Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 200: 1855 Passenger List for James Richman

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 Passenger List record for James Richman in 1855 arriving in New York: 

The top of this particular passenger list for the Ship Calhoun, Daniel H. Truman master, which sailed from Liverpool and arrived in New York on 22 October 1855, is:

And a snippet of the entry for James Richman:

The information for James Richman on this record is:

*  Name:  James Richman 

*  Age: 36 years

*  Sex:  Male

*  Occupation:  Laborer

*  The country in which they several belong:  England

*  The country in which they intend to become inhabitants:  U.S.A.

*  Part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage:  Steerage

It appears that James Richman was accompanied by a Saml Richman (age 22, and engineer).  This is probably Samuel Rich, the youngest son of John and Rebecca (Hill) rich of Hilperton, Wiltshire.  James Richman's wife was Hannah Rich, daughter of John and Rebecca (Hill) rich, and Samuel's sister.  

The source citation for this record (using the RootsMagic source template for "Immigration-Emigration Rolls, Images") is:

"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 July 2010), image 477 of 565, Line 23, James Richman entry; citing List Number 1037 of National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, Roll 157; Ship Calhoun out of Liverpool, Daniel H. Truman master, arrived New York on 22 October 1855.

James Richman was only 24 years old when he emigrated from Wiltshire.  His wife and children arrived a year later on another ship and joined him in Rhode Island where he worked in a woolen mill.

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RootsTech 2014 - Day 1 - I Went to the Library!

This was the first day of RootsTech 2014 - the Innovator Summit (which used to be the Developer's conference).  I didn't attend because I had planned to go to the FamilySearch Library for the day.  James Tanner has written extensively about the Innovator Summit presentations he attended on his Genealogy's Star blog.

I spent 9 hours at the FamilySearch Library today - mostly working with microfilmed records.  Here are some of the things I found:

1)  Louisa County, Iowa deeds for my Henry Carringer (1800-1879) and David J. Carringer (`1827-1902).  After searching the Grantee and Grantor indexes, I found six deeds for them that document their buying and selling in the 1862-1882 time frame.  I just took photos of these with my iPhone.

2)  Norfolk County, Ontario probate records for my Kemp and Sovereen families in the 1840 to 1902.  There were no entries for my Putman or Hutchinson families in the index, and no records after 1902.  I took photos and used the microfilm scanner to save images to my USB drive.

3)  Taylor County, Iowa deeds for my Devier J. Smith and Ranslow Smith families.  I found 28 deeds for those two guys in the 1868-1874 time frame.  Now I know why Devier said he was a "speculator."  I just took photos of these with my iPhone.  Here is one of the photos I took:

4)  Hilperton, Wiltshire parish registers.  Managed to find 5 records in the Bishops Transcripts, but not my great-grandfather's baptism record.  Really struggled to read the films because they needed high magnification and the reader would only go so big (even with help from the staff - yes, I asked for help, will wonders never cease?).  I just used the microfilm scanner to save the images to my USB drive.  Here is one of the images I saved:

5)  South Petherton, Somerset parish registers.  Managed to find 5 records here also, and reading the registers was still a challenge.  Then there was the microfilm scanner problem - the one I had wouldn't work properly, so I changed seats after awhile.  Then the images weren't on my USB drive, but reader Jan Brandt was sitting next to me and found them hiding somewhere on the computer.  They got transferred to the /USB drive.  Whew!

6)  I had only 30 minutes to look into the East Jersey Land Record abstracts on the shelf (974.9 R2h (10 volumes).  Only looked for the Kent surname in Volumes 1-3 before time ran out on me.

I talked for awhile to Judy Russell and Russ Worthington, and several readers, but saw very few geneabloggers there today.

I got back to the Hilton Hotel at about 5 p.m., after getting my registration packet on the way, and read my email and 200 blog posts, with about 100 remaining.  Linda and I left at 6:15 for the Salt Palace and the Media dinner sponsored by FamilySearch.  I'll report on that tomorrow, or maybe others will.

Tomorrow is the first day of the RootsTech 2014 exhibit hall, and I'll be in the Media Center for most of the time, or walking around the significantly larger exhibit hall.

