Genealogy… moving forward into the past!

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Margie Schwieterman

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Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 9:54 am in Genealogy Notebook.
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Martha Rapp - May 15th, 2009 @ 11:38 am

Nice Idea! How to distinguish between direct and indirect Data?

19332Blue - May 16th, 2009 @ 7:00 am

I need some organizational help. Any suggestions? I have so many records and bits of information.

Margie Schwieterman - May 17th, 2009 @ 9:24 am

Martha, I am not sure of your meaning. Are you referring to Primary and Secondar sources? Also, where are you trying to distinguish them? In your organizational charts?

Margie Schwieterman - May 17th, 2009 @ 9:28 am

Blue, one of the best ways that I know is to start putting your information on PAF which is free on Family Search.org. As you enter the information into PAF, you might start a file for each family and put your paper bits into the file.

Martha Rapp - May 18th, 2009 @ 12:17 pm

Yes primary and secondary sources. I get those confused. I need to have a better understanding period. I am retro putting sources to my genealogy.

Victor Allison - May 19th, 2009 @ 2:43 pm

Searching for ancestral information for Edward F. Allison, born 1857 in Metamora, Indiana and for George G. Allison, born January 1, 1862 in Metamora, Indiana.

Margie Schwieterman - May 20th, 2009 @ 3:47 pm

When you refer to ancestral information, I take it that your are desirous of going backward with Edward and George. Is that correct?

Margie Schwieterman - May 21st, 2009 @ 11:14 am

Victor, I found an Edward and a George Allison on the 1870 cenus living with a brother Monroe and parents Lafayette and Prudence. Is this your family?

Margie Schwieterman - May 21st, 2009 @ 11:15 am

Martha, are you making any progress?

C.S.Behymer - June 16th, 2009 @ 2:14 pm

Searching for: John Wesley Moore, freed as a child,(said to have been “passing”, and half brother to John Trotwood Moore-author), John worked for the Mary B Greene lines,died in Riverboat accident. Wife, Nora Ellen Moore, later remarried to man with last name Ashnire, may be misspelled. John and Nora had one daughter, Margie Alice Moore, born Oct. 1911, died in 1977. John and Nora married in Ky.,church and records burned. Research says the only fatality on the Greene Lines was in 1916. I was hoping to find evidence that my Great-Grandfather existed, and maybe find a photo to put next to Nora’s and Margie’s, in the albumn. This is my first time doing research on line, what’s next? I look like the female version of John Trotwood Moore, only a little darker. Margie (my Grandmother) looks like Uncle Wash, only a little lighter. I have solved the “family mystery” in the writings of J. T. Moore,as my Grandma said to do, now I am in need of tangible truth, and more help. Thank You VERY much for even considering reading this. Please e-mail in return.Thank You

C. Behymer behymer@fuse.net

sarah - June 19th, 2009 @ 2:37 pm

ok here goes. i know my father birth and adopted last names as well as his birth place and birthdate/death date. im trying to find my cherokee heritage for school. please help me? ancestry.com charges and i don’t have a ceedit card.

Margie - June 22nd, 2009 @ 11:49 am

Sarah, thanks for your post. This may be challnging but I would be delighted to try to help. I will need your father’s name, birth place, birth date and his death date. If you will post these here,I will take a look and give you some ideas as to where to go next. Margie

harold denham - June 25th, 2009 @ 11:57 am

looking for hardin denham,b1760,in virginia.

Margie Schwieterman - June 25th, 2009 @ 1:58 pm

Harold, you have a challenge ahead of you. If you can give me more information we can help you. Do you know any more about his family? Did he marry? Have children? Also, the Virginia census of 1790 and 1800 are not available. However, the Commonwealth has wonderful historical records such as military records, church warden records, tax records. Do you know what county Hardin was from? If you will give me a bit more information, I will be able to narrow your search.

debbie catalina - July 3rd, 2009 @ 5:52 am

my grandmother, alexandrina gillemette, dies in fall river, mass in the seventies or eighties. she emigrated to the US from quebec canada. that’s all i know. not quite sure of name spelling. pleez help

debbie catalina - July 3rd, 2009 @ 5:53 am

pleez help me start researching my grandmother, alexandrina gillemette

Margie Schwieterman - July 9th, 2009 @ 11:53 am

To Debbie Catalina: We attempted to send you information regarding Gillemette, but the email address was not functioning. Do we have the correct address?

Alice DeSantis - July 13th, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

Looking for information on my grandfather Carl Alfred VanAlstine born 1871,died 1932. Married Nancy Alice Smith. Children: William S, Leslie, (twins)-Bert F.& Bertha, Guy, Clarissa, and Tommy. My father was William S. VanAlstine.

