Well, this teacher is looking at the end of final exam week at school and she can’t WAIT for summer and it’s opportunity for full time genealogy research! In anticipation of this, I’ve spent some time in the evenings updating my files and notes for each family that I research. While I’m far from finished, [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Short and Sweet
Posted in Organization on May 28, 2009 |
Tombstone Tuesday – John Herscher
Posted in Kankakee County, Illinois, Tombstone Tuesday, tagged family history, genealogy, Herscher, Kankakee on May 26, 2009 |
John Herscher was born in Vogelgrun, Alsace France on 24 May, 1842. John and his mother, Catherine, arrived in the US (as well as 2 of his 3 siblings) around 1852. One brother, Frederick, came 2 years later. Interestingly, John’s father and step-father were both named Andreas Herrscher (which made for interesting research puzzles!) John [...]
Elias Smith – Civil War Soldier
Posted in Military, Russell County Smiths, Russell County, Kentucky, tagged family history, genealogy, Kentucky, Russell County, Smith on May 25, 2009 |
In honor of Memorial Day, I’d like to profile the military information that I have for my great-great-grandfather, Elias Smith. I am a complete novice when it comes to military information, so all of the military information I have on Elias comes from his pension packet and from information posted on http://www.geocities.com/~etelamaki_home/8thkent.html which states that [...]
1890 Precinct #8 A – M
Posted in 1890 Russell Co, KY, Russell County, Kentucky, tagged 1890 census, census, civil war, family history, genealogy, Kentucky, Russell County on May 24, 2009 |
Allen, James *- 12 Ky Inf Ballenger, Daniel – 3 Ky Inf Blankenship, David – 32 Ky Inf ? (Brumley), John W – 32 Ky Inf Burkett(?), (Joel?) – 13 Ky Cav Burton, Gilmore – 3 Ky Inf Carnes, James F – 1 Ky Cav Cook, William – 13 Ky Cav Cooper (?), John – [...]
1890 Wolfs Creek
Posted in 1890 Russell Co, KY, Russell County, Kentucky, tagged 1890 census, census, civil war, family history, genealogy, Kentucky, Russell County on May 22, 2009 |
John Bailey – 12 Ky Inf James Bowman drafted in 1864 furnished substitute – William Bowman – blank William Decker – 12 Ky Inf William Eads – 13 Ky Cav Thomas Hampton – 3 Ky Inf Martha Hicks widow of Isaac Hicks – 12 Ky Inf Hector C Johnson – 3 Ky Inf Christopher C [...]
1890 Precinct #8 O – Z
Posted in 1890 Russell Co, KY, Russell County, Kentucky, tagged 1890 census, census, civil war, family history, genealogy, Kentucky, Russell County on May 21, 2009 |
Oaks, Hiram H – 5 Ky Cav Oldham, Edward – 8 Ky Inf Pierce, Aaron – 3 Ky Inf Piercey, Wiley B – 12 Ky Inf Polsen, William T – 13 Ky Cav Robinson, Milton E – ? Ky Cav Elizabeth widow of Rogers, James – 12 Ky Inf Russell, Duncan – 13 Ky Cav [...]
Discovering New Information with Excel
Posted in Excel, Kankakee County, Illinois, Organization, tagged family history, genealogy on May 21, 2009 |
About 2 years ago, I was thrilled, but overwhelmed with the information available in a book I had ordered online. It was published by the local historical society and it contained an abstract of all of the church records available at the church founded by my husband’s ancestors in Kankakee County, Illinois. Before purchasing the [...]
Wordless Wednesday – Alsace cemetery
Posted in Alsace France, tagged Alsace, family history, genealogy, Herrscher, Herscher on May 20, 2009 |
Last summer, I was incredibly lucky to be able to travel to several countries in Europe along with my husband, who was on a business trip. For 1 day, my wonderful husband shuttled me wherever I wanted to go to see the area that I had spent so much time researching. We went to 2 small [...]
1890 Census – Webbs Cross Road
Posted in 1890 Russell Co, KY, Russell County, Kentucky, tagged 1890 census, census, civil war, family history, genealogy, Kentucky, Russell County on May 20, 2009 |
Cravens, Josiah – 13 Ky Cav Cunningham, George * – 6 Ky Cav Foley, W.N. – 13 Ky Cav Holt, Benjaman – 3 Ky Inf Mary J widow of Hudson, Simeon P – 1 Ky Cav Irvin, John – 5 Ky Cav Lucas, Henry C – 3 Ky Inf Luttrell, Richard D – 5 Ky [...]
Tombstone Tuesday – Oliver and Mintie Smith
Posted in Russell County Smiths, Tombstone Tuesday, tagged family history, genealogy, Kentucky, Russell County, Smith on May 19, 2009 |
These are my great-grandparents – my grandfather’s parents. They spent most of their lives in Russell County, Kentucky, but moved to Franklin, Indiana around 1946. They are buried in the cemetery of First Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Franklin. Mintie was the daughter of Joseph Scott and Nancy Jain Gilpin – the subject of [...]




