree.

The second task is to upload the same GEDCOM file to Family Tree Maker 2012, review the issues, and then upload the FTM2012 tree to a new Ancestry Member Tree using the TreeSync feature.  I'm going to split this effort into two posts - first the upload to FTM 2012, then the TreeSync to a new Ancestry Member Tree.  I discussed the first half in Task 2a - Upload GEDCOM File to Family Tree Maker 2012.

Part 2 of this second task is to upload the Family Tree Maker 2012 file created from the GEDCOM file (created by RootsMagic 5) into a new Ancestry Member Tree using the TreeSync feature.

I took screen captures throughout this process in order to identify the elapsed time.  Here are the times noted:

*  31 August, 9:15 PM - TreeSync started 
*  31 August, 10:23 PM - TreeSync of the data file complete (Media in the process of being uploaded).
*  1 September, 2:15 PM - The Media upload is still progressing.  I cancelled it finally.

I took this screen shot today, showing the statistics for the FTM 2012 file:

There are only 509 Media items listed, and I had 515 Media item links in the GEDCOM file. Does anything in the Media Workspace help me here?  There is a "Find Missing Media" link in the "Media" menu in the "Media" Workspace.  I clicked on that and saw:

There are five Media items listed with the Media caption, Path, Status and Attach columns.  The Path column said "Unknown (click to search manually)."  I checked the caption, clicked on the "Unknown..." link for each item, found the Media item in my computer files, and added it to the list.  After all five of the Missing Media, I saw:

Now I don't know exactly how to proceed here - do I click on the "Copy" button in the "Attach" column?  I didn't do that, and still have 509 Media items.  I don't see any Missing Media items when I scroll through the thumbnail images, however.

I know I got off track with the above, but it's a potential issue for people using TreeSync and who end up with Missing Media.  

After the TreeSync was successfully completed, I checked the "Tree Overview" of the Ancestry Member Tree created:

All of the Persons were uploaded and synced, but only 504 Media items were synced.  My guess is that the 5 found in "Missing Media" were not uploaded.  However, my FTM 2012 Plan Workspace says it is In Sync.  

To the problems noted in the first post:

1)  The Double Date" issue:  The Person Page "Overview" for Sarah Pray is:

The Double Date information is not reflected on that page.  However, the "Facts and Sources" tab looks like:

On this "Facts and Sources" tab, the Double Dates are accurately and completely reflected.

2)  The Source Citation Truncation issue:  Here is the list of source Citations and Details for Frank Walton Seaver:

As you can see, the Detail is truncated when it is longer than 255 characters.

3)  The Notes issue:  The Notes window for Frank Walton Seaver looksl ike this:

As you can see, there are extra blank characters  in the text.  However, they are not in the Source or Source Citation Details fields.  All of this is consistent with what was in the FTM 2012 file before the TreeSync.

So what I learned in this experiment was that starting with a Family Tree Maker 2012 file (created by importing a GEDCOM file created by RootsMagic 5) to an Ancestry Member Tree using the TreeSync feature resulted in:

*  The GEDCOM file upload for my 41,261 person tree with 30,000 source citations took only 68 minutes to upload to an Ancestry Member Tree.  However, the Media upload too much longer.

*  504 Media items of the 515 links to Media items in my computer files (that I had attached to my RootsMagic 5 tree, and which had links to the images in the GEDCOM file to FTM 2012), uploaded to the Ancestry Member Tree.  

*  The Ancestry Member Tree uploaded the "Double Dates" correctly, but did not display them correctly in the "Overview" page of the "Timeline" field on the Person Page.  However, they did display correctly on the "Facts and sources" page of the "Timeline" field. 

*  The Ancestry Member Tree truncates long Source Citation Detail text to 255 characters. 

*  The Ancestry Member Tree reads and displays the Person Notes data as shown in FTM 2012 (however, since FTM 2012 added extra blank characters after the GEDCOM upload, the AMT does also).  Note that only the tree Owner and persons designated as Editors can see these Notes.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/09/task-2b-sync-family-tree-maker-2012.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Treasure Chest Thursday - 1870 U.S. Census Record of Thomas Richmond Family

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time 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 1870 United States Census record for my Richmond great-grandparents and their family in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut (two pages): 

The Thomas Richmond family is on two census pages - the bottom two lines of the first page, and the top line on the next page.  Here are snippets for these three persons:

The extracted information for the family, residing in Stonington, taken on 11 July 1870, is:

*  Thomas Richmond - Age 23, male, white, In Wn mill, born in England, father of foreign birth, mother of foreign birth, male citizen of U.S. upwards of 21 years of age.

