52 Relatives: 2nd Great-GrandUncle Milo Hildreth (1824-1893) of Northborough and Townsend, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine

1.  Milo Hildreth[1–6], son of Zacharuah Hiuldreth and Hannah Sawtell, was born on 17 August 1824 in Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts.[1] He died a merchant, of heart disease, on 3 June 1893 at the age of 68 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine.[2-3] He was buried after 3 June 1893 at Howard Street Cemetery in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.[2]  

Milo Hildreth and Frances Jane Hooker were married on 31 December 1846 in North Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts.[4-5]

 Frances Jane Hooker was born on 1 February 1828 in North Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts.[6,7] She died on 27 March 1896 at the age of 68 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.7-8 She was buried after 27 March 1896 at Howard Street Cemetery in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.17

 Milo Hildreth and Frances Jane Hooker had the following children:

i     Alice Josephine Hildreth was born on 6 October 1847 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 13 August 1867 at the age of 19 in Ware, Hampshire, Massachusetts.

ii     Clara Francis Hildreth was born on 5 July 1852 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 19 October 1853 at the age of 1 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.

iii     Mary Eliza Hildreth was born on 14 March 1855 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 17 October 1889 at the age of 34 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.

iv     Jennie Frances Hildreth, born 8 March 1859, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; married Robert P. Fernald, 6 April 1882, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 5 August 1896, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts.

v     Annie Caroline Hildreth, born 23 December 1862, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; married Olin L. Fuller, 14 April 1886, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 2 June 1931, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

vi     Walter Hooker Hildreth, born 4 August 1865, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; married Minnie Adelaide Cox, 25 December 1886, Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania; married Persis May Weeks, 12 July 1909, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died 3 April 1935, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island.

vii     Florence Gertrude Hildreth was born on 4 November 1868 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 23 February 1869 at the age of 0 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.

SOURCES

1. Richard C. Fipphen, "Bible Records - Northborough Historical Society," The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 35, No. 2 (July 1985), page 158, Milo Hildreth birth entry, 17 August 1824.

2. Find A Grave, indexed and imaged,  (https://www.findagrave.com), Howard Street Cemetery, Milo Hildreth (1824-1893) memorial #78414465.

3. "Maine Death Records, 1761-1922" online database, Ancestry.com  (https://www.ancestry.com) citing: "Maine Death Records, 1617-1922," Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine), Cumberland > 1893 > H > image 161 of 294, Milo Hildreth death entry, 3 June 1893.

4. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," indexed database and digital images,  New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org), Marriages, 1846, Volume 25, Page 183, North Brookfield, Worcester County, Milo Hildreth and Frances Jane Hooker marriage entry, 31 December 1846.

5. Richard C. Fipphen, "Bible Records - Northborough Historical Society," The Mayflower Descendant, page 157, Milo Hildreth and Frances Jane Hooker entry, 31 December 1846.

6. Richard C. Fipphen, "Bible Records - Northborough Historical Society," The Mayflower Descendant, page 157,  Frances Jane Hooker birth entry, 1 February 1828.

7. Find A Grave, Howard Street Cemetery, Frances Jane Hooker Hildreth (1828-1896) memorial #78414516.

8. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," digital images,  New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org), Deaths, 1896, Volume 465, Page 673, 1896, Northborough, Worcester County, Frances J. (Hooker) Hildreth entry, 27 March 1896.

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Milo Hildreth (1824-1893) is my 2nd great-granduncle and the brother of my 2nd great-grandfather, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899).  

I have posted over 500 genealogical sketches of  my ancestors back through the 7th great-grandparents and a number of close relatives.  Information about the Zachariah and Hannah (Sawtell) family is in  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 29: #36, Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857).

The "52 Relatives" theme is a weekly series to document the lives of siblings of my ancestors with relatively short genealogical sketches, including important events, and with source citations.  These relatives lived and died within a family structure, and deserve a genealogical sketch - they were integral parts and important persons in the lives of my ancestral families.  

I post the 52 Ancestors and 52 Relatives sketches on the 52 Ancestors/Relatives Biographies page, in my Ancestry Member Tree, in WikiTree, and in the FamilySearch Family Tree. 

