Short and Sweet

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, [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – John Herscher

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 [...]

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Elias Smith – Civil War Soldier

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 [...]

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1890 Precinct #8 A – M

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 – [...]

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1890 Wolfs Creek

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 [...]

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1890 Precinct #8 O – Z

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 [...]

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Discovering New Information with Excel

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 [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Alsace cemetery

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 [...]

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1890 Census – Webbs Cross Road

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 [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – Oliver and Mintie Smith

  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 [...]

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