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Friday, November 3, 2017

Genealogy News Bytes - 3 November 2017

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

1) News Bytes:

*  Continued Commitment to Customer Privacy and Control [Ancestry.com]

2) Record Databases:

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 3 November 2017

* MyHeritage Adds Significant Collection of New York Immigration Records with Unique Content

* Dutch Genealogy News for October 2017

* New Indiana Legacy Website Searches Newspaper, Obituary and Other Indexes All at Once

3) Genealogy Education:*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for November 2017

*  FREE Webinar From SCGS: November 4, 2017:  Jennifer Alford, PE, PTOE: We're Here in America, Now What?

* IDG Academy Class - Sunday, 5 November 2017:  Genealogical Proof Standard – A Guide for Your Genealogy Journey, by Cheri Hudson Passey

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 8 August 2017, 11 a.m. PST:  New York City Genealogical Research: Navigating Through The Five Boroughs, by Michael Strauss

* Archived Legacy Family Tree Webinar:  Is this the End? Taking Your German Brick Walls Down Piece by Piece, by Luana Darby

* Archived Legacy Family Tree Webinar:  Cause of Death: Using Coroner's Records for Genealogy, by Lisa Alzo

* African Roots Podcast:  Episode #422 November 1, 2017

* DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel:  GenDoc 8 -Authors, Creators & Informants

* DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel: WACKY Wednesday: "Syncing" with Ancestry

* In-Depth Genealogist YouTube Channel:  Chit Chat Live: FYR with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay and Janet Mock

* In-Depth Genealogist YouTube Channel:  Chit Chat Live: FYR-Ep. 5 Scarlett Johansson, Rudd, Turturro 2 Nov 2017

* WikiTree YouTube Channel:  Halloween Special: Ghosts in the Tree

* Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  What's in My Genealogy To-Go Kit? - Viewer Question

4) Genealogy Bargains:

* Genealogy Bargains for Friday, November 3, 2017

* MyHeritage DNA Thanksgiving Sale

* 23andMe DNA Test as low as $49 during Thanksgiving Family Sale

* Family ChartMasters Specials for the Holidays

5) Neat Stuff:

* The Meaning of a Mustache

*  N.J. actor Paul Rudd plumbs family history on 'Finding Your Roots'

*  TLC will air episode on Lititz woman's search for family after being left as an infant on Amish porch

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 31 October 2017?

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 3 November 2017

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday

There are over 62,000 records available to search and explore this Findmypast Friday, including;

Surrey Lay Subsidies 1524-1645

Search for your ancestors in over 16,000 early taxation records created from The National Archives' E 179 series, 'Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Particulars of account and other records relating to lay and clerical taxation, National treasury records'. Lay subsidies are taxation records from the final years of the Tudor period and the early years of the Jacobean era. All the records come from Surrey in South East England.

Each record includes a transcription of the original taxation records held at The National Archives in Kew. Transcripts will reveal a combination of your ancestor's name, the date of the original records, your ancestor's home parish and hundred. Some records may also include the names of other taxpayers living in the same area as well as the individual and total amounts paid in taxes.

Surrey Court Cases 1391-1835

Surrey Court Cases is an index of over 26,000 records covering four centuries of Surrey court cases. Each record consists of a transcript that will reveal the year of the case, the court it was head at and, in some cases, full texts comprising the names of others named in the court proceedings. The records cover four Surrey Courts;

· Surrey Court of Star Chamber, 1485-1649 –dealt primarily with criminal cases and alleged violence such as sedition, illegal hunting, assault, fraud, public disorder, murder, and witchcraft.
· Surrey Exchequer Court, 1497-1835 – responsible for cases of equity and revenue. You will find land disputes, titles of land, manorial rights, tithes, debts, and wills in these records.
· Surrey Court of Requests, 1500-1624 – Due to the low cost and the speedy process of the Court of Requests, it was frequently used by the poor and servants of the king in matters of equity.
· Surrey Court of Chancery, 1391-1758 – also dealt with cases of equity, trusts, and land laws, as well as the estates of lunatics and guardianship of infants.