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SDGS Meeting on 8 February Features Sid Shapira and Dona Ritchie

The February 8th meeting of the San Diego Genealogical Society is at St. Andrews Lutheran Church (8350 Lake Murray Blvd. in San Diego, near Jackson Drive).  There are two different speakers this month, including:  

1)  In the 10 a.m. session, Sid Shapira will present:

Everyone has a story to tell

Capturing and preserving your life story for future generations

Speaker: Sid Shapira

We’ve all had interesting and eventful lives. But, how many of us have taken the time to share those wonderful memories with loved ones?  That’s what this presentation from San Diego writer Sid Shapira is all about.

Life is filled with one experience after another. Those experiences help define us. Thanks to Shapira’s memoir writing business, Stories Be Told™, you can make those stories come to life. Stories Be Told gives people an opportunity to share those wonderful stories that have made their life unique, meaningful, and rewarding. But, more importantly, it’s a chance to share a special gift – your life story – with those closest to you.

In his presentation, Shapira will share his passion for writing life stories, demonstrate the value in creating a life story, and outline the process involved in producing a life story.

Sid Shapira is a San Diego-based writer and corporate communications specialist. In his professional career, he has had extensive experience in media, public relations and marketing.  Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Sid graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto with his B.A. in journalism. After beginning his career as a reporter for The Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper), Sid transitioned into the public relations and marketing communications arena. Sid has held management roles in marketing communications and internal communications for such companies as Qualcomm and The San Diego Union-Tribune. Earlier in his career, Sid co-authored The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Jack Leonard, a Time Inc. executive who lived in La Jolla. His passion for writing profile pieces and human interest stories prompted Sid to start his memoir writing business, Stories Be Told. Since 2011, he has enjoyed collecting and documenting the stories of many fascinating individuals through Stories Be Told.

 2)  Session 2, at approximately 11:30 p.m., features SDGS member Dona Ritchie:

Workflow for Genealogical Research

Speaker: Dona Ritchie

Dona has been researching her family history, and that of her husband, for over 30 years, tracing Colonial New England roots, Quakers and Mennonites, German and Swiss ancestors, Welsh and Scots-Irish. She was also a desktop publisher for many years, and gained skills in that field that have allowed her to help a number of people publish their family history books (editing and designing the books for printing) and to restore many old photographs for herself and others. She is skilled in the use of Reunion for the Mac and in using other digital-age tools to assist with research. Dona has taught a number of classes for various genealogical societies around San Diego County, and runs the Macintosh User Group through CGSSD.

Dona's presentation for this meeting will be "Workflow for Genealogical Research." Learn tips for determining what you need to research, focusing your research to increase success, maximizing results from particular sources, and organizing your research plans and results. Digital as well as traditional techniques will be covered, as will be software tools that can assist you in your research.

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A Frederick Seaver Family Home in Fitchburg - Post 293 for (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I'm posting family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they aren't Wordless Wednesday posts like others do - I am incapable of having a wordless post.

Here is a photograph of an ancestral home taken on one of our vacation/genealogy trips to Massachusetts:

This Seaver ancestral home is at 116 Lawrence Street in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts.  

I believe that my grandparents, Frederick W. and Alma Bessie (Richmond), and their growing family of three young daughters and a son, resided here from about 1908 to about 1912.  My father was born in this house on 15 October 1911.  

I took the picture above in 2007 while visiting Leominster to attend the memorial service and burial of my aunt, Geraldine (Seaver) Remley, the youngest child of Fred and Bessie. I did not try to contact the current resident of the house.

The Google Map showing the location of this house relative to the eastern part of Fitchburg is:

I heard no memories about this house from my father's sisters.  I believe that this is the house that my father's oldest brother, Stanley Richmond Seaver, died in of scarlet fever at age 5 in 1910.  My Aunt Marion told of reaching through a hole in the door while he was quarantined to touch his finger and talk to him.  The story always saddened me - here was this sick child and nothing could be done for him except lock him away so nobody could touch him without getting scarlet fever themselves.  