*  Julia Richmond - Age 21, female, white, Keeping house, born Connecticut

*  Anna Richmond - Age 1, female, white, at home, born Connecticut

The source citation for the census image is:

1870 United States Federal Census, New London County, Connecticut, Population Schedule, Stonington 2nd Ward: page 775, dwelling #272, family #386, Thomas Richmond household; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 October 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M593, Roll 114.

I consider the 1870 U.S. Census records to be an "Original Source" (because this "family snapshot" in July 1870 is in its first written form), although the image in the National Archives is likely a record copy (since the enumerator made two copies of the original, and the Archives has the third copy); mostly as "Secondary Information" (since we don't know who provided the information - although it was probably Julia Richmond), and as "Indirect Evidence" for most of the information (the exception being the birthplaces, and Thomas's occupation which were certainly known by the informant).  

I see one obvious errors in this census record (based on what I know about these persons from other records, including birth and marriage records):

* Thomas Richmond's age is listed as 23, but he was born 16 June 1848, so he was age 21 on 1 June 1870 (the official census date), and 22 when the enumerator made this record.  

Thomas and Julia Richmond had a son, Frederic J. Richmond, sometime in 1870.  He is not listed in this census, and so his birth date is likely after 1 June 1870.

I noticed that Thomas Richmond is listed as a U.S. citizen over age 21, although he was an immigrant from England in 1856.  I doubt that he applied and was granted naturalization since he's only age 22 in 1870.  My educated guess is that he became a citizen of the United States when he married Julia (White) Richmond in 1868.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/09/treasure-chest-thursday-1870-us-census.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Task 2a - Upload GEDCOM File to Family Tree Maker 2012

In Problems in RM5, LFT7.5, FTM2012 and Ancestry Member Trees  (3 September 2012), I noted two problems when I went from my RootsMagic 5 file to a GEDCOM file to a Legacy Family Tree 7.5 file to a second GEDCOM file to a Family Tree Maker 2012 file to as new Ancestry Member Tree.  The two problems with the resulting tree were that:

*  Some of the "double dates" were wrong (one said "0001-20 March 1630" when it should have said "20 March 1630/1")
*  Some long Source Citation details (more than 255 characters) were truncated.

I showed in the previous post that the GEDCOM created by RootsMagic 5 had correct double dates for Sarah Pray and a complete source citation detail for the 1920 U.S. census for Frank Walton Seaver.  

In the previous post, I set out three tasks to investigate where these problems occurred.  The first task was to create a GEDCOM file from my RootsMagic 5 database and upload it to a new Ancestry Member Tree, which I did in Task 1 - Upload RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM file to Ancestry Member Tree.

The second task is to upload the same GEDCOM file to Family Tree Maker 2012, review the issues, and then upload the FTM2012 tree to a new Ancestry Member Tree using the TreeSync feature.  I'm going to split this effort into two posts - first the upload to FTM 2012, then the TreeSync to a new Ancestry Member Tree.

Part 1 of this second task is to upload the GEDCOM file created by RootsMagic 5 to a new Family Tree Maker 2012 file.  I performed this several days ago.  Here is the "Plan" View for the FTM 2012 file after the Upload:

I note that there are 41,261 persons in this file, with 509 Media items.

I am most interested in the "Double Date" import here.  Here is the Person page for Sarah Pray (used in the previous post):

I noted that the correct "Double Date" entries from the GEDCOM file are present for the Birth and Christening (the latter says 20 March 1630/1).  After checking other double date instances, I concluded that Family Tree Maker 2012 reads and displays the dates correctly.

What about a GEDCOM file created by FTM 2012?  Here are the lines in the GEDCOM file for Sarah Pray:

The entries for the DATE tags correctly reflect the "Double Dates."

Next I want to look at the Source Citation Detail for the 1920 U.S. Census for Frank Walton Seaver (similar to the previous post).  Here is the screen for this citation:

The Source, Citation Detail and Citation Text fields have the complete information transmitted via the GEDCOM file.  However, there are extra blank characters in the text fields.  I've noticed this, and blogged about it, previously, so this is not a new problem.  It seems to be limited to Family Tree Maker 2012 imports of a RootsMagic GEDCOM export file, however.

