Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It’s Saturday Night again – 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Learning about how to pursue genealogy and family history is a lifetime task.  Once you’ve mastered one record type (census, church, certificates, probate, directories, immigration, etc), or one skill (family tree software program, record transcription, source citations, DNA matches, AI prompting, etc.), a new record, or skill, presents itself.  With the constant advances in technology and knowledge, doing genealogy and family history well requires constant learning to do something new. 

2)  This week’s challenge is to tell us a new genealogy-related skill that you have, or are working on, developing.  Tell us about your progress.  Are you having fun?

Are you a WikiTree user? While I have a WikiTree account and have shared research on some of my ancestors, I find using WikiTree to share my research to be a challenge.

I can use RootsMagic’s TreeShare to easily update my tree on Ancestry. I can attach sources found on FamilySearch to a profile. However, I struggle with some aspects of WikiTree.

My current challenge is what to do with a family structure based on research in wills, deeds and court orders that is different from the family structure on WikiTree. This research began with a Crawford Family genealogy found in the book, Miami Valley Genealogies. Using this source, I used FamilySearch’s full text capabilitis to research James Crawford in Augusta county, Virginia.

That research helpmed me put together the descendants of James Crawford and his wife, Elizabeth.

James Crawford (G1R7-CPT) (1719-1750)

+Elizabeth Robertson (G1RQ-D22) (1721-1787)

. . . . . 2-Jane Crawford (LJY8-NM1) (1741-1834)

. . . . . +James Brown (LJ94-ZF7) (1735-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Sally Brown (PSMT-6FF) (-1795)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Margaret Brown (PSMT-3ZR) (1771-1853)

. . . . . . . . . . +Walter Heron or Herring (KH4M-981) (1769-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Thomas Brown (PSZ5-JG1) (1775-1850)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Elizabeth Brown (PSMT-SJL) (1776-)

. . . . . . . . . . +John Bell (M4DM-LTZ) (1773-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-James Brown (27HY-Y2D) (1779-1855)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-William Brown (PSMR-TLP) (1784-1851)

. . . . . 2-George Crawford (L5JC-2SZ) (1742-1751)

. . . . . 2-William Crawford (LRV9-N46) (1745-)

. . . . . 2-James Crawford (LWFH-9FT) (1746-1793)

. . . . . +Jane Sayers (L7QV-XM4) (1748-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Mary Crawford (MT1L-XK7) (-)

. . . . . . . . . . +William Bell (MYM7-8D9) (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Rachael Bell (KC51-LBW) (1812-1852)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Ann Crawford (K8NY-MBX) (1768-1836)

. . . . . . . . . . +John Irvine (KZHP-43L) (1766-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Samuel Irvine (K8SR-LVC) (1789-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-George Irvine (KCWJ-BP3) (1791-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-John Hendrew Irvine (KCXL-NGY) (1793-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-James Alexander Irvine (KZRY-K3Q) (1795-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-James Crawford (K81J-3V8) (1770-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Elizabeth Crawford (MT1P-SHG) (1770-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Martha Crawford (K2Q1-JNV) (1772-1876)

. . . . . . . . . . +William Ewen Hogshead (L4WT-CBX) (1781-1854)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Martha Hogshead (9XYQ-BVG) (1792-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Walter Hogshead (MBXV-YQ2) (1804-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Elizabeth Jane Hogshead (K6M3-DPY) (1809-1872)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Alexander Crawford (KHRS-SND) (1776-1833)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-Jenet Jane Crawford (M4DM-NY3) (1780-)

. . . . . . . . . . 3-George Crawford (KHT2-S7N) (1782-1818)

. . . . . 2-Alexander Crawford (L5JZ-DJ3) (1748-1751)

While a descendancy report seems cut and dried, this one required analyzing multiple resources to draw conclusions about the relationships. Thus, I’m not sure how to update the profile for James Crawford on WikiTree. Below are some of my recent posts about this research:

• Crawford Family in Miami Valley Genealogies
• James Crawford of Cathey River
• Same Land

Thus my ‘challenge’ isn’t something I’ve learned but something I need to learn.