Sunday, July 31, 2016

This Week On My Family History Calendar

July 31-August 6


August 1~
 My maternal Great Great Grandmother, Bessie Mae (Eargle) Price (1878-1943) died 73 years ago in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina from heart disease. She was buried in the Graniteville Cemetery, Aiken, South Carolina.


Bessie Mae Eargle Price
Headstone
Graniteville Cemetery, Aiken, South Carolina
©Cheri Hudson Passey


August 5~
 Samuel James Bradford, II (1815-1875), my paternal 3rd Great Grandfather died 141 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. 


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Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!



You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.




                                                                 
My Happy Dance This Week: Not much genealogy this week as I traveled with two of my children along with the youth group from my church to attend a special conference. My happy dance was spending time with them! 

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

This Week On My Family History Calendar

July 24-July 30


July 25~
 My maternal 5th Great Grandmother, Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859) was born 242 years ago, possibly in the Carolina's. She lived many years in the Sumter County area of South Carolina. 
Alice (Cook) Vaughn
Headstone
Dargan Cemetery
Sumter, South Carolina
Photo Credit: Michael & Allison Dillingham for FAG
Used by permission


July 26~
 Bertrand Campbell Price (1876-after 1922), my maternal Great Great Grandfather, would be 140 years old on this day. Cam was born in Aiken County, South Carolina and may have been the son of Adam and Sallie Price. 



July 29~
 My maternal 3rd Great Grandfather, Thomas J. McRady (1821-1896) died 120 years ago. Thomas died in Sumter County, South Carolina and is buried in Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery in Pisgah Crossroads, Sumter, South Carolina.


Thomas J. McRady
Headstone
Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery
Pisgah Crossroads, Sumter, South Carolina
Photo Credit: Remember Me For FAG
Used by permission


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Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!



You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.




                                                                 
My Happy Dance This Week: After 18 months of learning I completed and submitted my last assignment for Progen 25! This has been a tough year and being able to complete this program is surely something to celebrate! 

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

SNGF: Playing Along With Randy~What Are the Top Locations In My Tree?

Tonight's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge from Randy Seaver is to use our Genealogy Management Program to discover how many places we have in our family tree.



 Using Legacy Family Tree's Statistics information, I was able to get a list of the Top Nine locations in my tree.
 For those of you who are familiar with my research, you won't be surprised at all.
 Drum Roll Please
 The Top Nine are:
1) South Carolina, United States    222 
2) Sumter County, South Carolina  201
3) Clarendon County, South Carolina  111
4) Williamsburg County, South Carolina  86
5) Columbia, Richland, South Carolina  81
6)Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina   69
7)Richland County, South Carolina 63
8) Aiken County, South Carolina  61
9) Lee County, South Carolina  50

Surprised? Didn't think so!

According to the Location Statistics Chart, there are 454 Unique Locations in my tree.  
Most of these are in the Carolinas. Yep, again, proof that I am a Carolina Girl!



What are the top locations in your family tree? Visit Randy's blog, Geneamusings, and play along!!



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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Tuesday's Tip~Gettin' By With Help From Our Friends~Hilary Gadsby


Today's Tips come from Hilary Gadsby, our friend in Wales.

Certificates for a birth, marriage or death in England or Wales - How do I order the right one?

Where do I start?

Before you start any researching make sure you have all the information you already have in research plan notes. Obtain information from family, even if they don't have exact dates or places, they may have information that helps you narrow your search.


How do I find the information to order the correct certificate?

Before you can start to order a certificate you need more background information.
If the person you are trying to find was born, married or died in England or Wales after 1 July 1837 there should be a registration of the event.
Particularly in the early years some events did not get registered or indexed.


You can narrow your possibilities by doing some research first. If the person you want was alive between 1841-1911 you should be able to find them in the census. The only exception being a child who was born and died between the census years.


Most marriages took place in the parish church. Baptisms and Burials whilst not always in the parish church are also a source of information if looking for a birth or death date. These records may be online or accessible at a Family History Centre.


You can find a lot of helpful information on the GenUKI website. Including a list of registration districts with any changes that may have occurred since registration began. This is particularly useful if you need to contact the local office as the current holder of the records is listed.

