CVGS Program on 27 February Features Hank Jones!

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27th GENERAL MEETING

from 12 noon to 2 p.m.

At Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library (365 F Street) Auditorium

Henry Z. “Hank” Jones, Jr., FASG – 

“Tracing the Origins of Early 18th Century Palatine and Other Emigrants”

This talk is an outgrowth of Hank's forty-plus years experience in chronicling those hearty German "Palatine" emigrants who came to colonial America in the 18th century.

Every genealogist wants to find his or her forebear overseas in their ancestral home. This talk is a lively discussion of how to accomplish this. A close examination of important American emigration sources is made. Suggestions are given as to which sources are the best, and which should be viewed with suspicion. Emphasis is given to doing one's American homework first before plunging overseas to look for ancestors.

Absolutely crucial to this discussion is the fact that "They Came Together: They Stayed Together!" Group emigration is stressed, and suggestions made as to just how to look for "clusters" of emigrating settlers. Sponsors at baptisms, witnesses to wills and deeds, and names on unalphabetized lists are all examined as to clues for origins.

Methodology used in writing the two volume set The Palatine Families of New York - 1710 is described. Over 600 of the 847 Palatine arrivals in colonial New York in 1710 were found overseas via ongoing German village-to-village investigations, as well as over 1500 later arrivals in the second wave of emigration 1717-1776: we look at how this was accomplished, and suggestions are made for others who wish to utilize these methods in discovering ancestral origins – no matter what ethnic background or time-frame. 

Henry Z ("Hank") Jones, Jr. has been actively climbing family trees since the age of eight, and, since his graduation from Stanford, has specialized in tracing 18th century German emigrants. Hank has written several books and many articles over the years.  He received the NGS Award of Merit for "Distinguished Work in Genealogy" and has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, of whom there are only fifty. 

There will be a short business meeting before the presentations.  Finger food and snacks are available before and after the meeting.

Guests and visitors are welcome at all CVGS meetings.  If this program interests you, please attend and enjoy the presentation and the society members.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/cvgs-program-on-27-february-features.html

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 17 to 23 February 2013

Hundreds of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for the genealogy carnivals, or other meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

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

*  Writing the Ridgelys by Michael Hait on the Planting the Seeds blog.  Here is a fascinating look at how Michael worked on this project from inception to publication in NGSQ.

*  Monday Mailbox: FamilySearch Responds by the writer of The Ancestry Insider blog.  Mr. AI has mail from a Vice-President about FamilySearch Family Tree development.

*  Perfecting Society Publications by Dawn Watson on the Digging in the Roots blog.  Dawn discusses the why and how of genealogical society publications, including editing, content, appearance and accessibility.

*  Genealogy and Identity Theft by James Tanner on the Genealogy's Star blog.  James delves into the identity theft "crime" statistics and how they affect genealogists.

*  Taking My Dad on a Who Do You Think You Are Tour by Janet Hovorka on The Chart Chick blog.  Janet has way too much fun taking her family to their ancestors localities!

*  The Boy Who Lived by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist blog.  Judy found a record of a really sick boy, and wondered what happened to him.

*  Top Ten Characteristics of a Good Genealogist by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on the Olive Tree Genealogy Blog.  Great list by Lorine, more in comments.

*  Genealogy Notes 10-14 February Days 1-5 of the Genealogy Cruise and Genealogy Notes 15-18, Days 6 to 9 of the Genealogy Cruise by Shauna Hicks on the Diary of an Australian Genealogist blog.  Shauna provides highlights of her recent Unlock the Past cruise.

*  Exploratory Data Analysis: Leona D. (Lambertson) Fetz Carpenter (1904-1988) by Travis J. LeMaster on the TJL Genes: Preserving Our Family History blog.  Travis applies his Research Template to one of his relatives.  Impressive!

*  Back to MIT to Hear about NARA's Plans for Records Access by Heather Rojo on the Nutfield Genealogy blog.  Heather describes her visit to hear about NARA's record access plans.

*  Keeping Track on the Road to Proof by Harold Henderson on the Archives Expert Series blog.  Harold has tips on how to keep track of all of your research stuff ... I wish I was more diligent in this.

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

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

*  Recap for February 19, 2013 by Amanda on the Geni Blog.

*  Follow Friday - Favorites for February 22, 2013 by Heather Kuhn Roelker on the Leaves for Trees blog.

*  Follow Friday - Fab Finds for February 22, 2013 by Jana Last on Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog.