Alice DeSantis - July 13th, 2009 @ 2:01 pm

What else is needed?

Alice DeSantis - July 13th, 2009 @ 3:33 pm

I gave you the wrong Email address. This is the correct one: alicede0342@att.net. Can you help me?

irene snow - July 15th, 2009 @ 7:04 pm

I am looking for the parents of William Snow, born 1808 in New Hampshire. Married Emily DeBar in 1935 in NY, USA

irene snow - July 24th, 2009 @ 1:21 am

I have the family forward but cannot find the parents of William in New Hampshire. I think possibly they came from England but gave birth to Willim in New Hampshire. William was born 1808
married Emily DeBar in New York and the family moved to Michigan where I have most of the clan in Shiawassee Township

MYRDICE CURRY - August 6th, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

I am trying to get info. on my greatgrand parents, Spencer and Georgia Leslie. Children Julia Leslie ( a teacher), Rupert (a nurse) Author (i believe he worker for the railroad) My grandmother {Myrdice} married name Reed, Jimanna and possibly other children. They lived in Greesboro, Ga.. They died in the mid & late 50′s. This if from my moms side of the family. On my dads side General Hillman {possibly Boyle} and my grandmother Jimmie B. Childs {Hillman. It would be ever so nice to have more info. regarding them. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

MYRDICE CURRY - August 6th, 2009 @ 1:34 pm

General & Jimmie were from Tenn. thank you

Mary Collins - August 6th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm

HI, I am looking to find my family. I am the last and know very little and want my grandkids to know. My fathers family has a long history in Los Angeles, CA. Grandfather J E Collins, 1857 from Cheshire MA and Grandmother Annie Bonn Collins, 1857 from somewhere in Ill. My father Edward May Collins, 1905 lived in LA from birth to death in 1958. Any help, please let me know, as I want to find any living relatives living or deceased,

Frank E. Haislett - August 12th, 2009 @ 9:57 pm

I’am looking for my gggrandfather’s
mother and father his name is James
Washington Haislett/Hazlett he was born in Pennsylvania in 1815 died in Calf in 1849 I hope someone can HELP.

Egil Aasbekken - August 13th, 2009 @ 12:21 am

would like genealogy information about him. he lives in hov norge

Margie Schwieterman - August 13th, 2009 @ 2:30 pm

Mary, I have information for you but your email was not valid. Will you give me that address again?

irene snow - August 13th, 2009 @ 6:56 pm

My grandfather was Jakob Brethauer 10 Sep 1871 married to Katherine Schwabauer 12 Jun 1872 in Russia marriage date 7 Nov 1891. They came from the Volga River area and would like to find their parents they came to USA 1914 on the ship Barbarossa to the Baltimore Maryland port. settled in Saginaw MI 1919.
Irene

Tiberia Atkins - August 13th, 2009 @ 9:47 pm

I very new to this. I want to research both sides of my family but will start with the maternal side first. I believe that all originated in TX. My ggrandmother was Evie Rawls Moye, her second husband’s name is Melvin Moye. Both had kids from previous marriages. Evie was born in late 1800s and of some Native American blood. Please help me get started, I have nothing to go on.

Tuvaelagi Howell - August 16th, 2009 @ 4:26 pm

I am trying to find a copy of my birth certificate. I think my maiden name was Tuvaelagi Lumonu. I am not sure as I cant find any of my family. I was taken as a very young child to the mainland, from Hawaii or American Somoua. I was raised by a foster family. They are all gone now. Can anyone help me. Thank you.

Ellen Pinto - September 4th, 2009 @ 10:29 am

I am trying to locate parent information for Russell John Pinto
he was born in Rapapha, NJ
1-20-1920
we are needing info for death certificate

carlee - September 18th, 2009 @ 5:22 pm

i need help finding my some of my family back in eyptian times. i dont know if im related to enyone back then im just tryen to find out.

vern l smith - September 21st, 2009 @ 3:02 pm

i’m looking for the date my mother( betty jane gill) was wed to my father(woodrow w smith) in michigan it could be in oakland county and might be in west bloomfield twp. there fathers names were joseph smith and joseph gill.also any thing on the two fathers genealogy line. i’m the only one left in my family that i know of.

