Findmypast Publishes Huge Update to Scottish Roman Catholic Collection

 I received this from Findmypast this morning:

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Findmypast publish huge update to Scottish Roman Catholic Collection

This week’s Findmypast Friday sees the leading family history website expand their exclusive collection of Scottish parish registers with over half a million new Roman Catholic sacramental registers.

Also new to the site this week are monumental inscriptions from England’s largest county as well a whole host of historical newspapers.

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Registers

646,933 new Scottish baptism, marriage, burial and congregational registers have been added to Findmypast’s exclusive Catholic Heritage Archive.

Only available to search on Findmypast, the majority of these records cover the Archdiocese of Glasgow. This includes;

• Over 307,000 new Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
• Over 158,000 new Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
• Over 15,000 new Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Burials
• Over 164,000 new Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records

Each record includes both a transcript and scanned colour image of the original document. The amount of information listed in these detail rich records may vary, although most results will reveal key biographical details as well as the date, parish, and location of the event that was being recorded.

Baptisms will reveal the names of godparents and parents, enabling you to uncover details of previous generations as well as the identities of family friends or relatives. Marriages will provide the name of your ancestor’s spouse, father and witnesses while burials allow you to discover the final resting place of your ancestors, their age at death, marital status and in some cases even cause of death.

Congregational records are packed with other fascinating facts surrounding your ancestor’s relationship with the church such as details of their confirmation, first confession or even the location of their seat rental.

Visit the Scottish Catholic parish list for precise details on the churches and timeframes covered by each update.

As many of the original registers were written in Latin, Findmypast have applied a Latin dictionary to the name search field. This gives their search the capability to search for the English and Latin versions of a name when the name variants option is selected.

Today’s release marks just the latest update to the Catholic Heritage Archive, Findmypast’s ground-breaking digitisation project to bring millions of records from across Scotland, England, Ireland and American online for the very first time.

The Roman Catholic Church holds some of the oldest and best-preserved family records which, until now, have remained locked away for centuries. By working with partners at various Archdiocese, Findmypast has enabled millions of users across the world to explore their Catholic roots online.

Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions

Chosen by Findmypast users in last week’s community poll, more records have Been added to this rich resource. A must-search for anyone with Yorkshire roots, the collection can reveal essential information about your Yorkshire relatives' lives, deaths and families. See Findmypasts Yorkshire parish list for more information this handy list.

Newspapers

Five English and Irish newspapers are brand new to the site this week, along with updates to 11 other publications. Online for the first time are:

• Ballymena Advertiser covering 1873-1892
• Boston Spa News covering 1873-1878, 1880-1882, 1884-1895 and 1898-1900
• Galway Express covering 1853-1920
• Isle of Wight Journal covering 1877, 1879 and 1889
• Western Star and Ballinasloe Advertiser covering 1845-1869 and 1888-1902

While the following existing titles have been supplemented with additional pages:

• Beverley Independent from 1888-1893, 1895-1896 and 1898-1911
• Englishman’s Overland Mail from 1906
• Glossop-dale Chronicle and North Derbyshire Reporter from 1895-1896, 1898-1910 and 1913
• Halifax Comet from 1895
• Lynn Advertiser from 1926-1928
• Middleton Albion from 1857-1867 and 1869-1880
• Pontefract Advertiser from 1865, 1873 and 1889
• Swindon Advertiser from 1900
• Torquay Times, and South Devon Advertiser from 1934-1949 and 1951-1961
• Weekly Journal (Hartlepool) from 1907-1908
• West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser from 1983-1990

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52 Ancestors - Week 385: #598 Joseph Farwell (1670-1740) of Chelmsford and Groton, Massachusetts

 Joseph Farwell (1670-1740)  is #598 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #599 Hannah Colburn (1673-1741) in 1696 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #297 Mary Farwell (1709-1804) , who married #296 James Stone (1702-1783) in 1726.

*  their daughter #149 Abigail Stone (1737-1800), who married  #148 Ephraim Sawtell (1735-1800) in 1757.

