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I know my Great Grandfather, Frank, was born in Union County. And I know he died there in 1964.
But after researching and exploring his life's story through the documents, I learned:
He was a Machinist in his early years, then became a Taxi Driver.
He had an 8th Grade Education which I know is
for that time period.
He was living as a child in the Tavern owned by his grandfather, then lived in a house in a neighboring
town until he married....
Then he and his wife moved into the Tavern and had their first 3 children while living there.
I never met him and have only seen a couple of
pictures from when he was old - but I know as a
young man he was tall, slender and had brown hair
and brown eyes.
I know he died a widower at age 68 of pneumonia.
My great grandmother, his wife, died 14 years before him and he lived with his youngest daughter and her family.
That's so much more fulfilling then:
BORN 1896 UNION COUNTY, DIED 1964 UNION COUNTY.
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Simply Henry...
“6 Things about Family History Genealogy Research that
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6-THINGS:
1. Your Ancestor spelled his last name differently in different censuses!
Why did my 2X Great Grandfather spell KICHAS as KITCHES at different times?!
Maybe he was a psychic Prankster who knew it would drive me nuts 100 years in the future!
2. Records that record only the first initial instead of a full first name.
It’s happened to me many times and I wonder why it was done. When I was first starting out many years ago, my 3X Great Grandfather listed for his wife as “P. Voorhis” in the Census.
In the next census his wife was “M. Voorhis.” I came to learn that “P” was for Polly and the “M” for Mary (which are practically interchangeable)
3. SLOPPY Handwriting by the person recording.
For occupation I had one ancestor listed as either a SAWYER or a LAWYER.
I located a photograph of him, seated behind a large, intricately carved desk and huge bookshelf. That made up my mind – He wasn’t a Sawyer!
4. Ancestors who thought it was just fine to start using their Middle Name as their First given name.
Back to my tricky Voorhis family – I knew from my Great Grandmother’s Bible that her father’s name was James Voorhis… and that HIS father was James Voorhis and HIS father
(yep, you guessed it)
was also named James Voorhis.
But I could not find these 3 James’ in the area I knew they were in. Being inexperienced, it took me many years to find that each of these men went solely by their Middle Names!
Even in death, on James Henry Voorhis’ grave, it simply reads, “Henry Voorhis.” [see pic]
5. Getting conflicting information from family members that does not match the recorded version of events.
My Grandmother told me she married in 1939 and my first uncle was born in 1940.
Then why in the 1940 US Federal Census is my grandfather listed as Single and living at home with his parents and siblings?
6. Finding out the Event Did Not Take Place after you spent decades looking for a record of it!
When I first started my Genealogy in 1979 it was because I found my Great Grandmother’s Bible in an old cedar chest in my grandmother’s attic.
My great grandmother was spoken about with such reverence I just knew she was a Saintly Woman.
When I began the search for her Marriage Record, I could find none. I went through every possible scenario for YEARS.
I even worked for a while at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and if I couldn’t find there – THEN WHERE?!
My grandmother (her daughter) sensing my desperate frustration finally revealed this fact to me:
Although my Great Grandparents were together for more than 40 years and had 11 children, they ‘Never Quite Made it to the Justice of the Peace” and just lived together as husband and wife through all of those years.
No matter how hard I looked NO MARRIAGE RECORD WOULD BE FOUND!
It was actually a relief!
I think nothing less of my Great Grandmother. Marriage Record or not, she still holds the Saintly Woman position in my opinion.
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Growing up in a Multi-Generational African American household my Great Aunts & my Grandmother always filled my head with stories that I often wondered were based in Fact or just something they wanted (me/them) to believe.
One was that my 2X Great Uncle was the 1st Black Man to own a barber shop in his county in the 1930’s & 40’s.
I wondered if that could be true – a black man owning his own shop at that time period?
Well, Sandra put that issue to rest with showing me that he did indeed own his Barber shop. It really created a sense of pride in me.
Sandra provided a lot of detail that let me imagine the story of my forefathers. She followed so many branches and got me so many stories.
I was quite surprised at how much she was able to find and put together in a limited # of hours.
I didn’t have much information to go on but it was a very successful project.
Working with Sandra was a very pleasant experience. She was very friendly and very interested in my family.
I definitely got my money’s worth – and much more! Her pricing is beyond amazing and her dedication really shines through!
