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The New Hampshire Genealogical Record contains loads of information about its former inhabitants and many photographs of places which may not remain today. Volume 1 [Read] 1904 - Book notices, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Donations, Dover tax rate 1648, Durham Genealogical Records, births, marriages, and deaths, Friends records at Dover, monthly meeting, marriages, index of persons, town tax 1720, The N.H. Genealogical Society, New Jersey's indebtedness to New Hampshire, Portsmouth Genealogical Records, Strawberry Bank Landgrants and Deeds, Subscription lists, gravestone inscriptions at Point of Graves cemetery, Rye Genealogical Records, Stratham Genealogical Records, and a few photographs. Volume 2 [Read] 1905 - American Revolutionary Naval Service, The Continental Frigate Raleigh, Book notices, David Thompson's Indenture, Donations, Friends Records at N.H. Monthly meeting, family records, marriages, Gravestone inscriptions, N.H. Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Hampton Town Records, baptisms and births, Index of persons, Inscriptions on gravestone of Hon. Ezra Green, Kingston First Church Records, admissions, baptisms, deaths, marriages, Kingston families 1725, New Castle Genealogical Records, births, marriages and deaths, Members of N.H. Genealogical Society, Newington Church Records, marriages, Portsmouth Genealogical Records, Gravestone inscriptions in Point of Graves Cemetery, Portsmouth Landgrants and Surveys, Portsmouth town officers, town clerks, selectmen, queries, Rye Genealogical Records, births, marriages and deaths, Stratham Genealogical Records, births, marriages and deaths Volume 3 [Read] 1906 - A letter from Rev. Joseph Gerrish, Allotment of Seats in the Meeting-House, Portsmouth, N.H., 1693, American Revolutionary Naval Service, The Continental Frigate Raleigh, Book notices, donations, Epping town records births, marriages and deaths, Friends Records, Dover, N.H. Monthly Meeting, Family Records, Index of Names, In Memorium Rev. Myron Samuel Dudley, Journal of Rev. John Pike, 1678-1709, Kingston First Church Records, Kingston Deaths, Kingston Marriages, New Hampshire Genealogical Society, Newington Church Records, North Church Records, Portsmouth, N.H., List of Members, Admissions to the Church 1693-1697, North Church Baptisms, List of Members 1699, Parish Register Society of Dublin, Piscataqua Pioneers, Queries, Rye Genealogical Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths), Wants. Volume 4 [Read] 1907 - American Revolutionary Naval Service, Launching of the continental frigate Raleigh, The continental frigate Boston, draft of report of Capt. Hector McNeil, Officers belonging to the Continental Frigate Boston, Extracts from the Journal of Benjamin Crowningshield, book notices, Epping Town Records, First Congregational Church Records at Rochester NH, Marriages by Rev. Amos Main 1745-1757, Marriages by Rev. Joseph Haven 1776-1824, Friends Records at Dover Monthly Meeting, Family Records, Index of names, In memoriam of William Trickey Wentworth, Kingston First Church Records, Kingston Marriages, Legislation, Marriages by Rev. John Osborne Lee, Marriages by Rev. John Pike in Dover and vicinity 1686-1709, Newington Church Records, Baptisms, North Church Records, List of Members 1699 concluded, Baptisms, Reward offered, Stratham Genealogical Records, The Trail and Spence Families of Portsmouth, NH. Volume 5 [Read] 1908 - American Revolutionary Naval Service, New Hampshire Privateers, Book notices, corrections, Epping town records, Family records of Richard Hussey, First Congregational Church Records, Rochester, NH, marriages by Rev. Joseph Haven continued, Friends Records at Dover Monthly Meeting, Family Records, Index of names, In Memoriam of Charles Gale Foster, Hon. Charles Henry Sawyer, Hon. James Albert Edgerly, and Hon. Charles Woodbury Bickford, Kingston First Church Records, Kingston Marriages, Baptisms by Rev. Joseph Secomb, Newington Church Records, North Church Records, Residence of the Canney family, Sarah Burnham, daughter of Robert of Oyster River, Some errors in Howard's Genealogy of the Cutts family, Stratham Genealogical Records, Volume 6 [Read] 1909 - Book notices, corrections, Epping town records, First Congregational Church at Rochester NH records, Friends Records, George Huntress of Portsmouth and Newington, NH and his descendants, Index of names, In memoriam of Hon. Noah Tebbetts, Inscriptions from the Waldron Cemetery in Dover, Kingston First Church Records, Library of the NH Genealogical Society, Newmarket town records, North Church Records, Richard Hussey and his descendants, the Rev. Hugh Adams and Family, Thomas Downes of Dover and his descendants. Volume 7 [Read] 1910 Jan and April - Richard Hussey and his descendants (third generation), corrections, North Church of Portsmouth records, First Congregational Church of Concord records 1730-1905, First Congregational Church Records of Rochester NH, In memorial of George Frederick Evans and Col. Henry Oakes Kent, Newmarket Town Records (births, marriages and deaths), the origin of the name Pinkham, Thomas Downes of Dover and his descendants cont'd, Newmarket town records, cont'd, First Congregational Church of Concord records 1730-1905, North Church of Portsmouth records cont'd, In memoriam of Henry Rust Parker, First Congregational Church at Rochester NH records, Admissions to church at Rochester, Book notices. Click here to see more New Hampshire resources. #NH #newhampshire #resources #history

The U.S. Federal Census is a valuable tool for researching your family history, especially for those who don't know much about their ancestors beyond their grandparents or great-grandparents. Finding one of them on the census usually leads to the discovery of their parents or guardians names. A common problem with using the census is the discrepancies found. It is common to see minor variances or errors in the ages of the household members from census to census. A woman who was 30 in 1900, for example, should have been 40 in 1910, but I've seen many cases where her age was given as 37, for example, in 1910, instead of 40. Was it a mathematical error? Did someone else who wasn't quite sure give the census taker the information? Or was she skimming years to avoid revealing her true age? This is not uncommon! So we have to wonder how reliable the informant was. Knowing who the informant was, would help, but unfortunately, there was usually no indication of who the informant was, until the 1940 census. When the 1940 census was taken, a small notation was made to let us know. A circled "x" beside the name indicated who the informant was. The mark, in a way, gives us a glimpse of the scene. Given the example below, I can picture my great-grandmother giving the census taker the information, either recalling or calculating the ages of the seven children in the home. The ages happen to all be accurate. In most cases, the mother would be the most reliable source of information, having given birth to all the children. A child, of course, would be less reliable. This is just one small way to help determine whether or not the information is reliable. The United States 1940 Federal Census can be searched free of charge on FamilySearch at: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2000219 For more help with finding information on census records, click here. Click here for thousands of free genealogy resources. #census #1940census #genealogy #dickinson

The Congregational church was the first church in the town of Redding, Connecticut. The church was formed in 1729, with the building erected three years later in 1732. It operated until 1906 and still stands today. Vital records for the church can be found in this book: "The History of Redding, Connecticut, from its first settlement to the present time, with notes on the Adams, Banks, Barlow, Bartlett, Bartram, Bates, Beach, Benedict, Betts, Burr, Burritt, Burton, Chatfield, Couch, Darling, Fairchild, Foster, Gold, Gorham, Gray, Griffin, Hall, Hawley, Heron, Hill, Hull, Jackson, Lee, Lyon, Lord, Mallory, Meade, Meeker, Merchant, Morehouse, Perry, Platt, Read, Rogers, Rumsey, Sanford, Smith, Stow, and Strong Families", by Charles Burr Todd, 1906. You can see this historic church and tour the area on Google Maps: My ancestor, Frederick Dykeman, lived in Redding, briefly. Two of his daughters were baptized in the church in 1744 and 1746, and perhaps others. The death of Frederick's father, John (Johannes) "Dikeman" is also recorded in this book on page 220. He died on April 28, 1768, at the age of 97. Click here for more Connecticut genealogy resources. Click here to learn more about the Dykeman family. #JohannesDyckman #FrederickDyckman #Redding #Connecticut #vitalrecords #churchrecords