*  Ancestors From Outer Space and Constructive Criticism.  It's Follow Friday! by Anne Gillespie Mitchell on the Finding Forgotten Stories blog.

*  Friday Finds - 02/22/13 by Julie Cahill Tarr on the GenBlog blog.

*  Genealogy News Corral, Feb. 18-22 by Diane Haddad on the Genealogy Insider blog.

*  Ruth's Recommendations by Ruth Blair on The Passionate Genealogist blog.

*  Genealogy Blogs, News & Tidbits, #6 by Deb Ruth on the Adventures in Genealogy blog.

*  Saturday Serendipity by John D. Tew on the Filiopietism Prism blog.

*  A Sunday Walk Around the Blogs by Dawn Watson on the Digging in the Roots blog.

*  Weekly Genealogy Picks: Feb. 17-23 by John Newmark on the TransylvanianDutch blog.

I encourage readers to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Google Reader, RSS feed or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 1350 genealogy bloggers using Google Reader, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/best-of-genea-blogs-17-to-23-february.html

Copyright(c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver 

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Ancestor Roulette!

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 

1) What year was one of your great-grandfathers born?  Divide this number by 100 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."

2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an "ahnentafel" - your software will create this - use the "Ahnentafel List" option, or similar). Who is that person, and what are his/her vital information?

3) Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the "roulette number."

4) Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook status or a Google Stream post, or as a comment on this blog post.

5) NOTE:  If you do not have a person's name for your "roulette number" then "spin" the wheel again - pick a great-grandmother, a grandfather, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, yourself, or even your children!

Here's mine:

1)  My great-grandfather, Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922), was born in 1852.  So my "Roulette number" is 18.52, rounded up to 19.

2)  Number 19 on my ancestor name list (ahnentafel list) is Sophia Newton, Frank's mother-in-law!  Her vital information includes:

** Born on 14 September 1834 (or 1835?), probably in Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont (or possibly Cambridge, Lamoille County, Vermont) to Thomas J. Newton (????-????) and Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) Newton (1797-1882). 
**  Married on 25 December 1852 in Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts to Edward Hildreth (1831-1899).
**  Died 29 August 1923 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, of "old age" at age 88.

3)  Three facts about Sophia Newton:

**  My father knew Sophia (Newton) Hildreth ... she owned the Hildreth home at 149 Lancaster Street in Leominster from her husband's death in 1899 until her passing in 1923, and her daughter's family (Hattie Hildreth married Frank W. Seaver) lived with her in that house from about 1880 to 1905, and then lived less than one mile away after 1912.  
**  Sophia (Newton) Hildreth had two known children - Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married Frank W. Seaver (1852-1922), and Clarence Edward Seaver (1874-1878).  I've always wondered if there were other children, or perhaps miscarriages or stillborns.  Only Hattie appears in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census records.  I need to check that out!
**  Since Sophia died after her only child that lived to adulthood, and that child's husband, the probate court filings for Frank and Hattie (Hildreth) Seaver were delayed until Sophia (Newton) Hildreth died in 1923.  The three estates were then probated in 1923, with the two living sons of Frank and Hattie (Hildreth) Seaver inheriting the estate.  The house at 149 Lancaster Street was sold in this process.  

4)  Done!

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-ancestor.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Surname Saturday - KNOWLES (England > Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 565: Mehitable KNOWLES (1653-1721). [Note: the 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two American generations of this KNOWLES family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)

70.  Thomas Dill (1755-1830)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

282.  Samuel Brown (1686-1739)
283.  Ruth Young (1688-1768)

564.  George Brown, born 16 January 1652 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 03 August 1721 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1128. William Brown and 1129. Mary Moorecocke.  He married 1674 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.

565.  Mehitable Knowles, born 20 May 1653 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 1721 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of George Brown and Mehitable Knowles are:  James Brown (1675-1721); William Brown (1677-1721); George Brown (1679-1735); Mary Brown (1683-1716); Mehtiable Brown (1684-????); Samuel Brown (1686-1739); Mercy Brown (1690-1754); Joshua Brown (1692-????).

1130.  Richard Knowles, born 1614 in Lancashire, England; died 03 June 1675 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 25 March 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
1131.  Ruth Bowers, born 1616 in Lincolnshire, England; died 1686 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2262. George Bowers and 2263. Barbara Smythe.

