"THE Genealogy Show" to Debut in June 2019 in Birmingham

I received this information from Kirsty Gray last night:



The demise of the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show has left a hole in the genealogy
calendar of UK-based events with many attendees commenting on the loss of a ‘big’ annual gathering.

Headed by Kirsty Gray and Sylvia Valentine (Show Directors), an international group of genealogists has been diligently working since the US-based RootsTech 2018 Conference, to get THE Genealogy Show on the road. The Board includes Jill Ball aka GeniAus (Australia), Liv Birgit Christensen (Norway), Ruth Blair (Canada), Mags Gaulden (Canada), Pat Richley-Erickson aka DearMYRTLE (US), John Boeren (Netherlands) and DM Walsh (UK).

This two-day event will take place at the NEC (National Exhibition Centre) in Birmingham on June 7th and 8th 2019, in the same hall as WDYTYA? Live was held in previous years. The Board members are dedicated to providing outstanding educational opportunities through talks and stands, as well as creating an environment where family historians from beginner to expert can network together. Even at this early planning stage, many international genealogists are making travel plans to attend the event.

More information will be released on the website over the next month, though you can register your interest as an exhibitor, speaker or sponsor on the website right now - www.thegenealogyshow.uk.

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/THEGenShow2019

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52 Ancestors - Week 225: #316 Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746) of Charlestown, Stoneham and Southborough, Massachusetts

Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746) is #316 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #317 Mary Smith  (1698-after 1746) before 1719 in Malden, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #158 John Phillips (1722 - about 1800) who married #159 Hannah Brown (abut 1725 - before 1774) 

*   their daughter #79 Martha Phillips (1764-????) who married #78 Isaac Buck (1757-1846) in 1780.

*  their daughter, #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882 married  #38 Thomas J. Newton (ca 178800-????) in about 1834.

*  their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.

*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.

*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                         Ebenezer Phillips[1–12]    

*  Sex:                            Male    

*  Father:                       Andrew Phillips (1661-1717)    

*  Mother:                     Sarah Smith (1661-    )  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                         17 August 1695, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]    

*  Deed:                         6 September 1717 (age 22), Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]  
*  Deed:                         6 September 1717 (age 22), Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[4]    

*  Distribution:              17 December 1717 (age 22), father's will proved; Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]    

*  Deed:                         24 May 1721 (age 25), Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[6]    

*  Deed:                         17 December 1730 (age 35), Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]    

*  Deed:                         4 April 1739 (age 43), Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[8]    

*  Deed:                        2 February 1742 (age 46) Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[9]    

*  Deed:                        25 February 1742/3 (age 47), Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[10]    

*  Deed:                        3 March 1744 (age 48), Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[11]    

*  Death:                      before 21 August 1746 (before age 51), Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[12]    

*  Probate:                  21 August 1746 (age 51), will proved; Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[12]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:               Mary Smith (1698-after 1746)    

*  Marriage:              before 1719 (before about age 24), probably Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States    

*  Child 1:                 Mary Phillips (1719-    )    

Ebenezer Phillips (1721-    )    

John Phillips (1722-1800)    

Samuel Phillips (1726-1810)    

Joanna Phillips (1729-1788)    

Ruth Phillips (1733-1746)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Ebenezer Phillips was born on 17 August 1695 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the second child (of four) and second son of Andrew and Sarah (Smith) Phillips[1-2].

On 6 September 1717, Ebenezer Phillips, yeoman of Charlestown, sold land in Charlestown to David Gould, for 28 pounds currant money.  The land was 4 acres of swamp and woodland in Charlestown that was part of John Smith's lot, bounded easterly by Thomas Upham, westerly by Elizabeth Smith, southerly by town land, and northerly by John Vinton.  The deed was recorded 10 June 1718[3].