New York State Death Index Browse

Browse 71 indices of deaths from the state of New York. Images are broken up by year and cover the years 1880 to 1955. Records will reveal where your ancestor died, their date of death, cause of death, age at death and certificate number.

New York City Marriage Announcements, 1833-1836

This collection of marriage announcements from New York City contains many notices from newspapers not readily available to the public. The two newspapers included are The Sun and the New York Transcript. This work has two main indexes: the Groom and the Bride. Each record contains the names of both the bride and groom, the name of the officiating minister, the marriage date, location and the newspaper the notice was originally printed in. The collection is also available to browse.

The 1830s – the decade of the first modern newspapers – saw newspaper circulation skyrocket and readership expanded to the general public. Improved technology allowed the first penny press, The Sun, to begin publishing in 1833. The New York Transcript began publication the following year.

New York State Religious Records 1716-1914 Image Browse

Browse 120 volumes of baptisms, marriages, and deaths from dozens of New York State churches of various denominations. Records will reveal full names, dates, the names of parents and witnesses as well as lists of church members.

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

Another fascinating resource from NYG&B, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record is the second oldest genealogical journal in the US and details the people and places of the Empire State from the 17th century onwards. We've added a further 85 images from Vol 148 No 3 in this latest update. The fully searchable PDF files in this collection can contain all manner of information on your New York relatives including biographical sketches, family genealogies, including lists of descendants, record transcriptions and abstracts, pedigree charts, local history, notices of life events, such as baptisms and marriages, society proceedings and notes and much more.

Surrey & South London Wills & Probate Index, 1470-1856

Just under 2,000 records have been added to our collection of Surrey & South London Will Abstracts 1470-1856. The index consists of names taken from original will registers held at the London Metropolitan Archives. The registers contain the details taken down from office copies of the wills as the testator or their solicitor would have retained the original document. Each abstract transcript contains the testator's name, residence, the date of the will and a reference to the original register which can provide further details about locating a copy of the original document. Many are annotated with the value of the inventory and occasionally with the date the inventory was taken.

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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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MyHeritage Adds Significant Collection of New York Immigration Records with Unique Content

I received this from MyHeritage today:

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MyHeritage Adds Significant Collection of New York Immigration Records with Unique Content

90 million records from the Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists collection bring to light the stories of millions of immigrations, arrivals and visits to America spanning 138 years

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah, November 2, 2017 – MyHeritage, the leading international family history and DNA company, announced today the addition of the Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957 collection to SuperSearch™, the company’s global search engine containing more than 8.25 billion historical records. The records are of major significance for anyone looking to trace their immigrant ancestors’ arrival in America, and include names, dates, countries of origin, addresses of family members and friends, occupations, and physical descriptions, among many other details.

The passenger manifests are an unparalleled source of information spanning key years of immigration from all over the world, including those entering the United States as refugees during the First and Second World Wars. The records include millions of entries via Ellis Island, which opened its doors on January 1, 1892. The first 72 years of the collection pre-date Ellis Island; Prior to the establishment of Ellis Island, the primary immigration station in New York City was Castle Garden, which opened in 1855, and before then, immigrants were received at several piers across the city. Towards the end of the timeframe, in the 1940s and 1950s, advancements in transportation methods are noticeable as records begin to include those who arrived via airplane to various airports in and around the city. The plethora of information in the records is expected to invigorate family histories, adding previously unknown stories of how family members uprooted their lives, and replanted them in the United States.

As of 1897, immigration officials began asking those entering the United States for the name and address of the relative or friend whom they are joining in the USA, and in 1907 they began asking for the name and address of their closest relative or friend in their home country. The responses to these supplemental questions, that have been filled in the passenger manifests, have now been indexed by MyHeritage for the very first time, yielding an additional 26.6 million names in the Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists collection on MyHeritage. These passenger manifests have been digitized by other organizations in the past, but the answers to these vital supplemental questions have never been indexed — until now. Furthermore, many of the passenger manifests span two pages, and a common omission for genealogists has been to locate the first page and miss the existence of the second. MyHeritage has solved this problem for the first time by stitching the double pages into single document images, ensuring that users do not miss information again.