Irene Snow - September 21st, 2009 @ 9:43 pm

Looking for the parents of William Snow 1808 New Hampshire. He married Emily DeBar who was born in New York 1816. Abt 1834 marriage . Her parents were listed but not Williams. Her family (Jacob deBar & wife Sally Braford) moved to Michigan with their family and William & Emily had 3 children in New York (Sarah Snow,Mary Ann Snow & David Snow)
William W. bMI and Charlesb MIJohn MI, Albert MI The Debars have a list of chuldren also theirs were born in New York. Help
Irene Snow

Barbara Chatman - September 27th, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

I believe i made a mistake in my previous email…My great grandfather, Henry Miller actually died in 161/1962 and i don’t have the date of birth. however i can include his daughter’s (Ester Lee Miller) birthdate, 2/4/1919-1/2006 of Boyle, Mississippi. Thank you again. Sorry for the error!

Wilma Townsley - October 5th, 2009 @ 5:37 pm

I am looking for my uncle’s birth certificate. He was about 3 when he died. Frank Jacob Sanders
born in Poplar Bluff, MO. around 1900? died in Chester, IL on 6 June 1903.
Father: Ertie Aaron Sanders
Mother: Sarah Louemma(Hendricks) Sanders Can anyone help?
I have checked several places. Thank you.

Irene Snow - October 11th, 2009 @ 6:46 am

still looking for William Snow from New Hampshire 1800′s married Emily DeBar born in N Y 1816. they married in NY about 1934/5 had 3 children there and moved to Michigan Shiawassee Township. Emily’s parents and family moved to Michigan also and all stayed in Shiawassee township

Irene Snow - October 11th, 2009 @ 6:52 am

also in need of brick wall on Jakob Brethauer wife Katherine Schwabauer came to USA 1914 to the port of Baltimore Maryland. He had one brother who came to the USA in 1906 through Ellis Island named Conrad Brethauer and settled in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. I can’t seem to get through the tangle to see if there is family left in Russia.
They were Russian/German immigrants. Jakobs ship the Barbarossa was confiscated after they arrived because of the war and it was a German ship. It was its last voyage,and renamed the Mercury.

Deanna Ralph - October 24th, 2009 @ 4:57 pm

I have cemetery records for Alum Creek Quaker Cemetery, Marengo, Oh Morrow County. That community was part of the UGRR. If anyone is looking for African/Americans that could be buried there I may be able to help as there are several buried there.

Henrietta Zeigler Gardner - December 19th, 2009 @ 10:42 am

She was my great grandmother and I never had a chance to meet her. And my grandmother never really talked about her to me so I’m very curious!

Patty Reed Keeth - December 19th, 2009 @ 12:21 pm

Is there anyway to find adopted siblings on this site? I have a brother born 7/10/57 or 1958 in Davison Michigan to RoseMarie LaVene. That’s all I know. Any suggestions in locating him?

george moreno - January 22nd, 2010 @ 10:28 am

when gabino was 12 years of agehe was seperated from his parents in mexico crossing the boarder.he was rised by a family by the lat nam of moreno.

george moreno - January 22nd, 2010 @ 10:30 am

when gabino was 12 years of agehe was seperated from his parents in mexico crossing the boarder.he was raised by a family by the last name of moreno.

harold denham - January 31st, 2010 @ 6:30 pm

hardin and a brother fought for north caroline in the revol war.i know of other family member.he married in 1803 in monroe county, ky. i would like to find other silbing and parents

gary leder - February 2nd, 2010 @ 12:03 pm

where is my family from?

George A. Hermann - February 20th, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

Looking for descendants of Charles W. Reynolds MD, co-administor of 1st diphtheria antitoxin, Cincinnati 1894. ?Clyde Reynolds Carpenter b. 12-26-1937

carolynt_25503@yahoo.com - March 2nd, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

trying to find my greatgrand father and mother..Thomas Gillispi married Pauline Rowsey..west virgina daughter Essie born 3-31-1889

Debbie - March 10th, 2010 @ 11:12 am

I am wanting to find out more about my family history. And I am not sure where to start. I have birth parents and grandparents names. And a great grandparent name on fathers side. Where do I begin?

Melva Curry - March 15th, 2010 @ 11:55 am

I’m looking for both my mother family and my father.My mother family history is more clearer than my father. My mother Name is Georgia Helen Mitchell Married name Hopkins. My Father name is Vernon Hopkins. It would seem to to do one first, then the other. I would like to start with my father.

Adela Dyer - April 14th, 2010 @ 8:39 am

Looking for family history in
Chicacha, Ok. I only know my
mother’s DOB AND DOD. Can anyone
help me?

Harold Emil Herrmann - May 31st, 2010 @ 2:25 am

i don’t know what is (URL? )looking for his parented name they did live in Gregory, county of south Dakota in i think my dad was born that is my dad 12/2/1924 if any one is looking for the same send me a e-mail barbaralynn51@yahoo.com (HERRMANN)

Apryl McKinney - June 8th, 2010 @ 11:09 am

I want to go back in time as far as possible. By talking to relatives, I have information for my great-great grandparents. That is as far as I could go alone, but these records are all regarding the USA. I need to know who I am and where we come from. Every site I visit wants money just to look at papers that your not even sure if they are actually your relative. This is what I do know for sure:
Me – Apryl A. DeVaney B.1985
Mom – Melissa K. Shelton B. 10-7
Dad – Scott A. DeVaney B. 10-10
Mom’s side:
Mom – LaQuita J. Preskitt B. 12-5
Dad – Terry Shelton
LJP’s – Ishmel Preskitt & Juanita Bundy
TS’s – Elvy Shelton & Minta Johnson (end of line for Terry’s family)
IP’s – William Preskitt & Maude Lillian Stevens
JB’s – John Bundy & Miley Jane ____
(end of line for LaQuita’s)
I do know sometime in the Shelton line, they owned slaves.
Dad’s Side:
Dad – Phillip DeVaney
Mom – Rita Luke
PD’s – Samual Reed DeVaney & Mayme Belle Whistler
(end of Dad’s father’s line)
RL’s – Clerence Lee Luke B. 1914 &
Mildred Alice Carter B. 1915
CLL’s – Harry Luke & Nelly ___ ___
(end of line)spelling of names might be incorrect.
Can you help me? If you can not, please let me know where to start my next phase of my search. (aprylmckinney@aol.com) Thanks

Paula Roen Kester - June 19th, 2010 @ 8:13 am

I have been trying to find out any information I can about my birth father. All I know is that his name is George Knowlton and he may have been from Albuquerque, New Mexico. My uncle said he knew him when he was a member of Company K stationed at Fort Snelling in Minneapolis, Mn during WWII. (I have no proof of this though.) He and my mother were involved in 1947 when I was born, but they never married. I believe he married another woman and continued to live in Minneapolis. My mother said she continued to run into him periodically over the years. I have also been told he worked for White Castle.
I would appreciate any information about him. I would like to know who he was. If it helps, my mother,s name was Pearl.
Thank You.

martin ostenson - July 6th, 2010 @ 9:18 pm

im sorry to take up your time because i am not computer savy and my nother does not have a computer but she needs innfl aboutg her faters birthplace. thank you so very much for any help. they are in their 80′s .

Natasha Sikes - July 16th, 2010 @ 10:38 pm

Hello,
Im coordinating a family reunion soon. Need info. on great great grandfather. Grandfather name is Almon Sikes born 7/1928 vero beach,florida married Rosa Herd in 1947. His name was misspelled several times. 1920 census has albert sikes..wife is Ellen washington-sikes. 1930 cnesus has Alma Sikes and Ellen Sikes. Death certificate in 1944 has Almon Sikes. I would like to know the name and birthplace of his father..my great great grandfather, what indian tribe was he from, where and when he was born? Only info I have is Ezekial Sikes as his father and wife name was Leona. Had 8 daughters (older) and one son..my great great grandfather. Thanks for your input!

Natasha Sikes - July 16th, 2010 @ 10:46 pm

Also, My grandfather Almon Sikes b. 7/1928 and d. 1/2003. His name was always signed on the census as JD Sikes. He was 6th child out of 9. oldest to youngest was Henry sikes, bessie mae sikes, richard sikes, (twins) jimmie L. sikes & willie L. sikes, Almon “aka” JD sikes, robert sikes, essie mae sikes and viola sikes.

Christine Rosset - July 22nd, 2010 @ 7:56 pm

I am trying to obtain prove the parents of the following list of children.
As best as I can tell, these are the parents:
Joseph Senter (b. 26May1772 Center Harbor, NH; d.14Oct1849 Center Harbor, NH)
m. Tryphena/Trifena/Phenie Pain 26Apr1798 Moultonboro, NH.

Children of Joseph and Tryphena:
Louisa Senter b. abt. 1799; d. 2Jun1878; married Crossley/Crosby Smith New Hampton/Holderness/Ashland
Source: Green Grove Cemetery, Ashland, NH
John S. Senter b. abt. 1803; d. bef. 1880 census
Charles Little Senter b. abt. 1805; d.15Sep1859 Center Harbor, NH
Source: Senter-Coe Cemetery, Center Harbor, NH
Sarah P Senter b. abt. 1814; d. 16July1837 Center Harbor, NH
Source: Senter-Coe Cemetery, Center Harbor, NH
Lyman W. Senter b. abt. 1819; d. 3Jan1875 Milton, MA; m 1st – Eleanor 2nd – 7Feb1752 Emeline M. Tuck
Source: Mass. Vital Records 1851-1910 (marriage & death records)

Any information or ideas would be much appreciated!

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