The American Genealogist was a magazine published beginning in 1899, containing a variety of valuable genealogical information you might have difficulty finding elsewhere. It's focus is Connecticut, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The American Genealogist was released quarterly to subscribers who probably hoped to find some material relevant to their family history, but today we can access many of the issues free online anytime. In my last two blogs - Part 1 and Part 2 of this collection were indexed. There are marriage records, baptismal records, wills, complete family histories and so much more in this magazine. It is worth taking the time to at least browse through the list of contents of each issue to see if some obscure information about your ancestors can be found. I've made it easy for you by typing out the contents of each issue. Search the page (Ctrl+F) if you're checking for something specific, but remember, this page contains only the contents, not every name in the volume. Below is a list of all the issues of The American Genealogist Magazine volumes 31 or later that I could find. If you find anything about your family or find that any of the links aren't working properly, please let us know in the comments below. Volume 31 >The American Genealogist 1955: Vol 31 Index >The American Genealogist 1955-01: Vol 31 Iss 1 English Ancestry of Alie (Gransden) Hand and Frances (Gransden) Standborough The Elithorpe Family of Yorkshire, England and New England Katherine (Elithorpe) (Constable) Miles, Ancestress of certain Miles and Street families James Hand of East Hampton, New York English Origin of the Cobbs of Taunton The Owen Family of Suffolk, Orange, and Westchester Counties, New York The Church and Grant Families of Philadelphia and Vicinity Recent Books Additions and Corrections: Adams Drake-Oldfield Gale-Shinn-Stanton-Jones Fifield Pierce, Lexington, Mass., and Winchester, N.H. Who wants what and where The descent of the Duke of Montrose, the Prince of Monaco, and Princess Schwarzenberg, from Rev. John Oxenbridge of Boston, Mass. Ancestor Tables >The American Genealogist 1955-04: Vol 31 Iss 2 The Brothers, Thomas and John Chadwick of Watertown The Identity of Margaretha Catharina Rubenkam, Foundress of the Rubincam-Revercomb Families Obadiah and Drusilla (Stevens) Brown of New Marlborough, Mass., and Canaan, Conn. Ancestor Tables Sybil (Tincknell) (Bibble) (Nutt) Doolittle and her family Hoadley-Hine-Caulkins (Conn. and Ohio) A branch of the Bries family in Bucks County, Penna. Family of Dirck Kroksen (Bucks County, Penna.) Puderbaugh family of Elkhart County, Indiana Line of Stephen Greene of Philadelphia to Greens of Mansfield and Woodstock, Conn., and Granby, Mass. Farmingbury (Wolcott), Conn., Church Records Descent of William Leete, Governor of Connecticut, from the Emperor Charlemagne Hopson Item, Colchester, Conn. Errata and Addenda: Children of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall Herck Sibertszen's Wife Wyntie Thounis A Floyd-Nicoll-Woodhull Problem The Jones Family of Yarmouth and Middleboro, Mass. Recent Books >The American Genealogist 1955-07: Vol 31 Iss 3 Additions and Corrections to the Colver-Culver Genealogy Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut Descent of Captain William Pole of Taunton, Mass., from King Edward I Graves-Cruttenden-Stillwell: A Correction Ancestor Tables III. Gerald James Parsons IV. C. Frederick Kaufholz V. George Englert McCracken VI. Alfred Howard Perlee VII. Charles Lord VIII. Ella M. (Wiggins) Sprague IX. Alexander Mackintosh, II X. Katie Ruth Mills XI. Fanny Alice (Wilcox) Steed XII. Claudia Thomas (McAlpin) Whitney XIII. Edward Everett Thorpe XIV. Paul Wesley Frindle Who wants what and where Recent books >The American Genealogist 1955-10: Vol 31 Iss 4 The Stebbing Family of Co. Essex, England, and New England Genealogical By-Ways On the Marring of Research Sources Joseph Woodworth, Sr., of Little Compton, R.I., and Lebanon, Conn. John Reynolds of Greenwich, Conn. Notes, Errata and Addenda: I. Bainbridge-Plumly-Gale II. Church-Price III. White IV. Dunham-Cobb-Rickard V. Kneeland, Hebron VI. Marshall item VII. Lyon, Fairfield A Ferris Family Record From a Genealogist's Notebook: VIII. Phelps, Westfield IX. A Lockwood Blunder The Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich, Conn. Thomas and John Chadwick (Concluded) Ancestor Tables: XV. George McKenzie Roberts XVI. I. Heyward Peck XVII. Amy Margaret Carey XVIII. Francis Hess Baxter XIX. Joseph Mitchell Kellogg XX. John Dorrance Morrell XXI. Mary Wythe Peckham XXII. Wilda T. Chase XXIII. Florence (Spencer) Whelan XXIV. Frederick Chester Warner XXV. Robert Bruce Nisbet XXVI. Hasel (Kraft) Eilera XXVII. Mildred Bishop (Moore) Anderson XXVIII. Anna Louise Perry (Durand) Logan Stebbing note Volume 32 >The American Genealogist 1956: Vol 32 Index >The American Genealogist 1956-01: Vol 32 Iss 1 Sawyer-Whitcomb-Richardson Pedigrees, Polygraphs and Prevarications Bennett Inscriptions, New York State A Royal Descent from King Edward III to Thomas Coytmore of Charlestown, the Wife of William Tyng of Boston, the wife of Ralph Eddowes, John Quincy Adams, Neville Chamberlain William Churchill and Edward Churchill John Clowes of Bucks County, Penna. A Hathaway Record From a Genealogist's Notebook Daniel Brinson of Middlesex County, New Jersey Southcott-Thomas-Collamore Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary Notes on the Palmer Family of Plymouth Ancestor Tables: XXIX. Mrs. Eugene Louis Bowers XXX. Mrs. Fred Alleman XXXI. Ralph Emmons Boyce XXXII. Conklin Mann XXXIII. Mrs. Abby Sanborn (Paddock) Kendall XXXIV. Mrs. Lora (Rich) Roden XXXV. Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. Recent books >The American Genealogist 1956-04: Vol 32 Iss 2 The Hawaiian Royal Family Notes on the Yale Ancestry Lincoln Family of Windham, Conn. William Lord's wife and the family of Thomas Lee Luttrel/Luttrell, Murat, Fraser note An unconnected Coddington family Rev. Daniel Elmer Richard Collacott of Boston, Mass. The Pole royal line George Constable of Everingham, Co. York On names of Dutch grandchildren The Bainbridge family Josiah Jones of East Greenwich, New Jersey Jones addenda Thomas Halsey of Southampton Ancestor tables: XXXVI. Roland Mather Hooker XXXVII. Helen Douglas (Love) Scranton XXXVIII. Walter Goodwin Davis XXXIX. Milton Delce Cole XL. VanBuren Lamb, Jr. XLI. Frederick Whitcomb Weed XLII. Charles Nathan Adams XLIII. Harriet Scofield XLIV. Richard Henry Williams Recent books >The American Genealogist 1956-07: Vol 32 Iss 3 The Whitbread Family of Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England The Second Marriage of Miriam (Dibble) Gillet Dar-Beckwith-Hazen Walter Butler of Greenwich, Conn. Elizabeth wife of Robert Huested of Greenwich, Conn. Abel Barnum of New Fairfield, Conn. David Smith of Haddam, Conn., and his wife, Lydia (Cogswell) (Smith) (Brainerd) Bradford Bible Records, Fisher-Hopkins, Ohio Connecticut Divorce Records Banister-Bowden-Cornwell of New Haven, Conn. The Grumman Family of Bedfordshire, England, Connecticut and New Jersey Notes, Addenda and Errata: Jonathan Gillett Smith of Lyme Beaufort-Stradling Farmingdale, Maine Salem, Mass. Ancestor Tables: XLV. Arthur Soper Wardwell XLVI. Helen Elizabeth Royce XLVII. Marion (Morse) Davis XLVIII. Mrs. Elmer H. Renton Lockwood Note Who wants what and where Recent Books >The American Genealogist 1956-10: Vol 32 Iss 4 Mary Bartlett (Foster) Morey, her husbands and children Gregory Wolterton's Connection The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield The Easy-Going van Woggelums The Brong (Brang, Prong, or Prang) Family The Matthew Thompsons of Northern Connecticut Ancestor tables: XLIX. Harold Minot Pitman L. Mrs. William H. Edwards LI. Lewis Daniel Cook LII. Daysie Spencer DeSpain Addenda, Parsons and Gorham Lord-Lee (A note) Records kept by Thomas Gilyard of deaths mainly in the Naugatuck Valley, Conn. Recent Books Volume 33 >The American Genealogist 1957: Vol 33 Index >The American Genealogist 1957-01: Vol 33 Iss 1 The Six Daughters of Barent Mydertsz of Albany Thankful (Cheney) Parmenter of Hopkinton, Mass. Park and Chaplin The Grumman Family (Cont'd) Church Records of Roxbury Connecticut 1743-1794 Origin of the Brong (Brang) Family William Graves of Newtown, Long Island The Huntley-Champion Connection Stockton-Phillips-Cook Corrections, Hunterdon-Mercer County, N. HJ. Bainbridge Addenda Heirs of Michael Bowden of Lynn, Mass. The Identity of Mary (Denslow) Stevenson Walslant is not Pays De Vaud Walter Butler, Penoyer and Reynolds On Names of Dutch Grandchildren Mixter Corrections Ancestor Tables: LIII. Robert Humphrey Montgomery LIV. Mrs. Walter Marion Flood LV. Mrs. Margery (Haven) Fifield LVI. Mrs. Paul Wesley Prindle Book reviews Elizabeth (Dewey) Webster of Lebanon, Conn. Wife of Edward Frisbie of Branford, Conn. >The American Genealogist 1957-04: Vol 33 Iss 2 On this and that Joseph Yard of Philadelphia, Bricklayer Briggs Families of Taunton The Family of Harold II, Last Saxon King of England Wolterton-Waller-Brockway Parsons Correction Dixon-Kasson Nehemiah and Sarah (St. John) Stebbins Hezekiah and Hepzibah (Tyler) Doolittle Stoughton-Knight Data Henry Bridgham of Boston, Mass. Note on Bridgham and Thomas Benedict of Norwalk The family of Capt. Thaddeus Lacy Smith of Jamaica, Long Island, and Maidenhead, New Jersey Recent books >The American Genealogist 1957-07: Vol 33 Iss 3 Richard Miles of New Haven, Connecticut The Randall-Leonard-Bayley Relationship Rowland Robinson Bible Record Shay Bible Records Paul Family Record Updike Bible Record The wife of Clement Quiterifeld Daniel Smith of Lyme, Conn. The will of William Lewis of Scituate, Mass. The Grumman Family (Cont'd) The Family of Rev. Johan Wilhelm Boas Ancestor Tables: LVII. William Henry Lathrop LVIII. Frank Whitney LIX. Mrs. Charles N. Lord LX. Mrs. I. Heyward Peck LXI. Mrs. Alfred H. Perlee LXII. Mrs. Conklin Mann The Silas Richmonds of Litchfield and Goshen Grandmother of the Empress Josephine Descent from Harold Godwinson William Graves of Newtown, Long Island John Wickham of Southampton, Long Island Lacy Corrections Recent books >The American Genealogist 1957-10: Vol 33 Iss 4 Geer Notes The four Blessing sisters Evolution of the name Teachout Solomon Woodford of Farmington, Conn., and Cato, New York Brinson Erratum and Addendum Peter Brown of Windsor, Conn. the American Dekay Family Judith (Danson) wife of Charles Crossthwayte The Pierpoints of Hertfordshire, England and Ann Arundel County, Maryland The Josiah Adkins Family of Connecticut Recent books Ancestor Tables: LXIII. Neil Bailey Reynolds LXIV. Marion (Van Vorst) Reynolds Who wants what and where Astwood Correction Of this and that Volume 34 >The American Genealogist 1958: Vol 34 Index >The American Genealogist 1958-01: Vol 34 Iss 1 South Jersey Daytons Burwell-Raymond, Norwalk, Conn. Seeley-Seelye notes Martha (Genings) Cunningham, wife of John Marcy, Woodstock, Conn. The Ancestry of Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting Lydia, wife of Nathaniel Packard of Bridgewater, Mass. Bowlby of Nottinghamshire, England, New Jersey, Penna., and Nova Scccota Recent books The American Dekay Family (Concluded) The Ancestry of Gilbert De Gant King Stephen of Bois Ancestor Tables LXV. Herbert Alva Lafler Claflin notice The family of David and Rebecca (Grumman) Comstock Grumman addenda New Haven County Court Records: Marriage and Birth evidences (1713-1739) p.54-64 >The American Genealogist 1958-04: Vol 34 Iss 2 The Case Family of Connecticut and Long Island The Ransoms of Shelburne, Mass. John Prentice of New London, Conn., and his two Nichols wives Hints on indexing Gray-June family records Female Diminutives Ancestor Tables: LXVI. Stuart Holmes Sherman LXVII. Mrs. William Curtis Clark LXVIII. Hazel (Kenerson) Lafler Delaware County, Ohio, Probate Wilson-Giles-Sabin-Wardwell of Conn., R.I. and Cuba New Jersey Legislative Divorces 1778-1844 Recent books Bries addenda Nathan Gardner family Record Southworth Correction, Conn. and Miss. Connecticut Ruggles Data Nicasius de Sille's Great-Grandfather >The American Genealogist 1958-07: Vol 34 Iss 3 Pergrine White, Jr., of Marshfield, Mass. Mary, second wife of Barnabas Baldwin of Milford, Conn. Descendants of Richard Weller of Windsor, Northampton, and Deerfield Pomeroy-Clapp Goodrich-Williams-Smith, Wethersfield, Conn. who wants what and where Report on the drive for more subscribers New York State Church Records The Search for William Ilsley of Newbury, Mass. Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Charles Williams of Colchester, Conn. Notes and Errata: Dekay Jennings-Abbe Seeley Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting Ancestor Tables: LXIX. Frederick Lewis Weis LXX. Mrs. Jerome A. Esker LXXI. Huston E. Johnson Recent books Nathan McQuivey: Additions and Corrections Blandford, Mass., Marriage Records >The American Genealogist 1958-10: Vol 34 Iss 4 Genealogical Research Materials Relating to Pennsylvania John Harding of Boreham, Essex Evaluation of Genealogical Writers I. James Savage II. Orra Eugene Monnette Richard Miles of New Haven, Conn. Hedge-Ingoldsbee-Lothrop Relationships The Widow Potter-Beecher of New Haven Browne-Kent-Stone-Salisbury, Providence and Cranston, R.I. Knapp-Francis-Waterman-Wilcocks-Needham Shay Family addenda, New Jersey The Will of Susannah (Wood) Clark of Southampton, New York A Cornell Family Correction Ancestor Tables: LXXII. Marvin Clayton Hutchins LXXIII. Timothy Allan Colcord LXXIV. Mrs. Glenn William Oliver LXXV. Mrs. Will Brewer Grant LXXVI. Thomas Huston Roderick LXXVII. William Hopple Edwards LXXVIII. James McBride George LXXIX. Mrs. Nada (Scott) Pendergraft Recent books Connecticut Churchmen of 1738 Petitioners of Taunton (Dighton), Mass., Oct. 11, 1708 Fairfield, Conn. Court Records Booth of Middleborough, Mass. Volume 35 >The American Genealogist 1959: Vol 35 Index >The American Genealogist 1959-01: Vol 35 Iss 1 The Early Strongs of Windsor, Conn. ** Samuel Pettis (Pettes) of Norwich, Conn. Hatch Wills, Scituate, Mass. The Hetheringtons of Cumberland England The Second wife of John Huntley of Lyme, Conn ** Seaborn Wilson and Shoreborn Wilson, Ipswich and Boston, Mass. John Brown's Body Amy and Mercy Joan, Princess of Wales, Ancestress of Many American Families Ancestor Tables: LXXX. Mrs. Thomas McGee LXXXI. Mrs. Daniel J. Consodine LXXXII. Mrs. Herbert Schoepke LXXXIII. Claude Willis Barlow LXXXIV. Cameron Harrison Allen Swift, Tobey, Fish Connections, Sandwich, Mass. Randall, Pease, Hutchinson, Warner Connections 1759 list of Quakers, Wareham, Mass. Who wants what and where Wilson, Denslow, Sabin, Wardwell Connections Additions and corrections Recent books William Andrews of Hartford, Conn. Capt. Benjamin Church of Fairhaven, Mass. Charlton-Fraunceys, Apley, Salop, England Evaluation of Genealogical Writers: III. Frank Farnsworth Starr >The American Genealogist 1959-04: Vol 35 Iss 2 The Ancestry of Jeriah Rhodes of Ulster County, New York Micah Barlow and Jonathan Bugbee of Woodstock, Conn. Jenney of Plymouth and Rhode Island The Ancestry of President Martin van Buren Descendants of Ezra and Hannah (Hollister) Covell John Andrews of Farmington Ancestor Tables: LXXXV. Mrs. Carl Nelson Steitz LXXXVI. Herbert Furman Seversmith LXXXVII. Mrs. Harrold Curtis Pickwick LXXXVIII. Samuel Edward Raymond LXXXIX. Mrs. Owen C. Sorensen XC. Mrs. Hibbard Elliot Richardson Piers de Gavaston Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Notes, Addenda and Errata Who wants what and where The Squires in Early New England Recent Books The wife of Lieut. Noah Jones of Worchester, Mass. Brown-Hammond Bible Records Notes on Browns of Colchester, Conn. >The American Genealogist 1959-07: Vol 35 Iss 3 Ebenezer Pickett, Jr., of New Milford, Conn. Oliver Smith of Goshen, N.Y., Bayles and Spencer Ntes Extracts from New Haven County Court Records Evaluation of Genealogical Writers: IV. Charles Arthur Hoppin Notes on Browns of Colchester, Conn. Sarah Bonum, wife of John Bryant of Plympton, Mass. John Bartlett and Wives, Plymouth, Mass. Strong-Clark Correction Notes, Addenda and Errata: Rubincam-Revercomb Pennsylvania Sources Church Gray Keeler Extracts from the Connecticut Journal 1776 Endogamous and Exogamous Marriage Smith of Amwelbury, New Jersey, Mason and Darkin collaterals Beadon-Bedon Family Crowell-Crowe Origin Who Wants What and Where Hetherrington Addenda Recent books John Hoskins of Taunton Warner-Knapp-Lake Overton family, England Register of Rev. John Sharpe, New York and Connecticut Whitcomb Family Records, Greene County, New York >The American Genealogist 1959-10: Vol 35 Iss 4 Catalyntje Trico Rapalje Abigail Arnold, wife of Solomon Blake of Dorchester, and the Bateman family Elizabeth (Harris) (Mandeville) Jacubus Possible origin of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth Smith of Hedgefield, Salem County, New Jersey Smith of Smithfield, Salem County, New Jersey Mary, first wife of John Baldwin, Sr., of Milford, Conn. Extracts from the Columbian Register, 1813-1815 Who wants what and where: Keene-Jeffrey-Bulkeley Kilbourne; Lacomba Sawyer-Whitney; Bordwell-Ransom; Perry Notes on some Richland Families Recent Books Family Records (Munger; Pierce; Couch) Additions and Corrections Capt. John Miles (ancestor of Wallingford Miles family) Family of Sherman Hunt, Lewis Co., New York Gilbert Genealogy (notice) Volume 36 >The American Genealogist 1960: Vol 36 Index >The American Genealogist 1960-01: Vol 36 Iss 1 Notes on the Dotey and Churchill families Evaluation of Genealogical writers V. Col. Charles Edward Banks VI. Gilbert Cope In Memoriam Who was Rebecca Cornell? Found Cemetery Burials, Neversink, New York Certain Halsey-Pool Groups, Morris County, New Jersey Howard, Stone, Adsit-Edgett, Hartford, Conn. The Hazards of Endogamous Marriage Andrews Families of Western Connecticut III. Addenda, The Farmington Tribe Ancestor Tables: XCV. Milton Rubincam XCVI. Theodore Hunter Smith XCVII. Charles M. Sandwick, Sr. Recent books Notes, Additions and Corrections: Overton, Beadon-Mosher, Langworthy, Brown, Brockway, Waterbury-Lockwood Additions and corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary An Ellis Family of Mendon and Uxbridge, Mass. Jacob Kibling of Ashburnham, Mass. Index to the New England Register English Clues, William Washbourn, Richard Willets, Daniel whitehead, Francis Nicholls Origins of Lamrock Flower, George Allen, Andrew Hallett >The American Genealogist 1960-04: Vol 36 Iss 2 Jeremiah Brownell of Nova Scotia The Death of the Staten Island Census John Downing (Nevius, Boston) John Turner of Scituate , Mass. Public Records of Wisconsin Holden Rhodes (Vermont and Virginia) The family of Nathaniel Kirtland Wills of two Benjamin Haines of Southampton, New York Who wants what and where Hereditary Scholarships Additions to the Bulkeley Genealogy Kingsland, Shotwell-Burton Gallup Origin in England The Pigg or Pidge Family in England and America Ancestor Tables XCVIII. Morris Elwood Seymour XCIX. Henry Warner Austin C. Rose Mari Dunham English origins and clues: Potter and Robinson, Virginia Edward Spalding, Chelmsford, Mass.; Robert Husted and Andrew Hallet Peters, Pennsylvania Recent books Weller notes Thomas Brownell of Portsmouth, Rhode Island Simon Mills of Windsor >The American Genealogist 1960-07: Vol 36 Iss 3 Aert Theunissen Middagh and Theunis Gysbertszen Bogaert The First wife of John Richmond of Taunton, Mass. Thomas Pursell and his earlier descendants Additions to the Bulkeley Genealogy Brothers and sisters of the same given name Overton family of Swineshead, Leicestershire Elizabeth (Tomson) Swift of Middleboro Dayton and Ireland of South Jersey Recent books Who wants what and where Freeman corrrection Ancestor Tables: CI. Mrs. Edwin J. Prior Multiple Descents from John Libby Johnson Family Record, Newark, N.J. George Steele of Hartford, Conn., and his son James Beadon-Bedon family Stent family of Branford, Conn. Hereditary scholarships >The American Genealogist 1960-10: Vol 36 Iss 4 John Rider of Plymouth, Mass. Rhodes family of Newport, Rhode Island The Wife of Thomas Grisword : A caveat The Butlers of Wyoming and Cherry Valley Thomas Pursell and his earlier descendants The parentage of Gilbert the Marshal Pockens-Heermans Changes in English Surnames Cotton Flack of Boston, Mass. Mr. Thomas Denham, Puritan Parson Jonathan Dunham of Plymouth and Edgartown, Mass. Who wants what and where Ancestor Tables CII. Mrs. Ralph A. Countryman CIII. Harry Earl Richmond Volume 37 >The American Genealogist 1961: Vol 37 Index >The American Genealogist 1961-01: Vol 37 Iss 1 Flatbush, Long Island, Assessment List of 1709 Rebecca Ayrault, Second wife of Timothy Lester of Preston, Conn. William Spencer's Daughter Elizabeth: The Wellman family Ellis and Freeman Notes: Addenda Raynor Notes: Long Island Smith-Potter Bible Records Family of Elijah Temple of Westmoreland Early Connecticut Items Sgt. Joseph Gilbert of New Hartford, Conn. Origin of the South Jersey Daytons Ancestry of Pardon Tillinghast of Providence, R.I. The Wife of WIlliam Kelsey of Killingworth, Conn. Kirtland Correction Will of Thomas Wells of Colchester, Conn. Bogaert-Rapalje-Correction Piers de Gavaston Ancestor Tables CIV. Mrs. Edith H. Hurlbutt Who wants what and where Evaluation of Genealogical writers: VII. A. J. Fretz Inbreeding in the Libby Family Recent books In memoriam Notes: Bogaert-Middagh; Adsit; Siblings of Identical Name; Talmadge-Leek-Halsey >The American Genealogist 1961-04: Vol 37 Iss 2 English Ancestry of Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham, Mass Nomenclature English clues: Booth, Harvey, Beadsley, Stratford, Conn. Silence French, Her husbands (House and Jenny) and Children Parentage of Andrew Hallett of Yarmouth, Mass. Charles Chapin of Salisbury, Conn. Ratliffe and Marshall, Greenwich, Conn. Abigail Brown, probable wife of Richard Curtice of Hebron, Conn. English origin of Randall Holt and Edward Normansell...overseas origin of Virginia families The Douwe and Aaltje Fonda Marriages and Children, Albany, New York Morgan Data, Montville, New Fairfield, and Kent, Conn. Enocsons on Delaware Who wants what and where Ancestor tables CV. Mrs. William A. Day The Ontario Genealogical Society Royal Ancestry of Joseph Bowles, Wells, Maine Recent Books John Lewis of New London, Conn., Joseph Lewis of Simsbury, Conn. >The American Genealogist 1961-07: Vol 37 Iss 3 Pitfalls of Dutch Given Names Early Southern Stents A Douwe and Aaltje Fonda Epilogue Origin of Steere, Wickenden and Balcombe Families of Providence Family of Samuel Bartlett of Duxbury, Mass. English Origin of Bygod Eggleston Vyall-Sanderson-Sunderland, Boston, Mass. Bancrofts in the Connecticut Valley Benjamin David, Falmouth, Mass. Joseph Child, Watertown, Mass. Temple-Humes Correction Ancestor Tales: CVI. Mrs. Benjamin F. Salzer CVII. Mrs. John J. 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Robert Leonard was a son of Albert Jay and Rose Ellen (Hollenbeck) Leonard. Albert and Rose were married in Willet, Cortland County, New York, on July 12, 1922. Rose's mother, Mary Ellen (McGinnis) Hollenbeck, had passed away the previous month, on June 10th, at the age of 62. Albert was 27 and Rose was two years his elder. Robert was born September 16, 1924, in Willet, Cortland County, New York. By the time he was nine months old, his parents were separated. When the New York State Census was taken in 1925, he was living in Willet with his mother, grandfather, and older half-brother, Billy, a son of Hugh Reagan. When Robert registered for the draft at the age of 18, he was 5'11" tall and weighed 185 pounds. He had blue eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion, according to the registrar's report. He was not drafted for the war, but, soon after left his mother's homestead in Willet and took employment with the Cortland County Highway Department, a lifelong career he maintained for about 30 years, while living in Cortland New York. On April 2, 1949, his mother's home on Leonard Road in Willet was burned to the ground with his 28-year old brother, Billy, inside. It was a traumatic event for Robert and his mother, to say the least. Robert retired from the highway department in 1980 due to failing health. He suffered from diabetes and had both legs amputated before he died on November 20, 1982. The official cause of death was cardio-respiratory arrest, suspected myocardial infarction, and diabetes mellitus. He was buried in Marathon Village Cemetery but has no stone marking his grave. Robert fathered five sons and a daughter who grew to adulthood and had children, although he wasn't legally married until 1978, four years before he died. He had at least 18 grandchildren and has at least as many great-grandchildren living today. To learn more about his ancestors, see the Leonard page. #robertjasperleonard #leonard #hollenbeck #census