Many historical figures of interest are found among these records, including Albert Einstein (who arrived in the US on October 17, 1933), former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright (arrived November 11, 1948) and Charlie Chaplin (arrived October 1912). Composer and songwriter Irving Berlin who moved to the U.S. in 1903, appears on several manifests arriving from different places in Europe.

Users with family trees on MyHeritage will immediately benefit from Record Matching technology that automatically reveals new information about their ancestors who appear in these records.

“The Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957 collection is a major asset on MyHeritage is a major asset for family history enthusiasts,” said Russ Wilding, Chief Content Officer at MyHeritage. “When we digitized this collection we employed out-of-the-box thinking to cover important aspects that were overlooked by others in the past. This makes this collection on MyHeritage the most complete and useful of its kind.”

MyHeritage is working to add additional immigration records into the collection from other port cities from around the United States, as well as several important Canadian border crossings, in the near future.

Searching the Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists collection is free. A subscription is required to view records and scanned images and to access Record Matches.

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52 Ancestors - Week 199: #278 Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796) of Walpole, Massachusetts

Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796) is #278 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #279 Mary Boyden (1708-1776) in 1733 in Dedham, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

* their daughter, #139 Mary Guild (1735-1800), who married #138 Amos Plimpton (1735-1808),in 1756.

* their daughter, #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) who married #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) in 1795.

* their son, #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840), who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.

* their daughter #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884)who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) 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: Nathaniel Guild[1–7]

* Alternate Name: Nathll Guild[8]

* Sex: Male

* Father: Nathaniel Guild (1678-1774)

* Mother: Mehitable Hartshorn (1683-1771)

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

* Birth: 20 March 1712, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]

* Will: 29 September 1795 (age 83), will written; Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[4]

* Death: 9 September 1796 (age 84), Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[5–6]

* Burial: after 9 September 1796 (after age 84), Guild Burial Ground, Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[7]

* Probate: 4 October 1796 (age 84), will proved; Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[4]

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

* Spouse 1: Mary Boyden (1708-1776)

* Marriage 1: 12 June 1733 (age 21), Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[8]

* Child 1: Mary Guild (1735-1800)

* Child 2: Nathaniel Guild (1739-1793)

* Child 3: Mercy Guild (1742-1820)

* Child 4: Susanna Guild (1744-1822)

* Child 5: Samuel Guild (1746-1816)

* Child 6: Mehitable Guild (1752-1816)

* Spouse 2: Mrs. Anna Rhoads (1722-1797)

* Marriage 2: 27 April 1777 (age 65), Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]

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

The Guild families of America were described in the book The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family by Charles Burleigh, published by Brown, Thurston & Company in 1887. The sketch for Nathaniel Guild on page 37-38 says[1]:

"Nathaniel Guild4 (Nathaniel3 Samuel2 John1), son of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Farrington or Hartshorn?) Guild, born at Walpole, Mass., March 20, 1712, married first, June 12, 1733, Mary Boyden, of Wrentham; published to Anna Rhodes, of Stoughton, April 27, 1777.

"He seems to have been, in his day and generation, a person of considerable enterprise, influence and usefulness. In a deed of land he is styled 'Gentleman,' and in those days it was no unmeaning title, being accorded with great discrimination. He received a grant of land in Dedham, near the house of John1 and acquired other lands by purchase.

"There was deeded to him a certain mine, which was probably in Stoughton, and for the working of which he formed a company. At Stoughtonham he carried on an iron furnace, where during the Revolutionary War was manufactured large quantities of gun carriage wheels, shot, and other munitions of war; and in Sept., 1776, he reported to Richard Devens 'that he was making the wheels and the double-headed shot.'

