Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 9 June 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 four days.

1)  News Articles:

*  NGS 2020 On-Demand! Now Available




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 June 2020
*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 10 June, 5 p.m.:  Using DNA to Answer Real Research Questions: Three Case Studies, by Gail Blankenau

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 12 June, 11 a.m.: Your DNA questions answered live with Diahan, by Diahan Southard


4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:




5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  American Ancestors:  The English Garden: Perfection on Earth















6)  Genealogy Bargains:

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Tombstone Tuesday -- Humphrey White (1757-1814) in Acotes Hill Cemetery, Glocester, R.I.

I have collected a number of gravestone photographs from my own camera and from Find A Grave memorials over many years, and thought I would share them one at a time for Tombstone Tuesday.

Here is the gravestone of my 4th great-grandfather, Humphrey White (1757-1814) in Acotes Hill Cemetery in Glocaster, Rhode Island:

 The inscription says:
Humphrey White

1757-1814

The source citation for this gravestone is:

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 June 2020), memorial page for Humphrey White (1757–1814), Find a Grave Memorial no. 80231179, citing Acotes Hill Cemetery, Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Bobbi Lynn (contributor 47031746) .


Thank you to Bobbi Lynn for creating this Find A Grave memorial and to Bobbi for taking the photograph.

It looks like this Humphrey White stone has been broken and repaired.

Humphrey and Sibel (Kirby) White are my 4th great-grandparents.  Humphrey White (1757-1814) was the son of Jonathan and Abigail (Wing) White of Dartmouth, Massachusetts.  He married Sibel Kirby (1764-1848) in 1786 in Dartmouth, Mass.  They had 10 children including Jonathan White (1803-1850), my 3rd great-grandfather, who married Miranda Wade (1804-1850).

A biographical sketch for Humphrey White is in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 73: #88 Humphrey White (1757-1814).

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Monday, June 8, 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 8 June 2020

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Participated in the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Board Meeting via Zoom.  We had not met since March.  I volunteered to put out a June newsletter and do the 24 June program.  

2)  Wrote, edited and published the June 2020 CVGS Newsletter in PDF format by email (on Sunday) with program reviews, a member spotlight, links to genealogy news and notable blog posts, and the June Zoom meeting announcements.
3)  Participated in the San Diego Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group on Saturday, 6 June with Colin Whitney presenting about MyHeritageDNA.  There was a question and answer session afterward in which Kitty Cooper contributed information.  

4)  Participated in the Mini-Myrt Zoom meetings on Tuesday through Friday.  Offered some commentary about my research and resources.

5)  Participated in today's Mondays With Myrt on Zoom Webinars.  We discussed Renate's YouTube channel, the MyHeritage free daily collections, my Frederick Vaux post and records, England civil registration, the FamilySearch wiki, Nathan Goodwin books, using Zoom on an iPad, WikiTree's genealogical record sections for specific countries, and GEDCOM updates with Tony Proctor.

6)  Watched the Family Tree Webinar "'What are the Odds?' An online tool that can help solve DNA puzzles" by Jonny Perl.  I need to do this!

7)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of 7th great-grandfather #560 Peter Dill (1645-1692) for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.  

8)  Transcribed the 1759 Estate Inventory of Joseph Grout (1682-1758) of Westborough, Mass. for Amanuensis Monday.  

9)  Added Notes to 6 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors.  Ancestry added 11 DNA Matches this week.  Reviewed new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

10) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 35,933 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 67).

11)  Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 57,749 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 34) , and 121,943 source citations (up 354).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree two times this week updating 174 profiles, and I resolved 1,261 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 131,138 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily.    

12)  Wrote 19 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were a press release.  The most popular post last week was News From Genetic Affairs: Ancestry Demands They Stop Collecting DNA Match Data with over 504 views.  

13)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Thursday and it wasn't too busy.  I had to go to FedEx to send another package and drove by Costco and Walmart to see the line lengths.  Not bad!  I finally mowed the back yard and need to cut weeds along the fences.  I pushed Linda in the wheelchair up and down the block four times. We watched the church choir and pastor's sermon on YouTube on Sunday.  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing genealogy, eating and sleeping, plus reading ebooks on my laptop while watching TV.

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Free Collections on MyHeritage Daily During June 2020

I received this from MyHeritage today:

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Last week we announced that we’re opening up a historical record collection for free each day during June! The collections we’ve chosen are rare and valuable, and many are exclusive to MyHeritage.