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Military records can provide valuable information for genealogy research. These records can often provide information on the veteran as well as on all members of the family.
Some types of military records that can be useful for genealogy research include compiled service records, pension applications and pension payment records, and bounty land records.
Compiled service records consist of an envelope containing card abstracts taken from muster rolls, returns, pay vouchers, and other records. They can provide information such as your ancestor’s rank, unit, date mustered in and mustered out, basic biographical information, medical information, and military information.
Pension application files usually provide the most genealogical information. These files often contain supporting documents such as narratives of events during service, marriage certificates, birth records, death certificates, pages from family Bibles, family letters, depositions of witnesses, affidavits, discharge papers and other supporting papers .
Bounty land warrant application files relate to claims based on wartime service between 1775 and March 3, 1855. If your ancestor served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, early Indian Wars or the Mexican War, a search of these records may be worthwhile. Bounty land records often contain documents similar to those in pension files with lots of genealogical information.
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Sandra did a fantastic job researching my husband's family history!
~She did so much more than just complete his family tree.
~ Included in my e-book were
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*census reports,
*birth and
*death certificates, etc.
~ Sandra painted a picture of the lives of ancestors, whenever possible, rather than just dates of birth and death.
~ She was reasonably priced and responded quickly to my questions and concerns while researching.
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Rudolph Fox 6X
2012
James Henry Voorhis 3X
2008
Cole Cemetery
Towanda 1993
WALKING WHERE YOUR ANCESTORS WALKED -
These are just ‘some’ of the trips I’ve taken over the past decades to ~~ Honor my Ancestors. ~~
When I am there, I am on
“Sacred and Hallowed Ground.”
I am ***Walking Where My Ancestors Walked.***
100 , maybe 200+ Years Before the Family Members [**MY** FAMILY MEMBERS]
stood on that
***EXACT SAME GROUND***
as they bid good-bye to their Mother, Father, Child, etc.
What did they look like?
How did they Act?
[were they wailing or were the stoic?]
What were they thinking [How will I get along without him/her/ ?]
I want to Know EVERYTHING ~
Who designed the headstone?
Why does it say,
“OUR BELOVED HEAD”
on the stone of 3x Great Grandfather, William Jennings?
Does ANYONE ELSE ever come to visit?
6X Great Grandfather - Rudolph Fox - died in 1806 when he fell through the Ice while Fishing.
Over 200+ Years have passed. It is nearly a 4 hour ride for me to go and honor him.
Who, if anyone, has been to his grave in the last 100 years?
I feel tremendous ~~PEACE~~~ when I am there.
I AM ~~CERTAIN~~ THE ANCESTORS KNOW WE ARE THERE!
They are waiting for Us on the Other Side to Greet Us,
~~GRATEFUL to Have been REMEMBERED!~~
That Day I Walk Where my Ancestors Walked.
My Footsteps trace theirs.
Until I meet them on the Other Side, this is as close as I will come to meeting them….
~~~And it is Glorious!~~~
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My Great Aunt Joan just turned 90. She is my Grandmother’s Youngest Sister.
My Grandmother died before I could ask her so many things, but from Joan I learned what my Great-Great Grandmother (Joan’s Grandmother – Catherine B**** (1861-1949) was like.
I learned that she was an amazing cook and that her best dish was pork with cabbage. She was a hard worker, raising her family and helping on the Farm. She LOVED her Grandchildren.
Shown Here is my 2X Great Grandmother, Catherine holding Joan’s sister, Mary Theresa, as an Infant. She helped her daughter, Elizabeth out (Joan’s Mother) as much as she could.
If you are FORTUNATE to have such a LIVING LIBRARY as I have Great Aunt Joan - Call that person TODAY (Seriously – TODAY!).
Tell them you want to interview them. Most would be flattered and love to help. Who doesn’t want to talk about themselves for an hour or two??
It would be very helpful to send them the Questions you will be asking in advance – so they can get their thoughts together. You can mail/email/ or read them the questions over the phone. You can conduct the interview over the phone, but in person is preferable.
If you do go in person, take a LOT of pictures! Ask in advance for them to bring out any old photos, documents, etc. Then YOU can take pictures of them.
Maybe this relative will sense your devotion to your Family’s History and GIVE you some of these Precious Items. A the least Maybe he/she will let you borrow them to scan them. THIS HAPPENED TO ME – AND IN MY NEXT BLOG I WILL TELL YOU THE WONDROUS STORY OF “***THE*** PICTURE – QUEST OF A LIFETIME = SOLVED!
