Answered: Newt Rogers-50382 ... my brickwall ancestor

Hi Phyllis,

Not sure how William Davis is your brickwall, since you already have his parents and wife and you have contributed to his & his parents FamilyTree ID K8C8-R9S.  Are you really looking higher up your tree to Edmund's parents, or???

I am so confused

I'm researching John Jay Ward. It's bad enough that his records are confusing, but his father's records are way more confusing. I need someone smarter than me to make sense of these records.

According to Peter Ward's death certificate he was married to Delia Ward née McGonigle. But according to his headstone, his wife's name was Bridget. AND I have a marriage record for Peter Ward and Bridget McGonigle that says that Peter was a widower when they married in 1911, before three of his children were born. AND his parents are the same. Yet, Delia lived until 1949, and she shows up in census records after his death with the children.

To make matters even more confusing, a daughter named Beatrice, born in 1898, shows up with both Peter and Delia in the 1915 New York Census

Is Bridget Delia? Was Beatrice born to a different mother?

Why do people insist on changing their names on official records? (If they did.)

Arghhh!

Answered: Comments on Ida Albertine (von Krauseneck) Seebeck

Here is the third child

Meiningen (Hofkirche), Taufen 1830-1843, anno 1842 Nr. 30 (https://www.archion.de/p/498caa6bab/ )
Georg Seebeck,
das 4te Kind und zwar der 3te Sohn, des hiesigen herzogl. Consistorialraths und Instructors bey dem durchlauchtigsten Erbprinzen Georg Herrn Carl Julius Moritz Seebeck, von Jena gebürtig (...) den 2ten August(...) geboren und den 16ten ejusd: getauft. (...) - none of them died in Meiningen.

By the way, you can find all three children in Gedbas (search for Seebeck + Meiningen)

https://gedbas.genealogy.net/

(unfortunately I only came up with this idea afterwards)

Regards, Pat

Answered: Question of the Week: What are your DNA ethnicity estimates?

Ancestry has me 66% England and North Western Europe, 19% Scotland, 6% Germanic Europe, 5% Denmark, 2% The Netherlands, 2% Ireland.

Answered: In Old Style dates, how were days in early March handled?

I don't think they ever used numbers for months when writing a date in that time and place so it wasn't an issue.