1890 Creelsboro District H – Z

Celina H answered for *** of Hadley Charles – 12 Ky Inf

Hadley, Thomas – 3 Ky Inft

Helm, John W – 12 Ky Cav

Higginbottom, George A – 13 Ky Cav

Holt, Jerry – 125 Ky Inft

Hughs, John A - 12 Ky Inf

Jackman, Sou**le – 108 Ky Inf

Lawless, James – 5 Ky Cav

Lawless, Joseph – 5 Ky Cav

Loyd, Henry – 12 Ky Inf

Mann, John – 13 Ky Cav

Maynard, Waymire W.  – 5 Penn Cav

Miller, Benjamin W – 14 Ky Inf

Miller, Jacob – 3 Ky Inf

Louiza V widow of Moore, Jimy – 13 Ky Cav

Morrison, James W – 13 Ky Cav

Northrip, William M – 13 Ky Cav

Oliver, John C. – 12 Ky Inf

Ramsey, Joshaway W - 32 Ky Inf

Shearer, Allen – 13 Ky Cav

Shearer, William – 12 Ky Inf

Vigle, William T – 5 Ky Cav

Talitha A widow of Wheat, B.C.W.  – 5 Ky Cav

Wheat, Wesley – blank

Wilburn, William – 13 Ky Cav

Woldord, Fo**tain – 12 Ky Inf

Wooldridge, John B – 13 Ky Cav

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1890 Creelsboro District A – G

Abbott, Richard - 22 Ind Inf
Antle, William – 12 Ky Inf
Baily, Winton B. – 12 Ky Inf
Eliza widow of Ballinger, Benjamin – 32 Ky Cav
Belk, William T – 3 Ky Inf
Blakey, Milton – 13 Ky Cav
Blankenship, George S – 3 Ky Inf
Bradshaw, William – 13 (Ohio?) Inf
Brummett, John R – 13 Ky Cav
Bunch, Milton – 13 Ky Cav
Sallie S Hill for ****of Buster, P.G. – 32 Ky Inf
Cape, Thomas – 12 Ky Inf
Chapman, Anderson – 5 Ky Cav
Clayton, Zack – 42 N.S. Col***
Coe, Sonville – 3 Ky Inf
Coe, Thomas – 5 Ky Cav
Collins, John W – 13 Ky Cav
Ann L Widow of Dixson, John R – 12 Ky Cav
Francis Mann for **** of Elmore, Robert – blank
Garner, Abriham – 5 Ky Cav
Elizabeth widow of George, John – 2 Ky Inf
Goodman, Jessie J – 32 Ky Inf
Guthrie, William – 13 Ky Cav
Celina H answered for *** of Hadley Charles- 12 Ky Inf
Hadley, Thomas – 3 Ky Inf
Helm, John W – 12 Ky Inf
Higginbottom, George A – 13 Ky Cav

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Madness Monday – Joseph Scott 1860

Joseph Wade Scott and Nancy Jain Gilpin were my great-great grandparents.  My “madness” comes from trying to find this family in 1860.

According to his death certificate, Joseph Wade Scott was born in April of 1834 in Kentucky to Andrew Scott and Elizabeth Wade.  Andrew Scott is listed in the tax lists for Russell County, Kentucky for every year from 1826 to 1838 with the exception of 1830, 32 and 34.  Andrew is listed along with his family in the 1840 and 1850 Russell County census records.  Andrew continued to be listed in the tax records for Russell County through 1855 when I believe he died.

Elizabeth Scott and Joseph Scott both are listed in the 1856 – 1858 tax records.  Joseph was 24 years old when he showed up in his first tax records.  1858 is the last year for tax lists on the microfilm until 1875.

On Nov. 12, 1857, Joseph Scott married Nancy Jain Gilpin in Casey County, Kentucky. 

In 1860, Elizabeth Scott is found with 4 of her children in the Russell County census.  Nancy’s father is living with her brother, William, and his family in Casey County. 

But where are Joseph and Nancy Jain?  Joseph Scott is listed in the 1860 Casey County tax list, however, he owned no land.  This is the only year that Joseph is listed in the Casey County records.  I have searched census records for Russell County and Casey County, as well as Tennessee and Ohio in general.  Based on possible listings I found in the Ancestry Civil War Soldiers Records collection, I also searched Kosciusko Co, Indiana and Cumberland Co, Illinois.  (I ordered the service records for the most likely civil war soldier and ruled him out.)  Joseph is not listed in the Russell County militia lists for this time period either.  He is not found in the 1890 special census for veterans for Russell County or Casey County, so perhaps he did not serve.

