tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276152672011-10-06T08:50:40.527-04:00history-genealogy siteThis is a site where I will discuss my family genealogy research and related history. When a blog deals with a particular family group, I will try to include it in the title so uninterested people can skip it without skimming it. It is my hope to get feedback on research methods, family members and historical context from other historians, genealogists, and researchers.
(c) Barbara L. de Mare 2006, 2007his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-28280701320588362252011-04-21T12:39:00.002-04:002011-04-21T12:42:17.277-04:00Ferry Family Ireland researcherDear Dr. Roulston:
I have repeatedly reviewed the report which thanks to you I finally, after over 6 years, received in the above-captioned matter. However, it is very disappointing and once again appears to be a rush job. Particularly troubling is that a father is shown as born after his son. Unfortunately I figured this all out awhile ago when I did not have time to write to you. his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-2535922551896812492009-03-15T12:54:00.003-04:002009-03-15T13:05:39.023-04:00St. Thomas; John Thomas CarreI took a few days vacation from both work and genealogy and spent a long weekend visiting friends on St. Thomas. Both couples bought condos there upon retirement.I have never been a Caribbean traveller, but found St. Thomas both beautiful and full of interesting history. The book I am currently reading is about the slave rebellion on neighboring St. John--four miles away. It is visible even onhis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-88877873488121794582009-03-11T19:33:00.004-04:002009-03-11T19:46:55.351-04:00Rockland FamiliesI have been spending moat of my time of late working on DAR applications for others, mostly remote (6th cousins) collateral relatives in northern Rockland County. I mhardly knew Rockland County existed before I joined the Phillips-Knapp Family Association. I am fast becoming an expert on the inter-relationships of the old families, a very interesting sociological study. I find it amazing how his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-14012047227781911372009-02-02T16:41:00.004-05:002009-02-02T16:50:07.267-05:00PublishedI see I haven't been very successful at writing in here even with the kids gone. I am spending a lot of my free time re-organizing my house and getting stuff ready to ship to the kids--they essentially took nothing with them.
I opened my e-mail this morning to a congratulatory note from one of my frequent e-mail correspondents. It seems UpFront with NGS (an e-mail newletter of the National his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-31918156103388966942008-12-27T20:09:00.001-05:002008-12-29T17:36:19.229-05:00No Good Deed Goes Unpunished<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:script; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} /* Style his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-86978363440925089202008-12-21T12:34:00.002-05:002008-12-21T12:59:27.987-05:00Grandchildren MovedMy grandchildren moved last night--all the way to Seattle. I am totally heartbroken. The good news is for the readers of my blog; I should have time to write more frequently. I should also be able to find my files more easily as they can be spread out again to the whole upstairs, rather than crowded into my bedroom in piles everywhere. I just have to get out of my funk and work on it and all his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-61934100582098890732008-07-18T16:19:00.000-04:002008-07-18T16:23:50.752-04:00RICHARD (CRIGNON) CHAPEL WILL
Probate file of Richard Chapel To the Hon. William P. Walker Esq. Judge of Probate for the County of Berkshire – Humbly shows Travis A. Phillips of Colebrook in the County of Litchfield, Connecticut. That Richard Chapel last an inhabitant of Sandisfield in said County of Berkshire has lately viz on the twenty first day of Feby 1825 died testate leaving Goods and an Estate of which his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-67858300083389595972008-07-17T00:31:00.002-04:002008-07-21T22:01:54.566-04:00SEARCHING IRELAND FOR FERRYS: PART ISEARCHING FOR THE ANCESTORS OF MY IRISH PATERNAL GRANDFATHER JAMES ALEXANDER FERRY All I ever knew about my paternal grandfather’s childhood was that he was born in County Tyrone, North Ireland, and immigrated to our shores as a teenager before Ellis Island was open. I thought he might be from Stewartstown. I had also been told that his father’s