FamilySearch 2023 Genealogy Highlights

 I received this information from FamilySearch today:

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2023 was a busy year for FamilySearch as we focused on helping millions of visitors worldwide make more inspiring family discoveries and connections. We added 1 billion searchable names and millions of digital images to our genealogical records online, hosted another successful RootsTech event—a global online family celebration, added more local FamilySearch centers, offered more online classes, and opened new local services for patrons to digitize their personal records and family memories. All together, there were many exceptional updates to FamilySearch in 2023.

FamilySearch had nearly 236 million visitors in 2023 from across the world. Visitors were drawn to FamilySearch’s experiences that are designed to foster fun family discoveries and connections.

Free Genealogical Records

 If there’s one thing we know well at FamilySearch, it’s that people crave free access to online genealogical records. In 2023, we focused extra effort on increasing record collections from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, and Uganda. Of course, we continued to expand other collections as well—in more than 70 countries. We also collaborated with the Libraries and Archives Canada and Ancestry to make the 1931 Census of Canada freely available online.

The Collaborative FamilySearch Family Tree

The world’s largest family tree grew by 80 million more people in 2023. Contributors added 450 million sources that help increase collaboration and the accuracy of people in the tree.

FamilySearch Digital Books Online

Who doesn’t like free books? The FamilySearch Digital Library added over 30,000 new books in 2023 and now offers more than 586,000 digital historical publications. The books are full-text searchable—which can really help you discover who—or what—you’re seeking. Many of the 2023 additions were school yearbooks. In addition, the Springfield-Greene County Public Library in Missouri was added as a new contributor and scanning site for local genealogy-relevant books that are in the public domain.

FamilySearch Library and Centers

 In 2023, FamilySearch changed the name of its world-renowned Family History Library and related local centers to better align with its global brand. The newly named FamilySearch Library and its network of FamilySearch centers and affiliates help expand the access of FamilySearch’s vast resources, including discovery experiences, free individual family history assistance, and free access to premium websites.

FamilySearch opened 510 new FamilySearch centers in 2023 and now has over 6,200 locations worldwide. FamilySearch centers in Logan, Utah, and Las Vegas, Nevada, were renovated and expanded to offer more patron services. In addition, center online resources can now be accessed globally in meetinghouses for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including those without a FamilySearch center. This will significantly increase the availability of FamilySearch resources to individuals worldwide.

FamilySearch Help was updated to help family history researchers get answers to their ancestral questions. FamilySearch center volunteers and workers received a new resource to better assist guests and create even greater experiences. The new Learning Resources provides comprehensive learning material to help provide guests with individualized attention when using FamilySearch services.

Debbie Gurtler was named the new assistant director of the FamilySearch Library. The library opened its Memories Preservation Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, a free service for guests to bring their personal and family records and artifacts and convert them to digital formats that can be more easily shared and preserved long-term. Using center equipment, visitors can convert family documents, home movies, slides, negatives, video and audio tapes, and other media to digital format. Contact your local FamilySearch center to see what memory preservation equipment might be available near you.

The library offered 75 free webinars this year, and it offers hundreds more on demand in multiple languages, accessible online in its Learning Center.

RootsTech 2023 Quick Facts

RootsTech 2023 inspired and entertained participants from all over the world. Millions more continue to enjoy the free 2023 content online year-round at RootsTech.org.

• Participants were from 236 countries and territories.
• More than 3 million participants attended in person and online.
• More than 500,000 participants made over 5.2M common ancestor connections to other participants through Relatives at RootsTech 2023.
  
• Over 4,000 young adults attended in person.

In-person keynotes included:

• Jordin Sparks, multi-platinum recording artist and actress.
• Sean Astin, award-winning actor, producer, and director.
• Me Ra Koh, photographer, author, and Sony Artisan of Imagery.
• Steve Rockwood, CEO of FamilySearch International

Kirby Heyborne, popular actor, comedian, and narrator, was the RootsTech 2023 emcee and made many appearances on the main stage.