*  their son #74 Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) who married #75 Hannah Smith (1768-1827) in 1789.

*  their daughter  #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)  who married  #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) in 1810.

*  their son #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.

*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married  #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.

*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

*  Name:                           Joseph Farwell[1–5]    

*  Sex:                              Male    

*  Father:                         Joseph Farwell (1641-1722)    

*  Mother:                       Hannah Learned (1649-1711)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

 

*  Birth:                          24 July 1670 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–3]

*  Death:                         21 August 1740 (age 70) Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3,5]

*  Burial:                        after 21 August 1740 (after age 70), Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]   

 

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                   Hannah Colburn (1673-1741)    

*  Marriage 1:                23 January 1695/6 (age 25), Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,4]    

*  Child 1:                     Joseph Farwell (1696-1772)    

*  Child 2:                     Thomas Farwell (1698-1731)    

*  Child 3:                     Hannah Farwell (1701-1762)    

*  Child 4:                     Elizabeth Farwell (1703-1762)    

*  Child 5:                     Edward Farwell (1706-1775)    

*  Child 6:                     Mary Farwell (1709-1804)    

*  Child 7:                     John Farwell (1711-1771)    

*  Child 8:                     Samuel Farwell (1714-1757)    

*  Child 9:                     Daniel Farwell (1717-1808)    

*  Child 10:                   Sarah Farwell (1721-1721)  

 

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The Farwell Family book provides a short life story of Joseph Farwell[1].

Joseph Farwell was born 24 July 1670 in Chelsmford, Massachusetts, the eldest son and second child of Joseph and Hannah (Rolfe) Farwell[1-3].

Joseph married Hannah Colburn (1673-1741) of Chelmsford on 23 January 1695/6 in Chelmsford[1,4].  She was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Colburn) Rolfe.  They had ten children, all born and recorded in Chelmsford[1]:

*  Joseph Farwell (1696-1772), married 1719 Mary Gilson (1703-1774).

*  Thomas Farwell (1698-1731), married 1723 Elizabeth Pierce (1698-????).

*  Hannah Farwell (1701-1762), married (1) 1719 Eleazer Gilson (1695-1754); (2) 1755 Ephraim Sawtell (1685-1768).

*  Elizabeth Farwell (1703-1762), married 1722 John Stone (1699-1784).

*  Edward Farwell (1706-1775), married 1728 Hannah Russell (1708-1775).

*  Mary Farwell (1709-1804), married 1726 James Stone (1702-1783).

*  John Farwell (1711-1771), married (1) 1735 Jane Lakin (1715-1755); (2) 1755 Susanna White (1735-????).

*  Samuel Farwell (1714-1757), married 1737 Elizabeth Moors (1719-1797).

*  Daniel Farwell (1717-1808), married 1739 Mary Moore (1718-1800).

*  Sarah Farwell (1721-1721).

Joseph Farwell had received his full share of his father's estate by the time his father wrote his will in 1711, probably by gift of land.

Joseph Farwell resided for several years after his marriage in Chelmsford, and then removed to Groton.  He purchased land in Groton on 27 April 1699, when he is described as of Chelmsford.  Joseph and his father, Ensign Joseph Farwell, purchased the land of Captain James Parker of Groton.  He was a farmer.  Joseph and Hannah Farwell were members of the church in Groton[1].

Joseph Farwell died 20 August 1740 in Groton, Massachusetts[1,3,5].  He is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Massachusetts.  The inscription on his gravestone says:

Here lies buried

ye body of Mr.

Joseph Farwell

who departed

this life

August ye 20th

AD 1740

Age 70 years

Joseph died intestate, and his heirs settled his estate by deeds amongst themselves.  His widow conveyed her dower rights in Joseph's estate to her son Joseph Farwell on 10 March 1740/1[1].