Children of Richard Knowles and Ruth Bowers are:  Mercy Knowles (1640-1692); John Knowles (1644-1675); James Knowles (1648-1675); James Knowles (1648-1678); Samuel Knowles (1651-1737); Mehitable Knowles (1653-1721); Barbara Knowles (1656-1714); Ruth Knowles (1658-1714).

I have used two derivative, but well known, sources for this family line:

1)  Charles Thornton Libby, "The Knowles Family of Eastham" New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 79, Number 3 (September 1925), pages 286-297.

2)  Virginia Knowles Hufbauer, Descendants of Richard Knowles 1637-1973 (San Diego, Calif. : Ventura International, 1974). 

A review of the Plymouth and Eastham town record books should provide original source information.  Another to-do list item!

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/surname-saturday-knowles-england.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Review: Legacy QuickGuide on World War I and World War II Military Records

Legacy Family Tree has commissioned a series of four-page booklets on various aspects of genealogical research.  Each laminated guide contains four pages of valuable information covering a variety of genealogy research topics. Legacy QuickGuides are written by genealogists and family historians who are experts in the subject areas.  These QuickGuides are oriented towards the online researcher - there are several pages of website links on selected subjects for the specific topic covered by the QuickGuide.

You can see the list of available Legacy QuickGuides at http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=71.  They are available as laminated four-page folders ($7.95 each) or as downloadable PDF files ($2.95 each).

The World War I and World War II Military Records was written by Jennifer Holik. 

The introduction to this QuickGuide says:

"Military research is important because it adds depth to the stories of your ancestors. Within military files you may discover additional family members, understand a story you heard about a family member, and gather more information to write their story. Military research can be difficult due to a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri in 1973 when many Army and Air Force records were lost to fire. The World War I and World War II Military Records Legacy QuickGuide™ contains useful information designed as an introduction to the wealth of information to be found in military records from these two wars and how to overcome the challenges associated with research. This handy 4-page PDF guide can be used on your computer or mobile device for anytime access."

The subjects included in the World War I and World War II Military Records QuickGuide are:

*  Timeline - World War I

*  Timeline - World War II

*  Getting Started

*  Military Service Records

*  Died in Service Records

*  General Resources

*  Specific Branch Resources

*  Lesser Used Resources

*  World War I General Resources

*  World War II General Resources

*  Further Reading

For the General Resources subjects, the items listed are website titles with links to the websites.  In some cases, there are shortened URLs for websites with long eddresses.

This Legacy QuickGuide is very useful for beginners and seasoned researchers alike.  The information about military service records and the died in service records are very helpful, and the links to online resources will be useful. I am sure that I will use this QuickGuide to help me find military records of my ancestors and relatives who served in these Wars.

The laminated version of this QuickGuide is very handy for researchers going to repositories or society meetings - it is light and easy to carry in a briefcase or computer case.  I much prefer the PDF version because I can save it to my computer (and laptop, tablet, and smart phone using Dropbox or another cloud service) and have it available in digital format for instantaneous usage by clicking the links provided rather than typing the links into my web browser. 

Order your copy of the World War I and World War II Military Records QuickGuide (PDF only) at the Legacy Family Tree Store.

Disclosure:  I was provided a complimentary copy of the PDF version of this Legacy QuickGuide on the condition that I provide a timely review of each QuickGuide provided.  Look for more in the near future!

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/review-legacy-quickguide-on-world-war-i.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Ancestry.com is LiveStreaming this Weekend from WDYTYA Live!

The Ancestry.com blog has listed the presentations being Livestreamed from the Who Do You Think You Are? Live conference in London this weekend.

Go tune in at http://www.livestream.com/ancestry/share?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=ui-share&utm_campaign=ancestry&utm_content=ancestry

Watch live streaming video from ancestry at livestream.com

The schedule shows presentations from 10:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. on Sunday.  10 a.m. in London is  5 a.m. in Eastern time and 2 a.m. in Pacific time. 5 p.m. is 12 noon in Eastern time and 9 a.m. in Pacific time.  

It's 10 a.m. here in San Diego (6 p.m. in London), and it sounds like Duff Wilson is talking about Family Tree Maker right now (the last presentation of the day).

Some presentations are duplicated during the day, or on successive days.

Unfortunately, the video quality is not wonderful but perhaps it will get better on saturday and Sunday.  

