52 Ancestors - Week 258: #401 Marie (Saeger) Spengler (1670-????) of Baden, Germany

Marie Saeger (1670-????) is #401 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #400 Hans Rudolf Spengler (1651-1712) in 1690 in Baden, Germany.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #200 Johann Balthazar Spengler (1706-1770, married #201 Maria Magdalena Ritter (1706-1784) in 1732.

*  their son, #100 Rudolf Spengler (1738-1811), married #101 Maria Dorothea Dinkel (1748-1835) in 1767.

*  their son, #50, Daniel Spangler (1781-1851), married #51 Elizabeth King (1796-1863) in 1815.

*  their daughter, #25 Rebecca Spangler (1832-1901), married #24 David Jackson Carringer (1828-1902) in 1851.

*  their son, #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), married #13 Abby Ardell Smith (1864-1944) in 1887.

*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977).

*  their daughter #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                            Marie Saeger[1]    

*  Sex:                               Female  

     

*  Father:                          Hans Saeger (1624-1691)    

*  Mother:                        Maria Bailer (1633-1705)  

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

*  Birth:                            before 1670, Dühren, Baden-Württemberg, Germany  

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

*  Spouse 1:                     Hans Rudolf Spengler(1651-1712)    

*  Marriage 1:                  2 November 1690 (about age 39), Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany[1]    

*  Child 1:                       Anna Maria Spengler (1693-    )    

*  Child 2:                       Rudolph Spengler (1696-    )    

*  Child 3:                       Jacob Spengler (1698-    )    

*  Child 4:                       Hans George Spengler (1701-1744)    

*  Child 5:                       Johannes Henry Spengler (1703-    )    

*  Child 6:                      Jorg Heinrich Spengler (1704-1776)    

*  Child 7:                      Johann Balthazar "Baltzer" Spengler (1706-1770)    

*  Child 8:                      Anna Elizabeth Spengler (1710-    )    

*  Child 9:                      Peter Spengler (1712-1794)  

     

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

Most of the available information about Marie Saeger and the Spengler family is from the book:

Edward W. Spangler, The Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, published in York, Pennsylvania in 1896[1].  Hans Rudolf Spengler was the father of the Spangler immigrants to Pennsylvania in the 1730 time frame.

In present day Baden-Wurttemburg, Sinsheim is about 10 miles southeast of Heidelberg, and Weiler is about two miles directly south of Sinsheim.  Hilsbach is less than a mile southwest of Weiler. 

Marie Saeger was born before 1670, probably in Dühren, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the daughter of Hans and Maria (Bailer) Saeger.

Marie married in 1690, as his second wife, to Hans Rudolf Spengler, probably in Sinsheim.

Information about names and birth dates of the children of Hans Rudolf Spengler are probably from the Hilsbach pastor's record book.  The children of Hans Rudolf Spengler with Marie Saeger were[1]:

1.  Anna Maria Spengler, born May 18, 1693, wife of Joh. Bernhard Brenneisen of Reihen, near Sinsheim.

2.  Rudolph Spengler, born September 24, 1696.

3.  Jacob Spengler, born September 22, 1698.

4)  Hans George Spengler, born February 2, 1701, married Katherine Laub; emigrated to America in 1732, and died, without issue, in Philadelphia, in 1744.

5.  Joh. Henry Spengler, born July 1, 1703.

6.  Jorg Heinrich Spengler, born June 8, 1704, married Susanne Muller, January 17, 1730; emigrated to America, 1732, and settled in York County, Pennsylvania, 1732. 

7.  Joh. Balthazar Spengler, born November 29, 1706, married April 29, 1732, Magdalena Ritter; emigrated to America in 1732, and settled in York County, Pennsylvania in 1732.

8.  Anna Elizabeth Spengler, wife of Martie Moser, of Rohrbach, born March 19, 1710.

9.  Peter Spengler, born May 19, 1712, emigrated to America in 1740, arrived in Philadelphia, and was never heard from.

There is no death or burial record known for Marie (Saeger) Spengler in Germany or in Pennsylvania.

     

5.  SOURCES

1. Edward W. Spangler, The Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler Who Settled in York County Respectively in 1729, 1732, 1732 and 1751, with Biographical and Historical Sketches, and Memorabilia of Contemporaneous Local Events (York, Penn. : n.p., 1896), pages 5-8, Hans Rudolf Spengler sketch.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.

