Saturday, March 21, 2020

Today is Our 50th Wedding Anniversary

This day, 21 March 2020 is the 18,264th day of my marriage with the wonderful, loving, talented and angellic Linda Joan (Leland) Seaver.  We have been so lucky to have lived long enough to celebrate 50 years of marriage.  We are blessed by good health, decent jobs and income, smart investments, a one-floor home, two loving daughters and five beautiful and smart grandchildren.

Here is our wedding picture from 21 March 1970:

The plan for today before the maleficient Covid19 debacle was to take Linda off to a nice place for a weekend or on a cruise for a week, and then celebrate with a big anniversary party on 28 March.  Because of the virus and ensuing shelter-in-place orders this week, we are staying home on our 50th anniversary.  We can't even go out to dinner to a favorite restaurant!

We will celebrate in our family room with a filet mignon steak dinner with baked potatoes and asparagus with lemon meringue pie for dessert, courtesy of our daughter, Tami, who is making a special trip to cook and serve dinner, but is going to stay away from us due to the virus concern.

Both of our daughters have called today to express their love and appreciation for us.  Lori was here three weeks ago and stayed with Linda while I went to RootsTech 2020.  She left an anniversary gift for us.

The anniversary party?  It is postponed.  We used this photograph for our invitations.  Tami and Lori worked really hard on planning a great party.  We were looking forward to celebrating with 100 of our closest friends at our church, but the virus has wiped it out.  We may do it in the summer or perhaps even next year - a 51st anniversary party.  Life will go on!  We will certainly remember this anniversary!

 Linda and I thank all of our friends and colleagues for their thoughts and prayers the past two years as we have aged and encountered health and mobility problems.

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Friday, March 20, 2020

Genealogy News Bytes - Friday, 20 March 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, 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:



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*  View RootsTech 2020 Videos for FREE!

*  16 Free Webinars from New York Genealogical & Biographical Society


*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 24 March, 11 a.m.:  City Directories: Much More than Ye Olde Phonebooks, by Mike Mansfield

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 25 March, 11 a.m.:  Using Fold3.com to your Advantage, by Craig R. Scott


*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Top 5 resources to expand your Spanish genealogical research, by Daniel Smith-Ramos

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*  Family History Fanatics:  How to Embed A Genealogy Youtube Video in Blog


*  Family History Fanatics:  The Face Behind DNA Family Tree YT Channel!



*  Kentucky Tennessee Research Associates:  Be Quick, Be Complete, Be Accurate Deed Extracts




8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 17 March 2020  ?

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 20 March 2020

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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New records available to search this Findmypast Friday

Middlesex Baptisms
Unique to Findmypast, these records can reveal details about the start of your relatives' lives in Middlesex. The collection has been enhanced with over 17,000 new records from the following parishes:
  • Hampton
  • Hayes
  • Hornsey
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Our thanks go to Cliff Webb and West Middlesex Family History Society for providing these latest additions.

Cambridgeshire Burials
Over 6,000 burials from Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire have joined the largest collection of British parish records online at Findmypast.
British parish records
View the map in detail.

The burial records date from 1881 to 1925 and have been provided by Fenland Family History Society. You won't find them anywhere else online.

Jamaica, Civil Death Registrations
Discover your Caribbean roots with over 1.5 million new civil death registration records from Jamaica. Brought to you in partnership with FamilySearch, these death records can tell you more about your relative's life and death in Jamaica.  As you trace your Jamaican past, be sure to also delve into these other useful resources:

Dating as far back as the 1500s, our Jamaican family history records are essential for finding out more about your Caribbean ancestors. What's more, they'll provide hints for any Jamaican ancestors already on your Findmypast family tree.

Newspapers
The Caribbean-themed releases continue in our newspaper collection this week. We've added new papers from Jamaica and Ireland and updated a range of others. Brand new to the site are:
While the following newspapers have been supplemented with more issues:

Newspapers are a goldmine of information on your family’s past. Not only could you find your ancestors making headlines, but you'll also get insight into the world they lived in, the kind you won't find in other records.