name was Richard and his mother’s Eliza his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-71397490613431511192008-07-14T20:03:00.000-04:002008-07-14T20:42:21.006-04:00DAR CONTINENTAL CONVENTIONI just returned from a week in Washington DC at the annual Continental Congress. What an awesome experience! For those of you unfamiliar with DAR functions, they are the best-run any meeting could possibly be. Everything is timed to precision, and all the work of the work sessions gets accomplished. Committee reports are not to exceed 2 minutes. At the 2 minute mark the President-General andhis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-26029898646476932392008-06-26T20:15:00.000-04:002008-06-26T21:31:00.843-04:00Picture organizationMy newest organizational crises: how to store my photos. The photos of particular concern at the moment are those of tombstones. I have taken literally hundreds of tombstone photos. Some have been photographed several times due to failure to remember what is done and what isn't. The Phillips-Knapp cemetery, for example, is totally photographed as I have gone back many times to make sure I his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-77177593095600937482008-02-24T14:24:00.001-05:002008-02-24T14:24:49.074-05:00Organizational Crisis HELP!! Today my organizational crisis has come to a head, and I am most frustrated. I have my individual people files and family files petty well organized, and have a system which works--except for the stuff I copy in probate and county clerks offices and libraries. The biggest problem is the old deeds, wills, etc. They tend to be in large books, so the copies are huge. They don't his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-4908069605781405872008-02-09T10:53:00.000-05:002008-02-09T11:37:15.214-05:00TWO SARAH STRATTONS MARRY CARPENTERSI am a member of a Carpenter list which i occasionally check out. I long since learned that I am the only Samuel Carpenter heir on this list--the rest are Rehobath Carpenters. The list is also more of a family discussion list amongst a bunch f closely related people who appear to live at far-flung places, so family news and pictures occupy most of the site. I stay a member as genealogical his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-67362277232357856742008-02-06T22:18:00.000-05:002008-02-06T22:23:57.397-05:00JAMES AVERY (1646-1728) willAs promised, here is my transcribed copy of the will of James Avery, b. 15 Dec 1646 in Gloucester, Mass.; m. Deborah Stallion 20 Feb 1669/70 in New London, Conn.; d. 22 Aug 1728 in Groton, Conn. I tried to use the spelling and punctuation in the original. A ? means i absolutely could not read a word. Happy reading!
Will of James Avery, Late of Groton,
Probated 1733 #177
New London Probate his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-28665068294049980972008-02-05T09:33:00.000-05:002008-02-05T09:42:50.412-05:00AVERY familyI belong to a My Family group known as the FamGenOs. Although few of us have met in person, we have become good friends through the medium of the site. Occasionally we find a name we think might link two people, but generally it does not pan out. I had that experience last week. The name Fitch was mentioned, and I said I had some. When I went to look, I discovered I had Finch, not Fitch. Somehow his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-18946350409128798062008-01-26T16:27:00.000-05:002008-01-26T16:33:19.402-05:00MATHEW SMITH CHAPEL information and questions from his father's willThe most interesting finds in my Boston research trip involved the scoundrel Mathew Smith Chapel. The 1842 petition for probate of the will of his father-in-law, George Wilcox, lists him as dead when it lists his heirs, including "Susan widow of Hartford Ct. " We know from census records that Mathew was alive at least until 1860. Mathew's father, Richard Chapel, died in 1825. his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-90257457141680444642008-01-26T16:23:00.000-05:002008-01-26T16:26:58.028-05:00NEHGS Council nomination officialAs I may have previously mentioned, I was invited to the NEHGS Board of Trustees and Council dinner held this past Monday night in their Newberry Street facility in Boston. I went to the dinner as I had been tipped off that I might be being nominated for the Council. The tip was correct. It was announced that my name would officially be placed in nomination at the Board meeting the next dayhis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-62595034484130905082008-01-20T20:07:00.000-05:002008-01-20T20:28:31.023-05:00My "Awesome" grandson TimothyA change of topic for today; time to brag about my grandchildren. One is better than the next, but the bragging rights today go to Timmy. He is a gymnast competing in Level 5 as a 9 year old. I had the honor of accompanying him to his meet this afternoon. It was held at West Point, so was well attended from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania gyms. In the words of his coach, he was "awesome." his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-22692061020517814782008-01-13T15:21:00.001-05:002008-05-02T22:55:36.815-04:00Quaker Meetings & PILES, HALLS, SMITHSI obviously have flunked at my resolution to write on a daily basis, but twice in two weeks is definitely an improvement! My research time has been centering around reading CDs which I purchased many years ago, but never really "got into." My research on the Pile, Hall and Smith branches of the Carpenter family led to a renewed interest in Quaker meeting minutes. I remembered that I had CD his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-64167395489306059192008-01-01T10:38:00.000-05:002008-01-01T11:10:26.715-05:00New Year's resolution--DAR applications--CARPENTER family researchMy New Year's resolution is to write in this blog on a more frequent basis. My aim is for daily entries. That of course means I may stray from genealogy more than I have in the past to throw in life with my grandchildren and at work. If it gets too boring, PLEASE tell me.
I had a massive project to get done at work last week, so only took off Christmas Day itself. When I finished my project on his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-41792209572449928442007-12-04T18:37:00.001-05:002008-05-02T23:01:07.749-04:00SMITHS, PILES and false assumptionsA little over a year ago I had two opportunities to research in the New Jersey Archives. Both times I was concentrating on finding the ancestry of Hannah Smith, the wife of Preston Carpenter. Preston and Hannah were married in Salem County in the province of West Jersey. Between the two visits to the Archives I found a variety of wills and other documents executed by persons surnamed Smith or his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-59241691791644015782007-12-04T18:09:00.001-05:002008-06-26T12:11:54.963-04:00LEBBEUS HOWE and pensions on Footnote.comA couple of years ago or more I found Lebbeus Howe's pension application on HeritageQuest. At the time I thought it was a magnificent find, but the more I saw of pension applications the more defective I thought it was. It contained only three pages.
As most of you know, HeritageQuest can no longer be accessed at home by ordinary mortals. After 6 months of searching for another source for his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-50786808428320879442007-11-09T19:12:00.000-05:002007-11-09T19:13:34.725-05:00Sharon Carmack interview of my mother Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Jim Warren spent two days last week interviewing my mother. It was a wonderful experience to see her interviewed by professionals. Sharon did the interviewing, and Jim took care of the equipment. He had 2 tapes going at all times, on different sequences, so that if one failed there was another, and so that if something wwere lost on one changing tapes it wouldhis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-33419977566516769412007-09-11T12:13:00.000-04:002007-11-09T22:32:28.993-05:00Sage and Chapel familiesAnother new discovery to keep me posting to and reading the lists: I have found a cousin or collateral with Sage ancestors. Mathew Chapel's sister Ruth married an Abel Sage. This new-found cousin-of-sorts has provided me with his GEDCOM on the Sage family. As the Sages also came from Connecticut, and have Wilcox descendants, he may be a double collateral. I have to figure out how to do a GEDCOM his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-45158026359224572552007-08-19T18:32:00.000-04:002007-08-19T18:35:09.249-04:00CHAPEL post scriptMy new cousin Julie is also descended from one of our Mayflower ancestors, Thomas Rogers, so we are cousins 2 ways around.his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-17493723621746489382007-08-19T15:11:00.000-04:002007-11-09T22:29:21.007-05:00SECOND FAMILY OF MATHEW CHAPEL, Part 3The second nagging question I have had since discovering that Mary had married a Ransford is whether this is the same family as our Edward Raynsford ancestor who came to Boston before 1630. I can give more information on Edward in a different post if anyone is interested.
