Thursday, December 30, 2021

Randy's "Best Of" Genea-Musings Posts in 2021

 I guess it's OK to write this post now - I wrote over 870 blog posts in 2021, including some pretty good ones, IMHO.  I want to list the "best ones" - according to me!  They are the ones I want to be able to easily find later, or ones that might help another researcher.  I'll list them in chronological order:


*  Randy's Genealogy Activity Highlights for 2020 (31 December 2020)
*  Randy's Best Genealogy Research Discoveries in 2020 (4 January 2021)

*  Dear Randy - "What is Your Work Flow With An Ancestry Hint?" (13 January 2021)

*  Received My Second FOREVER Box Back With 29 Digitized Home Movies (20 January 2021)

*  Painting My Ancestral Chromosome Map - Post #1 (3 February 2021)

*  My Day 1 At RootsTech Connect 2021 (25 February 2021)

*  My Day 2 at RootsTech Connect 2021 (26 February 2021)

*  My Day 3 at RootsTech Connect 2021 (27 February 2021)

*  RootsTech Connect 2021 Genealogy Blog Compendium - Updated (4 March 2021)

*  Using Ancestor Explorer for WikiTree to Generate an Ancestor List and Map (8 March 2021)

*  What Is the Maiden Name of Ann (--?--) Seaver (1807-????)? - Part 7 (10 March 2021)

*  Downloading My AncestryDNA Match List With Google Sheets (17 March 2021)

*  Uploaded a New GEDCOM to MyHeritage, and Created a 10-Generation Fan Chart (7 April 2021)

*  Revisiting My "To Be Filed" Folder - Some "Goodies" (14 April 2021)

*  MyHeritage Family Tree Statistics - My April 2021 Tree (28 April 2021)

*  Researcher Beware - Sometimes the AncestryDNA ThruLines Are Wrong (3 May 2021)

*  Dear Randy - How Many DNA Matches From Your 3rd Great-Grandparents Do You Have by ThruLines in AncestryDNA? (5 May 2021)

*  My 4th Great-Grandparent AncestryDNA ThruLines Matches (12 May 2021)

*  Dear Randy: How Do You Deal With Ancestry Hints? (18 May 2021)

*  Genealogy Book Review: "Call Me John," by Michael Schoenholtz (28 May 2021)

*  Dear Randy: What Are the Most Useful Online Record Collections For Your Research? (2 June 2021)

*  Ancestry.com and Your Ancestry Member Tree (4 August 2021)

*  One More Common Ancestor for an FTDNA Match Found! (18 August 2021)

*  Finally, a Descendants Chart I Can Use! Thank You, MyHeritage! (25 August 2021)

*  Down the Rabbit Hole - High School Yearbook Pictures (8 September 2021)

*  My Updated AncestryDNA Leeds Method Chart (15 September 2021)

*  Updated AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate (September 2021) (19 September 2021)

*  Down the Rabbit Hole Again - Kari Larsdtr Leland's 1901 Death and Burial Record (28 September 2021)

*  RootsMagic Version 8 Released - First Look! (30 September 2021)

*  Exploring RootsMagic 8 - #1 - the Main Screens (3 October 2021)

*  Exploring RootsMagic 8 - #2: People Screen, Edit Person, Enter Data (6 October 2021)

*  Exploring RootsMagic 8 - #3: People Screen, Edit Person, Create a Source Citation (12 October 2021)

*  Down the Rabbit Hole - Helping a Seaver Descendant (13 October 2021)

*  I Now Have 15 MyHeritageDNA Theories of Family Relativity (20 October 2021)

*  If You Could Change One Thing About the Genealogy Industry, What Would It Be? (3 November 2021)

*  Disproving an AncestryDNA ThruLine (3 November 2021)

*  RootsMagic Version 8 Progress in the Genealogy Cave (11 November 2021)

*  Dear Randy: Should I Use FamilySearch Family Tree as My Main Genealogy Database? (17 November 2021)

*  Rabbit Hole Genealogy Fun - Death Record of Irene Albina Marano in Capestrano, Italy (1 December 2021)

*  Rabbit Holes With Randy - 1871 Birth Record for Maria Loreta Cerasoli in Capestrano, Italy on FamilySearch (8 December 2021)

*  Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Wiltshire Probate Records (15 December 2021)

*  Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Finding Probate Records For My Ancestors Using Record Hints on Ancestry.com (22 December 2021)

42 of them ... and I could have added more. It is heavy with DNA, Dear Randy and personal research posts, but those are the ones that I want to easily be able to find and those that might help another researcher. 