On 6 September 1717, David Gould, yeoman of Charlestown, sold land in Charlestown to Ebenezer Phillips of Charlestown for 18 pounds currant money.  The land was two parcels.  The first parcel was 4 and a half acres of woodland in Charlestown, bounded westerly by the Thorndicks, northerly by David Gould, easterly by John Lynd and southerly by John Vinton.  The second parcel was 10 poles of woodlot in Charlestown, bounded easterly by Thomas Upham, southerly by Thomas Arnall, westerly by the highway.  The deed was recorded 19 October 1718[4].

Ebenezer's father, Andrew Phillips, died on 10 December 1717 in Charlestown.  He wrote his will on 5 December 1717, and it was proved on 17 December 1717 in the Middlesex Probate Court in Cambridge, Massachusetts[5].  Ebenezer was bequeathed:

"I give to my Well Beloved Son Ebenezer Phillips thirty thre acres of land lying & being in Charlestown Butted & Bounded Northwardly by Peter Hay & Ebenezer Damon, Southwardly by the highway and Andrew Phillips & ye highway Eastwardly by ye land of Henery Phillips, Westwardly by Peter Hay & part of a lot I Bought of Elias Brigden Butted & Bounded Northwardly be ye land of Thomas Miller, Southwardly by ye land of Andrew Phillips, Eastwardly by ye land of Thomas Miller, Westwardly by ye highway And Henery Phillips Togeth with all Timer and Standing lying or Being yt on, to him & to his heirs forever, & one third part of ye moveables upon my place without Doors I alsoe Doe give to my son Ebenezer Phillips.  I Doe also will yt my son Ebenezer Doth Cut and Bring to ye house of Sarah my wife five Cords of wood  yearly So long as she Remains my Widow.  I Doe also Will yt my Son Ebenezer Shall pay to his Brother Andrew Phillips ye Summ of Twenty pounds to Be paid five pounds two years after my Decease & five pounds a year after Sarah My Wives Death yearly till ye Whole Summ of twenty pounds be paid to ye sd Andrew Phillips or his heirs or assigne.  Also to pay to my Daughter Johanna Phillips ye Summ of fifty pounds & also to be paid Twenty five pounds at my Decease & ye Cow & ye Rest part of ye fifty pounds, Ten pounds a year yearly after Sarah my Wives Decease till ye Whole Summ of fifty pounds in Mony be paid."

He also named Ebenezer Phillips as his executor, and Ebenezer posted a 500 pound bond on 17 December 1717 with assent from his mother and brothers.

Ebenezer married Mary Smith, daughter of John and Ruth (Cutler) Smith of Malden, before 1719, probably in Malden.  There is no marriage record in the town vital records.  They had six children born between 1719 and 1733.  The first child was recorded in Wakefield, the third child in Charlestown in 1722, and the last three in Stoneham.

On 24 May 1721, Ebenezer Phillips, yeoman of Charlestown, sold land in Charlestown to Daniel Green for 225 pounds currant money.  The land was 30 acres of woodland and meadow in Charlestown, bounded westerly by land of Thomas Willard and William Briant, northerly and easterly by land of William Rogers, and southerly by land of Daniel Green.  The deed was recorded 1 June 1756[6].

On 17 December 1730, Ebenezer Phillips, yeoman of Stoneham, sold land to James Osgood, clerk of Stoneham, for 225 pounds in passable bills of credit and currant money.  The land was two parcels of land in Stoneham.  The first parcel was 2 acres of land bounded westerly by land of James Hay, northerly by Phillips land, and easterly and southerly by a highway.  The second parcel was 8 acres of land, bounded by stakes and stones, a highway, and land of Phillips and James Hay.  The deed was recorded on 10 February 1730/1[7].

On 4 April 1739, Ebenezer Phillips, yeoman of Stoneham, sold land in Stoneham to John May, blacksmith of Stoneham, for 50 pounds of passable bills of  public credit.  The land was 6 acres of land in Stoneham, bounded southerly by the Range line, westerly by land of Nathaniel Eaton, northerly and westerly by lands of Ebenezer Phillips.  The deed was recorded 16 September 1747[8].

