Blog Feed: A Genealogy Hunt

Part 856ab – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Fanny Abraham and William Barak – 1857 Marriage Registration

Published on 2013-04-30 19:34:00

Good Day, I’m back to my search and research of my ancestry and genealogy. Following up from Part 852ab, Bernard very nicely provided me with a copy of the Entry of Marriage

My Tangent - Just A Short Break

Published on 2013-04-20 22:59:00

Good Day, I have been taking a short break from my search and research in the work of my genealogy. I am currently refocusing my thoughts as to a redo of my site A Genealogy Hunt. This of course is taking some considerable thought process on my pa

Part 855a – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1890 Death – Great-Great-Granduncle Philip Abraham – London England

Published on 2013-04-07 14:30:00

Good Day, The discoveries through my search and research continue as I focus on my Abraham Family Line. From The Times I just found the 23 December 1890 Death Announcement of great-great-granduncle Philip Abraham. From The Times Digital Archive vi

Part 854ap – Smith Abraham Genealogy – 1859 Marriage – Great-Great Granduncle Solomon Abraham – London, England

Published on 2013-04-06 12:15:00

Good Day, I have been searching The Times newspaper for any grain of information of my Abraham Family Line ancestry and genealogy. It is a wonder what technology and OCR, optical character recognition, can do nowadays. And of course, I have found a

Part 853p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Chart – 11th Update

Published on 2013-04-05 15:33:00

Good Day, My search and research of the Parisé Family Line is getting more and more complicated. As I delve into the ancestry and the genealogy of the Parisé and related Family I am amazed at the information that I am finding. The main issue is

Part 852ab – Smith Abraham Genealogy – 1857 Marriage – Great-Great-Grandaunt Fanny Abraham – London, England

Published on 2013-04-02 15:06:00

Good Day, At times you never know which Family Line I may be searching and researching in my work of my genealogy and ancestry. And as more and more documents and sources become available, in this generation of technology, more and more is discover

Part 851pg – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1817 Marriage 6-Times Great-Grandfather Michel Parisé and Louise Grenier – Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada

Published on 2013-03-31 10:38:00

Good Day, This week I’ve been working, in my research of the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line and Ancestry, on the 1817 Marriage of CKs 6-times great-grandfather Michel Parisé. This was gggggg-grandfather Michel’s second marriage after the

Part 850t – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1914 World War I Attestation – GG-Grandfather Alfred Wade Trefry

Published on 2013-03-24 18:18:00

Good Day, Sometimes in my search and research I need to switch family lines when I come across a document when I have just been following a different path. As the genealogy and family tree continues to grow, the number of pathways into our ancestry

Part 849h – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1865 Death and Burial – Romain Huard, the Senior

Published on 2013-03-23 16:02:00

Good Day, My search and research of the Parisé Family Line and genealogy now has revealed the apparent reason for CK’s gggg-grandmother Catherine (née Grenier) becoming a widow. Her first husband Romain Huard died sometime around the 17th of Ma

Part 848p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Chart – Update

Published on 2013-03-22 14:03:00

Good Day, And yes it is that time again to update my Parisé Descendant Chart. All new and updated data, including the cross-references to my Posting on A Genealogy Hunt, are entered in red. A red or blue yellow-filled symbol represents the act

Part 847h – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1861 Baptism – Half-GGG-Grandaunt Elizabeth Huard – Paspébiac, Quebec

Published on 2013-03-22 13:07:00

Good Day, And yes this can be bloody boring… and tedious at times, but genealogy search and research is not necessarily cut out for everyone. And yes you can always block my emails and notes of the information… but I will not interrupt my searc

Part 846h – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1865 Burial – Half-GGG-Granduncle Romain Huard – Paspébiac, Quebec

Published on 2013-03-15 15:28:00

Good Day, In the search and research of one’s ancestry and genealogy one never knows what one may stumble upon, nor how soon one can discover an ancestor’s vital records. I am searching the Huard family name to determine how many children CK’

Part 845h – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1864 Baptism – Half-GGG-Granduncle Romain Huard – Paspébiac, Quebec

Published on 2013-03-13 14:05:00

Good Day, Following up from my previous post and my search and research of the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line, CK’s gggg-grandmother Catherine (née Grenier), gggg-grandfather Thimothée Parisé’s second wife was also married twice. Her

Part 844g – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGGG-Grandmother Catherine (née Grenier formerly Huard) Parisé – 1840 Baptism – Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

Published on 2013-03-11 16:57:00

Good day, In my continuing search and research of the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line I have now found the 20 September 1840 Baptism registration of CK’s gggg-grandmother Catherine (née Grenier formerly Huard) Parisé. From The Drouin Colle

Part 843p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé – GGGG-Grandparents Thimothée and Catherine (née Grenier) Clooz Reporting

Published on 2013-03-08 13:59:00

Good day, I have been organizing my collection of genealogy documentation, specifically those of CK’s gggg-grandparents Thimothée and Catherine (née Grenier) Parisé. With my organization I enter as possible the documents that are collected into

Part 842p - Smith Groh Genealogy - Parisé Consanguinity - Paspébiac, Québec, Canada

Published on 2013-03-04 16:31:00

Good Day, I have been working on the uploading of Parisé marriages, circa 1860 through 1867, to my Clooz database. The search and research of the Parisé Family Line has increased in complexity. It appears that there are many cases of first and sec

Part 841p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Chart – Update

Published on 2013-02-22 14:47:00

Good Day, In my search and research of the Parisé Family Line and Genealogy I have not, as yet, discovered any more children born to CK’s gggg-grandparents Thimothée and Catherine (née Grenier) Parisé than the six accounted for thus far. Both

Part 840p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1868 – GGG-Granduncle Napoléon Parisé – Port Daniel, Québec

Published on 2013-02-19 15:34:00

Good Day, Another find in my search and research of the genealogy and Parisé Family Line. This time CK’s ggg-granduncle Napoléon Parisé, the eldest son of gggg-grandparents Thimothée and Catherine (née Grenier). GGG-Granduncle Napoléon was

Part 839p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1872 – GGG-Granduncle Jean Abel Parisé – Port Daniel, Québec

Published on 2013-02-14 13:31:00

Good Day, And today's find in my search and research of the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line is the 1872 Baptism Registration of CK's ggg-granduncle Jean Abel Parisé.

Part 838p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1874 – GGG-Grandaunt Marie Agnès Parisé – Port Daniel, Québec

Published on 2013-02-13 11:44:00

Good Day, I’ve been a wee bit removed from my regular search and research in my genealogy work. I’m trying to set myself on some sort of daily schedule to complete the reams of documents that I have most recent discovered of the Parisé Family

Part 837hg – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Search for the Marriage of Great-Grandparents John Eugene and Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – Pennsylvania?

Published on 2013-02-05 14:54:00

Good Day, Sometimes in the work of my search and research of genealogy I have a number of pokers in the fire. In this case it is the search of the vital records of the actual marriage of great-grandparents John Eugene and Hannah (née Gallagher) Ho

Part 836p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1876 – GGG-Grandaunt Marie Archange Almanda Parisé – Port Daniel, Québec

Published on 2013-02-02 20:00:00

Good Day, The search and research continues. This time I will be presenting a number of discovered documents for ancestors, especially of CK’s collateral line and genealogy. Train station of Port Daniel, Gaspésie, Québec, Canada, dated 10

Part 835p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Chart Updated

Published on 2013-02-01 12:17:00

Good Day, A good way to begin a new month, February, is with an update of a visual representation of the CK’s Parisé Family Descendant Chart. It is a very good method, for me to, to have this type of pictorial arrangement, of the ancestry and ge

Part 835pr – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1797 Marriage – 6-Times Great-Grandparents Michel Parisey and Rosalie Roussi – Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada

Published on 2013-01-28 15:02:00

Good Day, My next find in my search and research of the genealogy and ancestry of the Parisé Family are two Marriage Registrations. They are the 1797 Parish and Civil Marriage Registrations for CK’s 6-times great-grandparents Michel Parisey and

Part 834h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – 1854 – And?

Published on 2013-01-26 13:11:00

Good Day, My investigation into the death and murder trial of great-great-grandfather Audley Holmes has not been shelved. I have not been deterred by the closed doors or barricades at the end of each pathway that I have, thus far, conducted an inqu

Part 833p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Updated Parisé Descendant Chart - No. 7

Published on 2013-01-22 13:02:00

Good Day, My genealogy and ancestry search and research continues. All-things-being-equal I will have to create a new and third Parisé Descendant Chart, or at least provide magnifying glasses with my work. My new update to my Parisé Descendant C

Part 832p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1798 Baptism – GGGGG-Grandfather Michel Barthélemi Parisey

Published on 2013-01-21 14:34:00

Good Day, In my search and research of the genealogy of my family’s ancestry, at times I luck out and am able to discover more than one corroborating document. In this instance, I have discovered another 1798 Baptism Register entry for CK’s ggg

Part 831s – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGGG-Grandfather Lawrence St. Thomas – 1892 US Naturalization

Published on 2013-01-18 14:45:00

Good Day, In the search and research of the genealogy and ancestry of the St. Thomas Family I have been looking for some information and documentation that will prove from where in Canada the St. Thomas’s originated. According to a number of US F

Part 830ps - Update - Groh Descendant Charts

Published on 2013-01-16 09:15:00

Good Day, Just a short note this morning to announce that I have updated and created two new Descendant Charts. The two descendant Charts are specific to the Parisé and St. Thomas Families. Both Descendant Charts are connected via the marriage

Part 829p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1798 Baptism – 5-Times Great-Grandfather Michel Barthélemie Parisey – Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

Published on 2013-01-15 09:27:00

Good Day, This morning I have traced some new documentation and data concerning the genealogy of the Pariza, aka Parisaya, aka Parisé Family Line. And now we are introduced to a new variation of the spelling of the surname – Parisey. 2011 C

Part 828s – Smith Groh Genealogy – St Thomas Family – New Descendant Chart

Published on 2013-01-13 14:31:00

Good Day, The organization of paths and sources of data and information of the St. Thomas Family continues. My research and search has now led me to possibly understand that CK’s gggg-grandparents Lawrence and Marie Louise St. Thomas, and their e

Part 827s – Smith Groh Genealogy – St. Thomas Family – 1885 State Census – Wisconsin

Published on 2013-01-10 08:10:00

Good Day, Well sometimes in the search and research of one’s ancestry and genealogy one may venture to make a logical decision. At this point in my research of the St. Thomas Family Line I can only look at and examine the facts that I have discov

Part 826s – Smith Groh Genealogy – St. Thomas Family – 1895 State Census – Wisconsin

Published on 2013-01-09 07:24:00

Good Day, As I mentioned I have stumbled upon a good succession of documents relating to the St. Thomas Family. Before I create my new St. Thomas Descendant Chart I thought that I would post and present the next document that I have managed to trac

Part 825s – Smith Groh Genealogy – St. Thomas Family – 1905 State Census – Wisconsin

Published on 2013-01-08 10:45:00

Good Day, And now the documents and the sources of information begin to pour in. This is my search and research of the St. Thomas Family Line. Today I have discovered the 1905 Wisconsin State Census. GGGG-Grandparents Lawrence and Mary Louise S

Part 824ps – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Family – Update

Published on 2013-01-07 11:06:00

Good Day, With the realization in the genealogy of CK’s ggg-grandmother Marie Louise Pariza’s maiden name was St. Thomas, see Part 823s, a new Family line is now open for search and research. I have updated my Parisé Descendant Chart. I h

Part 823s – Smith Groh Genealogy – St. Thomas Family – 1900 US Census – Marinette, Wisconsin

Published on 2013-01-06 13:20:00

Good Day, Genealogy is a search of a series of steps that should lead one to an actual goal. From the information I have been able to gather regarding CK’s ggg-grandmother Marie Louise Pariza’s maiden name, St. Thomas, I have been able to find,

Part 822ps – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandmother Marie Louise Pariza’s Maiden Name is St. Thomas – Marinette, Wisconsin

Published on 2013-01-04 15:58:00

Good Day, Happy New Year and my genealogy hunt continues. This is the beginning of my 10th year into the realm of the continued exploration of me and my families’ reconstruction of our ancestry. This past December recorded the highest number, ju

Part 821r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – My Robertson Maternal Line – H1a1a1

Published on 2012-12-28 13:31:00

Good Day, When I first had my mtDNA tested, that is my Maternal Line DNA, I was presented, from Family Tree DNA, with the results that I was H1a. Today both The Genographic Project and Family Tree DNA results have increased to H1a1a1. Based on the

Part 820p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Chart Updated

Published on 2012-12-26 13:06:00

Good Day, And now on the second day of Christmas I figure that there is a lot of organizing and re-scheduling of my genealogy search and research work to do. I have been traipsing after so many family lines that I need to decide which project I nee

My Tangent - Merry Christmas

Published on 2012-12-24 10:39:00

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays... I will be returning to my posting to A Genealogy Hunt after Christmas Day. Enjoy, Jimy

Part 819s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – The Genographic Project 2.0 – Hominid Ancestry

Published on 2012-12-20 21:34:00

Good Day, Based on The Genographic Project 2.0 and my results, and if I understand this correctly, I am 94.6% - Homo sapiens, 2.6% - Neanderthal, and 2.8% - Denisovan. All three, according to one theory are descended from the ancient human Homo hei

Part 818b – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Genographic Project 2.0 Results Are In

Published on 2012-12-17 14:26:00

Good Day, The pursuit and search of one’s genealogy and ancestry today is availed many, many different tools and methodologies. One such new tool is The Genographic Project 2.0. As I mentioned in my previous Post, Part 817s, I, we are just begin

Part 817s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – The Genographic Project 2.0 Results Returned

Published on 2012-12-12 12:06:00

Good Day, In my course of search and research of my own genealogy and ancestry I am always checking all possible avenues. My results of The Genographic Project 2.0 have returned. There’s a ton of information I’ve got to wade through and I will

Part 816p – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza (aka Parisaya aka Parasaya aka Parisé) – Documents on File

Published on 2012-12-11 15:14:00

Good Day, I would never have believed that when I decided to take on the challenge of searching and researching the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line, especially the Blood Line of ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza, that I would find, uncover, stumble up

Part 813p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1963 Death - GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Wisconsin Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery

Published on 2012-12-10 12:16:00

Good Day, Today in the search and research of the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line I thought that I would just digress a bit and move forward in time to 6 January 1963. Per the Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997, 6 January 1963 is the date that C

Part 812gp – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1867 Marriage – GGGG-Grandparents Timothy and Catherine (née Grenier) Parisé – A Transcribed Effort

Published on 2012-12-09 11:58:00

Good Day, At times it is always better to have a second pair of eyes, and most definitely a sharper mind assisting with the transcription of a document in the search and research of one’s genealogy. In this case, a gracious volunteer through Tran

Part 811dp – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1827 Marriage – GGGGG-Grandparents Michel and Marie Thérèse (née Dugué) Parisé – Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-12-07 15:39:00

Good Day, Is it providence that I am learning about marriage dispensations of the Roman Catholic Church? Following and researching the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line certainly is causing me to understand, to some degree, how the rules of cons

Part 810g - Smith Groh Genealogy - 1840 Baptism - GGGG-Grandmother Catherine Grenier

Published on 2012-12-05 14:12:00

Good Day, And the search and research continues of the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line continues. This time I veer and my sights are on the birth and baptism records of gggg-grandmother Catherine (née Grenier) Huard, Parisé. The date of ggg

Part 809p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1839 Baptism – GGGG-Grandfather Timothée Parisé – Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-12-03 14:05:00

Good Day, What is the difference between a sinner and a fisherman? In French, the accent… Pécheur = sinner; Pêcheur = fisherman. A new lesson learned… When transcribing a document from an alternative language it is key, for the purpose of tr

Part 808p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Chart Updated

Published on 2012-12-02 10:40:00

Good Day, House cleaning almost completed. Just the kitchen floor to mop and polish. Last night supper was Dim Sum. Not bad… Steamed pork and shrimp, cabbage and corn dumplings, Bánh Bao Thịt Heo Rao Cai, Bánh Bao Tom Thít Tường, Thai

Part 807gh – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1860 Marriage Registration – GGGG-Grandmother Catherine Grenier and Romain Huard – 1st Marriage – Two Registrations

Published on 2012-12-01 13:59:00

Good Day, Is this where it becomes difficult? In my genealogy search and research I have now discovered the 1860 Marriage Registration for gggg-grandmother Catherine Grenier and her first husband Romain Huard. And this time I have found two distin

Part 806gp – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1867 Marriage Registration – GGGG-Grandparents Thimothée and Catherine (née Grenier) Parisé – Transcription, Second Attempt

Published on 2012-11-27 12:01:00

Good Day, And the genealogy work continues... even though the grey clouds of my

Part 805p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Updated Parisé Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-11-26 10:40:00

Good Day, This morning I am catching up with my genealogy entries to my Clooz 3 database. Having walked and settled down The Pack I now have to turn myself to organizing where I have been and my next steps to the genealogy of the Parisé Family Lin

Part 804p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1866 Baptism and Death – Louis Ligroi Parisé – Port Daniel, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada

Published on 2012-11-25 13:13:00

Good Day, And sometimes I become quite bored with my writing and researching and searching of genealogy. At times I not sure if I am really accomplishing anything… But then again at other times I know that I am, all-things-being-equal, on the rig

Part 803p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1866 Death – Julienne (née Chapados) Parisé – Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada

Published on 2012-11-21 23:51:00

Good Day, Two nights ago supper was Korean… a twisted version of Mandoo Guk, a Korean Dumpling Soup…pork and corn dumplings in a chicken soya broth, bean sprouts, bird chilies and a squeeze of Sriracha. We couldn’t get enough. Secret to froz

Part 802cp – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1865 Marriage Registration – GGGG-Grandfather Timothée Parisé and Julienne Chapados

Published on 2012-11-18 11:16:00

Good Day, And yes I did make supper again last night, as some of you have asked… Green Gumbo. I followed and adapted a recipe from one of my favorite sites, Elise Bauer’s Simply Recipes. Turnip greens, fresh spinach, Andouille sausage, ham, c

Part 801p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Parisé Descendant Chart Update

Published on 2012-11-16 08:46:00

Good Day, The work on the genealogy of the Parisé Family Line continues. I have been trying to dig deeper back into the ancestry of the family in the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec in Canada. It appears that I may have been able to discover documents

Part 800gp – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1867 Marriage Registration – GGGG-Grandparents Thimothé and Catherine (née Grenier) Parisé – Transcription, First Attempt

Published on 2012-11-14 07:44:00

Good Day, The genealogy search and research into the ancestry of Parisé Family Line continues... and I need your eyes. From The Drouin Collection I have discovered a 20 August 1867 Marriage Registration for gggg-grandparents Thimothé and Catherin