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FamilySearch Works to Put the World’s Historical Records Online in One Generation

I received this press release vis email from FamilySearch this morning.  It is important information, and I want my readers to know about this, because it may be earth-shattering news.

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FamilySearch Works to Put the World’s Historical Records Online in One Generation

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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—FamilySearch International (online at FamilySearch.org) is leading the way in digitizing and providing access to billions of historical genealogical records by collaborating with commercial family history companies and the online community. This collaboration will carve centuries off the time needed to increase access to the world’s historical records, enabling millions more people to quickly discover, share, and preserve family memories for generations.

Recent announcements of agreements with commercial family history companies are some of the first installments in fulfilling FamilySearch’s desire to remove the traditional barriers to genealogical research. FamilySearch CEO, Dennis Brimhall, explains that joining forces with other organizations, where possible, brings significantly more financial investment and technological resources to the family history industry than the nonprofit community could provide on its own.

FamilySearch plans to collaborate on digitization projects with commercial family history companies to publish new historical records collections on FamilySearch.org that have never seen the light of the Internet. Working with individual industry leaders such as  Ancestry.com, Archives.com, findmypast,Fold3, and MyHeritage will also increase and broaden access to the records FamilySearch has already published online. FamilySearch plans to involve many other interested organizations that will provide records, tools, and other resources to allow more people to build, preserve, and share their family trees online.

In a keynote address at the RootsTech 2013 conference, Brimhall shared FamilySearch’s vision to empower people globally to share their family memories and save them for future generations. 

“Imagine if your ancestors had easy access to computers, digital cameras, and family history websites that allowed them to upload, preserve, and share important family memories through photos, stories, and vital names, dates, and places? How amazing would that be?” Brimhall said.

FamilySearch and its predecessors have been preserving and providing access to the world’s family history records for over 100 years. FamilySearch volunteers have indexed just over three billion records in extraction and online indexing projects, but they have only scratched the surface.

“For the top countries with the highest online research demand, using our existing resources and volunteers, it will take up to 300 years to index the 5.3 billion records that we already have,” Brimhall noted. “That means you and me and the next 10 generations of our posterity would not live to personally benefit from them. And there are another 60 billion records that still need to be digitally preserved. We can do significantly better by working together with other organizations and as a community.”

As new historical record collections are published under the latest agreements with FamilySearch’s affiliates, they will be available on FamilySearch.org and for free on  Ancestry.com, findmypast.com, orMyHeritage.com to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch offers free public access to Ancestry.com and findmypast.com through 4,715 local FamilySearch-owned family history centers worldwide.

Additional details regarding expanded records access will be announced sometime in 2014, when they are available.

Infographic: Putting the World’s Historical Records Online in One Generation

Interesting Facts Addressed by FamilySearch Community Initiatives

• Approximately 28 billion people lived on the earth in recently recorded history—from A.D. 1500 to 2010.
• Information for an estimated one billion unique individuals may exist today in online family trees—a fraction of how many still need to be linked.
• The bulk of online family history research today is focused on the records of North America, Europe, and Latin America. Less than seven percent of these records are searchable online today.
• An estimated 60 billion historical records still exist to be digitally preserved and indexed.
• Only eight percent of FamilySearch’s current online indexing volunteer workforce is non-English speaking. The majority of historical records to be made searchable online in the future will require volunteers who read non-English records.
• With current volunteers and resources, it could take up to 300 years to make the current inventory of historical genealogical records searchable online. This time can be reduced to 20 to 30 years with more business and community involvement. Disclaimer: FamilySearch does not establish relationships with third parties or take other steps that may be in violation of the terms of contractual obligations. As a result, FamilySearch may not be able to provide some information, records, indexes, or other data to third parties or the public.

About FamilySearch

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

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Contact for news media:

Paul Nauta 
FamilySearch Public Affairs 
801-240-6498 
nautapg@familysearch.org 

Thom Reed 
FamilySearch Partner Marketing 
801-240-7789 
thom@familysearch.org

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We'll have to see how this shakes out over time.  I know that it will be a topic at the Blogger Dinner tomorrow night, and I'll try to report what I hear/note/recall tomorrow night.