Joseph and Nancy’s first child was born around 1860.  She died in Russell County on June 19, 1941.  No date of birth is given on her death certificate, but her age is listed as 81 years, 6 days.  The 6 days seems pretty specific to me, so I have her date of birth potentially set at June 13, 1860.  There is a family tree on Ancestry that lists her place of birth as Casey County, so that’s the area I have been searching, but I have not personally confirmed the date or location.  If she was born in 1860 in Casey County and Joseph Scott was in the tax records for Casey County for 1860, it would seem that he should be in the Casey County census records.  I have spent significant time searching the Casey County census and have not found the family. (I believe I have done an every page search, but I usually indicate that in my notes.)

The family can be found in the 1870 census for Casey County.

In the 1880 census, 2 of Joseph and Nancy’s 9 children have their birth location as Indiana, while every other member of the family was born in Kentucky.  These 2 children were born in 1865 and 1868, which leads me to believe the family spent at least a few years at least.  I have not been able to locate specific birth records for either of these children.

Joseph passed away in Russell County in 1914.  I have other records for this family, but I’ve included the records that seem to be the most helpful for finding this family in 1860.  I have searched for the 1860 census for this family for many years.  I would love to finally put this in the “solved” file!

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1890 Special Census of Veterans and their Widows

This week, I intend to start listing the names and units of the people listed in the 1890 special census for Russell County. I have transcribed the information into a Excel file by precinct. Within each precinct, I have performed a sort to see the names alphabetically. That is how I intend to copy the list. Please note that images of these files are available on Ancestry, but I transcribed them several years ago from Microfilm at the Allen County Public Library. I do not imagine that my transcriptions are 100% correct, but I thught they might be helpful to someone.

My plan is to list 15-20 names each post. I’ll list the name and the unit for each person. Before I begin posting, I thought a little background information on the census itself could be helpful.

From http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1790-1890/part-08.html

An act of March 1, 1889, provided that the Superintendent of Census in taking the Eleventh Census should “cause to be taken on a special schedule of inquiry, according to such form as he may prescribe, the names, organizations, and length of service of those who had served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and who are survivors at the time of said inquiry, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines.”

Each schedule calls for the following information: name of the veteran (or if he did not survive, the names of both the widow and her deceased husband); the veteran’s rank, company, regiment or vessel, date of enlistment, date of discharge, and length of service in years, months, and days; post office and address of each person listed; disability incurred by the veteran; and remarks necessary to a complete statement of his term of service.

PS – If anyone can tell me how to make this category a separate tag at the top of this screen, I’d love to know!

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Group Sheets using Excel

I LOVE excel for my genealogy work.  I use it for all kinds of databases I have compiled because it is useful for sorting information in different columns to reveal patterns and missing information.  I use Excel to make my own 5 Gen charts and family group sheets.  I designed my own family group sheets using Excel for several reasons.

Family Group Sheet created in Excel

1. I HATE my handwriting.  I love being able to keep my group sheets readable and professional looking.  And often, the spaces in pre-printed forms are too small for me to write my information in.  So when I take my binder of group sheets to the library, I write notes all over them and later make changes to my Excel file then reprint.  Often, as I’m typing things into the Excel file, more questions come to mind that I didn’t think of at the library.  (Why does that always seem to happen?)  I include these questions in my bottom “Notes” section to allow me to continue my train of thought.
2. I was able to include fields that the forms I had been using didn’t include or take out fields that I never use.  For example, my forms have a space for cemetery name and location, more spaces for children, space for notes for the husband and wife and then an additional notes box at the bottom for general family notes or a “to-do” list.  I do not have spaces for christenings or sealing dates since those don’t apply to my family.
3. I can use color and formatting to help keep track of my research.  For example:

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  • Questions or comments to myself are in red.  Un-confirmed information from another researcher can be in green.  Contact information for that researcher would also be in green in the “Notes” section at the bottom.
  • Boxes that will never have information can be shaded or colored.  For example: a child who dies at birth will not have marriage information.     
  • The name of my direct ancestor can be in bold.  This helps me in families that have multiple uses of the same name.    
  • You can’t see it in the image, but I use the footer to indicate the life span of the husband and the counties that I have found records in. 
        