I have not voiced this question, except in passing to Chip when the discovery was made. It should be noted, or maybe yelled his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-18084519807973391622007-08-19T14:50:00.000-04:002007-11-09T22:25:00.850-05:00SECOND FAMILY OF MATHEW CHAPEL, Part 2Ever since discovering that Mathew had a second set of children, I have wondered if there were cousins of ours out there some place who counted Mathew Chapel as their grandfather. From the census returns we know that Mary at least had a daughter Rosa Ransford. To date, I have located no further information on her sister Agnes. One of the problems with this quest is of course that it is an all his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-21576231548509503412007-08-19T14:15:00.000-04:002007-11-09T22:20:47.194-05:00SECOND FAMILY OF MATHEW CHAPEL,Part 1If I remember properly, when we last left Mathew Chapel we had found the divorce papers from when Susan had divorced him after he had already married Catherine., to wit on 23 April 1826. I had not located Mathew, Catherine and daughter Mary (born 11 Oct 1828) in the 1830 census. However, by 1840 there was another daughter Agnes, and the family was residing in Kinderhook. By 1950, Mathew had his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-49071327691596076342007-07-28T16:10:00.000-04:002007-07-28T16:13:07.879-04:00SAMUEL PRESTON admonishing his son-in-law SAMUEL CARPENTER II IN 1714"From a letter addressed to SAMUEL CARPENTER 2D, in 1714 (3 years after he was married), by Samuel Preston, his father-in-law, he appears to have indulged too much at one time in irregular habits, although there is no doubt that he "mended his ways" and became an esteemed citizen. The original copy in the handwriting of the author is preserved, with an endorsement that he had delivered the his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-3856274627447230512007-07-25T20:18:00.000-04:002007-07-25T20:23:23.741-04:00ORGANIZING RESEARCH PAPERSWhen I first got serious about genealogy I read everything I could find about organization. No system seemed particularly good for my purposes, but I tried one. I think originally I just had hanging file folders for each family name. Well, I obviously outgrew that in a hurry. If I recall correctly my next step was to make folders for individual persons, divide them with number dividers, and his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-67499803013361218772007-07-23T11:03:00.000-04:002007-07-23T11:08:50.016-04:00FOOTNOTE.COMYesterday I broke down and did it--joined Footnote. With Heritage Quest no longer available, it seemed worth it just for the Revolutionary War pension records. Unfortunately the records are not yet complete, but FOR the one ancestor I did find, RICHARD DIKENS, Footnote has 57 pages of his application, not just the 12 that were available on Heritage Quest.
I played with Footnote a bit, and his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-36487557745303584932007-07-22T12:22:00.000-04:002007-07-25T20:24:54.668-04:00THOMAS CARPENTER, Revolutionary War ancestor & Quaker
Some notes concerning Thomas Carpenter, a great-grandson of Samuel Carpenter the Philadelphia immigrant, and one of my Revolutionary War ancestors.
My sister and I found and photographed his residence at Carpenter's Landing, now Mantua, New Jersey on Veteran's Day, 2002. Carpenter's Landing was located at the furthest inland navigable point on the Mantua Creek from the Delaware River. Fromhis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-37355799096732173072007-06-25T11:15:00.000-04:002007-06-25T11:22:36.774-04:00IS "FERRY" THE HUGUENOT NAME "FERREE"?My blog from yesterday disappeared into cyberspace, so I hope I have better luck with this one. This morning, while perusing my e-mail over my coffee, I noticed an entry from a Huguenot list labelled "Ferree" family. This immediately caught my attention, as Ferree would be (with an accent) the French way to spell "Ferry." I have no idea what the origins of mu paternal grandfather's family might his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-47792465436452771112007-05-25T14:30:00.000-04:002007-05-25T14:47:32.601-04:00Re-Reading Census ReturnsLast week I attended the National Genealogical Society Meeting in Richmond, Virginia. In one of the lectures, the lecturer tried to stress the importance of going back and re-reading each and every census we had in our files. Everyone either laughed or groaned, at which point the lecturer announced that she knew it was a big job but that it was worth it.