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Southern California Genealogists: Attend the FREE Escondido Family History Fair

The FREE Escondido (CA) Family History Fair "Life in the Past Lane"  will be on Saturday, 1 March 2014, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m, at the Escondido Family Discovery Center at 2255 Felicita Road in Escondido (760-745-1662).  

The Escondido FHFair website is at http://www.escondidofhc.com/family-history-fair/.

At the top of the page are links for the Fair Information, Workshops Offered, Presenter Biographies, Fair Registration, and Order Lunch (which costs $9.75 and benefits the Boy Scouts).

There are five presenter session times, and a total of 43 classes, with 12 speakers, including Dan Poffenberger, Jean Wilcox Hibben, Debby Horton, Michaele Burris, Ann Montgomery, Tom Underhill, Del Ritchhart, Joel Weintraub, Cassandra Helzer, Ed Ries, Alice Volkert, and Butch Hibben.

Attendees should register to attend, and early registrants will receive a free Wall Fan Chart (if they have added their family to the FamilySearch Family Tree or upload a GEDCOM file after registering).  The chart looksl ike this:

This is an excellent opportunity to obtain genealogy education for little or no cost from well-known presenters.  I encourage local San Diego society members to sign up at attend.

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Tuesday's Tip - Find Periodical Sources in PERSI - the Periodical Source Index on FindMyPast

This week's Tuesday's Tip is:  The updated Periodical Source Index (PERSI) is available on www.FindMyPast.com - use it to find periodical articles about your ancestors or ancestral places.

The Periodical Source Index (PERSI) is still on HeritageQuestOnline, and it is still available on Ancestry.com, and in book form at many libraries.  However, the most recent version of PERSI is now on FindMyPast (www.findmypast.com), a subscription genealogy website.  See their announcement from July 2013 here.  It includes;

"During the past 30 years, the ACPL Genealogy Center has created more than 2.5 million searchable records in PERSI, indexing every article from more than 8,000 different periodicals, including magazines, newsletters and journals, according to location, topic, surname, ethnicity and methodology. In the coming months,findmypast.com will launch the most complete version of PERSI online. Once launched, findmypast.com will work in tandem with the Genealogy Center to provide frequent updates to the collection as new entries are added.

"PERSI has become an essential tool in helping genealogists and family historians locate valuable information, and this new partnership with findmypast.com will transform PERSI into an even more powerful resource.  Findmypast.com subscribers will be able to search and view digitized images of the articles, allowing unprecedented access to the information contained in these periodicals."

I had not checked for it recently, so, since I have a FindMyPast.com subscription, I wanted to check it out.

From the home page, it is difficult to find.  I found it through the "US and world Newspapers" link, and the PERSI landing page is at http://search.findmypast.com/search/periodical-source-index .Here is what that page looks like:

I entered "seaver" in the last name field on the screen above, clicked on "Search" and there were 39 matches:

I clicked on the first match, and saw a summary of an entry in the Periodical Source Index (PERSI):

It told me that the "Henry Seaver Bible, 1833-1922, TN" article was in Volume 12, No. 3 (Mar 1994) of the Holston Pathfinder periodical, and was in the Allen County Public Library at call number 975.501 W27htga.  Allen County Public Library has issues from Number 1 to 83 (1983-2003).

I never would have thought to look in that periodical...

I perused thel ist of 39 matches a little further, and saw an interesting entry:

There was an article about the not-so-famous geneablogger and sometime presenter in the April 2012 issue of the Orange County California Genealogical Society Newsletter.  Who knew?

Some guidelines for readers and researchers:

*  PERSI is an index for article titles and authors in periodicals.  A searcher can enter search fields for Who, Where and Keyword.  It appears that the Last Name is required, and the Location and/or Keyword are optional.  A user can filter the search results by Country, State, County, City/Town, Subject, Article Keyword, Periodical, Publisher and Publication Date (with a date range of up to +/- 40 years if desired).  To make another search, the user will have to Clear all the Filters.

*  PERSI does not contain an every-name index for the articles that are indexed.  Only the title is indexed, plus the publication information.