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Using SmartCopy Chrome Extension to Add Families to the Geni World Tree

I wrote Adding Family Data to the Geni.com World Family Tree yesterday, bemoaning the limited ability to add family members efficiently to my Geni profiles.  I even suggested they should create an API to make it a lot easier to do it easily and accurately.

1)  Keith Riggle immediately commented:

"Randy, I agree that It would be good if Geni "played nice" with other apps and websites. There is a tool for copying genealogical data into Geni called SmartCopy. It supports the following sites:

• MyHeritage Data (SuperSearch, Smart Matches, Record Matches).
• MyHeritage Genealogies
• Billion Graves (via Smart Matches)
• Find A Grave
• WikiTree Genealogies
• WeRelate Genealogies
• RootsWeb WorldConnect Genealogies
• Ancestry Genealogies
• FamilyTreeMaker Genealogies
• FamilySearch.org Genealogies & Records
• Geneanet Genealogies
• The Next Generation (TNG) Genealogies

"You must join the project at https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 in order to use it. Then you can use a Chrome or Opera extension or Firefox add-on."

I was amazed that I had missed this SmartCopy feature over the past three years - and now I'm embarrassed about it.  I do recall now that Kitty Cooper mentioned it some time ago.

2.  The top of the SmartCopy page at Geni looks like this:

So last night I downloaded the SmartCopy Chrome extension by clicking the "Chrome Extension" link on the screen above.  I read everything on the page, and watched the Randy Schoenberg video:


The next step was to go on Geni.com and request permission to use the SmartCopy extension at   https://www.geni.com/discussions/147619.  It took several minutes for a curator to grant me access.

And I was off and running.

3)  I decided to use my MyHeritage Tree as the source for information to add into my Geni profiles.  It was recently updated, and I knew the data in that tree was as good as I have (it's the same as my RootsMagic family tree data and my Ancestry Member Tree data).

Over about two hours, I was able to add all of the family members for all of Linda's ancestors back through her second great-grandparents.  You have to do it one person (say, a husband and then a wife) at a time, and you have to make sure you don't add spouses, children or siblings already in Geni.  Note that the families of siblings (spouses and children) need to be added from the sibling profile pages.

4)  But I want to show my readers how easy this is to do.  I can't use one of the profiles I input yesterday, but I can use the parent of one of the profiles I added in the 2nd great-grandparents.  Torgeir Olsen (1753-1827) is Linda's 3rd great-grandparent.

Here is Torgeir Olsen's (1753-1827) profile on Geni.com, which has a spouse and children's names, but not parents or siblings: 

The MyHeritage profile for Torgeir Olsen is shown below, and has parents names and siblings names along with the spouse and children's names:

5)  Now to use the SmartCopy extension.  The "secret sauce" is to obtain the Geni ID for the target profile - the 19-digit identifying number (Geni ID) for Torgeir Olsen on Geni - it is "6000000085060156483."  I copied this using Ctrl-C from the URL for the profile into my clipboard.

On the MyHeritage profile page, I clicked on the SmartCopy extension icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen on the address line - it's the small blue icon (the blue right-arrow) shown in the first screen above.

When I clicked on it, the SmartCopy extension opened on my screen, and I added the "Geni ID or URL" to the second field (the 6000000085060156483 number) using Ctrl-V from the clipboard.

The next step was to click on the "Set Destination" button on the extension, and wait until it completed its' work.  It sometimes takes awhile (maybe 10 to 20 seconds) to complete, depending on how many persons are in the family (birth and death data, partners, spouses, siblings, and children).

When it completes, the extension provides a list of birth and death data, parents, siblings, partners and children (two screens below):

The user can click on the boxes of information that they want to add to the Geni profile.  On the screen above, I chose to add the parents and siblings to Geni, but not the birth and death data, or the spouse and children (because I already added them).  Males are color coded blue and females pink.  The system tells me how many spouses there are and how many children of each gender there are.  If one or more spouses or children are not in the Geni profile for some reason, then they should be clicked individually (you may need to refer back to the Geni profile).