As a child, I remember visiting the vacant property of my great-grandmother, Rose (Hollenbeck) Leonard. She was the daughter of Jasper Hollenbeck and Mary McGinnis. She had died in 1974 but her property remained vacant for a number of years after her death. The street sign said "LEONARD RD" but it was more like a long dirt driveway in the woods. At the end of the 800-foot driveway/road, the dense woods disappeared and a small, white, one-story house with green hills in the background appeared straight ahead. There were no other homes in sight. We collected some souvenirs during one visit. My father explained it was the home of his grandmother, who had inherited the land from her father and had given the road its name, "Leonard Road". He pointed out that the house wasn't the original house built on the property and briefly retold the sad story of how the original farmhouse had burned down with his young uncle, Billy, inside. Years later, I found these newspaper articles that tell the story. The first was published in the evening edition of the Cortland Standard, on Saturday, April 2, 1949. It was the day of what I call The Leonard Road Tragedy. Two days later, the Cortland Standard, printed a follow-up to the story. According to the newspapers (see more below), the tragedy happened before dawn on April 2, 1949. Rose (Hollenbeck) was the mother of two grown sons. Her oldest son, Billy, had been undergoing treatment at Binghamton State Hospital. According to Rose's account, he had just returned home the day before the fire and his behavior caused her to "become worried". The 56-year old woman went to stay at the home of a neighbor for the night. She looked out the window early in the morning and saw her home ablaze from a distance and called for help. That was the night Rose lost her eldest son, her home, and probably all of her family photos and everything she cherished. The cause of the fire was not determined, but since snow on Mother's Day is not uncommon in that area, it's probably safe to assume the fireplace might have had something to do with it. We will probably never know for sure, though. Rose still had one son, 25-year Robert Leonard, pictured here in a photo taken at the old home on Leonard Road some years later. She had a new home built and lived there another twenty years or more. In her final days she went to Highgate Manor Nursing Home in Cortland, where she died on April 12, 1974. Her son, Robert's mother-in-law, Vena, spent her final days there as well, dying in 1986. Click here for more true stories about Rose (Hollenbeck) Leonard. Click here to learn more about the Leonard family. Click here to learn more about the Hollenbeck family. Albany Times Union, April 2, 1949 cover page: "Find Man's Body in Ruins of Fire" Marathon, April 2 (AP) - Firemen late today found the body of William Leonard, 29, in the ruins of his home at Berry Hollow, which was destroyed by fire this morning. Cortland county Coroner Donald B. Glezen issued a verdict of accidental death. Amsterdam Records, Amsterdam, NY, Mon., April 4, 1949, p. 5: "Marathon, N.Y., April 4 - The body of William Leonard, 29, was discovered late Saturday afternoon in his fire razed home at nearby Berry Hollow. He had been reported missing following the early morning blaze. Leonard's mother, who had spent the night with neighbors, told Sheriff Clifford Barnes her son had been acting "strangely." Leonard had returned home Friday from a Binghamton Hospital where she said, he had undergone treatment. Cause of the fire was undetermined, the sheriff reported." Binghamton Press, Mon., April 4, 1949 [Link] Corning Evening Leader, Mon. April 4, 1949, p. 12: [Link] Auburn Citizen Advertiser, April 4, 1949 [Link] Rome Daily Sentinel, Mon., April 4, 1949 cover page [Link] #LeonardRoad #Marathon #BarryHollow #BillyLeonard #housefire #tragedy

Mahala Mae Dykeman was my great grand aunt, a daughter of Arthur Dykeman and Olive Jacobs. She was born on July 2, 1902 and married Carl Samuel Walden in 1922. A photo of the couple has been shared previously. Carl Walden died in 1980 and Mahala died on April 14, 1984. Three sons survived her at the time of her death. They were: Ernest E. Walden (1929-2015) of Interlaken, Gordon L. Walden (1937-2016), and Carl Walden, Jr., of Trumansburg. Carl and Mahala are buried together in Lot 848 in Lakeview Cemetery, Interlaken, Seneca County, New York. [Findagrave #129142806]. Click here to learn more about this family. #MahalaMaeDykeman #ArthurDykeman #OliveJacobs #obituary

