Friday, May 1, 2020

Genealogy News Bytes -- Friday, 1 May 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop over the past three days.



2)  New or Updated Record Collections:





3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  View RootsTech 2020 Videos for FREE! 

 *  FREE! Family History Library Online Classes May 2020

*  New "Ask The Expert" Series on MyHeritage during May 2020

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 5 May, 7 p.m.:  Smarter Search Strategies for Genealogy, by Thomas MacEntee

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 6 May, 11 a.m.:  Crème de la crème: Targeted Autosomal DNA Testing to Isolate Pertinent Genetic Cousins, by Paul Woodbury



*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone: Understanding DNA Shared Match Lists, by Michelle Leonard

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's top Tips: #176r - Online Trees

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):


*  BYU Family History Library:  FamilySearch Q&A with Kathryn Grant








*  Lisa Louise Cooke, Genealogy Gems Podcast: Episode 6 Elevenses with Lisa 




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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 1 May 2020

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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New records from England and Scotland available to search this Findmypast Friday

Findmypast announce latest additions to the fastest-growing collection of Scottish family records online.

Scotland, Edinburgh & Lothian Death and Burial Index

Trace Edinburgh and Lothian ancestors in this unique collection of death and burial records. We've added 63,990 new burial transcripts from the parishes of Restalrig Churchyard and Edinburgh, St Cuthberts.

Burial records provide details on where your relative was laid to rest along with other important information including:
  • Their names
  • Their birth, death and burial dates
  • Their ages when they died
  • Their occupations
  • Cause of death
  • Whether they were buried on private or common ground
  • Their religious denominations
  • Charges paid for the burial

Discovering whether your ancestor was buried in a private or common ground will give you an indication of the family's wealth.

Scotland, Aberdeenshire Poll Tax 1696

These records can reveal how much your ancestors paid in tax. Transcripts with the most important family tree details, as well as digital copies of the original records could tell you:
  • Your ancestor's name
  • Their occupation and status
  • Where they lived
  • Their landlord's and/or tenant's names

Realising the importance of increasing the efficiency of their armed forces to combat foreign and internal enemies, the Scottish Parliament imposed this poll tax. 

Merchant and philanthropist, Robert Gordon appears in the records.  An only son, he never married or had children but made his fortunes trading in Europe. Gordon used his wealth for the greater good, offering low-interest loans to Aberdonians and starting the development of a children's hospital.

Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions

Exclusive to Findmypast, another 7,639 records have been added from Calderdale Family History Society. The update covers seven graveyards in Halifax and the surrounding area:
  • Blackley (Baptist) from 1791-1978
  • Halifax, All Souls, Boothtown (Anglican) from 1833-1997
  • Halifax, St Thomas the Apostle, Claremount (Anglican) from 1810-2019
  • Copley, St Stephen (Anglican) from 1867-1993
  • Eastwood (Congregational) from 1616-1991
  • Elland, Huddersfield Road (Wesleyan Methodist) from 1807-1891
  • Elland, Providence (Congregational) from 1821-1899

For more Yorkshire family milestones, be sure to check the rest of our extensive collection from 'God's Own County'.

Cambridgeshire Burials

We've updated our Cambridgeshire burial collection with a further 3,279 unique records from Fenland Family History Society. This update covers Wisbech, Mount Pleasant Cemetery from 1900-1968.

As well as uncovering important details in these new burials, the baptisms, marriages and banns from the same county collection can reveal more about your Cambridgeshire family.

Newspapers

We've added 69,314 brand new newspaper pages this week, with a new title from County Limerick joining the collection.

The Munster News covers the years 1851-1860, 1862-1871, 1873-1877, 1879-1880, 1882-1889, 1910, 1912-1915, 1919, 1922, 1925-1927 and 1930
As well as that, the following six papers have had comprehensive updates from the listed years:



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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Findmypast, and have accepted meals and services from Findmypast, as a Findmypast Ambassador.  This has not affected my objectivity relative to Findmypast and its products.