The lines in the GEDCOM file, created by Family Tree Maker 2012, for this source looks like this:

As you can see, the 1920 U.S. Census Source Citation Detail (the PAGE tag) and the Source Citation Text (the DATA tag) are complete, although with the extra blank characters in the text.

Lastly, I want to show the Person Notes page for Frank Walton Seaver:

As you can see, in the bottom panel, the Person Notes also have the extra blank characters in the text.  Again, this is a known problem of Family Tree Maker reading a GEDCOM file created by RootsMagic.

So what I learned in this experiment was that exporting a GEDCOM file (created by RootsMagic 5) to a Family Tree Maker 2012 resulted in:

*  The GEDCOM file upload for my 41,261 person tree with 30,000 source citations took about 20 minutes to upload to Family Tree Maker 2012.

*  Of the 515 Media links (to images in my computer files) that I had attached to my RootsMagic 5 tree, and which had links to the images in the GEDCOM file, 509 of them loaded into Family Tree Maker 2012.  

*  Family Tree Maker 2012 uploaded the "Double Dates" correctly, and displayed them correctly in the "Individual and Shared Facts" field on the Person Tab, and created a GEDCOM file with them correctly..

*  Family Tree Maker 2012 did not truncate long Source Citation Detail text to 255 characters, and created a GEDCOM file with them correctly, although blank characters are added to the Source field text.

*  Family Tree Maker 2012 reads and displays the Person Notes data correctly, although extra blank characters are in the Notes text.

Note:  The extra blank characters issue seems to be limited to Family Tree Maker 2012 imports of a RootsMagic GEDCOM export file.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/09/task-2a-upload-gedcom-file-to-family.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

(Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 221: Seaver/Richmond cousins in San Diego

 I am posting photographs from my family collections for (Not So) Wordless Wednesday (you know me, I can't go wordless!).    

Here is a photograph from the Geraldine (Seaver) Remley family collection handed down from my Aunt Gerry in 2007 after her passing. 

I know who three of these four people are, from left to right:  William B. "Bud" Richmond (1909-2003), Marcia R. Chamberlain, an unknown lady, Geraldine Seaver (1917-2007).  I don't know when or where these pictures were taken, but my guess is that it was in July 1942 in San Diego, California, at the time of my parents wedding.  I believe that the trip for the wedding was the only time Geraldine came to California until the late 1960s.

Bud and Gerry are first cousins, and Marcia is their first cousin once removed.  Bud is the son of Charles Percival Richmond (1880-1910) and Jessie Brown (1882-1947), and resided in Santa Barbara.  Marcia is the granddaughter of George Taylor (1865-1945) and Emily White Richmond (1879-1966), and resided in San Diego.  Geraldine is the daughter of Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) and Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), and resided in Leominster, Massachusetts.

Who is the unknown lady?  I don't know - it may be Bud's mother, but she looks pretty young for age 60.  It may be a girlfriend of Bud's - he married Jane McPherson (1915-1999) in 1947.  It may be one of Marcia's friends.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/09/not-so-wordless-wednesday-post-221.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Task 1 - Upload RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM file to Ancestry Member Tree

In Problems in RM5, LFT7.5, FTM2012 and Ancestry Member Trees  (3 September 2012), I noted two problems when I went from my RootsMagic 5 file to a GEDCOM file to a Legacy Family Tree 7.5 file to a second GEDCOM file to a Family Tree Maker 2012 file to as new Ancestry Member Tree.  The two problems with the resulting tree were that:

*  Some of the "double dates" were wrong (one said "0001-20 March 1630" when it should have said "20 March 1630/1")
*  Some long Source Citation details (more than 255 characters) were truncated.

I showed in the previous post that the GEDCOM created by RootsMagic 5 had correct double dates for Sarah Pray and a complete source citation detail for the 1920 U.S. census for Frank Walton Seaver.  

In the previous post, I set out three tasks to investigate where these problems occurred.  The first task is to create a GEDCOM file from my RootsMagic 5 database and upload it to a new Ancestry Member Tree.  