 

5)  SOURCES

1. Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson (from the records of John Dennis Farwell), Farwell Family, Volume I, A History of Henry Farwell and his Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass. 1605-1927 (Orange, Tex.: Frederick Henry Farwell and Fanny (Barber) Farwell, 1929), page 50, #11 Joseph Farwell family sketch.

2. Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Births, page 60, Joseph Farwell birth entry, 24 July 1670.

3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Burying Ground, Groton, Mass., Joseph Farwell memorial #112350568.

4. "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008, page 531, Joseph Farwell and Hannah Colburn marriage entry, 23 January 1695/6.

5. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Deaths, page 221, Joseph Farwell, 21 August 1740, "age 70 years".

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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Seavers In The News -- George R. Seaver Dies in 1952 in Arlington, Massachusetts

 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 Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper dated 8 March 1952:

The transcription of the article is:

George R. Seaver

"ARLINGTON, March 8 -- George R. Seaver, 56, of 119 Roland road, for the past eight years inspector of plumbing and gas for the town of Arlington, died this morning after a long illness.

"He was born and educated in Medford, but lived in Arlington for the past 25 years.  A veteran of World War I, he belonged to the Arlington Lodge of Elks, and Arlington Post A.L.

"He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary J. (Ahern) Seaver; three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Hayes, Brighton; Miss Florence and Miss Mary A. Seaver, both of Arlington; a son, George R. Seaver, Jr., of Arlington; and four brothers, John A. of Phoenix; Harold of Medford, William of Belmont, and Stanley Seaver of Everett.

"The funeral will take place Tuesday morning at 9 in St. James Church, Arlington Heights, where a solemn high mass will be celebrated.  Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Arlington."

The source citation is:

"George R. Seaver," The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper, Saturday, 8 March 1952, page 3, column 2, George R. Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 3 June 2021).

This obituary provides a name, an age, a death date and place, the names of his wife,  children and siblings, plus a short description of his occupation and associations.

George Richard Seaver was born 27 October 1895 in Somerville, Massachusetts, the son of Lemuel Lawrence and Flora Ann (McDonald) Sivier.  He married Mary Josephine Ahern (1895-1995) on 14 October 1925 in Somerville.  They had four children:

*  Margaret Seaver (1926-????), married Robert J. Hayes (1923-1996)

*  Florence Ann Seaver (1929-2011), married 1958 Matthew T. Mulkern (1927-????).

*  Mary Agnes Seaver (1930-????), married 1952 Edward J. Kirby (1928-????).

*  George Richard Seaver (1932-????).

I am not related to George R. Seaver.  He is descended from Garland and Margaret Anne (Martin) Sceviour of St. John's, Newfoundland..

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 all of his family members named in their obitury. I am glad that I can honor George Richard 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 -- 1670 Birth of Joseph Farwell (1670-1740) in Chelmsford, 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 1670 birth entry for Joseph Farwell in the Chelmsford, Massachusetts town vital record book:

The birth entry is about half down the list for Farwell:

The marriage record transcription is:

"[Farwell] Joseph, s. Joseph and Hannah, 24 : 5m : 1670."

  The source citation for this record is:

Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Births, page 60, Joseph Farwell entry, 24 July 1670.

This is an entry in a transcribed town record book for Chelmsford, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the birth of Joseph Farwell.

Joseph Farwell (1670-1740) was the son of Joseph and Hannah (Learned) Farwell of Chelsmford.  He married 

Hannah Colburn (1673-1741), daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Rolfe) Colburn, on 23 January 1696 in Chelmsford. Joseph and Hannah (Colburn) Farwell had ten children.

Joseph and Hannah (Colburn) Farwell are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Mary Farwell (1709-1804), who married  James Stone (1702-1783), in 1726 in Groton, Massachusetts.

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Dear Randy: What Are the Most Useful Online Record Collections For Your Research?

 My friend Ray asked me this several weeks ago in email, and I want to share my answers because it may help other researchers.

