While I have not succeeded at finding a will, probate file or even a mention of the death of John Thompson's father, it was fairly easy to locate a will for his father-in-law, Jacob Igleheart. I originally found this will on Ancestry, in their Ketucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989 database. While that database …
Category: Kentucky
Orphan
Have you ever wondered whether there could be another definition for a familiar word? That's my case with the word, orphan. I recently uncovered several apprenticeship documents in Ohio County, Kentucky, that refer to John Thompson as a 14 year old orphan. Having assumed that an orphan is a child who has lost both parents, …
Thompson Theory
My recent Friday Finds post was about an apprenticeship record for a John Thompson in Ohio county, Kentucky. Hoping to find the name of John's father, I recently scanned the court order books up to the entry for the apprenticeship. Unfortunately, my scanning of these court orders did not uncover any mention of a Thompson …
Friday Finds
Last week, I posted about marriage records from the book, Ohio County Kentucky Records, Volume I by Michael L. Cook and Bettie A. Cummings Cook. In my photocopy of the book, I also a copy of page 242 which contains information about the apprenticeship of John Thompson as a blacksmith. P. 480 13 May 1811, …
Friday Finds
Have you been researching your family history for a while? If so, do you have either photocopies or scanned images from books and other sources buried in your files? Unfortunately, I do. Thus, I'm using my 'Friday Finds' blog posts to not only dig thru those old files and see what I have but to …
Oaken Heart
Do you have goals for your genealogy research? Are you making progress on those goals? I have to admit that I'm not making much progress on my goals. Lately, I've been researching the descendants of John Thompson and Sarah Iglehart. Even though this research is slow, it will hopefully help identify my Thompson and Evans …
Crawfords in Early Kentucky
Do you have family in early Kentucky? If so, have you wished for a statewide census to help you locate various family members? Unfortunately, those early statewide census records don't exist. Instead, various sources used the county tax records to create a list of inhabitants. While looking for books for Nemaha county, Kansas, I stumbled …
Low Dutch
Have you ever felt like finding one ancestor opens a door to an abundance of historical information about a group of ancestors? That's the experience I'm having after finding a small thread of information connecting Rachel Harris Currey to her father, Peter Harris and grandfather, Daniel Harris. While the HARRIS surname is likely of English …
Corn Stalk Militia
As you've watched one of the many genealogy videos on YouTube have you ever heard a reference to a uniquely named source that you thought 'I just have to check that'! That was my experience as I watched video of a webinar discussing Kentucky records prior to 1850. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHrMdqI9fs While the webinar mentioned many sources …
Fort Ruddell
Since I've been updating my research of several SELLERS bushes in my tree, I decided to look at some of my old files and found information about a Sellers family and Fort Ruddell in early Kentucky. My photocopies from the book, Paris (Hopewell) Sesquicentennial, provides a list of the inhabitants of the fort when Captain …