There is a blue "Submit" button at the top of the SmartCopy extension (and one at the bottom of the list above too), and I clicked that to make SmartCopy add the selected information to the Geni profile (and to the World Tree).  After a short period of time (sometimes 30 seconds or more depending on the number of persons to be added), the extension showed me:

The Extension said that "Geni Tree Updated" and told me to "review for duplicates and merge when available."  I've had several cases in the process to date where Geni had a suggested Merge, so I did that before updating the profile.

6)  Note that the MyHeritage profile has not been modified.  Only the Geni profile of Torgeir Olsen has been modified, plus new profiles were added on Geni for the persons added in the process.  In the example above, the parents and siblings of Torgeir Olsen were added.

Here is Torgeir Olsen's revised profile - you can see that the parents and siblings have been added to the profile:

7)  Needless to say, using the SmartCopy Chrome extension is a lot easier than adding the family profiles for a person one-by-one by typing them in.  As always, GIGO, the data from the source profile (e.g., on MyHeritage in the example) needs to be as complete as possible.  Any errors in the source profile will be added to the Geni profile.

Unfortunately, it appears that only vital events and relationships are transferred to the Geni profile - no marriage data, other events (e.g., baptism, burial, occupation, census, probate, etc.), sources, notes, etc. were not transferred to the Geni profiles although they were in the MyHeritage profiles.

I have a lot more to do using this SmartCopy Chrome extension - namely adding earlier generations of families and also adding spouses and children for the siblings of the ancestors.

8)  I recall that Gilad Japhet of MyHeritage announced the "Theory of Family Relativity" (TOFR - a BIG TREE) at RootsTech 2018 in Salt Lake City (within the  Perspectives on Combining Genealogy and Genetics presentation, FREE on Family Tree Webinars), claiming that MyHeritage would create the biggest online family tree ever to help find DNA Matches.  I wondered how they were going to do it, but was not quick enough to ask Gilad at RootsTech.

My guess - and it's only a guess at this point - is that there is a legion of volunteers, and perhaps employees, using SmartCopy to add persons to the TOFR BIG TREE from MyHeritage trees, Ancestry trees, the Geni tree, FamilySearch genealogies, etc.  If SmartCopy can be used to add profiles to Geni, then a similar version of it can be used to add profiles to the TOFR BIG TREE.

If so, I hope that they are using my latest MyHeritage tree - 

Randy Seaver Genealogy Research - October 2018 Tree

 but it is already a bit out of date.

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Seavers in the News - LeGrand Seaver Dies in 1953 in New York

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

This week's entry is from The Post-Star [Glens Falls, N.Y.]  newspaper dated 2 February 1953:

The transcription of the article is:

"LeGrand Seaver, Sr.

"LeGrand Seaver, Sr., of Miller Hill, died Sunday in Glens Falls Hospital where he had been a patient for the last 16 days.  He was born in Nebraska Oct. 18, 1882, and was engaged in the trucking business before his retirement.  He was a member of Glens Falls Grange 1175, Warren County Pomona Grange, New York State Grange, the American Pension Club of Glens Falls and the Queensbury Association.

"He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace A. Seaver; a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Root of Fort Edward; a son, LeGrand Seaver, Jr., of Greenwich; a foster daughter, Mrs. James P. McCarthy, South Glens Falls; two grandsons, Raymond Francis Root of Fort Edward and Clarence Seaver of Greenwich; a granddaughter, Linda Jean Seaver, Greenwich; a sister, Mrs. Jean Sipperly, and a brother, Harry Seaver, both Albany.

"Funeral services will be conducted at 2 P.M. Wednesday at the Regan and Denny Funeral Home, 341 Glen Street, by the Rec. A. King Wise, pastor of the First Baptist Church.  Interment will be in Pine View Cemetery.  Friends may call at the funeral home today and Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M.

"Glens Falls Grange will conduct ritualistic services at 8 P.M. Tuesday."

The source citation for the article is:

"LeGrand Seaver Sr." obituary, The Post-Star [Glens Falls, N.Y.] newspaper, Monday, 2 February 1953, page 11, column 2, LeGrand Seaver Sr. obituary;   Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 27 December 2018).

The obituary provides the birth date, death date, spouse's married name, the names of his children, grandchildren and living siblings.  

