RootsTech 2022 Conference Website is Live!!

 The FamilySearch blog has the post Navigating the RootsTech 2022 Website today.  

This covers everything you need to know about the FREE, VIRTUAL RootsTech 2022 Conference that will be held from March 3 to 5 - next week!  Some bullet points:

*  The Main Stage starts at 10 a.m. Mountain time (9 a.m. Pacific time, 11 a.m. Central time, 12 noon Eastern time) on Thursday, 3 March 2022.  The opening presentation will be by Steve Rockwood, the CEO of FamilySearch International.  Other Keynote speakers will make their presentations throughout the three days of the conference.  The Calendar lists the times and speakers for each day - Thursday 3 March , Friday 4 March, and Saturday 5 March.  

*  There are 900 2022 sessions with presentations about genealogy and family history, and you can watch them once the Conference opens.  These are listed on the Calendar under Sessions, with times listed in the Thursday, Friday or Saturday tabs.  You can add sessions to your Playlist to watch them.  After the listed times, you should be able to watch them at your leisure.  The 1500 sessions from 2021 are still available to watch at your leisure.  

On the Home page, the Sessions tab has links to Getting Started, Research Location, Topic, Content Type, Sponsor or Exhibitor, Language, speaker and Year.  The "Topic" link has specific topics for research.

*  The Virtual Expo Hall opens at 7 a.m. PST (8 a.m. MST, 9 a.m. CST, 10 a.m. EST), with about 100 sponsors and exhibitors.  There are companies, organizations and vendor demonstrations.  Companies may have show specials for their products.

*  There is a Chat feature to talk on the Home page, in public or in private, with another attendee, a group, a company representative, or a FamilySearch person.  Attendees can create Groups, which will be public.

*  There is a Help feature to obtain self-help, one-on-one help, and community help.  You can sign up to receive research help from a FamilySearch researcher. 

*  The Connection feature on the Home page connects you to the Relatives at RootsTech app, which is active now, and will be until 25 March.  

You can register for RootsTech 2022 for FREE at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/.  As of today, there are over 550,000 registrants from over 220 countries for this conference from around the world.  

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Seavers in the News -- Raymond Pierce Seaver (1901-1963) Dies in New Jersey in 1963

 Here is this week's 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 Verona-Cedar Grove Times [Verona, N.J.] newspaper dated 11 July 1963:

The transcription of the article is:

"SEAVER, Raymond Pierce of 226 Park St., Montclair, New Jersey, on Friday, July 5, 1963.  Husband of Francis Evelyn, father of Mrs. Vincent Gearey and Raymond Pierce Seaver Jr.  Service was held at Arthur K. Brown, Inc. (Home for Services), 96 Park Street at Claremont, Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock."

The source citation is:

"Seaver, Raymond Pierce," Verona-Cedar Grove Press [Verona, N.J.] newspaper, Thursday, 11 July 1963, page 6, column 4, Ora A. Seaver obituary; Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 24 February 2022).

This is a decent death notice, but far from an obituary.  At least it provides enough information to identify his wife and children.

Raymond Pierce Seaver (1901-1963) was born 18 February 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of William Herbert and Alice May (Pierce) Seaver.  He married Frances Evelyn Leighton (1911-2005) on 14 October 1933 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.  They had two children:

*  Diana Jane Seaver (1937-2014), married 1962 Vincent Gearey (1926-2006).

*  Raymond Pierce Seaver, Jr. (1940-????), married 1966 Elimilia Payanal (1943-2021).

Raymond Pierce Seaver (1901-1963) is probably a distant cousin of mine.  His 2nd great-grandfather, John Seaver (1777-1841) is probably related to my Seaver line, but I don't know who his parents were.   

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 has a death notice with very little information. I am glad that I can honor Raymond Pierce 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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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1784 Death of Nathan Brigham (1693-1784) in Southborough, 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 death record for Nathan Brigham in Southborough, Massachusetts:

The death record is the 4th entry at the top of the Brigham listings on this page:  

The transcription of this record is:

"[BRIGHAM] Lt. Nathan, Sept. 15, 1784, in his 91st y."