Virtual Keynotes included:

• Tuti Furlán, a popular Guatemalan psychologist specializing in the science of happiness.
• His highness Sheikh Salem bin Sultan bin Saqr Al-Qasimi
• Mona Magno-Veluz, the National President of the Autism Society Philippines

Other FamilySearch 2023 News

Your Impact

FamilySearch relies heavily on online volunteers to help create the many quality discovery experiences it offers. These volunteers use Get Involved to help FamilySearch visitors make more and more fun family discoveries by making images of historical records easily searchable. The newly introduced Your Impact feature lets these do-gooders see how their contributions are literally helping others expand their family trees. If you would like to help "pay it forward" for others, learn more at FamilySearch Get Involved.

Exceptional Workplace Award 2023

Of all its accomplishments, FamilySearch was particularly happy to receive the 2023 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award. The honor is awarded to companies who make employees the center of their business strategy by listening to them, measuring results, and consistently trying to improve the workplace. This is the 5^th consecutive year FamilySearch has received the award for its professional workplace culture and establishes FamilySearch as a world-class organization that makes a difference for its employees.

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Seavers in the News -- Obituary of William Seaver (1883-1977) of Etna, California

  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 Record-Searchlight [Redding, Calif.]newspaper dated 16 December 1977, page 8:

The transcription of the article is:

"William Seaver

"ETNA -- Funeral services for William Henry Seaver of Etna will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Church of Latter-day Saints here.

"Seaver died Wednesday in Mesa, Ariz.  He was 94. He was born Dec. 10, 1883 in Prescott, Ariz., and settled in Etna in 1959.  He had been a cattle rancher and a mail carrier.

" leaves two daughters, Minna Wells of Tempe, Ariz., and Violet Mills of Medford, Ore.; two sons, Charles and Vernon, both of Etna; 16 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

"Burial will be in Etna Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Church of Latter-day Saints building fund in Etna.  Funeral arrangements were made by the Girdner Chapel of Yreka."

The source citation is:

"William Seaver," Record-Searchlight [Redding, Calif.] newspaper, Friday, 16 December 1977, page 8, column 7, William Seaver obituary,   Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 1 January 2024).

This obituary provides the name, age, birth day and place, death day, death place, occupation, work experience, children names, burial place, services and visitation, but not parents names, spouse's name, or cause of death.

William Henry Seaver (1883-1977) was born 9 December 1883 in Prescott, Arizona, the son of William Henry and Arey Permelia (Chambers) Seaver.  He died 14 December 1977 in Mesa, Arizona.  He married Violetta Thomsen (1891-1969) on 15 March 1909 in Douglas, Arizona.  They had five children:

*  Minna "Minnie" Seaver (1911-2005), married 1936 Warren W. Wells (1913-1994).

*  Melvin Henry Seaver (1917-1954), married 1943 Thelma Sherman (1923-1954).

*  Charles William Seaver (1919-2008), married 1936 Ora Jean (1921-2003).

*  Violet May Seaver (1925-2008), married 1942 Jack Pierce Mills (1922-2017).

*  James Vernon Seaver (1934-2015), married 1951 Betty Loyce Vernon (1935-????).

I am not a Seaver cousin to William Henry Seaver (1883-1977).  He is a descendant of Henry and Elizabeth (--?--) Seaver of Virginia and of German descent.  

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this is one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person has a family with lots of descendants.  I am glad that I can honor William Henry Seaver today.  

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

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

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How Did I Do With My 2023 Genealogy-Related Goals?

 I posted Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Are Your 2023 Genealogy Goals on 7 January 2023 with hopes of finally meeting at least one of my stated goals in 2023 before being distracted by bright shiny genealogy features.

How did I do?  I'll give myself a grade for the year after reviewing the goals and whatever accomplishments I achieved.

The stated 2023 goals (in green) and the 2023 accomplishments (in red) are:

1)  Keep writing the "52 Ancestors" genealogical sketches.  I will need to decide later in the year if I want to continue this into the 8th great-grandparent ancestors (there are over 400 known ancestors in this generation, so it may take 8 years to complete this generation, and I'm unsure if I'll live that long).  Then add the sketches to FamilySearch Family Tree profiles.

2023 accomplishments:  I wrote 42 more 52 Ancestors genealogical sketches and got up to 7th great-grandfather #1004 on my ahnentafel list.  I have more to do in the 4th to 7th great-grandparents list but I need to do more research on some of them.  I'm going to hold off on the 8th great-grandfathers for the time being.  I added quite a few of the sketches to the FamilySearch Family Tree profiles as Life Stories.  Grade:  B

2)  Keep writing the "Amanuensis Monday" posts transcriptions, mainly of probate records.  I've done probate records of many of my ancestors, and this year have branched out to non-ancestor Seaver persons in Massachusetts.  I may go for other New England states, or New York, next, based on FamilySearch or Ancestry images.  Then, add the transcriptions to the profiles in my RootsMagic database.