*  PERSI contains only the genealogy and family history periodicals that have been submitted to Allen County Public Library for inclusion in the PERSI.  There are

*  A searcher should enter surnames to see what is available, but just entering a location and/or a keyword without a name may reveal a published list of records for a certain location.

*  If you find an article that you want to read, you can check the list of repositories that have the periodical issue at the bottom of the screen (not shown above) and contact that repository.  Or you can engage the research services of the Allen County Public Library’s Genealogy Center and order a copy of your periodical article. An “Article Request Form” can be downloaded as a PDF document here:www.genealogycenter.org/pdf/ArticleRequest.pdf.  The charge is $7.50 for each order form submitted (up to 6 requests per order form), and a 20 cent charge for each page copied.

I couldn't figure out if access to PERSI on FindMyPast.com is free for all researchers, or if the user needs to be a subscriber.  

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My Research Goals in Salt Lake City

The doors to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City will open at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, 5 February 2014, and I hope to walk through them soon after (it is a 10 minute walk from my hotel yo the Library on a good weather day...snow is forecasted - I may take a taxi if that's possible).

What have I planned to work on?  I posted Preparing for my Visit to the FamilySearch Library on Friday about my To-Do list.  How do I decide the highest priority on my list?  Well, it depends...here are my priorities:

*  Items that are only found at the FHL book shelves and microfilm
*  Items for direct ancestors that will help me solve thorny research problems (e.g., New Jersey land records, some Massachusetts church records)
*  Items for my direct ancestors that I don't already have (e.g., land, probate, tax, and church  records)
*  Items that I need as images to add to my database (e.g., probate record images that I transcribed or abstracted from microfilm many years ago)

Here are some of the specific items I need to find on this visit, or a later visit, to the Family History Library.

*  New Jersey Deed Abstracts book (on shelf 974.941 R28) and East New Jersey Land Records (on shelf 974.9 R2) for my Knapp, Auble, Cutter, Fitz Randolph, Gach, Jones, DeCamp, Kelsey, Martin, Ayers, Dunham, Bloomfield, Smalley, Rolfe, Campbell, Putman, Morrison, Kinnan families

*  Norfolk County, Ontario probate records for my Kemp, Sovereen, Putman, and Hutchinson families.

*  Mercer County, Pennsylvania Land Records for my Carringer, Spangler and Feather families.

*  York County, Pennsylvania Land Records for my Spangler, King/Konig, and Dinkel families

*  Louisa County and Washington County, Iowa Land Records for my Carringer families.

*  Taylor County, Iowa Land Records for my Smith and Vaux families.

*  Hilperton, Wiltshire Parish Register records for my Richman, Rich, Marshman and Hill families.

*  South Petherton, Somerset Parish Register records for my Vaux, Laver, Palmer and Terrell families

That's probably enough to look for in 8 to 10 hours of research.  

My plan is to find these records and take digital images of them using my smart phone or the microfilm scanner and save them on a USB flash drive.  

Wish me luck!

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Amanuensis Monday - Post 204: 1756 Deed of Isaac and Ruth Buck to Joseph Graves in Southborough, Mass.

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started his own 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 subject today is a land deed in Worcester County, Massachusetts dated 30 December 1756, recorded on 29 October 1765, transferring one tract of land in Southborough, Worcester County from Isaac and Ruth Buck to Joseph Graves for 3 pounds (middle of the right-hand page on the first image below to top of the left-hand page on the second image below):

A transcription of the deed recorded in the Worcester County Deed Books by the Deed Registrar is (transcribed line by line):

[page 46]