The source citation for this marriage record is:

Systematic Historic Fund, Vital Records of Southborough, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass.: Franklin P. Rice, 1903), Deaths, page 159, Lieut. Nathan Brigham death entry, 1784.

This town record book is a Derivative Source, with Primary Information and Direct Evidence as to the names, birth date and place. 

Nathan Brigham (1693-1784) was the son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Maynard) Brigham.  He married (1) Dinah Rice (1693-1725) on 24 December 1717 in Marlborough, and they had five children.

Nathan and Dinah (Rice) Brigham are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son Moses Brigham (1723-1769), who married Mehitable Grout (1722-1795) in 1749. 

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Rabbit Holes With Randy - Working With Family Tree Analyzer

This week's Rabbit Hole was to use the Family Tree Analyzer program to help me improve my RootsMagic family tree.  I have seen blog posts by Marcia Philbrick on her Heartland Genealogy blog and decided it was time for me to take advantage of this free program.

1)  The Family Tree Analyzer website says:

Use FTAnalyzer to investigate your family tree in new and interesting ways, see where your ancestors lived and moved over time on the new maps feature. Find errors in your tree eg: childrens birthdates before parent was born. See lists of who is missing from census searches then click their name to automatically search on Ancestry, Find My Past, Familysearch etc. And lots more.

You can download FTAnalyzer from the Microsoft Store:

2)  Once downloaded as an executable program, you can install it on your computer, and open it up.

It requires a GEDCOM file of your family tree.  I created a GEDCOM in RootsMagic 8, and in FTAnalyzer I clicked on "File" and "Open GEDCOM File."  It started working:

It loads the sources, then the individuals, then the families, and then the relationships and locations.  When it is finished, the main screen for "GEDCOM Stats" looks like this:

The program loaded 2,174 sources, 68,825 individuals, 27,772 families, 19,227 locations, and a number of date errors, missing children, unknown custom fact types, and more.  AAAAAll of this took 6 minutes and 17.87 seconds on my Windows 10 computer.

3)  This program only analyzes information, it doesn't change the information, so the user has to do it himself.

Unfortunately, all of the relationships are to my #1 person in my RootsMagic tree, who is the third wife of Robert Seaver (1608-1683), and has no known name, so in FTA she is "Unknown Unknown."  Related to only one person, but related by marriage to 10,401, linked by marriage to 46,899, and unrelated to 11,523.  

There are other tabs on the tab ribbon for "Main Lists," "Errors/Fixes," "Surnames," "Locations," "Facts," "Census," "Lost cousins," "Research suggestions," "Treetops," "World Wars" and "On This Day."

4)  The "Main Lists" tab shows every individual in the tree:

You can double-click on any line to see a Facts report for that individual.

5)  The "Errors/Fixes" tab shows, mercilessly, all of the errors you have made in your family tree, according to the rules defined by the program.  

The different error types are listed at the top of the page.  The user can select the errors they want to see.

For instance, I have 9 burial dates before death dates in my tree*. I have many Fact dates before a person was born*, some Fact dates after they died (some are OK, like "Probate")*, some Marriage dates after death dates*, some marriages before age 13, lots of census date errors, many Unknown Custom Fact errors (any Fact that aren't vital records related, I think), Duplicate Facts*, Couples with same Surnames, and 2 Dates in the Future*.

6)  I spent several hours in RootsMagic fixing the errors found for the Error type with an asterisk (*) on the list above.  I need to look at the other lists.  The Unknown Fact Types are no problem, and I don't know why the Census date errors occur - I used the census date for each census.  

All in all, this analysis was very useful and helpful.  Every one of these errors were mine - I typed something wrong.  On the other hand, with over 68,000 names and 216,000 events, the list of actual errors is really pretty short.  My estimate has always been that I have a 1% error rate in data entry, and I've corrected at least 300 errors from the list above, so maybe it's lower.  My RootsMagic family tree is now cleaned up to some extent.  