2023 accomplishments:  I wrote 50 more Amanuensis Monday posts, mainly probate records of ancestors or Seaver people in New England, New York and Pennsylvania.  Grade:  A-minus

3)  Continue to "collect" records for descendants of my 4th great-grandparents.  This is mainly for DNA match purposes.  Also, continue to create 6 generation descendants report using RootsMagic and post them on Genea-Musings.  

2023 accomplishments:  I slacked off a bit in researching the descendants of my 44th great-grandparents, but still added over 1,500 persons to my family tree, many of them descendants of my 4th great-grandparents.   I posted 8 new 6 generation descendants reports on Genea-Musings, bringing the total to 16 out of 32 possible reports.  Grade:  B

4)  Continue to use Ancestry Record Hints, MyHeritage Record Matches, FamilySearch Research Hints, to find records for profiles in my RootsMagic database, especially for newly added persons.

2023 accomplishments:  I don't know how many record hints/matches I added throughout the year, but I tried to add information from hints/matches every week.  It didn't help that Ancestry deleted all of my record hints from my tree and started adding them for profiles with new information.  It didn't help that I deleted my old MyHeritage tree and added a new updated tree to MyHeritage which wiped out all of my record matches and the system has added matches for about 10% of my tree profiles since April.  Grade: C

5)  Gather family photos into one file folder and standardize photo captions with name, date, place, event information.  

2023 accomplishments:  I had my family photographs scattered all over my computer file folders.  I copied as many as I could find from the surname file folders to the "My Pictures" file folders (I have major family photo folders for Seaver, Richmond, Carringer/Auble and Leland/Schaffner surnames).  I also have family photos by year since 1999 in separate file folders in "My Pictures."  In addition, I scanned over 500 photographs from my photo albums on my bookshelves and loose photographs from bags in my piles of stuff.  Many of these were scanned by the Reimagine mobile app and colorized with the MyHeritage tools and saved in MyHeritage Photos.  Grade:  B

6)  Complete one year's worth of family stories using StoryWorth and publish a book with them for my children and grandchildren.

2023 accomplishments:  The StoryWorth writing went well for several months.  I ended up writing 37 stories for the book, including some photos, and I have edited the stories twice now.  I have not completed the bookmaking process.  Grade:  C

7)  Continue chasing DNA matches, especially on Ancestry and MyHeritage, to find the common ancestors for me and each match.  I need to do more "skeleton" trees to solve relationships with more matches without a ThruLine or a Theory of Family Relativity.  

2023 accomplishments:  I have kept up with the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  I write notes for many of the new matches if I research them.  For those that I can identify a common ancestor, and a paper trail back to the common ancestor, I add the paper trail families to my RootsMagic family tree.  I made very few (less than 5?) "skeleton" trees for DNA matches with very small trees and didn't solve any (?) mysteries by doing that.  Grade:  C

My conclusion:  It was a fairly successful year achieving my 2023 goals!!  At least I worked on all of them, and graded out with at least a C grade on all of them.  Overall - I think a B-minus.  

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Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 31 December 2023

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

1)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my great-grandaunt Ellen Maria "Nellie" Seaver (1861-1933) of Leominster, Massachusetts for my new 52 Relatives theme series.

2)  Transcribed the 1843 Will of Ebenezer Seaver (1763-1844 of Roxbury, Massachusetts) in the Knox County, Ohio Probate Records for the Amanuensis Monday theme.  

3)  Posted my usual end-of-year blog posts, including:

*  Top 37 Most Viewed Posts in 2023 on Genea-Musings

*  Randy's "Best Of" Genea-Musings Posts in 2023

*  Randy's Genealogy Activity Highlights for 2023

*  RootsMagic Genealogy Database Statistics Update - 31 December 2023

4)  Worked on and wrote blog posts for the new MyHeritage AI features:

*   New MyHeritage Feature -- Artificial Intelligence AI Record Finder(tm)

*  New MyHeritage Feature -- Artificial Intelligence AI Biographer(tm)

*  MyHeritage AI Biographer Feature Is Only on Family View

5)  AncestryDNA now has 44,664 DNA matches (up 88 from 24 December) for me today, with one new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 8 new Matches.    MyHeritageDNA now has 12,024 DNA matches (up 21 from 24 December) for me, with no new  Theories.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

6)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 9 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 50,271 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 62).  

