Month: March 2024
Saturday Tidbits
Sabetha Herald8 Jan 1941page 1 Battery D EntrainsMany Persons Gather at Rock Island Station Friday Morning to See Sabetha Men Leave Hundreds of Sabethans (parents, wives, sweethearts and children) gathered at the Rock Island station last Friday morning to bid farewell to Battery D members and watch them entrain for Camp Joseph T. Robinson near …
Friday Find
Guardian Case Have you ever found the full text of a court case in a newspaper? While searching for records involving the descendants of Elizabeth Ann Steele Combs Chandler, I found a case involving guardianship records for the estate of Charles B. Boyes, deceased husband of Margaret Combs Boyes. The 14 July 1904 issue of …
Unlink?
Have you ever unlinked someone from a family on the FamilySearch tree? If so, how much evidence did you have to support removing someone from a family? If you are like me, you have heard others express frustration because someone change 'their' ancestor's information on the FamilySearch tree. Thus, I'm overly cautious about making changes …
Margert Steel Garriott
Do you ever feel like you are on a wild goose chase when researching a suggested DNA ThruLine? In an effort to verify that Elizabeth Barr is a sister to Hannah Barr Ralston, I started researching one of the ThruLines going thru Elizabeth Barr. The Ancestry hints for Elizabeth and her husband James Steel supported …
Purple Heart
Lt. Leroy Floyd Armstrong Courier Tribune1 Jul 1940page 2 Leroy Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Armstrong, Seneca, preparing to e a navy flier. Has had his first training at Fairfax airport, Kansas City. Soon to be called to the naval air base at Pensacola, Florida to report. Courier Tribune8 Jul 1940page 3 Local …
Susie Crawford
Have you researched a family that others don't recognize as a relative? As I'm researching the descendants of Alexander Crawford and Margaret McElwee, I'm encountering that situation. Their grandson, Jonas A. Crawford married at least twice. His first wife was reported to have been Mary Fish. He married his second wife Amanda Wilson in 1878 …
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1) Where did your ancestors live or reside in the year 1900? List them by generation. Show their birth and death years, and the place they …
Saturday Tidbits
Courier Tribune30 Dec 1940page 4 Draft Order(Official List Continued) 1151 Nick Frank Boden Jr1152 Claude Kendall Talley1153 Lee Elner Bucher1154 Charles David Larkin1155 Ralph Howard Eby1156 Marvin Emil Hartman1157 LaVerne Elvie Kramer1158 Melvin Edward Thieman1159 Robert McLaughlin1160 Lester Raymond Hilbert1161 Edwin Bernard Hermesch1162 Lawrence Dale Hatz1163 Durward Daniel Clements1164 Revere Donald Funk1165 William Michael Hazlett1166 …
Friday Find
Today's Friday Find does not come from my paper files. Instead it comes from an Experimental Search. I was searching for records of Elizabeth Barr, wife of James Steele. When I narrowed the search to Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, I found a deed between Isaac C. Steele and Mariah his wife and Elizabeth Steele, widow of …