"About this time, also, he petitions " that men in his foundry may be exempted from service in the militia service, so that he may be able to supply garrison wheels and shot for the service," and Sept. 18, 1776, the prayer of the petition was granted, "it being of so great importance for the defence of this and the United States of America." Sept. 6, 1774, he was chosen at a convention of delegates of the people of Suffolk County, one of a select committee for the following purpose : 'Resolved, That under the present circumstances, it is incumbent on us to encourage arts and manufactures among us, by all means in our power,' and Nathaniel Guild, of Walpole, was appointed one of a committee 'to consider of the best ways and means to promote and establish the same, and report to this committee as soon as may be.'

"He is said to have been quite a dignified and good looking man of medium height, and during the latter part of his life, wore a powdered wig, and usually a blue cloak. He died Sept. 10, 1796."

Nathaniel Guild was born 20 March 1712 in Dedham, Massachusetts, the third child of twelve born to Nathaniel and Mehitable (Hartshorn) Guild[2].

He married Mary Boyden on 12 June 1733 in Dedham[8]. She was the daughter of Thomas and Deborah (Wight) Boyden. They had six children born between 1735 and 1752 in Walpole, Massachusetts.

Mary (Boyden) Guild died in March 1776, and Nathaniel Guild married, secondly, Anna Rhodes on 27 April 1777 in Walpole[3]. They had no children.

Nathaniel Guild died 9 September 1796 in Walpole[5-6], and was buried in the Guild Burial Ground in Walpole[7]. The gravestone inscription is:

"Nathaniel Guild

Died

Sept. 9, 1796

in the 87th year

of his age.

"Mr Nathaniel Guild lays beneath

this stone. He gave the land for

a burying ground and was the

first person buried here."

Nathaniel Guild, yeoman of Walpole, wrote a will on 29 September 1795 which was proved in 4 October 1796 in Norfolk County Probate Court[4]. The probate court proceedings are:

S.S. To all people to whom these presents shall come, William Heath Esq'r Judge of the Probate of Wills &c. in the County of Norfolk,within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sendeth greeting.

Know ye that on the fourth day of October, Anno Domini 1796, the Instrument hereunto annexed, purporting the last will & Testament of Nathaniel Guild, late of Walpole, in said County, Yeoman, deceased, was presented for Probate by Samuel Guild the Executor, there-in named; then present Nathaniel Billing & Isaac Felch, witnesses thereto subscribed, who made oath, that they saw the said testator sign,seal, and heard him declare the said instrument to be his last Will and Testament, and that they, with Jonathan Billing, subscribed their names as witnesses to the execution thereof in the said testator's presence,; and that he was then, to the best of their judgment, of sound and disposing mind. I do prove, approve and allow of the said instrument as the last Will & Testament of the before named de-ceased, and do commit the administration thereof in all matters the same concerning, and of his estate thereof he died seized & possessed in said County, unto Samuel Guild the before named Executor, well & faithfully to execute the said Will, and to administer the estate of the said deceased according thereto, who accepted of his said trust, and gave bond to exhibit an Inventory of the said estate, within three months & to render an Account, upon oath of his proceedings, within one year.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office, the day & year above written. W Heath

In the name of God, Amen. I Nathaniel Guild of Walpole, in the county of Norfolk, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,yeoman, considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, and being of sound & perfect mind and memory, blessed be Almighty God for the same, so make & publish this my last Will & Testament, in manner & form following (that is to say): First, I give & bequeath unto my beloved daughter Mehitable Guild (in consideration of the many years service she has done in my house since she became of age) one half of all my estate both real and personal, during her natural life; & in case she should marry, she shall quit said half, upon receiving one hundred silver dollars, well & truly paid by my Executor, & an equal share of my estate with her brothers & sisters. Also I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Anna Guild, to the heirs of my son Nathaniel Guild deceased, to my son Samuel Guild, & to my daughters, Mary Plimpton, Mercy Hewins, Susanna Morse & Mehitable Guild one half of all my estate both real & personal, during the natural life of my daughter, Mehitable Guild, and after the decease or marriage of the said Mehitable, I give unto them the whole of my estate to be equally divided among them, after one hundred dollars has been paid out of the same to the said Mehitable, in case she marrys.