7) 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 71,865 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 45), and 146,403 source citations (up 3).  Merged about 20 duplicate entries.  Resolved 135 Ancestry Hints. TreeShared 162 new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree.  My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 15,795 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

8) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one were a press release. The most viewed post last week was New MyHeritage Feature -- Artificial Intelligence AI Biographer(tm)  with over 393 views.  Genea-Musings had about 33,800 page views last week.  

9)  Real life:  This is week 199 since COVID restrictions started.   I visited Linda every day at the skilled nursing/memory care facility. Went grocery shopping on Tuesday and Friday.  Walked several days on the block and talked to several neighbors.  Celebrated Christmas with Linda and went to Tami's on Christmas Day for dinner.  I finished reading John Sandford's book Ocean Prey and started David Baldacci's book Dream Town.  I watched the Chargers games on Sunday afternoon, and they lost to Denver, so now 5-11 on the season.  Watched the SDSU Aztecs basketball game with Gonzaga, which they won 84-74, so they are 11-2 on the season.  Watched some NFL football on Sunday.  It was a pretty quiet week!

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1843 Will of Ebenezer Seaver (1763-1844 of Roxbury, Massachusetts) in the Knox County, Ohio Probate Records

This week's document for transcription is the 1843 will of Ebenezer Seaver (1763-1844 of Roxbury, Massachusetts), in the Knox County, Ohio Probate Court records.

*  Knox County, Ohio Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, Box 18, Case 309, image 592 of 2691:

*  Knox County, Ohio Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, Box 18, Case 309, image 593 of 3691:

The transcription of this document is:

I,  Ebenezer Seaver of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk and

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire do make and publish this

my last will and testament, as follows, to wit.

I give and devise to my son Ebenezer Seaver about twenty acres of pasture

land situated in said Roxbury, called the Chalk Hill pasture.  Also about three

and a half acres of fresh meadow land in he Great Meadow so called

in the Middle Parish of said Roxbury.  And also about twelve acres

of woodland in Muddy Pond Woods so called in Dorchester, To have and

to hold the above named three parcels of land to him the said Ebenezer

Seaver, his heirs and assigns to his and their use and behoof forever.

To my son Jonathan Seaver I give and bequeath my silver tankard

which came to me from my ancestors, and has been a long time in the

Seaver family.

I will, order and direct that the amount due on the note for two thousand

dollars secured by mortgage of real estate which my daughter Elizabeth

Davis wife of Benjamin Davis holds against me be paid her within

one year after my decease.

To my daughter Sarah Parker, widow of Thomas Parker, deceased

I give and bequeath all the household goods and furniture, which belonged

to her in the life time of her said husband and which were conveyed

by him to me.  To have and to hold the same to her the said Sarah Parker

her Executors, Administrators and assigns to her and their use & behoof

forever; and I do further will and direct that my said daughter

Sarah Parker have a comfortable maintenance in sickness and

in health from her two sons George J. Parker and Augustus Parker

out of the estate which I have herein given them so long as she

shall remain a widow.

I will order and direct that the amount due on the note for two

thousand dollars secured by mortgage of real estate which my daughter

Susan Seaver holds against me be paid her within one year after my decease.

I do further give and devise to my said daughter Susan Seaver the

use of such room in my mansion house in Roxbury as she shall

select so long as she shall remain unmarried.  And I do also

give and bequeath to my said daughter Susan Seaver furniture of

the value of one hundred dollars to be selected by her from the Inventory

made at the appraisal of my estate.

To my two grandsons George J. Parker and Augustus Parker I give & devise

my homestead Farm in said Roxbury including Five acres of land

adjoining the Land occupied by Ebenezer Dorr containing in

all about Seventy acres of land with the buildings thereon,

also about eight acres of land in said Roxbury called the Long Pasture

adjoining the land occupied by said Dorr.  Also about seven acres of

woodland in Muddy Pond Woods in Dorchester called the Morton

lot.  Also about six and a half acres of Marsh land in Dorchester

and also about five acres of Marsh land upon the Island so called

in the full basin of the Boston & Roxbury Mill Corporation in said Roxbury.