This post is dedicated to Richard and Betty Leonard, shown here. My grandfather, Robert J. Leonard, was half-brother to Richard. It was Betty, Mrs. Richard Leonard, Sr., who so generously supplied me with a treasured photograph of my great-grandfather, Albert Jay Leonard. She also included the above portrait of her and Richard. She was so kind and eager to help me prove the connection between my branch of the Leonard family and the descendants of Charles Russell Leonard. The story was recounted in a previous post. Click here to read it. Betty passed away in 2016, but she will not soon be forgotten. We are so grateful she helped preserve the legacy of Albert Jay Leonard, for posterity's sake. Betty's obituary is shown here: Savannah: Betty W. Leonard entered into rest on Sunday, March 20, 2016 at Wayne County Nursing Home with her family by her side. Betty was born at home in Savannah, NY on October 17, 1931. She was the daughter of Oliver and Florence (Lapp) Washburn. Betty spent most of her life in Savannah and more recently Duck Lake. Betty was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and aunt. She loved music and working in her flower beds. She was an avid reader and bird watcher. She was kind and thoughtful to all who knew her. Betty worked for many years at General Electric in Auburn before retiring. Betty is survived by her husband of 68 years, Richard Leonard Sr., her son Richard (Shannon) Leonard Jr., daughters Lydia (Ralph) Garrison, Susan (Gary) Durham, Melody (Alan) McKinney, “adopted” son Richard (Julie) Werthmann, grandchildren Richard (Sarah) Garrison. Daniel Durham, Denise Durham, Brandon Teachout and Ashley Purdy and brother Charles Washburn. Betty will also be missed by beloved dog, Missy and several special friends, nieces and nephews. Betty was predeceased by her parents, Oliver and Florence Washburn, brothers James and Edward Washburn, sister-in-law Fran Renee` May, sons-in-law Ralph Garrison, Gary Durham, Mark Swanson and daughter-in-law Martha (Mekkelson) Leonard. In lieu of flowers any contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, Central NY Chapter, 441 West Kirkpatrick St, Syracuse, NY 13204 or to the Humane Society of Wayne County, 1475 County House Rd., Lyons, NY 14489. There will be no calling hours. A private graveside service will be held at the convenience of the family. Source: https://hsnorton.com/tribute/details/958/Betty-Leonard/obituary.html Click here to learn more about the Leonard family. Don't forget to check out my list of Free Genealogy Resources, to help you with your family tree! #RichardLeonard #Leonard #leonard #albertleonard #bettyleonard

Myles Standish is among the most well-known of the Mayflower passengers, memorialized in Longfellow's famous book "The Courtship of Miles Standish". Little solid evidence of his ancestry has been found, however. In fact, no one seems to know who his parents were. One book I found to be informative is "Some recent investigations concerning the ancestry of Capt. Miles Standish", written by Thomas C. Porteus in 1914. The author discusses Myles's connection to the Standish family of Standish, Lanchashire, England, a place mentioned in Myles's will. Perhaps DNA testing has provided some evidence of the connection between them. If you are a descendant of Myles, consider getting tested! Although his birthdate is unknown, the general consensus is that Myles was born in 1584, which would mean he was about 36 years old when he was recruited to guard the Mayflower passengers on their 66-day voyage across the Atlantic. He brought his wife, Rose Handley, along but she died in the first winter, like many others. Myles married again within a few years (before 1624), to a woman by the name of Barbara and together they had at least seven children. To this day, the union of Myles and Barbara has produced a bear minimum of 24,844 descendants within 15 generations (as of Apr. 27, 2022). You can view the Family List of Myles Standish on Wikitree, but surely there are many more not yet added to "the tree", especially recent generations. If you run the report and see that this number has grown, please let us know in the comments below! Myles was appointed as Commander of Plymouth's first militia in defense of the colony. He held this position from the time he arrived until he died in 1656. My ancestor, Solomon Leonard (usually spelled Lenner or Lennardson), who arrived in Duxbury in 1637, was one of those men. (Source) According to this source: "Along with the renowned George Soule, Miles Standish, John Alden, William Bradford and others – fifty-four in all – Solomon Leonard became one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater and one of the earliest settlers there." A park in Duxbury is dedicated to Capt. Standish and features a towering monument in his honor. Have a look around in this interactive Google map: Myles Standish Monument State Reservation (Alt. Link) Give this page a like and share, in the memory of Capt. Myles Standish, a defender of Plymouth Colony. Learn more about Myles Standish here See the interactive Mayflower database here #milesstandish #mylesstandish #mayflower

When researching family history, you never know what you might find. So far, I have found over 400 of my ancestors, and have found nothing as shocking as the death of my 4th great-grandfather, Peter Shevalier. Peter Shevalier was counted on the Mortality Schedule taken on September 7, 1850, as "Peter Chevalier". It reports he was a married farmer, born in New York, and that he died in April of that year. The cause of death? "Murdered". A simple newspaper search at fultonhistory.com led me to tragic details. It was printed in The Democrat, Penn-Yan, New York, Tuesday, May 7, 1850. (Transcription below): "Intemperance and Murder. We learn from the Cortland Democrat that on Wednesday last, in the town of Marathon, in that county, two individuals, named John Hanes and Daniel Modelle, procured ten quarts of whiskey, and proceeded to the house of Peter Shevalier, probably for the purpose of having a 'spree' - They spent most of the day carousing, &c., until a dispute or quarrel arose between the parties, which ended in the strangling (as is supposed) to death of aforesaid Shevalier, and thrusting of the body into a hole in the floor. The first intimation of it was the finding of the above named Hanes and Modelle in the room in a state of intoxication, and the deceased in the hole with his head down and feet resting upon the floor. When spoken to on the subject, Modelle (who we believe is quite a youth) said that Hanes struck Shevalier and choked him to death and then thrust him into the hole. This was peremptorily denied by Hanes, who contended that Modelle had as much to do in the matter as himself. They are both in jail." - Syracuse Standard. When the census was taken in 1850, John Haynes, age 21, and Daniel Modelle (or Madole), age 17, were in the custody of Sheriff Pomeroy in Cortlandville. Why their crime is listed as "manslaughter" is beyond me, and it appears both were freed within 5-10 years. There was a John S. Haynes living in Preble (same county) when the 1855 New York State Census was taken, but his age was given as 23, so he may not have been the murderer. However, in 1860, there was a man named Dan Madole, age 27, living in Marathon on the farm indof Cornelius Livingston. This almost certainly was the same man involved with the murder of my 4th great-grandfather. Meanwhile, Peter's family was counted on the census that year on September 7, 1850, as follows: Peter's widow, "Anna" (Joanna), three daughters and two sons lived in the home. Their 25-year old son, Christian, had stepped in as head of the household, and four of their other children were in the home: Hannah, age 19, Jane, age 14, Abram, age 8, and Lucy Ann Shevalier, age 23. Lucy married the following year to Nicholas Hollenbeck. Joanna remarried to Aaron Campbell, and is buried in Willet beneath a headstone that reads ""Joanne - Relict of Peter Shevalier - Wife of Aaron Campbell - 1800-1889". Click here for photos. Click here to see more on this family! Click here to see the Index #PeterShevalier #Chevalier #Marathon #NewYork #Hollenbeck #shevalier

In a small country town in the heart of New York, is the town of Willet. Settled in 1797, the town was formed from Cincinnatus in 1818. Cincinnatus was a part of the Central New York Military Tract, bounty land awarded to the soldiers of the American Revolution. Certainly a great number of descendants of the brave patriots who freed our country from Great Britain's authority still live in the area today. During a recent trip, I recorded this video featuring just a few of the beautiful monuments erected in memory of the early settlers of this place. Three of my known ancestors are buried in Willet Cemetery: Nicholas Hollenbeck, his wife Lucy (Shevalier) Hollenbeck, and Lucy's mother, Joanna (Huntley) Shevalier Campbell. UPDATE: After this initial visit, I discovered that Nicholas's parents, John & Hannah (Conrad) Hollenbeck, are also buried there. See photos from my return visit here. Click here for historical and genealogical resources for Cortland County, New York. Click here for historical and genealogical resources for New York or other States. #cortlandcounty #hollenbeck #shevalier #willet #cemetery

This book, "Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe", was published in 1900 in four volumes, by J. H. Beers and Company. It contains biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settled families. Find a name in the index, below (found in Volume 4) and then choose the corresponding Volume to read the corresponding page. Read Volume 1 here (p. 1-448) Read Volume 2 here (p. 449-900) Read Volume 3 here (p. 901-1331) Read Volume 4 below (p. 1332-1834): [Alternate link to index] Tip: Go to the book's page and use the "Search Inside" feature! Enter a single term such as a surname, avoiding phrases. These searches, are not always accurate, and the search only searches the volume you are viewing. The search feature only searches the book you are viewing. It does not search all four volumes. Be sure to check the surname index found at the end of Volume 4 shown above. To find a name listed in the index, use the links above to find the corresponding volume and page. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FREE GENEALOGY RESOURCES BY STATE OR TYPE #pennsylvania #Pennsylvania #LackawannaCounty #SusquehannaCounty #WayneCounty #PikeCounty #MonroeCounty

If you've been researching your family's history for any significant amount of time, you already know that the government didn't require the reporting of births or deaths until 1885, so finding vital records beyond a few generations ago can be challenging. For these, we rely on church records, family Bibles, cemetery records, and other resources. Tip: Find hundreds of places to learn about Pennsylvania genealogy and history on my Pennsylvania Resources page. Pennsylvania Birth and Death records reported since 1906 are held by the Commonwealth, and indexed on their website, as time restrictions allow. These indices are used to obtain the record number for use in ordering copies, but can also be very useful for general research even if you don't order copies. Try a search to confirm the vital records you have recorded for ancestors and relatives who were born after 1885 in Pennsylvania. Tip: If you need to find out which county a town was in, use my County Search Tool, here. Birth records for individuals born in Pennsylvania from 1906-1915 are currently available, as of January 2021. Click here to view the birth indices. Tip: For instructions on how to order copies of birth records, see here. Death records for individuals who died in Pennsylvania from 1906-1970 are currently available, as of January 2021. Click here to view the death indices. Tip: For instructions on how to order copies of death records, see here. Tip: A great deal of other information is also held at the State Archives. Visit their website at pastatearchives.org. Click here for more Pennsylvania genealogy resources. Check out my genealogy dashboard for thousands of tools and resources! Share this find with your friends and family! #tips #birthcertificate #deaths #pennsylvania #vitalrecords #resources #freewebsites #resources #Pennsylvania

Only a select few people would be interested in this, but I was looking for an obituary from 1908 and couldn't find it with a search engine so I proceeded to search for all the obituaries from 1908 and 1909 printed in the Auburn Democrat Argus, and saved snippets of them for anyone else searching for a death in those years, for someone living in Cayuga or Tompkins County, New York. Birth and marriage announcements are also included. Click here to view the snippets. Click here to see more New York genealogy resources. Click here for all genealogy resources. #auburn #cayuga #obituaries #tips #NewYork #cayugacounty #vitalrecords

Listen to the songs of the Civil War era as they would have been heard around campfires and in parlors around the country. The songs are being skillfully played on a 30-button concertina. What a gift from youtube user angloconc. Enjoy the entire playlist! Looking for your veteran ancestors? Find free Civil War genealogy resources here. #civilwar #music #folksong #song #military

American Folklife refers to the way of life and certain traditions kept by various communities and ethnic groups. They are often passed down from one person to another over multiple generations. Folk dances, folk songs, crafts, foods, games, holidays, and other traditions define a community's folklife. The Library of Congress has published an amazing collection of archives relating to American Folklife. Visit their site and search or browse to find the topic of your interest. For example, search the town or state your family lived in. The local folklife helps add interest to your family history and may help solve puzzles, too. You never know what you will find. Perhaps you will find some familiar traditions and stories! Visit the Library of Congress Folklife Center's website to get started. Feel free to share your finds in the comments below! Click Genealogy Links for more! #American #folklife #tradition

In what appears to be an Americanized version of Swiss Family Robinson, which was originally written by Johann David Wyss and published in 1812, The American Family Robinson; or, The adventures of a family lost in the great desert of the West, was written by David W. Belisle in 1853. Containing many incidents of prairie life and the astonishing sights European Americans encountered on their journey westward. Incidentally, it appears to have nothing to do with the Robinson family, but seems to be a more generic name that could be applied to anyone. To learn about the Robinson family, see the Dickinson page. #robinson #books #history #thewest

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This valuable resource from the Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society contains boatloads of information on the early settlers of Connecticut. Read the 30 volumes for free at Archive.org, using the links below. The links, with the exception of Volume 1, link directly to the book's index so you can see if the surname you are researching is listed. Volume 1 - [Read] Volume 2 - [Read] Volume 3 - [Read] Volume 4 - [Read] Volume 5 - [Read] Volume 6 - [Read] 1897 Volume 7 - [Read] Volume 8 - [Read] Volume 9 - [Read] Volume 10 - [Read] Volume 11 - [Read] Volume 12 - [Read] 1909 Connecticut Men in the Revolution 1775-1783 Volume 13 - [Read] Volume 14 - [Read] Volume 15 - [Read] Volume 16 - [Read] Volume 17 - [Read] Volume 18 - [Read] See also Index of Soldiers Volume 19 - [Read] Volume 20 - [Read] Volume 21 - [Read] Volume 22 - [Read] Volume 23 - [Read] 1930 Volume 24 - [Read] Volume 25 - [Read] Volume 26 - [Read] 1952 Volume 27 - [Read] Volume 28 - [Read] Volume 29 - [Read] Volume 30 - [Read] 1962 See also the List of Family Genealogies in the Library of Connecticut Historical Society: #Connecticut #stowell #Reese #reese

