FGS 2015 Conference - News and Session Selections

The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) 2015 Conference in Salt Lake City is less than a month away.  There are some announcements - see the www.FGS.org web page:

1)  Early Registration ($159 for four days) ends on 23 January.  After that, Regular Registration ($189) ends 6 February 2015, and Onsite Registration ($239) begins 10 February 2015.

2)  The FGS Conference App has been released for iOS and Android mobile devices.  See the FGS blog post FGS 2015: A Look at the Conference App for more details and screen shots.

3)  The 16-page printed brochure with the speaker session schedule is out - see  https://www.fgsconference.org/assets/files/FGS2015_RegistrationBooklet.pdf.  You can download it from the site.

 FGS sessions will focus on methodology, records, ethnic research, and migration for honing your research skills and society issues to motivate and inspire society volunteers. 

4)  There are always more sessions of interest in each time slot, and I don't attend a presentation in every time slot.  If I did, these are the sessions I would try to attend:

a)  Wednesday, 11 February 2015 (5 tracks):

*  8 a.m.:  Curt Witcher, on " Focus on Societies Day Opening Session: Successfully Embracing the Future."

*  9:30 a.m.:  Thomas MacEntee, on "TechSoup - Technology by the Bowlful for Your Genealogy Society"

*  10:45 a.m.:  Paula Stuart-Warren, on "Your Society Can’t Afford To Do a Seminar? Here’s How!"

*  1:30 p.m.: Stacie Newton, on "Creating a Dynamic Genealogical
Education Program"

*  2:45 p.m.: J. Mark Lowe, on " Sure Fire Ways to Involve Elroy Jetson (& others) in Your Genealogical Society"

*  4 p.m.:  Donna Moughty, on " Printed vs. Online Publishing for Societies"

b)  Thursday, 12 February 2015 (3 tracks):

*  11 a.m.:  Thomas W. Jones, on "Getting the Most Out of Genealogical Evidence"

*  1:30 p.m.:  Jen Baldwin, on " Pine Post Four Inches Square: Staking a Claim on Mining Records"

*  3:00 p.m.:  Thomas W. Jones, on " Problem Solving with Probate"

*  4:30 p.m.:  Cyndi Ingle, on "Go West, Young Man: Online Resources for the Western United States"

c)  Friday, 13 February 2015 (3 tracks):

*  10:30 a.m.:  Billie Fogarty, on " Organization for the Genealogist"

*  1:30 p.m.:  Lisa Louise Cooke, on " Reopen Your Genealogical Cold Case: A Step-by-Step Process "

*  3:00 p.m.: Jennifer Alford, on " Documenting Your Family Heirlooms"

*  4:30 p.m.:  Patricia Stamm, on "Obtaining 20th Century Military Records from St. Louis Personnel Records Center"

d)  Saturday, 14 February 2015 (3 tracks):

*  10:30 a.m.:  Judy G. Russell, on " Gentlemen Judges: The Justices of the Peace"

*  1:30 p.m.:  Curt Witcher, on " Doing the History Eliminates the Mystery"

*  3:00 p.m.:  Kris Rzepczynski, on " Fraternal Organizations: Records and Resources"

*  4:30 p.m.:  Michael Lacopo, on "Using Tax Records for Genealogical Problem Solving"

I need to balance attending these presentations with my work in the Media Center, roaming the Expo Hall, attending the RootsTech presentations, and research in the Family History Library.  I need two clones, I fear!  Two conferences in one place is one too many.

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Observations and Conjectures on the Ancestry.com CEO Letter to the Ancestry Community

The banner at the top of the Ancestry.com home page says "Learn what's ahead for 2015 from our CEO, Tim Sullivan."

Clicking on the link, a letter from Tim Sullivan appears:

The text of the letter is:

To the Ancestry community,

You had an incredible year in 2014, showing more commitment and passion than ever for discovering your family story.