The collections that we’re opening for free this week are:

*  U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007 (United States, 240,604,239 indexed entries), June 8
*  Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922 (United States, 10,186,647  indexed entries), June 9
*  Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (United States, 113,439,590  indexed entries), June 10
*  1940 United States Federal Census (United States, 134,437,293  indexed entries), June 11
*  Massachusetts Newspapers, 1704-1974  (Untied States, 6,072,876  indexed entries), June 12 
*  Florida Newspapers, 1901-2009 (United States 8,084,846  indexed entries), June 12
*  Historical Books - Index of Authors and People Mentioned, 1811-2003 (United States + Worldwide, 494,096,284 indexed entries), YES June 13
*  Compilation of Published Sources (United States + Worldwide, 84,206,879 indexed entries), YES June 14

And just so you don’t miss any of the ones yet to come, here are all the collections available for free after this week:

*  Canada Newspapers, 1752-2007 (Canada, 6,961,070  indexed entries),YES, June 15
*  1921 Canada Census (Canada, 8,683,491 indexed entries), June 16
*  France, Nord Civil Marriages, 1792-1937 (France, 5,423,678 indexed entries), YES June 17
*  France Death Index, 1970-2019 (France, 24,725,675 indexed entries), June 18

*  Netherlands, Civil Births, 1811-1915 (Netherlands, 31,860,820 indexed entries), June 19
*  Netherlands, Civil Marriages, 1811-1940 (Netherlands, 28,131,957 indexed entries), June 20
*  England & Wales, Death Index, 1837-2005  (United Kingdom, 87,011,471 indexed entries), Jun 21
*  England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1837-2005 (United Kingdom, 95,986,805 indexed entries), June 21

*  1939 Register of England & Wales (United Kingdom, 33,094,734 indexed entries), June 22
*  Hungary Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895 (Hungary, 52,294,424 indexed entries), June 23
*  Spain, Marriages, 1565-1950  (Spain, 8,303,137 indexed entries), June 24
*  Spain, Baptisms, 1502-1940 (Spain, 25,055,776 indexed entries), June 24

*  Australia Electoral Rolls, 1893-1949 (Australia, 16,306,739 indexed entries), June 25
*  Mandatory Palestine Naturalization Applications, 1937-1947 (Israel, 206,731 indexed entries), YES June 26
*  Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965  (Brazil, 4,776,216 indexed entries), June 27
*  Brazil, Pernambuco Deaths, 1930-2017 (Brazil, 3,138,427 indexed entries), YES June 27

*  Greece, Electoral Rolls 1863-1924  (Greece, 1,006,594 indexed entries), YES June 28
*  Greece, Corfu Vital Records, 1841-1932 (Greece, 646,880 indexed entries), YES  June 28
*  Greece, Sparta Marriages 1835-1935 (Greece, 179,411 indexed entries), YES June 28
*  Germany, Hesse Marriage Index, 1849-1931  (Germany, 4,770,560 indexed entries), June 29

*  Germany, Hesse Birth Index, 1874-1911 (Germany, 3,784,938 indexed entries), June 29
*  Germany North Rhine Westphalia Death Index (Germany, 2,355,301 indexed entries), YES June 30

NOTE: "YES" on the lists above means it is a collection exclusive to MyHeritage.

We hope you take advantage of this offer, and that it helps you overcome your genealogical brick walls and enlightens you with new information about your ancestors and relatives.

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and gave received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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Amanuensis Monday - 1759 Estate Inventory of Joseph Grout (1682-1758) of Westborough, Mass.

This week's document for transcription is the 1759 inventory of the estate of Joseph Grout (1682-1758) of Westborough, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 26,009 in the Worcester County, Massachusetts probate court records.  

The transcription of this Inventory paper is:

Westborough april the 7'th 1759

We the subscribers Being directed and impowered by the hon'bl Judge of
probates for the County of Worcester have apprised the Estate of Joeph
Grout Late of Westborough dec'd as it was shewn to us by Jonathan Grout
Administrator and in Inventory is as followeth vizt.