7)  Family Tree Analyzer has many more tabs, and menu items, to explore.  The top menu includes "Reports," "Export," "Tools," "Maps" and "Help."  The above is only the start.  Before I dive into those I need to figure out how to make me #1 in my RootsMagic family tree so the relationship information in Family Tree Analyzer is correct.

8)  Whew!  This genealogy bunny needs to climb out of this hole and find some carrots for brain food.  

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Aunt Gerry, Linda and Randy at Boothbay Harbor, Maine -- Post 708 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

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

This photograph is of my aunt Geraldine (Seaver) Remley (1917-2007), Linda and me, taken in October 2004 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.  I'm sure we enjoyed a wonderful lunch with Gerry's step-daughter, Sally who lived in Boothbay Harbor.  Gerry asked me to hold her cane.  

Gerry married James Remley (1912-2007) in 1970 in Newton, Massachusetts.  Gerry was a high school music teacher and married her boss as his second wife.  After retirement, they lived in Maine where Jim had several children nearby and a cabin near Lake Cobboseccontee that we visited in 1982 and several times thereafter.  They moved to a senior living center before 2004 in Augusta.  We tried to visit them during our trips to New England to sightsee and visit family (and do genealogy!).  They visited us several times in California too.

Aunt Gerry was the successor to her mother, Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (1882-1962), as the family historian.  She made a point to be the "fun aunt" who knew every niece and nephew (all 11 of us) and our children (20 of them) and kept in touch with them.  On this trip to Maine, she let me look through her photograph albums and some of the treasures she collected over the years.  After she and Jim died in 2007, I was sent the photograph albums and some of the memorabilia, including the ambrotype Union Case of my second great-grandparents, Isaac and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver, from the 1863 time.  That was a wonderful surprise!

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Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 22 February 2022

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:

*  AutoKinship at GEDmatch by Genetic Affairs

*  NYC sued by archivist over release of historical records

*  They Were Switched at Birth—and Didn’t Find Out for 50 Years

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 12 to 18 February 2022

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 12 through 18 February 2022

*  MyHeritage Adds 28 Collections of Jewish Historical Records

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech Connect 2022 - 3-5 March 2022 (Virtual) 

*  THE Genealogy Show Spring Event (April 1-3, 2022) (Virtual)

*  NGS 2022 Family History Conference - May 24-28, 2022 (In-Person!)

*  SLIG Virtual 2022 - 8 September to 17 November 2022 (Registration opens 14 May 2022)

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

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  Family History Library Webinar Calendar for February 2022

*  MyHeritage Online Events for February 2022

*  National Institute for Genealogical Studies - Virtual Learning Room

*  "Finding Your Celtic Ancestors" Webinar Series at Kentucky Genealogical Society in March

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 22 February, 11 a.m.:   Printing Charts and Books on MyHeritage, by Uri Gonen

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 23 February, 11 a.m.:  From Piles to Files: Organize Your Genealogy, by Teresa Steinkamp McMillin

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Genealogical Gold in British Columbia, by Dave Obee

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts/Radio Shows:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 189: Revisiting Research Logs Again

*  CutOff Genes: Episode 506: Beckoning to the Reckoning

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 167: Victorian Photo Studio Secrets

*  The Genealogy Guys:  Podcast #401

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 410 - Ancestry’s Handwriting Recognition Technology To Index 1950 Census / Let’s Get...

*  Faily Tree Magazine:  Overcoming Challenges in African American Genealogy Research — An Interview with Shamele Jordon

*  Ancestral Findings:  AF-586: A Closer Look at Land Records #1 | Ancestral Findings Podcast

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

*  BYU Family History Library:  How do I search for my family on the FamilySearch.org website? - James Tanner (17 February 2022)

*  BYU Family History Library:  What are genealogical sources and why are they important? - James Tanner

*  BYU Family History Library:  Boost Your Family History Brain Power 1: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Kathryn Grant

*  Family History Fanatics:  Finding Incorrect Records on Ancestry.com? How to Edit Indexes

* Genealogy Adventures Live:  S05 E18: Discussing the Reconstruction Era with Professor William Horne

*  Genealogy TV:  U S Census Records Basics + Enumeration Month is Important: Tiny Tip Clip

*  Genealogy With Amy:  Got Southern Ancestors? You Need to Use These Records

*  GeniAus:  Jill Ball aka GeniAus interviews Jen Allen

*  MyHeritage:  MyHeritage Ask The Expert - Researching Scottish Records

*  WikiTree:  Saturday LiveCast

7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 18 February 2022?