I did the first part of this task in RootsMagic 5 (File > Export) by including everybody and choosing only to export Notes, Sources and Multimedia Links:

The second part of this task is to upload the file into a new Ancestry Member Tree (On Ancestry.com, choose Family Tree tab, then Upload a GEDCOM, and fill in the blanks, then click on "Upload."

The upload of my 41,261 person tree took about three minutes.  It took another fifteen minutes for the tree to show up in my Family Trees list.  Here is a screenshot of the Tree Overview page:

As you can see, the 41,261 persons loaded, but no Media uploaded (as I expected).  After some time, a number of Hints were offered by Ancestry for some of my tree persons.

The Person page for Sarah Pray looks like this:

As you can see, the two Facts for Birth (it says "Mar" rather than "Bef 20 Mar 1630/1") and Christening (it says "Mar" rather than "20 Mar 1630/1") don't show completely in the Timeline field.  The Birth Fact is shown correctly just below the person's name.  My conclusion here, after checking more instances of this, is that Ancestry reads the "Double Dates" correctly, but does not display them correctly in the Timeline field.  I have noted this previously while perusing many Ancestry Member Trees.

The "Source Citations" tab for Frank Walton Seaver looks like this (scrolled down the page a bit):

The Source and Citation Detail are listed for each Fact.  Some of the Details are complete (e.g., the 1900 U.S. Census Fact Detail) and some are truncated (e.g. the 1920 U.S. Census Fact Detail).  The truncated ones are more than 255 characters.  My conclusion here is that the Source Citation Detail field in an Ancestry Member Tree is 255 characters.

Lastly, I want to show the Notes screen for Frank Walton Seaver:

The Notes listed above look fine to me - they have line breaks, no extra blank characters, etc.  

So what I learned in this experiment was that exporting a GEDCOM file (created by RootsMagic 5) to an Ancestry Member Tree resulted in:

*  The GEDCOM file upload for my 41,261 person tree with 30,000 source citations took only 3 minutes to upload to an Ancestry Member Tree.

*  The Media (515 links to images in my computer files) that I had attached to my RootsMagic 5 tree, and which had links to the images in the GEDCOM file, did not upload to the Ancestry Member Tree.

*  The Ancestry Member Tree uploaded the "Double Dates" correctly, but did not display them correctly in the "Timeline" field on the Person Page.

*  The Ancestry Member Tree truncates long Source Citation Detail text to 255 characters. 

*  The Ancestry Member Tree reads and displays the Person Notes data correctly.  Note that only the tree Owner and persons designated as Editors can see these Notes.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/09/task-1-upload-rootsmagic-5-gedcom-file.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Tuesday's Tip - Find Illinois Resources on FamilySearch

This week's Tuesday's Tip is:  Find Illinois genealogy resources on FamilySearch.org.

The list of Illinois record collections on FamilySearch.org is shown below:

There are 20 record collections on this list as of today, including:

*  Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934 (9% complete, 323,712 records)

*  Illinois Births and Christenings, 1820-1040 (507,005 records)

*  Illinois, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1853-2009 (browse images only, only one cemetery at present)

*  Illinois, Chicago, Catholic Church Records, 1833-1905 (browse images only, over 179,000 images)

*  Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878-1922 (1,431,946 records)

*  Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers, 1871-1915 (962,515 records)

*  Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922 (1,431,659 records)

*  Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920 (865,669 records)

*  Illinois, Cook County, Maywood, Maywood Herald Obituary Card Index, 1885-2002 (browse images only)

*  Illinois, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1962 (browse images only)

*  Illinois, DeKalb County Land Records, 1838-1927 (browse images only)

*  Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947 (2,879,598 records)

*  Illinois, Diocese of Belleville, Catholic Parish Records, 1729-1956 (browse images only)

*  Illinois, Macon County, Decatur Public Library Collections, 1879-2007 (browse images only)

*  Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935 (636,536 records)

*  Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950 (1,491,586 records)

*  Illinois, Probate Records, 1819-1970 (browse images only)

*  Illinois, State Census, 1855 (256,004 records)

*  Illinois, State Census, 1865 (380,262 records)

*  Illinois, Tazewell County, Obituary Card Index from the "Pekin Times," 1914-2007

The collections above with a number of records available means that the collection is indexed and searchable.  The collections above that say "browse images only" are not indexed, but are waypointed (e.g., alphabetically, by county, by town, etc.);  for these, the user has to move image by image, or jump to an image number, in order to see the actual records.

