Buried in the notebook of BRILES items received from Mildred Barby are photocopies of obituaries. Since these may not be available online, I’m sharing a page of them here. MemorialBrilesWilliam Earl Briles, eldest son of Nathan and Susan Briles, was born October 5, 1882 at Fredonia, Kansas, and died August 9, 1945 at his home …
Month: June 2023
Evans Deeds
Robert M. Evans was one of the founders of Evansville. He also patented land in Warrick county, Indiana At this point, I have no evidence connecting General Robert M. Evans to my ancestor, James Evans of Warrick County, Indiana. Perhaps figuring out all of the land transactions for Robert M. Evans in southern Indiana will …
Henry Evans Land
Do you ever collect information for someone even though you have no proof or even suggestion that they might be related to your tree? That's what I did when searching Warrick County, Indiana deeds for James Evans. Along the way, I also collected deeds for Henry Harrison Evans. Below are transcriptions of those deeds. Warrick …
Ancestor Project
Do you ever wish there was a tool to help you prove a DNA relationship? I'm sure my readers have heard of and likely used DNA Painter, but have you heard of GedMatch's Ancestor Projects? I first heard of this 'tool' when the administrator of the Crawford yDNA project tried to create a Crawford project. …
Mary Kennedy
Mary Kennedy was born on 21 Feb 1799 in Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York, United States. [1–3] She married Ozias Wells on 18 Mar 1818 in Sullivan, Madison County, New York. [1,4] She was the mother of Benjamin Franklin Wells who was born on 27 Mar 1819 in Sullivan, Madison County, New York. [1,3,5–11] She was …
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Do You Wish You Had Done? Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):1) What …
Saturday Tidbits
Courier Tribune24 Oct 1940 List Nemaha Serial Numbers for the Draft Over 1600 names are in the County Roll A Master List Will Be Chosen in Washington, D.C.Tuesday to Determine Order in Which LocalNumbers Will Be Called The Courier-Tribune prints today a list of names and numbers important to almost every home in Nemaha county. …
Friday Find
In the notebook of BRILES items shared with me by Mildred Briles Barby is a handwritten ‘genealogy’ of the Rush Family. Mildred and I are double cousins. My 2nd great grandfather, Alexander Briles was the uncle to her great grandfather, Branson Briles. Our common BRILES ancestor is John Briles, son on Conrad Broyles (Briles) of …
Questions
Do you remember learning about the scientific method in school? While I've never done any serious scientific research, I taught and used the scientific method as a high school science teacher. The scientific method is similar to the genealogy proof standard. It all starts with an observation that leads to a question and then searching …
Harris Land
Have you ever tried to verify a fact found in a county history just to be left with more questions? That's my situation with my HARRIS line. I believe one of my 4th great grandfathers is Peter Harris, husband of Rachel VanArsdale and son of Daniel Harris and Elizabeth Demarest. Unfortunately, I don't know much …