The only thing I DON’T like about group sheets using Excel is that I can’t use the reference tools that I can with Word.  (At least not in my current version.  Maybe it’s been updated?)  In Word, I click a reference button and it automatically selects my footnote number and then jumps to the footnote location for me to enter my citation.  If I find new information closer to the top of my group sheet, it automatically rearranges my footnotes and updates all of the numbers.  In Excel, I can enter my own superscripts for footnotes, but they don’t change automatically if I add something new.  And I have just enough OCD tendencies that I can’t stand to see my numbers out of order.  (Must be the math teacher in me…)

So I recently started converting my charts to Word files to take advantage of the reference options there.  The conversion is slow, but so far, I like it.

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My Filing Cabinet

In my filing cabinet, I have a hanging folder for each family I am researching. I have a regular school-type 3 prong folder for each family. I buy these in bulk at “back to school” time when I can usually get them for about 10 cents each. There are 4 colors of folders – a different color for each of my grandparents and their ancestors. The folders are arranged in my filing cabinet alphabetically by color (a different section in the cabinet for each color). When I start a new folder, I begin by putting 5 top loading sheet protectors in the prongs. I use these sheet protectors for copies and print outs of records that I find. The very first page is always the group sheet for that family. My goal is for my folder to be like a chronological booklet of evidence for that family. Some folders eventually have more sheet protectors added, but not all of them. I like the sheet protectors because it’s easy to rearrange the order of the printouts and I don’t break the prongs with overuse.

In the front pocket of the folder, I keep group sheets for each child (if I’ve researched them) and my typed notes for the family. These notes are written as a timeline and every single piece of information that I can find on the family is included in these notes along with footnotes of sources. I recently decided to also add thumbnail images of all of my sources so that I can tell at a glance if I have a copy of the original or a transcription from a book, etc. It also reminds me if I need to scan a document. I am a very visual person, so seeing the thumbnail helps me remember where I am in my research. I also include thumbnails of photos I have for the family to help me remember that their lives were more than a list of dates and places.

In the back pocket of the folder, I keep print outs of census images, correspondence and index listing from books I have been looking at. I do not include the census print outs in the sheet protectors simply because there are usually quite a few print outs for a family. I crop the digital census images to include just the information of my family and include it as an image in my typed notes.

Copies of documents for my direct line are kept with the parents’ folder until the time of their marriage. My notes for each person include all sources of information from birth through death, but I know that the copy of the source is in the parents’ folder if it occurred before their marriage. This works well for me because the thumbnail images in the typed notes remind me that I have a document in another folder that I can easily access and it cuts down on the amount of paper in my filing cabinet.

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My Binder System

I have a file system for my computer, for my filing cabinet and for my traveling research. I use binders for traveling to libraries or to visit families and of course, I always have my laptop or flashdrive with my full files on it as well as my digital camera.

I have a binder for each of my 4 grandparents. Each binder begins with a 5 generation chart and then I have dividers for each surname. I have my family group sheets for each surname, which helps me decide if the “John Smith” record I’m looking at is for my great-great-grandfather or for his son’s son. I’m currently working on adding my endnotes for each piece of information on the group sheet. I have done a fairly decent job of keeping track of my sources in my Family Tree Maker program, but I had never included these sources on my group sheets. It has always been a huge frustration to me to be in the middle of my research at the library, to look at a group sheet and wonder where in the world I got THAT date from! So my top priority right now is bringing my citations up to date.

When I go to the library, I bring along the binder for the branch I’ll be working on as well as the folder for the specific family I intend to research. That way, if I come across information for another possible connection, I can look at my group sheets to see if it’s worth noting for future research or not.

I purposely try to keep these binders as stream lined as possible. It is so easy for me to get side tracked during my research and I find that I can keep myself on track much easier if I don’t have the temptation of looking at my full information on any other lines except for my chosen line of the day. I also know that I’m less likely to make a spur of the moment trip to the library if I have to make a big plan for what I’m bringing along – not to mention the weight of my back pack! I simply grab my laptop, my binder and 1 or 2 family folders from my filing cabinet and away I go!

In my backpack, I keep my post-it notes handy to keep track of sources I’d like to come back to on other family lines. I cite the source and page number on the post-it and stick it to the correct family group sheet so I’ll remember to come back to it at a future date.

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