Here at Ancestry, we worked hard this past year to make our service even more useful, rewarding, and fun for you. Last year, we launched more than 2 billion new global records, helping fuel discoveries in over 67 countries. Nearly half a million people took an AncestryDNA test to learn about their unique ethnic mix and to connect to hundreds … or even thousands of newfound genetic cousins. And more people than ever enjoyed the convenience of discovering and sharing their stories on the go with the Ancestry mobile app.

Good News: 2015 promises to be one of the most exciting in our own family history.
In the coming months, we’ll be introducing features that let you tell richer, more personal life stories about your ancestors, adding historical context around the times and events that shaped their lives. You’ll also see a new way to engage with other Ancestry members around a shared ancestor, helping you make new discoveries and collaborate like never before. If you’ve taken a DNA test, you’ll experience some new types of discoveries made possible by the groundbreaking DNA science and research teams. And everyone who visits Ancestry will find a simplified, easier-to-use site that puts important information front and center to make family stories the focus.

Most importantly, we will continue to add to the world’s largest online collection of family history records and content. Look for exciting additions like 170 million searchable images of probate records and wills that might reveal your ancestor’s dying wishes, all vital records from Virginia since 1900, substantial releases from Germany, and a milestone collection of almost 80 million Mexico Civil Birth, Marriage and Death records spanning from 1860 to modern day.

At Ancestry, we’re proud of all that we do to help you bring your family story to life. We think that this year’s new content and features are going to make the world’s leading online family history service even better.

Best wishes for the year ahead,Tim Sullivan

I appreciate the letter, and the list of potential additions to the extensive databases already available on Ancestry.com.  My observations and conjectures:

1)  It sounds like there is another change to the website - note the paragraph that says:

"...we’ll be introducing features that let you tell richer, more personal life stories about your ancestors, adding historical context around the times and events that shaped their lives. You’ll also see a new way to engage with other Ancestry members around a shared ancestor, helping you make new discoveries and collaborate like never before. "

and:

"And everyone who visits Ancestry will find a simplified, easier-to-use site that puts important information front and center to make family stories the focus."

How are they going to do that?  Will they retain the most comprehensive (and complex, and useful) search features in genealogy, or will they "simplify" it so much as to make it difficult to narrow search results? I guess we'll find out in 2015.

2)  What about the "...new way to engage with other Ancestry members around a shared ancestor," - will there be something like the "DNA Circles" (where the researchers in the Circles share a common ancestor) based on information in Ancestry Member Trees?  Or will it be a place where researchers can share information about a specific historical person?

3)  I am most curious about the "170 million searchable images of probate records and wills that might reveal your ancestor’s dying wishes," - will this be an "every name" search in actual probate records, or just a search in the indexes of probate record images?   Whichever it is, it will be very welcome.  It has always been my view that, once we have searchable databases for probate records, many brick walls will be knocked down by researchers because they can't master browsing in record images.  

I recall that Ancestry and FamilySearch reached an agreement two years ago for Ancestry to receive probate record images from FamilySearch - a 22 March 2013 post on the FamilySearch blog says:

"  Continued collaboration between Ancestry.com and  FamilySearch.org. Ancestry.com and FamilySearch will work together to capture 140 million pages of U.S. probate records. This will include images and indexes. It will create a national registry of wills, letters of administration and other probate records that will span from 1800-1930. This is a 3 year project."

This may provide a very welcome database that provides records in the 1780 to 1850 gap in records in many states.  However, I wish that it included probate records before 1800.  Perhaps it does.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/01/observations-and-conjectures-on.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 246: Samuel and Abigail (Fletcher) Whitney Family Records in Westminster, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasures today is the  Westminster, Massachusetts town record of the births and deaths of the family of Samuel and Abigail (Fletcher) Whitney in the 1750 to 1800 time period:

The transcription of this record is:

Births                                                     and   Deaths

Leuit Samuel Whitney and Wife                    Mr Samuel Whitney

           Abigail Whitney famely                      Deceased Jan^y the 1st

Recorded                          viz                            1782

August 27th   Abigail Whitney Borne

1742

May the 29     Mary Whitney Borne

1744

February the   Samuel Whitney Borne

11th 1746

May 18           Abner Whitney Borne

1748

September      Achsa Whitney Borne             Deceased 14th May 1772

30 1750

October          Silas Whitney Born                 Dec^d Nov. 14^th 1798

20 1752

November      Martha Whitney Borne           Deceased

26 1755

July 2^d          Alpheus Whitney Borne        Died 7th March 1821

1757                                                                  aged 54 years

January           Phenias Whitney Borne

the 16 1761

December       Hananiah Whitney Borne

the 1762

September      Martha Whitney Borne

18 1764

February        Susanah Whitney Borne         Deceased

9 1767                    Amen

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 February 2012), "Westminster, Births, marriages and deaths," page 91 (penned), image 142 of 1195, Family of Samuel and Abigail Whitney.

I love it - after 13 children borne at essentially two year intervals between 1742 and 1767 to Abigail (Fletcher) Whitney, the recorder ends the page with "Amen."

Samuel Whitney (1719-1782) and Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783) are my fifth great-grandparents.  I am descended through their 12th child, Martha Whitney (1764-1832), who married Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) in 1783 in Westminster.

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Mining the Worcester County Land Records for Simon Gates Deeds

Having found the estate records for Simon Gates (1739-1803) of Gardner, Massachusetts, which describe his land holdings at the time of his death in 1803 (in Amanuensis Monday - Post 250: Appraisal of Real Estate of Simon Gates (1739-1803) Estate, published 5 January 2015), I wanted to know how Simon Gates obtained the land mentioned, and if there were any other land transactions for him.

I went to the Worcester County portion of the Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986 record collection on FamilySearch, and searched the Grantee and Grantor land record indexes.  The Grantee index had a number of deeds recorded for Simon Gates in the 1775-1805 time frame.  

I captured both the Grantee and Grantor Index pages for Simon Gates, and saved them to my Land folder in my Simon Gates family folder.  

Then, I created a Microsoft Word table of the indexed data, listing Volume, Page, Date, Town, Grantee and Grantor for each deed that might pertain to Simon Gates:

After listing all of the potential deeds - there are 14 in the Grantee index (Buyer) and 12 in the Grantor index (Seller) - I methodically went through the Deed books listed in the Worcester County records for the specific volume, found the specific page that had the subject deed, and downloaded it to my computer "Land" file folder for the Simon Gates family.  In some cases, there was more than one page in the records for a specific deed.  After I downloaded the deeds, I put a "D" in the "Found" column on my table above.

The next step is to read each deed carefully, noting all of the important information.  For instance: using the 1794 deed from Lucas Dunn (grantor) to Simon Gates (grantee), the deed looks like this (the Dunn to Gates deed is on the left-hand page):

The information extracted from the deed includes:

*  Grantor:  Lucas Dunn of Gardner, yeoman
*  Grantee:  Simon Gates of Gardner, yeoman
*  Consideration:  100 pounds
*  Location:  northeasterly part of Gardner
*  Lot:  number 121 in the third division
*  Size:  76 acres, with two acres allowance for highways
*  Bounded easterly by lot 119; southerly by lots 122, 26 and partially 27; westerly on land of Edward Jackson; northerly on lots 94 (partial), 95, 96, and 97 (partial) of the second division.  
*  Date of deed:  31 March 1794
*  Signed by:  Lucas Dunn, Hannah Dunn
*  Witnesses:  Samuel Wilder, Nathl Wheeler
*  Date recorded:  18 September 1794
*  Note:  the lots were defined in the Proprietors records of Westminster.

I could write that in an abstract in sentence format, but I find it easier to analyze it in the bullet point form above.

I will put the extracted information from each deed into a Note for a Deed Fact in my RootsMagic program along with a source citation for each deed.  I might add the Deed image to the Media file for Simon Gates and tag the specific Fact with the Media item.