On 3 February 1742, Ebenezer Phillips, yeoman of Stoneham, sold land to Daniel Green, Jr., husbandman of Stoneham, for 1,400 pounds of bills of credit old tenor.  The land was 83 acres in Stoneham, bounded southerly on land of Peter Hay, Kendall Parker, John Geary, Nathaniel Eaton, John May, Ebenezer Knight and John Cutler, northerly on land of Reverend Osgood, John Souther, Nathaniel Coudry and Daniel Green, and westerly on land of James Hay, Mr. Osgood, John May and the highway from Stoneham to Reading, and easterly by lands of John Souther, Coudry's land, Deacon Green, Thomas Cutler, and Ebenezer Knight. The deed was recorded 18 November 1745[9].

On 25 February 1742/3, Ebenezer Phillips, yeoman of Stoneham, bought  land in Southborough from Ephraim Woods, yeoman of Southborough, for 900 pounds old tenor.  The land was 138 acres and 49 rods of upland, swamp, pond and meadow, bounded northerly by land of Timothy Johnson, easterly on land of Timothy Johnson and David Johnson, southerly on land of Isaac Newton, John Gold??, John Bellows Jr., and Moses Johnson, and westerly by land of Moses Johnson, Isaac Amsden, common swamp and Isaac Johnson.  The deed was recorded in the Worcester County deed register on 20 August 1745[10].

On 3 March 1744, Ebenezer Phillips, yeoman of Southborough, sold land in Southborough to his son, Ebenezer Phillips Jr., for 18 pounds.  The land was 40 acres of upland, swamp and meadow, the most northerly portion of his farm bought of Ephraim Woods, bounded northerly by land of Timothy Johnson, westerly by land of Isaac Johnson, southerly by land of Ebenezer Phillips, and easterly by land of Timothy Johnson and David Johnson.  The deed was recorded 19 May 1746[11].

Ebenezer Phillips died before his will was proved on 21 August 1746,  in Southborough.  There is no death record or burial record in Southborough, Massachusetts records.

Ebenezer Phillips of Southborough died testate (with probate papers in Worcester County Probate Packet #46,400) having written a will on 20 November 1745[12]. The will reads:

In the Name of God Amen The Twentieth Day of November 1745. I Ebenezer Phillips of Southborough  In the County of Worcester and the Province of the Massachussetts Bay in New England yeoman, Being very Sick and weak in  Body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be Given to God. Therefore  Calling to mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is Appointed to all men once to dye, Do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to Say principally And first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executors, Nothing doubting but at ye General Resurrection I Shall Receive The Same by the mighty power of God, and Touching such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me In this Life, I Give Dismise & Dispose of the Same in the Following manner & form.  Imprimis I give and Bequeath to ^Mary^ my well beloved wife all my moveables within Doors Except One feather Bed partly filled, Likewise three Cows ^and one mare^. Likewise One third of all the Improvements I give to my Son Samuel Here after mentioned. I give to Mary my wife all the East part of my now Dwelling House with a Cellar Under the same ^Dureing her Natural Life & no Longer.^