I was one of the laughers. However, I his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-34353194754183440852007-05-23T16:58:00.000-04:002007-05-23T17:07:11.739-04:00KEEP READING THOSE LISTSI have signed up for various lists, bothplaces and surnames. Some days I feel like I am just wading through a lot of stuff, none of which applies to me. Then comes the gem that makes it all worthwhile.
The lists can be read quickly by checking the "Re:"s. If you read the first of a thread and it is of no interest, just delete the rest with the same name. That speeds it up a lot.
My Herkimer his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-80774170221692694262007-04-19T15:15:00.001-04:002007-04-19T15:15:44.998-04:00his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-34868237824129481992007-04-19T15:02:00.000-04:002007-04-19T15:18:27.035-04:00WHAT IS SAFE TO WRITE?Iam feeling so personally violated that someone would rip off my article--and a librarian no less--that I have to rethink what I dare write in this space. I have written many things with a view towards eventually turning them into an article. Now that I see that nothing is sacred, I have to reconsider even writing in this blog. A personal journal would probably be a better idea.his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-18623275399431861142007-04-19T01:09:00.000-04:002007-04-19T01:16:44.202-04:00TRUST NO ONE WITH YOUR RESEARCHThis is a lesson I learned the hard way. I had a homework assignment for my National Genealogical Society Home Study Course which I had been working on since last Spring. I had to write an article on a library. After choosing a library with a good genealogicsl section and which I frequently visit, I started asking the librarian questions I could not answer with her input. After submitting to his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-43124024921527292012007-04-17T16:16:00.000-04:002007-04-17T16:25:31.896-04:00Ijust received the following e-mail, and am elated:
BARBARA DEMARE'S APPLICATION HAS BEEN VERIFIED.........HER NATIONAL # WILL BE AVAILABLE APRIL 21ST........SHE WILL BE ACCEPTED BY NATIONAL SHORTLY.......... CONGRATULATIONS BARBARA.......... MARILYN
Now I can complete the applications of my grandchildren for CAR, and of my nieces and nephews who want to join. I joined through the Carpenterhis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-61773289869302774912007-04-16T23:04:00.000-04:002007-04-16T23:14:57.653-04:00A MAJOR SOURCE OF ERRORS: Secondary Sources Improperly Quoting Secondary SourcesAlthough this is just one little part of a much larger and more complicated family puzzle, it illustrates well how a misquote in a secondary source can be carried forth and infect all future secondary sources: one of the major reasons to always check your research yourself, even if it is only checking the sources quoted in another volume. I have not verified the immirant ancestor in this familyhis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-69402187785674519672007-04-15T10:10:00.000-04:002007-04-15T10:20:44.206-04:00DAR/CARI have received word that my DAR application is almost approved. As soon as it is, my 4 grandchildren are anxiously waiting to send in their CAR applications. Yesterday they attended their first CAR meeting. Mandy handed out programs, Stephen led the America's Creed and Donald was a flag bearer. Timmy was supposed to be the other flag bearer, but decided not to go. They were all adorable. his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-87678710814723136742007-04-11T21:47:00.000-04:002007-04-11T21:54:45.267-04:00Filing MemoriesWe all spend a lot of time looking for events from the everyday lives of our ancestors. But what we doing for our descendants? An easy way to preserve some memories for them is to just make a copy of every childhood (or adult for that matter) memory you enter onto the internet for any purpose. Discussion groups are good for this. A group of us who got to "know" one another through the his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1176247899408090892007-04-10T19:07:00.000-04:002007-04-10T19:31:40.906-04:00Where does the time go?I just noted with horror that I hadn't written in here since 2006. As a result, in addition to my time sheets for work, I made a list of the genealogy stuff I had done here and there. This led to a list of my current genealogical responsibilities. Then I could see why I never seem to get to my blog! I just have to make a determined effort to write every day, at least before i go to bed.