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Findmypast Friday: Search New Southwark Records

  I received this information from Findmypast today:

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There are 276,771 new additions to explore.

Understand the lives of your London ancestors in more detail than ever, with over 275,000 new records added this week.

There is a duo of new Southwark sets - Vaccination Registers and Apprentice records - which span the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a new collection of earlier London church records. We've also added the South Shropshire Journal to our newspaper archive.

Southwark Vaccination Registers

The 272,567 records in this brand-new collection offer a fascinating insight into the rollout of vaccination programmes in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Southwark Apprentices

This week's second new set consists of 988 unique Southwark Apprentice records from the 1800s.  In this collection, transcripts and images are available for you to explore.  The 3,216 new church records in this collection may reveal details about the lives of your religious ancestors from the 16th and 17th centuries.

New pages from Scotland to Shropshire

473,524 new pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with a brand new Shropshire title and so much more.

New titles:

• South Shropshire Journal, 1987-1988, 1990-1994, 1996-2000

Updated titles:

• Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser, 1887-1888, 1890-1891
• Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 1744
• Banbridge Leader, 2000, 2002
• Bridgnorth Journal, 1950, 1953-1957, 1990-1993, 1996-1997, 1999
• Broughty Ferry Guide and Advertiser, 1990-1991
• Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press, 1985, 1990-1991
• Bucks Herald, 1986, 1991-1992, 1995
• Crawley and District Observer, 1991
• Halifax Daily Guardian, 1911-1912
• Halifax Evening Courier, 1988-1989
• Harrogate Advertiser and Weekly List of the Visitors, 2000-2001, 2003
• Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1875, 1889-1891, 1894, 1916-1919, 1924, 1932-1934
• Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, 1962, 1991-1992
• Morpeth Herald, 1971-1982
• Motherwell Times, 1987, 1991
• Newport Pagnell Citizen, 1990, 1996
• North Star and Farmers’ Chronicle, 1986, 1988-1999
• Shields Daily Gazette, 1989, 1991
• Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1912, 1914, 1917-1918, 1920-1921, 1923-1925, 1930-1939, 1941-1946, 1951, 1988, 1991-1992, 1994
• Shropshire Star, 1989
• The Tatler, 1903-1904, 1909, 1916, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1938
• West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 1989, 1991-1992, 1999
• Wolverhampton Express and Star, 1927, 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949, 1984-1985, 1988, 1990-1991

More on this topic:      english records                    historical newspapers

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Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - 6 to 12 December 2024

The following Record Collections were ADDED to or updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of 6 to 12 December 2024:

• MyHeritage Family Sites (Family Trees), Updated Dec 10 2024, 94,988,587 entries
• MyHeritage members (Family Trees), Updated Dec 10 2024, 76,161,321 entries

• MyHeritage photos & docs (Images), Updated Dec 10 2024, 443,992,932 entries
• Search Connect™ - Searches by MyHeritage Members (Family Trees), Updated Dec 10  2024,  448,744,015 entries
• MyHeritage Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Dec 10 2024, 6,154,990,732 entries
• Filae Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Dec 10 2024, 303,851,438 entries
• Geni World Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Dec 10 2024, 358,832,412 entries
• FamilySearch Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Dec 10 2024, 1,160,243,315    entries
• Florida County Marriages (Marriage & Divorce), ADDED Dec 9 2024, 6,579,657 records.
• Arizona Death Certificates (Death, Burial, Cemeteries & Obituaries), ADDED Dec 9 2024, 1,499,891 records.
• Florida County Deaths (Death, Burial, Cemeteries & Obituaries), Updated Dec 9 2024, 2,368,803 records.
• Rhode Island Marriages, 1850-1922 (Marriages & Divorce), ADDED Dec 9 2024,   1,530,865   records
• Germany Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Newspapers), Updated Dec 9 2024,   11,281,974   pages
• Slovakia Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Newspapers), ADDED Dec 8 2024,   621,965 pages.
• United States Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Newspapers), Updated Dec 4 2024, 75,524,986 pages.
• Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (North Carolina, South Carolina, District of Columbia) (Newspapers), ADDED Dec 4 2024, 651,259,146 pages.
• Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania) (Newspapers), ADDED Dec 4 2024, 1,050,201,531 records.