The ordering process.

Having narrowed when and where the event took place the next step is to search the index.
The website FreeBMD allows you to search for the index entries. Its main limitation is that it in incomplete. There is information on the site regarding the coverage and if you are unable to find any entries check that they have finished transcribing the indexes for that year and place.
If you have an unusual surname or first name to find consider alternative spellings if you cannot find the entry.
With common names such as John or James Smith you will need to search in as narrow a place and time period as possible, there can be several entries in a single district alone, if you are looking for a birth certificate and have some certainty regarding the place or names of the parents, you may find ordering from the local office increases the likelihood of obtaining the correct certificate.
The General Register Office website states “All births in England, Wales and Northern Ireland must be registered within 42 days of the child being born”. So if you are looking for a birth it is important to consider that it may have been registered in the quarter following that in which the birth took place. This is particularly so for births in March, June, September and December. Marriages are registered on the day of the event and deaths usually within days.
There is a good website that explains more about the information on certificates and ordering but it has not been updated and some of the information and prices are out of date.


Having found the index entry where do you order the certificate. The official website is the only way you should order online using the information from the index. Links on other websites will charge you more. If you need to order from a local office it costs more, not every local office has online ordering, the page and entry number are not required and you may be required to pay extra postage.


Whilst checking my links for this post I found a website I had not used before. You may find it worthwhile having a look at it before you order any certificates. There is also a link to it on the FreeBMD website.


In all my years of searching I have only ever ordered one wrong certificate. I once quoted the wrong index number, so did not receive the certificate I wanted, be sure to check the entry on the image and don’t rely on the transcription.


Biography

Hilary at WDYTYA Live April 2016.jpg

I am an experienced amateur genealogist. I live in Wales but all my research has been in England.I am a member of the Guild of One Name Studies and The Surname Society as well as several family history societies in England.

I have several blogs.
I also have a blog for my One Name Study for the Rosling surname .

 Thanks for the great tips, Hilary!


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Sunday, July 17, 2016

This Week On My Family History Calendar

July 17-July 23



July 19~
 Margaret Frances "Fanny" (Gibson) Thames (1854-1929) , my paternal Great Great Grandmother, died 87 years ago in Clarendon County, South Carolina. Fannie died from Stomach Cancer and was buried in Home Branch Cemetery in Paxville.

Margaret Frances (Gibson) Thames
Headstone
Home Branch Cemetery
Paxville, Clarendon, South Carolina
©Cheri Hudson Passey



July 22~
 Margaret Ann (Thames) Hudson (1875-1960), my paternal Great Aunt and Step Great Grandmother, died  56 years ago at the age of 84 years ago in Manning, Clarendon, South Carolina. She was buried in the Home Branch Cemetery in Paxville.

Margaret Ann (Thames) Hudson
Headstone
Home Branch Cemetery
Paxville, South Carolina
©Cheri Hudson Passey


July 23~
 My maternal 3rd Great Grandfather, Thomas Philip Roberts (1830-1893) was born 186 years ago in Richland County, South Carolina. He was the son of Philip Roberts (1798-1853) and Mary Ann (Evans) Roberts (1795-1876).

Thomas Philip Roberts
Headstone
Brown's Chapel Cemetery
Richland County, South Carolina
Photo Credit: Jim Hepler

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Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!



You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.




                                                                 
My Happy Dance This Week: Spending four days at two archives, attending a genealogy workshop where I met old friends and made new ones is something to celebrate! 
I am exhausted but still doing that Happy Dance!

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

This Week On My Family History Calendar

July 10-July 16




July 13~
 My Great Great Grandmother, Bessie Mae (Eargle) Price (1878-1943) would be 138 years old. She was born in Aiken County, South Carolina and was the daughter of George David Eargle (1827-1886) and Elvira America (Booth) Eargle (1834-1898).


Bessie Mae (Eargle) Price
1878-1943
©Cheri Hudson Passey
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Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!



You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.




                                                                 
My Happy Dance This Week: A  cousin on my paternal line found me through my FamilySearch tree! We have a lot of information to share with each other!

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                                                                                   Let the dancing commence!





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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Gettin' By With Help From Our Friends~Caitlin Gow


Today's Tips come from our Aussie friend, Caitlin Gow~

Tips from a young Genealogist
I started doing genealogy when I was 18 in 2009. Over the years, I have discovered that there are things I should have done from the get go. I did not have anybody to learn from or ask questions, so I was kind of doing my own thing. I guess that means these tips are directed more so at beginners, and are focused on things I wish I had known back then.
- Record your sources – that place where you get your information from. It makes it a bit difficult when you start working on an ancestor you haven’t paid much attention to, and discover that you have information you collected way back when but cannot remember where you found it. 
- Source Citations for genealogy related information can be confusing at first. Don’t over complicate things. Start off with the most important details. If you were to read your source citation a few years later and understand where that record came from, you’re all good. 
- Don’t believe all the information on the internet – that goes with anything though doesn’t it? Not all family trees you find on the internet are 100% true.  
- Research Genealogy Groups on Facebook – I wish I had thought of that when I started. You can ask questions & talk to others. Big help! 
- Research Genealogy Societies in your local area and the areas your ancestors came from. They can help with accessing records, giving advice, and often host seminars and other fun stuff. This also allows you to meet other genealogists! Socialising with other genealogists is one of the best things ever.

 Caitlin Gow, 25, is the author of the blog Genealogically Speaking. Based in Brisbane, Australia, she has a Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice from Griffith University. She is an avid supporter of using social media fro genealogy. She loves encouraging other young people to learn more about their family history and using her "detective skills" to solve mysteries.


Thanks for the great tips, Caitlin!


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Sunday, July 3, 2016

This Week On My Family History Calendar

July 3-July 9



July 8~ 
 My paternal 3rd Great Grandfather, William A. Martin (1813-1887) was born 203 years ago in North Carolina. William lived much of his life in the Statesville, Iredell County area and may have been born there too. 


William A. Martin
Headstone
Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina
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My Heritage Announces Pedigree Map

I received the following from My Heritage this morning:


MyHeritage Launches Online Family History MapPedigreeMap™ plots events and photos from users’ family trees on an interactive map to provide geographical and historical insights


TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah, June XX, 2016 — 
MyHeritage, the fastest-growing destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history, launched  PedigreeMap™ today  an innovative way to visualize family history, optimized for tablet devices. PedigreeMap™ displays all events in a user’s family tree, such as births, marriages and deaths, as well as digital photos and scanned historical photos, on an interactive map. This allows users to trace the locations of their ancestors and gain new insights into their lives. All data is grouped by country and location, and users can easily filter their view of the map by person, family group, event type, and time period.

PedigreeMap™ comes with additional features such as place name standardization to improve data quality, and Heatmaps that showcase which geographic areas have a high concentration of activity in the user's family history.

“MyHeritage is the family history technology leader. We’re constantly developing new ways to give people insights about their family history," said Uri Gonen, Senior VP of Product Management at MyHeritage. “The first release of PedigreeMap™ helps people understand the life journeys of their ancestors, and we have interesting and original ideas lined up for the next releases.”

PedigreeMap™ is free for all users. To access it, log in to your account on MyHeritage or create a new account for free, then select PedigreeMap™ in the “Apps” menu.

About MyHeritage
MyHeritage is the world's fastest-growing destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. As technology thought leaders, MyHeritage is transforming family history into an activity that’s accessible and instantly rewarding. Its global user community enjoys access to a massive library of historical records, the most internationally diverse collection of family trees and ground­breaking search and matching technologies. Trusted by millions of families, MyHeritage provides an easy way to share family stories, past and present, and treasure them for generations to come. MyHeritage is available in 42 languages. www.myheritage.com

Contacts
MyHeritage
Aaron Godfrey, VP Marketing
Phone: +1-­347­-542-­7902 Email: aaron@myheritage.com


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Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!



You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.


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My Happy Dance This Week:  Being introduced as a new writer for Going In Depth from the In-Depth Genealogist made my week! Being able to share my love for genealogy and the process of discovering ancestors is truly a reason to celebrate!

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