For the past few months, I have been slowly whittling away at the green leaves on my Ancestry family tree - Heartland_Genealogy. When I look at the pedigree view, it looks pretty good since almost all of the leaves are gone. I have to admit that the initial pedigree view is somewhat deceiving since expanding …
Month: November 2016
Veterans History Project
In researching my father's military service aboard the USS Oneida (APA-221) during World War II, I stumbled across the Veterans History Project. Within that collection, I found an interview with John H. Garner, seaman 1st class, US Navy. Mr. Garner's experience is similar to my fathers: training at Great Lakes Naval Station and service aboard …
My Military Heroes
In honor of Veterans' Day this Friday, I would like to honor my ancestor Veterans. While still in high school, my father, Eugene David Crawford, enlisted in the US. Navy and attended training at the Naval Training Center (EE & RW) in Gulfport, Mississippi and at the Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill. He …
Hutchinson / Merry Ties
We're Related Potential Success According to the We're Related app from Ancestry, I am related to Winston Churchill (7th Cousin 4x Removed). Our common ancestor is Elizabeth Pye (1579-1638) -- but it takes me 11 generations to get to Elizabeth. According to Ancestry, my ancestor, Albert Hutchinson is the son of Sarah Merry. If I …
Hints Discovery
Thanks to Randy Seaver and his blog about using the links from Family Search to access hints from Ancestry and other genealogy sites, I retried the links. I did discover that (for me at least), I have to use Chrome for those links to work. The Ancestry link gave me 111,849 hints -- and the …