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Friday, January 10, 2025

Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 4 to 10 January 2025

The following genealogy record collections were added to the Ancestry.com Card Catalog page by Date Updated during the period from 4 to 10 Jauary 2025:

The ADDED and Updated collections include:

* Harrison County, Indiana, U.S., Enumeration Records of White and Colored Males, 1854-1863; indexed records with record images, ADDED 1/9/2025. This collection is an enumeration of white and colored males living in Harrison County Indiana between 1854 and 1863.

* Oregon, U.S., State Births, 1842-1923; indexed records with record images, Updated 1/8/2025. This collection contains records of births that occurred in Oregon between 1842 and 1923.

* Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980; indexed records with record images, Updated 1/7/2025. This database contains selected Australian electoral rolls, with the exception of South Australia, that run from 1903-1980.

* North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923; indexed records with record images, Updated 1/6/2025. This collection includes Church of England parish registers of births and baptisms between 1813 and 1921 from the northern part of the historic county of Yorkshire, England.

* North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1939; indexed records with record images, Updated 1/6/2025. This collection includes Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns between 1754 and 1937 from the northern part of the historic county of Yorkshire, England.

* North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1998; indexed records with record images, Updated 1/6/2025. This collection includes Church of England parish registers of deaths and burials between 1813 and 1995 from the northern part of the historic county of Yorkshire, England.

* North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558-1812; indexed records with record images, Updated 1/6/2025. This collection includes Church of England parish registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials between 1558 and 1812 from the Northern part of the historic county of Yorkshire, England.

* 1926 Prairie Census of Canada; indexed records without record images, ADDED 1/6/2025. This collection is an index of information from the 1926 census of Canada’s Prairie Provinces. Information can be found for Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

* 1921 England Census; indexed records with record images, ADDED 1/6/2025. This collection provides census information for every individual residing in England on 19 June 1921.

* 1921 Wales Census; indexed records with record images, ADDED 1/6/2025. This collection provides census information for every individual residing in Wales on 19 June 1921.

* 1921 Channel Islands Census; indexed records with record images, ADDED 1/6/2025. This collection provides census information for every individual residing in the Channel Islands on 19 June 1921.

* 1921 Isle of Man Census; indexed records with record images, ADDED 1/6/2025. This collection provides census information for individuals residing in the Isle of Man on 19 June 1921.

* South Australia, Australia, Country Business Directory, 1952-1953; indexed records with record images, ADDED 1/6/2025. This collection contains images of the 1952-53 edition of the South Australian Country Trade and Business Directory.

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at https://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.

Note that there were no new or updated collections listed over the previous two weeks.

By my count, there were 7 NEW record collections ADDED this past week, per the list above. There are now 33,690 collections available as of 10 January, an INCREASE of 6 from three weeks ago.

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52 Relatives: 2nd Great-GrandUncle Aurelius Brigham (1830-1878) of Sterling, Massachusetts

Aurelius Brigham[1–4], the second child and son of Lambert Brigham and Sophia Buck, was born on 3 February 1830 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts.[1]

His father died in 1834, and his mother married, secondly, Thomas J. Newton soon after, and they had two children. Aurelius may have lived with Brigham relatives during his childhood and teenage years.

Aurelius Brigham and Olive Merriam Wilson were married on 10 September 1853 in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts.[2]

Olive Merriam Wilson, daughter of James Wilson and Persis Bruce, was born on 12 March 1834 in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts.[5] She died on 21 November 1873 at the age of 39 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts.[6]

Aurelius Brigham and Olive Merriam Wilson had the following children:

Edward Lorenzo Brigham, born 22 December 1853, West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts; married Leola Wentworth Aspinwall, 29 August 1906, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.
John Willis Brigham was born on 4 November 1855 in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died on 31 March 1860 at the age of 4 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Edith Lavina Brigham was born on 10 October 1859 in West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 11 June 1878 at the age of 18 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts. She was buried after 11 June 1878 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts., United States.
William Anderson Brigham, born 13 February 1863, West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts; married Ella C. Ripley, 8 June 1889, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 7 January 1933, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Albert Alonzo Brigham, born 5 September 1865, West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts; married Mary Ambrosina Glassey, 22 August 1889, Clinton, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 26 November 1936, Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Aurelius Brigham registered for the military draft in June 1863 in in West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts.[3]

He died of valvular disease and heart dropsy on 26 July 1878 at the age of 48 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts.[4] The death record says he was a shoemaker. He may have been buried in West Boylston, Massachusetts.

SOURCES:

1. Frances Pratt Tapley, Vital Records of Sterling, Massachusetts (Sterling, Mass.: Sterling, Mass. Historical Commission, 1976), Births, Aurelius Brigham entry, 3 February 1830, son of Lambert and Sophia Brigham.

2. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," indexed database and digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org), Marriages, Volume 71, Page 249, Northborough; Aurelius Brigham and Olive Wilson, 10 September 1853.