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/ancestrycom-is-livestreaming-this.html

Friday Funny - Ancestor Pressure

One of my favorite daily comic strips in the newspaper is Pickles written by Brian Crane -- it often rings really true for me!  I wish I had a grandson like Nelson who lived next door and visited us all the time.  If there was, I probably wouldn't work so much on genealogy and family history.

A society colleague sent me this comic strip episode recently (I don't know when it was published) and I thought that it was funny:

Earl got his trusty calculator out (I just did too) and calculated 20 generations back and came up with 1,048,576 ancestors in that 20th generation back.

Earl says:  "That's a lot of folks counting on you to make something of yourself, boy.  so ... don't let us down!

Nelson walks away and says to the dog:  "Geez!  Peer pressure is nothing compared to ancestor pressure!"

I think I'll try this out on the grandkids...

Putting this into my own genealogical perspective, I have about 99.99% of those in that 20th generation to find!  This work never ends, does it?

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Finding Pennsylvania Donation District Land Maps

In my searches for probate records and land records in Mercer County, Pennsylvania for Martin Carringer and Cornelius Feather, I wanted to know where the Donation District lands were located.

From earlier research, I knew that Martin Carringer was awarded Lot 941 in Perry Township in 1787, and Cornelius Feather had bought land that was part of Lot 963 in Salem township.

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PAHM), part of the Bureau of Archives and History of the Pennsylvania State Archives, has Warrantee Township Maps available online at http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-522WarranteeTwpMaps/r17-522WaranteeTwpMapMainInterface.htm.

The site says:

"The Pennsylvania State Archives holds the following warrantee township maps, which show all original land purchases from the Proprietors or the Commonwealth made inside the boundaries of present-day townships. In essence, these maps serve as a summary and geographical index for the warrants, surveys and patents held by the State Archives. Information usually shown for each tract of land includes: name of warrantee, name of patentee, number of acres, name of tract, and dates of warrant, survey and patent. Survey and patent numbers also may be given."

There are links to three sets of counties:

*  Allegheny to Fayette Counties
*  Fulton to Perry Counties
*  Pike to York Counties

Since I wanted to find land in Mercer County, I clicked on the Fulton to Perry Counties link and saw:

I clicked on the Perry link in the Mercer County list, and a PDF of the map (4.518 mb) of Perry Township's Donation Lots came up:

After manipulating the zoom feature a bit to 125%, I moved the map around until I found Lot 941 awarded to Martin Carringer in 1787:

As you can see, there is a lot information included on the map besides the name of the person awarded the land.  There are compass information (e.g., Martin's is North 87.5, East 261; South 2.5, East 130; South 87.5 West 261; North 2.5 West 130, with tree named at the corners);  Lot number; Name; Rank; Acres; Survey date; Patent date.

Isn't that a great map?  By overlaying the map on a current map of Perry township, I can probably find the exact location.

I did a similar task looking for Cornelius Feather's Lot 963 in the Salem Township map.  Then I looked again at the map above, and noticed that his Lot 963 is on Otter Creek Township map bordering Perry township on the map above, three lots to the left and one up.  I also downloaded the PDF for Otter Creek township.

The PAHM website has MANY more records for these Donation Land patents, including warrant, survey and patent data.  I've been exploring them this afternoon!  This is a fantastic resource!

If you go to the PAHM website and look for maps, note the hints that they provide for manipulating the images, and note also that you can obtain larger maps of each of the townships for a fee.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/finding-pennsylvania-donation-district.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Speakers/Topics at Huntington Beach BASH on 2 March 2013

I posted information three weeks ago about the Orange County, California Genealogical Society (OCCGS) BASH - an all-day seminar at Huntington Beach (CA) Library - on Saturday, 2 March 2013 in Huntington Beach Genealogy BASH is 2 March 2013.

Registration is required - see the registration page at http://occgs.com/mtg_event/bash/registration.html.  The registration fee is $40 for OCCGS members and $50 for non-members.  There is an additional charge for a box lunch if requested.

If this seminar interests you, I encourage you to register and attend.  This is going to be a premier genealogy education event!

Hal Horrocks of OCCGS has forwarded the list of speakers and their topics, and their room assignments, so I'm passing that on to interested readers:

As you can see, I have two presentations in the morning in the Maddy Room:

*  9:15 a.m. - Searching Ancestry.com Effectively
*  10:30 a.m. - Discovering Jane's Roots in California, Australia and England

Barbara Renick has four presentations, and the other speakers have one or two presentations each. Chris Hansen and Lloyd Budwig have three free Beginning Genealogy sessions during the day.

