Friday, January 10, 2020

Genealogy News Bytes - 10 January 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop over the past three days.



2)  New or Updated Record Collections:





3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar


*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 14 January, 11 a.m.:  10 Must-Have MyHeritage Databases, by Gena Philibert-Ortega

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 15 January, 11 a.m.:  Vetting Published Genealogies for Research, by Shannon Combs-Bennett

*  Upcoming SCGS Free Webinar - Wednesday, 15 January, 6 p.m.:  A Million Ways to Die in the Colonies: Death and Burial in Colonial America, by Dan Earl

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Mistakes I Have Made: Confessions of a Repentant Genealogist, by Cheri Hudson Passey

*  Archived Family Tree Webinars: The Best Built-in Windows 10 Storage Hack, by Marian Pierre-Louis

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips: #144r - Home Movies




5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):









*  Family History Ron:  20200109 QA FamilyHistoryRon

*  Family Tree Magazine:  5 Genealogy Filing Systems



*  Kentucky Tennessee Research Associates:  Genealogy Links Us Together Our Research Makes a Difference



6)  Genealogy Bargains:

7)  DNA Stories



8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 7 January 2020?

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 10 January 2020

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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New 1939 Register entries and military records available to search this Findmypast Friday

1939 Register Update

Over 85,000 'closed records' have been opened up and are now available to search. Since the 1939 Register was launched, Findmypast has matched more than four million 'closed records' to multiple data sources to correctly confirm the date and location of death for individuals recorded.

The 1939 Register now contains more than 33.9 million searchable records. Each record includes the names of inhabitants at each address, their date of birth, marital status and occupation. A wealth of contextual information, including period photographs never before seen online, infographics, region-specific newspaper articles and historical and contemporary maps, are personally tailored to each record, offering a rich and unique user experience unrivalled by any other family history research tool to date.

British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records

More than 21,000 additional records have been added to the collection. This fascinating National Archives’ collection allows you to discover when and where servicemen were wounded, the nature of their injuries, where they were treated and notes on their recovery as well as details relating to their service.

The records in this series are a representative selection of the original collection. The records include admission and discharge registers from hospitals and casualty clearing stations, field ambulances, an ambulance train and a hospital ship.

United States, National Veterans Cemetery Index

Explore more than 1.8 million transcripts covering over a century of veterans who fought in various conflicts, from the American Civil War and the two world wars through to the Afghanistan war. Each result will reveal a variety of details relating to the deceased’s life, family and military service. Transcripts may include birth years, death years, service, rank, death date, home town, burial place, father’s name and spouse.

Covering over a century of veterans, these veterans fought in various conflicts, from the American Civil War, and the two world wars through to the Afghanistan war. This collection is especially useful for family historians who do not know specifics about an ancestor, such as birth dates, in which branch of the military the ancestor served, or rank of a veteran. This vital records collection may be used as a launching point to lead to other collections detailing a person's life.

British & Irish Newspaper Update

With over 195,000 new pages recently added, there are a variety of new and updated titles available to search, including:

New Titles
·         Western Evening Herald covering the years 1895, 1900-1920, 1922-1924
·         Newtownards Chronicle & Co. Down Observer covering the years 1873-1874
·         Warrington Advertiser the years 1865, 1877, 1879, 1884, 1887, 1889

Updated Titles
·         South Wales Gazette covering the years 1903 & 1961
·         Newcastle Evening Chronicle covering 1926
·         Daily Review (Edinburgh) covering the years 1884 and 1886
·         Witness (Edinburgh) covering the years 1842-1845, 1848, 1854, 1861

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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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52 Ancestors - Week 312 #523 Martha (--?--) Peirce (1647-1698) of Watertown, Massachusetts

Martha (--?--) Peirce (1647-1698)  is number 523 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #522 Joseph Peirce (1644-1713) in about 1667 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #261 Martha Peirce (1681-1759)), who married #260 William Whitney (1683-1720 in 1706.
*  their son, #130 Samuel Whitney (1719-1782), who #131 Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783) in 1741.
*  their daughter #65 Martha Whitney (1764-1832) who married #64 Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)  in 1783.
*  their son  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) who married #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) in 1817.
*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) 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:                     Martha --?-- [1]    

*  Sex:                        Female  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Birth:                      about 1647, Massachusetts, United States[1]   

*  Death:                    before 15 June 1698 (before about age 51), husband married again; Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2] 
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:              Joseph Peirce (1644-1713)    
*  Marriage 1:          about 1667 (about age 20), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]    
* Child 1:                 Joseph Peirce (1669-1753)    
* Child 2:                 Francis Peirce (1671-1728)    
* Child 3:                 John Peirce (1673-1744)    
* Child 4:                 Mary Peirce (1674-    )    
* Child 5:                 Benjamin Peirce (1677-1740)    
* Child 6:                 Jacob Peirce (1678-1740)    
* Child 7:                 Martha Peirce (1681-1759)    
* Child 8:                 Stephen Peirce (1683-1761)    
* Child 9:                 Israel Peirce (1685-1732)    
* Child 10:               Elizabeth Peirce (1687-1753)    

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

The book by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Pierce Genealogy[1], provides an excellent history of the Pierce/Peirce family, but very little on the Joseph and Martha (--?--) Peirce family.