Also I do hereby appoint and ordain my son Doctor Samuel Guild Esq'r of Easton my sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament; hereby revoking all former Wills by me made. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the twenty ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety five. Nathaniel Guild

Signed, sealed, published & declared by the abovenamed Nathaniel Guild, to be his last Will & Testament in the presence of us, who have here-unto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the testator, Jon'a Billing Nath'l Billing Isaac Felch. Exam'd Sam'l Haven Reg'r

Norfolk Ss. In Probate Court at Dedham, within & for the same county of Norfolk, on Tuesday the fourth day of October, 1796. Ordered that Samuel Guild Executor of the last Will of Nathaniel Guild late of Walpole, deceased, advertise notifications of his being Executor as aforesaid, by posting the same up in some public places at Walpole in said County, & by publishing it in the In-dependent Chronicle printed in Boston, within three months. Given under my hand, the fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety six. W Heath Judge of Probate Exam'd Sam'l Haven Reg'r

Norfolk Ss. To Col. Ebenezer Clap of Walpole, Capt. Nathaniel Morse, & Mr. Isaac Felch, both of Sharon, all in the County of Norfolk, Greeting.You are hereby appointed a Committee to appraise on oath all the estate of Nathaniel Guild, late of Walpole aforesaid, Yeoman, deceased, and make return of your doings, together with this Warrant, into the Registry Office of the Court of Probate in &for said county. Given under my hand, this fourth day of October, A.D. 1796. W Heath Judge of Prob. Exam'd Sam'l Haven Reg'r

5) SOURCES

1. Charles Burleigh, The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family (Portland, Me : Brown Thurston & Company, 1887), pages 37-38, Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796) sketch.

2. Don Gleason Hill (editor), The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Dedham,1635-1845 (Dedham, Mass. : Town of Dedham, 1886), Page 39, Nathaniel Guild entry.

3. Vital Records of Walpole, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1902), Marriages, page 132, Nathaniel Guild and Mrs. Anna Rhoads entry.

4. "Norfolk County, Massachusetts Probate Court Records, 1793-1881," court clerk manuscript, Volume 2, Pages 501-503, will of Nathaniel Guild, 1795, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,573.

5. Vital Records of Walpole, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Deaths, page 203, Nathaniel Guild entry.

6. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Walpole Births, Marriages and Deaths (Image 398 of 2213), Nathaniel Guild death entry.

7. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Guild Burial Ground, Walpole, Mass., Nathaniel Guild memorial #26680579.

8. Don Gleason Hill (editor), The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Dedham, 1635-1845, Marriages, page 60, Nathll Guild of Dedham and Mary Boyden of Wrentham entry.

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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 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.

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Thursday, November 2, 2017

MyHeritage DNA Thanksgiving Sale

I received this letter from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today about the MyHeritage DNA Thanksgiving sale:

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Hi,

I hope your holiday season is getting off to a great start! We're also gearing up for the festivities here at MyHeritage and wanted to fill you in on a few updates.

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Seavers in the News - 1953 Obituary for Miss Bernice Seaver in Winthrop, N.Y.

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 Massena [N.Y.] Observer newspaper dated Monday, 19 March 1953:

The transcription of this article is:

"Last Rites for Miss Seaver

"Winthrop -- Funeral services for Miss Bernice Seaver, Main St., were conducted at her home at 2 p.m. Friday and were attended by many local and out-of-town guests.

"Miss Seaver died Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1953 in Potsdam Hospital following an operation performed Oct. 6.

"The Rev. Joseph T. Bunton of Amber, N.Y., former local pastor, used portions of the Congregational belief in his remarks and as the result of a previous request by Miss Seaver, portions of the Episcopal service were also used.

"Nearly all persons at the home proceeded by auto to Union Cemetery in Buckton where interment was made in the Seaver family plot.