FamilySearch is constantly updating the incomplete collections, so check back on occasion.  also, new record collections are added each month so be sure to check the list of Illinois record collections every so often.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/09/tuesdays-tip-find-illinois-resources-on.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Problems in RM5, LFT7.5, FTM2012 and Ancestry Member Trees

In My FTM 2012 File Synced with Ancestry - only needed more Patience (30 August 2012), I discussed some of the issues I had with using TreeSync in Family Tree Maker 2012 to a new Ancestry Member Tree.

As I looked through the Ancestry Member Tree, I noticed several things that did notl ook right:

*  The most important thing was that the "double dates" (you know, the ones for January, February and March between 1582 and 1752) were screwy.  One entry said 0001 - 20 March 1630 - it should have said 20 March 1630/1.  There were hundreds of entries like this.

*  Long source citation details were truncated, as if there is a character limit.  My guess is that one the programs has a 255 character limit for citation details.

I set about to figure out why these happened, and where they occurred in my RootsMagic 5 > GEDCOM file > Legacy Family Tree 7.5 > GEDCOM File > Family Tree Maker 2012 > Ancestry Member Tree process.  My findings:

*  The RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM file export has the double dates in correct format.  The Legacy Family Tree 7.5 export to GEDCOM file did not.  I think that there is a setting in LFT to enable double dates in Options > Customize > Dates that didn't get enabled.  

*  The truncation of the long source citation details occurred when exporting the Legacy Family Tree 7.5 file to the GEDCOM file.  The RootsMagic 5 export to GEDCOM shows them complete. They also show as truncated in Legacy Family Tree 7.5 source citations.  

I decided to delete my newly created Ancestry Member Tree, mainly because the double date problem is pandemic in my file.

So what to do now to get my genealogy database without these problems into an Ancestry Member Tree?  I decided to do three tasks:

1)  Create a new RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM file and upload it directly to Ancestry.com as a new Ancestry Member Tree.  Will the double dates be correct, will the source citation details be complete, and what other problems will I find?

2)  Upload the new RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM 5 file into Family Tree Maker 2012 and see if the double date and source citation detail problems transmit to FTM 2012.  Then use TreeSync to add the tree to a new Ancestry Member Tree (separate from the first one), and determine what problems exist.

3)  Upload the new RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM file to Legacy Family Tree 7.5, make sure to turn on the double date indicator, and see what problems, if any, exist in that file (especially checking for the source citation detail problem).

I will report on these three tasks in separate posts in the next few days.

As a baseline, here are snippets from the RootsMagic 5 GEDCOM file for the two problems mentioned above:

*  The Double date problem, using Sarah Pray (1630-1667) from my database:

As you can see, in the 10th line, the BIRTh tag date is BEF 20 MAR 1630/1.  In the 19th line, the CHRistening tag date is 20 MAR 1630/1.  

*  For the source citation detail problem, the GEDCOM file for the 1920 U.S. Census for Frank Walton Seaver is:

As you can see (probably with a magnifying glass!), the source citation detail PAGE (the GEDCOM tag for citation detail) item in the GEDCOM is complete, all the way to the end of the "...Roll 747."  There are 290 characters in the source citation detail by my count.

As far as I can tell, the GEDCOM file created by RootsMagic 5 transmits the double date information correctly and the source citation detail completely.

What other problems have you found uploading a GEDCOM file to another program or to an Ancestry Member Tree?  Tell me about them in Comments.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/09/problems-in-rm5-lft75-ftm2012-and.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Amanuensis Monday - Final Account of Estate of Hattie (Hildreth) Seaver (1857-1920)

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday. What does "amanuensis" mean? John offers this definition:

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

The document this week is the Final Account filed by the administrator of the estate of my great-grandmother, Hattie L. (Hildreth) Seaver (1857-1920), who died 29 November 1920 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.  Hattie's husband, Frank Walton Seaver, died after she did on 27 November 1922.  However, Hattie's mother, Sophia (Newton) Hildreth, died after both of them on 29 August 1923.  The estate of Sophia (Newton) Hildreth included the property in Leominster that she and Hattie inherited from Edward Hildreth (1831-1899), their husband and father, respectively.