My his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1163362448536944922006-11-12T15:05:00.000-05:002006-11-12T15:14:17.740-05:00LEBBEUS HOWEI am printing here the beginning of my Howe Research Journal. Although this is only the second draft, so the writing could use a great deal of improvement, I believe the facts are here.
Identity of Lebbeus Howe The 1880 census lists two Lebbeus Howes; one in Fishkill, Dutchess County, with the right ages to be our ancestor and the other in Sharon, Connecticut. I have a Lebbeus Howe his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1163129023022377962006-11-09T22:22:00.000-05:002006-11-09T22:23:54.393-05:00SUSANNAH WILCOX'S DIVORCE FILE (from Mathew Smith CHAPEL)Divorce papers of Susannah Chapel v. Mathew Smith Chapel, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held in Lenox, Berkshire County, 1827, contain various documents of genealogical importance and historical interest. The papers are: Marriage certificate Mathew and Susannah (23 Feb 1816 Hillsdale February 23-1816 This is to certify that I have this day married Mathew Smith Chapel and his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1162346156961868302006-10-31T20:54:00.000-05:002006-10-31T20:55:57.250-05:00Top 10 Don'tsSuccess in genealogical research involves a lot of don'ts. I am going to list my top 10 don'ts which if followed should greatly aid the accuracy of your research.
1. Never believe anything from a printed genealogy or similar document no matter how good it is supposed to be, without consulting the original.
2. Don't believe a printed genealogy just because it purports to contain sources.his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1162168250114040542006-10-29T19:18:00.000-05:002006-10-30T17:42:16.933-05:00Where have I been?Although I have been very bad about writing in my blog, I have at least been doing some research, as seen by the posts of today. Blog time has become difficult as my grandchildren (with my daughter) all moved in with me when school started. Trying to organize my house to fit an additional 5 people when I had expanded my stuff over the entire premises is an ongoing challenge. It is complicated by his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1162166711876860202006-10-29T19:00:00.000-05:002006-10-29T19:05:11.943-05:00SUSANNAH WILCOX DIVORCES MATHEW CHAPEL Re: Breaking news re: Mathew!! To: Chapel List
On 10/27/06, Barbara de Mare <barbarademare@yahoo.com> wrote: I finally confirmed that Susannah Wilcox indeed divorced Mathew Smith Chapel by obtaining a copy of the divorce papers from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. They are a little hard to read, and I haven't had time to study them, but here is the jist:
Mathew Smith his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1162166352063477602006-10-29T18:57:00.000-05:002006-10-29T19:34:08.820-05:00SARAH (SMITH) CHAPEL, mother of MATHEW SMITH CHAPEL
In the fall of 2005, while in pursuit of the burial place, maiden name of wife #2, and other such information concerning the illusive Mathew Chapel, I noticed that there was a Sarah Chapel who had been buried in Stuyvesant, Columbia County, New York, in 1828 at 72 years of age. Mathew’s mother was Sarah (Smith) Chapel. Her husband, Richard Crignon Chapel, died in 1825, and the whereabouts his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1152669694094637002006-07-11T21:48:00.000-04:002006-07-11T22:01:34.460-04:00RUTGERS, MEYER, & Serendipity in Genealogical ResearchFor the last several days I have been following a thread on the Dutch-Colonies list entitled "Jan Willems Neering" family. At first I deleted the entries, then paid more attention as it seemed the Neerings might be related to the Van Alstynes of Kinderhook. The Van Alstyne conversation eventually petered out, with no help to me, anf the conversation went back to Jan Willemszen Neering and his his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1152644705121193042006-07-11T14:56:00.000-04:002006-07-11T15:06:46.163-04:00Grandchildren visitI have been very bad at writing in here lately. My excuse for the past week is that my 4 grandchildren were visiting while my daughter was in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada, taking an ecology class. Very little genealogy was accomplished, but we did visit 6 cemeteries at the request of the kids. They love cemeteries, especially the ones with mud puddles. I also took then to the Bronx Zoo, the his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1151193610302521692006-06-24T19:47:00.000-04:002006-06-24T20:00:12.896-04:00PELS, VAN WAGENERI have recently joined a few lists on rootsweb. The most active of those I joined are Rockland County, Dutchess County, and Dutch Colonies. All 3 mainly discuss Dutch families. I read them, check my database to see if I have the name, and then go on. Today, however, I found out why I bother.