Item I Give to my son Ebenezer So much ^Land^ as it will Take to Straiten a Line that runs between my House and his Where the Gate Now is and So westward to a Stake Down by the Swamp and From thence to a Ditch in the medow and then runing northward To his Former bound. I also give and Bequeath to my Ebenezer One acre of Ash Swamp Lying before Ebenezer Duntons house as he and my Son Samuel Shall see Cause to Lay it out and the Reason why I Give him no more ^now^ is be cause I have given him his  Portion before by a Deed of sale.  Item I Give to my son John Phillips thirty Four acres ^of Land^ be it more or Less being the Southeast Part of my farm bounded Easterly by David Johnson till it comes to a corner of an old Hedge which corner is to be The North east Corner of the Sd Land I give and Bequeath To my Son John and then Turning Westerly to a Stake and Stone and so Runing Westerly Till it Comes to a Dead Bodyed  White Oake and from Thence Westerly to a Large Topt White Oake From thence to another White oake now Standing by the old Field bars it being y^t Northwest Corner of the said Land I Give and Bequeath to my Son John, and from thence Runing Southerly as The Field Fence runs to the End of the field and now Turning Easterly to a mark Tree and so Runing Easterly Till it Comes to The first mentioned bounds, This South Line bounds partly upon Common Land and partly upon John ^Goulds^ Land and partly upon Isaac Newtons Land To have and to hold the said premisses with all the appurtenances Priviledges and Commodities to the same Belonging or in any wise  Appertaining To him the Said John Phillips his Hiers and Assigns Forever, to his and their proper Use Benefit and behoof forever.  Also I give & bequeath unto my son John one piece of medow Containing about three acres be it more or Less Bounded as follows, Easterly upon my Land by a maple Stump and a pole and then Turning to the Ditch and Runing as the Ditch Runs Till it comes to the North Shore bounded Northerly upon upland and Westerly upon Common Swampland and Southerly upon my own Land, with Leaberty to pass and Repass with a Team from his own place to the medow for Carting of Hay also two Acres and a half more of Land Bounding Westerly upon Ebenezer Dunton Land and the North Line is to Extend four Rods north from a Stump That is a Mark between said Duntons Land and my own, this Line is to Extend Southerly Twenty five rods and then Turning & Runing Easterly Sixteen rods and then Turning and Runing northerly Twenty five Rods and then Turning and ^runing^ Westerly Sixteen rods.  Which Land I Give and bequeath unto my son John, only Reserving half the mine Therein. Also I Give and Bequeath unto my son John a strip six rods in wedth from the oake that Stands by y^e old Field Bars to the last mentioned Land only reserving Leaberty to pass and repass over it to my Field.

"Item I Give and Bequeath unto my son Samuel my House and Barn And plough Land mowing Ground and pasture Land and Orcharding also all my Wood land To him Self his Hiers and Assigns For Ever to have and to hold the Said premises with all y^e Appurtenances and Commodities to the same belonging or in way and appertaining to him The said Samuel Phillips His Hiers and Assigns forever.  The Last mentioned Land which I Give and Bequeath To my Son Samuel is Bounded as Follows y^t is Easterly Upon David Johnsons Northerly upon Ebenezer Phillips Jun^-r Westerly ^upon^ Isaac Amsdens Land partly and partly upon Ebenezer Duntons Land Southerly upon John Phillips Land Likewise another peice of Land lying South of John Phillips Land Bounded Northerly upon John Phillips and Westerly upon Ebenezer Duntons and Southerly by Moses Johnson and Easterly by other Lands. Also I Give and bequeath unto my son Samuel one yoke of Oxen and one Cow & two Stear Calves also I Do Give unto Samuel all my moveables without Doors as oxen Plough Chains hoes Except half my Small Cart which I Give Ebenezer.

Item I Ordain and  appoint that my son Samuel shall pay to his Sister Mary Nickols one Hundred and Twenty ^pounds^ old Tenner Bills of Credit and Two Cows one half thereof to be paid and one Cow to be Delivered when he Takes possion of the Lands I have Given him and the Other part to be paid at his Mothers Death and the other Cow  To be Delivered at ye same Time.   Also I Do give and Bequeath to my Daughter Mary one heifer.

Item I Do Give Unto my Well Beloved Daughter Joannah Phillips one Hundred and Twenty pounds old Tenner Bills of Credit to be Raised and paid by Samuel Phillips my Son And Two cows to be Delivered unto her by him.   I Do will that He Shall pay one Half thereof unto his sister Joannah when He Takes possion of What I have given and bequeath unto him and One Cow to be Delivered unto her at the same Time and the other Half to be paid at y^e Death of his Mother and the second Cow to be Delivered unto her att the Same Time.  Item I Give and bequeath to my Daughter Joannah one heifer.

