Are there areas of your tree where your research isn't as thorough as other areas? As I'm going thru my 3rd great grandparents, I'm finding that some are 'poorly' researched. Green Wells and his wife, Abigail White Wells would be an example of my less than stellar research. Green Wells Green Wells [1] was born …
Category: Wells
Friday Find
Do you have documents in your files that you obtained from a distant cousin? Thanks to the help of a county researcher in Michigan, I obtained copies of WELLS family information from a distant cousin. One of those items is a handwritten genealogy of my WHITE ancestry. A source is mentioned at the bottom of …
Michigan Clipping
Do you have unsourced newspaper clippings in your files? Thanks to my grandmothers, I have quite a few. Fortunately, most of those clippings came from Kansas communities. Thus, I have been able to locate those clippings in the digitized newspapers. Somehow, buried in my Kansas clippings is one that is likely from Michigan. Mr. and …
Tragedy
Do you have old obituary clippings in your files? Do any of those clippings hint at a tragic cause of death but not provide any details? As I was going thru my WELLS family notebook, I came across one such clipping for Samuel Clark Wells and his wife, Icy Yola Brooks. WellsSamuel Clark Wells was …
Friday Finds
As I was going thru my RICKETTS notebook and files, I came across some research that Betty Wasmer did for me in Woodson County Kansas records. Since this research is primarily a transcription from the indexes, I checked FamilySearch to see whether the actual records were available. I did not find anything on FamilySearch for …
Missing Records
Do you have a record in your files that you believe should lead you to more records? That's my case with a Woodson County, Kansas deed for Thurston K. Wells. Woodson County KansasDeeds Book G, Page 324 Image 12 on FS film 1428638 United States of AmericaHomestead Certificate No 1316Application 2986 To all to whom …
Provenance
Do you have a family scrapbook, photo album or Bible in your possession? If so, have you documented how you obtained ownership of the item(s)? While most of the photo albums, funeral books and family Bibles were passed down to me by my grandmothers, I am encountering an issue where I need to document the …
Dear Linda
Are we cousins? Or am I a cousin to your husband? I recently worked with an obituary that identified O. P. Stufflebeam, Morgan Stufflebeam, Miller Stufflebeam and Mrs. Margaret Burberick as cousins of the children of Harriet Foster Fleming. When I read those names, I immediately thought of you and your Empty Branches on the …
Friday Finds
In an attempt to figure out whether I was working with one or two men named Thurston Wells, I ordered land entry records from the National Archives. As it turns out, the records I ordered were not for my ancestor, but for the 'other' Thurston Wells. The major clue to the difference is that these …
Ozias Wells
Ozias Wells was born on 15 May 1796 in Northampton, Fulton County, New York.1–4 He lived in Sullivan, Madison, New York, United States in 1820.7 He purchased rights to gypsum and plaister in the undivided sixth part of all the gypsum or plaister that can be discovered as found on the whole or any part …