There are many facets to working on your Genealogy. This is a very important one. It is Time-Sensitive - to get your Ancestry questions answered... to have someone who who will help you, "Find my Past, Find My Heritage." It is a Family Search like none other.
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THE Bible
of Emma
My 3X Great Grandfather
William Jennings
The Birth of a Genealogist
It was these very pages from my Great-Grandmother's Bible - Emma Corlena Voorhis Jennings, (1889-1964) Bradford County, Pennsylvania... that started my unquenchable thirst for the *Knowledge of My Ancestors.*
After finding Emma's Bible in my Grandmother's cedar chest in the dusty old attic I became obsessed with Family History. I was a child of 12 years old.
I would beg my Grandmother to tell me EVERYTHING she could about "William Jennings 1821-1872" - and everyone else written under him.
Soon I began to write every detail. With my 1st job at age 16 I did not spend my salary on clothes and shoes as a typical teen girl. NO, I was spending my money to order *Death Certificates* and the like.
By my early 20's, as I was moving into my own home as a new bride, I had BINDERS and MILK CRATES filled with Genealogical Treasures.
Now in my 50's (while much is on the computer) I have FILING CABINETS, bursting with the *Stories of My Ancestors.*
If ***YOU*** have that Burning Desire, I want to help YOU!
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(oh, btw, William Jennings was a Tailor in Mehoopany, Wyoming County, PA. He also owned a Hotel for a number of years prior to his death).
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***SUCCESS STORY - ***Kawaan’s Story****
I’m African American and I ’’ hesitated researching my Family Tree’’ because I just didn’t think I’d find much
(think slavery and the poor way blacks were treated even after the Civil War).
I looked into a couple of Genealogist but they literally wanted
***between $1,000 - $2,500*** to START!
and that was something I just could not afford.
And one of them told me that after I gave her the information NOT to contact her back until 1 month?? That’s not how I would have wanted to work. I would want to be a part of it.
I say Sandra was a
“GOD-SEND”
because right after I spoke to that Genealogist I started plugging away at it again and Sandra’s site popped up.
It was wordy, but I liked the words I read:
“This is a Journey We Will Take Together,”
And then the price!
I was sold and called her.
We took the ‘journey’ together, and despite my ancestors being slaves, --
Sandra got my family back to 1795 --
(to the slave - owner that impregnated my many-times Great Grandmother).
******** She figured out some pretty tricky situations*****
and she gave me a
***32-page report with records and stories.
It was all written out – easy to grasp.
There were obituaries, pictures of gravestones I’d otherwise never have been able to see, even an article on my 2nd great uncle being killed by getting run over by a bus in Chicago.
I can’t count the times we talked on the phone through-out the making of my tree.
I wanted the Good/The Bad/ and the Ugly that came up with the slavery issue.
She gave it all to me.
It turned out that some of my Own Ancestors were slave owners.
While it was upsetting to learn, it’s a part of who I am.
The $money I spent on Sandra was **WELL WORTH IT – MANY TIMES OVER.***
I have 3 kids under the age of 7 and I can’t wait for them to be able to understand this so I can share it.
If you’re “ON THE FENCE” about hiring Sandra - get down & Call her!
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My Family
My Family of Long Ago
Voorhis
WHEN YOUR GENEALOGY IS 'THAT' IMPORTANT!
Everyday I get calls of people asking, "Can you help me find my Heritage?" They must know their Ancestry...
And I can totally relate to that.
Yesterday a gentleman called my office because he wanted me to Research his mother's side of the family. He told me that it was not just a 'curiosity for her --
That it was a Burning and Passionate NEED. She NEEDS to know her Family History.
When Family History is Center to your goals, you might get carried away and buy subscriptions to a bunch of Research sites You may begin to spend many hours a day on your computer conducting family searches, not even sure you have the right people,
OR - Even Worse - you might start taking wrong hints and adding them to your tree.
BEWARE -
just one Wrong Link and it can have a disastrous result -
resulting in you having delete what you thought was correct, and now start that branch over.
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Someone whose Passion RIVALS or even EXCEEDS yours!
Someone who has excellent reviews, and someone who is willing to take the time to listen to you - hear your goals and is eager to jump on the ship and set sailing!