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There are 6 ADDED record collections this past week, and MyHeritage now has a total of 7,451 record collections (an increase of 6 collections), with 24,687,944,118 entries (an increase of over 1.734 billion entries).  The FamilySearch Family Tree added 0.707 million entries last week.

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Randy's Cousins -- 7th Cousin 3x Removed Hiram Ulysses Grant (1822-1885), 18th President of the United States

 This week's famous cousin is my 7th cousin 3x removed Hiram Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) the 18th President of the United States.  

Here is Hiram Ulysses Grant's Family Search Family Tree short biography:

When President Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on 27 April 1822, in Point Pleasant, Monroe Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States, his father, Jesse Root Grant, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, was 23. He married Julia Boggs Dent on 22 August 1848, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1870 and Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1843. In 1869, his occupation is listed as 18th president of the united states. He died on 23 July 1885, in Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Riverside Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.

The Wikipedia profile for Hiram Ulysses Grant includes this information:

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War.

Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1843. He served with distinction in the Mexican–American War, but resigned from the army in 1854 and returned to civilian life impoverished. In 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, Grant joined the Union Army and rose to prominence after securing victories in the western theater. In 1863, he led the Vicksburg campaign that gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and dealt a major strategic blow to the Confederacy. President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and command of all Union armies after his victory at Chattanooga. For thirteen months, Grant fought Robert E. Lee during the high-casualty Overland Campaign which ended with the capture of Lee's army at Appomattox, where he formally surrendered to Grant. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson promoted Grant to General of the Army. Later, Grant broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies. A war hero, drawn in by his sense of duty, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and then elected president in 1868.

As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, supported congressional Reconstruction and the Fifteenth Amendment, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. Under Grant, the Union was completely restored. An effective civil rights executive, Grant signed a bill to create the United States Department of Justice and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission, advancing the civil service more than any prior president. Grant was re-elected in the 1872 presidential election, but was inundated by executive scandals during his second term. His response to the Panic of 1873 was ineffective in halting the Long Depression, which contributed to the Democrats winning the House majority in 1874. Grant's Native American policy was to assimilate Indians into Anglo-American culture. In Grant's foreign policy, the Alabama Claims against Britain were peacefully resolved, but the Senate rejected Grant's annexation of Santo Domingo. In the disputed 1876 presidential election, Grant facilitated the approval by Congress of a peaceful compromise.

Here is the Relative Finder chart showing my relationship to Hiram Ulysses Grant:

My most recent common ancestor with 7th cousin 3x removed Hiram Ulysses Grant are my 9th great-grandparents William Collier (c1580-1671) and Jane Yates (1587-1666).

Are you related to Hiram Ulysses Grant?  Check out his profile on the FamilySearch Family Tree and click the "View Relationship" link at the top of the page.  Note that you have to have your profile connected to the FamilySearch Family Tree in order for this to work.

This shows that you never know to whom you might be related!!!  I'm having lots of Genealogy Fun.  Click here to see all of my famous cousins.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - 1773 Burial of Sarah (Adlam) Hill (1694-1773) in Warminster, Wiltshire

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1773 burial record of Sarah Hill  in the Warminster, Wiltshire parish register:

The 1773693/4 burial entry for Sarah Hill is in the right-hand column in the July listings:

The transcription of the information on this record is:

"[1773] [July] 21.  Sarah Hill."

The source citation for this census record is:

Wiltshire, England baptisms, Warminster, Sarah Hill burial entry, 21 July 1773; imaged, "Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812,"   Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61187/records/495736 : accessed 20 November 2024), Warminster: St. Denys with St. Lawrence  >  Parish Registers > 1678-1777 > image 208 of 226; Original data in Wiltshire Church of England Parish Registers, Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.

This is an Original Source record (because it is a church parish record book with information recorded as it occurred) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the name and burial date of Sarah Hill in the Warminster parish church.  I cannot be sure that this is the Sarah (Adlam) Hill that was the wife of Thomas Hill because it is a very common name.