I did not have the death date of Myron LeGrand Seaver, Sr. (1882-1953), the married surname of his daughter Frances L. (Seaver) Root (1928-2014), the names of the grandchildren, or the name of the adopted daughter.

Myron LeGrand Seaver is my 5th cousin 3 times removed.  

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Treasure Chest Thursday - 1810 U.S. Census for Rudolph Spangler in York, Pennsylvania

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 1810 U.S. Census record for Rudolph Spangler in York, York County, Pennsylvania:

The Rudolph Spangler census entry is on the top page on the image above, between George Davis and Laurence Schultz:

The data extracted from this record is:

Head of household:  Rudolph Spangler

*  one male aged between 10 and 15 [unknown male, perhaps a grandchild]

*  two males aged between 16 and 26 [perhaps son Peter Spangler, and one other]

*  one male aged between 26 and 45 [perhaps son Daniel Spangler]

*  one male over age 45   [certainly Rudolph Spangler, age 72 in 1810]

*  one female aged 16 to 26 [probably daughter Helen Dorothea Spangler]

*  one female over age 45 [certainly wife Dorothea Dinkel Spangler, age 62 in 1810]

The source citation for this record is:

1810 United States Federal Census, York County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, York, Page 188, Rudolph Spangler household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M292, Roll 57.

Rudolph Spangler (1738-1811) was my 4th great-grandfather, who married Maria Dorothea Dinkel (1748-1835)  in 1767 in Yortk and they had ten children between 1767 and 1789.

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Adding Family Data to the Geni.com World Family Tree - see UPDATE!

I have not explored the Geni.com World Family Tree (a multi-user collaborative online tree) very much over the past six years, so I thought that I would see what changes have been made since I uploaded many profiles to Geni back in 2011 (I think!) using a GEDCOM upload.  I knew that Geni suspended their GEDCOM upload capability some years ago, so I haven't added many profiles since then.

When I looked at my portion of the Geni tree, I saw that my wife had a profile, but that she had no ancestral families attached to her.  I decided to add at least four generations to the Geni tree up to her 16 great-great-grandparents.  Perhaps that will help other Geni users to find out something about their common ancestors if they search for the names of Linda's ancestors.

1)  I added the additional 30 ancestors back through the 2nd great-grands in about an hour of effort.  Here is Linda's family tree on Geni.com:

The input form contains fields for name parts, birth date and place, death date and place, and burial date and place.  Here is the input screen filled in for Anna Ellingsdtr Natvig (1853-1911) (two screen captures):

I expanded the place name field for the Birth record to show how the user can add more information.  When the user types into the place field, Geni will suggest a shortened place name, but if they don't have the place name in their place list, the user can click on "Edit Location Details" link and add the desired place name.

Here is Anna Ellingsdtr Natvig's Geni profile after I added the information:

Note that the married surname is included in the name at the top of the page.

Note also that I have only included one child for Torger and Anna (Natvig) Leland - but they had 10 children.  According to Geni, I will have to add the information for the other nine children manually.

On the profile above, there are links to "View Tree" and "Edit Profile" (on the right-hand side of the screen.  Above the "View Tree" link are colored buttons for Tree Matches (grey), Record Matches (green) and Smart Matches (orange), plus a link to "Research this Person" (on MyHeritage).

2)  If I click the green "Record Match" button, I can see the one Record Match and the four Smart Matches:

The one Record Match is the 1880 U.S. Census record on MyHeritage for the Torger Leeland family in Wisconsin:

I could add that information to my Geni profile for Torger and Anna (Natvig) Leland, and could add notes and sources to the Geni profiles.  At the bottom of the screen above (out of view) is an orange  "Confirm" button which I clicked on.

3)  On the list of Matches (the second screen above) are listed the four Smart Matches.  They include one FamilySearch Family Tree profile and three MyHeritage tree profiles.  I clicked on the FamilySearch Family Tree profile, and saw the comparison of what is in the Geni tree and what is in the FamilySearch Family Tree tree (two screen captures below):

There is all of the family information I need to add to the Geni profile.  I clicked on the orange "Confirm" button to confirm this match.

4)  My hope was that I could bring the profiles from FamilySearch Family Tree, or from the MyHeritage trees, into the Geni tree and save me typing all of the input for the family members.  I checked the Help section on Geni, and it said I had to add them manually one person at a time.  Bummer.