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Next to my current Family, my ancestry is the most important thing to me. If you are feeling the same, reach out to me and we can start to discuss YOUR goals - What it is YOU MUST Know!
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You Know the Game -- A Message is whispered into the 1st Person’s ear and by the time it gets to the End Person ---- the Message is NOT the Same!
What ~~FAMILY HISTORY/Ancestry~~ Stories has this happened to in YOUR FAMILY?
How much of What we Believe about our Families is NOT ACCURATE???
My Mother’s Maiden Name is Carter -- So we were told we were related to President Jimmy Carter…. Decades of Research Disproved this Myth.
On my Great Grandmother’s Death Certificate it lists her Parents to be the GRANDPARENTS of her Husband!
My Great Uncle, in his grief while filling out the Certificate gave the names which he had heard spoken while growing up. What a Genealogy NIGHTMARE this would have been if I hadn’t had 1st Hand Knowledge!.
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Who Provided the Information?
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Elzbieta
Walter & Joseph
Only 1 Survived
As ~MOTHER’S DAY~ Approaches I think of the Women in My FAMILY TREE and what I know about their Mothering.
The most Significant Story I know of is of my Paternal Great Grandmother, Elzbieta Kichute.
She came from Eastern Europe in 1907. She married my Great Grandfather, Jurgis, back home in 1904 at age 16.
He left to start life in Wilkes Barre, PA and would send for her as soon as things were settled.
She joined him in January 1907. Not long after Walter was born – then came Joseph.
But not knowing my Great Grandfather that well – things turned badly soon. It turned out Jurgis had a severe drinking problem.
Enter the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. My grandfather is born to Elzbieta and Jurgis in February. The 1st week of November Jurgis comes home Drunk Again. Elzbieta locks him out on a cold night.
He is weakened, contracts the 1918 Flu and is dead by November 7th.
Elzbieta, a Widow with 3 young boys, does not speak English and has no real way to support herself and her sons.
She begins to take in the neighbor’s Laundry and gets a job as a Hotel Servant.
Things start to look up a bit in 1922 when she remarries Pijus. They have twin sons. But they are still very poor and, as my grandfather related to me, that one of the twins developed pneumonia because the house was always so cold.
The baby succumbed shortly after this picture was taken. Pijus died just a few years later.
Elzbieta gave up her life in her homeland, hoping for a great life in America – she gave up her family, everything she knew. And it turned out tragically.
She was grief stricken the rest of her life. She died at age 58 in 1946.
I live nearly 3 hours drive from her resting place, but I try to visit her at least twice a year. I stand at her grave and ponder the strong woman she was – KNOWING that one day I will meet her… and she will be waiting for me – with Open Arms – Knowing She has been Remembered all of these years.
Our ancestors only Truly Die when we no longer speak of them or think of them. I keep as many Ancestors of mine alive by keeping my FAMILY TREE.
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# 1 From Kevin C. Williams
"This is my Paternal great grandfather Garfield Williams Sr, and his grandson Keith.
My great grandfather was born September 19, 1888 in Pasquotank County, NC, and died April 16, 1967 in Chesapeake, VA.
Garfield Sr. was married to Lou Carter, the father of seven children, six girls, and one boy. He was a tobacco farmer, and a delivery man for Birchard Dairy Company.
This picture was taken June 5, 1960 in South Norfolk, Virginia."
Thanks to Kevin for Sharing!
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From her Father
James W Voorhiis
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WHAT I WISH -
I wish there was an affordable Genealogy resource service when I started to try and find my past. When I began the search for my heritage I was on my own. I had to do my family search with little genealogy resources.
There were no online genealogy resources. There were not even computers! It was 1979 and I'll tell you what there was a LOT of: YELLOW LEGAL NOTE PADS on which to copy the plentiful notes from my Great Grandmother's Bible - Emma Corlena Voorhis.
It was seeing HER Handwriting in the back of that Bible, "William Jennings - 1821-1872" that sparked my overwhelming desire to know more about my ancestors.
Also tucked inside the pages was, what I thought to be ancient - some pages written by Emma's father -James Voorhis (1845-1915) that listed all of his children's dates/places as well as a 1909 Letter he wrote to his daughter, Mattie Isabelle Wing in which he wrote that he repaired a piece of equipment for a customer first thing in the morning - earning .$25 Cents before breakfast... and that the neighbors were papering their dining room.