Part 799p – Smith Groh Genealogy – New Parisé Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-11-13 08:15:00

Good Day, With the most recent discoveries and corresponding documented proofs of the genealogy of the Parisé, aka Pariza, Family I figured it was time to now create a separate Family Descendant Chart. I use GenoPro as I find that the software

Part 798p – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Or Should I Say? – GGG-Grandfather Pierre Léandre Parisé

Published on 2012-11-12 08:02:00

Good Day, 21 documents on file! It took 21 documents to determine the actual origin of ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza aka ggg-grandfather Pierre Léandre Parisé. When I assist others with researching an ancestor there are always two things that I gen

Part 797p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1878 Baptism – GGG-Grandfather Pierre Léandre Parisé – Port Daniel, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-11-10 15:54:00

Good Day, Is genealogy a name game? Leo Pariza = Leo Pierre Pariza = Leon Parizo = Leo Parisaya = Leon Parasaya = Leon Parisée = Pierre Léandre Parisé And all are CK’s ggg-grandfather Leo. Using the 1881 Canada Census, as displayed in Part

Part 796p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1881 Canada Census – Parisée Family – Port Daniel, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-11-10 10:27:00

Good Day, And genealogy is never static, especially when it comes to the research of dates and names associated with our ancestors. Per Wikipedia, Port-Daniels-Gascons is a municipality in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the provi

Part 797p - Smith Groh Genealogy - 1881 Baptism - GGG-Grandaunt Malvina Parisé - Port Daniel, Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-11-09 10:04:00

Good Day, At times, in the field of genealogy it appears that all paths are blocked and all doors are closed. And then again at other times it seems that there is a slight glimmer through the crack in the doorway. Following my assumptions I have c

Part 796pw – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1920 US Census – Wallnitz Family – Marinette, Wisconsin – Collateral Research

Published on 2012-11-08 17:39:00

Good Day, The search and research continues into the genealogy and origin of ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza. As I presented in Part 795p Vina Parisaya, who married Fred Wallnitz, was registered in 1902 as the daughter of Timothy Parisaya and Catherine

Part 795p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Pariza Family Line – 1902 Marriage – Vina Parisaya and Fred Wallnitz – Menominee, Michigan

Published on 2012-11-06 12:18:00

Good Day, And now the fun begins… that is if you are really into genealogy search and research. The inserted image to the right is from the 1912 Edition of the San Jose Mercury

Part 792p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Pariza Family Line – 1,000th Post for A Genealogy Hunt

Published on 2012-11-05 10:38:00

Good Day, Yes, this is my 1,000th post to A Genealogy Hunt. And I thought I would eventually run dry of journalizing my search and research efforts of my genealogy. T’ain’t so! The more I keep searching the more I keep finding… the more I h

Part 791p – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Documents Currently On File – 1900-1942

Published on 2012-11-04 07:55:00

Good Day, According to Google Blogger this is my 999th posting to A Genealogy Hunt since I began journalizing my search and research into the realm of my direct and associated ancestors. And Blogger records that there has been, not including this n

Part 790p – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Documents Currently On File – 1900-1942

Published on 2012-11-03 09:59:00

Good Day, I continue my relentless pursuit, search and research for the genealogy of the Pariza Family Line. And time and time again I have to make sure that I keep myself organized. In Part 787p I introduced my first schedule of the collection of

Part 789p – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Milwaukee, WI City Directories – 1914-1929

Published on 2012-11-02 09:05:00

Good day, According to the 1910 U.S. Census ggg-grandparents Leo and Mary Pariza, and their sons gg-grandfather Joseph W. and gg-granduncle Harold were living at Carney Avenue in Marinette, Wisconsin. At some point, prior to the publication of the 1

Part 788p – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza aka Parisaya – Marinette, WI City Directories – 1905-1909

Published on 2012-11-01 08:58:00

Good Day, The next phase of my search and research to understand the life and genealogy of ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza is my search for City Directories. Per Kory L. Meyerink in his article “Effective Use of City Directories” “City director

Part 787p – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Summary of Documents on File

Published on 2012-10-31 11:12:00

Good Day, As time continues, it is critical that I keep myself and the wealth of information and data relating to my genealogy search of the life of ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza organized. To date I have discovered at least two other alternative spel

Part 786p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1942 WWII Registration – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Waupaca, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-30 10:07:00

Good Day, And then there is the 1942 World War II Draft Registration of ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza. The Registration Card was signed 27 April 1942 and registered at East Union Street, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Here are the front and back images of ggg-grandfather Leo’s Registration Card as downloaded from Family Search.org and microfilm FHL [1572825]. A note to anyone who is researching their genealogy, it is important to search all available online databases. Not all online services [..]

Part 785p – Smith Groh Genealogy –1933 – The National Home for Disabled Soldiers – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-29 11:58:00

Good Day, And one never knows what one can stumble upon when one keeps searching and researching one’s genealogy and ancestry. Today I discovered a page entry for ggg-grandfather Leo Parasaya (aka Parisaya, aka Pariza) of his history as provided by the Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is now the third rendition of the spelling of the surname Pariza. Per The Prologue Magazine from the website of The National Archives � [..]

Part 784p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1918 WWI Registration – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-27 11:44:00

Good Day, In my search work and research of genealogy and the past locations of ancestors and related connections it is always good news that I can uncover a piece of evidence that will make sense of past discovered bits of information. Just recently I discovered a World War I Draft Registration Card for ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza. The card is dated 12 September 1918 and the registration took place the American Exchange Bank Building in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This was the Third [..]

Part 783p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1900 US Census – GGG-Grandfather Leo Parisaya (aka Pariza) – Guinayangan, Philippine Islands

Published on 2012-10-26 11:20:00

Good Day, Following up from my preceding post, regarding the 1904 Civil War Pension Index for ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza, aka Parisaya, I continue the search for data and documentation of his genealogy and ancestry. Next up in the search and find is a 1900 US Census. But this 1900 US Census is definitely different. It was the Census taken on 1 June 1900 at Guinayangan in the Philippine Islands. On Line #67 ggg-grandfather Leo Parisaya is listed as a Private in Company C, 30th Regiment of th [..]

Part 782p – Smith Groh Genealogy – When is a 1904 Civil War Pension Index Not? – GGG-Grandfather Leo Pariza – Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-25 09:57:00

Good Day, At times the search and research into the genealogy of a family line and into the background of an ancestor does become a wee bit confusing. Most recently I discovered two Index Cards relating to ggg-grandfather Leo Pariza. Both are labeled of the Civil War Pension Index which is a collection of The National Archives in Washington, DC. The two cards are dated 8 March 1904. Except for a few minor differences, it could be stated that both cards were completed on behalf of the same p [..]

My Tangent – Ancestry.com is Acquired By Permira for $1.6B

Published on 2012-10-24 11:20:00

Good Day, And now that I am back, it is time to catch up and continue my search and research into the genealogy of my Family Lines and Ancestry. But...I wonder how the acquisition of Ancestry.com by the European private equity firm Permira Funds will affect the subscription service I pay for, positively and negatively? According to Ancestry.com “there will be no anticipated changes in its operating structure with this deal. The company will remain in Provo, Utah, and it will continue t [..]

My Tangent - And You Thought I Was Giving My Genealogy A Break

Published on 2012-10-21 09:03:00

Good Day, I haven't been posting or writing too much about my search and research of my genealogy this week, as I and Andy have been in Portland, Oregon at the Machine Quilters' Exhibition, MQX West 2012, this past number of days. Quilting design and construction is my other obsession and hobby. I also thought that with the extent of our involvement in the world of quilting, fabric, and thread, on this far west side of the North American Continent, I wouldn't have so much as a chance to le [..]

Part 781p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1940 Census – GG-Grandfather Willard Pariza – Waukesha, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-17 06:35:00

Good Day, And then there is one. The continued search and research of the genealogy and ancestry of the Pariza Family line now brings us to the 1940 US Census representing gg-grandfather Willard Pariza. He is living with his wife Dorothy at 525 Dunbar Avenue in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The inserted image may be the site of their home address on 22 April 1940. The current temperature in Waukesha is 45°F and it is overcast. Winter is around the corner. Waukesha, on the outskirts of Milwaukee, [..]

Part 780p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1940 Census – GGG-Grandparents Leo and Marie Pariza – Farmington, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-15 10:01:00

Good Day, The search and research for the Pariza Family line and genealogy continues. According to and enumerated in the 1940 US Census, ggg-grandparents Leo and Mary Pariza were in resident at the Wisconsin Veterans’ Home in Farmington, in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. Here are images of the two Sheets, 7B and 8A. And my subsequent Clooz 3.0 reports, CUSWI000009 and CUSWI000010. Enjoy, Jim

Part 779p - Smith Groh Genealogy - Pariza Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-10-12 13:41:00

Good Day, Following up with my search and research of the Pariza Family genealogy, see Part 775p, Part 774p, Part 769p, I have created a Pariza Descendant Chart. As always, my Descendant Charts are always under construction. It may change as new and more correct data is discovered and uncovered. Please note that a red or blue and yellow symbol represents the actual blood line. New and updated data may be entered in red. This new Pariza Descendant Chart will be listed as a link under th [..]

Part 778h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Updated Holmes Descendant Charts

Published on 2012-10-10 09:37:00

Good Day, With genealogy search and research comes the waiting… Just imagine how it was before the introduction of electronic media and the Internet… and even before the telephone, albeit cell-phone. You drafted a letter, posted it, and waited, and waited, and waited. Or you take a trip a search the nooks, and crannies, and book shelves. I’m at that juncture right now waiting for information and evidence regarding the murder of gg-grandfather Audley Holmes. And so, I thought I would u [..]

Part 777h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – A Coincidence

Published on 2012-10-09 14:33:00

Good Day, In the course of search and research in the field of genealogy, it is not a good thing to assume anything. It is extremely important to make sure that the best possible documentation and data is available. But, and this is a big but... at times some coincidental notice or information might be found that may or may not provide a key to the puzzle of the re-creation of an ancestor's life and demise. In the attempt to reconstruct the events and outcome of gg-grandfather Audley Holme [..]

Part 776h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – Summary To Date

Published on 2012-10-08 12:16:00

Good Day, Research just makes me hungry. Had to have Cranberry-Cream Cheese muffins. Saw the recipe, so had to make them this morning… Excellent. Tasted like a cross between a muffin and a cheesecake. Great with a fresh cup of coffee. I am sort of at a wall right now in my search and research of the murder of gg-grandfather Audley Holmes. This genealogy thing is dang right mind stretching, and the methodology of uncovering each and every nook and cranny is somewhat challenging… espe [..]

Part 775p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Pariza Family Line – 1930 Census – Milwaukee City, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-07 08:47:00

Good Day, Thanks to the development of Internet technology the work of genealogy has become much more concise and ever-expanding. With the use of Google Maps, for example, I am able to almost zero in to the actual, if they still exist, locations where ancestors may have lived. In the case of the Pariza Family, according to the 1920 US Census they lived at 564 National Avenue in Milwaukee City, Wisconsin. Today National Avenue is subdivided into two parts, East and West. All-things-being- [..]

Part 774p - Smith Groh Genealogy - Pariza Family Line - 1920 US Census - Milwaukee City, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-10-05 10:16:00

Good Day, Yes I am continuing my journey, search and research into the genealogy and the traipsings along the historical paths of our Family Lines. In Part 769p I added the 1910 US Census recording of the Pariza Family. This Census presented CK’s great-great-grandfather Joseph Willard (also known as Bill) Pariza, his ggg-grandparents Leo (aka Leon Pierre) and Mary (aka Marie), and his gg-granduncle Harold L. Now I present the Pariza Family as recorded in the 1920 US Census who is now li [..]

Part 773h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – 1855 – The News Gets Around

Published on 2012-10-01 07:05:00

Good Day, Before I continue with my research and search for the genealogy of gg-grandfather Audley Holmes I have to eat. I have to cook. Last night's supper was a definite swing to another part of the cuisine globe. Gruibenknoedel, Romanian Cabbage Salad, and Stewed Potatoes. The Gruibenknoedel, (and I really do not know how to pronounce that one), are dumplings made of pork cracklins, aka chicarone de puerco, aka pork rinds mixed with flour, bread, spices, and parsley. The dumplings are s [..]

Part 772h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – 1855 – The Plot Thickens

Published on 2012-09-30 09:39:00

Good Day, Researching one's genealogy requires me to constantly be looking up words and phrases. Words and phrases from the past, and try to understand exactly how they were used in context, and exactly what did those words and phrases mean at the time when they were used. I have to remember that I have to not attempt to use them in today's context and vernacular. My argument is that there could always be, in some cases a different meaning at a different time and age. The three phrases and [..]

Part 771j – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – 1854 – She Was The Cook!!!

Published on 2012-09-29 11:57:00

Good Day, Now I really feel like I am delving into the depths of a cold, cold, cold case. Genealogy, the research and the search is definitely a “hold-your-breath-I-can’t wait-for-the-next-clue”. We just received our next installment into the Mystery of the death of great-great-grandfather Audley Holmes. With the help of the Luzerne County Historical Society today’s mail provided a number of key newspaper clippings relaying additional information of the murder of gg-grandfather Audle [..]

Part 770h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – News Flash – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – 1854 Cold Case Opened – Who Dunnit?

Published on 2012-09-21 10:03:00

Good Day, And the Murder Mystery continues… As you, the reader of A Genealogy Hunt, and most interested descendant of great-great-grandfather Audley Holmes, know and have been following, I have opened the possible cold case of the 1854 murder of gg-grandfather Audley. The questions are, of course: Who? What? Where? When? How? And Why? Our first discovery, Part 733h and Part 734h, in the Calvary Episcopal Church of Tamaqua, in Pennsylvania, Parish Register, reveals that gg-grandfather Au [..]

Part 769p – Smith Groh Genealogy – Pariza Family Line – 1910 US Census – Marinette City, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-09-19 11:10:00

Good Day, Found my Niçoise Olives, Publix Greenwise. Supper – extremely good caramelized onions, with Niçoise Olives, thinly slice tomatoes, and Feta Cheese pizzas. Could have gone for two… Radar just wanted one. My back is slowly getting back to normal… but I hope this is not what it feels like when I eventually get old. I am back to searching CK’s Ancestry. This time the search and research is for great-great-grandfather Joseph Willard Pariza. Check out my Placeway Descendant [..]

Part 768h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – When Is a Date the Correct Birth Date? – Granduncle John Herbert Holmes

Published on 2012-09-11 12:32:00

Good Day, In my genealogy search and research, and in response to a number of my past Postings, I was asked the question “How can there be a number of different dates concerning a specific event?” My response based on what I have been taught and learned is that a date for a specific event may change dependent upon who is giving the date and who is taking the response. Other factors for differences may be the recording and transcription errors over time, and information copied without a m [..]

Part 767p – Groh Smith Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – And Exactly Where Did He Live?

Published on 2012-09-10 12:54:00

Good Day, Recreating an ancestor’s life and timeline in the throes of searching one’s own genealogy can at time be somewhat of an eye-opener… Searching for CK’s ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, I located ggg-grandfather Brayton listed on the 1940 US Census. He was living at 5015 S. Budlong Avenue in Los Angeles, in California. (See Part 746p.) According to the 1930 US Census he was living at 1804 2D N. Clark in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. (See Part 719p.) I thought, using pu [..]

Part 766gh – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Search For Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – Episode IX

Published on 2012-09-09 13:46:00

Good Day, In my search for the vital events and genealogy of great-grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes I decided that I would summarize some of the ages that I have found on certain possibly-related documents. The following is a Table presenting ages as presented on some of the Documents that I have on file that relate to all possible Hannah Gallagher and Hannah, Hanora, Honora, Hanna, and Anna Holmes. CensusDateRecorded AgeRecorded/Possible Birth Date Hannah Gallagher 186003 Jun 186 [..]

Part 765g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Search For Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – 1860 US Census – Episode VIII

Published on 2012-09-03 09:32:00

Good Labor Day, Yes, I do not do any labor, and therefore I do not know what I am celebrating. President Grover Cleveland signed the law setting aside the first Monday in September as Labor Day 28 June 1894. The purpose of Labor Day, “…a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.” (Per the US Department of Labor) And so I would think that somewhere and sometime ago, someone said “let’s take the day off [..]

Part 764g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The search For Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – Episode VII

Published on 2012-09-02 17:06:00

Good Day, It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Two hurricanes and one tropical depression are far off in the Atlantic. At present their intended paths leave out the Sunshine State of Florida. Yeah! My search for elements, hints, and clues of the genealogy of great-grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes continues… and continues. I believe I have found a possible and priceless clue, that all-things-being-equal, and if there is some smidgen of a similar piece out there, we might [..]

Part 763gh – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Search For Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – Episode VI

Published on 2012-08-31 16:55:00

Good Day, Tuesday night’s supper: Chicken Masala, Aloo Dum, and Kathhal Dopyyaza. The house smells of spices… The one thing of preparing and cooking Indian food; the many, many, many, many, many, many, and many spices. Wednesday night’s supper: Stuffed Zucchini in Marinara Sauce and Mediterranean Corn Pudding. One never knows what type of dish we might be experimenting in this kitchen. Tonight, Sushi. Tomorrow’s menu… Stay-tuned. The search for the genealogy of great-grandmother [..]

Part 762g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – 1878, A Puzzling Search – Episode V

Published on 2012-08-28 12:15:00

Good Day, And now comes the interesting part of trying to solve the puzzle of the life and genealogy of great-grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes. Cross-referencing the Docket 17 of the Orphans' Court of Schuylkill County Index, (see Part 761g) I was able to find images of the actual document beginning at Page 336. The Document beginning at Page 336 is titled Real Estate of Hannah Gallagher, a Minor. And before I continue, I must point out that this research and documentation does not, [..]

Part 761g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – 1878, A Puzzling Search – Episode IV – Docket 17 Index

Published on 2012-08-27 11:50:00

Good Day, The typical daily torrential rains haven’t hit us as yet, but it is overcast and the type of day to snuggle up with either a good book or a decent movie, as long as the power keeps on. The search and research for great-grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes is certainly taking me into types of documents that I would never have expected to have to review. Lesson learned – all types of sources are game in the search for details of the life and times and the genealogy of an ance [..]

Part 760g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – 1878, A Puzzling Search – Episode III – Appointment of Guardian

Published on 2012-08-26 10:17:00

Good Day, Following up with my previous posting Part 759g – Episode II, I discovered this document, an Appointment of Guardian for Hannah Gallagher, a Minor from Docket 17 of the Orphans’ Court of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The filing date of the entry was 16 September 1878. At this point in my research and search, I'm not saying that this is great-grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes. This is purely a possibility based on a couple of coincidences. I will be revealing the [..]

