Do you ever get bored and unable to focus on your genealogy research? With area research libraries limiting access and a personal decision to try and stay home until vaccinated, boredom is starting to affect my ability to focus my research. So today, I'm taking a detour and working the light bulbs on my RootsMagic …
Month: January 2021
Homestead
Do you have farmers in your tree? Do you know where the family homestead is (was) located? Since I have a rich Kansas heritage, there are two definitions for homestead: a house, particularly a farmhouse and outbuildingsan area of public land in the west (i.e. Kansas) usually comprising 160 acres that was granted to any …
Kansas Roots
Kansas turned 160 years old today! Happy Birthday, Kansas My Kansas roots run deep. My parents, grandparents and a couple of great-grandparents were all born in Kansas. While my 5 generation birth chart shows a lot of different states in the fifth generation, my chart of death places shows mostly ancestors dying in Kansas. (births …
East Side Bible Class
While growing up, 911 Second in Dodge City was my grandparents home. Even though my grandmother would sometimes refer to their former house on Avenue G, I didn't know much about their life on Avenue G until I started researching the family. Not only did my grandparents live in the 500 block of Avenue G, …
Throwback Thursday
The following photos were in my grandmother's things. Based on my grandmother's activities, these pictures could be the 'Old Timer's Club' or the 'East Side Bible Study Group' of Dodge City, Kansas. Top Row (L-R) Mabel Christy, De Ette Zimmer, Bertie Brown, Winnie Crawford, Dora Fritzlen / 2nd Row: Sadie Archer, Laura Burnett, Lena Tucker, …
Josie Hammond
Josie Winifred Hammond1, female, was born on 9 Feb 1874 in Knoxville, Knox, Illinois, United States.1–17She was the child of Richmond Fisk Hammond and Sarah Ellen Ralston.17In Jul 1880, in Union, Hardin, Iowa, United States, Josie W. Hammond was listed on the 1880 census living in the household of Richmond Hammond. According to the census, …
RM 8 Import Questions
After sharing my experiences with RootsMagic source templates and how I name sources, a reader asked about my experiences importing data into RootsMagic 8. One question – have you tried importing info into RM8 yet to see if the source citations move over correctly – especially if you have used the free form template? My …
RootsMagic Clean-Up Part 4
My quest to clean up my RootsMagic 7 database may get sidetracked. The next step is to 'count trees' and then to merge them. This task assumes that the goal is to have ONE tree. Instead of viewing my software as 'family tree' software, I view it as a database. Database - a structured set …
Her Land
It's not often that one finds a female spouse purchasing land in the late 1880s, but that is exactly what Angelina Jane Burke Currey did in 1879. Since there are several court documents in 1876 and 1877 where Angelina, her sister, Sarah Burke Hornbuckle and their husbands, Hiram Currey and Gilbert Hornbuckle sued two Burke …
Evaluating Progress
Have you ever looked at a chart or table someone else created to display their genealogy data in a different way and wondered what your own data might look like? For many people, this happened when Paul Hawthorne created a pedigree worksheet color coded by birth location. Well, today, genealogist Yvette Hoitink published a way …