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52 Ancestors - Week 322: #533 Huldah (Blodgett) Reed (1689-1777) of Woburn, Massachusetts

Huldah Blodgett (1689-1777) is number 533 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #532 Ebenezer Reed (1690-1767) in 1714 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #266 Nathan Reed (1719-1802) who married #267 Susanna Wood (1724-1780) in 1743.
*  their son #132 Simon Gates (1739-1803) who married #133 Susannah Reed (1745-1833) in 1766.
*  their son #66 Nathan Gates (1767-1830) who married #67 Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) in 1790.
*  their daughter, #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)  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:                        Huldah Blodgett[1–3]    
*  Alternate Name:        Huldah Blogget[4]    
*  Alternate Name:        Huldah Reed[6–7]  

*  Sex:                           Female    

*  Father:                      Samuel Blodgett (1658-1743)    
*  Mother:                    Huldah Simonds (1660-1746)  
   
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                       9 February 1689, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-4]    

*  Administration:      17 March 1745/6 (age 57), letter of administration for mother's intestate estate; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]    

*  Death:                     11 May 1777 (age 88), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6-7]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Spouse 1:                      Ebenezer Reed (1690-1777)    
*  Marriage 1:                   about 1714 (about age 24), probably Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-3]    

*  Child 1:                         Ebenezer Reed (1715-    )    
*  Child 2:                         Huldah Reed (1717-1775)    
*  Child 3:                         Nathan Reed (1718-1802)    
*  Child 4:                         Abigail Reed (1721-1806)    
*  Child 5:                         George Reed (1723-1804)    
*  Child 6:                         Eliphaz Reed (1726-1776)
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The book Ten Generations of Blodgetts in America by Edwin A. Blodgett contains a short family sketch of Samuel Blodgett that mentions Huldah Blodgett as his daughter[1].  The Thompson book Blodget-Blodgett Descendants of Thomas of Cambridge provides a family sketch of Huldah Blodgett[2].  

Jacob Whittemore Reed's book, History of The Reed Family In Europe and America, has a brief family sketch of Ebenezer Reed of Woburn, Massachusetts that names Huldah Blodgett as his wife[3].

Huldah Blodgett was born on 9 February 1689 in Woburn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Samuel and Huldah (Simonds) Blodgett[1-4].  The birth record says:

"[BLOGGET] Huldah, d. of Samuel and Huldah, Feb. 9, 1689."

She married Ebenezer Reed of Woburn in about 1714 in Woburn, and they had six children, all recorded in Woburn town records[2-3]:

*  Ebenezer Reed (1715-1789), married 1777 to Ruth Snow (1735-????)
*  Huldah Reed (1717-1775).  
*  Nathan Reed (1719-1802), married 1743 Susanna Wood (1724-1780).
*  Abigail Reed (1721-1806), married 1752 Aaron Mason (1717-1799).
*  George Reed (1723-1804), married 1746 to Mary Wood (1726-1775).
*  Eliphaz Reed (1726-1776), married (1) 1747 Elizabeth Perry (1729-1752), (2) 1753 to Sarah Newell (1732-1777).

Huldah's father, Samuel Blodgett, died 5 November 1743, and there is no probate record for him.  Huldah's mother, Huldah (Simonds) Blodgett, died 13 March 1745/6 in Woburn, and there is an intestate estate probate record containing a letter testamentary, a letter of administration, a bond, an inventory of the personal estate, and an account.  There was no real estate.  Ebenezer Reed (son-in-law to Huldah (Simonds) Blodgett and husband of Huldah Reed) was one of the men who signed the letter testamentary requesting Captain Nathan Blodget be appointed administrator of the estate[5].

Ebenezer Reed died on 9 July 1767[1-3], but left no probate record.  Huldah probably continued living on the home farm adjacent to the farms of several of her children, or with one of her children, perhaps son George in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Huldah (Blodgett) Reed's death is recorded in both Woburn and Burlington town records.  The Woburn record[6] says:

"[REED] Huldah, wife of Mr. Ebenezer, May 11, 1777; 87 y."

The Burlington record[7] says:

"[REED] Huldah, wid. of -----, and mother of George, May 11, 1777, a. 87 y. P.R.I."

There are no burial records for Ebenezer or Huldah (Blodgett) Reed, and there are no probate records for them.
 
5.  SOURCES

1. Edwin A. Blodgett, Ten Generations of Blodgetts In America (Barre, Vermont : Modern Printing Co, 1969), page 10, Samuel Blodgett family sketch.

2. Bradley Deforest Thompson and Franklin Condit Thompson, Blodget-Blodgett Descendants of Thomas of Cambridge, Vol I, Generations 1 to 6 (Concord, N.H. : the authors, 1955), page 17, Huldah Blodgett family sketch.

3. Jacob Whittemore Reed, History of The Reed Family In Europe and America (Boston, Mass. : John Wilson and son, 1861), page 105, Ebenezer Reed family sketch.