Sarah Adlam was baptized 1 March 1693/4 in Warminster, Wiltshire, the daughter of John Adlam; she was buried 21 July 1773 in Warminster, Wiltshire.  Thomas Hill married Sarah Adlam (1692-1773) on 28 June 1725 in Warminster, Wiltshire.  Thomas Hill (1702-1757) was baptized 15 October 1702 in Warminster, Wiltshire, the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Cox) Hill.  He was buried 23 January 1757 in Warminster, Wiltshire.  Thomas and Sarah (Adlam) Hill had at least 5 children.

Thomas and Sarah (Adlam) Hill are my 6th great-grandparents, through my 5th great-grandfather John Hill (1726-1769) who married Patience Ring (1725-1791) in 1743 in Hilperton, Wiltshire.

   

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Ask AI: "Can You Create Song Lyrics and a Festive Graphic For the '12 Days of a Genealogist's Christmas?"

 Oh yes, AI can create almost anything you ask for!  I asked ChatGPT4 to do this with the prompt:  

Please create song lyrics for a "12 Days of a Genealogists Christmas" song like the classic "12 Days of Christmas" that mention records like census, land, probate, birth, marriage, death, baptism, burial, immigration, military, naturalization, obituaries, etc.

First, the "festive graphic" that ChatGPT4 offered to create without me asking (OK, I know the spelling isn't correct- but it's beautiful and it's the thought that counts!):

Here are the ChatGPT4 song lyrics:

🎄 The 12 Days of a Genealogist's Christmas 🎄

(To the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas")

On the first day of Christmas, my research gave to me
A census from 1900!

On the second day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the third day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the fourth day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the fifth day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the sixth day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Six burial plots,
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the seventh day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Seven obituaries,
Six burial plots,
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the eighth day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Eight immigration records,
Seven obituaries,
Six burial plots,
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the ninth day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Nine draft registrations,
Eight immigration records,
Seven obituaries,
Six burial plots,
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the tenth day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Ten naturalizations,
Nine draft registrations,
Eight immigration records,
Seven obituaries,
Six burial plots,
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the eleventh day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Eleven military pensions,
Ten naturalizations,
Nine draft registrations,
Eight immigration records,
Seven obituaries,
Six burial plots,
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my research gave to me
Twelve DNA matches,
Eleven military pensions,
Ten naturalizations,
Nine draft registrations,
Eight immigration records,
Seven obituaries,
Six burial plots,
Five baptism dates!
Four marriage banns,
Three land deeds,
Two probate wills,
And a census from 1900!

I added the song lyrics above into Suno.com to create an upbeat song about the 12 Days of a Genealogist's Christmas - here is the song:

Well - that was fun!!!  

What other genealogy related songs can we create?  I'm partial to "O Little Town of Hilperton" and maybe "O Come All Ye Genies."  Perhaps "Genealogy Bells" or "Randy the Red-nosed Genealogist."  

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Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 5 to 11 December 2024

 Welcome to Genealogy Education Bytes, posted on Wednesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight some of the most important genealogy and family history education items that came across my desktop since the last issue.

1) Upcoming Conferences and  Institutes 

* Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech 2025 (Free/$$) - 6-8 March 2025 - Virtual (Free) and In-Person ($$) (Salt Lake City, Utah)

*  Australasian Conference 2025 - Connections: Past, Present, Future ($$) - 21-24 March 2025 - In-Person (Brisbane, Australia)

*   OGS 2025 Conference "Light Up Your Genealogy" ($$) - 30 April to 3 May 2025 - In-Person (Sandusky, Ohio)

*  NGS 2025 Family History Conference "Tales & Trails" ($$) - 23-25 May 2025 - Hybrid (Louisville, Ky.)

2 ) Upcoming Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

* Conference Keeper Calendar - has many links to register for and/or view webinars and classes.

*  FamilySearch Library Classes and Webinars (Free)

*  GenWebinars ($$)

* RootsTech 2024 On-Demand Sessions (Free)

*  THE Family History Show ($$) - 8 February 2025 - Online

*  Family Tree Webinars (Free for a week) - Wednesday, 11 December, 5 p.m.:  Researching in 17th Century Connecticut by Ann G. Lawthers.