Item I Do give and bequeath unto my son Samuel and My Dearly Beloved wife Mary these two Whom I Do Constitute make and ordain my sole Executor And Executrix of this my Last will and Testament all the Debts that Are due from several persons unto me and that is Due for keeping Ambrous and also that will be Due for keeping Ambrous also I Do Give them full powers to act as to paying out money And Receiving of Money and To pursue To final Judgment And I Do hereby Utterly dissallow Revoke and Disanull All & Every other former Testament will Legacies and Bequests and Executors by me in any ways before named Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other To be My Last Will and Testament. In Wittness Whereof I have Hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and year above Written.

Signed Sealed & published pronounced and Declared 
By me y^e said Ebenezer Phillips as my Last Will and Testament 
In the presence of us the Subscribers
Jonathan Ward
Nathanael Webb                                                     Ebenizer Phillips   
John Lyscom


The will was proved at a Court in Worcester on 21 August 1746, with Jonathan Ward and John Lyscom appearing and making oath that they saw Ebenezer Phillips sign, seal and heard him publish, pronounce and declare it to be his last will and testament, and that he was of sound and disposing mind and memory.

5)  SOURCES

1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Charlestown Archives, Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 111 (image 116 of 385), Ebenezer Phillips birth record.

2. Roger D. Joslyn, Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to 1850 (Boston, Mass. :  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984), 3 Volumes, Volume 1, page 175, Ebenezer Phillips birth entry.

3. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 3 May 2018), Middlesex County, Volume 20, page 125 (image 114 of 415), Ebenezer Phillips to David Gould, Charlestown, 1717.

4. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 19, page 230 (image 485 of 605), David Gould to Ebenezer Phillips, Charlestown, 1717.

5. "Probate Records 1648-1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts),"  886 FHL US/CAN Microfilms, Probate Packet Packet #17,297, Andrew Phillips of Charlestown, 1717, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,421,489.

6. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 54, page 433 (image 224 of 672), Ebenezer Phillips to Daniel Green, Charlestown, 1721.

7. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 31, page 293 (image 151 of 282), Ebenezer Phillips to James Osgood, Stoneham, 1730.

8. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 46, page 342 (image 570 of 725), Ebenezer Phillips to John May, Stoneham, 1739.

9. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 45, page 232 (image 132 of 725), Ebenezer Phillips to Daniel Phillips Jr., Stoneham, 1742.

10. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Worcester County, Volume 20, page 317 (image 473 of 598), Ephraim Woods to Ebenezer Phillips, Southborough, 1743.

11. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Worcester County,  Volume 21, Pages 151-2 (images 94-5 for 601), Ebenezer Phillips to Ebenezer Phillips Jr. in Southborough, 1744.

12. Massachusetts, Worcester County, Probate Files, 1731-1925, Packet 46 400, Ebenezer Phillips of Southborough, 1746 (11 images); digital images, FamilySearch.org,  (https://familysearch.org : accessed 22 April 2018); citing original records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, with digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.

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Seavers in the News - Mrs. Cassius Seaver Dies in Wilbraham, Mass. in 1917

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a semi-regular feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the Springfield [Mass.] Republican newspaper dated 20 October 1917:

The transcription of this article is:

"Death of Mrs. Cassius Seaver

"Mrs. Cassius Seaver, 43, died at her home about 5 o'clock yesterday morning after a long illness.  She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Addison Bennett of Wilbraham mountain.  Her early life was spent in Wilbraham.  Twenty years ago she married Cassius Seaver and spent the latter part of her life in Cambridge.  Early last Spring she moved to her old home in town.  She leaves her husband and four children, Ernest, Florence, Evelyn and Vera, also her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Addison Bennett of Wilbraham, and five brothers, George Bennett of Greenfield, Stanley and Winfield Bennett of Palmer and Roscoe and Leon of North Wilbraham; also three sisters, Mrs. Allan Seaver, Mrs. Fred Metcalf and Mrs. Luther Farr, all of North Wilbraham.  The funeral will be held tomorrow at Glendale Methodist church at 2 o'clock.  Burial will be in Glendale cemetery."

