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A New York State of Search – Beyond Ancestry.com
A older relative of mine (a very, very distant relative, indeed!) needed some help researching her family history. Both her parents were born in New York City in the 1910s (her father in Manhattan, her...
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Harriett Bowling Martin and the 1940 Census
Harriett Elizabeth (Bowling) Martin (1846-1938) of Patrick County, Virginia, midwife, Confederate widow and descendant of Pocahontas, used to be my third great-grandmother. By that I mean she used be...
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Military Monday: Researching a Civil War Veteran Using the 1890 Census
My Civil War-era ancestor, John Henry Wilson (1823-1905), was one big brick wall. Back in the mid-1980s my great-grandma Winnie (Wilson) Mesplay had given us his photograph, with some handwritten names...
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Sorting Saturday: Separating Truth from Tradition in Family History
My grandmother and her cousin told the story of their French immigrant grandfather, Victor Meslin (1843-1932), as it had been told to them by Victor’s daughters. The story was that Victor had run away...
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Serendipity in New York State: Census Sunday
Anna (Sprague) Bergen (1866-1951) was raised by a couple named William H. and Nancy E. Clapper in Queens, New York. Anna was very close to her adoptive mother, Nancy, as was Anna’s daughter Edith...
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Cora (Anderson) Craig, the “Missing” Cora: Mystery Monday
To the Craig family, Mrs. Cora Craig (1881-1971) was beloved wife, mother, and grandmother. But to those researching the Anderson family of Saginaw, Newton County, Missouri, she was the “Missing Cora.”...
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Wedding Wednesday: John Henry Wilson and Adeliza Derieux of Essex County,...
John Henry Wilson (c1828-1905) had been a dead-end ancestor. A Confederate veteran from Virginia, he brought his family in the 1880s to Jasper County, Missouri, where he served as a Justice of the...
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