*  Family Tree Webinars (Free for a week) - Friday, 13 December, 11 a.m.:  Reflecting on AI in Genealogy: 2024’s Lessons and 2025’s Pathways by Steve Little.

*  Family Tree Webinars (Free for a week) - Tuesday, 17 December, 5 p.m.:  Lost and Found: Locating Ancestral Origins with FAN Club and DNA by Mary Kircher Roddy.

*  Family Tree Webinars (Free for a week) - Wednesday, 18 December, 11 a.m.:  I (Think I) Have a DNA Network: Now What? by Diahan Southard.

3) Recent Podcasts:

*  Ancestral Findings Podcast:   AF-1008: Richard Nixon: Roots of Resilience and Controversy | Ancestral Findings Podcast

*  Ancestral Findings Podcast:  AF-1009: Gerald Ford: A Life of Integrity, Faith, and Service | Ancestral Findings Podcast

*  Ancestral Findings Podcast: AF-1010: The Bigfoot Phenomenon: America’s Love Affair with the Unseen

*  Branching Out Genealogy Podcast:  Episode 1: Meet Your Hosts, RootsTech 2025, Black Friday Sales, & This Week's Fave Tech Tools

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 335: Without the Parish with Jessica Morgan- Parish Chest and Tax Records

*  The Family History Podcast:  S08EP06 – “The Homesick” with Jennifer Jones

*  Genealogy Connection #85 - Brian Rhinehart, Civil War Records

*  Weekly Genealogy Toolkit:  Continuing Education

4) Recent YouTube Videos:

*  Aimee Cross - Genealogy Hints:  Why do Mormons Love Family History

*  Allen County Public Library:  Tracing Trades: Unearthing our Ancestors Occupations

*  Allen County Public Library:  The Civilian Conservation Corps: Did Grandpa Work in the Tree Army?

*  Ancestry:  "The Hit-Man" Harrison's Tough-As-Nails Family Tree | Unearth The Past | Ancestry®

*  Ancestry:  

*  Applied Genealogy Institute:  'Tis the Season

*  BYU Library Family History:  Cluster Research is not just for Brick Walls – James Tanner (5 December 2024)

*  BYU Library Family History:  Creative Ways to Share Your Family History - Michelle Karren (8 Dec 2024)

*  BYU Library Family History:  Open Your Ancestors’ World with Gazetteers - James Tanner (8 Dec 2024)

*  Carly Morgan:  Late night genealogy: building a story out of immigration records

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show: Branching Out Genealogy Podcast -Guests Elizabeth O'Neal & Tami Mize

*  Dallas Genealogical Society:  Genealogy Resources at the Dallas Municipal Archives

*  DearMYRTLE's Archive:  Mondays with Myrt - 9 Dec 2024

*  Family History Fanatics:  Syncing RootsMagic with Ancestry and FamilySearch: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Civil War Pt 7 

*  Family Locket:  How to Find GPS Locations of Tombstones or Property

*  Family Tree:  Ancestry’s DNA Kitchen - Behind the scenes

*  Family Tree:  Er, so you want to be a Viking?

*  Findmypast:  Christmas in the Workhouse - Family History Expert Hour with Findmypast | 6 December 2024

*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  Researching U.S. Tri-Racial Ancestry

*  Genealogy Quick Start:  Land & Property (w/ Carolyn C. Williams)

*  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:  Finding Your Roots | Season 11 Sneak Peak | PBS

*  Int'l Institute of Genealogical Studies:  Methodology: Abstracting from a Transcription

*  Italian Roots and Genealogy:  Researching Avellino The Valleriano Brothers' Heritage Quest ‪@ItalianRootsandGenealogy‬ #avellino

*  Legacy Tree Genealogists:  Everything You Need To Know About Applying for DUVCW

*  Lisa Lisson:  Your Family's Lost Photos Aren't Lost (Here's Where to Look!)