 I hope you enjoy clicking through some of these over the New Year's holiday.  I did!  It's funny (haha, not strange) that I don't recall writing some of them.  More Genie-amnesia?  

 In addition, I transcribed and sourced many of the records and documents on hand in my weekly   Amanuensis Monday and Treasure Chest Thursday posts, plus the ancestor biographies in the 52 Ancestors series, and the "Seavers in the News" and "Carringers in the News" series.  

With this list, I should be able to remember some of what I did wrote in 2022!

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Seavers in the News -- Mrs. Cora L. Seaver Dies in Los Angeles in 1961

  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 The Kokomo [Ind.] Tribune newspaper dated 11 August 1961:

The transcription of the article is:

"Mrs. Cora L. Seaver

"Mrs. Cora L. Seaver, 88, Los Angeles, Calif., died Wednesday in a hospital in Los Angeles.  She had been in failing health for several years.

"She was born Aug. 20, 1872 in Howard County, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bell.  She had lived in California for approximately eight years.

"She was married in 1897 to William Earl Seaver, who died in March, 1955.

"Surviving are one son, Edgar Seaver of Kokomo; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Kirschner of Wisconsin and Mrs. Mazie Davis of Los Angeles; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

"Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Fenn Funeral Home with burial in the Galveston Cemetery.

"Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m., Sunday."

The source citation is:

"Mrs. Cora L. Seaver," The Kokomo [Ind.] Tribune newspaper, Friday, 11 August 1961, page 2, column 4, Mrs. Cora L.Seaver obituary; Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 29 December  2021).

This obituary provides the name, age, approximate death date and place, spouse's name, children's names, but no occupation and associations information.  

Cora Lenore (Bell) Seaver (1872-1961) was born 20 August 1872 in Howard County, Indiana, daughter of Thomas and Maria Ann (Wilson) Bell.  She died 9 August 1961 in Los Angeles.  She married William Earl Seaver (1874-1955) on 10 April 1897 in Kokomo, Indiana.  They had three children:

*  Mazie Bell Seaver (1898-1987), married 1920 Harry A. Davies (1895-1953).
*  Mary Madeline Seaver (1906-1994), married 1928 Lester Quinton Harness (1901-149); (2) Richard Ernest Kershner (1904-1971).
*  Edgar Earl Seaver (1909-1987), married 1947 Lela May Long (1918-1987).

I am not related to William Earl Seaver (1874-1955).  He is descended from Henry and Elizabeth (--?--) Seaver of Virginia in the 18th century.

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person's obituary provides little interesting information. I am glad that I can honor Cora Lenore (Bell) Seaver today.  

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

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


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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1668 Birth Record of Ruth Cutler (1668-1738) in Reading, Massachusetts

  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 1668 birth record entry for Ruth Cutler in the Reading, Massachusetts town vital records book:

The marriage record is the fifth from the top of the Cutler section of the page:

The transcription of this record is:

"[CUTLER] Ruth, d. of Thomas, Feb. 2, 1668."

The source citation for this record is:

Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1912), Births, page 59, Ruth Cutler entry, 2 February 1668.

Ruth Cutler (1668-1738) was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Giles) Cutler of Reading, Massachusetts Bay.  She married John Smith (1667-1704) in 1693 in Charlestown; he was the son of Matthew and Alice (Leader?) Smith of Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay.  They had four children.

This is a Derivative Source record, copied and organized from original town record books for Reading.  It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage.

John and Ruth (Cutler) Smith are my 7th great-grandparents through their daughter, Mary Smith (1698-ca1746), who married Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746) in about 1717 in Charlestown.  

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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Legacy Family Tree Webinars Announces 2022 Series Schedule

I received this information from Family Tree Webinars today:

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MyHeritage and FamilyTreeWebinars.com are pleased to announce that registration is now open for its 2022 Legacy Family Tree Webinars series, now in its 13th year. Choose from 120 classes from genealogy's leading educators on topics ranging from the 1921 U.K. census to the 1950 U.S. census, from Greece and China to Prussia and Nova Scotia, from Backblaze and Instagram to Airtable, from organizing your papers to printing books on MyHeritage, and from organizing your DNA with the Leeds method to the madness of 'Mc' surnames. We are also introducing the brand new Mexico research series AND the brand new monthly online genealogy conferences.

Click here to register (free).

Mexico series
The year 2022 brings the addition of the Mexico research series to our live broadcast lineup.
The Mexico research series will broadcast live the third Friday, every other month, and will deliver educational webinars geared toward Mexican-ancestored people in the United States and around the world. Speakers for the 2022 series include Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS; Henrietta Christmas and Lisa Medina. Click here for the entire lineup.