3. "U.S. Civil War Draft Registration Records, 1863-1865," digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Massachusetts, 8th District, Volume 1 of 4, page 52, Aurelius Brigham entry.

4. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors, Deaths: Volume 303, Page 383, Sterling, Aurelius Brigham entry, 26 July 1878.

5. Systematic Historic Fund, Vital Records of Boylston, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass. : Franklin P. Rice, 1900), Births, Olive Merriam Wilson entry,

6. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors, Deaths: Volume 258, Page 375, Sterling, Olive M. Brigham entry, 21 November 1873.

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Aurelius Brigham (1830-1878) is my 2nd great-granduncle and the brother of my 2nd great-grandmother, Sophia (Newton) Seaver (1834-1923).

I have posted over 500 genealogical sketches of my ancestors back through the 7th great-12 March 1834.grandparents and a number of close relatives. Information about Lambert Brigham is in 52 Ancestors - Week 413: #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) of Westborough and Sterling, Massachusetts; information about Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) (Newton) Stone is in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 32: #39 Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) (Newton) Stone (1797-1882).

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: Uncover New Stories of Migration

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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There are over 1.2 million new travel

records to explore.

Did your ancestor arrive in America by plane or boat between 1917 and 1957? For the first update of 2025, we've bolstered our United States Passenger and Crew Lists with over 1.2 million new records.

These additions span the East to the West Coast and cover 40 years. We also added two new English titles to our newspaper collection this week.

United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - New York

These 1,275,830 new records document people who arrived as either passengers or crew members in New York from overseas between 1915 and 1957.

United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - California

If your ancestors arrived in the Golden State between 1947 and 1952, their name may appear within these exciting California additions. There are both images and transcriptions for these 6,994 new records.

United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - Guam

To round off our trio of passenger and crew lists, we have 6,884 records documenting those who arrived on the island of Guam between 1947 and 1952.

New pages from Beverly to Buckingham

We've added 469,636 new pages to our archive this week. There are two new English titles and 41 existing publications for you to explore.

New titles:

Cannock Chase Chronicle, 1987-1995, 1997-2003
Walsall Chronicle, 1987-1995, 1997-2002

Updated titles:

Arbroath Herald, 1987
Barnoldswick & Earby Times, 1937, 1939, 1956, 1962, 1967, 1979, 2001, 2002
Beverley Guardian, 1950, 1989, 1991, 2000, 2004
Biggleswade Chronicle, 2000
Bridgnorth Journal, 1986, 1989, 1994
Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1996
Bucks Herald, 1989
Buxton Advertiser, 1980, 1982
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 1993, 2000, 2003
Dudley & District Chronicle, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999
Epworth Bells, Crowle and Isle of Axholme Messenger, 1910, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1940, 1942, 1975, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988
Fife News, 1875, 1877, 1890
Forfar Dispatch, 1989
Gainsborough Evening News, 1989, 1991, 1995
Garstang Courier, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
Hebden Bridge Times, 1987
Horsham Advertiser, 1996
Illustrated London News, 1912, 1928
Lancaster Guardian, 2003
Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 2000
Littlehampton Gazette, 1990, 1991
Londonderry Sentinel, 1977, 1999
Midland Counties Express, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998
Montrose Review, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991
Morecambe Guardian, 2003
Nelson Leader, 2001, 2003
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, 2003
Northern Weekly Gazette, 1933, 1939
Portsmouth Evening News, 1987
Sandwell Chronicle, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003
Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1995, 1998, 1999
South Shropshire Journal, 1986, 1989, 2001, 2003
South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1990, 1991
Southern Reporter, 1990, 1992
Spilsby Standard, 1990, 2000
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1985, 1991
Telford Journal, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2003
West Sussex County Times, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1978, 1984
Whitby Gazette, 1986, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2002
Wigan Observer and District Advertiser, 1987
Worthing Gazette, 1978, 1980

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Genealogy Meets Artificial Intelligence: A Panel Discussion

There are a number of webinars and YouTube videos available to help genealogists understand and use Artificial Intelligence tools. I listed a number of them on my Artificial Intelligence Compendium page here, under the "4. Useful Genealogy and AI Webinars and Videos (2024-2025)" heading.

On 8 January, Legacy Family Tree Webinars held the Genealogy Meets AI: Panel Discussion webinar with Geoff Rasmussen hosting, and these six panelists participating:

Blaine Bettinger
Diana Elder
Steve Little
Thomas MacEntee
Andred Redfern
Mark Thompson

Each panelist answered two questions suggested by Geoff's prompt, and then each presented live demonstrations of a task or use of an AI tool that they have used.

It was an interesting and intriguing discussion and I enjoyed watching it. I hope to use some of the tools and techniques suggestred by the panelists in my own genealogy and family history research.

This webinar is part of the new "Artificial Intelligence and Genealogy" series that is available to any subscriber to Legacy Family Tree Webinars in 2025. It is FREE for anyone to watch through 14 January. To watch it live, or to watch it after 14 January, requires a Legacy Family Tree Webinars subscription (retail $49.95 per year).