The source citation for this article is:

"Death of Mrs. Cassius Seaver" Springfield [Mass.] Republican, 20 October 1917, page 10, column 2, Mrs. Cassius Seaver obituary; digital image, GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com: accessed 3 May 2018), Newspaper Archives collection.
Cassius Benedict Seaver (1878-????) married Imogene E. Bennett (1875-1915) on 30 April 1899 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.  The obituary never mentioned her first name.

I did not have Imogene E. (Bennett) Seaver's death date, and now I do, probably 19 October 1917.  

I did have the birth dates for the four children mentioned, Ernest, Florence, Evelyn and Vera, but do not have death dates or marriage information for them.

Cassius Seaver married, secondly, to Flora Collins before 1924, and they had two children, Phyllis and Clarence. I don't have death records for Cassius, Flora or Phyllis.


Am I related to Cassius Seaver?  Probably, but I don't know the parents of his great-grandfather, John Seaver (1778-1841).  John may be a grandson of Robert Seaver (1702-1752), my sixth great-grandfather.

  
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1695 Birth Record of Ebenezer Phillips in Charlestown, Mass. - Post 410 for Treasure Chest Thursday

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance 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 1695 birth record of Ebenezer Phillips in the Charlestown, Massachusetts town record book:

The birth record for Ebenezer Phillips is:

The transcription of this record is:

"Phillips       Ebenezer, son of Andrew & Sarah Phillips, born August 17^th 1695"

The source citation for this record is:

"Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 July 2013), "Charlestown Archives, Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 111 (image 116 of 385), Ebenezer Phillips birth record.

This record is a transcription of an earlier Charlestown town record that was lost or destroyed.  As such, it is a Derivative Source, with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the birth and parents of Ebenezer Phillips.

Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746) was the son of Andrew and Sarah (Smith) Phillips of Charlestown, Massachusetts.  He married Mary Smith (1698-????) in 1719, probably in Malden, Massachusetts.  They had six children born between 1719 and 1733, the first in Wakefield, and the last four in Stoneham. 

Ebenezer and Mary (Smith) Phillips are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son John Phillips (1722-1800), who married Hannah Brown (1725-1774) in 1749 in Southborough, Massachusetts.

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Dear Randy: How Do You Search For Records on Ancestry.com?

A society colleague asked me this question last month, and I wanted to share my answer with my readers.

My answer is somewhat complicated, because there are several ways to search for records for a specific person on Ancestry.com.  The three most common ways are:

1)  From the Search fields on the Home page and the Search page on Ancestry.com.

2)  Use the Hints and Suggested Records.

3)  Search from within the Ancestry Member Tree profile.

For this study, I'm going to use a person in my family tree for whom I don't have a lot of information in hopes of finding more data than what I have.  I selected my 2nd great-uncle, William A. Auble (1845-1901), who was the son of David and Sarah (Knapp) Auble and married to Mary Louise Thompson.

Here are my results for the three searches:

1)  I searched from the home page search fields for:

*  First name:   William [exact, similar, sounds like, initials]
*  Last name:   Auble [broad],
*  Birth year:  1845 [broad],
*  birth place:  New Jersey [broad],
*  Lived in:     New Jersey [country].

The top of the Results page is:

The results that I judge to be correct based on the known information include (searching the top 150 of 62,767 matches, most of which are for different first names, birth years, etc.):

*  #1  1850 US Federal Census - "William A Auble"
*  #2  1880 US Federal Census -  "William A. Auble"
*  #26  1860 US Federal Census - "Wm A Auble"
*  #146  Indiana Marriages, 1810-2001 - "William Auble"

So there were 4 useful results, the furthest one down the list was #146.  If I had added the spouse to the search request, that match would have been higher on the list.