Part 759g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Great-Grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes – 1878, A Puzzling Search – Episode II – Indexes

Published on 2012-08-25 12:02:00

Good Day, As I wait for two blustery events down here in Tampa Bay, Isaac and the RNC, I keep my mind and thoughts fixed on the search and research for information and data of the genealogy of great-grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes. Following up with my previous posting Part 758g – Episode I, a number of references to a Hannah Gallagher listed in the Indexes of the Orphans’ Court of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Before you continue reading, I must make the point that this ent [..]

Part 758g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Great-Grandmother Hannah (aka Hanora Gallagher) Holmes – 1878, A Puzzling Search – Episode I

Published on 2012-08-24 14:30:00

Good Day, In the course of my genealogy search and research there are many doors that keep opening as I follow down various paths. All this work is my attempt to piece together the generations and re-create the branches of the Family Tree. A critical branch of the Brunhammer Doherty Family Genealogy and Tree is the branch that provides evidence of the Mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA. This is Andy’s Maternal Line. This line would follow from Andy from his mother, Myrtle Frances Gertrude (née Doh [..]

Part 757h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Holmes Family Timeline

Published on 2012-08-23 11:34:00

Good Day, At times I need a picture, a visual representation of the genealogy that I have been researching and of which I have been writing. Two such good tools, apart from Ancestry and Descendant Charts, are Timelines and Document Summary Reports. I have created a new Holmes Family Timeline. This Holmes Family Timeline begins about 1875/6 with the Marriage of great-grandparents John and Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes. There are many different software in the market that have the capabili [..]

Part 756h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1930 Fifteenth US Census – Great-Grandmother Anna (aka Hannah) Holmes – Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-22 12:12:00

Good Day, Just got back from my Dentist. I’m typing with only my right hand as I can’t feel the left side of my body. With the new numbing chemicals in use, the grinding and the drilling, and the filling is certainly one walk in the park. While making my next dental appointment on December 19, I had to ask "Why do I need clean teeth if the world's gonna end 2 days after?" Back to my genealogy search and research of the Holmes Family. This time the search for great-grandmother Hannah [..]

Part 755h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1920 Fourteenth US Census – Holmes Family – Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-21 08:54:00

Good Day, Today’s first Post of the genealogy of the Holmes Family Line is the Fourteenth United States Federal Census dated 8 January 1920. Only three members of the Holmes Family: great-grandparents John and Hannah and their youngest daughter, grandmother Myrtle are at home. The address is 403 West Kline Alley in Lansford in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. These three persons are critical connections of Andy’s Blood Line. I have downloaded and highlighted the image of Sheet No. 9B. My s [..]

Part 754h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1910 Thirteenth US Census – Holmes Family – Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-20 09:42:00

Good Day, Getting The Pack prepped and ready for their morning scramble is at times quite a chore. Getting them to pay attention, get their business over and done, and keep them all walking in the same direction is certainly a mind-boggle when I haven’t fully awoken. Well it is Monday morning and the street activity is enough to send one back to bed for at least another couple of days. First The Pack was interested; north, south, east, and west in a couple of cats meandering home from the [..]

Part 753h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1900 Twelfth US Census – Holmes Family – Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-18 09:59:00

Good Day, Still haven’t had the guts (no pun intended) to crack open a can of Scottish Haggis… but the idea of McHaggis, Scottish Macaroni and Cheese, Haggis Omelet, Pâté au haggis, and Scottish Tacos all seem “somewhat” interesting. And so this morning I settled for a breakfast of smoked herring, fried eggs, fried green tomatoes, and onions, followed by a homemade “Starbucks-like” coffee… I can just imagine the somersaults my blood sugars are fending for their Olympic challeng [..]

Part 752h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1891 A Directory of The Eleventh Census – Holmes Family – Rahn, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-16 10:26:00

Good Day, And who says you can’t find the 1890 US Census? Well almost, that is. In my search for the genealogy and history of the Holmes Family of Pennsylvania I stumbled across a great discovery. I found A Directory of the Eleventh Census of the Population of Schuylkill County… published in 1891 by E.E. Schartel in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. What does this mean? This is a Directory “giving the names and ages of males and females, published by Cities, Boroughs, Wards, Townships, Pre [..]

Part 751h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1880 US Census – Holmes Family – Rahn, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-15 18:50:00

Good Day, My genealogy search at this moment is the Holmes Family Line. I am in the process of gathering, researching, putting out feelers, and checking out leads, all in the efforts of re-creating the Holmes Family Tree. Assuming the great-grandfather John Eugene and great-grandmother Hannah (née Gallagher) Holmes were married at some time before or in 1876, I have begun my recreation of the Holmes Family with the 1880 US Census in Rahn Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. (I am stil [..]

Part 750g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy - My First Retraction – Great-Grandmother Hannah (aka Honora née Gallagher) Holmes – I Goofed!!!

Published on 2012-08-12 10:32:00

Good Day, I got carried away trying to prove a relationship connection of great-grandmother Hannah (aka Honora née Gallagher) Holmes. I wrote about this relationship in my Post “Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1860 US Census – Gallagher Family – Reading, Pennsylvania”. I have since removed this Post from A Genealogy Hunt as I have since found information that actually puts the relationship connection into question. This new Post is the replacement of my previous Post. The relation [..]

Part 750g – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1860 US Census – Gallagher Family – Reading, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-08 14:30:00

Good Day, Genealogy research takes many turns on many roads and paths. Today I have discovered the 1860 US Census which reports the Gallagher Family of North East Ward Reading, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Ancestors of Andy, this is his great-great-grandparents Danl (possibly Daniel) and Bridget Gallagher. Included in the household, as of 7 July 1860, are their two children Hannah, aged 6 years, and John, aged 3 years. Hannah will eventually, also becomes great-grandmother Hannah (Honora, [..]

Part 749hs – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1850 US Census – Holmes and Scott – With This Dash I Do Thee Wed – Tamaqua, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-06 09:22:00

Good Day, And now the information and data......just keeps pouring in… In genealogy research, material evidence is sometimes revealed in a simple dash. Two such simple dashes on the 1850 US Census from the South Ward Borough of Tamaqua in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania reveal that gg-grandparents Audley and Rebecca (née Scott) Holmes were married sometime between August 1849 and August of 1850. Column 10 of the 1850 Census is titled “Married within the Year”. Obviously the only tw [..]

Part 748b – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1900 US Census – GG-Grandmother Rebecca (née Scott)(formerly Holmes) and Richard Boyd - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-08-05 11:47:00

Good Day, Thank you Helen for sending me the 1987 Holmes Family Genealogy work as compiled by Betty Holmes Herring. Working from the collected information provides tremendous leads that can now be researched and supplemented to the Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy. My focus today is gg-grandmother Rebecca (née Scott), widow of gg-grandfather Audley Holmes, and of her second husband Richard Boyd. According to 1987 papers gg-grandmother Rebecca and Richard Boyd had four children. I have since d [..]

Part 747t – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1887 Birth – GG-Grandfather Alfred Wade Trefry – Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Published on 2012-08-04 09:05:00

Good Day, The search and the research just keep going on and on and on, and on. Genealogy exploration is just one of those things, for one like me who becomes obsessed, that one can never get enough. I pride myself that I do look for credible documentary justification for each piece of evidence that I chance upon. And at the same time it is key to make sure that I keep the Family Lines separate and organized. From Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics I discovered the 1920 Delayed Birth R [..]

Part 746p – Groh Smith Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1940 US Census – Los Angeles, California

Published on 2012-08-03 16:01:00

Good Day, Eureka! I found ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway on the 1940 US Census. The Placeway Family, on 12 April 1940 was living at 5015 S. Budlong Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The above image is the current house at 5015 South Budlong Avenue in Los Angeles as at June 2011. Downloaded from Ancestry.com as provided in association with The National Archives here is the relevant page of the 1940 United States Federal Census. I have highlighted the Placeway Family. I entered [..]

Part 745t – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – Trefry Descendant Charts I and II Updated

Published on 2012-08-03 12:51:00

Good Day, Research and investigation into the genealogy of JK’s and CK’s Trefry Family Line continues. (See Part 744t.) From Leonard W. Smith, Jr. of Clearwater, Florida 1992 compilation and publication Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies, as well as a number of Marriage Registers of Boston, Massachusetts and Reno, Nevada, and Canadian and US Censuses, I have stumbled and just touched the tip of the iceberg of a tremendous wealth of information of the Trefry Family Line. The following ar [..]

Part 744t – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – New Trefry Descendant Charts I and II

Published on 2012-08-01 13:30:00

Good day, Today in the course of my genealogy work and research I add new Trefry Descendant Chart I and Chart II. These new Charts presents JK’s maternal Trefry Line. Already I am able to include a number of generations. The surnames included are: Trefry, Oliver, Rustemeir, Perry, Kinney, Pitman, Russell, and of course McCullogh and Smith. This Trefry Line traces back to JK’s 6-times great-grandparents James and Sarah (née Russell) Trefry. I have split the Trefry Descendant Chart int [..]

Part 743p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Clooz 3 Reporting

Published on 2012-07-30 14:18:00

Good Day, Alleluia, alleluia… A new upgrade to Clooz. Clooz 3.0 is now available. I have been a long-time user of Clooz and I am a strong proponent of the organizational and electronic filing cabinet capabilities. With a Masters in Organizational Management, I am delighted to have an electronic tool that provides me a software that assists me and supports my research. It is “THE database for systematically organizing and storing the clues to your ancestry...” I immediately have creat [..]

Part 742p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Updated Life Timeline

Published on 2012-07-30 11:58:00

Good Day, And as promised here is the newly updated Life Timeline for ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. As always new and updated data may be highlighted in red. It appears that I have reached the width limitation of a legible presentation of the Life Timeline. I am using the software SmartDraw VP. Going forward it looks like I may have to create the Brayton C. Placeway Life Timeline Part II. Stay tuned. Enjoy, Jim

Part 741p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1935 Intention To Marry Laura M. Kell

Published on 2012-07-30 07:27:00

Good Day, I haven’t been posting to A Genealogy Hunt these past couple of days… Not a norm for me, but I have been tangled in the wires of my cable, internet, PC, and TV systems. And so you can imagine… the frustration of reading the fine print. Anyway, as I turn to work on the Placeway Family Line, I once again delve into the mystery of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. I discovered 27 June 1935 Los Angeles Times publication of the Vital Record of the Intention To Marry; the marria [..]

Part 740h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Upgraded Holmes Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-07-26 10:07:00

Good Day, My genealogy search continues. Today I add an upgrade of the Holmes Descendant Chart. Please note all my Descendant Charts are always under construction. It is current based on the data received and unearthed. The Descendant Chart is a visual summary of past ancestors. My Charts are an unfolding process. And the investigation into the murder of gg-grandfather Audley Holmes continues. If you have any questions, thoughts, ideas, and family history and tales, please feel free [..]

Part 739h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – 1854 Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA - Murder Investigation

Published on 2012-07-25 12:02:00

Good Day, Following up to Part 734h I have received another clue in my exploration of the murder of gg-grandfather Audley Holmes. Isn’t genealogy entertaining? The investigative work into the past lives of ancestors and relative connections can definitely be intriguing and cause one to want to know more and more. And the questions to answer are archetypal – Who? What? Where? When? How? And Why? Well at present, according to the added note in the Burials section of the Calvary Episco [..]

Part 738p – Smith Groh Genealogy – 1910 Census – GGGG Grandparents William H. and Arvilla L. Placeway - Pinckney, Michigan

Published on 2012-07-22 14:56:00

Good Day, I have spent the day, apart from attacking the jungle that is slowly creeping from the conservation area behind our house, searching and researching documentation specific to our Placeway Family Line. Yesterday's street flooding reached the highest yet. I think I have to find a deal on a good gondola. GGG-Grandfather Brayton C. Placeway’s parents were CK’s GGGG-Grandparents William H. and Arvilla L. Placeway. First on the docket of complimentary data and information is the 19 [..]

Part 737b – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1940 High School Graduation – Patricia (née Bulah) McKenna

Published on 2012-07-20 08:53:00

Good Day, This genealogy researcher and avid investigator continues to find connections in the most unobtrusive and discreet way. I am always looking for an iota, a shred of evidence that can connect me with that distant branch on my Family Tree. This time I travel, electronically to California, to Los Angeles and to Manual Arts High School. Manual Arts High School, according to Wikipedia, was established in 1910 in the middle of bean fields, one-half mile from the nearest bus stop. It was [..]

Part 736p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Updated Life Timeline

Published on 2012-07-19 16:45:00

Good Day, Keeping myself organized in my work and research of the genealogy of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, I have updated my associated Life Timeline. I have new included the 11 April 1932 Marriage to his third spouse, Helen Johnson. The Life Timeline event is included in red. All-things-being-equal, as I progress with more details and information following the life and travels of ggg-grandfather Brayton, I may have to reconfigure his Life Timeline to fit in the additional date [..]

Part 735jp – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1932 – Marriage

Published on 2012-07-18 10:47:00

Good Day, The mystery of the life and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway continues. Research and the search of the genealogy of an individual sometimes becomes an all-encompassing determination. A general search on Ancestry.com for Brayton C. Placeway produced an indexed record of a 11 April 1932 marriage. The 1932 Marriage Cook County, Illinois record includes ggg-grandfather Brayton’s new wife: Helen Johnson. Here is an image of the indexed record as cropped from Ancestry.com [..]

Part 734h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Mystery of GG-Grandfather Audley Holmes – 1854 Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-07-17 11:05:00

Good Day, In my search to follow the genealogy of the Holmes Family Line I have discovered an additional note in the Burial Section of the Calvary Episcopal Church, of Tamaqua, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Record Book. The note added to the 16 December 1854 Burial Registration entry is "Murdered". Of course this certainly piqued my interest. (See Part 733h of A Genealogy Hunt to see the actual document.) I immediately searched for any possible news of such an event. My first thou [..]

Part 733h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1854 Death and Burial – Great-Great-Grandfather Audley Holmes – Murdered?

Published on 2012-07-15 12:28:00

Good Day, And at times in my genealogy search and research I am always looking for some iota of information that may “spice-up” the droll work of the collecting and organizing of ancestor associated data and documents. Well, I can say that these next two pages from the Calvary Episcopal Church Record Book may just provide me with a new “mystery” to try and solve. Or maybe I should say, at least learn about the related details. On Page 53 of the Calvary Episcopal Church Record Book, i [..]

Part 732h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1854 Baptism – Great-Grandfather John Eugene Holmes – Tamaqua, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-07-14 12:45:00

Good day, And the generations and the documentation just keep on appearing… All-things-being-equal I haven’t clicked on any leaves, it just takes some considerable amount of time researching and digging, and digging and researching… and searching and searching. From the Calvary Episcopal Church of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania Baptism Register I chanced upon the 7 May 1854 Baptism Registration of great-grandfather John Eugene Holmes. His parents are registered as great-great-grandparents Audley [..]

Part 731h – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1897 Baptism Grandmother Hannah Myrtle Holmes – Tamaqua, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania

Published on 2012-07-11 17:27:00

Good Day, The search and research into the genealogy of a family line never stops… and if one is addicted to the exploration and investigation, as I am, I am always looking for that next piece of critical and priceless documentation. Today I have decided to follow Andy’s grandmother Hannah Myrtle (née Holmes) Doherty’s genealogy and Family Line. I immediately discovered her 1897 Baptism Registration as recorded at the Calvary Episcopal Church in Tamaqua, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania. The [..]

Part 730s – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Updated Sheridan Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-07-09 16:03:00

Good Day, In my genealogy work and research I need to continually update the Family Line Descendant Charts that I create. Here is the newly updated Sheridan Descendant Chart. A number of people have asked me as to what software I use to create my Descendant Charts. I use GenoPro. I like the relative freedom that GenoPro allows me to create and re-create, as well as move data around. If you have any questions, comments, ideas, family history, and thoughts, please feel free to contact me. [..]

Part 729s – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1878 Birth and Baptism – Great-Granduncle Dennis Sheridan – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-07-09 15:15:00

Good Day, Next on the venue of my Sheridan Family Line and Genealogy search and research is the 1878 Baptism Registration of great-granduncle Dionysius. From the Baptism Registers of St. Peter’s Church in Wilmington, Delaware, great-granduncle Dennis Sheridan was baptized 20 January 1878 by Father John A. Lyons. I chanced upon a portrait of the Reverend Monseigneur John A. Lyons as presented at the Cathedral of St. Peter’s site. Great-Granduncle Dennis’ birthdate is recorded as 16 Janu [..]

Part 728s – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1876 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Ellen Sheridan – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-07-08 11:07:00

Good day, The research of the genealogy of a family line sometimes leads to more questions, and with the presentation of this next Baptism Registration some do arise. Lesson learned – Check out all churches of the same and of similar denomination that are in close proximity to a family home or family location when looking for vital and parish records. According to the 1910 US Census gg-grandmother Helen/Ellen (née Haley/Healy) Sheridan had six children. To date I have found the Baptism R [..]

Part 727s - Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy - Which John J. Sheridan is Which?

Published on 2012-07-08 08:57:00

Good Day, The Hugh Sheridan, that I have been researching, appears to have been from another Sheridan Family who lived in New Castle Town. All-things-being-equal it appears that he may not be one of your immediate ancestors. But then again he may be, as he was also a Sheridan. My confusion is that great-grandmother Mary Helen (née Sheridan) Doherty did have a younger brother, great-granduncle John J. Sheridan who was born 22 November 1867, (see Part 724s) and this Hugh's elder brother was a [..]

Part 726s – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1871 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Margaret Sheridan – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-07-06 14:24:00

Good Day, The research of the genealogy of a family line sometimes leads more questions, and with the presentation of this next Baptism Registration such a question arises. The Baptism Registration is that of great-grandaunt Margaret Sheridan dated 19 October 1871. Her birth date is listed at 13 October 1871. The next Baptism Registration is located from the St. Paul’s Church Register of Baptism. I have been able to download the two pages from Item 5 of the microfilm FHL [1788084]. Her [..]

Part 725s – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1869 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Catherine Sheridan – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-07-04 09:55:00

Good day and Happy 4th of July, Genealogy search and research of the Sheridan Family Line of Wilmington, Delaware continues. Next on the find is the 1869 Baptism Registration of great-grandaunt Catherine Sheridan, 13 May 1869. The Registration indicates that her parents were gg-grandparents Thomas and Catherine (née Healy) Sheridan and that her birthdate was 8 May. Great-Grandaunt Catherine appears to have been named for her paternal grandmother ggg-grandmother Catherine Sheridan. The i [..]