It was fascinating to me and I cherish it to this day - 43 years ago!
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Edward Matthew
Rest in Peace
Grandma & Grandpa
Grandpa’s Birthday – 104!
How I wish he was still here to Celebrate ~
February 24, 1918 Edward Matthew was born to Elzbieta and Jurgis.
What it was a THRILL for me the day I received a Copy of his Birth Certificate – it was a paper I’d come to treasure throughout many decades.
I was just a kid and not my brother or sister, or even my parents could understand the Dance of Joy I did when I got it.
But more joyful was life with Ed, Sheik as my Grandmother would call him.
Oh the things he did to entertain (torture) us grandkids. And we delighted in every moment we were blessed with him. – The fake skulls stuck up on sticks that he’d go outside and hold through the window to scare us… The scary masks, etc. We always knew it was him.
Grandpa had a rough life. His father, Jurgis, would die in the 1918 flu pandemic when he was 8 months old, leaving Elzbieta with 3 young sons.
They were poor – Newspaper in Shoes Poor – being sent to the Coal mines in Wilkes Barre PA to steal coal to warm the house.
When he met Grandma Jessie things turned around. They moved to Newark, NJ where Grandpa had a good job and they went on to raise two sons and a daughter.
When Grandma died in 1984 at just 60, Grandpa fell into a deep depression that he’d never come out of until they finally met again in 2006.
I know they are both waiting to greet me when it’s my time to go there. I feel their Spirits now, as I write this and reflect on the significant impact they had on my life.
While I miss him, I know he is happy with Grandma now!
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My Mother-in-Law
I wished I asked So Much More!
My Grandparents
who I interviewed the heck out of!
SO MUCH MORE THAN STATISTICS!
Have you ever seen those cards (or even posts on the internet) where it gives you your YEAR OF BIRTH then everything about it –
Average Income
Cost of a Loaf of Bread
Price of a Postage Stamp
Top Movie of the Year,
Etc., etc.
I find those fascinating and I don’t just look at mine; I look up my parents and grandparents
and try to get a glimpse into what life may have been like for them… BUT How So Much I Wish I had asked them to tell me about their lives when they were still on this earth.
If your Parents are still alive – Or even more blessed
– Your Grandparents (or even Aunts & Uncles)
FIND THESE ANSWERS NOW!
You will never regret getting this information, but you WILL REGRET NOT GETTING IT when they are gone.
What will help you understand your parents’ or grandparents’ lives better?
Yes, the stats above are interesting, but is that really it? NO, of course not!
For tips on INTERVIEWING a Family Member, go to the FAQ Page on my website
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Elzbieta & Jurgis
Did She Already Know?
Widowed - 3 Sons
Wilkes-Barre PA 1918
PERCEPTIONS ~~ IS WHAT WE BELIEVE THE WAY IT WAS?
~~Alcohol~~+ ~~the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic~~ = ~~a Widow with 3 Young Sons ….~~=A Story **Proven Untrue Decades Later**
Do you think they ever thought of us? Did they wonder “What will my descendants think of me? Did they want to live their lives worthy of the anticipated respect? How are WE living?
Will our descendants be proud of us?
~~My great grandfather came to this country in 1905. He and my great grandmother, Elzbieta, married in the old country in 1904 when she was just 16 years old. He came first to America and she joined him 2 years later.
~They had 3 sons.
But family lore says he had a
~~serious drinking problem. ~~
And in **November of 1918** my great grandmother had enough.
He came home *drunk again* and she locked him out.
He became sick that night and died shortly after.
That is what I always heard as a child
– a fascinating story…
Now she was a widow with 3 sons, my grandfather being just 8 months old.
But when I started my genealogy, I saved enough from my minimum wage-teenage job to order his death certificate.
~~“ENDEMIC FLU”~~
it said (Spanish Flu Pandemic in Pennsylvania) .
??? Was the story a
^^^Cautionary Tale,^^^
told by Elzbieta to steer her sons from alcohol????
My grandfather had no idea of this when I showed him the certificate.
Did Elzbieta ***color the way*** her sons would grow up thinking about their father?
Did she do the right thing?
What will our descendants think of us?
~~What kind of ancestor will we be? ~~
Let’s pledge right now to be worthy of being remembered!
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Grandfather was a Tailor!
THE BALTIC CONNECTION: - by Carrie D.
I had been searching for my heritage since I was a young girl.