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Now on MyHeritage: Millions of Jewish Records from JewishGen!

 I received this from Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage today:

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I’m delighted to tell you that MyHeritage has just published 5.8 million records from 28 collections from JewishGen. The release of these records — made possible thanks to MyHeritage’s collaboration with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and its affiliate, JewishGen, a leading website for Jewish genealogy — constitutes the first installment of a licensing agreement that will ultimately make almost all the JewishGen records accessible on MyHeritage.

As you can imagine, this announcement is particularly exciting for me, for obvious reasons :-) JewishGen is home to important collections of historical records pertaining to Jewish communities across the globe.

The records in these collections will now benefit from MyHeritage’s powerful matching technologies, which automatically match historical records with the 83 million family trees on MyHeritage. Also, JewishGen records were available to search and view in English only, however, now international users will benefit from MyHeritage’s Global Name Translation Technology™, which allows individuals researching in other languages, such as Hebrew, Russian, or Greek, to search and view these records, with the names translated into their native languages.



I believe this partnership will greatly benefit anyone researching Jewish roots, and I can’t wait to dive in myself to see what I can find.  You can read more about the collections in our blog post here, which includes links to all the collections.

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Carringers in the News -- Emily Carringer (1899-1977) Obituary

 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 24 June 1977:

The transcription of the article is:

"Mrs. Emily Carringer

"Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the Old World Chapel at Cypress View Mortuary for Mrs. Emily K. Carringer, 77, of 825 Harbor View Place, a longtime county resident and a master judge of flower shows for the National council of State Gardens Club.  Inurnment will follow in the mortuary mausoleum.

"Mrs. Carringer, who died Sunday in a hospital, was born in Illinois and came to San Diego 66 years ago.  She was a member of the Point Loma Assembly, Ikebana International, the San Diego floral Association and the Flower Guild Arrangers of San Diego.

"Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Betty Seaver of San Diego; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren."

The source citation is:

"Mrs. Emily Carringer," San Diego [Calif.] Union newspaper, Friday, 24 June 1977, page A-11 column 1, Emily Carringer obituary;   GenealogyBank, Newspaper Archives  (https://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 21 February 2022).

Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) was born 19 August 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, the only child of Charles and Georgianna (Kemp) Auble.  She married Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) on 19 June 1918 in San Diego, California.  Their only child was Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), who married Frederick Walton Seaver Jr. (1911-1983) on 14 June 1942.  They had three sons.

Lyle and Emily are my beloved maternal grandparents - the only grandparents I saw throughout my life until they passed away.  This article honors her with a few highlights of her life - I wish it had more!

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 obituary is too short and sweet.  I am glad that I can honor my grandmother Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer, today.

You never know when a descendant, relative or friend 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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Happy Presidents Day! 20 Are My Cousins

Since it is President's Day today (and George Birthington's Washday on Tuesday), I thought I would list all of my known relationships to American Presidents.

JOHN ADAMS - 4th cousin, 8 times removed
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS - 5th cousin, 7 times removed
FRANKLIN PIERCE - 5th cousin, 7 times removed
MILLARD FILLMORE - 7th cousin, 5 times removed
ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 7th cousin, 4 times removed (assuming his father was Thomas Lincoln)

ULYSSES S. GRANT - 7th cousin, 5 times removed
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
GROVER CLEVELAND - 7th cousin, 3 times removed
JAMES GARFIELD - 8th cousin, 3 times removed
CHESTER A. ARTHUR - 8th cousin, 4 times removed