Part 724s – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1867 Birth and Baptism – Great-Granduncle John Sheridan – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-07-02 12:07:00

Good Day, I’ve done my puttering outside in the garden; the only way to attack the cleanup without succumbing to the heat is to segment the yard and property. My only issue is whether to subdivide our yard and garden into 12 equal parts or 365 unequal segments. My genealogy work today is the presentation of great-grandmother Mary Helen (née Sheridan) Doherty’s siblings. All-things-being-equal her parents, gg-grandparents Thomas and Ellen M. (née Haley) Sheridan may have had seven ch [..]

Part 723p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Updated Life Timeline

Published on 2012-07-01 10:54:00

Good Day and Happy Canada Day, Genealogy allows me to understand a life and the events that make up a being of an ancestor. For some time now I have been researching the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. To date, I have discovered a trove of documents that have allowed me a small glimpse into only 42 years of his life. And there is more to come. I have been able to find a photograph from 1915 and in the latest 1917 WWI Registration Card I now that he was of “medium” build and [..]

Part 722p – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1917 WWI Draft Registration – Livingston County, Michigan

Published on 2012-06-30 16:01:00

Good Day, In my genealogy hunt sometimes I have to go backwards to go forwards to discover that of our ancestors… Researching and searching for documents connected and pertaining to ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway we step back in time to 5 June 1917. On 18 May 1917, the Selective Service Act was passed immediately after the United States declared war on Germany. The Act authorized the President to increase the military. The First Registration on 5 June was for men aged 21 to 31; men b [..]

Part 721am - Smith McCullogh Genealogy - 1801 Bond of Marriage - GGGGG-Grandparents Thomas and Mary (née Marsingale) Aldridge - York, England

Published on 2012-06-29 12:21:00

Good Day, Following up to Part 653am I continue the search and research of the genealogy of the Aldridge Family Line. I have been able to discover the 30 May 1801 Bond of Marriage of 5-times great-grandparents Thomas and Mary (née Marsingale) Aldridge. From what I read the Marriage took place "in the Minster in Beverley Parish". The following are images of the two pages as downloaded from Item 1 of the microfilm FHL [1469549] Marriage Bonds and Allegations for the Diocese of York, 1618-18 [..]

Part 720sp – Smith Groh Genealogy – GGGG-Grandparents Charles and Ulricha Seigel and GG-Granduncle Robert Placeway – Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Published on 2012-06-28 10:11:00

Good Day, Genealogy and the search and research of a family line can certainly require one to pull out and learn all methods of investigation and examination… As I am searching into the mystery of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway I, at certain times, come across his extended family, relatives, and connection. In this case it is the 1930 US Census for Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the inhabitants at 7019 East Chestnut Street. The occupants of the house are gggg-grandparents Charles [..]

Part 719p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1930 US Census – Now Divorced

Published on 2012-06-24 10:09:00

Good Day, And now we find a new component and the life and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. I have chanced upon the 1930 US Census pages that enumerates both ggg-grandparents Brayton C. and Mary (née Seigel) Placeway. The two pages were recorded 17-19 April 1930 and 18 April 1930, respectively. GGG-Grandfather Brayton C. is recorded in Cook County, Illinois. He is living at 1804 2D N. Clark. His occupation is listed as a "Machinist" with the "City Bus Transport Co." His mar [..]

Part 718dhg – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – mtDNA X2e1a1 = Doherty -> Holmes -> Gallagher

Published on 2012-06-20 14:32:00

Good Day, I decided to take a completely different approach today on A Genealogy Hunt and discuss mtDNA or mitochondrial DNA. This discussion is specific to Andy’s mtDNA or his maternal line DNA. All of Andy’s brothers and sisters should have the same mtDNA results. This information is only passed by his sisters to their daughters and sons. A daughter will pass her mtDNA to her children and only her daughters will pass the mtDNA structure to her children. Brothers and sons do not pas [..]

Part 717s – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1866 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandmother Mary Helen Sheridan

Published on 2012-06-18 08:46:00

Good Day, Today my genealogy search takes a veer to the left, or is it the right, in the discovery of the ancestors of the Doherty Family Line. From the Registers of Baptisms of St. Peter’s Church in Wilmington I have located the Baptism Registration of great-grandmother Mary Helen (née Sheridan) Doherty. The date of great-grandmother Mary Helen’s baptism is 15 August 1866. A daughter of gg-grandparents Thomas and Helen (née Haley) Sheridan, her birth is recorded at the day previous, 1 [..]

Part 716p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Updated Life Timeline

Published on 2012-06-16 10:23:00

Good Day, The first 32 years of the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway most certainly were busy, for the lack of a better term. In genealogy once I can gather and corroborate the events, information, data, and dates I can definitely get a glimpse into the life and key points of one’s life. At this point in the creation and updating of ggg-grandfather Brayton C.’s Life Timeline I most definitely am discovering and unearthing a possible and exciting short 32 years. Here is the l [..]

Part 715d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1895 – Birth, Baptism, and Death – Grandaunt Helen Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-06-15 11:14:00

Good Day, The Genealogy trek continues with the discovery of the vital registrations of grandaunt Helen Doherty (aka Dougherty)’s very short life. In my project to gather all documentation of all Doherty family and ancestors I have uncovered the pertinent vital records for the life of great-grandaunt Helen Doherty, the only daughter of

Part 714p - Smith Groh Genealogy - The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway - 1893 - There's No Place Like Home

Published on 2012-06-14 15:44:00

Good Day, I suppose I should not be surprised that something new in my genealogy search for the life and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway is always going to show up. And yes I know that Michigan is not Kansas, but I didn't think I would have to stumble over an article from a newspaper from South Dakota. From a 13 May 1893 issue of The Daily Huronite I discovered the reporting that a tornado hit in the vicinity of Pinckney in the Putnam Township. Reading the article I immediat [..]

Part 713p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1916 Flint to Perry

Published on 2012-06-13 18:26:00

Good Day, Here is another article, actually a social news-note that I just stumbled upon, in my genealogy search to reconstruct the life and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway is dated 29 November 1916. This note is from the “Perry Paragraphs” of The Flint Daily Journal. “Mr. and Brayton Placeway… motored to Perry, Sunday…” A logical conclusion could be that this was ggg-grandfather Brayton and his second wife, Johanna (née Plischke). The month is November 1916; [..]

Part 712d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1893 Birth and Baptism – Grandfather Gerald Doherty

Published on 2012-06-13 07:03:00

Good Day, The Doherty Genealogy and Family Line research and search carries on. From the 1893 recordings of the St. Paul’s Register of Baptisms I have located the Baptism Registration of Grandfather Gerald Doherty. Here is the image as downloaded from the St. Paul’s Register of Baptisms from Item 5 of the microfilm FHL [1788084]. Due to the size of the page and image, I had to copy the left and right size of the page individually. I then cut and paste the two pieces to create a single i [..]

Part 711p - Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway - 1906 Detroit

Published on 2012-06-12 13:38:00

Good Day, And my genealogy hunt continues to understand the life and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway... and continues. Last night I stumbled across, through Genealogy Bank, a couple of articles, actually minuscule notices from a couple of newspapers. All-things-being-equal they each had to have something to do with ggg-grandfather Brayton. The first is from the 19 July 1906 issue of the Pinckney Dispatch. If this is ggg-grandfather Brayton, the Local News blurb writes tha [..]

Part 710p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Whatever Happened to Johanna (née Plischke) Placeway?

Published on 2012-06-11 13:00:00

Good Day, Sometimes in the search and understanding of genealogy, documentary information and data may provide an answer. And then, sometimes the information does not get you any further ahead. Accordingly ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway filed for a divorce from his 2nd wife Johanna (née Plischke) of Austria, per The Flint Daily Journal of 17 November 1917. (See Part 697p.) Also I have the 1920 US Census that on 9 January 1920 ggg-grandfather Brayton was living with his first wife, ggg- [..]

Part 709p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Updated Ancestral Mapping

Published on 2012-06-10 17:18:00

Good Day, Visual tools are complimentary in genealogy to the detail and information found. I have used Ancestral Atlas, an ancestry mapping software, to provide a graphic mapping and overview of key pinpoints and locations that ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. This current mapping begins with the pinpoints of ggg-grandfather Brayton’s birth in 1888 and follows through to the enumeration and recording of his residence with his family per the 1920 United States Census. I have added th [..]

My Tangent - Not Only Genealogy But Muffins Too...

Published on 2012-06-10 13:57:00

Good Day, Yes, I am obsessed with genealogy... and quilting. But I do have a couple other likes that from time-to-time bide my time. Today was the third time in a couple of weeks that I set myself back to another one of my long-lost loves; baking. Who'd'a thought that running a bakery that many years ago would necessarily put me back into the mood to start again? But first, let me explain, I'm not starting a bakery... I'm just doing the baking. I think that there is also the sticker shoc [..]

Part 708p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Updated Life Timeline

Published on 2012-06-09 12:38:00

Good Day, As a compliment to my genealogy research to the mystery of the life and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, I have created an evolving Life Timeline. This Time Lifeline is a means and way to see a quick overview and diarized picture of ggg-grandfather Brayton’s life and the events as I discover them. All-things-being equal, ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway’s Time Lifeline will get longer and more details will be added. To date I have included that which I have [..]

Part 707p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1920 US Census – Some Confusion?

Published on 2012-06-08 12:44:00

Good Day, Following up with my genealogy search and the mystery of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway I now move from 17 November 1917 to 9 January 1920. The 17 November 1917 date is the reference to the newspaper clipping regarding his request for a divorce from his second wife, Johanna (née Plischke). See my Posting Part 697p for the details. We now move forward to the registration of the 14th Census of the United States on 9 January 1920. According to the actual page of the 1920 US Cen [..]

Part 706d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Dohertys, The Next Generation(s) – Thoughts On Naming Conventions

Published on 2012-06-07 10:06:00

Good Day, Okay, before we head off for Andy's 12:30 CT, left wrist, surgery, I may have had a genealogy epiphany... GG-Grandparents Philip and Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty’s first four children appear to have been: 1. Daniel Doherty, born 1863, 2. Gerald Doherty, born 1864, 3. Helen Doherty, born 1866, and 4. Mary Ellen Doherty, born 1868. GG-Grandmother Margaret's parents were Gerald and Ellen (née McGuiness) Doherty. According to the 1870 US Census the Docherty (aka Doherty) househo [..]

Part 705d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Doherty Descendant Chart Updated

Published on 2012-06-05 14:33:00

Good Day, Since I posted Part 665d, my last update to the Doherty Descendant Chart, I have definitely added a number of new bits of information and data. As I continue to mention, and write, my work in genealogy is “Always Under Construction”. Even though everything has happened in the past, I am constantly finding and learning new details about ancestors and family members. I am a very visual person. I have to see everything in pictures, especially in the form and Descendant and Anc [..]

Part 704d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Number 11 Has Been Found!!!

Published on 2012-06-04 10:15:00

Good Day, Well I have been searching and researching the clue of the 1900 US Census that states that gg-grandmother Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty had had 11 children. And I believe I have had success. Ceteris paribus, I do believe the find may be the 11th Doherty great-grand… Okay here is my thinking process and what I have done and found. Following up my Posting Part 703d I mathematically decided to compute the time frame between the marriage of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret (n� [..]

Part 703d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Is Greta Actually Margaret? – And, Were There Eleven Dohertys?

Published on 2012-06-02 09:53:00

Good Day, In my genealogy hunt for the offspring of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty, all-things-being-equal, I can only go by the "11" children as listed as credited to gg-grandmother Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty in the 1900 US Census. According to the 1900 US Census taken in Wilmington, it enumerated and noted that great-grandmother Margaret Dougherty (aka Doherty) had had 11 children. At the point of time when the 1900 US Census was taken, on 2nd of June 1900 [..]

Part 702d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1861 Death – GG-Granduncle Bernerd Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-06-01 10:04:00

Good Day, One never knows what surprises lurk around each corner of this genealogy thing. All I can say is that

Part 701d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1880 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Catherine Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-31 08:19:00

Good Day, You NEVER know what the day will bring in a detailed, or not so detailed, Genealogy Hunt. Just be prepared... The last child of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty is great-grandaunt Catherine. The 1880 St. Paul's Baptism Registration of great-grandaunt Catherine Doherty indicates that she was baptized 22 August 1880. Her birth date is provided as 11 August 1880. Above is the page copy from the St. Paul's Register of Baptisms and from Item 5 of the micro [..]

Part 700d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1878 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Elizabeth Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-30 14:45:00

Good day, And this genealogy thing continues. It is a wonder at times trying to decipher the possible discrepancies found on individual documents. I have made it a personal goal to gather as many different types of facts and near-facts as I can. I have discovered, through my searches and research... And drive to keep looking, that there are definitive differences of data and information. Next in the discovery queue is the 1878 Baptism Registration of great-grandaunt Elizabeth Doherty. Gre [..]

Part 699d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1876 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Mary Agnes Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-29 12:22:00

Good Day, Not even June 1st and we're in the throes of a great soaking from Beryl, number 2 on the radar scope. Methinks that NOAA may have to adjust the start of the Hurricane season to mid-May versus the current June 1. The powers that be should set the new schedule for 2013, that is if the Mayans allow us to see a new year. And I just continue my genealogy trek into the Doherty (aka Dougherty) Famly Line. The next child of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret (nee Doherty) Doherty is grea [..]

Part 698d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1874 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Fannie Annie – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-28 15:17:00

Good day, and once again a meaningful Memorial Day, One key to Genealogy Research is organization… and boy do I need, at times, a good dose of organization. The next of the Doherty great-grandaunts and great-granduncles that I have been able to locate is reference to the 1875 Baptism Registration of great-grandaunt Fannie Annie Doherty… The copy of the page of the St. Paul’s Register of Baptism is fairly hard to read and decipher as it is extremely dark. In my work of capturing the ima [..]

Part 697p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1917 Divorce Notice

Published on 2012-05-28 11:54:00

Good Day, and Happy Memorial Day, In this genealogy research, the date is now 17 November 1917. I have found a small clipping in the News In Brief section of the Saturday Edition of The Flint Daily Journal. The following is most definitely a part of the mystery of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. GGG-Grandfather Brayton is now asking for and filing for divorce from his second wife, Johanna (née Plischke). This marriage lasted approximately three years as he married her around Novemb [..]

Part 696d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1895 Death – Fannie Doherty – 731 Madison Street, Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-27 09:11:00

Good Day, In my genealogy search of the Doherty Family Line I chanced upon the following Return of A Death in the City of Wilmington that has raised some questions. My primary question is “Who was she?” The following document is from the Delaware Death Records, 1811-1933 and downloaded from Ancestry.com. The person who passed away 24 May 1895 was 82 years old Fannie Doherty. She may have had a heart attack as the Cause of Death listed was “Heart disease.” The curious part of th [..]

Part 695d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1873 Birth and Baptism – Great-Granduncle John Patrick Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-26 09:12:00

Good Day, This is my 900th Posting to A Genealogy Hunt. A Genealogy Hunt began as a blog in May 2009. All-things-being equal this may mean that I take about 65/6 days off every year. Maybe, but how do I account for the 240 Postings to Quilts SB during the same time period. The second St. Paul’s document in my genealogy search that I was able to find is the Baptism Registration of great-granduncle John Patrick. His birth, in Wilmington, is recorded 13 March 1873 and his baptism was celebr [..]

Part 694p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Is Gablonz, Austria, Jablonec in the Czech Republic?

Published on 2012-05-25 14:45:00

Good Day, Could this genealogy research get a bit more confusing? Yes, of course it can… And I can guarantee that the research and search of information and data for ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway is going great. I definitely feel like a life-detective as I try to piece each part of his puzzle into the credible story of his life. According to the 25 February 1915 Pinckney Dispatch front page article, ggg-grandfather Brayton worked, at some time, for a gas company in Gablonz, Austria. [..]

Part 693d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1871 Birth and Baptism – Great-Granduncle Philip Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-25 12:47:00

Good Day, What exactly has caused me to give into this obsession of genealogy? I think it is the adventure of the search and the thrill of the find. Either that or I am just plain obsessed and headed out of my mind. But the pleasure and rush is sweet when I find that which I am searching for. And now as I promised, I have found 6 more of the 11 Baptism Registrations that I started out to find. Following from Part 684d and the 1869 Birth and Baptism of great-grandaunt Margaret Doherty I hav [..]

Part 692 – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Barnum and Bailey Circus – Gablonz, Austria

Published on 2012-05-21 22:32:00

Good Day, At this point in my genealogy search of the information and data of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, I have to make sure that I can disseminate noteworthy news and records. From the 1 February 1915 Emergency Passport Application and the 25 February 1915 Pinckney Dispatch article “Just Arrived From Germany – Brayton Placeway and Wife Reached Here Last Week”, I learned that ggg-grandfather Brayton had married his second wife, Johanna (née Plischke) sometime around November [..]

My Tangent – Two Are Definitely Better Than One – Three Are Better

Published on 2012-05-21 15:19:00

Good Day, In Genealogy, one’s research in trying to decipher the life of a past ancestor can be somewhat baffling. It is key that only one source of information may not be the only final consideration for presenting a fact, or composed truth, concerning an ancestor. One document, a family history, a newspaper article, data on the Internet may be the only contemporaneous source of an inkling of information… The question is, what type of source is it? There are criteria espoused by vario [..]

Part 691 – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – And Where Were You On 25 February 1915?

Published on 2012-05-20 16:03:00

Good Day, And this is where in genealogy I must be careful what, and how I read something. In my search for documentation and newsworthy items regarding the life and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, it is amazing that of which I have been able to stumble upon. Front page news on the Pinckney Dispatch, of Pinckney, Livingston County, Michigan, and on Thursday, February 25, 1915 reads “Just Arrived From Germany – Brayton Placeway and Wife Reached Here Last Week”. The artic [..]

Part 690am – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – Could Marsingate Be Marsingale? – GGGG-Grandmother Mary (née Marsinga?e) Aldridge

Published on 2012-05-19 13:50:00

Good Day Continuing from Part 653am and my trek with the genealogy of the Aldridge Family Line, I have discovered a possibility that gggg-grandmother Mary Aldridge’s maiden name may have been Marsingale. This is a wee bit different from the Marsingate of which I first transcribed from the 1 June 1801 Marriage Registration. From a search through Family Search.org I discovered an indexed entry for a Marriage dated 30 May 1801 of Thomas Aldridge and Mary Marsingale. There is no image of [..]

Part 689p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1888 Birth Registrations

Published on 2012-05-18 15:15:00

Good Day, In Genealogy research, one day the documentary pickings are dry, and the next, you just don’t have enough time in a given 24 hours to keep up with the onslaught. In this day and age the question is which of the many online doorways I venture past to see if my information and data is there. Last night I opened a door (albeit a link) at Family Search and there, even though I wasn’t looking for the exact register pages guess what I found. The secret to my genealogy search and rese [..]