The source citation for the specific deed above is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 13 January 2015), Worcester County, "Deeds, 1794-1795, Vol. 122-123," Volume 122, Page 506, image 267 of 692, Lucas Dunn to Simon Gates, 1794; citing records in land offices and county courthouses, statewide, Massachusetts.

Once I write the extract above, add it to the Deed Fact in RootsMagic, and add the source citation to the Fact in RootsMagic, I add an "E" (for "Extraction") and an "S" (for source) to the "Trans" column on my table of Deeds for the person so that I don't have to do the tasks again.  If I transcribe the Deed, I will add "T" to the "Trans" column also.

If I do this for all of the deeds found using the deed indexes, I should be able to determine when, and from whom, the five parcels of land mentioned in the appraisal of real estate in 1803 were obtained, and also what other land was bought and sold by Simon Gates during his lifetime.

Concentrating on one person at a time to mine the Massachusetts Land Records works well for me.  Finding the Grantee and Grantor indexes and transferring the index information to the deed table is a manageable task - it took me about two hours to make the deed table list, and another hour to find and download the first ten deeds.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/01/mining-worcester-county-land-records.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver

CGSSD Meeting on Saturday, 17 January - DearMYRTLE Via Hangout On Air!

The Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego (CGSSD) meets on the 3rd Saturday of each month  (except December) from 9:00 am to noon on the campus of UCSD, University of California, San Diego.  See our web page www.cgssd.org  for directions.  

The January meeting will be held on Saturday, 17 January 2015.  Here are the details:

9:00 a.m.: Panel discussion of Legacy, FTM, RootsMagic, MAC and DNA groups with the leaders. 

10:00 a.m.: Break, refreshments, along with viewing of DearMYRTLE's Hangout On Air in the "green room"

10:20 a.m.: Announcements followed by program:

GOOGLE HANGOUTS: Enhancing Family Gatherings and Interviews Presented by DearMYRTLE ​​

​Pat Richley-Erickson ("DearMYRTLE" of South Jordan, Utah will appear virtually using Google+ Hangouts On Air, a FREE web-conferencing platform.  She will answer participant questions during the presentation.  Handouts will not be made available to non-attendees.

We meet at the Robinson Auditorium complex on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus in La Jolla. From North Torrey Pines Road, turn at Pangea Drive into UCSD. Free parking is available in the parking garage on the left; use any space other than those specifically reserved for UCSD vehicles. Signs will mark directions to our meeting room. Please refer to our website www.cgssd.org; or the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies website for directions.

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A Proud Papa -- Post 342 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

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

Here is one of the most precious (to me) images from my Seaver/Carringer family collection:

This photograph was taken in late 1943 (Christmas?) or early 1944 in San Diego.  It shows my father, Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) holding me (born in October 1943).  The setting is the patio area of the Marshall Chamberlain home on Terrace Drive in Kensington in San Diego - I recall the taller building on the east side of the patio, and I recall the wide swing with the awning that is behind my father and me.  

Thinking more about it, this was almost certainly at Christmas time.  Marshall Chamberlain's mother-in-law (Emily (Richmond) Taylor) was my father's maternal aunt, sister of my grandmother, Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver.  They were my father's only known relatives in San Diego in the 1940s.

What struck me when I saw this picture again this morning is how skinny my father was, at age 32.  I love the proud and semi-reverent look on his face too, and how much hair I didn't have as a baby!  Big head too, but most babies have big heads!

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/01/a-proud-papa-post-342-of-not-so.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver

More Farm-Spotting the Simon Gates Home Farm in Gardner, Massachusetts

I wrote Farm-Spotting: The Simon Gates Home Farm in Gardner, Massachusetts on 9 January 2015, and had an interesting response from Sharin in my email.

Sharin's email included:

"For over thirty years I have done genealogy research and whenever possible I have attempted to find deeds for the people that I am doing the research for.  I have found that many times neighbors will become relations or they may be the reason the person moved to the property.