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52 Ancestors - Week 328: #539 Sarah (Grande) Allen (1691-1723) of Sudbury, Massachusetts

Sarah Grande (1691-1723)  is number 539 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #538 Thomas Allen (1690-1777) in 1711 in Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #269 Sarah Allen (1717-1796) who married #268 Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752)   in 1735.
*  their son #134 Jeremiah Knowlton (1745-1785) who married #135 Abigail Peirce (1750-1776) in 1771.
*  their daughter #67 Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) who married #66 Nathan Gates (1767-1830)  in 1790.
*  their daughter, #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)  in 1817.
*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who 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:                       Sarah Grande[1–2]    

*  Sex:                          Female  
   
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                       about 1691, Massachusetts, United States    

*  Death:                      about 1723 (about age 32), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:              Thomas Allen (1690-1777)  
*  Marriage 1:           27 June 1711 (about age 21), Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]    

*  Child 1:             Thomas Allen (1713-    )    
*  Child 2:             Daniel Allen (1715-    )    
*  Child 3:             Sarah Allen (1717-1796)    
*  Child 4:             Grace Allen (1719-1785)  

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

The parentage of Sarah Grande remains a mystery.  The most likely parents are Robert Grandy/ Grundy (1656-1693) and Mary Parker (1654-1691) who resided in Boston in the 1670 to 1700 time frame.  There are no birth or baptism records for Sarah Grande.  It is estimated that she was born in about 1691.

Sarah Grande married Thomas Allen (1690-1777) of Sudbury on 27 June 1711 in Wayland, Massachusetts[1-2].  The Wayland town record for this marriage says[1]:
"Thomas Allen & Sarah Grande were joyned in marrige June ye 27'th .....1711"
The marriage is also recorded in the Sudbury town records[2].

Thomas and Sarah (Grande) Allen had four children between 1713 and 1719, all recorded in Sudbury town records:

*  Thomas Allen (1713-????), married about 1740 to Beulah Stone (1718-1762).
*  Daniel Allen (1715-????).
*  Sarah Allen (1717-1796), married 1735 to Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752).
*  Grace Allen (1719-1785), married 1739 to John Bigelow (1715-1787).

Sarah, may have died after the birth of Grace in Sudbury in 1719, but there are no death or burial records for her.

5.  SOURCES

1. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com, "Wayland Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 197 (image 101 of 105.), Thomas Allen and Sarah Grande marriage entry, 1711.

2. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Marriages, page 163, Thomas Allen and Sarah Grande marriage entry, 1711.

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NOTE:  In 2014, 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 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.


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Thursday, April 30, 2020

MyHeritage Adds the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Collection, 1936-2007

Perusing the Collection Catalog on MyHeritage today, I noticed that they added the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007 record collection on 29 April 2020.  This is one of the most significant collections for 20th century research in the United States, in my humble opinion.

The MyHeritage description of this collection is:
"This collection contains records created by the Social Security Administration when individuals applied for a Social Security Number or when a claim was made for disability, retirement, or death benefits. The records include the applicant’s or claimant’s full name, date and place of birth, gender, and for application records, father’s full name, and mother’s full name - including the mother’s maiden name. The inclusion of birth place and parents’ names makes this collection an invaluable companion to the U.S. Social Security Death Index which does not include these important facts."
There are 240,604,242 records (presumably, indexed names) in this collection, which includes parents, spouses, or childrens names.

 Here is the search page for this collection:

I entered my mother's name in the search fields, and clicked "Search" and saw 1,608 results (it was an inexact name search):


My mother's record was the fifth one on the list:

 This record summary provides the following information:

*  Name:
*  Gender:
*  Race:
*  Record Type:
*  Birth date and place:
*  Entry date:
*  Father's name:
*  Mother's name:
*  Signed by:
*  Reference number:
*  Entry description:

There is no record image.  The Entry date is the date when she applied for a Social Security card.  January 1943 was six months after her marriage to my father.  The Reference number is not the Social Security number.  My mother used her maiden surname as her middle name on this record.

This is an excellent record for a person who lived in the 20th century.  It provides a birth date, a birth place, and sometimes the parents names (including the mother's maiden name). 

As many genealogists know, this record collection has been available on Ancestry.com for several years.  I am happy that MyHeritage has added it to their list of record collections.