"Bearers were George Kennehan, Bernard Seaver, a cousin, Fred Hanson, Henry Wilkenson, Floys Dewitt and Warren C. Goodnow, all of Winthrop."

The source citation for this obituary is:

"Last Rites for Miss Seaver," obituary, The Massena [N.Y.] Observer, Monday, 19 October 1953, page 5, column 32; NYS Historic Newspapers (http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/ : accessed 2 November 2017), Bernice Seaver obituary.

According to my family tree database, Bernice Ethel Seaver was born 10 April 1869 in Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, New York, the 5th child of Parley and Amanda (Kelsey) Seaver. Apparently, she never married or had children.

The only identified relative in this obituary is Bernard Seaver, identified as a cousin. I believe that this is Bernard Aloysius Seaver (1914-2001) of Stockholm, N.Y., who was a first cousin once removed to Bernice Seaver.

Bernice Seaver is my 4th cousin 3 time removed. The common ancestors are my 6th great-grandparents Robert Seaver (1702-1752) and Eunice Rayment (1706-1772).

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1682 Birth of Thomas Dill (1682-1718) in Concord, Mass. --- Post 388 of 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 1682 birth record of Thomas Dill in Concord, Massachusetts:

The 1682 birth record for Thomas Dill:

The transcription of the birth record is:

" Thomas son of Pet^r Dill born . . . . . . . 27. 1. 82"

The source citation for this record is:

George Tolman (compiler), Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Concord, Mass. : Committee on Printing, 1894), Middlesex County Register, page 25, Thomas Dill birth entry, 1682.

Thomas Dill and his twin Mary Dill were the last two children of the seven born to Peter and Thanks (Shepard) Dill of Concord and Littleton, Massachusetts. He married twice, first to Mary Pierce (1682-1713) in 1706, who bore him three children, and second to Mary Cheney (1695-1735) in 1713, who bore him two children.

Thomas and Mary (Pierce) Dill my 6th great-grandparents, through their son Thomas Dill (1708-1761), who married Mehitable Brown (1714-1758) in 1733 in Eastham, Massachusetts.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

AncestryDNA Modified The DNA Story Section

AncestryDNA has modified their DNA Story section and I think I like it.

Here is my DNA Home Page:

The "DNA Story" section is on the left side of the screen.

I clicked on it and saw:

On the screen above, there is a text box on the left side that includes the Ethnicity Estimate, and Migrations (in my case, I have two Communities).

On the right side, is a map showing the three major ethnicity areas in Europe and the two Communities in North America. [Note: Your map may vary depending on all of the ethnicity and migration factors for your case.]

Along the bottom of the screen are time markers - the screen above goes from 1700 to 1925 in 25 year increments. The screen above is for 1700.

The map screen for 1750 is:

Now there are colored circles with numbers in them, and migration paths (although not for my ancestors - I don't have any in the American South).

Note that on the left are "People in Your Tree" with a list of events for the year.

The map for 1800:

I was curious about the colored circles, so I clicked on the one in England with the number 5 in the circle. I zoomed in a bit, to see that there were dark orange circles for selected population centers, and small light green circles in Somerset and Wiltshire:

I clicked on the Wiltshire circle with the number 3 in it, and a list of three ancestors who resided there in the early 1800s appeared:

There are several more ancestors who resided in Wiltshire in the 1800 to 1825 time period, but they aren't shown for some reason.

I can zoom in to the village level on the map using the mouse wheel:

In the lower right-hand corner of the maps, there is a white stick pin. I clicked on it while looking at the 1850 map, and saw:

An information box opened with the colored circles indicating ancestral birthplaces based on my tree, and the gray circles indicating birthplaces based on my DNA. I didn't see any of the latter on the 1850 map.

What about the last period, 1925-1950?

The map has two ancestor circles - one with my father's photo in Massachusetts, and one in San Diego with the number 2.

All of this is nice and colorful, and actually uses at least some of the information in my tree. I don't know why it doesn't include all of the person residing in a location in the specific time period. It seems like it should show all ancestral events in a time segment. For instance, my birth was in San Diego in 1943.

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