Many American towns are named after the families who originally settled the place and you might be surprised to find these places linked to your ancestors if you dig in to the history of the town. (You can use my County Search Tool to easily see if any counties, towns or cities are named after your family. Then check resources for that place to check for clues). In New Jersey there is an unincorporated place called "Leonardo", located in Middletown Township, Monmouth County. I remember passing through Leonardo a few year ago on a trip to the Twin Lights in the Atlantic Highlands. I had assumed that Leonardo wasn't named after the Leonard family, because of the "o", but a little investigating revealed that Leonardo was, in fact, named after the Leonards. "James and Henry Leonard came from England, in 1642, to Taunton, Mass., and from that time to about 1667 were engaged in constructing iron-works in the eastern colonies. James Grover, one of the Monmouth patentees, settled at Middletown in 1667, and while surveyor of the township, a few years thereafter, discovered traces of bog-ore at or near the Falls of Shrewsbury. He sent for the Leonards to come to New Jersey to construct iron-works, which they did, as mentioned." [History of Monmouth County, by Franklin Ellis, 1885, p. 543]. Comparing the old map in the book with a modern map, we can see that Leonardo is the same location formerly called Leonardville, home of the Leonard family. "The Leonardo section of Middletown was a part of Atlantic Highlands and originally called Leonardville. It was named after Henry and James Leonard, the first ironmasters in the state. Croydon Hall was the home of John J. Leonard." [Source: Chang, Kathy; and Kesten, Karen L. "Birth of a town" Archived 2014-12-15]. Few people credit the Leonards with being the first to successfully establish an ironworks in America, unfortunately. In fact, several years ago I visited the blacksmith at Allaire State Park in Wall Township - a mere 22 miles from Leonardo, and the "blacksmith" knew nothing about James and Henry Leonard who, along with generations of their descendants, supplied the colonies with iron products essential for building homes, businesses, carts and carriages. They made nails, horseshoes, farm equipment, and all kinds of iron tools necessary for building the foundations of this nation. Prior to their arrival, iron implements had to be imported or carried over with the colonists. Previous attempts to establish ironworks in America had failed mostly because of conflicts with the Native Americans, but James and Henry Leonard made peace with the Indians, contributing to their success. See my previous article "Secrets of Metal Making". My paternal Leonard family hails from New York and I've only been able to trace my Leonard line back to my 4th great-grandfather, Russel Leonard, who married Sophronia Burrill, but based on my father's haplogroup, it appears he is of Solomon Leonard's lineage. Solomon Leonard lived in New England during the same period as James and Henry Leonard, as well as John Leonard of Springfield, Massachusetts, but most Leonard researchers have stated that there is no evidence that Solomon was related to John or the brothers, James and Henry. In fact, the haplogroups prove they're not connected, if we are understanding them correctly. Still, descendants of my ancestors, Russel and Sophronia Leonard, may descend from both James Leonard and Solomon Leonard. How? Well, I found that Joshua Burrill - who I suspect was Sophronia's father, reportedly descended from James Leonard. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any documentation to prove that Sophronia was Joshua's daughter. The only evidence I have found so far is that my DNA matches several of Joshua's descendants. I hope to one day prove my connection to these industrious Leonards - the Ironmasters. If you're interested in the Leonards who founded Leonardville, check out these clippings from History of Monmouth County. You can access the entire book free online, but feel free to save or print this Leonard summary. See more: Resources for Middletown Township Resources for Monmouth County Resources for New Jersey My Leonard Family #leonard #newjersey #monmouthcounty #leonardo #leonardville #jamesleonard #henryleonard #ironmasters #colonial #industry

This 1971 documentary gives a history of England from the time of the withdrawal of the Roman troops and the British were left defenseless against the Saxons and Franks who were raiding their shores. Length 22:19. Alternate link. Click here for tons of free genealogy resources #England #england #AngloSaxon #documentary #video #educational #English #history #unitedkingdom

The American Genealogist was a magazine published beginning in 1899, containing a variety of valuable genealogical information you might have difficulty finding elsewhere. The American Genealogist was released quarterly to subscribers who probably anxiously awaited each issue and hoped to find some material relevant to their family history, but today we can access many of the issues free online anytime. In my previous blog, I explained that while indexing this collection, I stumbled upon information about several of my ancestors including Beckwiths, Feakes, and Evarts. After indexing volumes 21-30, I can add Underhill, Chilton and Leonard to that list. There are marriage records, baptismal records, wills, complete family histories and so much more in this magazine. It is worth taking the time to at least browse through the list of contents of each issue to see if some obscure information about your ancestors can be found. I've made it easy for you by typing out the contents of each issue. Below is a list of all the issues of The American Genealogist Magazine volumes 21-30. You can find Volumes 1-20 in my previous blog. In my next blog, Part 3, I will summarize and link the remaining volumes. If you find anything about your family or find that any of the links aren't working properly, please let us know in the comments below. Volume 21 >The American Genealogist 1944 - 1945: Vol 21 Index >The American Genealogist 1944 - 1945: Vol 21 Table of Contents >The American Genealogist 1944-07: Vol 21 Iss 1 The Correct Ancestry of Timothy Foster of Walpole and Dudley, Massachusetts Declarations of Pedigree and Family History and the Hearsay Evidence Rule The Family of Conckelyne, Conklin and Conkling in America Robert Walker of Boston, Massachusetts Wodhull, Odell and Chetwode Jacobus Kolfs (Colver) of New Amsterdam, New Netherland Strickland notes (Cont'd) Joseph Dickinson and Thomas Dickinson Recent books Notes (Simmons-Keen, Center-Todd-Hunt, McMullen, Rethel-Marmion-Camville) >The American Genealogist 1944-10: Vol 21 Iss 2 The forgotten heiress of Sulgrave The Will of James Smith of Barrington The Companions of the Conqueror The family of Thomas Verdon of Brooklyn, New York Correction to the Article Robert Parsons of Easthampton, Long Island Corrections to the Article John Parsons of Easthampton, Long Island and Cape May, West Jersey New London Probate Records before 1710 A study of the identity of Thomas Wood of Rowley, Mass., and his wife, Ann The Family of Conckelyne, Conklin and Conkling in America (Cont'd) The Founders of the Bras/Brass, Brasser, Bresser, Bries and Brazier Families in America Source Material for A Finch Genealogy (Cont'd) Recent Books >The American Genealogist 1945-01: Vol 21 Iss 3 The Birthplace and Parentage of Alexander Hamilton Some Ancestral Lines of President John Quincy Adams The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman Elizabeth and Grace Barron Connecticut Descendants of the Darcy-Sherman-Barron Line Morris Somes of Gloucester, Massachusetts Moses Paine of Braintree, Massachusetts and some of his ancestry in England Notes on Richard Ingraham of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1643 The Parentage of George Gardiner of Newport, Rhode Island Church Records of Auburn New York, 1801-1811 Stray Wills from Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Cont'd) Rev. Nathaniel Brewster and Sir Francis Brewster John Concklyne of Southold and Huntington Jacocks Family - Champion Notes (Bradbury, Center, Landon) Recent Books Three Ruth Loomises and their marriages Woodbury, Connecticut, Church Records, 1702-1713 >The American Genealogist 1945-04: Vol 21 Iss 4 A Hessian Pedigree: Crollius of Marburg The House of Rich Descendants of John Blower of Boston Origin of the Sale (Searles) Family in New England The line of John Concklyne of Southold and Huntington Balzar Leffel (1721-1796) and his family Dickinson Problems Matthew Beckwith and His Family Woodbury, Connecticut, Church Records 1702-1718 The Judson Family of Stratford and Woodbury, Connecticut Notes (Holman) Errata (Loomis and Gould) Index to Genealogical Periodicals Index to Volume 21 Volume 22 >The American Genealogist 1945 - 1946: Vol 22 Index >The American Genealogist 1945 - 1946: Vol 22 Table of Contents >The American Genealogist 1945-07: Vol 22 Iss 1 The English Ancestry of the Elkinton Family of New Jersey John Goodale of Great Yarmouth Van der Veer The House of Rich Family of Ralph Tristram of Maine The Verdugos - A first family of California Samuel Webb of Saybrook, Connecticut Capt. John Johnson and wife Margery of Roxbury - who were they? Matthew Beckwith and his family (Cont'd) Manville of Woodbury, Connecticut Woodbury, Connecticut, Church Records, 1702-1718 (Concluded) Notes (Morehouse, Willmot) Correction to "Bries Family" article from Vol 21 p151 Children of Benjamin Ingraham and Hannah Tomlinson Ingraham William Ingraham of Boston, Swansea, Saybrook and Groton The Judson family of Stratford and Woodbury, Connecticut (Cont'd) >The American Genealogist 1945-10: Vol 22 Iss 2 Claes Cornelissen van Schouw(en), Meutelaer and the Wyckoff Ancestry The English Ancestry of the Lake Family of Boston, Massachusetts, and of Sir Edward Lake, Baronet, of England Martin Marquart (ca. 1725-1793) The Sheafe Line Some descendants of Nicholas Rich of Salem, Massachusetts The parentage of Mehitable Blackman, wife successively of Jonathan Peck and Gen. John Mead Culver and Winthrop The Line of John Concklyne of Southold and Huntington Repercussions: Holman Corrections Recent Books The Judson Family of Stratford and Woodbury, Conn. >The American Genealogist 1946-01: Vol 22 Iss 3 The Daytons of South Jersey Outline for a Genealogy of the Family of Humphrey Millard of Reading, Massachusetts Two Generations of Descendants of Thomas King of Hartford, Conn. Probate Digests, their value and dangers Will of William Brown of Rehoboth, Mass. The House of Rich (Cont'd) Family Records: LXXI. Bible Record: Benham of Bristol, Conn. LXXII. Records in Family Bible of Sanford Ransom Hall (1810-18844) - Hall, Sanford, Huggins LXXIII. Peck Bible Record, Orange County, New York LXXIV. Bible Record of Jonathan R. Peck, Flushing, New York The Origin of John and Henry Gray (New Jersey and Connecticut) Thomas Hale, Glover, of Newbury, Mass. Nathaniel and Aaron Fuller of Ashford, Connecticut The Two Nathaniel Bacons The Wife of Peter Mallory of New Haven An Early Miles Standish Miscellanea: XI. Danbury, Connecticut, Land Records 1780-1783 XII. Sharon, Connecticut Probate Records 1758-1775 XIII. Freeman Record, Grafton, New Hampshire 1777 Notes: Seeley, Jenks, Metcalf, Pendleton-Layfield Recent Books Errata: Correction on Sheafe article from Vol 22 p. 85 Richard Adams - Two found in deeds of Middlesex County, Massachusetts Webb Addendum (John Webb of Saybrook, Conn.) >The American Genealogist 1946-04: Vol 22 Iss 4 The War and the Development of Micro-Photography as applied to English Records Some Ancestral Lines of President William Howard Taft Some Untraced Dyers Family of Lawrence and Mary Turner of Newport, Rhode Island John Earl of Northampton, Mass., and Southampton, Long Island Masters of Woodbury, Conn. The line of John Concklyne of Southold and Huntington (Cont'd) The Judson Family of Stratford and Woodbury, Connecticut (Cont'd) The House of Rich (Cont'd) Notes: Brown, Brewster-Gould Index to Genealogical Periodicals (chiefly for 1945) Bulkley-Tanner Records Miscellanea: XIV. Lyme Connecticut Land Records 1697-1715 Shaw of Boston, Ipswich and Fairfield Stray wills from Suffolk County, Massachusetts Probate Records: Christopher Adams of Kittery, Maine John Vyall of Swansea Mary Sisson of Portsmouth, Rhode Island Jonathan Wells of Hartford, Connecticut Index to Volume 22 Volume 23 >The American Genealogist 1946 - 1947: Vol 23 Index >The American Genealogist 1946 - 1947: Vol 23 Table of Contents >The American Genealogist 1946-07: Vol 23 Iss 1 George Washington's English Ancestors James Butler, Vintner, of Boston: A Critique of Butleriana George Vaughan of Middleborough, Massachusetts The Wife of Thomas Champion of Hempstead, New York The Origin of the Percies and the Percy Arms The Family of Humphrey Millard of Reading, Mass. (Cont'd) The Judson Family of Stratford and Woodbury, Conn. (Concluded) Bries Addenda Notes: The Colorado Genealogist A Lost Subscriber Robert Wace Bennet (Wilhelmus or Willem Bennet of Gowanus) Gozard-Tomisson-Neal land records Stamford, Connecticut land records: Perry, Pettit, and Blachley/Blachly What next: Fred Snare, maker of gun flints ends long line of flint-knappers Benoni Hewlett of Schuyler & Brown Counties, Illinois Turner of Kingston, Rhode Island and New London, Connecticut Recent Books Genealogical Items from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop (Alphabetically: Cooke through Egleston) (Cont'd) >The American Genealogist 1946-10: Vol 23 Iss 2 John Foster of Littleton (Boxborough), Massachusetts Cranson notes Pre-American Ancestries: XIV George Weekes of Dorchester, Massachusetts Maternal Ancestry of Anne (Peck) Mason The Wassons of New York John Welles of Stratford, Connecticut The English Ancestry of John Putnam of Salem, Massachusetts Cooper-Slye and Cooper-Glover Problems Hunt Family Notes The House of Rich (Concluded) The Nathaniel Browne Family Grimsditch, Hunt, Durham Jonathan Haynes of Newbury, Mass. Miscellanea: Killingworth, Connecticut, Land Records Henry Buck Deeds, Wethersfield, Connecticut Items from Hartford County Court Records, 1700-1702 Belding probate records Master Wace Recent books Note on the Underhill Genealogy Notes on the Hutchinson family, Lebabon, Connecticut Vaughan Corrections Erratum Genealogical Items from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop (Alphabetically: Egleston through Hinsdale) (Cont'd) >The American Genealogist 1947-01: Vol 23 Iss 3 John Webb of Northampton Richard Adams of Sudbury, Mass.; Plainfield and Norwich, Conn. The Ancestry of Edward Collins and Bedle-Bowles-Powell Connections in England Early Harris Families of Western Connecticut The Barony of Wahull (Odell) John Foster of Littleton (Boxborough), Massachusetts Walter Dean and Bartholomew Tipping of Taunton, Mass. Outline for a Genealogy of the family of Humphrey Millard of Reading, Mass. (Concluded) Family Records: LXXV. Drake of Orange County, New York LXXVI. An Unidentified Lawrence Bible Record Children of William Harlow of Bridgewater, Mass. Book notices >The American Genealogist 1947-04: Vol 23 Iss 4 Brouwer Beginnings Humphrey Davie, Merchant, of Boston More light on Lawrence of St. James, South Elmham, Co. Suffolk Genealogical Items: John Hubbard Family of Brooklyn, Connecticut The Wassons of Maine Miscellanea: XVIII. Windham, Connecticut, Probate Records Page of Walsham Le Willows, Co. Suffolk Genealogical Items from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop (Alphabetically: Hitchcock through Langton) (Cont'd) Nell Alexander of Killingly, Conn. Recent Books Notes: Susannah Jones and Benjamin Gillam Judson Addendum Sackett of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Porter-Early Palgrave Correction Canfield-Tuttle, Norwalk, Conn. The Jepson Family The Family of George Walker Dungan-Clarke of Newport, Rhode Island Index to Genealogical Periodicals Eleanor Couillard, wife of Nicholas Bragg Volume 24 >The American Genealogist 1948: Vol 24 Index >The American Genealogist 1948-01: Vol 24 Iss 1 John Lapham and some of his Descendants John Barnard, the Blacksmith, of Hartford The English Ancestry of William Acye of Rowley, Mass. Brouwer Beginnings (Cont'd) Josiah Noyes of Falmouth, Maine John Hubbard of Brooklyn, Connecticut Frazee-Osborn-Oliver problems, New Jersey Genealogical Items from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop (Alphabetically: Lankester through Rutherford) Davis Wasgatt of Monson, Mass. Judson Family Addendum David Winchell of Suffield, Conn. Early Records of Cumberland, Nova Scotia The Identity of Mary (Andrews) Shipman Samuel Westcott of Norwich, Conn. Lawrence of St. James, South Elmham, Suffolk Notes: Morris-Gott-Mansfield David Taylor of Concord Interstate Items (Wills of Stephen Rogers of Albany and Deborah Palmer of Stephentown) Recent Books Miscellanea: XIX. Early Westbrook, Conn. Births and Deaths XX. Lyme, Connecticut, Deaths >The American Genealogist 1948-04: Vol 24 Iss 2 Two Anneke Jans Lawsuits (New York) Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Cont'd) William Wetherill of Bucks County, Pennsylvania Zacheus Bosworth, of Boston, Husbandman Edward Richards of Dedham, Mass. Brouwer Beginnings (Cont'd) Andrew Smith of Hopewell, New Jersey Abigail (Buck) Harlow and Mary (Buck) Cushman Genealogical Items from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop (Alphabetically: Russell through Youngs) (Cont'd) Early Births in Granville, Ohio White-Leggatt-Tilley-Howland Repercussions Mary (Griffin) Wilson John Laphem and some of his descendants (Cont'd) Recent books Frazee Erratum Oviatt Marriages in Tring, Hertfordshire Fenn of Milford, Conn. (with charts) >The American Genealogist 1948-07: Vol 24 Iss 3 Census of Newtown, Long Island, Aug 1698 John Earle of Northampton, Mass., and Southampton, Long Island John Morse of Boston Notes on the Schuggs - Reyment Genealogy Brouwer Beginnings (Concluded) John Webb of Saybrook Note on John Webb of Northampton, Mass. Recent Books John Lapham and some of his descendants The Daughters of Barnabas Wood The wife of Obadiah Emmons of Boston Notes: Adams Addenda Early New England - Virginia Intermarriages (Alexander Cole & Behiall Hill and Thomas Hazard & Mary Bowdoin) From Connecticut to Maine: Ezra Dean, Henry Dimock >The American Genealogist 1948-10: Vol 24 Iss 4 The Ancestry of Governor John Webster The Quarrell Family in Wales and the Welsh Border Countries of England (Ancestral to the Eddowes family of Philadelphia, the Kendrick family of Hillsdale, Michigan, and the English governing family of Chamberlain) Connecticut descendants of John Spaulding Bradt or Bratt of Albany and New York, N.Y. John Lapham and Some of His Descendants Recent Books Queries Henry Swain of Charleston, Mass. The English Ancestry of John Putnam of Salem, Mass. Notes: James Butler of Boston Nathaniel Lynde of Saybrook Jacob & Rebecca Tobias Family Bible John Thwing & Martha Drew Will of Stephen Wilcox (Vol 19 p 30) Correction Index to Volume 24 Volume 25 >The American Genealogist 1949: Vol 25 Index >The American Genealogist 1949-01: Vol 25 Iss 1 Legare Notes Origin of the Jacobus Family Samuel French and wife Silence Torrey The Palgrave Descent from the Plantagenets A Fifield Correction John Cooper of Killingly, Conn. Queries The Terrill Family of Connecticut The Parentage of Samuel Morse of Dedham, Mass. Connecticut Triplets (list of deliveries with multiple births from 1699-1774) Recent Books Captain Giles Sage and Corporal Giles Sage of Middletown, Connecticut Notes: Davis Gleanings from Hebron, Conn. Queries: Anna Knowlton, Margaret Freeman, Lois Parmelee, Mary Clough >The American Genealogist 1949-04: Vol 25 Iss 2 - (THE SMITH EDITION) Smith Number John Smith of Mespat, Long Island Bartholomew Smith of Huntington, Long Island William Smith of Jamaica, Long Island John Smith "Ye Smith" of Milford, Connecticut Miscellaneous Smiths of Guildford Connecticut Roger Smith of East Hampton, Long Island Nicholas Smith (Seversmith) of Milford, Connecticut Sergt. John Smith of Milford, Connecticut Walter Smith of Milford, Connecticut Miscellaneous Smiths of Stratford, Connecticut Thomas Smith of Guilford and Killingworth, Connecticut Abraham Smith of Charlestown, Mass. (Killingworth) Richard Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut Smith-Smithsen Note Richard Smith of Lyme, Connecticut Some other Lyme Smiths Reference to certain other Smith Families >The American Genealogist 1949-07: Vol 25 Iss 3 Genealogy and the Right of Privacy The Children of Nathaniel Harlow Ebenezer Hatch and Ebenezer Hatch of Pembroke, Mass. (Mayflower Lines) Deaths in French Prison Camps, 1757-58 The Sons-in-Law of John Mansfield The wife of Samuel Vial The Second Wife of Hudson Leverrett The wife of Jonathan Bullard Some Connections Between the Eddowes Family and Other Families Notes and Errata: Hoomery-Wodell Bradt-Bratt Family of Albany John Earle of Orange County, New York The Wife of John Rogers of Billerica Adgates of Norwich, Connecticut and Philadelphia The "Other" Gilletts Josyntje Verhagen and her descendants Richard Webb of Stamford Recent Books Queries: Tooker-Gerard-Howell Joseph Peck of Cumberland County, New Jersey Hand-Bushnell John Smith of Ashford, Connecticut Gillett items and queries Benjamin Hands of Middletown, Conn. John Case of Glastonbury, Conn Two James Bishops of New Haven, Conn. >The American Genealogist 1949-10: Vol 25 Iss 4 Francois de Bruyn of Bruynensburg, New Utrecht, Long Island and his de Moucheron ancestors The Origin of the Crowninshields The House of Brabant - Ancestry of Philippa of Hainault, Wife of Edward III The Risley Family of Connecticut John Earll of Smith's Clover, Orange County, New York Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Index to Genealogical Periodicals Lee Records and Problems The English Origins of the Connecticut Harrisons Volume 26 >The American Genealogist 1950: Vol 26 Index >The American Genealogist 1950-01: Vol 26 Iss 1 Corrected Genealogy of Ralph Hunt of Newtown, Long Island William Gaylord of Windsor, Connecticut The Concord Odells in English Records Ancestry of the wife of Edmund Rice Ancestry of Obadiah and Mary Brush Baptisms 1710-1715, Hopewell, Maidenhead and Six Mile Run, New Jersey The "Royal" Ancestry of Lawrence Wilkinson Addendum, Legare-Newhall Joshua Tobey of Hudson, New York and his descendants Inscriptions on Tombstones in Milford, Connecticut Unplaced Stantons Two Private Connecticut Mortuary Lists: I. Bethany, Connecticut 1788-1793 II. Middlebury, Connecticut 1825-1853 The English Washingtons Gillett Addenda Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary Addenda et Corrigenda: Deaths in French Prisons Judson Family of Stratford and Woodbury, Conn. Richard Webb of Stamford; Richard Smith of Wethersfield Terrill Family Brouwer Beginnings Some Untraced Dyers Pearse-Tucker-Tabor William Smith of Jamaica Recent Books Alice and Rebecca Hand, East Hampton, Long Island Of This and That >The American Genealogist 1950-04: Vol 26 Iss 2 A Clue to the English Home of Richard Voare of Dorchester and Windsor Jonathan Parsons of Northampton, Mass., and some of his descendants Revolutionary War Rolls of Connecticut, Units in the National Archives Joseph Gorham of Stratford, Conn. Israel (Mason) Bissell Palmer of Westchester Hannah, the first wife of Thomas Gardner, Jr. of Salem, Mass. The Parents of Thomas Holcombe Queries The Hine family of Milford, Conn. Recent Books Children of John and Abigail (Hait) Ferris Daytons of South Jersey >The American Genealogist 1950-07: Vol 26 Iss 3 John Concklin of Flushing and Rye, New York Rebecca, Wife of Rev. Isaac Cushman Daniel Bates of Hanover, New Jersey and Ohio Alice and Rebecca Hand (A correction) Clues in Essex, England, to Origin of Connecticut Settlers (Warner, Purchas/Purchase, Humphrey, Moore, Palmer, Ward, Quennell/Chennell, Drake, Pratt) Andrews and Pike Who Wants What and Where Miscellanea: XXI. Killingly Land Records XXII. Saybrook Land Records (Norton, Lymon, Jerome) Ruth Peirce's Five Husbands The Wives of Samuel Dyer Anneke Jans Descendants Dickerman Origin in England Spaulding Addenda A Reuben Gillett problem Palmer of Westchester Erratum The Wife of John Bissell of Windsor, Conn. Who was the Empress Theophano? Some Notes upon the House of Brabant Clark of Granville, Mass., and Lisle, New York Miscellaneous Family Records >The American Genealogist 1950-10: Vol 26 Iss 4 Ann (Besse) Hallet, step-mother of Abigail (Hallet) Alden Nathan McQuivey of East Windsor, Conn., and West Springfield, Mass. Heirs of Noah Woolsey, Marlborough, New York Samuel Sanford of Tiverton and Some of his descendants Some Mallory Notes Beckley-Moody-Blydenburgh (A correction) Bridget (Palmer) Barton of Westchester County Mary (Parsons) Harmon Origin of the Bowers, Leeks and Crossthwait/Crossthwaytes of South Jersey Pre-American Ancestries: XV. Thomas Halsey of Southampton, Long Island Mary (Humphrey) Warner (English ancestry) Who wants what and where Recent Books Supplement to the Family of Daniel Bates George Norton of Salem, Mass. (Additions and Corrections) Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary James Ferris of Greenwich, Connecticut Ingraham-Prudden Who was the Empress Theophano? (Cont'd) John Concklin of Rye, New York (Cont'd) Weller Notes A Hinman Correction Volume 27 >The American Genealogist 1951: Vol 27 Index >The American Genealogist 1951-01: Vol 27 Iss 1 The Probably Identity of the Daughter of Roger Chandler of Duxbury, Mass. Pre-American Ancestries XVI. Roger Alling of New Haven, Conn. XVII. John Gilbert of Taunton, Mass., with Rev. Nicholas Street Connection Some Notes on the Howland Family A Wood-White Correction The Porter and Hawkins Families of Boston The Thomas French Bible Records Weller Notes (Concluded) Aaron of Bulgaria and his son Tsar John Vladislaw The Wheelers of Bedfordshire and New England The Hine Family of Milford, Conn. (Concluded) The Hubbard Family of Glastonbury, Conn. The Will of Francis Wilson of Rehoboth, Mass. Erratum: Parsons Recent Books Who wants what and where Genealogists >The American Genealogist 1951-04: Vol 27 Iss 2 Vermont Probate Districts A Feake-Crompton marriage Pre-American Ancestry of the Van Varick and Visboom families The Four Spencer Brothers, their descendants and ancestors A Bowne Problem Who wants what and where Edmund Hobart of Hingham, Mass. Eliphalet Hitt (not Hill) of Boston A Brayton-Peirce Relationship Brainard-Bushnell Israel (Mason) Bissell William Churchill and Edward Churchill Two William Lees of Burlington, New Jersey Age of Girls marriage in colonial New England The Wheeler of Cranfield and New England Peter D. Schuyler of Canajoharie >The American Genealogist 1951-07: Vol 27 Iss 3 The Parents of Jonathan Haynes of Newbury and Haverhill, Mass., and some of their descendants The Voge Papers on the Barton and Law Families Rufus Barton, not Roger, in Manhattan 1642 Barton errata Hezekiah Luther and his two wives Directories in the Library of Congress Was "John Concklin" Jan de Conselyea? Editorial note on Concklin-Conselyea; the spelling of surnames and other digressions Repercussions: I. John Warner of Farmington and John Warner II. Sherwood of Fairfield and Stratford Pre-American Ancestry of the Van Varick and Visboom Families (Concluded Visboom) The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants Additions and Corrections: Rich Family Haynes Family McQuivey Family Mary (Parsons) Harmon Risley and Gale Families Weller Family >The American Genealogist 1951-10: Vol 27 Iss 4 Kilby notes The White Family of Middleboro, Mass. Everard-Bourne A Cole-Blanchard marriage Pennock-Pinnock Note on the Douglas Genealogy Recent books Kingsboro, Fulton County, New York, Church Members 1804 Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Cont'd) Cuerton of Merion, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Hales of Georges Creek, New Castle County, Del. Descendants of Israel Bissell Notes on the Waterbury Family of Stamford, Connecticut Hannah notes, Bethlehem, Connecticut Volume 28 >The American Genealogist 1952: Vol 28 Index >The American Genealogist 1952-01: Vol 28 Iss 1 The Early Sampsons French Relatives of Michael Humphrey Abel Gale Family of Jamaica, Long Island The Origin of the Regniers (House of Brabant) Connecticut Court Reports Willentie Herperts Van Der Linde, Ancestors of the Van Elslant Family Further corrections to the new Holcombe family Kilby notes Recent books Plainfield, Conn., Misc. items (Land records) Gerauld (Jerauld) Family Notes Lum origin in England Who wants what and where The Four Spencer Brothers Chapter III. Mrs. W. C. Clark and Donald L. Jacobus Listing of Genealogists >The American Genealogist 1952-04: Vol 28 Iss 2 Notes on Coventry, Conn., Families The Haskell Family The Dudley-Woodstock Family The Killingly-Thompson Family The Plumly Family of Somersetshire, England, and Bucks Co., Penn. John Gale of Bristol, Bucks Co., Penn. Micah White of Abington and Cummington, Mass. Thomas Kimberly in England Ancestry of the Prentices of Preston, Conn. The Family of Pilgrim Simpkins of Boston Descents from the Grand Princes of Kiev Who wants what and where Sarah Weed Waterbury Ferris Pond Jonathan Parsons Recent books Repudiation of wives indebtedness from the Boston newsletter Connecticut Superior Court Records Edson-Story-Maynard The Four Spencer Brothers Photocopy Records Yourself >The American Genealogist 1952-07: Vol 28 Iss 3 Genealogical Research in Ireland the Wheelers of Bedfordshire and New England New Light on Esdras Reade, Tailor Nathan Gorham of Canterbury, Conn. Middlefield, Mass., Church Records Northfield, Mass. Marriage Records Alleged Royal Ancestry of Allice (Tomes) Welles Lord Thurlow and Mrs. Harvey Recent books and genealogical intelligence John Packer of Groton, Conn., his wives and children Notes and errata (Yelverton-Gale, Descents from Grand Princes of Kiev) The Older Generations of the Van Rensselaer Family On Using Perpetual Calendars Mallory Notes from Vermont Ida Wilmot links Jacobus >The American Genealogist 1952-10: Vol 28 Iss 4 Roger Williams Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island the Wife of Joshua Andrus of Newington, Conn. Nathaniel Williams of Boston Widow Frances Wells and Hugh Wells of Wethersfield, Conn. Genealogical Research in Ireland Notes on Coventry, Conn., families Haskins of Taunton (Samuel, Samuel and their families) Spencer Errata, Addenda and Announcement The Wheelers of Bedfordshire and New England (Misc. English Records) Recent books and genealogical intelligence Volume 29 >The American Genealogist 1953: Vol 29 Index >The American Genealogist 1953-01: Vol 29 Iss 1 Homer-Stevers notes children of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall Bible Records, Peck and Lay.... From a Genealogist's Notebook: I. James Barrett, of Bridgewater, Mass., Southington and Waterbury, Conn. II. Nathaniel D...., of Brentham, Mass. and Hebron, Conn. Notes on Dutch Genealogy. The Van Rensselaer Family Middlesfield, Mass., Church Records Mural Tablets, Elizabeth, New Jersey Potter-Brittain Records Connecticut Court Records Hannah (Tallman) (Cook) Chase Notes on Coventry, Conn., Families English Clues: Matthew Price and Launcelot Granger Who wants what where Errata. Roger Williams and Alice Thomas The Four Spencer Brothers: Chapter V >The American Genealogist 1953-04: Vol 29 Iss 2 Random Notes Concerning Settlers of Dutch Descent The Langworthys of Little Compton, Rhode Island Ancestry of Agnes (Smith) Webster English Origin of Ungle Family of Maryland The Scate-Skeath Family of Boston: Rebecca wife of Ebenezer Allen of Bridgewater William Ludlam of Southampton: Some new information Homer-Stevens Notes, Boston (Concluded) From a Genealogist's Notebook: III. Bailey of Killingworth, Conn. IV. Mary (Keyes) (Chamberlain) (Hollister) Sprague Recent books The Four Spencer Brothers VI. Washington County, New York, Spencers Who wants what and where Fifield Correction Some Brewsters in Orange County, New York Notes on Bishop Family of Guilford >The American Genealogist 1953-07: Vol 29 Iss 3 Notes on the Spens (Spence) Family of Scotland and the Spence (Spencer) family of Woodbridge, New Jersey William Herbert Wood Philip Oswald, of New York, Ancestor of European Noble and Royal Houses Random notes concerning settlers of Dutch Descent (Continued) Ancestry of the White Family of Bolton, Mass. New London Probate Files before 1710 (Concluded) - Wadsworth, Walsworth, Waterus, Wedge, Wheeler, Whittelsy, Wilcoxson, Williams, Winthrop, Wright Francis Dowse of Boston and his ten daughters Recent books The Four Spencer Brothers (Cont'd) Vii. Generations five and six Bethiah (Osborn) (Beebe) Peck's Account >The American Genealogist 1953-10: Vol 29 Iss 4 The Stoughton Families of Dorchester, Mass. Notes and Addenda to "Hale, House and Related Families" I. Robert Day of Hartford II. Nathaniel Ely of Springfield III. Moody (Magland) IV. Pynchon-Brett-Porter V. Rachel (Skinner) and Edmund Allstan Inscriptions, Rensselaer County, New York A Sample Relating to the Family of Peter Wheeler Alice (Freeman) (Tompson) Parke Barber and Tidmarsh of Chester, Penna. More light on the French relatives of Michael Humphry The Family of Samuel Smith of Middle Haddam, Conn. and Euclid, Ohio The Family of George Walker of Philadelphia, PA The Penrose Family of Ballycaine, Co. Wicklow, Ireland Notes on the Origin of Launcelot Granger Recent books Who wants what and where rom a Genealogist's Notebook: V. Patience (Gaylord) Tomlinson Volume 30 >The American Genealogist 1954: Vol 30 Index >The American Genealogist 1954-01: Vol 30 Iss 1 To the Subscribers Edward Ketcham of Stratford, Conn. Tuttle, Pantry, Judson, Hurd Samuel King Family of Plymouth From a Genealogist's Notebook: V. Benjamin Tibbetts of Canterbury, Conn. VII. The Seven Daughters of Simon Bryant Errata and Addenda: Scate-Skeath Norton Smith of Lyme Smith of Jamaica Smith of Milford Smith of Wethersfield Parke Gillett-Dunham Charles Ferry of Springfield, Mass. Winifred Lovering Holman Notes, Danbury, Conn, Branch. David Grannis Bible Records Random Notes Concerning Settlers of Dutch Descent (Concluded) David Lyman of Derby, Conn. The Four Spencer Brothers VIII. Generations Five and Six (Cont'd) >The American Genealogist 1954-04: Vol 30 Iss 2 Nathaniel Adams of Weymouth and Boston, Mass. The Children of Thomas Sawyer of Lancaster, Mass. Nathaniel Ely of Springfield, Mass. Comstock Hints Tricks in Using Indeed Genealogical Books The Origin in the Netherlands of the De Kay Family Recent books William Hunt of Concord, Mass., and the Supposed Wood Connection Denison Notes Noted Europeans of American Descent Notes: Gaylord Lawrence-Russell Green-Gile Smith of Salisbury, Conn., and Dutchess Co., New York Who wants what and where Middlefield, Mass., Church Records (Cont'd) English Clue, Thomas Stevens of Sudbury and Cyprian Stevens of Lancaster Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary Autographs of Rev. Nathaniel and Sarah Brewster and Richard Woodhull Rebecca, Wife of Angel Husted of Greenwich, Conn. >The American Genealogist 1954-07: Vol 30 Iss 3 The Owen Family of Suffolk, Orange and Westchester Counties, New York Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass. The Salem Gardners: Comments and Clues Aaron Parsons, Jr., of Wilbraham and Springfield, Massachusetts Salem, Massachusetts, warnings Errata and Addenda: Dunham-Whiston Haskins-Cobb Bries-Skillman-Pettit Addams Hunt Note Andrews-Pike Fifield Note Brouwer Corrections and Additions Salem County, New Jersey, Marriages 1682-1703 Recent books Who wants what and where The Mother of Richard Lyman of Hartford, Connecticut The Parentage of Anthony Hoskins of Windsor, Conn. >The American Genealogist 1954-10: Vol 30 Iss 4 The Family of Frances (Tough) (Smith) Stebbing wife of Edward Stebbing of Hartford, Connecticut The Toughs of Leicestershire, England The Wife of Cyrenus Newcomb Joseph Smith of Lyme, Connecticut The Church and Grant Families of Philadelphia and Vicinity Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut The Four Spencer Brothers Chapter IX Recent books

My interest in the Allen family starts with my maternal 3rd great-grandmother, Martha Jane Allen, who married John Lloyd Temple. Her parents were Valentine Allen and Margaret McGarvey. Valentine was born in or about 1836 in Montour County, Pennsylvania, and died in Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania. He was counted on the 1850 census in Muncy Creek, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in the home of Nathaniel Allen who was born abt. 1795. Anyone with information, please comment below or contact me. Later I learned that three branches of my family tree contain the Allen surname - see the Reese page, the Harvey page, and the Daniels page for more. My research of the Allen family led me to the earliest Allens in Pennsylvania, which as far as I can tell, was William Allen. What I have found so far about his family is shown here. This information was found in one source, shown below, which offers additional details for those who are interested. From the source, I am providing a summary of William's descendants here, to help determine if there is a connection. Generation 1 John Allen of Dungannon, Ireland, married a sister of William Craige, also of Dungannon. John had fled from Stirlingshire, Scotland, "to escape the persecution of the Presbyterians by James I, of Scotland". He had at least two children: William Allen. Born about 1670, probably in Dungannon, Ireland. Emigrant to America. Died in 1725. Catherine Allen. Married to surname Cally. Generation 2 William Allen, born about 1670, son of John, married about 1700 to Mary, daughter of Thomas and Susannah Budd. Mary was born in Burlington [New Jersey?], April 7, 1679 and died at Philadelphia on April 20, 1760. William came to America and was a merchant at Philadelphia, where he died August 30, 1725, at the age of 55. He mentioned his sister, Catherine Cally, and uncle, William Craige, both of Dungannon, Ireland, in his will dated July 3, 1725. Only two children were named in his will, although he had others: John Allen. Died soon after his father, without issue. Thomas Allen James Allen William Allen. Born in 1704 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Generation 3 William Allen, son of William and Mary Allen, was born in Philadelphia on August 5, 1704. He was baptized August 17, 1704, in Philadelphia's First Presbyterian Church. He married on Feb. 16, 1733 (O.S.), to Margaret Hamilton, daughter of Andrew Hamilton. She was born in 1709 and died in 1760 at Philadelphia. William was the founder of what is now the third largest city in Pennsylvania - Allentown. He was close friends with Benjamin West, the painter, and William's daughter, Anne, was painted in one of his paintings. "Although a politician often leading a faction greedy for office, Allen was throughout life a man of large public spirit, thinking of the needs of the colony, giving his influence, his time and his pecuniary aid for its advancement." William died on September 6, 1780. "On the 16th of the month his will and codicil were proved in Philadelphia by the oaths of all the witnesses except Nathaniel Allen, who was deceased". William Allen had four sons and two daughters who grew to maturity: Nathaniel Allen. Died before 1780. John Allen. Born about March, 1739. Andrew Allen. Born about June, 1740. James Allen. Born about 1742. Anne Allen, who married in 1766 to John Penn. Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and grandson of William Penn. William Allen. Born about 1751. Died unmarried in London on July 2, 1838. Margaret Allen. She married James DeLancey in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1771. She died in England on October 18, 1827. "On January 5, 1767, William Allen deeded to his son James Allen, land amounting to 3,338 acres (embracing the present City of Allentown and its environs). The witnesses to the deed were Alexander Stuart and Wm. Allen, Jr., and it was acknowledged June 13, 1767, before George Taylor, one of the Justices of the' Peace for Northampton county, and afterwards a signer of the Declaration of Independence. This deed included the town of Northampton, "save and except certain Lotts of Ground situate in the Town of Northampton within the said tract which have heretofore been granted by the said William Allen to divers persons on ground rent forever." These lots were granted by William Allen on June 1, 1765, for a yearly-quit rent of nine shillings sterling. On February 7, 1776, a tract of 61 acres and 66 perches, in Salisbury township, adjoining the above, was also deeded to James by his father. Although many writers credit James Allen with the founding of Allentown, or Northampton, as it was formerly called, his father, Judge William Allen was the founder, to prove which was one of the purposes of this paper. At the time it was laid out, in 1762, James Allen was a youth of twenty, studying law at the Temple in London. In James Allen's Diary, published in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, in the first entry, under date of November 6, 1770, he says: "Two days ago I returned from Trout Hall (a name I have just given my house), where I had been with Mr. Lawrence, my brother Billy, and Jemmy Tilghman." September 13, 1771, he says: "Lord Dunmore passed thro' this town on his way to Virginia; I dined and supped with him. This day I set off for Trout Hall with my wife and child and Mrs. Lawrence. They have not been there since I finished my house." Generation 4 John Allen, born March 1739, married in New York, April 6, 1775, to Mary Johnston, daughter of David Johnston of New York. John and Mary had two children: William Allen. Twin born in 1776. Married a Miss Verplanck and lived in Hyde Park, New York. He died in 1850. John Allen. Twin born in 1776. Lived near Red Hook, New York, and died in 1809. Andrew Allen, born June 1740, was appointed Attorney General of the Province from 1768 to about 1775. He married in 1768 to Sarah (a.ka. "Sally") Coxe, daughter of William Coxe of Philadelphia and granddaughter of Chief Justice of New Jersey, Daniel Coxe. Andrew was one of the founders and 1st Lieutenant of First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry in preparation for the Revolution. He died March 7, 1825, in London, at the age of 85. Andrew and "the beautiful Sally Coxe" had the following children: Andrew Allen. He founded the Anchor Club in Philadelphia. He married Maria Coxe of Sydney but died without issue in England in 1850. Ann Allen. Died unmarried. Elizabeth Allen. Died unmarried. Margaret Allen. Married in 1793 at Philadelphia to George Hammond, first British Minister to the United States. She died in 1838. Maria Allen. Died unmarried. John Penn Allen. Born October 25, 1785. Died unmarried. Thomas Dawson Allen. Born October 25, 1785. Married in 1840 to Jane Mortimer, widow of Rev. E. C. Henry. Died without issue. James Allen, born 1742, married in Christ Church, Philadelphia, in 1768. His wife was Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of John Lawrence, Esq.. She was born in 1750. After James died in 1778, she married Senator John Lawrence of New York (1724-1799). James and Elizabeth Allen had four children: Ann Penn Allen, born 1769. She was described as "one of the most splendid beauties this country has produced" and Gilbert Stuart painted her portrait three times. She married James Greenleaf and died in Allentown on September 21, 1851. (Allentown Friedensbote, Sept. 25, 1851). Margaret Elizabeth Allen, born 1772. She married William Tilghman in 1794. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Benjamin Chew. Mary Masters Allen, born 1776. She married Henry W. Livingston of Livingston Manor, New York. James Hamilton Allen, born 1778. He died at the age of ten. "In the words of E. F. DeLancey, it may be said both of Philadelphia and of Allentown, that "the name of Allen, for more than a century the synonym for high ability, political power, great wealth and the first social position, is there no longer known." Source: Roberts, Charles R. (1908). "William Allen, the Founder of Allentown, and His Descendants" (PDF). Proceedings of the Lehigh County Historical Society. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Lehigh County Historical Society (1st): 22–43. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2008-06-26. Retrieved 2008-05-30. [Link] #marthajaneallen #johnlloydtemple #allengenealogy #allen #reese #temple

Is everyone related to Daniel Boone? A common claim I have heard over the years, among those who know their family's history, is that they are related to Daniel Boone. In my early days of genealogy, it came to a point where I was a bit envious of those who could trace their roots back to colonial times and an American icon as famous as Daniel Boone - a symbol of the pioneering American spirit. After nearly two decades of researching the many branches of my family tree, I finally discovered my own connection to Daniel Boone! His father, Squire Boone, Sr., was my 8th great-grandfather, which would make Daniel Boone my 8th great-uncle. Squire was a Quaker and was skilled as a blacksmith and a weaver. My father descends from Squire's son, Jonathan Boone. The most amazing thing about this discovery was finding out that the Boone Homestead in Birdsboro, Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, is preserved as a national landmark to this day and is open to the public for touring. On this site, Squire Boone built a one and a half story log cabin in 1730 and planted the seeds of thousands of descendants firmly rooted in America. Illustration from The Pennsylvania-German Society Vol 5 p90. I plan to visit the Boone Homestead in the Spring (2020). For a genealogy addict like me, there is almost nothing better than visiting your 8th great-grandparents' homestead and finding it relatively unchanged after 290 years. Stay tuned for a blog about my visit! UPDATE: See the video from my visit here! For extra reading, see the Boone Homestead article on Wikipedia. See what else I've learned about about Squire Boone here. Click here for thousands of free genealogy resources! Click here to see more of my Ancestor Trails #danielboone #squireboone #daniels #leonard #pennsylvania #destinations #ancestortrails

The Carlisle Indian School opened in 1879 as America's first federal boarding school for Native American children. It was located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was created for the purpose of helping Native Americans integrate into American culture and society. The government sent Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a Civil War veteran, on a journey to Dakota Territory first, to recruit students from the Oglala Sioux and Brule Sioux tribes. He proposed their children would be educated and taught to read and write in English and standard subjects such as arithmetic, music and physical education. The offer was well received by tribal leaders. While most undoubtedly distrusted the American government, they understood that it was important to be able to communicate with and coexist with "the white man" in order to preserve their tribes. In many ways, their decision was wise and many of the students probably have descendants living in America today who are free and happy because of these programs, but in the process of being Americanized, many of their customs and traditions were left behind. This has been going on since the beginning of time and continues to this day in America and elsewhere. When a land is overcome by foreigners, native culture, customs and even language are often lost. Various heritage groups and organizations work to keep their heritage and traditions alive but at the end of the day we are all Americans assimilating daily to new people, new challenges, and new opportunities. The Carlisle Indian School operated for about 39 years before it closed in 1918, but it was the first of many other similar schools working toward the same goal - unification in America. A fascinating collection of photographs of the students at Carlisle were printed in a book published in 1902. "A Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School", by J. N. Choate, gives us a sneak peek into the alumni - the Sioux, Navajo, Cheyenne, Pueblo, and Apache, the Piegan chiefs visiting, portraits of other chiefs, the resident physician called "Dr. Montezuma", and even an Eskimo group. The Famous Indian Band of 1901 is quite impressive looking and the football team looks all American! Before and after photos demonstrate that within a few short years, Native Americans blended right in with the rest of America. I think it's great that these photos were taken and preserved. What a treasure! Enjoy! See more: Native American Genealogy Resources American Genealogy Resources All Genealogy Resources #nativeamerican #indians #america #photographs

When I started researching the father of my great-grandfather, the only record that had been found was the family on the 1900 census in Warwick, Orange County, New York. Nothing further was known. He wasn't in the home with his wife, Lydia, in 1910. I combed through local newspapers for days until I finally found a tiny announcement in the Warwick Advertiser, June 4, 1909 edition. With this new information, I was full of anticipation expecting it to lead me to the names of his parents. I ordered a copy of his death record from Village of Walden Town Clerk's Office and received it promptly: To my disappointment, in the space for "Father's Name", we learn that the informant didn't know Charles' father's name. "Chas Decker - unknown" is written, leaving us only with the chance that his father's name was also Charles Decker. According to the death certificate, Charles was buried in Walden. I found only two cemeteries in Walden. One is the Wallkill Valley Cemetery. A search on Findagrave for Charles Decker buried there produced four results, none who died in 1909, however. They are: Charles C. Decker (1856-1936) and his wife, Phebe C. Van Sicklin Charles C. Decker (1873-1937) and his wife, Ida May Ells. He was a son of William H. Decker and Deborah Van Sicklen. He had a brother named George W. Decker (1867-1936) Charles E. Decker (1871-1943) and his wives Meta Lorenzen and Minnie Van Houten. He was a son of Williard Decker and had a brother named marian Decker (1872-1937). Charles T. Decker (1918-1974) The other cemetery in Walden is St. Andrew's Cemetery. No Deckers are buried there however, according to Findagrave. As for Charles's birth date, I have yet to pinpoint the true date. His obituary states that he was age 43, which would mean he was born about 1866. On the 1900 census, however, "Jul 1863" is given as his birth month and year. The age given on his death record, however, was 47 years, 1 month, and 13 days (from May 20, 1909). If this is correct, he was born April 7, 1862. (Time Deductor) For more information, see the Decker page. If you know where Charles G. Decker is buried, or who his parents were, please comment below! #decker #mayo #charlesdecker #charlesgilbertdecker #death #records Updated 3/15/2022

According to the Dickinson Family Bible, my great-grandfather's mother, Annie Dickinson, died on May 1, 1913. She was only 42 years old, leaving her husband and six of her children behind. She was buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey. A few years ago, I visited Fairmount Cemetery to see if I could locate her grave. Unfortunately, I found no headstone or marker for her in the plot where it was supposed to be. There is another marker for her in the family burial plot in Blairstown, but her remains still rest at Fairmount. I did find Annie's entry in Fairmount Cemetery's burial register, however. You can see photos of that visit here. I was curious to know how Annie died so young, suspecting it was childbirth related, but considering my grandmother (Annie's granddaughter) died from cancer at age 24, I wondered if cancer was the cause. Finally, I ordered a copy of her death certificate to find the answer and received the copy, shown here: The cause of death written on her death certificate was "puerperal eclampsia", which is defined as follows: Convulsions and coma that are associated with hypertension, edema, or proteinuria, occurring in a woman immediately following childbirth. (Dictionary.com) How tragic to learn that she died after giving birth to her 9th child, having lost two young ones already. There is no record of the child, so it appears the baby was stillborn. Imagining the pain and grief in the Dickinson family during that time and in the years that followed, my heart goes out to each of them, although they are all long gone. For more information about puerperal eclampsia, watch this video I found on YouTube: Emma's Diary One of Annie's daughters, Emma Dickinson, devoted herself to the care of her widowed father and siblings after Annie died. Emma kept a diary in 1919, when they still lived in Newark, New Jersey. You can read it here. Stay tuned for more family history! See also... More about Annie (Robinson) Dickinson More about the Dickinson family #dickinson #annierobinson

Recently I indexed all the issues of The American Genealogist Magazine I could find - a tedious task, to say the least - but while I was doing it, I came across several articles and abstracts about my own family. One article I found informative, was one called "The probable identity of the daughters of Roger Chandler of Duxbury, Mass.", written by Frederick C. Warner, sharing his research and theories. It was published in 1951 in Volume 27, Issue 1, pages 1-6. The pages are saved here for anyone interested. Feel free to print or save it to have your own copy. As mentioned in my previous blog about Roger Chandler, found here, his daughter Sarah, married Solomon Leonard of Duxbury, who is the progenitor of my Leonard lineage. If you have documented information about Roger Chandler or his family, please contribute to his profile on Wikitree (click here). #jameschilton #mayflower #rogerchandler #solomonleonard #sarahchandler #leonard

An old book with a very long title caught my attention recently while searching for clues about my Burrill family. The book is called "Some descendants of Stephen Lincoln of Wymondham, England, Edward Larkin from England, Thomas Oliver of Bristol, England, Michael Pearce of London, England, Robert Wheaton of Swansea, Wales, George Burrill, of Boston, England, John Porter of Dorset, England, John Ayer of Norwich, England and notes of related families", by William Ensign Lincoln. You can find the book on FamilySearch or HeritageQuest and read it for free (click here for links), or if you're interested in the Burrill family, you'll find the pages in below. I have extracted the section pertaining to the Burrill family (three pages plus the title page), and saved them in a separate PDF document for future reference or for any of his descendants who may not have discovered this resource yet. Feel free to print or save it. Additional information about this family can also be found in one of my previous blogs (click here). At this time, it is unknown which Burrill line my ancestor, Sophronia Burrill, descends from. #burrill #georgeburrill

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of America's most famous poets and educators. He was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, and attended Bowdoin College there, graduating in 1825. He was then offered a professorship there, under the condition that he travel to Europe to study and learn French, Spanish, and Italian. He spent three years traveling around Europe, from 1826 to 1829, learning French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, without formal instruction. When he returned, he began his work as professor of modern languages at Bowdoin. Soon after his return, he became reacquainted with Mary Storer Potter, a young woman he had known from school days. They were married in 1831 and then in 1834, Harvard College offered him a professorship of modern languages, under the condition that he travel abroad again for another year or so. He and Mary took the trip and he studied Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic. Sadly, Mary died in 1835, shortly after miscarrying their child, while the couple was in the Netherlands. She was only 23 years old and Longfellow had her remains shipped back to Boston for burial as he struggled to endure the pain. He returned home the following year and began his professorship at Harvard. He wrote many poems and had many more fans than critics, but the criticism was harsh, and perhaps why he devoted years of his life to translating works like Dante's Divine Comedy from Italian into English, rather than writing his own original works. Still, he was one of America's very first (if not the first) celebrity. In 1843, he married Fanny Appleton, who bore him six children. He retired from Harvard in 1859, to devote his time to writing. Two years later, in 1861, Fanny died tragically after her dress caught on fire. Longfellow was devastated and never the same again, but he lived on another 21 years, dying in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1882, at the age of 75. Some of his famous poems include Paul Revere's Ride, Evangeline, The Village Blacksmith, Tales of the Wayside Inn, and The Song of Hiawatha. He also wrote The Courtship of Miles Standish. Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow #poetry #poet #longfellow #life #history