This is the first webinar in a series during 2025 that discusses Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence. The upcoming webinars in 2025 about AI are listed here.

If you are interested in advancing your knoeledge and capabilities to use Artificial Intelligence for your genealogy work, this webinar (and the other ones listed on my Artificial intelligence Compendium page) will be helpful for your understanding and practice.

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Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - 3 to 9 January 2025

The following Record Collections were ADDED to or updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of 3 to 9 January 2025:

MyHeritage Family Sites (Family Trees), Updated Jan 8 2025, 95,026,199 entries
Filae Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Jan 8 2025, 304,661,932 entries
FamilySearch Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Jan 8 2025, 1,160,797,361 entries
Geni World Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Jan 8 2025, 358,996,767 entries
Search Connect™ - Searches by MyHeritage Members (Family Trees), Updated Jan 8 2025, 450,601,501 entries
MyHeritage Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Jan 8 2025, 6,163,195,248 entries
MyHeritage members (Family Trees), Updated Jan 8 2025, 76,153,544 entries

MyHeritage photos & docs (Images), Updated Jan 8 2025, 444,419,027 entries
United States Obituary Index from Online Sources (Death, Burial, Cemeteries & Obituaries), ADDED Jan 7 2025, 243,579,270 entries.
England, Essex Parish Marriages and Banns 1535-1940 (Marriage & Divorce), ADDED Jan 4 2025, 3,630,789 entries

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There are 2 ADDED record collections this past week, and MyHeritage now has a total of 7,465 record collections (an increase of 2 collections), with 32,355,515,336 entries (an increase of over 147 million entries). The FamilySearch Family Tree added 0.0 million entries this past week.

NOTE: Only the Filae family tree added any entries this past week. All of the number of entries for other MyHeritage "Family Tree" collections were the same from last week.

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products. I am a paid subscriber to Family Tree Webinars and love it.

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Randy's Cousins -- 8th Cousin 1x Removed Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) - the 29th President of the United States

This week's famous cousin is my 8th cousin 1x removed Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) the 29th President of the United States.

Here is Warren Gamaliel Harding's Family Search Family Tree short biography:

When President Warren Gamaliel Harding was born on 2 November 1865, in Bloominggrove Township, Richland, Ohio, United States, his father, Dr. George Tryon Harding, was 21 and his mother, Dr. Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson, was 21. He married Florence Mabel Kling on 8 July 1891, in Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1920. He died on 2 August 1923, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States.

The Wikipedia profile for Warren Gamaliel Harding includes this information:

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents while in office. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which tarnished his reputation.
Harding lived in rural Ohio all his life, except when political service took him elsewhere. As a young man, he bought The Marion Star and built it into a successful newspaper. Harding served in the Ohio State Senate from 1900 to 1904, and was lieutenant governor for two years. He was defeated for governor in 1910, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1914—the state's first direct election for that office. Harding ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1920, but was considered a long shot before the convention. When the leading candidates could not garner a majority, and the convention deadlocked, support for Harding increased, and he was nominated on the tenth ballot. He conducted a front porch campaign, remaining mostly in Marion and allowing people to come to him. He promised a return to normalcy of the pre–World War I period, and defeated Democratic nominee James M. Cox in a landslide to become the first sitting senator elected president.
Harding appointed a number of respected figures to his cabinet, including Andrew Mellon at Treasury, Herbert Hoover at Commerce, and Charles Evans Hughes at the State Department. A major foreign policy achievement came with the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–1922, in which the world's major naval powers agreed on a naval limitations program that lasted a decade. Harding released political prisoners who had been arrested for their opposition to World War I. In 1923, Harding died of a heart attack in San Francisco while on a western tour, and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.

Here is the Relative Finder chart showing my relationship to Warren Gamaliel Harding:

My most recent common ancestors with 8th cousin 1x removed Warren Gamaliel Harding are my 8th great-grandparents Edward Thurston (1622-1706) and Elizabeth Mott (1629-1694).

Are you related to Warren Gamaliel Harding? 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 - 1672 Birth Record for Percival Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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 1672 birth record of Percival Hall in the Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony vital records book:

The 1672 birth entry for Persivall Hall is in the Hall entries:

The transcription of the information on this record is:

"[HALL] Persivall, s. of John and Elizab[eth], Feb. 11, 1672"

The source citation for this census record is:

Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Births, page 319, Persivall Hall, 11 February 1672, son of John and Elizabeth Hall.

This is a Derivative Source record (because it is a compilation of information copied from an original town record book) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the name, birth place and birth date of Percival Hall and his parents.

Percival Hall (1672-1752), son of John and Elizabeth (Greene) Hall, was born 11 February 1671 in Medford, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and died 25 December 1752 in Sutton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married Jane Willis (1677-1757), daughter of Thomas and Grace (Tay) Willis, born 9 April 1677 in Woburn, Massachusetts Bay Colony, died 28 October 1757 in Sutton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They had at least 12 children.

Percival Hall and Jane Willis are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Jane Hall (1700-1769) who married Jonas Rice (1707-1793) in Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1728.

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