I decided not to add the other family members at this time for the 30 additional profiles.  I will go in and Confirm applicable Record matches and Smart Matches, especially the FamilySearch Family Tree smart matches, since they will lead to more information for another user (and FSFT is FREE to use).

5)  Here is the profile for Anna Ellingsdtr (Natvig) Leland (1853-1911) after I confirmed the one Record Match and the Smart Match of the FamilySearch Family Tree:

6)  Geni is another source of family tree information that should be evaluated in a "Reasonably Exhaustive Search" because other researchers may have added profiles or records that can be useful for the user.  Of course, information in any online family tree needs to be critically evaluated, and can be used as a clue for further research.

As far as I can tell, all 30 of the profiles I entered today were NEW to the Geni World Family Tree, so, hopefully, I have improved the Geni tree a bit.  If a profile was not new to the tree, I would have got a "Tree Match" and could have merged my profile with the previously entered profile.

 7)  In my humble opinion, being unable to easily bring data from a Record Match or a Smart Match into a Geni profile or set of profiles is a major drawback.  MyHeritage has the technology to do it in a MyHeritage tree, why can't it be done in a Geni tree?

How hard is it for Geni to work with MyHeritage, or with RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, Family Tree Maker, and other software providers to create an API that would permit sharing between the Geni World Tree and other user trees?  The Geni World Tree is already a collaborative tree - don't MyHeritage and Geni want it to be the best in the online tree world?  


UPDATED: 8 p.m. PDT:  Keith Riggle commented that there is already an API that adds family data to the Geni tree from other online tree websites.  I've been working with it tonight and will write about it soon.  It works great!  Somehow I missed this over the last three years.

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Randy Riding his Horse Trike in About 1945 -- Post 546 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

Recently, I discovered an envelope of small photographs saved when my mother died in 2002 - it was hiding in plain sight in the Genea-Cave! 

Included in the photo cache was this oldie-but-goodie - another photo of Randy and his horse-trike in about 1945:

I had a small tricycle when I was young (I have several photos of it) and loved riding it all over the block.  I was probably age 2 or 3 in this photo.  I think I'm wearing the same outfit as the photo I showed the last weeks.  I look happy in this photo.

This was probably taken in the summer or fall of 1945 or 1946 on the Carringer property at 2130 Fern Street in San Diego.  This is probably in the driveway area next to the house or in the back yard next to the house.  We were living with my grandparents at this time since my father was in the U.S. Navy.

My mother or my grandfather probably took this photograph.

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On Christmas Day...My Ancestors That Had a Special Event

I woke up this morning wondering which of my ancestors were born, married, or died on Christmas Day throughout history.  Funny - I had never thought of this before!  

How do I find out?  Well, the RootsMagic genealogy family tree program has a report called "On This Day" and I plugged in December 25 and it gave me nine pages of events and names (about 380 of them) from the nearly 52,000 persons in my database.  I went through the list, and confirmed that the below events occurred on Christmas Day for my ancestors:

BIRTHS:

*  1646:  Elizabeth Pierce in Charlestown, Massachusetts - 7th great-grandmother
*  1732:  Benedict Oatley in South Kingstown, Rhode Island - 5th great-grandfather

MARRIAGES:

*  1647:  Robert Treat and Jane Tapp in Milford, Connecticut - 9th great-grandparents
*  1666:  Joseph Farwell and Hannah Learned in Chelmsford, Massachusetts - 8th great-grandparents
*  1693:  Thomas Horton and Susannah LNU in Rehoboth, Massachusetts - 8th great grandfather
*  1740:  Jonas Prescott and Rebecca Jones in Concord, Massachusetts - 6th great-grandfather
*  1852:  Edward Hildreth and Sophia Newton in Northborough, Massachusetts - 2nd great-grandparents

DEATHS:

*  1637:  John Sweet in Salem, Massachusetts - 10th great-grandfather

Here is the marriage certificate for Edward Hildreth and Sophia Newton, who married on 25 December 1852:

They were young - 21 and 18.  The marriage was probably performed in the Northborough church or at the bride's home by Minister S.S. Ashley.

Among the long list, there is a Mary Christmas Auble who was born in 1897 in Forest, Indiana.  What a great and appropriate name!