It is very important to know when the survey was done and to think about the equipment used.  The early transit was a simple compass with a means to sight along a line.  Reading accurate angles was near impossible.  The compass would often be influenced by local soils containing iron.  Distance was measured using a chain and temperature corrections were not done.  I try to locate the survey on a topo map as often as I can.  The survey may have points that still appear on the map.  The map will also indicate how difficult the terrain was to do the survey.  With these issues the survey normally do not close and the surveyor did not use more modern methods of distributing the error.  If we think about the simple issue of writing field notes at the time of the early surveys.  With all of this it is amazing just how accurate these early surveyors were.  Another issue we must keep in mind is that the surveyor did not have access to the true north meridian, so most of the surveys need to be rotated by the declination of the area.  The declination can be different at the time the survey was done, however rotating it to the present declination and moving the plat around the map can give you a pretty good idea where the survey was done."

Sharin's comments above are very cogent and valuable.  I had forgotten about the magnetic declination - the true north meridian.  At present, Gardner is -14 degrees 30 minutes west of true north.  

More comments from Sharon:

I have prepared two topo maps, that I attach as pdf and one spreadsheet showing metes and bounds where I show possible locations for the survey.  Number one is to the north of where you believe the plat was.  I located it in this area because several points of the survey mention Dunn Road.  I can not find history of this road, but many times the name of roads remain the same although they probably have been adjusted over the years.  The red plat has been rotated using the present declination and generally match the road.  The blue plat has not been rotated and would have to be moved north to match the road.  I don’t believe the blue plat is correct because of the swampy area and not much of an area for farming.  This land of course may be much different from 1803.  The map number two is down in the area that you believe the property is.  Again the red plat is rotated for declination and the blue one is not.  If Dunn Road existed in 1803 at its present location, it is possible that these folks could have moved between 1803 and 1870 to the location to the south.  I am also attaching a spreadsheet of calculations."

The spreadsheet extended the columns to include the distances in feet, not just in rods and links.  That pointed out to me that I had not put the actual distances on a scaled map - and consequently, I had under-sized the land area on the 1870 Gardner map in my blog post.  

Here is Sharin's spreadsheet:

 The chart above with the actual distances indicates that Simon Gates' parcel of land was about 2,070 feet across the top of the parcel, and about 2,660 feet from top to bottom of the parcel.

In the discussion above, Sharin used topographical maps to try to find "Dunn's road" (the eastern edge of the parcel of land).  There is a Dunn's Road in Ashburnham, the town just north of Gardner.

The topographical map for Gardner is shown below (obtained from Sharin), and she has scaled the Simon Gates' parcel of land and placed it in two spots:

The red outline for the Simon Gates' parcel shows the placement of the parcel on the topographical map, and is not rotated for magnetic declination.

There is a blue outline for the parcel to the east of the red outline which accounts for magnetic declination.  Sharin tried to find the road to the east of the parcel that seemed to fit.  The problem is that it is in Westminster to the east of the Gardner town line.

It may be that the red outline is actually the bounds of the Simon Gates farm.  If the survey was taken without compensating for magnetic declination, then it would be rotated 14.5 degrees clockwise from the starting point.  I think, but am not 100% sure, that the red outline of the Gates parcel is situated just about right.

Here is a closer view of the red and blue outlines of the parcel relative to the roads.  The topographical map used was created in 1946, so the parcel seems to encompass the State Hospital (at the time) - now the Correctional Facility.

Here's a closer look at the red outline of the parcel.  Look at the eastern boundary of the parcel - it is almost along the dashed line road on the topographical map.  Look also at the "notch" in the southern  boundary (about halfway up the western boundary) - it is exactly on the present-day railroad right of way.

The topographical map also indicates that the Simon Gates parcel is at the top of the western part of Beech Hill, and that the land includes a significant hill that rises over 100 feet above the present railway bed.

I revised the Google map to draw the approximate outlines (straight lines) of the Simon Gates parcel relative to present day roads and buildings:

My next task in this process is to find the Worcester County, Massachusetts deed where Simon Gates obtained the land.  More on that in a future blog post.

