April 2010 Blog Posts (76)

Time to review what I thought I knew about Robert Forscutt and his sister Elizabeth. The family wedding (from which I have a photo showing Robert) took place in the September quarter of 1902. My great aunt, from whom I obtained the photo, was not born until 1904, so she could not have been present at the wedding. On the other hand, she would have known many of the family members who were there. Eileen's mother did not die until 1953 and her sister was alive until 1973. Eileen could have been…

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I have added some more Hooper photos, if anyone would like to look at them. I am scanning and posting them on,so, I am getting them on slowly. Keep looking for new pictures.

Charles is the third child of Edwin Lee. As in the blog about Edwin he didn't show up in any Federal Census until the 1870s. He was married to Elizabeth Van Norwick and they lived in Binghamton NY. He was an Engineer but I'm not sure which railroad company he worked for while in New York.

He had two daughters born in New York - Alice and Sadie Feiam. Alice was born in January 1876 and Sadie in 1881.



My cousin and I surmised the reason he moved to Minnesota was…

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A few days ago, I had a patron at the Mesa Regional Family History

Center ask me about a problem she was having with New FamilySearch.

She had a huge pile of printouts from her Personal Ancestral File

program and was methodically going through each one and comparing the

information to that found in New FamilySearch. She was… Continue

Fast work and an immediate response from the staff at GenealogyWise

seems to have stemmed the tide of spam for the time being. Thanks to

their rapid response, the issue was resolved by having the blog posts

reviewed before going online. I might suggest that given some time,

there could be a way to automate that procedure by having a holding file

where the titles and text could be reviewed more rapidly. It… Continue

GenealogyWise is a really

dynamic and useful social networking site for genealogists.

GenealogyWise is part of FamilyLink which if you keep tracing back

through links, is basically Paul Allen and his staff who also run

WorldVitalRecords and a lot more. Many of the members post all or part

of their own blogs on the GenealogyWise blog posts. Lately, the blog

posts coming through Google Reader have been hijacked by spam drug

sellers. My… Continue

We've submitted bylaws for approval, and now the proposed chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists in Second Life (APG-SL) will be having our third meeting, tonight, Thursday, April 7, at 5:30 pm Second Life time (which is Pacific Time). In keeping with the goals of the organization, we will be having a presentation by a very well-known speaker, on Revolutionary War Research. Members and non-members are invited to attend this presentation.… Continue

On Wednesday 28 October 2009, the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance announced the state’s annual “Seven to Save” campaign and the First Parish Church in East Derry earned a spot on the list. The First Parish congregation has been in Derry since the original Scots Irish settlers held a religious meeting of thanksgiving under a tree in…

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A recent blogger here mentioned something about research findings that make your hair stand on end. I'm wondering how many people have a particular affinity for something, especially historically-speaking, and then later discover in genealogical research that their ancestor was involved in what you show an affinity for. I don't mean talent, like in music or art or something.



Here's an example. Since I was kid, I always liked and felt strongly about the events in the book and movies… Continue

I guess the first thing I have learned is that there are a lot more

blogs than I have time to read. I keep finding new ones all the time and

get more and more amazed at the tremendous variety of genealogical

experiences. I have learned that blogging is takes the place of the old

home town newspaper on an international scale. The posts give you

insight into people's lives all over the world. Today's report on Google

Analytics shows my posts being read in 39… Continue

It has now been a number of months since I junked my PC and went back to

working almost exclusively on an Apple Macintosh iMac. I say

that my work is almost exclusive because I still own a PC Laptop from

HP. I use the laptop to run my scanning station. I mentioned from time

to time that I am running a program called Parallels Desktop. I have worked on

literally… Continue

Well, we all know co-incidences happen, but sheesh, just lately genealogically speaking they're jumping out at me. For instance. Continue

I first met the Forscutt family more than forty years ago when I began my interest in family history. My grandmother knew that her mother's maiden name was Forscutt. She thought her grandmother was named Elizabeth, but couldn't remember her grandfather's name. She knew her mother's date of birth, so I obtained her birth certificate and discovered she was illegitimate. This was not something a teenage boy wished to discuss with his Victorian grandmother, so the certificate was quietly placed…

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With a lot of help from Luc Comeau at Millenia with Legacy Family Tree, I

finally got the program up and running with New FamilySearch. I

will work on RootsMagic

next,… Continue

New FamilySearch

(NFS)

has just completed a major change in its Application Programming

Interface or API.

Because of this change all of the programs that connect to NFS were

required to upgrade to adapt to the changes. All… Continue

Once or twice a month I teach a class on Google for Genealogy. At the

beginning of each section, I always ask the class members about their

previous experience with various Google features including Google Maps,

Google Books, Google News, Blogs and many other apps and features. In

many cases, my questions draw a complete blank. No one in the class has

ever tried or even knew about the feature or function. This is

interesting because almost every person in every… Continue