[left-hand margin] Isaac Buck & wife to Joseph Graves 

1  To all People to whom these Presents shall come we Isaac Buck of Southborough
2  in the County of Worcester husbandman and Ruth his wife Send Greeting
3  Know ye that we the said Isaac and Ruth for and in consideration of the sum
4  of three Pounds in lawfull money to us in hand at and before the unsealing
5  and Delivery hereof paid by Joseph Graves of said Southborough yeoman the Receipt
6  whereof we do hereby acknowledge and for divers other good Causes and Con-
7  siderations whereunto Moving have Remised Released Sold and forever
8  Quit Claims and by these Presents for ourselves and our Heirs do Remise
9  Release Sell and forever Quit Claim unto the said Joseph Graves and his
10 Heirs and assigns forever all our Right and Share in and unto all the Estate
11 both Real and Personall whereof our Honoured Father Thomas Graves late of
12 said Southborough yeoman Deceased died Seized of in said Southborough ^or elsewhere^ together
13 with all the Estate Right with Interest, Use Property Claim and Demand
14 whatsoever of us the said Isaac Buck and Ruth his wife and our Heirs
15 which we now have or at any Time heretofore had of, in, and to the afore-
16 mentioned Premises with the appurnces or to any Part thereof or which
17 at any Time heretofore has been held used occupied or Enjoyed as Part
18 or Parcel of the Same.  To Have and To Hold all the aforegranted and
19 bargained Premises with the appurnes to him the said Joseph Graves
20 his Heirs and Assigns forever with the Reversion and Reversions Remainder
21 and Remainders thereof or any Part thereof forever so that neither we
22 the said Isaac Buck and Ruth his wife nor our Heirs nor any other Person or
23 Persons Claiming from or under us or them, or in the Name Rights, Head
24 of us or them Shall or will by any ??? as ago or Have Claim Challenge

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25 or Demand any Estate Right Title or Interest of in and to the aforesaid
26 Premises with the appurnces or any Part or Parcel thereof forever
27 But we the said Isaac Buck and Ruth his wife do for ourselves
28 and Heirs Execrs and Admrs Covenant to and with the sd Joseph
29 Graves and his Heirs and Assigns to the said Granted and Released
30 Premises with the Profitts Privileges and appurnces thereto
31 belonging to the said Joseph Graves and his Heirs & assigns
32 forever to Warrant Secure and Defend against the lawfull Claims
33 and Demands of any Person or Persons Claiming under us
34 or our Heirs as aforesaid forever by these Presents.  In Witness whereof
35 we the said Isaac Buck and Ruth his wife have hereunto set our
36 Hands and seals this thirtieth Day of December Anno Domini
37 one Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty six and in the Thirtieth
38 year of his Majestys Reign.   Isaac Buck {seal}  Ruth X Buck {seal}
39 Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of Isaac Buck Jr.  Eben^r Buck

40 Worcester SS Oct^r 19^th A D 1757 the within named Isaac Buck and Ruth
41 Buck his wife both personally appeared and acknowledged their
42 Signing Sealing and Delivering the within written was their free
43 act of sd Deed.    Before me William Ward Justice of the peace.

44 Received Oct^r 29, 1765 accordingly Entered & Examd  

45                                                             J ? Mc????? Reg^r

The source citation for this deed record is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 26 January 2014), Worcester County, "Deeds, 1765-1767, Vol 55-56," images 46-47 of 618, in Volume 55, pages 61-62, Isaac and Ruth Buck to Joseph Graves deed, dated 30 December 1756.

Ruth Buck was a sister of Joseph Graves, and both had inherited property in Southborough from their father, Thomas Graves (1686-1756).  This deed transfer's Ruth's property to her brother.

This deed shows two other significant relationships:

1)  Ruth Graves (1710-????), daughter of Thomas Graves, married Isaac Buck (1706-1780?) and they resided in Southborough in 1756.

2)  The two witnesses are Isaac Buck Jr. and Ebenezer Buck.  While the deed does not identify them as sons of Isaac and Ruth (Graves) Buck, I believe that they are.  They would have an interest in the deed executed in late 1756.  I have found some information for Ebenezer Buck (1738-1827) and his descendants.  The only other piece of information I've found for an Isaac Buck Jr. was in a memoir book by Ellery Crane that said Isaac Buck Jr. was the son of Isaac and Ruth (Graves) Buck.  

There are no other Isaac Buck persons in the vicinity of Southborough in the 1755 to 1760 time frame - I've looked carefully.  The Isaac and Ruth (Graves) Buck family (including children Susanna and Joseph) of Framingham was welcomed into the home of Joseph Richards in Southborough on 25 March 1756.  Isaac, Ruth, Joseph and Susanna Buck were warned out of Southborough on 5 May 1756.  They ended up in Framingham in the 1763-1764 time frame.  