My thanks to Sharin for taking the time to work on my little project here, to share her expertise, and to demonstrate excellent practices when doing a task of this nature.  I learned a number of things that will help me in the future.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/01/more-farm-spotting-simon-gates-home.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver

FamilySearch App Gallery Has Launched

FamilySearch announced the launch of the FamilySearch App Gallery today in a blog post.  The post says:

"FamilySearch.org today launched its online App Gallery to help patrons more easily find the right application from FamilySearch’s many partner applications, or services, to enhance their family history efforts. With just a few clicks, patrons can now begin to search partner apps to find those that meet their specific need, platform, operating system, and price. For example, if a patron is looking for a highly-rated app that will help them analyze the data in their family tree, the app gallery will allow them to filter and find several relevant partner apps to choose from. The FamilySearch App Gallery can be found at www.familysearch.org/apps."

A specific link on the FamilySearch home page replaces the Partners page that I never could find on the FamilySearch website, so this is a good move.

The URL for the site is https://familysearch.org/apps/, short and sweet!  Here is the top of the App Gallery page:

There are six major categories, which you can see by scrolling down the page, or by clicking on the down arrow in the "Browse by Category" tab:

The six categories are:

*  Find Ancestors (8 apps at present)

*  Family tree software (15 apps)

*  Photos and Stories (12 apps)

*  Charts and Tree Views (13 apps)

*  Tree Analyzing (11 apps)

*  All Categories (36 apps)

Apparently, more "apps" will be announced soon.

The "Filters" tab allows the user to find apps by Platform, by Price, by Language, and by interaction  with the FamilySearch Family Tree.

Note that the word "apps" seems to apply to software programs (like RootsMagic), website programs (like TreeSeek), and mobile device apps.

There are some new-to-me apps on this list - I need to explore some of them!

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/01/familysearch-app-gallery-has-launched.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver

Tuesday's Tip - Use the Source Citation Guide from St. Louis Genealogical Society

This week's Tuesday's Tip is to:  Use the Guide to Providing Proper Source Citations provided by the St. Louis Genealogical Society.

Readers can download a free 45 page manual in PDF format on "How to Cite St. Louis and Missouri Sources" from the website.

There are also web pages for some specific record types, including:

• Cemetery Records
• Census Records
• Court Records
• Funeral Home Records
• Home and Personal Records
• Hospital Records
• Land Records
• Military Records
• Naturalization Records
• Newspaper Records
• Probate Records
• Religious Records
• Vital Records

Here is a screen shot of the top of the "Vital Records" page on the website (2 screens):

For each record type listed, a "First Footnote or Endnote," "Subsequent Footnote or Endnote," and "Bibliography" are provided.  In addition to the template information, an example pertinent to St. Louis or Missouri research is provided.

The templates are, as best I can tell, directly from Elizabeth Shown Mills' book, Evidence Explained.
How should a researcher use these templates and the examples?  I recommend substituting your own information for the specific record type provided.  For example, the Footnote for the first one on the Vital Records list above is:

Missouri Department of Health, certificate of birth number 9238 (8 August 1911), Elmer Albert Fagyal, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jefferson City.

For a birth certificate in, say, California, I would edit the citation above, substituting information from or about the record, to read:

State of California Department of Public Health, certificate of live birth number 43-144396 (23 October 1943), Randall Jeffrey Seaver, San Diego County Clerk/Recorder's Office, San Diego, California.

These source citation examples are clear, easy to use, and the PDF enables users to print out a relatively short book and use it on the desk, or have it available on a laptop or tablet at a repository.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/01/tuesdays-tip-use-source-citation-guide.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver

A Different Family Tree Video - Rob Cardwell's Research

I received a note from Rob Cardwell via email today - he's a TV News reporter for CBS 6 in eastern Virginia.  He produced a video several months ago full of genealogical information and a lot of fun as part of his reporting - you can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBYIDIAFpkk.

Or watch it here:




I enjoyed this, and I think you will too!!

Thanks, Rob, for the link and the video.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/01/a-different-family-tree-video-rob.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver