Do you have documents in your genealogy files that do not have any sourcing information attached? Unfortunately, I have to admit to that transgression. Today's Friday Find is such a document from my WELLS folder for Kansas. This is a list of descendants of Ozias Wells and Mary Kennedy conentrating on Thurston Wells' line. DESCENDENT'S …
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
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) This week, let's write about "My memories of the decade of my choice." Choose …
Saturday Tidbits
1940 Draft - Serial Number Order Continued from Nov. 18 “The wheel is spinning in the United States for some 17 million young men. It started when Congress decreed that they should register for possible military service. Then came the registration; then the spin which gave each man in the county a serial number. Tuesday …
yDNA R1b-01A
Have you purchased a yDNA test for yourself or a male relative? Have the results helped you with that branch of your tree? I am currently managing three BigY tests for my CRAWFORD line and still have a brick wall! I am fortunate that a lot of Crawford family members have not only tested but …
AI
Whether we realize it or not, we have likely used AI technology, even in our genealogy research. Now, thanks to ChatGPT 3.5 and the experimentation of other genealogists, one can turn a timeline into a biography. Randy Seaver used a RootsMagic report to demonstrate this in his post, Writing an AI Narrative Report in ChatGPT …
Richard Foster
Richard Foster was born about 1 Jul 1779 in Maryland. [1–4] He lived in Ross County, Ohio before 1800. [5] He was listed on the tax rolls in 1801 in Ross County, Ohio. [6] He married Rachel Browning on 26 Feb 1801 in Frederick, Maryland, United States. [7–12] Richard was the father of Jeremiah Browning …
Richard Foster’s Will
Have you ever found a will in the records from a land office? I'm not sure how often I've run across a will in the land records, but the Warren County Indiana land records do contain a copy of Richard Foster's will. In the name of God Amen, I Richard Foster of the County of …
Mastodon
I admit it. I'm a Twitter fan. Or, at least I was. I love being able to get information via Twitter. I follow a wide variety of people including genealogists. Since I have a science background, I also tend to follow scientists. When Swine Flu hit, I started following virologists from around the world. It …
FS Family Tree
Did you read Elizabeth Shown Mills' Facebook post about using the FamilySearch Family Tree? While I missed this excellent post on her personal FB page, I read the cross-posting of it in The Genealogy Squad group (membership in group likely required to read the post.) Her post along with many of the comments shared one …
Josie’s Ledger
I recently shared a poem written by my 2nd great grandfather, Washington Marion Crawford. While discussing this poem with my cousins, one shared a comment about his having a copy of Josie's ledger of poetry. This comment reminded me that I have the actual ledger. In remembering this ledger, I realized that I hadn't done …