Part 688p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – You Never Know What You May Find

Published on 2012-05-17 14:16:00

Good Day, You never know what you may find when you walk down the path into the lives of one’s ancestors. And this is Genealogy… I stumbled upon a somewhat gruesome headline on GenealogyBank while I was doing my search for articles and details of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. Here is the headline – Published in the 8 February 1915 edition of the Jackson Citizen Press, in Jackson, Michigan, and in the section News of Michigan, I was a wee bit dumbfounded on how this Detroit b [..]

Part 687p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Pinpoints of A Life

Published on 2012-05-16 14:27:00

Good Day, As I have said and written a number of times before, I have always been a visual person… That is, in my work with genealogy and delving into the past lives I need to see the schemata of highlights. Using Ancestral Atlas I have plugged key times and dates reflective of those events of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway that I have been able to discover. The application adds the tags of the Life Events to the Google map. I’m not sure if there is a functionality in Ancest [..]

My Tangent – A Genealogy Hunt NOT Affected by NBC’s Move

Published on 2012-05-15 14:35:00

Just a quick thought, and Good Day, It appears that NBC has decided not to renew their show, Who Do You Think You Are. There looks that there will not be a 4th season. Viewer-ship must be down. And the fallout continued, yesterday, as share value of Ancestry.com dropped down $3.59 to $22.57. That is an almost 14% plummet. Ancestry.com is the major sponsor of the cancelled show. Well, I’m sorry to hear that the show is on its way out. There is no residual or after-math effect on the ef [..]

Part 686p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1900 US Census – Putnum Township, Livingston, Michigan

Published on 2012-05-14 15:17:00

Good Day, Sometimes in the trek of genealogy one has to take a step backwards to go forward. In the case of my search to re-construct the live and times of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway I am now going back in time 15 years, from my last Posting Part 685pp and his crossing the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York. I have discovered the Placeway Family on the 1900 US Census, dated 11 June 1900, in Putnam Township, Livingston County, Michigan. In the family house in Pinckney are ggg-g [..]

Part 685pp – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1915 S.S. Tuscania Manifest

Published on 2012-05-13 17:07:00

Good Day, Following up to my Posting Part 680p it appears that ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway upon getting his and his wife Johanna's Emergency Passport, they must have traveled from Berlin, Germany to Liverpool, England between 1 February 1915 and 7 February 1915. Ain't Genealogy fun... especially when I am trying to piece together the life and times of an ancestor. This ancestor is ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. Based on the Manifest of the S.S. Tuscania, ggg-grandfather Brayto [..]

Part 684d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1869 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Margaret Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-12 15:10:00

Good Day, The search and research continues into the genealogy and gathering of documentation of the Doherty Family Line. The Baptism Registrations of the first four of eleven children of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty have now been found from the Registers of St. Peter’s Church, now Cathedral in Wilmington, Delaware. And now I have to find the subsequent seven. This next one is of great-grandaunt Margaret Doherty. Her baptism is dated 19 December 1869 and the [..]

Part 683d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1868 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Mary Ellen Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-11 15:36:00

Good Day, The Genealogy of the Doherty Family Line continues with my pursuit of the gathering of all documentation that I can get my hands, or PC, on. GGG-Grandparents Philip and Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty’s third child and daughter was gg-grandaunt Mary Ellen Doherty. She was born 14 January 1868 and baptized at St. Peter’s Church, in Wilmington, Delaware on the 19 January 1868. This time the Doherty Family surname is spelled Dougherty in the Church Register. She was baptized on [..]

Part 682p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – Updated Life Timeline

Published on 2012-05-11 11:57:00

Good Day, And now the bugs, that I created, are out of my SmartDraw software package I can update my ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway Life Timeline. As I progress in any genealogy and life history of an individual in my search and research, I find it more beneficial to me to visually depict their life history on a Time Line Chart. This is especially certain in the case of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. It is easy to read the documents and place the documents “side-by-each” but withou [..]

Part 681mac – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – Updated McCullogh / Aldridge / Christie Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-05-11 08:43:00

Good Day, I am working in my area of genealogy to update a number of my Descendant Charts. As they continue to grow I have a number of options, including splitting them into individual Family Lines. But it is sometimes more conducive to been able to visualize as much detail on one presentation. It is certainly better than having to flip from image to image, albeit, page to page… The only problem with the ever-expanding Descendant Charts and fitting them onto one page, aka computer sc [..]

Part 680p – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – 1915 Emergency Passport Application – Berlin, Germany

Published on 2012-05-10 08:16:00

Good Day, And the mystery begins to unfold… Based on what I have read and from US PassportNOW “Passports had been used for centuries in the US as well as a number of other countries, but were not actually mandatory for international travel until 1918.” So the question arises “Why did ggg-grandfather Brayton and his second wife Johanna (née Plischke) complete an Emergency Passport Application at the American Embassy in Berlin on 1 February 1915?” His reasons are “for the purpose [..]

Part 679d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1866 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandaunt Helen Doherty, Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-09 14:46:00

Good Day, Now isn’t genealogy amusing? Not amusing in a “snide” or “sarcastic” way, but in a sort of “fun” and “challenging” type of way. My search of the St. Peter’s Church Registers of Wilmington, Delaware now has produced the documentation of the 11th Doherty sibling – great-grandaunt Helen Doherty. This is the mystery Doherty. All-things-being-equal, great-grandaunt Helen appears to have been gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty’s second child and the firs [..]

Part 678d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1864 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandfather Gerald Doherty, Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-08 18:16:00

Good Day, Well the search for genealogy records, vital ones of the Doherty Family Line, has kept me reviewing the Parish Registers of St. Peter’s Church in Wilmington, Delaware. Based on the discovery of the Marriage Registration of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty dated 4 January 1863, see Part 674d, I decided that there may be a chance that some of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret’s children may have been baptized at the same Church. As chance would have it I was able find [..]

Part 677ps – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – New Additions to BCP Timeline

Published on 2012-05-08 10:00:00

Good Day, Well, Radar is under the weather and after spending the evening at BluePearl Animal Hospital last night, he has been prescribed for NO excitement and complete bed-rest. It appears that he must have twisted something or pinched a nerve in his neck… with all his bouncing and hyper-active stunts and bounds. Why is it that his prescribed meds are the same as mine? The genealogy expedition continues into the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. And just to make sure I am keep [..]

Part 676p - Smith Groh Genealogy - The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway - 1911 Obituary, GGGG-Grandfather William Henry Placeway

Published on 2012-05-07 18:26:00

Good Day, PC is back in the house… and immediately I continue with my genealogy search and research into the past life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. My next dated item is the 15 November 1911 article from The Daily Times News of Ann Arbor, Michigan. On Page Seven of the newspaper in the Hamburg News column I was able to locate the Obituary of ggg-grandfather Brayton’s and ggg-granduncle Clayton’s father, gggg-grandfather William Henry Placeway. According to the Obituary he pa [..]

Part 675ps - Smith Groh Genealogy - The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway - 1910 US Census - GGG-Grandmother Mary (nee Seigel) and Edith Placeway

Published on 2012-05-06 08:22:00

Good Day, Well the trusty PC is in the shop getting an Ubuntu upgrade. I do use two operating systems; Linux and Microsoft. And all-things-being-equal, I will be adding the third, the new Google Chrome operating system Aura. I think it is a Linux-based system, as well. We’ll see what will happen from there. Well today I decided to focus on the 1910 US Census for Wauwatosa City in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. There are two families of note, as enumerated on the Census; the Seigel and the P [..]

Part 674d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1863 Marriage – GG-Grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-05-03 10:02:00

Good Day, A quiet day on the genealogy front…and the search keeps going on. I have been working on the 4 January 1863 Marriage Registration of Andy’s gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty. I discovered an image of the page from Saint Peter’s Church, later Cathedral, in Wilmington, Delaware. Here is the image of the page as downloaded from Item 4 of the microfilm FHL [1787872]. This is my transcription… Januarius 1863 4th Phillippus & Margareta Doherty, prius dispe [..]

Part 673p – Groh Smith Genealogy – The Mystery of GGG-Grandfather Brayton C. Placeway – 1910 Patient – United States Naval Hospital

Published on 2012-05-02 11:39:00

Good Day, Just had to try it this morning… Strawberries and mozzarella with sour cream, salt and pepper omelet. You should have seen the look I received when I placed the finished dish on the table. And it was goooooood! And I did construct it in just about 20 minutes. Chopped! Can I have some more please? In my genealogy work and the reconstructing of the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, I am always amazed at what I have been able to find tucked in behind a Cloud, floating [..]

Part 672p – Groh Smith Genealogy – The Mystery of GGG-Grandfather Brayton C. Placeway – An Accident

Published on 2012-05-01 00:43:00

Good Day, One never knows the unwinding of details and circumspect information that one must travail through when deciphering the lives of any of our ancestors in the search for one’s genealogy. And another way of putting this…sometimes there is a lot of data to sort through. Sometimes the answers do not come very easy. Today I start with the mystery of my search and research into the life of soon-to-be great-great-great-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. I am going to attempt to make log [..]

Part 671p – Groh Smith Genealogy – Updated and Divided Placeway Descendant Chart – The Cloud Does NOT Have All The Answers

Published on 2012-04-28 14:12:00

Good Day, I continue my journey into the reaches and discovery of the Placeway Family Line… specifically that of soon-to-be great-great-great-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. All-things-being-equal I have chanced upon, in the Cloud, notation, information, and data back until the 7-times great-grandparents Robert and Mehitable (née Hamilton) Placeway (aka Plaiceway). And here is where I most certainly do NOT “throw caution to the wind”. As you know A Genealogy Hunt is my journal. [..]

Part 670p – Groh Smith Genealogy – A New Placeway Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-04-26 08:50:00

Good Day, As promised I have now created a new Placeway Descendant Chart. This Chart creates a clearer picture of the genealogy as accredited to the Placeway Family Line. I have been gathering a considerable amount of information and data, and I am currently chasing down source documentation to ensure the accuracy of the details. It is all a part of A Genealogy Hunt. As you can see in the Placeway Descendant Chart any new information and updated data has been added in red. I have also [..]

Part 669mp – Groh Smith Genealogy – New Information and Updated Miller Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-04-25 10:15:00

Good Day, No rest for the obsessed…and at times I need a wee bit of motivational inspiration. Sometimes I wish, without a Ouija board, that the ancestors in my genealogy search and research would just reach out and say… “Hey Smith, you’re on the right path!” Definitely would be nice. And I continue the gathering and collecting of information, data and details for the new Groh Smith Genealogy. Last night I decided to hone in on the Placeway Family Line. I believe I discovered [..]

My Tangent – Who’d A Thought – 1940 US Census West Milwaukee

Published on 2012-04-23 16:01:00

Good Day, Minding my own business, and doing my own research of the Rogers Family, I am amazed at what I just stumbled upon. I am searching, page by page, the 1940 United Census in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Rogers. After about 100 pages and scrolling through surnames I opened up the next set of pages for the Enumeration District of West Milwaukee No. 40-113 and on Sheet No. 5B, I’m attracted to the surname of a family at 4905 West National Avenue… Liberace. I wonder??? The f [..]

Part 668gm – Groh Smith Genealogy – Clooz 3.0 – 16 Ancestral Lines

Published on 2012-04-23 13:21:00

Good Day, And the work continues… and continues. The Groh Miller genealogy is a process of gathering, and gathering. I’m definitely looking forward to the new release of Clooz 3.0. As presented in the preamble at its website – Clooz is NOT just another genealogy program. It is THE database for systematically organizing and storing the clues to your ancestry discovered through years of research. Clooz functions as an electronic filing cabinet that assists you with search and retrieval [..]

Part 667m – Groh Smith Genealogy – A New Miller Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-04-23 09:46:00

Good Day, Continuing the new search and research into the Groh Smith genealogy and the Miller Family I would now like to present my construction of the Miller Descendant Chart. Based on the documentation and family notes that I have found and received I have attempted to create what may be the associated genealogy. Please note that this Miller Descendant Chart is a preliminary presentation and may change as new and more correct data is discovered and presented. I have added a new Groh L [..]

Part 666g – Groh Smith Genealogy – New Families – A New Groh Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-04-21 17:33:00

Good Day, Tonight’s supper was a challenge. I found this picture at With One Cat in the Yard …and of course I had to try and replicate it – Shrimp and Pancetta over Tonnarelli al nero di seppia. Never judge a black pasta by its cover. And who’d a-think that I had all ingredients, give-or-take, in my pantry and in my garden. Shrimp, pancetta, fresh tomatoes chopped, mushrooms, onion, chili pepper, fresh culantro chopped, salt, pepper, some olive oil, a little bit of chicken broth, a [..]

Part 665d - Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy - Updated Doherty Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-04-19 07:06:00

Good Day, As promised, here is my update and reconstruction of the Doherty Descendant Chart. The genealogy is based on the information extracted from the documents that I have presented in the past including the more recent Postings Part 657d through Part 664d. If you have any questions, comments, thoughts, and ideas please feel to contact me. Enjoy, Jim

Part 664d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1889 Wilmington City Directory – GG-Grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty aka Dougherty

Published on 2012-04-18 10:52:00

Good day, The search continues into the genealogy of the Doherty Family… and it certainly can get confusing as to which Doherty is which Dougherty is which Docherty. The fact that there are a number of documents and publications that spell and present the surname in different ways only means that the scope of search only broadens. Thank you Helen for your insight and knowledge… One fact that is for certain is that the Doherty/Dougherty family did live at 731 Madison Street in Wilmington, [..]

Part 663d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1919 Death – GG-Grandmother Margaret (née Doherty) Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-17 07:22:00

Good Day, Well being home yesterday, I was somewhat exhausted from our trip and showing at MQX East, but I did not want to eat at any restaurant... and I wanted something simple. And I found it - Chicken Jalfrezi, a Pakistani curry with tomatoes and capsicum. Extremely easy to make - Chicken thighs, onions, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, ginger, turmeric, cumin, salt, cinnamon, ground cloves, ground cardamon and nutmeg, zucchini, and cilantro. Topped with some plain yogurt, with Basmati rice and [..]

Part 662d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1897 Death – GG-Grandfather Philip Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-16 11:07:00

Good Day, And we have returned home from the MQX Show in Providence, Rhode Island and it is now time to get back into my genealogy hunt and search. So here goes… Following up from Part 661d my search for the Doherty Family has resulted in more documentation. From the Delaware Vital Records at the Delaware Public Archives in Dover, and data collected via Ancestry.com, I chanced upon the 28 May 1897 Death Registration of Andy’s great-great-grandfather Philip Doherty. His age, at his d [..]

Part 661d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1874-75 Delaware State Directory and Gazetteer – Doherty (aka Docherty, aka Dougherty) – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-09 12:43:00

Good Day, And as we are getting ready and packing for our trip to MQX East 2012 in Providence, Rhode Island, I thought that I would take a few minutes and spend some time on the genealogy of Doherty Family. I did a bit more searching and I discovered Andy’s great-great-grandfather Philip Dougherty in The Delaware State Directory and Gazetteer, for 1874-75. It includes a complete Directory of the City of Wilmington. The entry on Page 128 for gg-grandfather Philip reads: Dougherty, Philip [..]

Part 660d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1880 and 1900 Censuses – Doherty (aka Docherty, aka Dougherty) – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-08 06:51:00

Good Day and Happy Easter, And don't you just love genealogy... One can get totally mixed up with names and dates, and then again there really isn't anyone around to ask which name or which date is correct. At times methinks that it is our ancestors having a great big laugh on us. In my pursuit and current focus on the Doherty Family of Wilmington, Delaware, I've run across some more deviations in the actual spelling of this surname. The 1880 Census has the name as Doherty, and the 1900 Cens [..]

Part 659d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1870 Census – Doherty (aka Docherty, aka Dougherty) – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-07 10:15:00

Good Day, The genealogy journey continues. Today I decided to update the Doherty Descendant Chart… and boy, oh boy, have I found some new information. And I will be posting these finds and my notes in a number of Parts. You will have to keep coming back to get the latest and greatest updates. (1870 US Census, Wilmington, Delaware) I finally discovered the 1870 US Census highlighting the Philip Docherty Family. Docherty? And so we now have three possible spellings of the surname Dohert [..]

My Tangent – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy - Researcher Beware – Eight Errors in Five Lines – 2012 Errors NOT 1940 Ones.

Published on 2012-04-06 12:49:00

Good Day, I think, Well, we all have a choice… Do we worry about correct Indexing when the access is supposedly free at Ancestry.com? Or should we expect, if we pay for annual subscription, that the data entry to be a close to perfect as possible? There are many answers to these two questions, but listen to my find today. I have a complete subscription to Ancestry.com. I have had one for quite a number of years. I am ever so lucky that one of the first States to be “Indexed” is Delawa [..]

Part 658d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – The Great-Grandaunts Doherty – 1940 US Census – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-06 11:40:00

Good Day, Good news. This morning Ancestry.com has indexed the 1940 US Census for the States of Delaware and Nevada. And we need Delaware… Immediately, and this time with the correct spelling, I discovered the Census Page from Enumeration District 4-21 for the five Doherty great-grandaunts: Greta C., Frances G., Mary T., Katherine, and Elizabeth. Their house was at 911 West Eighth Street in Wilmington, in New Castle. Five maiden grandaunts all living together; all great-grandfather Geral [..]

Part 657d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Doherty – 1940 US Census – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-05 10:06:00

Good Day, The sun is shining through the clouds this morning… and it is a gorgeous day here in Tampa. As mentioned in my last Posting regarding the 1940 Census and the Brunhammer Family, I would next search for the Doherty Family. Flipping the images, as provided by Ancestry.com, I started at the 127th Page, where I discovered the Brunhammer Family. All I had to do was flip through four more Pages and there at 2006 Woodlawn Avenue, in New Castle County in Wilmington, Delaware, was the Dou [..]

Part 656b – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1940 US Census – Wilmington, Delaware

Published on 2012-04-04 23:57:00

Good Day, And of course I had to search and find… and search again. The 1940 US Census is now available online; in image format. It hasn’t been indexed as yet, but it is available if you are wanting to turn the pages. And I do, that is, did. The 1940 Census is available online from the National Archives at their site – 1940 Census Official 1940 Census Website. Search capabilities are available via Location and via Enumeration Districts. By entering a Street name into the Location sear [..]

Part 655s - Smith Robertson Genealogy - 1804 Robert Smith - Saint Patrick's Parish, Grenada

Published on 2012-03-23 10:14:00

Good Day, Well I jumped the gun, in my last posting when I wrote that I would be moving on to Item 5 in my search for Smith-related Documents. According to the Index in the Grenada Registers of Records there are no Smiths in that Register. This is only based on the Index which typically provides a quick summary of the primary Parties concerned with and included in the Indenture. All-things-being-equal there could be mentioned made of the surname Smith in the body of each and any of the pag [..]