Then, an Isaac Buck was named in the birth record of Isaac Buck (1757-1846), born to Mary Richards (1733-????), daughter of Joseph Richards (1703-1748) of Southborough and sister to Joseph Richards (1731-????), on 27 September 1757 in Southborough.  

I believe that the father of Isaac Buck (1757-1846) was the Isaac Buck Jr., the deed witness, and not Isaac Buck [senior] who would have been age 52 at conception of Isaac 1757, with a wife and younger children still residing in the Richards home.  

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Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 26 January to 1 February 2014

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 daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

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

*  Now We're Getting Somewhere... by Jenny Lanctot on the Are My Roots Showing? blog.  Jenny shared her research problem in a Facebook group and received almost instant help.  Sharing, collaborating and crowdsourcing work well!

*  DNA Standards and Certification -- A Response to an NGS Quarterly Editorial by Blaine Bettinger on The Genetic Genealogist blog.  Blaine makes his case for setting DNA standards and a Genetic Genealogist certification.

*  Evernote for Genealogy: The Foundation of My Research Organization System and Evernote for Genealogy: Research Logs and Note Links by Colleen Greene on the Colleen Greene blog.  I really like Colleen's system of organizing her research.

*  Cemetery Records -- What Can They Tell You? How Can You Use Them? by Diane Gould Hall on the Michigan Family Trails blog.  Diane has some great examples and a nice set of tips and notes about contacting cemeteries.

*  Using Google Maps With Blogger by Tony Proctor on the Parallax View blog.  Tony describes how to embed a movable Google Map into a blog post.  A bit of "inside blogball" here, but I like it!

*  Top 20 Search Tips by Emma on the Ancestry.co.uk blog.  The UK version of Ancestry.com search is similar to the US version - check out these tips.

*  What's New in Evidentia 2.0 by Jenny Lanctot on the Are My Roots Showing? blog.  Jenny highlights improvements and additions in Evidentia version 2.

*  Your Family: Past, Present and Future by Tim Urban on the Wait But Why blog.  Here's an excellent explanation of pedigree collapse and more with great charts.

*  RPAC Report, January 2014 by Barbara Mathews on the BCG Springboard: News and Notes blog.  Barbara highlights information about the Records Preservation and Access Committee for January, including SSDI efforts.

*  Teenagers Teaching by Janet Hovorka on the Zap the Grnadma Gap blog.  Janet's son, Matthew, is doing two presentations at RootsTech on "Get to Know Your Geezers" using several short videos and slides.  Check out the videos here - they are great!

*  Microfilm to Megapixels: Use a Digital Camera as a Film Scanner by Denise May Levenick on The Family Curator blog.  Denise has an excellent way to bypass the microfilm scanners at a repository.

These genea-bloggers wrote weekly pick posts and news summary posts this week:

*  NN Genealogy Things You Need To Know This Morning, Sunday, 26 Jan 2014; Monday, 27 Jan 2014; Tuesday, 28 Jan 2014; Wednesday, 29 Jan 2014; Thursday, 30 Jan 2014; Friday, 31 Jan 2014; Saturday, 1 Feb 2014 by Caroline M. Pointer on the 4YourFamilyStories.com blog.

*  Upfront Mini Bytes – Federal Reserve, RI, Austrian Newspapers, South GA, Mordecai School (NC), New Netherland Ships Passengers, Guinness Archive, and Northeastern AL by Diane L. Richard on the Upfront With NGS blog.

*  Hallowed Ground! Driving Your Research!  Muses!  -- It's Follow Friday by Anne Gillespie Mitchell on the Finding forgotten Stories blog.

*  Follow Friday ~ Fab Finds for January 31, 2014 by Jana Last on Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog.

*  Friday Finds - 01/31/14 by Julie Cahill Tarr on the Julie's Genealogy & History Hub blog.

*  Saturday Serendipity (February 1, 2014) by John D. Tew on the Filiopietism Prism blog.

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