Monthly Online Genealogy Conferences

Treat yourself to an online genealogy conference (all free!) nearly every month. Conference themes include Organization (January), African-American research (February), Ireland (March), 3rd annual genealogy webinar marathon (April), Germany (May), BMDs/vital records (June), Military (July), New England (August), 2nd annual Webtember event (September), Writing and Publishing (October), Census (December). Watch this blog for upcoming information.

In addition to our weekly Webinar Wednesdays, we will continue to offer other unique classes.
 
We are proud to once again host the monthly webinar series for the Board for Certification of Genealogists where we will learn from board-certified genealogists Beth Stahr, Alice Hoyt Veen, David Rencher, David Ouimette, Mark Wentling, Denise E. Cross, Carolyn L. Whitton, Jennifer Zinck, Julie Miller, Pam Stone Eagleson, Nicole Gilkison LaRue and Anne Morddel. Click here for the entire lineup.

 
And for the sixth year, we will be the host of the exclusive webinar series, MyHeritage Webinars, where we will learn about the brand new DNA labels, photo enhancing tools, recording memories in the mobile app, identifying common ancestors with DNA, learn about all the new historical records, and much more. Click here for the entire lineup.
 
The Down Under series continues into its fourth year! This series of webinars is designed for genealogists in Australia and New Zealand - at 12pm (noon) on the first Wednesday of each month (Sydney time). They'll have their very own Webinar Wednesday with convenient timing. Click here for the entire lineup.
 
The African Diaspora series, in its second year, will broadcast live the first Friday of each month and will deliver educational webinars geared toward African-ancestored people in the United States and around the world. Speakers for the 2022 series include Shelley Murphy, Nicka Smith, Ari Wilkins, Renate Yarborough Sanders, Calvin Dark, Char McCargo Bah and Janice Lovelace. Click here for the entire lineup.
 
The O Canada series, also in its second year, will broadcast live the third Friday of every other month and will present educational classes with a focus on the broad range of ancestries found in Canada. Speakers for the series include Dave Obee, Ann G. Lawthers, Janice Nickerson and Lianne Kruger. Click here for the entire lineup.

Closed Captioning

Every webinar recording will be captioned in English for the hearing impaired. We really are striving to serve the entire world!

How to register

Sign up (it's FREE!) for one or for all of them today and you will receive a reminder email both one day and two hours prior to the live event.

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Print the webinar brochure to share with your friends, genealogy society, or Family History Center.

FamilyTreeWebinars.com memberships

All live webinars are free and their recordings are free to watch for the first 7 days. With a webinar membership you get these additional benefits:

Access to:
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Learn more or join.

Nowhere else - on land, at sea, or online - will you find genealogy courses as comprehensive, diverse, or as numerous as you will find at FamilyTreeWebinars.com.

Click here to add the Legacy Family Tree Webinar Series to your Google Calendar.

2022 Speakers



Lots of brand new speakers join many of your favorites for 2022. One of them may be the one to help you break down your genealogical brick wall. Don't miss even one week! We welcome these new speakers to our webinar series:
  • David Rencher, CG, AG, FUGA, FIGRS
  • Dana Leeds
  • Beth A. Stahr, CG
  • Gregory Kontos
  • Ann G. Lawthers, Sc.D.
  • Andy Klein
  • Dave Obee
  • Ari Wilkins
  • Brenda Hudson, Ph.D.
  • Shauna Hicks
  • Anthony King
  • Denyce Porter Peyton
  • Calvin Dark
  • Irene Heffran Monley
  • Mark A. Wentling, CG
  • Seema Kenney
  • Janet Thomson, Ed.D.
  • Carolyn L. Whitton, CG
  • Jennifer Zinck, CG
  • Billie Fogarty
  • Sharon Batiste Gillins
  • Nicole Gilkison LaRue, CG
  • Francine Crowley Griffis, CG
  • Lisa Medina
  • Anne Morddel, CG
Click here to register.

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Disclosure:  I am an ongoing paid member of Family Tree Webinars and love it!


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Rabbit Holes With Randy - Using the MyHeritage "Matches By Source" Feature

 Another day, another rabbit hole.  Today, it was browsing through the MyHeritage "Matches by Source" feature.  If you have a family tree on MyHeritage, then you will have this feature - look under "Discoveries" and click on "Matches by Source."

The list of sources with records that MyHeritage thinks match a person in one or all of your family trees (I have 4) on MyHeritage is ordered by number of record matches.  Here is my current list (two screens - the top 11 are shown below).