Part 654s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1803 Gavin Smith – St. George, Grenada – A Diagram of Property

Published on 2012-03-19 15:06:00

Good Day, And just for any of you who may have thought that I had gone missing in my work of my Transcription Project of all Smith-related Indentures from the Grenada Registers of Records… No such deal! Believe it or not I took a bit of a respite from the search for the genealogy and origins of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. I have been preoccupied, with my quilting partner Andy, getting our quilt exhibit portfolio, Evolution together and ready for the upcoming MQX East 2012 Show to be hel [..]

Part 653am – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1801 Marriage Registration – GGGG-Grandparents Thomas and Mary (née Marsingate) Aldridge

Published on 2012-03-06 10:17:00

Good Day, Following up from the transcription of the Births and/or Christening Registers of St. John and St. Martin in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, see Part 651a, I thought I would check to see if there may be the equivalent of a Marriage Register. I never know what direction I may be headed or which path I will follow in this Genealogy thing and quest. And sure enough I located a microfiche which displays the Computer Printout of the transcribed work of the Marriage Registers for Beverley, S [..]

Part 652acm – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – Three New Descendant Charts – McCullogh, Aldridge, and Christie

Published on 2012-03-04 14:32:00

Burrowed in my house on this gorgeous breezy, albeit windy day, in sunny Tampa, I am closeting myself away from the floating, yellow microbes of the latest pollen assault. I feel claustrophobic, but my eyes, my nose, and my throat, and my diaphragm sort-of thank me for the consideration. So what do I do cooped up, sans air frais… I attack my PC with the gusto of a genealogy search and rescue mission. As promised, previously, and due to the expansion of the McCullogh/Aldridge/Christie Descend [..]

Part 651a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – GGGG-Grandparents Thomas and Mary Aldridge – 12 Children

Published on 2012-03-03 09:16:00

Good Day, YES, the pollen count is high… Just ask my eyes, ask my nose. Deadened ears by sonic-choos. See the boxes of Kleenex in every room of this house. And two more months of this cranial hell. Today I continue my focus on the genealogy and construction of the ancestry of the Aldridge Family line. Following the lead from the 1851 England Census, see Part 650a,on which it is enumerated that JK’s great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Aldridge was born in “Yorkshire Beverly”. I disc [..]

My Tangent - Panic; Electronic Tools

Published on 2012-03-02 13:19:00

Good Day, Today, in this day and age, I realized how electronically vulnerable I really am. And for anyone who does work on genealogy, of which the data files and folders become as precious gold, this can become a serious matter. In my car, on a quick trip to my PC experts at Citrus Computers here in Tampa, I had to take in my desktop to get it tweaked, fixed and a new “case-applied”. My notebook mouse and cursor functionalities had seized up when I was updating my anti-virus software Ka [..]

My Tangent - Written In The Stars? - And Something To Really Think About

Published on 2012-03-01 09:30:00

Good Day, Is this something written in the stars? Here is the weirdest thing I have come across in my short sojourn and workings of this my obsession of genealogy. It is possible that my son’s ggg-grandfather John Robertson, from his father’s maternal line's and his ggg-grandfather Thomas Aldridge, from his mother’s paternal line's families may have known or at least passed by each other at the regular services at the now no longer existing St. Peter’s Church in Liverpool. Check [..]

Part 650a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1851 England Census – GGG-Grandfather Thomas Aldridge and Family

Published on 2012-02-28 18:29:00

Good Day, And the explosion continues. This genealogy thing is just amazing…and all-things-being-equal I haven’t even started. Today I decided to search the birth of JK’s great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Aldridge. Based on the 1851 England Census taken in Liverpool, ggg-grandfather Thomas’ birthplace is indicated as “Yorkshire, Beverly”. Source Citation - The National Archives, London, England. Class: HO107; Piece: 2183; Folio: 350; Page(s): 56,57; GSU roll: 87185-87187. Here [..]

Part 649s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Updated Scott Descendant Chart

Published on 2012-02-27 15:46:00

Good Day, And it is great that at times there are family members and connections that are willing to share their research and the details that they have chanced upon. This time the new information and data center on our Scott Family line and genealogy. Thanks to Tonya, our Scott connection in British Columbia, and her research and continued search, I can add some new detailed information about our ggg-grandfather Alexander Reid Scott to our Family Tree. Here is my updated Scott Descendant Cha [..]

Part 648a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1860 and 1861 Baptism and Birth Registration – GG-Grandaunt Maria Aldridge – Liverpool, England

Published on 2012-02-27 13:27:00

Good Day, And the search goes on. The genealogy of the Aldridge Family continues with the fourth and youngest daughter, JK’s gg-grandaunt Maria Aldridge. The location of abode for the Aldridge Family changed from Bedford Street North to Waterloo, both in Liverpool. GG-Grandaunt Maria was baptized, as were her three elder siblings at St. Peter’s Church. The above inserted image is an 1880 image of St. Peter’s. To date the only record I have discovered of gg-grandaunt Maria is that of h [..]

Part 647a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1855 Baptism and Birth Registration – GG-Grandmother Julia Adelaide (née Aldridge) McCullagh – Liverpool, England

Published on 2012-02-25 08:04:00

Good Day, The next connection in my genealogy quest is JK’s great-great-grandmother Julia Adelaide (née Aldridge) who married his great-great-grandfather William George McCullagh 31 December 1881 at the Mission Church of Dublin, South Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. GG-Grandmother Julia Adelaide (née Aldridge) was baptized 15 October 1855 at the Parish Church of St. Peter in Liverpool. This was the same Church that her two elder siblings were also baptized. The inserted image is of Bedford Stree [..]

My Tangent - I AM JUST FLABBERGASTED!

Published on 2012-02-22 14:46:00

You Won't Believe This, And now we go from the sublime to the ridiculous... I just received an ad gmail from my insurance agent who carries my insurance HERE in FLORIDA. The ad is the "goodneighborEXTRA", and I will NOT spell out the 9-letter name of my insurance company. The height of incredulity is the prime article, in the email SENT to ME. It is titled "Help Protect Your Home: Clear Your Roof of Snow"!!!!!!! Bloody Hell! I have only been a customer of this concern for 30 YEARS!!!! [..]

Part 646a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1849 Birth Index – GG-Granduncle Thomas Henry Edward Aldridge – Liverpool, England

Published on 2012-02-22 08:59:00

Good Day, This day’s first Posting is a follow up to Part 644a. As you know I like to gather as much documentation as possible pertaining to each and every individual in my search and research and re-creation of my associated genealogy. In this case, this new document is the Page from the BMD – Birth Marriage Death Index referencing JK’s gg-granduncle Thomas Henry Edward Aldridge actual Birth Registration. The above inserted image is the Page as downloaded from Ancestry.co.uk, as provide [..]

Part 645a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1853 Baptism and Birth Registration – GG-Grandaunt Sarah Elizabeth Aldridge – Liverpool, England

Published on 2012-02-20 17:42:00

Good Day, In keeping with this train of genealogy (or perhaps genealogical) thought, here are two Pages from two Registers reflecting the baptism of JK’s great-great-grandaunt Sarah Elizabeth Aldridge. Also I have included the Births Registered in October, November, December 1853 Page. This is where it becomes a wee bit confusing. According to the Births Registered Index gg-grandaunt Sarah Elizabeth Aldridge’s birth was registered in Liverpool sometime in the months of October through Dece [..]

Part 644a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – 1849 Birth and Baptism – GG-Granduncle Thomas Henry Aldridge – Liverpool, England

Published on 2012-02-19 08:24:00

Good Day, As per Part 643a I have discovered four Baptism Registrations of JK’s Aldridge Family and genealogy. The inserted image is of St. Peter’s Church in Liverpool. It was established in 1704. In 1919 is was the Pro-Cathedral for the Church of England and demolished in 1922. From the Parish Register of the Parish Church of St. Peter in Liverpool, Lancaster, England I have downloaded an image of Page 319 from the Liverpool Registrar’s Office - #283/PET/2/38. This is the 1849 Ba [..]

Part 643a – Smith McCullogh Genealogy – Four Aldridge Baptism Registrations – 1849 - 1860

Published on 2012-02-18 15:19:00

Good Day, Well today I stumbled upon some new info. I discovered four baptismal records in the St. Peter’s Church Register from Liverpool, Lancashire, England. It really is amazing that when I might be looking for one thing I discover something completely different. This genealogy search and research is certainly a strange game. I was looking for the death registration of my great-great-grandfather John Robertson’s first wife, Margaret (née Dennison). From the information that I have [..]

Part 642s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1803 Gavin Smith – St. George, Grenada – Double-Barreled Surname

Published on 2012-02-17 15:56:00

Good Day, The hunt continues; the hunt for the genealogy and ancestry of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. And with that search I include my Transcription Project. I am transcribing Smith-related Documents from the Grenada Registers of Records… and at times, it certainly is hard not to become side-tracked. Well this next Document from the Registers is dated and signed 10 May 1803 and was entered to the Registers 12 May 1803. The contract is between Samuel Bosanquet and Jacob Bosanquet enacted [..]

Part 641s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1802 Gavin Smith – St. George, Grenada – Easy Paella

Published on 2012-02-16 10:45:00

Good Day, Just diverting a wee bit from my obsession of genealogy and the search and research for the origins and ancestry of my ggg-grandfather James Smith…I decided to enable another one of my obsessions, cooking. Last night’s supper was an experiment, (and that is not necessarily something different in this house)… I decided I had a hankering for some Paella. And do you think I had the time to make a true-blue Paella? Hell, no! I only decided this at about 3:00 pm and we were slated [..]

Part 640s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1802 Gavin Smith – St. George, Grenada

Published on 2012-02-14 14:04:00

Good Day, And the search continues. This search for the origins of ggg-grandfather James Smith's origins and genealogy can certainly appear to become frustrating and superfluous. It seems that there appears to be no resolution or end in sight. I am looking for the minor crack in the door way. The next Document from the Grenada Registers of Records is one written 24 November 1802 between Gavin Smith of Grenada, the Surveyor and Patrick Kewley, a Merchant and his, I think, sister-in-law Elizabet [..]

Part 639s - Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1802 Port D’Espagne, Trinidad – Benjamin D’Harriette Smith – 3rd Installment

Published on 2012-02-13 09:05:00

Good Day, This next Indenture dated 28 August 1802 and entered to the Grenada Registers of Records 7 January 1803 appears to be the third and final Document of a series of contracts between Benjamin D’Harriette Smith and Archibald Armstrong. These Contracts all seem to be centered around the Lot of Land in Port D’Espagne, Trinidad. At this point, I have not found any blatant inter-connection or tie to ggg-grandfather James Smith. This is a continuation of my search and research for the gen [..]

Part 638s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1802 Port D’Espagne, Trinidad – Benjamin D’Harriette Smith - £500.0.0

Published on 2012-02-10 15:03:00

Good Day, No, I haven't given up...but I tell you that this transcribing can become tedious work. At time I find myself, under my breath, cursing at the scribe to hurry up and get to the point, and stop using so much legalese. Today I'm attempting to Sous Vide a small Pork Loin roast. Should prove interesting in a water immersion bath of 138°F (59°C) for five hours. Sides - Sweet Potatoes and a Japanese Cucumber Salad. And so the search and research continues for ggg-grandfather James Smith [..]

Part 637s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1802 Port D’Espagne, Trinidad – Benjamin D’Harriette Smith

Published on 2012-02-04 08:24:00

Good Day, I’m reading the book A Passion for the Possible by Jean Houston and I chanced upon a couple of sentences in her first chapter that… well, here they are “And so I ask you to reflect on this: What would you be like if you started today to make the most of the rest of your life? If you turned a corner and awoke?” As I type and work on this Posting, I have three of the four members of the Pack in my chair and lap, trying to get comfortable, while low-growling at each other as he [..]

Part 636rd – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1845 Baptism – When is a Robertson not a Robertson?

Published on 2012-02-01 10:14:00

Good Day, When is a Robertson not a Robertson? When three Robertsons are recorded as Donaldsons! Isn’t genealogy fun? Doesn’t the search and research for what should be simple facts sometimes drive you crazy? It certainly does me. The above-inserted is at the corner of Prince Edwin Street and Netherfield Road South in Everton in Liverpool, provided by Google in 2009. Sorry, about the laundry… Let me give you a bit of background. I have been researching and following my mater [..]

Part 635s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Trying To Discover the Genealogy of Benjamin D’Harriette Smith

Published on 2012-01-29 12:28:00

Good Day, In the process of my research and search for the origins of my ggg-grandfather James Smith in Grenada, in and around the years 1750 through 1850, or thereabouts, I have come across a number of Smith individuals. And as Smith just happens to be the most common surname in the English language, this search is quite a task. The past numbers of Indentures from the Grenada Registers of Records, from the early 1800s have been particular to one Benjamin D’Harriette Smith. Is there a fami [..]

Part 634s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1802 Benjamin D’Harriette Smith - St. George’s, Grenada – Last in Item 3

Published on 2012-01-29 09:35:00

Good Day, This is the continuation of my Transcription Project in the search for the genealogy and origins of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. And this is the last Smith-related Document in Item 3 of the Family History Library microfilm FHL [1563378]. The inserted image is of the file stacks of microfilms at the Family History Library. This Document is comprised of Pages 474 through and including 477. There have been, from my discovery, 108 Smith-pages in the Grenada Registers of Records. T [..]

Part 633s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1802 Benjamin D’Harriette Smith - St. George’s, Grenada – Next to Shipwright’s Yard

Published on 2012-01-27 16:32:00

Good Day, Today’s entry of my Smith-related Transcription Project is a short Indenture from the Grenada Registers of Records. This Indenture was dated 16 June 1802; presented and approved 28 June 1802; and entered to the Registers of Records 30 June 1802. This record is another Document of the Benjamin D'Harriette Smith and James Park agreement that appears to be a part of the series of Records that I have recently presented. (See my previous Postings Parts 629s, 630s, 631s, and 632s.) As [..]

Part 540s - Smith Robertson Genealogy - New Smith Indenture Study Matrix

Published on 2011-07-04 17:33:00

Evening, Thunderstorm's approaching. I thought I should get my work Matrix posted before I take another lightning hit on the house. Please note that there is a new Header; "Matrices". As I have four new Matrices on the make I thought this work

My Tangent - Happy 4th of July - Genealogy Research Matrixes

Published on 2011-07-04 07:27:00

Good Morning, and a Happy Fourth of July, This morning, I opened the house after basking in the glory of ac for the past couple of days. The current temperature at 8:00 am is just 75° F, and the humidity is 84%. Psychologically as I can now “de

My Tangent - AC and Reading - Genealogy Transcription Project Continues

Published on 2011-07-02 07:57:00

Morning, AC is up and running and the house is comfortable… and now to start the paperwork to deal with the insurance companies, to recoup that which I had to fork out to repair. My stash is on the desk, but I really want to give myself a couple

My Tangent - Happy Canada Day - I Keep Searching

Published on 2011-07-01 10:22:00

Morning and Happy Canada Day y’all up North, From the house sans AC, but now with a portable air conditioning unit that is supposed to work on 500 square feet and a sealed window for the exhaust, set with Dick Cheney’s duct tape, I am still not

My Tangent - Arlene Is Keeping Me Cooler - For The Short Spell

Published on 2011-06-29 08:01:00

Morning from the humid and hot, almost depths of Central Florida. The sky is overcast and the humidity is still 82%. We're still without the AC and searching for the 18% that has to be certainly less damp and sticky. Presently we are under the f

Part 539b – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – Comparing 23andMe Autosomal DNA Results

Published on 2011-06-28 17:52:00

Evening, and still no AC, Well an examination of 23andMe results is the discussion. We decided to use two Brunhammer candidates to see if we could understand exactly what 23andMe is trying to do. The candidates are brother and sister of the Brunha

My Tangent - Extra Protection - A False Sense of Security - Hah!

Published on 2011-06-28 08:15:00

I would say good morning, but... It is now Day Number 4 without air-conditioning in the drones of Tampa. Current temperature at 8:23 am is 74°F or for you in the reaches of the Arctic Circle, that is 23.33°C. Wouldn’t be so bad if the humidi

Part 538s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1796 William Smith – Last Will and Testament – The Logie Connection!

Published on 2011-06-27 17:32:00

Good Hot Evening, In the heat of the day, with the lack of the precious commodity of air-conditioning, I have been able to stumble upon a prize Document. This Indenture is the Last Will and Testament of William Smith. Is this William Smith a con

Part 537rs - Smith Robertson Genealogy – Updated DNA Haplogroup Ascendancy Chart

Published on 2011-06-26 09:57:00

Good Morning, And a very wet good morning… without air-conditioning good morning to all. The positive thing is that it is overcast and should remain this way all day, and so I cannot complain… much. With the release of the new Deep Clade resu

Part 536r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Robertson Deep Clade Tests Results Returned – R1b1a2a1a1a*

Published on 2011-06-25 14:44:00

Good Afternoon, The next set of the Robertson Y-DNA Deep Clade Tests results have been returned. Following up with Part 482r our Robertson Y-DNA, (thank you GR), Haplogroup was predicted at R1b1a2. At that point the Robertson shorthand classificat

Part 535s - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Indenture Research - 1801 James and Robert Smith - Saint Patrick

Published on 2011-06-24 09:30:00

Good Morning, The Transcription Project continues. This current Document is the first Indenture of Grenada Registers of Records from Item 3 of the microfilm [1563378]. There are two Smiths included in the Indenture but I would chance an opinion th

Part 534s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1801 Andrew Smith as Witness

Published on 2011-06-22 14:18:00

Afternoon again, When the lawn-people arrive to take care of the yard, Tinker, the 12-pound Rat has a hey-day. She darts around the house yapping and growling from window, to window, to door, to patio, to back door, to front door… She is actuall

Part 533s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1801 Benjamin D’harriette Smith – Charibee Islands & Irish Sterling

Published on 2011-06-22 09:50:00

Morning, Summer solstice has passed and now the days begin to get shorter. And we’re in those penultimate days of the just-waiting-for the thunder and lightning season to begin its fury in Central Florida. The days are hot… but at least I have

Part 532s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Smith FTDNA Y-DNA 111 – DYS Values Returned

Published on 2011-06-19 15:24:00

Greetings, The first set of the Smith DNA Y-Chromosome Segment (DYS) values have been returned. These are the results of the Smith Family Tree DNA Y-DNA 111 markers tests. I have included all results in the following listing. But in order to underst

Part 531s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1848 Richard Steele – Last Will and Testament

Published on 2011-06-19 11:43:00

Good Afternoon and Happy Father’s Day. And definitely Happy Birthday to AB. Is this the big one… or is it just the beginning of a new adventure? Today’s Indenture Transcription Project work is sort-of a tangent. I received a request from As

Part 530s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1801 Benjamin D’hariet Smith – Curé of the French Church?