They the said George and Augustus providing for their mother Sarah

Parker out of the said estate a Comfortable support in sickness and in health

as long as she shall remain a widow.  To have and to hold the above parcels

of real estate to them the said George and Augustus their heirs and assigns

to their use and behoof forever.  I also give and bequeath to my said

Grandsons all my farming tools, carriages, produce of the farm ungathered

and in hand and stock upon the farm and also all my household

furniture which is not herein disposed of.  To have and to hold

the same to them the said George and Augustus their Executors Administrators

and assigns to their use and behoof forever.

And after the payment of my just debts, the legacies given by this my last

will and testament, funeral charges, and expenses of settling my estate

I give bequeath and devise all the rest and residue of my estate real and

personal of every name and nature in equal undivided  fifth parts to

my said Son Ebenezer Seaver, my daughter Susan Seaver, and my 

three Grandchildren Thomas H. Parker, Lucy Parker and Sarah

Parker, To have and to hold the same to them the said Ebenezer

Susan, Thomas, Lucy and Sarah their heirs Executors Administrators

and assigns to their use and behoof forever.

And I do hereby appoint my said son Ebenezer Seaver Executor of this

my last will and testament.

In Witness whereof, I the said Ebenezer Seaver have

hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty eighth day of September

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty three.

                                                       Ebenezer Seaver  {seal}

Signed sealed and declared by the

said Ebenezer Seaver to be his last will

and testament in presence of us who at

his request and in his presence have

subscribed our names as witnesses.

                       Catherine Leland

                       Henry Leland

                        Wm. Leland

                                                Copy Attest  J.H. Cobb Regr.

The source citation for this will is:

Ohio County, District and Probate Courts, Knox County > "Probate Case Files, Box 17-19, 1830s to 1850s,"Wills Box 18, Case 309, images 592-593 of 2691, Ebenezer Seaver files, will written 1843; "Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probates, 1786-1998," indexed records with digital images, Ancestry.com   (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 December 2023); Original data is from Ohio County, District and Probate Courts filmed by FamilySearch.

Ebenezer Seaver (1763-1844) was born on 5 July 1763 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Ebenezaer and Mary (Weld) Seaver.  He married Elizabeth Clapp (1767-1838) in Boston, Massachusetts.  Ebenezer died 1 March 1844 in Roxbury.  Ebenezer served as a member of the United States Congress from 1803 to 1813, and 

as in the Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1784 to 1802, and 1822, 1823 and 1826.  Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Clapp) Seaver had ten children:

*  Elizabeth Seaver (1789-1793).

*  Ebenezer Seaver (1791-1845), married 1817 Clarissa Weld (1793-1832).

*  Jonathan Seaver (1793-1864), married 1823 Mary Gallego Plummer (1795-????).

*  Elizabeth Seaver (1795-1885), married 1839 Benjamin Baker Davis (1794-1877).

*  Sarah Seaver (1797-1884), married 1820 Thomas Parker (1791-1832).

*  Susannah Seaver (1799-1801).

*  Joshua Seaver (1801-1832).

*  Susanna Seaver (1803-1870).

*  Lucy Seaver (1805-1822).

*  Nathaniel Seaver (1807-1832).

The will pages above are from a Knox County, Ohio Probate Court case file and are a court clerk's copy  of original papers, and therefore a Derivative Source. They are Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names, relationships, dates and places noted therein.

The same will papers, and a number of other estate papers are also in the Norfolk County, Massachusetts Probate papers available on Ancestry.com and on American Ancestors.  I just discovered that I missed transcribing Norfolk County probate records for Seaver people!  I have more work to do!!!

Why is this will in the Knox County, Ohio probate papers?  I think it's because Thomas H[enderson] Parker was an heir and he resided in Knox County, Ohio at the time of Ebenezer's death in Roxbury.  Hosmer Curtiss, an attorney at law in Knox County, requested the probate papers from Norfolk County, Massachusetts in 1847 by letter and received them. 

I am a 3rd cousin 7 times removed to Ebenezer Seaver (1763-1844), with the common Seaver ancestor being my 9th great-grandfather Robert Seaver (1608-1683).

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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