Martha --?-- was born in about 1647, perhaps in Watertown, Massachusetts[1].  Her maiden surname is not known, and her parents are not known.  Some online family trees say that her parents were Francis and Mary (--?--) Brayton of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  However, their daughter, Martha Brayton, married a John Pearce, not Joseph Peirce, and resided in Rhode Island.

She married Joseph Peirce (1644-1713) in about 1667, probably in Watertown, and they had ten children, all recorded in the Watertown town record book[1]:

*  Joseph Peirce (1669-1753), married (1) 1689 Ruth Holland (1665-1692); (2) 1692 Hannah Munroe (1674-1736); (3) 1736 Beriah (Bemis) Child (1681-1768).
*  Francis Peirce (1671-1728), married 1697 Hannah Johnson (1675-1728).
*  John Peirce (1673-1744), married 1702 Elizabeth Smith (1674-1747).
*  Mary Peirce (1674-????), married 1706 Jacob Bennett (1676-????)
*  Benjamin Peirce (1677-1740), married 1714 Hannah Chesley (1687-1777).
*  Jacob Peirce (1678-1740), married 1702 Hannah (Lewis) Thatcher (1662-1717).
*  Martha Peirce (1681-1759), married 1706 William Whitney (1683-1720).
*  Stephen Peirce (1683-1761), married 1708 Abigail Bemis (1687-????).
*  Israel Peirce (1685-1732), married 1718 Sarah Holland (1688-????).
*  Elizabeth Peirce (1687-1753), married 1706 Joseph Bemis (1684-1738).

Joseph and Martha (--?--) Peirce resided in Watertown throughout their lives[1].  

It is not known when Martha Peirce died or was buried.  It was certainly before 15 June 1698 in Watertown[1-2], when her husband, Joseph Peirce, married, secondly, to Elizabeth (Kendall) Winship (1653-1719), the widow of Ephraim Winship.

There is no known death record, burial record or probate record for Martha (--?--) Peirce.

5.  SOURCES


1. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Pierce Genealogy; Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, an Early Inhabitant of Watertown, in New England ... with Notes on the History of Other Families of Peirce, Pierce, Pearce, Etc (Worcester, Mass., Press of Chas. Hamilton, 1880), page 27, Joseph Peirce sketch.

2. Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Marriages, page 304, Joseph Peirce and Elizabeth Winship marriage (in Watertown) entry, 15 June 1698.

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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 2020 to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.


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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Seavers in the News -- Harriette M. Seaver Dies in 1916 in Eugene, Oregon

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 Eugene [Ore.] Guard newspaper dated 3 January 1916:

The transcription of the article is:

"SEAVER -- In Eugene, at 6:30 p.m., January 1, 1916, Mrs. Harriette M. Seaver, aged 64 years, eight months and fifteen days.

"She was born at Rome, Wis., April 16 1851, and was married to John N. Seaver in Chicago in 1871.  She leaves children as follows: Frank E. Seaver, of Symco, Wis., John N. Seaver, Will J. Seaver and Mrs. Walter B. Jones, all of Eugene.  The funeral was held at the Gordon and Veatch chapel at 3 p.m. yesterday and Rev. H.S. Wilkinson officiated.  The remains will not be interred here, but will be placed in the mausoleum and interred at Symco, Wis. later."

The source citation is:

"DIED," The Eugene [Ore.] Guard newspaper, obituary, Monday, 3 January 1916, page 5, column 2, Mrs. Harriette M. Seaver obituary; Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 9 January 2020).

This obituary has a birth and death date for Mrs. Harriette M. Seaver, the names of her four living children and her husband, but not her maiden name, parents or siblings.  

From my RootsMagic family tree, I see that Harriet McCord was born 16 April 1850 to William and Amelia (--?--) McCord in Wisconsin.  She married John Nelson Seaver (1845-1902) in Chicago, Illinois on 3 December 1871.  They had seven children, four of whom are mentioned in the obituary:

*  William James Seaver (1873-1950), married 1900 Thora Amalia King (1875-1968).
*  Frank Ellsworth Seaver (1876-1917), married 1908 Elizabeth Frances Cate (1876-1923).
*  Harriet Lulu Seaver (1878-1898).
*  Abbie Amelia Seaver (1880-1900).
*  Susie Bell Seaver (1882-1968), married 1903 Walter Bancroft Jones (1879-1965).
*  George D. Seaver (1883-????).
*  John Nelson Seaver (1892-1957), married 1918 Fannie Myrtle Clinkscales (1891=1981).

I am a 4th cousin 3 times removed to her husband, John Nelson Seaver, and a 5th cousin 2 times removed to their children.  Our common ancestors are my 7th great-grandparents, Joseph and Mary (Read) Seaver.

There are over 8,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes the life of a person has some sadness - the early death of a spouse and three children.  I am glad I can honor Harriet (McCord) Seaver today.