WILLIAM H. TAFT - 7th cousin, 4 times removed
WARREN G. HARDING - 8th cousin, 2 times removed
CALVIN COOLIDGE - 7th cousin, 3 times removed
HERBERT HOOVER - 8th cousin, 3 times removed
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT - 7th cousin, 4 times removed

RICHARD M. NIXON - 10th cousin
GERALD R. FORD - 10th cousin, once removed
GEORGE H.W. BUSH - 8th cousin, once removed
GEORGE W. BUSH - 8th cousin
BARACK OBAMA - 8th cousin once removed

I figured these out by comparing my ancestral name list to the charts in the book Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts (with the exception of Barack Obama). Obviously, having this many Presidential cousins relates to my extensive New England ancestry. Like my relationships to GWB, I share many colonial ancestors with some of the guys above.

I have no doubt that I could find more cousinships to the ones not on my list if I had longer ancestral name lists for their ancestors back into the English royal lines.

I may try to figure out my relationships to the Vice-Presidents (I know I'm related to Dick Cheney) and Presidential spouses (I know about Barbara (Pierce) Bush) some day.

My New England cousins were impressed by the list. Reciting these to anyone but genealogists seems to make eyes glaze over.  My grandchildren have asked about specific presidents.

I often think about what my early colonial ancestors would have thought if they knew that their descendants would be famous and/or leaders of a nation. The colonial guys would not have understood - the King was the leader of the Empire, and they had no relationship to the King, as far as they knew. Of course, some of them were cousins to the King also!

How about you? Any Presidential cousins? Tell me about them.

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Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 21 February 2022

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group Meeting on Zoom, with about 40 in attendance.  I discussed RootsTech 2022, What Are the Odds (WATO), and demonstrated my DNA Match List analysis process on AncestryDNA.  Presented my "How to Find Common Ancestors" process.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society British Isles SIG meeting on Saturday on Zoom.  Colin Whitney presented "Emigration From the British Isles, Part I."

3) Transcribed a deed record in 1743 Deed of Land in Westborough, Massachusetts by Solomon Rice to Nathan Brigham for Amanuensis Monday. 

4) Published a genealogy biography of  #155 Lydia (Maynard) Bathrick (1722-1802) of Westborough, Massachusetts for the 52 Ancestors theme.

5)  Created a GEDCOM file in RootsMagic, then downloaded the Family Tree Analyzer program and uploaded a GEDCOM file to it.  It found scores of minor data entry errors, and I corrected many of them in RootsMagic.  No surprise - errors in typing are inevitable.

6)  Searched for and collected land deeds for 6th great-grandfather Nathan Brigham in Worcester and Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts.  Transferred the downloaded deed images to the Nathan Brigham file folders on my computer.

7)  Relatives At RootsTech became live on Thursday, and I checked dozens of potential relationships using it, mainly from Facebook Friends.  

8) AncestryDNA added 128 new DNA matches this past week, and there were two new ThruLines. MyHeritage added 24 new DNA matches. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe. Researched and added notes for 5 AncestryDNA matches and added no ThruLine to RootsMagic.  Added one line for a MyHeritage DNA match to RootsMagic.

9)  There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 47,306 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 7).

10) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 68,838 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 26 from last week), and 144,264 source citations (up 32). I TreeShared 152 new or modified profiles with my Ancestry Member Tree, and I resolved 1244 Ancestry Hints. My newest Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 23,955 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily.  

11) Wrote 18 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Relatives at RootsTech 2022 Experience is Here with over 209 views.

12) I am still fine here at the Genea-Cave, hunkered down and not going out much after Week 101 of COVID-19 semi-isolation. Linda is at a memory care and skilled nursing facility in Chula Vista 7 miles from home and I visit her for an hour every day - we usually play Uno and she wins about half the time.  I contracted with a guy over a week ago to cut down my bushes and trim my trees, and he's still working on it.  I sold the 2005 Lincoln to him too.   I went to the grocery store on Tuesday and Friday. I watched the Olympics occasionally.  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing (mainly) genealogy, plus eating, sleeping, laundry, cleaning, cooking, watching TV news and sports, reading books, napping, and no yard work.

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