I knew my Grandfather came to the US from the Baltic's in the early 1900’s.
He was my Dad’s dad and I wanted to know more about him. (I already knew a lot on that grandmother).
I contacted Sandra and she told me that she did not specialize in Eastern Europe and I was very disappointed because her pricing and reviews were so excellent.
I asked her if she could try to find ANYTHING at all about him. She relented and told me she would not recommend that I take her 6-Hour Special but rather just go with 2 or 3 hours. I thought that was very honest of her and was just relieved she was going to try.
When she called me with what she found I was astounded –
Keep in mind - I knew Nothing but his name, & death date --
I now know the date he arrived, the Ship he came on, his Father’s name, What town he came from (she even gave me a 2 page summary about that town and what it was like in that era), that his Brother-in-law paid his passage, what his occupation was (a tailor) all of his addresses in the US, a newspaper article about him speaking at the local High School about careers, his obituary, a picture of his headstone.
I was so excited and made a Memory Board of him that proudly hangs on my wall.
It was an amazing experience – and it was a Small amount of the cost of what I would have paid to some of the other genealogists out there.
I’m really happy that I didn’t give up.
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Hmm? She's younger here??
Vanity
James Henry Voorhis
Thorn in my Side!
"I FOUND MY ANCESTORS IN THE CENSUS!!! I'M SAVED!"
Hold your Horses there:
Please keep in mind:
Federal censuses are mostly reliable but vary depending on the knowledge of the informant and the care of the census enumerator.
Information may have been given to a census taker by *any member of the family or even by a neighbor.*
Some information may have been *incorrect or even deliberately falsified.*
Some people may have changed their age so they could get married, participate in or avoid the military , vanity, etc.
It's not uncommon to see women shave a decade or more off their age from their first census til their last.
Marriage information could be falsified to make a baby appear legitimate.
Census takers missed people, misheard people and were sometimes just not thorough. This can present some challenges.
Ancestors could also prove difficult - In one census they may have used their given name, and in the next one used a Middle name, nickname or a different spelling.
When I started my Genealogy in 1979 I knew my 2nd Great Grandfather was James Voorhis... and HIS father was James Voorhis, and HIS father was also (you guessed it) James Voorhis.
I had my Great Grandma's Bible as well as documents written by my 2nd Great Grandfather telling me all this. As I got older and began looking for documents on my 3 James', I could find none! WHAT?!!
It took years to put together and a year of working at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City to find that each James went only by his MIDDLE name.
In Census and nearly every other record. Even in death, as you see, I'm sitting next to the grave of HENRY VOORHIS (James Henry). Even in Death he simply went by, "HENRY."
While these issues bring challenges, I have been doing this since 1979 and have decades of experience to work through such issues.
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Jurgis Bluvas
***Is it Just NAMES / DATES / PLACES ??
NO, DON’T LET IT BE ...
Is that all you would want YOUR Descendants to know about you?
My Great Grandfather died **7 November 1918.** That fills in the Pedigree Chart -
but how much more ? satisfying ? is it to know that he died in the ***SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC*** (SEE DEATH CERTIFICATE) Just 8 Months after my Grandfather was born, leaving my Great Grandmother, a Lithuanian Immigrant WIDOWED, with 3 young sons.
That's So Much More than His Names & Dates.
When I Wrote My 1st Family History Book I INTERVIEWED *EVERYONE* I possibly could in my Family -.
I wanted to know what THEY Remembered about Grandma, Great Grandpa, if perhaps they ever heard Grandma speak of "HER" parents - Any piece of information I could possibly get.
I didn't (don't) just want to fill in a Pedigree Chart.
I ** NEED** to ** UNDERSTAND** WHO these Ancestors were. **What was their job? **Where did they live? ** HOW MANY KIDS DID THEY HAVE??!!!
When a Client Hires Me to Trace ***THEIR FAMILY TREE***, I give it as Much Detail as Possible so they can gain an understanding of who their ancestors were.
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~~THE PICTURE~~
Not long after my strong interest in Genealogy developed at the age of 12, I was at my Grandparents house when my Grandfather came home from a short trip. He, my Grandmother, my father and an aunt or uncle or two were sitting around the kitchen table discussing who my Grandfather had just visited in Connecticut (We’re in NJ).
There was no room for me at the table, but I heard a good part of the discussion. Grandpa had a cousin, Joseph K***** in CT that he had either just met for the 1st time or had just seen for the 1st time in a while.