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Disclosure:  I have a paid subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

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"Finding Your Roots" Season 6 Series Resumed on PBS

Season 6 of the PBS television series "Finding Your Roots, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." resumed with Episode 3 on Tuesday, 7 January 2020.  There were two earlier episodes back in the Fall of 2019.

 You can watch the first three episodes on the Finding Your Roots website - see https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/seasons/season-6.

The lineup for the remainder of the season is:

 * Tuesday, January 14th: Episode 4 – This Land is My Land with Queen Latifah, and Jeffrey Wright

 *  Tuesday, January 21st: Episode 5 – Beyond the Pale with Terry Gross, Marc Maron, and Jeff Goldblum

 *  Tuesday, January 28th: Episode 6 – Secrets & Lies with Sigourney Weaver, Amy Ryan, and Justina Machado

 *  Tuesday, February 4th: Episode 7 – Science Pioneers with Harold E. Varmus, Francis Collins, and Shirley Ann Jackson

 *  Tuesday, February 11th: Episode 8 – Slave Trade with Questlove, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Ava DuVernay

 *  Tuesday, February 18th: Episode 9 – Italian Roots with Marisa Tomei, Jimmy Kimmel, and John Turturro

 *  Tuesday, February 25th: Episode 10 – Criminal Kind with Laura Linney, Lisa Ling, and Soledad O’Brien

 Check your local listings for times in your area.  The website says PBS at 8 p.m., 7 p.m. Central time.
I watched Episode 3 on Tuesday night and enjoyed it - especially seeing the records that they found tying the guests' ancestors to slaveholders. I was surprised they didn't mention DNA tests - I figured that every celebrity would want to know about their ethnicity estimate.
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Treasure Chest Thursday - 1681 Birth Record of Martha Peirce (1681-1759) in Watertown, Mass.

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 1681 birth record of Martha Peirce in the Watertown, Massachusetts town records:

The birth record for Martha Peirce is the fourth item from the bottom of the right-hand page on the image above:

This record says:

"Martha peirce the Daughter of Joseph & Martha
Born the 24 of December [1681]"

The source citation for this record is:

.Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 January 2015), Watertown, "Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 91 (image 164 of 3991), Martha Peirce birth record, 1681.

This record is an Original Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of Martha Peirce and her parents, and her birth date and place.

Martha Peirce (1681-1759) was the daughter of Joseph and Martha (--?--) Peirce of Watertown.  She married William Whitney (1683-1720) in 1706 in Watertown, and they settled in Weston, Massachusetts.

William and Martha (Peirce) Whitney are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son Samuel Whitney (1713-1782) who married  Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783) in 1741 in Weston, Massachusetts.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

GenealogyBank Combines Their Extensive Obituary Resources

I received this information yesterday from GenealogyBank:

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We want to let you know about several new exciting enhancements to GenealogyBank.
•New Obituaries collection. This week we launched a new, combined collection of obituaries. Millions of historical newspaper pages have been reprocessed to identify and isolate the obituaries, and then to tag the names, dates, and locations within them. This makes it easier than ever to locate your ancestor’s obit among the millions of obituaries from newspapers past to present, all in one place. Search for obits now.
•“Discover More” links. When you visit certain obituary and census pages, you’ll see a new link on the right side of the page. Clicking on this Discover More link will take you to a hints results page. Look for new discoveries in these suggested articles that relate to the obituary or census page that you came from. Be sure to provide us with feedback on these results pages so we can better improve the future accuracy of these results.
•Customize Your Settings. There are a couple ways you can customize your experience on the site. The “My Settings” and “My Profile” sections give you an opportunity to do things like: sign up to receive beta test invites for upcoming features, tell us more about your research interests, select your preferred format for downloads, add a profile image, and more. Start customizing here.
As always, we want to know what you think. Leave us a note via the Feedback tab, email us at support@genealogybank.com, or reach us by phone at (866) 641-3297, Mon-Fri 10am-7pm EST.
Thanks,
The GenealogyBank Team
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I clicked on the "Search for obits now" link above, and saw:

As you can see, I put "seaver" in the last name field.  The result was:

There are 2,917 obituaries in the new collection for the last name of "Seaver."  I've used a lot of them already but need to double check them one at a time.

Before this combination of collections, obituaries could be found in the "Newspaper Archives" collection, with full page images, for publications before the present, and there was a separate collection called "Recent Obituaries" for 1977-present, but these were not newspaper page images - they were transcribed obituaries from newspaper pages.

In the combined collection, many obituaries are still from the full page images in the "Nesspaper Archives" collection and many of the obituaries after 1977 are the transcribed obituaries from the "Recent Obituary" collection.  There are many duplicate obituaries in this new collection because they were often published on more than one day.

I use GenealogyBank almost daily to look for obituaries and newspaper articles, and this combination has made it easier for me.  I can now search for only obituaries which have a specific name in a year range (e.g., 1910 to 1920) and not see newspaper articles that are not obituaries.  With a Seaver search, I get a lot of articles about my cousin, Tom Seaver, and his baseball career.

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Disclosure:  I have a paid subscription to GenealogyBank.  I appreciate their newspaper coverage, which is significantly different from other newspaper subscription collections.


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