As I've been updating my THOMPSON family research, I've come across several sets of handwritten notes from a visit to the Iowa Historical Society in Des Moines. One set of notes is for Wapello County, Iowa marriage records. Fortunately, I wrote down enough of the information about the book to locate a copy of the …
Category: Iowa
John Thompson
John Thompson was born on 4 Mar 1797 in Kentucky. [1–4] In Sep 1810, he was a apprenticed to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [5] In Nov 1810, he was a released from apprenticeship to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [6] In May 1811, John was an apprenticed to John Taylor to learn …
Francis Marion Thompson
One of the THOMPSON items buried in my files is a photocopy from the book, History of Adams County, Iowa. This book contains several THOMPSON biographies. One of those biographies is for Francis and Martha Thompson. Francis and Martha ThompsonFrancis Marion Thompson, son of John and Sarah (Iglehart) Thompson, was born April 16, 1838 in …
Thompson – Iglehart Descendants
1-John Thompson-4601 [Ancestry Profile] [WikiTree Profile] [FamilySearch K2TP-YPX] b: 4 March 1797, Kentucky, United States d: 14 August 1857, Adams, Iowa, United States +Sarah Iglehart-4600 b: 24 March 1800, Maryland, United States m: 1 February 1820, Ohio, Kentucky, United States d: 5 February 1877, Adams, Iowa, United States . . . . . 2-William T. …
Friday Finds
Do you have 'same name' struggles with your family history research? Regular readers of this blog will realize that I struggle with several men named James Crawford living in the same vicinity at the same time. However, that is not the only instance of 'same name' issues in my tree. My third great grandfather, William …
Jacob Andrew Evans
Have you researched a family that seemed to always be moving? While I knew that the family of Henry Evans had made several moves between the time of Henry and Mary Elizabeth Thompson's marriage in 1850 in Wapello County, Iowa and his death in 1909 in Custer County, Nebraska, I did not realize how often …
Oregon Trail
Do you have an ancestor that followed the trail to Oregon? While I have an ancestor who seems to disappear around the time of the gold rush (1849), I haven't been able to prove he did indeed venture west. However, I have several collateral lines that followed the trail to both Oregon and California. One …
Ancestry Photo Hint
How do you handle Ancestry photo hints? Do you save them or do you ignore them? I have to admit that I ignore a lot of them. However, when I don't have a photo of an individual, I will try to find the one originally posted and save photo to their gallery. At times, those …
My Canadian Line
Do you have an immigrant ancestor that you keep forgetting is an immigrant? That's the case with my HARDING line. My Harding ancestors trace back to New York. However, they were Loyalists and left New York for Canada. Thus, when my third great grandfather, William G. Harding appears in Iowa, he is actually an immigrant, …
Two Wives
Have you ever tried to re-create your steps to a genealogy conclusion? As I'm working thru my research of my third grandfather, William G. Harding, I'm trying to re-create the research steps that has led me to conclude that he had two wives. My research of William G. Harding's family would have started with his …