2)  A search using the Ancestry Hints and Suggested Records from within my Ancestry Member Tree shows a total of 3 Hints:

The three Hints were:

*  #1  1880 US Federal Census - "William A Auble"
*  #2  1860 US Federal Census - "Wm A Auble"
*  #3  1850 US Federal Census - "William Auble"

There were 3 "Suggested Records" for any of the census records - and the added one was:

*  Social Security Claims and Applications Index - Bessie Auble Pentecost, daughter of William A. Auble and Mary L. Thompson.

3)  From the William A. Auble profile in my Ancestry Member Tree, I clicked on the "Search" button in the top left of the screen above.  Here is the top of the list of Results (three screens shown):

The sliders at the top left of the screen show that the search criteria included:

*  First name:  William A. [broad]
*  Last name:  Auble [Exact, sounds like, similar]
*  Birth year:  1845 [broad]
*  Birth place:  Newton, Sussex, NJ [broad]
*  Marriage date:  1880 [broad]
*  Marriage place:  Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana [broad]
*  Death date:  1901 [broad]
*  Death place:  Danville, Vermillion, Illinois [broad]
*  Gender:  Male [broad]
*  Parents:  David Auble, Sarah Knapp
*  Siblings:  Frances Mary, Charles, Katherine, Anna Mattison, Cora A.
*  Spouse:  Mary Louise Thompson
*  Child:  Bessie

With those search terms, which are all "Broad" except for the last name, the applicable records found include (after a search through the top 150 of 25,523 results):

*  #1  Indiana Marriages, 1802-2001 - "William A Auble"
*  #2  1880 US Federal Census - "William A Auble"
*  #3  1850 US Federal Census - "William Auble"
*  #4  US Social Security Claims and Applications Index - "William A. Auble" {on Bessie Auble Pentecost's record]
*  #5  1860 US Federal Census - "Wm A Auble"

The City Directory records on the list for Evanston, Illinois may be for this William A. Auble also - I know he resided in the Chicago area for some time, and then moved to Danville, Illinois where he died in about 1901, before his wife married again in 1901.

In addition, there is a Result for a number of Ancestry Member Trees at the top of the list.  I clicked the "See more like this" link and saw:

What?  It should have found three trees, including one of mine.  Another glitch, I guess.  Maybe it's not repeatable.

The point of this is to illustrate why I prefer search number 3 - the search from within my Ancestry Member Tree:

*  I didn't have to enter anything in a search field, or select slider positions; the tree autofilled in the search fields for me. 

*  The records it found for this person with one click were the best Results; it put them right at the top of the Results list, unlike the other two methods.  

A critic might say, "well, if you had added the parents, spouse and child to your #1 search, the results might have been different."  Yes, they might have been.  But I don't think most researchers add all of that information on their initial search.

Why didn't the Ancestry Hints and Suggested Records find all of the records?  It missed the Marriage record.  We have been told that the Hints come from the top 10% of the record collections (listed by number of records).  Apparently, that marriage collection is not in the Top 10% (which is actually about 3,270 records).  So you can't trust "just" the Hints and Suggested Records.

How do you search for a person on Ancestry, assuming you know at least a name, birth year and birth state?  Tell me in Comments.

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Added or Updated Record Collections on MyHeritage - April 2018

I'm trying to have a monthly post about the new and updated record collections on MyHeritage, since they recently have added their Collection Catalog.  The end-of-March report was Added or Updated Record Collections on MyHeritage - February and March 2018.

In April, the top of the Catalog looks like::

Those are the featured collections pinned at the top of the list.  