There are 285 MyHeritage record collections with at least one match to someone in my trees.  The top record collection, FamilySearch Family Tree, has 44,354 matches that I have not looked at yet.

One of the most useful is the "Compilation of Published Sources" (books and other published material) - I have 1,303 pending matches on this list:


There is a wealth of newspapers on this list - Chronicling America, and each state has a Newspapers listing, plus Canada.  Here is the top match from Pennsylvania Newspapers (I have 461 pending matches):

And Canada Newspapers (I have 292 pending matches):

There are also many record collections for states and countries.  I checked out the Denmark listings - there are 14 of them.  Here is the first match to a person in my MyHeritage tree in "Denmark Church Records, 1576-1919":

This is my grandsons' 2nd great-grandfather confirmation record in 1895.  I clicked the orange "Review match" button and saw:

And further down the screen is the record image:

I use this "Matches by Source" listing all the time.  MyHeritage has done the search for me, based on the information in my tree, for every person in my tree.  If I add a family, MyHeritage finds the information in their record collections for me.  I often find a marriage date/place or a death date/place in the listings for a given person in my tree that I did not have before.  

Of course, you can find all of the matches on the profile of the person in your family tree.  Brown circle icons are Record Matches (historical records, including family trees) and green circle icons are Smart matches (to other MyHeritage trees).

Beware though, not every match is correct.  Especially for newspaper records.  The researcher needs to apply critical thinking to each suggested match - is this the right person?  

Some people were really famous and had their name in the newspaper many times - Frank Figone (on the 3rd image above, a relative of my grandsons) was an Italian singer and had his name in the San Francisco records and newspapers dozens of times, and I think MyHeritage found every one of them!

Going down this rabbit hole every week usually adds dozens of records to my family tree.  

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Disclosure:  I have had a fully paid Ancestry.com subscription since 2000.  Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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Linda and the Cable Car in 2004 -- Post 700 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

 I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs: 

In early September 2004, we drove north to the San Francisco Bay area to celebrate the first birthday of our first grandchild, Lucas, in the Santa Cruz area.  Linda wanted to visit her favorite places in San Francisco too, so we spent a fun day being tourists.  

This is Linda before she got on the cable car in downtown San Francisco.  She has so many memories of riding the buses, trolleys and cable cars from her childhood, school and college days.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 28 December 2021

Welcome to Genealogy News and Education 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 since the last issue.    


1)  News Articles:




2)  New or Updated Record Collections:


3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes



4)  Genealogy Education - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):


*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 5 January, 11 a.m.:  The Only Thing You Need to Know About DNA and Genealogy, by Diahan Southard

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts/Radio Shows:




6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

*  Family History Fanatics:  Genealogy Trivia Using Kahoot! ~ Phil vs Bambi



*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  S05 E14: Researching the Children of Breeders


7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 24 December 2021?

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Carringers in the News -- Betty Virginia Carringer Celebrates Her First Birthday in 1920

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

This week's entry is from the San Diego [Calif.] Union newspaper dated 1 August 1920:

The transcription of the article is:

"Celebrates Birthday With Party for 17

"Little Miss Betty Virginia Carringer celebrated her first birthday Friday with a party given by her mother, Mrs. Lyle L. Carringer, at her home, 2054 Harrison street.  The decorations were in pink and white.

"Those invited were Great Grandma Smith and Grandmothers Carringer and Auble; the Misses Myrtle Kemp, Letha Klughardt, Genevieve Berry; Mrs. Dave Gershon, Mrs. Fred Allen, Mrs. Sherwin Smith, Mrs. James Kerr, Mrs. John McCann; the Little Misses Virginia Kerr, Beulah Irene McCann, Betty Virginia Carringer, and Masters Gordon Gerson, Junior Allen and Sydney Smith."

The source citation is:

"Celebrates Birthday With Party for 17," San Diego [Calif.] Union newspaper, Sunday, 1 August 1920, page 38, column 5, Betty Virginia Carringer birthday party;   GenealogyBank, Newspaper Archives   (https://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 27 December 2021).

Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) was born 30 July 1919 in San Diego, California, the daughter of Lyle L. and Emily K. (Auble) Carringer.  She married Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.

Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver is my sainted mother.  This article corroborates the street address of the Carringer home in late July 1920, and the list of attendees indicates family and friends, especially those with small children.  Myrtle Kemp (1893-1970) is the first cousin of Emily (Auble) Carringer, and the niece of Emily's mother, Georgianna (Kemp) Auble.  

There are hundreds of Carringer "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them. Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a newspaper article provides more detail about your very close family.  I am glad that I can honor my mother, Betty Virginia Carringer, today.

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

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


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