A couple of days ago I had answered a post about an Evert Pels and his wife, who are my direct his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1150388968928271832006-06-15T12:28:00.000-04:002006-06-15T12:34:59.496-04:00PHILLIPS, McKENZIE, FERRY, FALESI had the strangest experience Sunday afternoon. I went with a few others to visit Bob Phillips, an old man who still lives in Stony Point, and knows a lot of the family history. Fist thing he said was that he had a letter from Barbara someone outlining many of the heirs of Thomas Phillips with dates of birth, death, etc. When his wife brought it to me to look at, my eyes almost bugged out of my his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1150235470565081522006-06-13T17:41:00.000-04:002006-06-13T17:52:39.613-04:00PHILLIPS-KNAPP WEBSITE & Organizational WoesI have been busy creating the new Phillips-Knapp website, so had little time for anything else. The URL for the site is:
www.tribalpages.com/tribes/phillipsknapp
I hope this entry comes out correctly. I have no idea why the last one refuses to format properly.
My niece Polly was here for the weekend, so we started another massive reorganization of my genealogy room. First stop: his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1149863560998142242006-06-09T10:20:00.000-04:002006-06-13T17:38:48.813-04:00Salt Point & other Dutchess County reminiscencesI know--my posting has been remiss as of late. I spent a week in Paris, and then had to try to catch up at work.
There has been a thread running through the Dutchess County list for the last two days about the history of the corner of Main and Catherine Sts in Poughkeepsie. At the same time, the Connecticut list has had a thread of reminiscences about life in a small Connecticut town in the 50shis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1148518497179840292006-05-24T20:51:00.000-04:002006-05-24T20:55:01.586-04:00VISITING MT. REPOSEAlthough I wrote this a few years ago, it seems an appropriate time to publish it on my blog. I have been informed that the man mentioned in the article is now one of the inhabitants of the cemetery--Mt. Repose or elsewhere--so no one should be offended.
On July 27, 2001, my sister Betty and I visited Mt. Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. This was our second visit having gone first in his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1148484922509505912006-05-24T11:28:00.000-04:002006-05-24T17:32:09.703-04:00ROCKLAND COUNTYIt's official--for better or worse. Last night I was elected President of the Genealogy Society of Rockland County. The gavel is turned over to me at the next meeting, Tuesday, June 27, 2006, at the New City Library, New City, New York.
I don't think there is a speaker scheduled for that meeting, so I should either find one fast or bring in goodies for a mini-party. If any of my friends and his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1148259121227637592006-05-21T20:47:00.000-04:002006-05-22T10:25:21.436-04:00EACKER, CHAPELThis is an entry from my Chapel Research journal for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />23 February 2006.<?xml:namespace prefix = o />
Another success story--this time with collaterals. I knew one of my Massachusetts Chapels, namely my 2G grandfather Richard Smith Chapel, married Amanda Eacker, a Palatine. They met as her brother John Eacker had already left the Mohawk Valley and moved to Brooklyn. his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1148254009892802202006-05-21T19:20:00.000-04:002006-05-21T19:26:50.090-04:00NO Genealogy weekendI seem not to have succeeded well in shprtening my blogs--I will try again this week. Meanwhile I did absolutely NO genealogy this weekend as I went to Baltimore to aniece's graduation from Loyola. In another 4 years I will have to go to her medical school graduation. I did give her a genealogy graduation present--an original edition of John Sanderson's "An American in Paris." (Sorry for thehis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1147905153768714952006-05-17T18:28:00.000-04:002006-05-17T18:32:33.960-04:00What happened to MATHEW CHAPEL? Family Tradition: Since I was a child I have heard that my third great grandfather Mathew Smith Chapel must have died young because his wife Susan (Wilcox) Chapel lived in Brooklyn with her son Richard Smith Chapel from Richard’s majority until Susan’s death. Mathew and Susan had married and had their children while residing in Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1147876877142305512006-05-17T10:38:00.000-04:002006-05-17T10:41:17.613-04:00Shortening my entriesDear Readers,
I see that my entries are way too long--I don't evedn have the patience to get through the whole thing. My efforts to divide up a long research question and provide all the background material ended up not sufficiently divided. I will try to do better in the future.