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Seavers in the News -- S.K. Seaver Dies in 1929 in Appleton, Wisconsin

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

This week's entry is from the Belvidere [Ill.] Daily Republican newspaper dated 9 August 1929:

The transcription of the article is:

"FORMER RESIDENT OF COUNTY DEAD

"S.K. Seaver, native of Boone county, and a former Sharon resident, died at a hospital in Appleton on Saturday.  For the past three years he had made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Charles Chamberlain, at Almond, Wis.  He was born at Hunter on October 15, 1853.  Seven children survive.  Funeral services were held Monday at Sharon and burial was also there."

The source citation is:

"Former Resident of County Dead," Belvidere [Ill.] Daily Republican newspaper, obituary, Friday, 9 August, 1929, page 8, column 5, S.K. Seaver obituary; Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 30 April 2020).

The only information of genealogical value in this obituary is S.K.'s death date and place, his daughter's married name, and his birth date and place. There is nothing about his spouse, marriage, occupation or children's names, except for one daughter.  

The key clue to finding this family in my RootsMagic family tree was his daughter's married name.

I had this family in my Seaver family tree database.  Seaver Knutsen Seaver (1854-1929) was the first child of Knute Sjursen and Thora Olsdatter (Hyland) Seaver, who migrated from Norway settled in Boone County, Illinois in about 1850.  He married Emma Engeborg Paulson (1856-1929) in 1883 in Walworth County, Wisconsin.  They had eight children:

*  Rebecca Thorinda Seaver (1884-1981), married 1917 Charles William Chamberlain (1888-1949).
*  Maude Edith Seaver (1886-1971), married 1912 Carl H. Mendell (1881-1934).
*  Pearl Frances Seaver (1888-1966), married (1) 1914 Charles Pennington (1878-1914), and (2) 1922 Elias Duxstad (1866-1941).
*  Raymond Lewis Seaver (1891-1981), married 1917 Della Mae McLean (1894-1963).
*  Bessie Josephine Seaver (1892-1978), married 1915 Floyd William Campbell (1893-1973).
*  Arthur Herbert Seaver (1894-1978), married 1922 Rose Kathryn Bieber (1898-1980).
*  Jessie Seaver (1894-1894).
*  Gladys Emma Seaver (1898-1978), married 1916 William August Friedrich Krupke (1893-1978).

I am not related to this Seaver line, since they descend from Sjur Knudsen and Ingeborg Vikingsdtr of Voss, Norway.

There are over 9,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and  some persons live long lives and have large families.  I am glad that I can honor Seaver Knutsen Seaver today.  

You never know when a descendant will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors.

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1811 Marriage Record for John Richman and Ann Marshman in Hilperton, Wiltshire

It's Treasure Chest Tuesday - 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 1811 marriage of John Richman and Ann Marshman in the Hilperton, Wiltshire Church of England parish registers:

 The Richman - Marshman marriage record is the last one on the page:

 The extracted information from this record is (handwritten information in italics):

No.  20  
Banns of Marriage between  John Richman of this Parish,
                                           and Ann Marshman of this Parish, 
married in this   Church   by   Banns  
this   twenty-eighth   Day of   Feb'y   in the Year One Thousand Eight
Hundred and   eleven   by me,   J. Bailes, Curate     
This marriage was solemnized between us }  The Mark  X  of John Richman                                                                          }  The Mark X of  Ann Marshman   
In the Presence of }      Richard Hiscock      
                              }     the Mark X of Thomas Marshman   
The source citation for this record is:

"Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1916," indexed database with record images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 April 2020), Hilperton > 1807-1812, image 51 of 64, No. 20, John Richman and Ann Marshman marriage record, 28 February 1811.

The parents of John Richman and Ann Marshman are not known, although I have suspicions about who they are.  One clue is one of the witnesses on this marriage record - Thomas Richman may be John's father, brother, uncle or another close relative.  The other witness, Richard Hiscock, is a witness on several other marriages in this time frame.

This is the marriage record from the Hilperton, Wiltshire parish register for my 3rd great-grandparents, John Richman (1789-1867) and Ann Marshman (1784-1856).  Before I accessed this record, I had the Bishop's Transcripts record from the FHL microfilms.  

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