Here is the Final Account of the estate of Hattie L. Seaver, including the property schedules:

The transcription of this document is (handwritten portions in italics, blanks underlined):

R.L., Chap. 150, § 2

The first and final ACCOUNT OF J. Ward Healey 

administrat or

of the  estate of Hattie L. Seaver

of Leominster in the County of Worcester, deceased.

This account is for the beginning with the seventh day of

September A.D. 19 23, and ending with the fifteenth

day of December A.D. 19 23.

Said accountant charges himself with the several amounts received as

stated in Schedule A, herewith exhibited, ................................ $ 6546.99

And asks to be allowed for sundry payments and charges, as stated in Schedule

B, herewith exhibited, ................................................................. $6546.99

Balance as stated in Schedule C, herewith exhibited, ...........$ .........

...................................................... J. Ward Healey, Administrator

?The undersigned, being all persons interested, having examined

the foregoing account, request that the same may be allowed without further notice.

Frederick W. Seaver

Harry C. Seaver

J. Ward Healey, as Admr. Estate of Frank W. Seaver

Worcester, SS, December 10th, 19 23.

Then personally appeared the above-named accountant and made oath that the within account

is just and true.

..................... Before me,

...................................................... Ethel H. Divoll, Notary Public.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

WORCESTER, SS. At a Probate Court held at Worcester in said

County, on the eighth day of September A.D. 19 24 

The foregoing account having been presented for allowance, and verified by the oath of the 

accountant, and all persons interested having been duly notified

having consented thereto in writing, and no objections being made thereto, and the same having been examined and considered by the Court.

It is decreed that said account be allowed.

............................................................ Fredk H. Chamberlain

............................................................ Judge of Probate Court

Schedules A (real and personal property), B (Payments, charges, losses and distributions) and C (possessions with the Accountant) are below (two page images):

The transcription of these Schedules is:

SCHEDULE A.

1.  Amount of personal property, according to inventory, or ................ 33  10

2.  Balance of next prior account ....................................................... 

3.  Amounts Received from income, gain on sale sale of personal property

4.  over appraised value, and from other property as follows:

5.  Interest from Bank deposit ..................................................................  5  03

6.  Insurance Rebates, P.H. Killelea ..........................................................  5  80

7.  Received from J. Ward Healey as Admr. of Estate

8.  of Frank W. Seaver Personal Estate consisting 

9. of Cash $230.13, Furniture $100 ...................................................... 330  13

10. Received from Sale of Real Estate, being two-

11.  thirds proceeds, or $4000 as share of Hattie

12. L. Seaver Estate and one-third share or $2000,

13. of Frank W. Seaver Estate ............................................................ 6000  00

14.  Cash from Harry C. Seaver  .............................................................  90  00

15.  Rents from tenement Oct. Nov. Dec. 1923 ....................................  45  00

16.  Rebate Interest from Merchants Nat. Bank 

17.  for H.C.S. ...........................................................................................  13  07

18.  Miscellaneous ....................................................................................  24  86

19.  ........................................................................................................________

20.  .......................................................................................................... 6546  99

SCHEDULE B.

Showing payments, charges, losses and distributions.

1.  Furniture of Frank W. Seaver Estate divided be-

2.  tween Harry C. Seaver and Frederick W. Seaver ........................ 100  00

3.  Paid Merchants National Bank, for Harry C.

4.  Seaver a/c $1600 as amount borrowed by him in

5.  anticipation of his distributive share in these

6.  two estates ...................................................................................... 1600  00

7.  Cash paid Harry C. Seaver by Administrator ............................. 1100  00

8.  Paid Harry C. Seaver, Interest rebated by

9.  Merchants National Bank on above mortgage ................................  13  07

10.  Cash paid Frederick W. Seaver as his partial

11.  distributive share in this estate .................................................... 2700  00

12-16 ..........................................................................................

................................................................ Brought forward, ..................  5863  07

17.  City of Leominster taxes .................................................................  80  14

18.  City of Leominster Water rates ........................................................  1  54

19.  H. A. Draffin Roofing Co. ...................................................................  8  10

20.  Leominster Granite & Marble Works ........................................... 55  00

21.  Dr. N.R. Nye $30.00 Dr. W.E. Currier $8.00 .............................. 38  00

22.  John C. Hull, appraisal services .......................................................  10  00

23.  P.H. Killelea, Insurance premium .....................................................  7  73

24.  Chas. H. Richardson Co., Undertakers ......................................... 294  00

25.  Leominster Electric Light & Power Co. .............................................. 0  73

26.  Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Taxes .........................................  2  27

27.  Document Stamps on Deed .................................................................  6  00

28.  Registry of Deeds, Record fees ..........................................................  0  70

29.  Leominster Daily Enterprise ..............................................................  4  95

30.  .....................................................................................................  _________

31.  Total payments and distributions ...............................................  6372  28

32.