*  MyHeritage:  Three Long-Lost Siblings Reunite at 70+ Thanks to MyHeritage DNA

*  Storied_Social: Family History in Your Pocket | The Storied Mobile App

*  Storied_Social:   Preserve, Share, Connect | Storied - The Perfect Family Gift

*  Storied_Social:   The Eras Tour | Creating a Family Chronology with Newspapers

*  Storied_Social:   The Missing Piece | Storied as the Perfect Complement

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree Challenge 15 Kick-off featuring ‪@AngelaBreidenbach‬ ‪@GenealogicalStudies‬

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree Challenge 15 Weekend Chat feat ‪@AngelaBreidenbach‬

*  WikiTree:  #WikiTree Friday "Night" Bingo (Dec 2024)

*  Write Your Family History With Devon Noel Lee:  EDIT Your Family History Book Like a PRO with These Self-Editing Tips

5) Did you miss the last post in this series - Genealogy Education Bytes -  28 November to 4 December 2024?

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FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update -- 11 December 2024

 I'm still a numbers guy, so when a database like FamilySearch's Full-Text Search comes along, I wonder if it is growing slowly or quickly.

The good news is -- It's still growing quickly, like every week it adds new record collections and millions of records.  But how quickly?

Here is the Full-Text Search home page:

The user can use the search fields to search for keywords, a name, a location (pick from a list), and a year range (e.g. 1776-2024).  

Or, the user can search for a specific collection using the "Find a Collection" search field.

There is a link to "Browse All Collections" which provides a list of the available collections.  When I click that, and select "Records" I can see:

It says there are 1,988 collections today (down 959 (-32.5%) from last week), and the list above by is sorted by the "Last Updated" date.  Clicking on "Collection Title" will provide an alphabetical collection list, and clicking on "Records" will provide the list by most records.  Where did 959 collections go?  They probably were either removed or combined with other collections.  

I want to know how many records (images?) there are on Full-Text Search.  I added the year range "1525-2024" and saw:

That gives me All "Results" of 743,001,776 (up 27,171,923  (3.8%) from last week), which probably means the number of images that have the search terms.  Since I had no search terms, it probably gave me the count of every indexed image in the collections.

What about "Results" by Country?  When I added "United States" to the Place field, I clicked and saw:

Well, that's a bummer.  I tried several times.  If it comes back later today, I will try again.

It found ????? results (up  (??? %) from last week).  Since I used a "Place" search term, that may mean the number of matches to the "Place" term on the available indexed images.  

Doing a similar test for different countries, I made this list today:

*  England = 16,375,707

*  Ireland = 13,705,885

*  Wales =  506,596

*  Scotland = 864,395

*  Canada = 33,073,113

*  Mexico = 5,869,634

*  Australia = 12,409,261

*  New Zealand = 6,427,087

*  France = 5,928,380

*  Germany = 11,514,737

*  Poland = 3,617,521

Note that some of the "Results" numbers may not be for records in the stated Place (e.g., "France" might be a town in the USA).

When I looked for these numbers last week on 3 December 2024, I found:

*  Number of collections:  1,988

*  Number of "Results" (with no search terms):   743,001,776

So the increase over the last week for Full-Text Search is:

*  Number of collections:   - 959

*  Number of "Results" with no search terms:  27.1 million 

The FamilySearch Images collection has 5,593.9  million images as I write this (an increase of  46.5 million, up 8.5% from last week). 

Lastly, we know that Full-Text Search is using the "Images" collection on FamilySearch to add them to Full-Text Search, to keyword index them, and to transcribe them.  So Full-Text Search has about 13.3% of the "Images" collection processed as of today.

This is a Benchmark for 11 December 2024.  Let's see how quickly the numbers grow over the next few months.  

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Randy and Linda with Granddaughters at Disneyland in 2012 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #850

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

In the photograph, that's Randy pushing Linda's wheelchair, with granddaughter Audrey (age 4 at the time) sitting on grandmother Linda's lap, and granddaughter Lauren (age 7 at the time) standing to Linda's left.   Happy times for all of us!  We were celebrating my birthday and daughter Tami's birthday.  

This photograph was taken in October 2012 at Disneyland (I think!).  We usually rented a wheelchair at Disneyland so that Linda didn't have to walk a lot.  I think we were in a line waiting to get on a ride, perhaps in California Adventure.  Or we had just exited from the monorail ride.  

This photograph is a part of my family history.  

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