Tonight I will try to give you a break from Sanderson and talk about Chapels. I certainly hope it is shorter, or his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1147311077482884862006-05-10T21:01:00.000-04:002006-05-10T22:03:53.683-04:00The Mystery of the Parentage of John Sanderson, Part III: The Issues DefinedI have spent the evening working on an essay for my National Genealogical Society Home Study Course, but it is not yet in publishable form, so will contine with the John Sanderson saga. The essay will have to wait until another day to appear on this blog.
So far we have just quoted two secondary sources concerning the parentage of John Sanderson, and come up with different answers. More his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1147222193646939412006-05-09T19:00:00.000-04:002006-05-10T21:43:47.540-04:00The Mystery of the Parentage of John Sanderson: Part II The McCormick Genealogy Another family historian of the same era gives a different wife for William and thus mother of our John Sanderson. Although this book (the "McCormick book") deals primarily with McCormicks, it also contains a large section entitled "Alexander Sanderson and His Descendants." (pp431ff)
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"I. his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1147126571304625042006-05-08T17:46:00.000-04:002006-05-08T18:45:51.176-04:00The Mystery of the Parentage of John Sanderson: Part I (Camilla Sanderson, Sarah Stratton Carpenter, Mary Howell Washburn, Louis Washburn Fish)John Sanderson, one of my 3G grandfathers, is one of those interesting characters of whom Gen. Louis Henry Carpenter wrote extensively, and I always assumed his history was correct. That is, until this past Christmas vacation when I was working on DAR applications, and looked to see if he had Revolutionary War antecedents. Not only was that question not answered, but the identity of his parentagehis gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1147095813329994882006-05-08T09:42:00.000-04:002006-05-08T09:43:33.350-04:00Lost willI transcribed a will yesterday to put in here last night, but it disappeared into cyberspace so will have to do it again!his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1146971055711660952006-05-06T23:03:00.000-04:002006-05-06T23:04:15.720-04:00Still trying to make this work. Now comments can be left if you click on "Archives." Only the first post shows up otherwise. I am really technologically challenged--this shouldn't be so difficult!his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1146968184641476352006-05-06T22:02:00.000-04:002006-05-06T22:16:24.653-04:00Getting started; fun genealogy dayHopefully I will be able to get this blog to work right. I was informed that comments couldn't be left, so hope I have solved that problem.. When I looked to see how to solve it, I also couldn't figure out how to post. If you are reading this, I at least managed to post. One of the major points of the blog is to permit comments, so hopefully that will now work. If not, I will get one of my his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27615267.post-1146881302596299202006-05-05T22:03:00.000-04:002006-05-05T22:08:22.596-04:00My blog created; New Jersey research, CarpentersThis has been a bad genealogy day. All I have done is set up this site--hopefully successfully. My children both have blogs and tell me it is easy to do, so this is my attempt.
Although I have done nothing today (or yesterday for that matter), I devoted almost all of Wednesday to genealogy and New Jersey history. I wanted to attend a lecture at the New Jersey Archives on East and West Jersey his gene, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06096050452942561737noreply@blogger.com2