£
s
d
Wareing apparel    2   13    4
Beds and beding    8     0    0
Books    0     8    0
One pair of oxen    8     0    0
Five Cows  13     6    8
Two young Creaters    1     1    4
One horse    0   16    0
Two swine    1     1    4
Five sheep    0   16    0
One Cart    2     0    0
Two ploughs    0   13    4
Two Chains    0   16    0
Dung fork and pitch fork       0     1    1
One Iron Bar    0     2    8
One pair of stilyards    0     5    4
Old Iron    1     6    8
Two trammels    0     2    8
Peal and tongs    0     2    8
Frying pan and warming pan    0     4    0
Pewter and ???? ?????    2     2    8
Pots and kittels    0     8    0
Cyder Casks    0     9    4
One Chest of drawers    0     5    4
Tabels and Chairs    0   10    8
Wooden ware     0     5    4
Pew in the meeting house
   4
    0
   0
                                                              Sum total  49   18    5

                                              Simon Tainter        }
                                              Samuel Harrington } apprisers
                                              Nath'll Whitney     }
[In right hand margin]

Worcester ss April 11'th 1759 Jon'a Grout adm'r on the
Estate of his Late Father Joseph 

[Bottom of page] 

Worcester ss April 9'th 1759 Jon'th Grout adm'r presented the above and
made oath that it contains a just and true Inv'y of the Estate
of said Joseph Grout dec'd so far as hath come to his knowledge & if any
more shall appear he will add the same. Jurat Cor. John Chandler J Pro.

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Worcester County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #26,009, Joseph Grout of Westborough, 1759 (9 images); "Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1732-1881," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors  (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 30 May 2020); Original records in Worcester County, Massachusetts Probate Court Records, Worcester, Massachusetts.

This probate packet contains 9 separate papers, but five of them are the "wrappers" that introduced each document.  The Inventory is on the third paper; I transcribed the other three useful papers last week.There are no papers in this packet for the distribution of the estate or for the account of the administrator.

Joseph Grout died on 13 October 1758 in Westborough, Massachusetts.  His widow, Mary (Harrington) Grout, wrote a letter to the Judge of Probate for Worcester County dated 11 January 1759 and declined being administratrix to her husband's intestate estate, and suggested their son, Jonathan Grout.  Jonathan Grout posted a 200 pounds bond with Joseph and Daniel Grout (brothers or uncles) on 12 January 1759 and was appointed administrator on that date.  The committee was appointed to take an inventory of the estate on 5 February 1759, and the inventory was taken on 7 April 1759 and was presented to the Court on 9 April 1759.

Joseph Grout (1682-1758) married Mary Harrington (1692-1774) on 3 January 1717 in Watertown, Massachusetts.  They had seven children, all born in Watertown, except for one born in Sudbury and one born in Westborough.  The children were:

*  Mindwell Grout (1717-1741), married 1735 Silas Brigham (1710-1791).
*  Susannah Grout (1720-1816), married 1745 Levi Brigham (1716-1787).
*  Mehitable Grout (1726-1795), married 1749 Moses Brigham (1725-1769).
*  Joseph Grout (1727-1798), married 1755 Sarah Rice (1734-1808).
*  Jonathan Grout (1730-1801), married 1761 Hannah Merriam (1738-1811)
*  Sarah Grout (1732-????), married 1754 Jason Parmenter (1726-????).
*  Daniel Grout (1736-1809), married 1762 Elizabeth Adams (1743-1822).

Joseph and Mary (Harrington Grout are my probable 6th great-grandparents.  I descend through their daughter, Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) who married  Moses Brigham (1723-1769) in 1749 in Westborough, Massachusetts.

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
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Sunday, June 7, 2020

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 31 May to 6 June 2020

Dozens 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:

 *  Where Are the Petersons? Considering Lack of Representation, by Paul Woodbury on Genealogenes.

 *  Four Strategies I Used To Break Down Brick Walls by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

 *  The 23andMe Family Tree Built From DNA by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper's Blog.

 *  The Name's the Same by Jeff Record on Vita Brevis.

 *  Some of the Perils of Online Databases - 2 by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy.

 * A Major Update to "What Are the Odds?" by Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.

 *  Ancestry Tells Genetic Affairs to "Cease and Desist" by Dana Leeds on Dana Leeds.

 *  How Your DNA Test Results Can Help Genetic Detectives Solve Cold Cases! by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.

 *  Genealogy Brick Wall: But, I've Looked Everywhere, Part 1; Part 2 by Gena Philibert-Ortega on GenealogyBank Blog.

 *  Update to "A Shared DNA & Thrulines Question" by Michael John Neill on Rootdig.

 *  Genealogy and Paleography: How Are They Complementary? by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

 Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

* Friday's Family History Finds  by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  Friday Fossicking, 5th June 2020 by Crissouli on That Moment in Time.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme -- June 6, 2020  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte,

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and  read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another 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 currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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