1)  The correct answer is (as always):  It Depends!  It depends on what you are doing in your research.  For the past several years I have been adding descendants of my 3rd and 4th great-grandparents to my RootsMagic family tree (and from there to my Ancestry Member Tree, my MyHeritage Family Tree, and FamilySearch Family Tree).  This information is used to find common ancestors for my DNA matches.  I have also been adding profiles to my surname studies - primarily Seaver/Sever/Sevier/etc., Carringer, Vaux, and Auble.  My focus has been on adding vital record information - birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial, along with parental, spousal and children relationships, with source citations.  My focus has not been on a complete biography of each person, at least those who are not my own ancestors.      

For the descendancy and surname studies, the emphasis has been on the 1800 to present time frame, and mainly in the United States.  That means working with and around the state laws for vital records - some states have fairly open vital records since the mid-1800s - for instance, Massachusetts.  Other states have no open vital records at all.  But there are work-arounds.  

Here is a partial list of my go-to record collections that feed my research (other than the available vital records for each state or country):

*  Social Security Applications and Claims -- $$ (only on Ancestry and MyHeritage).  This is an index for persons who filed for Social Security after 1936.  They always include a birth date and birth place, usually include a death date, and sometimes include parents' names, plus a list of names that they filed under or made claims with dates.  This is different from the Social Security Death Index, but some names appear in both indexes.  

*  Find A Grave -- free (index on FamilySearch ) and $$ (index on Ancestry).  This is ostensibly a burial index, but memorial entries often have much more information besides a grave location and gravestone photo.  Birth date and place, death date and place, and burial place are usually included for a person, along with names of relatives - parents, siblings, spouses, and children.  Some memorials include obituaries or record summaries.  Since this is user-submitted content, there can be errors, but for late 20th century and early 21st century research, this site is invaluable.

*  Newspapers.com -- $$ (using the Newspapers.com Obituaries Index and Newspapers.com Marriages Index on Ancestry.com - $$).  This is my favorite obituary and marriage resource for late 20th and early 21st century research, especially for DNA match research and my surname studies.  

*  GenealogyBank -- $$ (with obituary index on FamilySearch -- free).  In addition to the online newspaper collection - many of which are not on Newspapers.com - they have an Obituaries collection that is searchable right up to the present.  

*  U.S. Public Records Index -- (free on FamilyTreeNow and FamilySearch, $$ on Ancestry and MyHeritage).  This database is from public records (registrations, licenses, utilities, court, etc.) and often includes adults in a family with birth dates, addresses and telephone numbers.  FamilyTreeNow and MyHeritage group them into families but Ancestry and FamilySearch do not.

*  U.S. World War I and World War II Draft Registrations (free on FamilySearch, $$ on Ancestry, Fold3, MyHeritage).  The registration card images have information on both sides, and usually have complete names, birth date, residence, employment, next-of-kin and physical description for males born between 1873 and 1927.  

*  England and Wales Parish Registers (free on FamilySearch, $$ on Findmypast and Ancestry).  These are still incomplete on all sites, but are very useful for 19th and early 20th century research.  

*  England and Wales Civil Registry (birth, marriage, death, 1837 to present) (free on FamilySearch, $$ on Findmypast and Ancestry).  These are incomplete on all sites, but are very useful for 20th century research.

*  Census Records (free on FamilySearch, $$ on Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast).  Easily find family groups (and after 1880 they list relationships to the head of household), with approximate dates and birthplaces, residence, occupation and more.  However, the last U.S. census available is 1940 (1950 will be available in 2022), Canada is 1921, and England/Wales is 1911 (but 1921 will be released soon).  

*  Google -- free!  Doing a name search with a place and/or year often finds family tree entries for deceased persons, and occasional entries from web pages (e.g., blog posts, Tributes.com or Legacy.com).

Using these, I am usually able to find birth, marriage, death and spouse information for a deceased person.  Living persons are a bigger problem because the Public Records do not include birth places or relationships, but I can often find a birth date and marriage record.  Of course almost all of my DNA matches are still living.

What online resources have you found for finding information on 20th and 21st century persons?  Please tell me in the Comments!