I also noted that Linda's second great-grandmother, Rachel Morley (1821-1861) was baptized on Christmas Day in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire.

I expected to find more births and deaths of ancestors.  However, I don't have an exact birth or marriage or death date for some ancestors because of a lack of records or my own negligence.  

I'm happy that at least eight of my ancestors married on Christmas Day (two were second marriages not to my ancestor) and I hope they enjoyed the event.  

Well, that was some genealogy fun on Christmas Day.  Now on to the Ancestry Hints before my nap and dinner at Black Angus tonight.

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Merry Christmas to All!

There is a reason for the season! Thank you, God, for your Gift to the Earth. 

Merry Christmas to all of my Christian readers and friends. I hope that this day finds you healthy, happy, with family and friends, and that Santa brings you everything you desire.

We are home for the holidays - Lori and her boys came down from Santa Cruz on Thursday last and went home on Sunday, and Tami and her family came on Saturday for the day to share gifts, go out to lunch, and exercise the kids at Jump Around.  We watched.  We have our presents for each other under the tree, and we will open them on Christmas morning with the lights sparkling and the rain coming down outside.  We will go out for Christmas dinner, just the two of us, unless we get a last minute invitation.  

I might even write a blog post, or work in the RootsMagic database, or resolve some Ancestry Hints.  I may watch some football (who's playing?  I have no clue).  And read Facebook.  Maybe even take a nap in my Santa hat.

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'Twas the Night Before a Genealogist's Christmas ...

I received this parody of Clement Moore's masterpiece via email back in the mid-1990's, the author is unknown to me. Kimberly Powell at the About Genealogy page also has it on her site.

'Twas the night before Christmas

When all through the house

Not a creature was stirring,

Not even my spouse.

The dining room table with clutter was spread

With pedigree charts and with letters which said...

"Too bad about the data for which you wrote;

Sank in a storm on an ill-fated boat."

Stacks of old copies of wills and such

Were proof that my work had become too much.

Our children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads.

And I at my table was ready to drop

From work on my album with photos to crop.

Christmas was here, and such was my lot

That presents and goodies and toys I'd forgot.

Had I not been busy with grandparents' wills,

I'd not have forgotten to shop for such thrills,

While others bought gifts to bring Christmas cheers,

I'd spent time researching those birth dates and years.

While I was thus musing about my sad plight,

A strange noise on the lawn gave me such a great fright.

Away to the window I flew in a flash,

Tore open the drapes and yanked up the sash.

When what with my wondering eyes should appear,

But an overstuffed sleigh and eight small reindeer.

Up to the house top the reindeer they flew,

With a sleigh full of toys and 'ole Santa Claus, too.

And then in a twinkle, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of thirty-two hoofs.

As I drew in my head, and bumped it on the sash,

Down the cold chimney fell Santa--KER-RASH!

"Dear" Santa had come from the roof in a wreck,

And tracked soot on the carpet, (I could wring his short neck!)

Spotting my face, good 'ole Santa could see

I had no Christmas spirit you'd have to agree.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work

And filled all the stockings, (I felt like a jerk).

Here was Santa, who'd brought us such gladness and joy:

When I'd been too busy for even one toy.

He spied my research on the table all spread

"A genealogist!" He cried! (My face was all red!)

"Tonight I've met many like you," Santa grinned,

As he pulled from his sack a large book he had penned.

I gazed with amusement--the cover it read

Genealogy Lines for Which You Have Plead.

"I know what it's like as a genealogy bug." He said

as he gave me a great Santa hug.

"While the elves make the sleighful of toys I now carry,

I do some research in the North Pole Library!

A special treat I am thus able to bring,

To genealogy folk who can't find a thing."

"Now off you go to your bed for a rest,

I'll clean up the house from this genealogy mess."

As I climbed up the stairs full of gladness and glee,

I looked back at Santa who'd brought much to me.

While settling in bed, I heard Santa's clear whistle,

To his team, which then rose like the down of a thistle.

And I heard him exclaim as he flew out of sight,

"Family History is Fun! Merry Christmas! Goodnight!"

--Author Unknown

To all, I wish a very Merry Christmas, and I hope Genea-Santa brings you a special gift for your family history.

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