Published on 2011-06-18 10:14:00

Good Morning, And the Transcription Project continues… This morning’s Indenture from the Grenada Register of Registers was made 30 December 1800 and entered to the Registers 5 March 1801. The prime parties are Benjamin D’Hariet Smith of Gren

Part 529s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1801 Benjamin d'Harriette Smith

Published on 2011-06-17 08:36:00

Good Morning, This morning is a foray into the Grenada Registers of records 1799-1811 (v. M4-W4) and Item 2 of the FHL microfilm [1563378]. This new Indenture was entered to the Registers 5 March 1801 and written 31 December 1800. The Smith who is

Part 528s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1798 William Smith – Mathew Place, Grenada

Published on 2011-06-15 11:39:00

Greetings and Good Afternoon, Tampa’s humidity has most definitely begun. At 7:00 o’clock this morning I was hit with a wall of the pending summer and wet season. Thank you Stephen, in Glasgow for the image of the 1795 Map of Grenada. The

Part 527s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1798 William Smith – Antigua, Demerary, & Grenada

Published on 2011-06-12 10:51:00

Afternoon, The research continues in the search for the origins of ggg-grandfather James Smith. Thank you to Richard, in Australia, for your informative email regarding your relationship and connections to your ancestors William Smith and Richard

Part 526b – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – A Deeper Look – SNP Markers Results Returned

Published on 2011-06-12 00:01:00

Early Morning, Well, it couldn’t get any more confusing, sort of, than this. Some words of advice to anyone out there who is thinking of trying to understand the whole kit and caboodle of genetic DNA testing… Make sure you talk or write to, an

Part 525s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1798 James and Robert Smith – Pointe Saline & Morne Rouge Estates – 2 of 2

Published on 2011-06-11 09:42:00

Morning, The weather is great this morning. T’ain’t humid and it looks like a good day for the beach or the pool. Last night’s supper was a “Hey I got a purple eggplant and I got a white eggplant… wonder if the two are enough to make e

Part 524s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1798 James and Robert Smith – Pointe Saline & Morne Rouge Estates – 1 of 2

Published on 2011-06-10 10:47:00

Afternoon, My Transcription Project continues in the search for the origins and genealogy of ggg-grandfather James Smith. This is onerous task, but then again no one ever said that the search for our ancestors would be an easy one… Would it be so

Part 523r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Robertson FTDNA Y-DNA 111 - DYS Values Returned

Published on 2011-06-09 09:51:00

Greetings, The first set of the Robertson DNA Y-Chromosome Segment (DYS) values have been returned. These are the results of the Robertson Family Tree DNA Y-DNA 111 markers tests. I have included all results in the following listing. But in order

Part 522a - Smith Robertson Genealogy - GG-Granduncle Lewis Abraham - 1848 Cincinnati

Published on 2011-06-08 18:13:00

Evening, And sometimes a gift falls out of the sky… or should I say out of the Internet. This quick note is a thank you to Angela and Gaby of Cemetery Scribes and Synagogue Scribes.com. Angela and Gaby provided information and a contact to Patri

Part 521s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1799 James Smith – Pointe Saline & Morne Rouge Plantations

Published on 2011-06-04 11:02:00

Good Afternoon, This morning a quick breakfast of eggs in a nest of spinach and scallions, topped with parmesan cheese, and sprinkled with chili vinegar. And a good afternoon to you. It’s is a wonder when you look in the refrigerator and think

Part 520b - Brunhammer Genealogy - FTDNA Y-DNA 111 - DYS Values Returned

Published on 2011-06-03 14:20:00

Greetings, The first set of Andy’s DNA Y-Chromosome Segment (DYS) values have been returned. These are the results of the Brunhammer Family Tree DNA Y-DNA 111 markers tests. I have included all results in the following listing. But in order to

Part 519sb – Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1798 Robert Smith – Carriacou – 4/4

Published on 2011-06-03 08:10:00

Good Morning, The Pack has had their morning walk and breakfast. All are each doing their own thing, and I thought that I had better sit down and finish Part 4/4 of the latest Indenture that I have been transcribing. There is no incidence of a clu

Part 518sb – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research - 1798 Robert Smith – First Names – Carriacou – 3/4

Published on 2011-06-01 17:25:00

Good Evening, The first five months of 2011 are over. June, and our Hurricane Season, begins today. And last night I watched a TV show explaining that I should get my bags packed for the day after my birthday on 21 December 2012. Andy Warhol’s

Part 517sb – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1798 Robert Smith – James Gordon Brebner – Carriacou – Rent = One Grain of Indian Corn – 2/4

Published on 2011-05-31 08:17:00

Morning, You know in the morning, if you have dogs… that shed especially at this time of the year, there are herds of dust-bunnies scampering to hide in every nook and cranny of every room. The Pack, totalling five for the next two weeks, are int

Part 516sb – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1798 Robert Smith – James Gordon Brebner – Carriacou – 1/4

Published on 2011-05-30 15:33:00

Good Afternoon, My transcription work continues in the search for the ancestry and origins of my great-great-great-grandfather James Smith. This next Indenture dated 13 April 1798 and entered to the Grenada Registers of Records 10 May 1799 is a l

Part 515b – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – YDNA 111 Test Results – Possible I2a2a or I2a2b Haplogroup

Published on 2011-05-29 00:50:00

Good Early Morning, The first test results of the new Family Tree DNA YDNA 111 markers have returned. We have now an extended set of YDNA Marker results for the Brunhammer Family Genealogy. According to Family Tree DNA, this test which is only f

Part 514d - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Dubuc Descendant Chart - Dating To 1681

Published on 2011-05-22 17:32:00

Good evening, Yesterday I received an e-mail quite to my surprise, and enthusiasm from Yann. Yann and I are connected by sisters; our great-grandmothers Catherine Marie Antoinette (née July) Abraham and Marie Eugénie Berthe (née July) Clergeau R

My Tangent – The Rapture at 1313 Mockingbird Lane

Published on 2011-05-22 12:20:00

Good afternoon, Well as we all know by now certain portenders got their mathematical and astrological computations wrong! Didn't those sooth-sayers and head-bump- readers read their Bibles? As written in Matthew 24:36: “But of that day and hour

Part 513s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – My Smith Y-DNA Haplogroup Upgraded – R1b1a2a1

Published on 2011-05-20 18:39:00

Evening, A new set of results are in, back from Family Tree DNA. My confirmed and updated Haplogroup is now R1b1a2a1*; Shorthand: R-L150. I have updated my Smith YDNA and mtDNA Ascendancy Chart. This genealogy genetics stuff is amazing, and at ti

Part 512s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – GGG-Grandfather James Smith’s Noted Occupations

Published on 2011-05-20 08:30:00

Good Morning on what may the last of my Postings to A Genealogy Hunt… that is if there is an iota of veracity to the modern day street-sign doomsayers. We’ll know if I there is any truth to their felt-pen scribblings if I do put pen to paper thi

Part 511s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1824 James Smith – Purchase of Property

Published on 2011-05-19 10:40:00

Just about afternoon, And I now am sitting here with a smile as large as that of a Cheshire Cat. No, I cannot report that I have found a clue to ggg-grandfather James Smith origins and ancestry… BUT, I can report that I have just finished the sup

Part 510s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1824 James Smith – Lease

Published on 2011-05-18 17:20:00

Evening, Continuing my Transcription Project, and the search for the origins of ggg-grandfather James Smith, the next Indenture was entered 4 January 1825 to the Grenada Registers of Records. It is an Indenture of lease and is between Matthew Davie

Part 509s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – What Was GGG-Grandfather James Smith’s Occupation?

Published on 2011-05-17 17:52:00

Evening, How many times have I mentioned that I am obsessed with the search for the origins and ancestry of my ggg-grandfather James Smith? Once or twice? Not! I am sure that one of these days, I will… or at least one of us, his descendants, wi

Part 508s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1824 James Smith – 10s + One Pepper Corn = £900.0.0

Published on 2011-05-17 08:39:00

Morning, Following on the heels of Part 507s is the property transaction documentation of ggg-grandfather James Smith dated one day after, 15 January 1811. The cost of the property and mathematical calculation, of course is some legal hocus-pocus

Part 507s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1824 James Smith

Published on 2011-05-16 11:40:00

Good Afternoon, The Transcription Project continues, and this morning I have progressed into Item 12 of the Grenada Registers of Records of the microfilm FHL [1563379]. This next Indenture is all-things-being-equal pertinent to ggg-grandfather Ja

Part 506s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1824 George Smith and Et Al

Published on 2011-05-15 14:04:00

Afternoon, And the search and research for the ancestry and origins of ggg-grandfather James Smith continues. Did you think that I had abandoned it? Never! Not until I find that iota of a clue or lead that will give me a basis of his birth and li

Part 505rs – Smith Robertson Genealogy – What is an Ancestry Painting?

Published on 2011-05-11 10:58:00

Afternoon, Ancestry Painting, what is it? In my genealogy research I think about deep, deep ancestry. Immediately I am transported to the cave drawings at Lascaux in France. But no…I’m way off and in the wrong thought process. Ancestry Paint

My Tangent - Back In The Genealogy Swing Of Things

Published on 2011-05-09 15:10:00

Afternoon, The search for the origins and genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith continues. And the research never seems to end. My research into the newest technology of genealogy DNA also progresses, and I can honestly say that at times it

My Tangent - My Genealogy Efforts - My Short List

Published on 2011-05-05 10:15:00

Morning, Today's a challenge; I'm trying to get myself organized without being too, too organized. There is no point in getting stressed out over not getting something done on time or at least when I schedule it. AB is well on the road to recove

Part 504r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Final Resting Place – Madge (née Goodey) and Frederick Henry Robertson

Published on 2011-05-03 09:24:00

Good Morning, My grandfather Frederick Henry Robertson passed away in the Parish of Saint Andrew, Jamaica, 20 January 1967; see Part 502r. His wife, my grandmother, Madge (née Goodey) Robertson passed away 1 August 1975; see Part 503r. Their fina

Part 503r- Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1975 Death – Madge (née Goodey) Robertson

Published on 2011-05-02 10:06:00

Good Morning, With a family spread in many different countries and parts of the world, the search for genealogy data and associated documentation of my relatives and ancestors certainly takes me to many different sources and locations. Via the Fa

Part 502r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1967 Death – Frederick Henry Robertson

Published on 2011-05-01 13:54:00

Good Afternoon, My grandfather Frederick Henry Robertson passed away in the Parish of Saint Andrew in Jamaica, 20 January 1967. In my work and research of my ancestry and genealogy, I am always looking for the best documentation that I can find.

Part 501rs – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Maybe Martian?

Published on 2011-04-29 12:53:00

Good Afternoon, Isn’t genealogy fun? Who knows what may turn up in my DNA mappings, especially as the technology becomes more and more “sophisticated” and fine-tuned. With the supposed speculation of fossil life in the Martian meteorite ALH

Part 500rs – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 23andMe Autosomal DNA – Biparental Results

Published on 2011-04-28 10:16:00

Good Morning, And this is my 500th Posting on A Genealogy Hunt. The first draft of my genealogy Autosomal DNA results from 23andMe has been received. And as I understand these results do not include the X and Y, or sex chromosomes. These are t

Part 499r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Second 23andMe Results Returned – Maternal Haplogroup = H1a1

Published on 2011-04-26 17:21:00

Evening, Part 498 presented the 23andMe testing results of my Paternal Line, the Smiths. Now I have my Maternal Line results from 23andMe. Ain’t Genealogy fun… The Maternal Haplogroup is H1a1. H1a1 is a subgroup of H1. According to 23andMe

Part 498s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – First 23andMe Results Returned – Paternal Haplogroup = R1b1b2a

Published on 2011-04-25 23:29:00

Morning, Well the “brain-learnin’” continues. This is an amazing trek trying to pinpoint the origins of my ancestors and my genealogy. I received the first part of the results from my 23andMe testings. It appears that the results for my X a

Part 497 - Smith Robertson Genealogy - I Am What?

Published on 2011-04-24 16:49:00

Evening, Following up to my Posting, Part 496, I was/am somewhat confused by the differences on the results of my genealogy Autosomal DNA test results. Recapping quickly – Ancestry By DNA, in 2005, returned the results that my genetic makeup shou

P496 - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Autosomal Test Results - Huh?

Published on 2011-04-23 20:25:00

Evening, As I have mentioned and written on numerous occasions, I am slowly trying to understand the elements of Genealogy and DNA. My previous Posts have discussed YDNA, the (Y) paternal line, and mtDNA, the (X) maternal line. See Part 492. In or

My Tangent - Searching A Genealogy Hunt - DNA Updates

Published on 2011-04-17 20:12:00

Evening, It’s been a hectic couple of past days… and between each breathing moment I try to work on my genealogy and ancestry. Yes I am obsessed with genealogy. I have received a number of emails asking questions regarding inter-connections

Part 495r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Final Resting Place – Agnes Harriett (née Robertson) and John Morgan Davies

Published on 2011-04-16 21:46:00

Evening, Eureka, another key piece in the puzzle of the Robertson Genealogy. Helen and Kevin have also located and photographed the headstone of the grave of grandaunt Agnes Harriet(t) (née Robertson) her husband granduncle John Morgan Davies.

Part 494r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Final Resting Place – Alexander Pirie and Elizabeth Charlotte (née Merrifield) Robertson

Published on 2011-04-14 09:46:00

Morning, There is a feeling of success when a piece of the puzzle of the search for an ancestor falls into to place. This, to me is one of those moments. Helen and Kevin have located and photographed the headstone of the grave of great-grandparen

Part 494r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1939 Death – Great-Grandfather Alexander Pirie Robertson

Published on 2011-04-13 16:51:00

Evening, Following up with Part 493r I have located the Certified Copy of An Entry of Death given at The General Register Office. This 1939 Death Registration is the recording of great-grandfather Alexander Pirie Robertson’s passing. In the s

Part 493r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Final Resting Place – Alexander Pirie and Elizabeth Charlotte (née Merrifield) Robertson

Published on 2011-04-12 10:12:00

Morning, There is a feeling of success when a piece of the puzzle of the search for an ancestor falls into to place. This, to me is one of those moments. Helen and Kevin have located and photographed the headstone of the grave of great-grandparen

Part 492 - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Trying To Understand DNA Test Results

Published on 2011-04-11 13:11:00

Good Afternoon, Well, the results of my most recent genealogy tests, and I mean my most recent DNA tests, are slowly filtering in. All I can say at this immediate moment of time is… I am confused. It appears that I need to go back to school and

Part 491m - Smith Robertson Genealogy - 1880 Marriage - Alexander Pirie Robertson and Elizabeth Charlotte Merrifield

Published on 2011-04-09 23:11:00

Good Early Morning, One never knows what one may find if one just takes the time and looks… I suppose this is the credo of the great majority of persons who are and consider themselves obsessive genealogists. All-things-being equal I didn’t ju

Part 490m - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Updated Merrifield Descendant Chart

Published on 2011-04-09 14:06:00

Good Afternoon, In attempting to keep up with my genealogy "house-", or should I say "blog-keeping", as I have updated my Robertson Descendant Chart, see Part 489r, it falls in place that I should update my Merrifield Descendant Chart. The new add

Part 489r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Updated Robertson Descendant Chart

Published on 2011-04-09 13:04:00

Good Afternoon, With the most recent discovery of Grandfather Frederick Henry Robertson’s two elder siblings, John Merrifield and Alexander George, I have updated and included them in the Robertson Descendant Chart. The two new additions are hig

My Tangent – Woodpecker Dunce & Blue Jay Revenge

Published on 2011-04-09 08:39:00

Good Morning, Walking the Pack most recently and in the early hours of the morning is at time a strain on the wee functions of my brain. The Rats believe that every possible squirrel, bird, and human is, or are the focus of their most required gr

Part 488r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1884 Birth & 1885 Baptism – Alexander George Robertson

Published on 2011-04-09 00:13:00

Morning, As I mentioned the surprise is tremendous; the thrill of the search has produced another new result in the genealogy of our Robertson Family Genealogy. The record of another brother of Grandfather Frederick Henry Robertson has been found,

Part 487r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1882 Birth & Baptism – John Merrifield Robertson

Published on 2011-04-08 14:56:00

Good Afternoon, Wonders of wonders… who knows what information can be found when family members and relatives work together in the pursuit of a common genealogy. I received a call last night from England. A new discovery… actually more than on

Part 486s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Smiths of Nottingham – New Descendant Chart – John Smith – Part E

Published on 2011-04-04 12:26:00

Afternoon, As I have written, it appears that at times the search for one’s genealogy is a process of elimination. Allegorically the exercise can be likened to the effort of “plucking petals of a flower”. “Not my Smith, not my Smith… m

Part 485s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Smiths of Nottingham – New Descendant Chart – George Smith – Part D

Published on 2011-04-03 10:05:00

Morning, The fifth brother is George Smith, and here is the 4th Chart: John Smith of Nottingham – Descendant Chart – Part D. This is number four of the series of five that I have drafted. This George Smith was most definitely pre-occupied wit

Part 484s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Smiths of Nottingham – New Descendant Chart – Samuel Smith – Part C

Published on 2011-04-02 13:02:00

Afternoon, Following up with Part 480s and Part 481s here is the 3rd Chart: John Smith of Nottingham – Descendent Chart – Part C. This is the third in a series of five that I have created. The inserted portrait is of Samuel Smith. It was downl

Part 483s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Smith YDNA Confirmed Haplogroup Updated

Published on 2011-04-02 10:37:00

Almost Afternoon, Last night when I checked my Family Tree DNA account I discovered that my Smith YDNA Haplogroup had been updated. The Smith YDNA confirmed Haplogroup is R1b1a2a. Previously it had been reported predicted as R1b1b2a. It is now

Part 482r – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Robertson YDNA DYS Values In - Updated

Published on 2011-04-02 00:33:00

Early Morning, Yes, I’m still up… and yes I never stop the never-ending search or research into my genealogy. All YDNA DYS, that is, the DNA Y-chromosome Segment, values for Robertson are back from Family Tree DNA. Thanks G. I’ve updated m

Part 481s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – A Process of Elimination? – Smiths of Nottingham – New Descendant Chart – Parts A & B

Published on 2011-04-01 10:17:00

Morning, The thought crossed my mind yesterday that genealogy and the search for our ancestors is most definitely a process of elimination. This pragmatism is a certainty when one’s last name is Smith. As we progress through the generations in o

Part 480s - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Indenture Research - New Smith Descendant Chart - Part I

Published on 2011-04-01 01:02:00

Early Morning, Well the rain is gone, for March... and it certainly didn’t leave like a lamb. Our street front is still flooded, and the culverts are backed up. My picture of the flooded street out the front door was at about 11:30 am. The cont

My Tangent - My 2011 Genealogy Resolutions - March-End Update

Published on 2011-03-25 09:44:00

Morning, And now we are almost at the end of the first three months of 2011. Apart from the fact that there are 274 days and about 15 hours until next Christmas and just about 636 days until the end of the Mayan Calendar, I thought that it may be a

Part 479s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1823 George Plus Many More Smiths

Published on 2011-03-23 00:13:00

Morning, And the search continues… I wonder if my ggg-grandfather James Smith, is just sitting someplace somewhere, in some other time, just waiting to be found. Our name, Jim Smith, has me thinking of this genealogy search as if I’m looking to

Part 478s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1823 James, James, David, and William Smith – 3 of 3

Published on 2011-03-22 12:20:00

Afternoon, I just got back home from picking up Taylor’s special salmon with fruit and vegetables food. I swear she, as well as the Rats, eat a better fare of food than some. And while I was at the Pet Store I noticed the drifts… and I mean dr

Part 477s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1823 James, James, David, and William Smith – 2 of 3

Published on 2011-03-22 09:01:00

Good Morning, Continuing from Part 476s, here are five of the 15 pages, Pages 320 through and including 324, in a second installment of the 14 May 1823 Indenture from the Grenada Registers of Records. The images are downloaded from Item 10 the micr

My Tangent - Which Ancestor Are You Searching For?