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Randy and Gramp at the Park in 1945 -- Post 671 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

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

This photo is from about 1945 in a park in San Diego.  That is two-year-old Randy sitting on the leg of his maternal grandfather, Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976).  It looks like my grandfather just had a haircut.  I loved being with him, and I know he loved being with me.  

This photograph was originally black-and-white and I colorized it, enhanced it and restored it using the MyHeritage InColor photo tools.  

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Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 1 June 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:

*  How to Use Tech to Capture Your Family History

*  The Genealogical Forum of Oregon 75th Year Marks Digital Milestones

*  Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method

*  Double Murder In Sweden Solved 16 Years Later Using Genealogy Websites

*  Mother meets biological son in Pensacola for the first time in 50 years

*  Siblings Separated As Kids Find Each Other Living A Mile Apart

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 22 to 28 May 2021

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 22 to 28 May 2021

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  We Are Open! The 51st Jamboree Conference! (4-5 and 11-12 June 2021)

*  JamboFree Schedule is Here!

*  THE Genealogy Show - Virtual (25-26 June 2021)

*  2021 International German Genealogy Conference (17 and 24 July 2021)

*  41st Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (1-5 August 2021)

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  FREE National Archives Genealogy Series - May and June 2021

*  MyHeritage Online Events for June

*  Family History Library Class Calendar - June 2021

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 1 June, 7 p.m.:   Ngā aho tāne o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa: Revitalising connections across the Pacific with Big Y, by Elena Fowler

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 2 June, 11 a.m.:   Solving Family Mysteries with mtDNA Projects, by Mags Gaulden

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 4 June, 11 a.m.:  African Americans in the U.S. Revolutionary War, by Janice Lovelace

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 151: John Isenhour Case Study Part 2

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 378 – Memorial Day Show: Progress On WW2 War Dead Bios / Crista Cowan on Fold3 Memorial Day Weekend Access

*  Fisher's Top Tips:  #280 - Reach Out!

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 130: Ask Maureen May 2021

*  Ancestral Findings:   AF-496: Oklahoma, the Natives, and US Settlement | Ancestral Findings Podcast

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Getting Individualized Help Through FamilySearch - Jaqueline Kanyuck

*  Family History Fanatics:  US Naturalization Records Every Genealogist Must Explore

*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  S04 E32: A History of African American Cowboys with Larry Callies

*  GeneaVlogger:  Who Do You Think You Are - Boris Johnson - Part 1 - Professional Genealogist Reacts

*  MyHeritage:  Using different family tree views for your research

*  MyHeritage:  Learn more about Military Records with James Tanner

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (29 May 2021) - Weekly Recap + WikiTree Challenge

7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 28 May 2021?

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Genealogical Forum of Oregon 75th Anniversary Marks Digital Milestones

 I received this from GFO today via email:

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GFO’s 75th Year Marks Digital Milestones

The Genealogical Forum of Oregon has hit major milestones during its 75th anniversary year. The GFO now has:

• Uploaded a quarter million digital pages and made them available to members in the
• GFO website’s MemberSpace
• Provided 503 lookups for members during the pandemic library closure
• Hosted 253 online classes and meetings

The GFO has added 258,211 digital pages to its online library since December 24, 2020.

Thousands more are uploaded every week. Volunteers scan documents, use software to make

printed text word searchable, name and organize the files, and upload them to the website. These

include Oregon birth, death, and marriage records; genealogical journals; manuscript collections;

and dozens of eBooks that provide cemetery records, pioneer registers, vital records indexes, and

much, much more.

The public can get a glimpse of what is available here: https://gfo.org/resources/memberspace-resources.html

These resources will remain available to members in the GFO’s MemberSpace, even after the

library reopens for research in a few weeks. Lookups for members who cannot visit the library

will continue as well. All special interest groups, seminars, workshops and board meetings will

continue to be held online.

The world is digital and the GFO has embraced this new reality.