4. Edward F. Johnson,  Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes] (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 1, Births, page 22, Huldah Blogget birth entry, 9 Feb 1689.

5. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 16 March 2020), Packet 1960, Huldah Blogget intestate estate papers (7 images).

6. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], Volume 2, Deaths, page 154, Huldah Reed death entry, 11 May 1777.

7. Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Burlington, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 1915), Deaths, page 94, Huldah Reed entry, 11 May 1777.

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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 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.


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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Seavers in the News -- Harry Seaver Dies Suddenly in 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri

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 St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper dated 29 February 1924:

The transcription of the article is:

"SEAVER -- Entered into rest, suddenly, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 1924, at 5 p.m.  Harry Seaver, dearly beloved husband of Marie L. Seaver (nee Wahl), and dear father of Wallace Seaver, dear son of Henry Seaver and the late Emelia Seaver, dear brother of Clara Seaver and our grandson, son-in-law nd nephew, in his thirty-second year.

"Funeral Sunday March 2, at 3 p.m., from Provost-Drehman chapel, 3710 North Grand bl. to St. Peter's Cemetery. (c6)"

The source citation is:

"Deaths," St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, obituary, Friday, 29 February 1924, page 35, column 7, Harry Seaver death notice; Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 19 March 2020).

This is an excellent very short death notice - it provides the names of his spouse, his son, his parents and his sister.  But it doesn't give any biographical information about Harry Seaver.  What did he do for a living?  Where did he live?  What did he die from?  For that, I found his death certificate which is online at the Missouri Secretary of State Vital Records Death Certificates website - see it here (indexed on Ancestry.com).  The answers to my questions are:

*  What did he do for a living?  Harry was an insurance broker.
*  Where did he live?  Harry's family resided at 2923A Sidney in St. Louis, Missouri.
*  What did he die from?  A Suicide, by carbon monoxide poisoning by a gas range.

Oh.  That's sad.  What a tragedy for this family.  The son was only 18 months old when this happened.  

Harry F. Seaver (1882-1924) is in my RootsMagic family tree, the son of Henry and Emelia (Schulte) Seaver.  He married Marie L. Wahl (1899-1977) in about 1920 and they had Wallace Fred Seaver on 31 October 1922 in St. Louis.  After Harry's death, Marie (Wahl) Seaver married, secondly, on 3 September 1924 to Bernard J. Schilling (1896-1973) in St. Louis.  They had at least one child, Jack Schilling (1927-2004).

I am not related to Harry Seaver.  His grandparents, August and Minnie (ripke) Seaver were German immigrants who settled in St. Louis in the 1860s.

There are over 9,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and  sometimes it is a tragic life story. I am glad that I can honor Harry F. Seaver today.

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New England Historical and Genealogical Register - Winter 2020 Issue is Out!

The Winter 2020 issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register is out with 100 pages of great genealogy research and journalism.

Here is the Table of Contents:

I always read this quarterly journal carefully because, even though the articles may not be for my ancestors, they may mention my ancestors or provide an educational opportunity to learn more about a resource, a local history, or a research technique.

I am an NEHGS subscriber for almost 30 years now, and have a tall pile of NEHGR issues on my bookcase which I occasionally dig into.  These days, I receive the latest issue via download and save it to my Genealogy Education folder on my computer. The real subscription prize for me these days is access to American Ancestors which has hundreds of New England databases and dozens of digitized online periodicals.  They also have the most Massachusetts probate databases in one place that are meticulously indexed (unlike some other record providers indexes!).

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1689 Birth Record of Huldah Blogget in Woburn, 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 1689 birth record of Huldah Blogget in the Woburn, Massachusetts town vital record book:
 The birth record for Huldah Blogget is the 11th entry in the Blogget list:

 This record says:

""[BLOGGET] Huldah, d. of Samuel and Huldah, Feb. 9, 1689."

The source citation for this record is:

Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 1, Births, page 224, Huldah Blogget entry, 9 February 1689.

This record is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the name of Ebenezer Reed and his parents, and the birth date and place.  The Original Source is a town record book birth register that is no longer available.  This is still Primary Information and Direct Evidence for the names and birth event.

Huldah Blogget (1689-1777) was the daughter of Samuel and Huldah (Simonds) Blogget of Woburn,   Massachusetts.  Ebenezer Reed married Huldah Blogget in about 1714 in Woburn.  They are my 7th great-grandparents, through their son Nathan Reed (1719-1802) who married Susannah Wood(1724-1780) in 1743.

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