I hope to see many Genea-Musings readers at this event - please come by and introduce yourself at my talks or at the breaks.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/speakerstopics-at-huntington-beach-bash.html

Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver

Is This my Cousin in the FindMyPast Criminal and Prisoner Collection?

FindMyPast recently added a collection of historical criminal records from England and Wales for 1770 to 1934 - you can read their news release on the FindMyPast blog at http://blog.findmypast.com/2013/02/20/new-records-2-5-million-uk-criminal-records-online-for-the-first-time/

One of my family stories is that my second great-grandfather, James Richman (1821-1912), left Wiltshire in 1855 for America because he had been accused of stealing coal on the Avon and Kennett Canal near Hilperton in Wiltshire.  The story also is that he was charged, tried, but acquitted.

So I decided to see if there is a record for my 2nd great-grandfather in the FindMyPast collection.  Unfortunately, he is not.

I searched the collection for any Richman in Wilshire and found one:

This is one page from the collection, and reflects the Calendar of Prisoners Tried at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace at Devizes, Wiltshire during January 1898.  The information in this document includes:

*  No. 20
*  Name:  Henry Richman (Bailed on committal)
*  Age:  48
*  Occupation:  Farmer
*  Degree of Instruction:  Imp.
*  Name and Address of Committing Magistrate:  The Hon. and Rev. Henry Canon Sidney Meade, Frankleigh House, Bradford-on-Avon, And Another.
*  Date of Warrant:  Dec. 29th
*  When Received Into Custody:  1897, Dec 23 
*  Offence as charged in the indictment:  Felonious stealing of ten tons of mixed hay, value £10, the property of George Leonard Cullimore, at Haugh, on the 21st December 1897
*  When tried:  [no entry]
*  Before whom tried: [no entry]
*  Verdict of the jury: Bill ignored
*  Particulars of previous convictions charged in the indictment and proved in Court: [no entry]
*  Sentence or Order of the Court:  [no entry]

I don't know if I'm related or not to this Henry Richman, a 48-year old resident of Bradford-on-Avon, perhaps born in 1849.  My Richman's were near Bradford-on-Avon in Hilperton in 1849, and several Richman cousins resided in Bradford-on-Avon after 1850 (in fact, James Richman's brother, John Richman (1815-1884) died there).

A search of the 1841 to 1901 England census records on FindMyPast reveals only one Henry Richman in Wiltshire in the 1840 to 1850 time period.

*  There is a birth entry in 1840 for a Henry Richman of Warminster, Wiltshire.
*  The 1841 England census for Hilperton shows a 2-month old Henry Richman, born in Hilperton, the son of William and Jane (Bishop) Richman.
*  The 1851 England census for Hilperton shows a 10 year old Henry Richman, born in Hilperton, son of William and Jane Richman.
*  The 1861 England census for Hilperton shows a 20 year old Henry Richman, born in Hilperton, son of William and Jane Richman.
*  The 1871 England census for Hilperton shows a 30 year old Henry Richman, born in Hilperton, with a wife Rosina (aged 27), and two houses above William and Jane Richman on the enumeration.
*  The 1891 England census for Beechingstoke (??) shows a 45 year old Henry Richman, born in Hilperton, a farmer, with a wife Rose (age 40).
*  The 1911 England census for Bishop Cannings parish of Devizes Registraton District shows a 71 year old Henry Richman, born in Hilperton, with a wife Ruth, age 57.

Since this is the only Henry Richman that is close to matching the criminal record, my hypothesis is that Henry Richman, son of William and Jane (Bishop) Richman, is the person in the criminal record.  There are, as can be seen, some evidence conflicts between the census records and the criminal record that need to be resolved.  I realize that I haven't considered Henry Richman's born in other Counties or perhaps residing in other Counties in the census records.

Unfortunately, I don't know the parents of this Henry Richman's father, William Richman (1809-1884) born in Hilperton.  I have several William Richman persons in my database born in the 1790 to 1820 time period, but cannot connect them to parents due to the lack of parish record baptism entries in this time period.

I may still find a criminal record for my James Richman - FindMyPast has only about 20% of the complete Criminal records collection online at this time.

That was a fun hour!!  I love doing unscheduled posts like this - I usually learn something about available records, search techniques, and sometimes even find a distant cousin!

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/02/is-this-my-cousin-in-findmypast.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver