Genealogy
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Monday, August 25th, 2008After having a wonderful day with the Marsches yesterday, I left their house this morning and headed for Clarion, Pennsylvania. My Lee ancestors: father Addison, and children including my great-grandfather Ira Lee moved from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, sometime after 1876 (record of a deed in Huntingdon) and before 1880 (census in Clarion County). I [...]
Busy, busy, busy
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Thanks to all of you who visited and commented on my last post. Lorri, Ben will be living in Geneva. Hannah, I’ll email you about the math and phonics. I can only imagine how precocious your daughter might be.
I just got back from The Conference in the States in Kansas City last night. It [...]
Family News
Friday, May 9th, 2008I don’t usually post much about the family because some of them don’t like finding out that people they don’t know seem to know all about them when meeting them in other environments.
Last Thursday-Sunday, the girls and I went up to Indiana to visit Ben and one family we’ve known through the internet for [...]
Fires and Bibles
Monday, April 21st, 2008I wonder how many old family Bibles were destroyed by fires. Supposedly one of my ancestors Clement Nance had a whole trunkfull of family papers that were destroyed by a house fire in the New Albany, Indiana area.
I recently received my first-ever-ordered pension packet on my Civil War ancestor Albertus Van Hoesen. With the [...]
Genealogy and Vacations
Monday, April 21st, 2008I’m a member of New England Historic Genealogical Society and today received an issue of the publication sent to members. In one article one of the directors in NEHGS tells how she enjoys hearing how people get into genealogy. She tells one man’s story of the influence his father had been in sparking his interest. [...]
NARA Records
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Yay, yay, yay! I just checked on the status of my order for the military records for one ancestor and the pension file for another, and they have been found, photocopied and are awaiting shipment. On my last order, they were “awaiting shipment” even after I got them, so I have hopes that [...]
NARA Records
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Yay, yay, yay! I just checked on the status of my order for the military records for one ancestor and the pension file for another, and they have been found, photocopied and are awaiting shipment. On my last order, they were “awaiting shipment” even after I got them, so I have hopes that [...]
Newspaper Finds of the Day
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008My latest request for microfilm for the Clarksville Star from Clarksville, Iowa came in today.
June 6 1878: Married, by Elder J. W. Moore, at the residence of H.F.L. Burton, n this place, June 3, 1878, Mr. A. L. Van Hoesen and Miss Carrie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton. Like all young [...]
Civil War Ancestors
Friday, March 7th, 2008Today I got military record packages from the National Archives for two of my ancestors, Albertus L. Van Hoesen and Henry Hunt. Albertus joined up in early 1864 when he was 17 and was injured near Washington D.C. November 26, 1864. Their regiment was fighting at the battle at Fairfax Courthouse that exact [...]
Ancestors
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008I have two ancestors, father and son, for whom I have not gotten any definitive information about where and when they died. Often a genealogist can be on the track of one of the children from whom she is descended and thus lose sight of the fact that she doesn’t know what happened to [...]
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