THEN HE PULLED OUT A POLAROID SNAPSHOT!... The ooooh’s and aaaahhhs’. I just HAD TO see it and somehow weaseled my way to the folder Grandpa was carrying it in.
My Life Would Change when I Opened the Folder and looked at *THE* PICTURE.
The picture Grandpa had was a snapshot of the very large picture of my Ancestors From LITHUANIA that his cousin, Joseph K****** had in his possession.
My 2nd Great Grandmother was seated and surrounded by her 3 children. It was obvious the Original picture was in bad shape, but I didn’t care. I WAS GOING TO HAVE THAT PICTURE SOMEDAY – I VOWED TO MYSELF!!
Joseph K was never mentioned again, but the thought of obtaining that picture was seared into my heart. I was obsessed with the thought of owning it one day. It became one of my strongest desires in life and throughout the years of Marrying, Raising my Twin Sons, etc., the thought never left my head or heart.
Fast Forward 24 Years and I author a book about my Dad’s Side of the Family. It’s the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, 2008. My phone rings and I see on the Caller ID - ***JOSEPH K***!!!
I seriously almost fainted. Before the person on the other end of the phone could even say Hello, I went into some kind of TIZZY and just Blurted Out::: “THERE’S A PICTURE, FROM LITHUANIA I SAW AS A CHILD. DO YOU KNOW WHERE IT IS OR ANYTHING ABOUT IT??!! “”
The woman’s voice said some of the sweetest words I’d ever hear… “YES, I HAVE THE PICTURE AND I WANT ‘YOU’ TO HAVE IT. I LEARNED YOU WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THE FAMILY AND I THINK SOMEONE SO DEVOTED SHOULD HAVE THE PICTURE.””
She went on to explain that her father, THE Joseph K*****, passed away and she found the picture in a closet. She didn’t know the people in it (It was her father’s father in there) and she heard from a distant relative that I had wanted and talked about that picture for YEARS…
She was in Connecticut, about 3 hours away. I asked her when could I come get it. She said Anytime. I asked her to hold just a moment. I ran to my husband and eagerly shouted, “Can you take me to CT tomorrow; I’ll explain why later.” He said yes and the next morning I met my Cousin Carrie K***** for the first time.
Thirteen Years Later we still speak on the phone at least 2-3 per week and I am the Godmother of her youngest son.
Not only did Carrie so generously give me the picture I had desired a life-time, she also gave me a handkerchief and small purse that her Grandfather brought over from Lithuania when he arrived here in 1913. I was awed at her generosity.
Making it known to your Family that YOU TREASURE all the details, all the artifacts – Anything and Everything about YOUR FAMILY – can open many passageways.
I not only own *THE* Picture (which you can see here I have had restored), but both sides of my family pass down the pictures, the documents, the Memorabilia to me.
***I am the Keeper of the Keys to My Family’s History.*** And I open the lock and invite all Family Members in…
I URGE YOU to Become the Keeper of YOUR FAMILYS’ KEYS. Genealogy is my JOY! - If it is YOURS, LET IT BE KNOWN!
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Polaroid of Original
Restored
GENEALOGY BRICK WALLS & THEIR BENEFITS!
Doing your own Family Tree Research Genealogy can be a
Daunting task!
I’ve been at my own since 1979 and still have Brick Walls!
But I have 8 Great Grandparents; 16 2xGreat Grandparents; 32 3X Great Grandparents and it keeps doubling.
That’s a LOT of ancestors!
So when I hit a brick wall, rather than bang my head against it, I went AROUND it. And, by doing so I found such rich history.
One big genealogic discovery came when I came to my 6th Great Grandfather on my paternal Grandfather. Feeling the frustration starting to bring me down, I looked to his wife, my 6th Great Grandmother from whom I get just as much DNA.
Well, following her line I ended up in 1354 with OWAIN GLYNDWR, my 18th Great Grandfather. Who was Owain? Well he was the Last Native Prince of Wales who led Welsh Rebellion of the Welsh against English rule in September 1400.
And guess what?!- September 16th is Owain Glyndwr day in Wales – with Parades and Festivals to honor my 18th Great Grandfather!
There are many things named for him – University, Streets, Hotels, Pubs, as well as many statues.
Had I continued to bang my head against #6, would this wonderful history ever come to light?
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