Here is the start of the most recent collections added or updated:

The added or updated collections since 1 April are:

*  MyHeritage Family Trees - updated 1 May 2018; 2,796,021,084 records

*  Geni World Family Tree - updated 1 May 2018; 273,220,798 records

*  FamilySearch Family Tree - updated 1 May 2018; 910,366,981 records

*  New Jersey Death Index, 1901-1903 - added 25 April 2018; 96,216 records

*  New Jersey Marriage License Index, 1901-1914 - added 23 April 2018; 769,976

*  New Jersey Birth Index, 1901-1903 - added 21 April 2018; 272,250 records

*  Connecticut Newspapers, 1791-2009 - added 4 April 1018; 2,343,327 pages

According to the Collection Catalog  page, there are now 6,525 collections on MyHeritage (up from 6,521 on 1 April 2018) with 9,005,935,666  records  (was 8,962,379,568 on 1 April 2018), so 4 new collections and about 43.4 million records have been added since 1 April 2018.

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have had for several years, which I appreciate.  I have been reimbursed for travel and meal expenses in exchange for services rendered (luncheon and in-exhibit presentations) to MyHeritage at RootsTech conferences.

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We Meet Grandson Charlie For the First Time -- Post 514 of (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 simply am incapable of having a wordless post.

In September 2014, our fifth grandchild was born in Huntington Beach.  After a few days, we HAD TO go see Charlie at their home.  Here are some of my photographs from the visit:

1)  Charlie wasn't interested in watching the football game.  I always carry babies with a football clutch:

2)  Linda was so happy to hold Charlie, and Audrey and Lauren were happy to help:

3)  I always like to check out fingers and toes, test the grip, etc.  He slept through it.

4)  Audrey loved holding him, and he's still sleeping.

This is a wonderful part of MY family history!

More photos next week!

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Genealogy News Bytes - 1 May 2018

Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:

1)  News Articles:

*  Announcing the Virtual Genealogical Society

*  New Season of Who Do You Think You Are? Starts on TLC on May 21st!

*  Ancestor Network Appointed by National Library of Ireland to Provide Genealogy Advisory Service

*  U.S. Law will soon Release Previously Copyrighted Works of 1923 to the Public Domain

*  NGS Introduces African American and Federal Lands Courses

*  New Feature: Pedigree View for Family Trees

2)  Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Collections - Week of 22 to 28 April 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 22 to 28 April 2018

*  Chronicling America Updates - April, 2018

*  425 Birth, Marriage, and Death Record Collection Links from U.S. Western  States

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for May 2018

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 2 May, 11 a.m. PDT:  Special Appearance by the Founder and CEO of MyHeritage, with Gilad Japhet

*  Genealogy Gold Podcast:  #176 - Who’s Who in the American Revolution: Marquis de Lafayette

*  Genealogy Connection Podcast:  #042 - Brooke Schreier Ganz, Founder and President of Reclaim the Records

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  DNA Do Over, Genealogy Hit Lists, and Translation Tools with Thomas MacEntee

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:   Do Twins Have the Same DNA? - A Segment of DNA

*  Kenneth R. Marks YouTube Channel:  Historical Newspaper Search Tips and What to Avoid

*  Kenneth R. Marks YouTube Channel:  Win The OCR Text Battle Change the Letters in Your Search

*  RF Tree Genealogy YouTube Channel:  American Nations

*  RF Tree Genealogy YouTube Channel:  Recombination

*  Elizabeth O'Neal YouTube Channel:  An Interview with Relative Race's Team Green - RootsTech 2018

*  Extreme Genes Podcast:  Episode 234 - The “DNA Painter” Craze Explained / World War I Widow Talks About Her Husband

*  Genealogy Magazine YouTube Channel:  Titanic Widow: The Mystery of Addie Bracken

*  Legacy Tree Genealogists YouTube Channel:  Legacy Tree Genealogists - About Us

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, May 1,  2018

5)  Neat Stuff:

*  Meet the man who traced his family history and found his enslaved ancestors

*  Siblings reunite after 63 years

*  1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - Open SF History:  Smoke, Fire, Ruins, and Refugees

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 27 April 2018?

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