Published on 2011-03-21 15:19:00

Who are you searching for? Visits have increased considerably to A Genealogy Hunt. This is great news... All-things-being-equal, I would like to know if my work is helping you with your genealogy and ancestry search and research. Who are you searc

Part 476s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1823 James, James, David, and William Smith - 1 of 3

Published on 2011-03-21 12:27:00

Good Afternoon, The search for the origins and genealogy of great-great-great-grandfather James Smith continues… and what could be more anticipatory than an 1823 Indenture from the Grenada Registers of Records that has not one but two James Smiths

Part 475 – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – New YDNA and mtDNA Ascendancy Chart

Published on 2011-03-20 12:33:00

Afternoon, Updating my records and the information that I have on file, I have created a Brunhammer YDNA and mtDNA Ascendancy Chart. The Chart ends, (that is, at the bottom of the Chart), with Andy Brunhammer. As you can see his YDNA and mtDNA Hap

Part 474 - Smith Robertson Genealogy - YDNA and mtDNA Updates

Published on 2011-03-20 08:42:00

Morning, As I have mentioned and written before we are collecting the results of YDNA and mtDNA testing. The testing, conducted through Family Tree DNA, provides us with another vehicle and possibility in the search of our genealogy and ancestry.

My Tangent - Stop For A Moment To Remember... and Give Thanks.

Published on 2011-03-15 14:01:00

Greetings, Spring certainly is happening at its critical pace here in Tampa... in my garden. The Ti plants, the amaryllis, the domesticated milkweed, and the scrub roses… and the little pinks that I forgot their names. The weather is great, an

Part 473s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver Smith – 6 of 6

Published on 2011-03-15 11:42:00

Afternoon, The last of the 31-Page Indenture… Hallelujah! Following up with my announcement in Part 467s, and my search and research of the genealogy of ggg-grandfather James Smith here is the 5th installment of six parts of the 1822 Richard Oliv

My Tangent – In Genealogy A Single Word Could Provide An Important Clue

Published on 2011-03-14 19:57:00

Evening, At times when I am transcribing a document I come across a word or phrase that I do not know or understand, especially in the concept of my current day vernacular. Sometimes there may be a “hidden clue” in that specific word which may

Part 472s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver Smith – 5 of 6

Published on 2011-03-14 09:44:00

Morning, Following up with my announcement in Part 467s, and my search and research of the genealogy of ggg-grandfather James Smith here is the 5th installment of six parts of the 1822 Richard Oliver Smith Indenture. It is specific to the ownership

Part 471s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver Smith – 4 of 6

Published on 2011-03-14 07:33:00

Good Day, Following up with my announcement in Part 467s, and my search and research of the genealogy of ggg-grandfather James Smith here is the 4th installment of six parts of the 1822 Richard Oliver Smith Indenture. It is specific to the ownershi

My Tangent – Preparing A Document/Indenture For Transcription and Genealogy Research

Published on 2011-03-13 14:09:00

Greetings, As you are well aware I have just finished the transcription of an Indenture from the Grenada Registers of Records of 31 pages in the search and research of the genealogy and ancestry of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. I have posted fou

Part 470s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver Smith – 3 of 6

Published on 2011-03-13 11:10:00

Good Afternoon, And again, following up with my announcement in Part 467s, and my search and research of the genealogy of ggg-grandfather James Smith here is the 3rd installment of six parts of the 1822 Richard Oliver Smith Indenture. It is specifi

Part 469s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver Smith – 2 of 6

Published on 2011-03-13 08:57:00

Good Morning, Following up with my announcement in Part 467s, and my search and research of the genealogy of ggg-grandfather James Smith here is the 2nd installment of six parts of the 1822 Richard Oliver Smith Indenture. It is specific to the owne

Part 468s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver Smith – 1 of 6

Published on 2011-03-12 20:34:00

Good Evening, Following up with my announcement in Part 467s, and my search and research of the genealogy of ggg-grandfather James Smith here is the 1st installment of six parts of the 1822 Richard Oliver Smith Indenture. It is specific to the owne

Part 467s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver Smith – Intro

Published on 2011-03-12 15:38:00

Good day, In the search for some hint or clue of the genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith and his immediate family, I have finally finished the 31 Pages of an Indenture finally dated 25 March 1822. A copy was entered to the Grenada Registers

Part 466jm – Smith Robertson Genealogy – New Online Gironde Archives - GAEL

Published on 2011-03-10 09:57:00

Good day, Spring has certainly taken over the Tampa Bay area. My first set of Amaryllis is blooming. And the pollen is silently blanketing the cars in the driveway and graciously coating my face and hair each time I exit the front door. “Achoo,

Part 465sr – Smith Robertson Genealogy – How Common Is Common?

Published on 2011-03-06 16:44:00

Good day, From time-to-time and as I get new DNA information, I try to contact anyone who has been reported to me by Family Tree DNA as a possible genetic Match. This is just in case that there may be a chance of some connection hiding on some li

Part 464rs – Smith Robertson Genealogy – New Robertson YDNA Results

Published on 2011-03-03 09:58:00

Good Day… The next set of results of the Robertson YDNA, Panels 2 and 3, that is, Locus/Markers 13 through 25, and 26 through 37 have been returned from Family Tree DNA. Each Locus is “a specific spot in the genome.” At each Locus, Family Tr

My Tangent – What Ticks Me Off…Comparable to Pollen Allergies?

Published on 2011-02-28 14:55:00

Good Day, I am not upset, nor have I increased the level of my blood pressure… I am remaining calm and collected. AQ and SC I am not into any type of meditative Yoga where I can “de-pressurize” myself… But I have to keep repeating to mysel

My Tangent – Spring Is Here - Focus On Targeted Goals

Published on 2011-02-27 07:59:00

Good morning from this side of the Globe, And I have just sat down at my PC and am collecting my thoughts of what I need to accomplish today in the search for the genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. All I can think of is how beautiful it i

Part 463s –Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1820 – Richard Oliver, Harriett, Mary (née Broderip), and William Smith

Published on 2011-02-23 15:16:00

Good Day, Today’s Indenture, one in the line of documents from the Grenada Registers of Records that I am transcribing in order to find that hint or clue of the origins and relative genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith, is the last one in I

Part 462s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Possible mtDNA J1b1 Subclade – Abraham, Castex, Charbonnier, Chevalier, Clergeau, Clopath, Emery, July, Merle, Olton, Rénier, Smith, Titus, Vogt…

Published on 2011-02-21 15:22:00

Good Afternoon, ZC just received news from Administration of the J-mtDNA Group at Family Tree DNA. The classification of Haplogroup J could, based on the results, be restated as J1b1. “I see that they have classified you as Haplogroup J, bu

Part 461s - Smith Robertson Genealogy - The Search Continues For GGG-Grandfather James Smith

Published on 2011-02-21 11:30:00

Good Day, Thank you Tessa for nominating A Genealogy Hunt for the Ancestor Approved Award. The Transcription Project in the search of the origins and genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith continues. The next number of Indentures and Contra

My Tangent – 1313 Cemetery Lane – A Genealogy Hunt Table of Contents, Sort of…

Published on 2011-02-19 08:48:00

Morning, The house is open here in Tampa, and the weather is great. The Pack is walked and fed. This morning’s breakfast fare was baby bok choy scrambled eggs… Not bad for a very low carb-diet start. And I’ve sneezed close to 30 times. I

Part 460s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1820 – Richard Oliver, Mary (née Broderip) & William Smith - Affidavit

Published on 2011-02-18 08:25:00

Good Morning, This next Indenture in my Transcription Project appears to be a continuation of the contracts and legal wrangling that has been created regarding the debts of Richard Oliver Smith and his new wife, Mary (née Broderip) Smith. There do

Part 459 – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Am I Bored? – Updates Today

Published on 2011-02-17 09:43:00

Good Day, And I still continue my Indenture Transcription Project in the research for the origins and ancestry of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. At times this process can become somewhat tedious if not “boring”, especially if there is no appar

Part 458m – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Merle Family Line – Verdelais, Gironde, France - Maybe?

Published on 2011-02-16 17:27:00

Good Evening, Today I’ve been working on a couple of branches of my Family Tree… which of course, proves how easily it is to get side-tracked in the realm of genealogy research. I discovered a post-it note on my desk that had the word “Verd

My Tangent - Disabled Access and Electronic Banking

Published on 2011-02-16 13:24:00

Good Day, My wireless keyboard partially died today, without warning, as I was logging into one of my bank accounts. Needless to say I keyed my password in too many times, without knowing that it was not working, and my access was immediately disab

Part 457s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – Richard Oliver, Mary (née Broderip) & William Smith

Published on 2011-02-15 09:23:00

Morning, Afternoon, and Evening, My trek continues in the search for the origins and ancestry of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. When did he appear in Grenada? Was he born there? This is the question… and the sole object of my search. This n

Part 456 - Smith Robertson Genealogy - DNA Pedigree - New Ancestry Chart

Published on 2011-02-13 09:21:00

Morning, Last night I thought that I would reproduce an Ascendancy Chart which incorporates relevant and associated DNA information. There is so much that I need to learn, (self-imposed), regarding my genetic genealogy. A fair reference work, Gene

Part 455s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1819 – William Smith – Revolution Hall Estate Passes Hands Again?

Published on 2011-02-11 09:27:00

Good morning, My Indenture Transcription Project continues, and I keep searching for that hint, that clue, that shred of evidence that will lead me to the understanding and knowledge of the origins and genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. T

Part 454s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1819 – Richard Oliver and William Smith – Debt = Marriage? (III)

Published on 2011-02-10 10:31:00

Good day, The weather is… raining. Actually it is drizzling, and I hope that the weather prognosticators at the National Weather Service are incorrect with their forecast of a drop of 25 degrees in temperature. We are only supposed to have one w

Part 453s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1819 – Richard Oliver and William Smith – Debt = Marriage? (II)

Published on 2011-02-10 00:09:00

Good Morning, And here is the 2nd Installment of the current Indenture that I am working on. This is II which follows the one as posted in Part 452s. The legalese and what appears to be double-talk certainly is predominant in this Contract and Doc

Part 452s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1819 – Richard Oliver and William Smith – Debt = Marriage? (I)

Published on 2011-02-09 17:41:00

Good evening, Yes, I am still working on my Indenture Research Project of the Indentures, Contracts, and Documents found in the Grenada Registers of Records. This is a part of my search for the origins and genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smit

Part 451 – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Thank You, University of Florida, dLOC

Published on 2011-02-09 13:27:00

Good day, It is true! "Good things come to those who wait". And no I'm not talking about Guinness Stout, nor about Heinz ketchup. Working on the present 1819 Document of my Indenture Research Project I chanced upon a tremendous find. This find goes

My Tangent – Congee and GenoPro Genealogy Software Update

Published on 2011-02-08 08:58:00

Morning, Dealing with two slightly ill dogs this morning… and the two of them won’t leave my side. I wonder if I can make Congee for them for their supper this evening? Congee was the bill-of-fare for supper last night. It’s sort of a ric

Part 450s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Our mtDNA Results Lean To J1b

Published on 2011-02-07 13:14:00

Afternoon, Based on ZC’s present results, and the immediate differences results from the Cambridge Reference Sequence, (see Parts 448s and 449s), it may be possible to infer that the sequence may be classified as J1b. J1b is a subclade of the Hap

My Tangent – Online Language Translators

Published on 2011-02-07 09:19:00

Morning, If English is not your first language, please use an online language translator, like Google Translate, to translate this Posting to your native tongue. As many of my readers are aware I am somewhat fluent in three languages; English, Span

Part 449s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Grandmothers Abraham (J) and Goodey (H1a1) mtDNA Results

Published on 2011-02-06 10:30:00

Morning, It is amazing what information and data is available today online. At times I wonder if the "grey matter" between my ears will either explode or simply turn into mush... but I am enthralled at times at the amount, whether good or bad, is r

My Tangent - Happy Jack Valentine

Published on 2011-02-05 14:24:00

Afternoon, Can I ask the question "Is there a celebrated festival or holiday, somewhere in this world that combines the symbols of a pumpkin and a Valentine heart?" I have to ask. I'm just back from walking Taylor and the Dats, and one of my nei

Part 448s – Smith Genealogy – J-mtDNA Results Again - Castex, Merle, Clergeau, Rénier, Chevalier, Clopath, Charbonnier

Published on 2011-02-05 09:12:00

Morning, In the pursuit of our genealogy, the J-mtDNA results, following up on Part 447s , are critical in determining a possible match which could lead to the discovery of a most common ancestor. Of the FamilyTree DNA accessible and open records,

My Tangent – Genealogy Researcher Be Forewarned...

Published on 2011-02-04 08:56:00

Morning, I received notice the other day that there was a new publication available that would most definitely help in my family ancestry research. This was great news, and I am one that certainly appreciates any information and news specific to my

Part 447s – Smith Genealogy – mtDNA Results – Olton, Smith, Abraham, July, Merle, Castex

Published on 2011-02-02 12:16:00

Greetings, Great news this morning, and thank you Miss Z. Today we have another piece of our family puzzle in place. Grandmother Jeanne Lucie Ernestine (née Abraham) Smith (and Mann) identifies as Jasmine, one of the seven daughters of Eve. (

Part 446s - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Indenture Research - Smiths To Date Reformated Matrix

Published on 2011-01-31 18:28:00

Evening, Thought I would reformat the Matrix that I introduced in Part 445s. This should present the image of the summary data in a more legible form... hopefully... And as mentioned if you would like a copy file please contact me. Enjoy, Jim

Part 445s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – Smiths To Date

Published on 2011-01-31 15:25:00

Afternoon, Today I decided to take just a small respite from my work on my Transcription Project. The actual work is relevant to the search of the genealogy and origins of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. I am trying to determine from where and whe

My Tangent – Can Genealogy Be Somewhat Overwhelming?

Published on 2011-01-28 14:31:00

Good afternoon from Tampa, Last night I was asked the question, “Can genealogy be somewhat overwhelming?” And without missing a beat, I responded, “Yes.” But the secret is to keep organized… which of course does apply to any aspect and/o

Part 444s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1822 – Richard Oliver and William Smith

Published on 2011-01-26 08:44:00

Morning, In the due course of my search and research, I'm certainly learning of the genealogy and inter-connections of the other Smiths who may have been involved in the history of the Island of Grenada. At times it seems like a momentous task to ch

Part 443s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1821 GGG-Grandfather James Smith Sells Portion of Property

Published on 2011-01-25 08:40:00

Morning, Following up on the heels of Part 441s it appears that ggg-grandfather James Smith converts five shillings and one pepper corn into the 1821 sum of £858 - . - . And in response to my question and inquiry, it appears that ggg-grandfather J

Part 442s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Smith Indenture Study – Updated Research Matrix

Published on 2011-01-24 11:15:00

Afternoon, I introduced an organizational component of my research and work early on in my Indenture Transcription Project; the Research Matrix. The purpose of the Research Matrix is to provide an immediate cross-referenced Index, of sorts that I c

Part 441s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1821 GGG-Grandfather James Smith – Good Hope Estate

Published on 2011-01-23 18:32:00

Evening, And tonight’s supper was a variation on Aloo Palak Sabji. I added cherry tomatoes from the garden and fresh zucchini, and then I accompanied each plate with home-made Roti. Good food for a cold Tampa night. The inserted image is of Pa

My Tangent – A New Way To Pay For Research?

Published on 2011-01-23 10:59:00

Afternoon, I have to vent today. In my morning research of my genealogy and ancestry I stumbled upon a personal Family History Site. I was interested and I linked on to the site and within a short space of seconds I was immediately transported to

Part 440s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1797 – The Logie Smith Mystery Continues

Published on 2011-01-21 11:51:00

Good Afternoon, I think I may have solved a part of a mystery... well, a mystery to me. This is all from the due course of my search and research for the origins and genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith. In Part 178s I introduced a James Sm

Part 439m – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1844 & 1846 Christenings – Great-Granduncles George Bailey and William Merrifield

Published on 2011-01-19 15:15:00

Afternoon, And now I’ve chanced upon the possibility of two great-granduncles; great-granduncle George Bailey Merrifield and great-granduncle William Merrifield. They would have been elder brothers of great-grandmother Elizabeth Charlotte (née M

Part 438bm – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1841 Marriage – GGG-Grandparents John and Esther (née Bailey) Merrifield

Published on 2011-01-19 00:15:00

Morning, And wonders never cease… the searches, the finds… and the “Ah-hah!” moments. This genealogy thing is forever a giving thing. It is like a continual finding of Christmas presents under an evergreen tree that is never taken down and

Part 437s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1821 GGG-Grandfather James Smith Finalizes Sale of 810 SqFt – £1,386.0.0

Published on 2011-01-18 15:39:00

Good day and a Merry Winnie the Pooh Day… The sun is shining and our house is shaking off the doldrums of last week and the cold and rain… and preparing for our shot of a mini-Spring. The Farmer’s Almanac is forecasting thunder-storms, then