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Carringers in the News -- J. Raymond Carringer Dies in 1966 in Florida

 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 Palm Beach Post [West Palm Beach, Fla.] newspaper dated 6 January 1966:

The transcription of the article is:

"J. RAYMOND CARRINGER

"Mr. J. Raymond Carringer, 79, of 55 High St., Summit, N.J., a winter visitor at the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, died today at St. Mary's Hospital.

"Mr. Raymond was a retired vice-president of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.

"Survivors include his widow, Marguerite; a son, Donald of Franklin Park, N.J., and a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Pfaff of New York City.

"Requiem Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Edward's Catholic Church, Palm Beach,.  Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Kemper-Vogel Funeral Home.  Friends who ish may donate to the Heart Fund."

The source citation is:

"J. Raymond Carringer" The Palm Beach Post [West Palm Beach, Fla.] newspaper, obituary, Thursday, 6 January 1966, page 47, column 3, J. Raymond Carringer obituary notice;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 31 May 2021).

This obituary provides a death date and place, an age, the names of his wife and children, and some information about his occupation or associations.

James Raymond Carringer (1886-1966) was born 13 December 1886 in Olean, New York to Wilbert H. and Mary M. (Lundy) Carringer.  He married (1) on 3 July 1909 to Roberta Loughlin (1888-1958) in St. Louis, Missouri.  They had two children:

*  Mary Virginia Carringer (1910-1977), married 1930 John Joseph Pfaff (1910-1975).

*  James Raymond Carringer (1917-1943).

He married (2) on 20 September 1932 to Margaret J. Hauck (1901-1974) in Allentown, Pennsylvania.  They had one child:

*  Donald Wilbert Carringer (1936-2005), married 1959 Nancy Ann Beekman (1938-????).

I am a second cousin twice removed to  James Raymond Carringer.  Our common ancestors are my 3rd great-grandparents Henry Carringer (1800-1879) and Sarah Feather (1804-1848). 

There are hundreds of Carringer "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person works in industry and dies away from home.  I am glad that I can honor James Raymond 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 complimentary subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

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Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 31 May 2021

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

1)  Hosted the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) General Meeting in a Zoom Meeting last Wednesday with 58 attendees.  Judy J. Russell was the program speaker presenting "No Vitals, No Problem! Building a Family Through Circumstantial Evidence -- A Family For Isabella."  This was a big hit with all of the attendees!

2)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of my 7th great-grandmother #597 Sarah (Nutting) (Farnsworth) Stone (1663-1717) of Groton, Massachusetts  for my 52 Ancestors post on Friday. 

3)  Transcribed a land record in Amanuensis Monday -- 1793 Deed of Asa Talor Selling 1 Acre of Land in Westminster, Mass. to Benjamin Seaver today.

4)  AncestryDNA added 85 new DNA matches this past week, with 0 new ThruLines, and  MyHeritage added 20 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on  AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  Added Notes to 14 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known shared ancestors, and added 3 ThruLines to RootsMagic.  Ran the MyHeritage AutoCluster again to try to group the matches in my spreadsheet.

5)  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 42,399 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 162).

6)  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 63,504 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 191), and 138,216 source citations (up 329).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree twice this week updating 348 profiles, and I resolved 1,126 Ancestry Hints.I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 151,836 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily. 

7)  Wrote 19 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which three were press releasees.  The most viewed post last week was  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - Tuesday, 25 May 2021 with over 317 views.  

8)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much after Week 63 of COVID-19 isolation.  The Padres season continues, and they are now 34-20.  We watched the 7 games on TV.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday.  I went to the dermatologist for my yearly checkup, and she found basal cell cancer on my ear and I will have surgery; she also shot liquid nitrogen on my head a number of times for pre-cancerous bumps. We went to indoor church on Sunday and sat in the vaccinated and maskless section.  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing (mainly) genealogy, plus eating, sleeping, laundry, cleaning, cooking, and a little yard work (one of the Cecil Bruner rose is doing well!.

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