33.  City of Leominster for perpetual care of

34.  Cemetery lots of Edward Hildreth and Frank 

35.  W. Seaver  .......................................................................................  150  00

36.  Retained by Administrator for future charges

37.  of administration ................................................................................ 24  71 

38.  ........................................................................................................... _________

39.  ..........................................................................................................  6546  99

SCHEDULE C.

As seen in earlier posts for this estate settlement, the administrator sold the house (after paying fees and repairs), paid off the funeral and cemetery charges, and the two heirs-at-law.  Somehow, he got it to come out to $2,700 even for each heir.   There is no fee listed for the administrator, other than what was retained by him for future charges of administration.  

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Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 26 August to 1 September 2012

Hundreds of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands 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 the genealogy carnivals, or other 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:

*  Online Resources for Finding Living Relatives - Part 1 by Bill Dollarhide on Leland Meitzler's GenealogyBlog blog.  Bill provides useful tips for finding living relatives.

*  Those Genealogy Police are at it again! by Michael Hait on the Planting the Seeds blog.  You called, Mr. Hait?  Private Seaver calling...

*  Researching the Forbidden by Terri O'Connell on The In-Depth Genealogist blog.  Terri lays out the options for researching sensitive events.

*  Dutch Genealogy - Maybe Not So Hopeless After All by Roberta J. Estes on the DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy blog.  Roberta blogged about her Dutch brick wall, and Yvette really helped smash it with Dutch resources.  Blogging works!

*  First Day, Day Two, Day Three and Final Day of the FGS Conference in Birmingham Alabama by Sandra Gardner Benward on the Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society blog.  Sandra recounts her FGS experiences this week.

*  FGS 2012 - Arrival Day, Day One, Exploring on My Own, Day Two - Sessions, Day Three by Diane Boumenot on the One Rhode Island Family blog.  Diane share her experiences at FGS this week.

*  FGS 2012 - Day 01,  FGS 2012 - Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 by Jenny Lanctot on the Are My Roots Showing blog.  Jenny shares her days at FGS with us.

*  FGS Day One (Tuesday, August 28): Save the Records!, FGS Day One (Wednesday, August 29), FGS Day Two (Thursday August 30),  FGS Day Three (Friday August 31), and FGS Day Four (Saturday September 1)  by Harold Henderson on the Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog.   Here are Harold's experiences at FGS 2012.

*  Using Genealogy Database Programs by Michael Leclerc on the Mocavo Genealogy Blog.  Michael comments on Debbie Wayne's comments about using programs, and his own practices.

*  FamilySearch Citation Report Card by the writer of The Ancestry Insider blog.  Mr. AI reviews the progress in source citations being made by FamilySearch.  Great news, I think!

*  The Changing Face of FamilySearch Family Tree by James Tanner on the Genealogy's Star blog.  This is a list of FamilySearch Family Tree learning resources.

*  Those Latin Administrators by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist blog.  Judy discusses the Latin terms, and English terms, used to describe executors and administrators of estates.

*  FamilySearch Bloggers Dinner at FGS2012, Notes from the FGS2012 Plenary Session by Amy Coffin on The We Tree Genealogy Blog.  Amy provides summaries of her FGS experiences.

Several genea-bloggers wrote weekly pick posts and news summary posts this week, including:  

*  Monday Morning Mentions by Lynn Palermo on The Armchair Genealogist blog.

*  Monday Recap for August 27, 2012 by Amanda on the Geni Blog.

*  Follow Friday - Fab Finds for August 31, 2012 by Jana Last on Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog.

*  From the Blogs, August 31 by Michael Leclerc on the Mocavo Genealogy Blog.

*  Friday Finds - 08/31/12 by Julie Cahill Tarr on the GenBlog blog.

I encourage readers to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Google Reader, 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 am currently reading posts from over 1280 genealogy bloggers using Google Reader, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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Copyright(c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver