tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42444865778760197452024-03-05T07:12:23.996-08:00Memory Tree Genealogy JournalSarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-37498767200077752942015-10-21T10:29:00.000-07:002015-10-21T10:29:22.364-07:00Dig old newspapers? Look no further...Last week, I shared my findings from a new (to me!) website called <a href="http://www.elephind.com/" target="_blank">Elephind.</a><br />
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Fellow genealogists will not their heads in agreement...sometimes, after hitting brick-wall after brick-wall, discovering an obituary, story, or social pages snippet mentioning a particular ancestor can be a genealogical gift. Wrapped in a bow. Sealed with a kiss! Context to add a little something-something to the names, dates, and places of birth on a paper tree.<br />
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Likewise, when I've taken a break from serious document searching, and I need a little inspiration, newspaper snippets are just the thing to get creativity flowing again. <br />
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Have you ever heard of <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/">FultonHistory.com</a>? If not - CHECK IT OUT. That's an order. Fulton History has been on my radar...but I admittedly haven't spent time searching its archives. Working completely from home, website founder Tom Tryniski has scanned over 22 million historic newspaper pages! <a href="https://reason.com/reasontv/2013/03/05/amateur-beats-gov-at-digitizing-newspape" target="_blank">THIS ARTICLE</a> was shared today via one of my favorite genealogists' Facebook page, and I was immediately inspired to give his search engine a check.<br />
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I usually start all new database searches using my husband's surname - Melvey. Its uniqueness lends itself to near instant genealogical gold, as most results are usually related to his family. Happy to report my first interesting find after just a few minutes of searching on FultonHistory:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four Deer Find "Home Sweet Home" Best Place (date unknown - estimated 1910-1920). <i> St. Hilaire Spectator. </i>Retrieved from http://www.fultonhistory.com.</td></tr>
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Trying to imagine Moorhead, MN townspeople "shooing" these four deer into freedom - elsewhere. A cost saving measure aimed at eliminating funds spent on feeding deer in the Moorhead Zoo completely backfires...and now, the park commissioner (my husband's paternal great-grandfather) finds himself having to potentially ask for donations to feed the domesticated animals. One of my favorite aspects of this article is the glimpse of compassion and empathy we can detect from his actions. A fascinating peek into the life of an ancestor!Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-16231514696162588602015-10-14T09:48:00.002-07:002015-10-14T09:50:23.931-07:00Not-So-Wordless Wednesday: Fargo Carpenters On StrikeFamily Tree Magazine (I enjoy my subscription to the e-reader version!) mentioned an new-to-me website in their most recent edition. Just HAD to check it out during my quiet time this afternoon. Oh yes. Quiet time - otherwise known as nap time or Mom's Sacred Time in this household. Savoring every last two-hour nap time until our youngest grows out of it! When people ask me how I possibly find time to accomplish anything with three little boys in the house under the age of seven, my answer is always "nap time". Holy, holy nap time. Want to know the opposite of nap time? It's called Mommy is seriously cranky because she hasn't had enough time to herself. Let's not go there.<br />
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ANYHOW...back to the genealogy website. <a href="http://www.elephind.com/" target="_blank">Elephind</a>. Ever heard of it? It's a FREE (yay!) collection of newspaper archives from domestic and international sources. There is just absolutely nothing like finding a fascinating article about an ancestor to add a little spice and intrigue into your research.<br />
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I usually give any genealogy database a test run using my husband's paternal and maternal surnames - Melvey and Morben. Their uniqueness ensures that all "hits" I get are in a manageable group - and most are usually connected somehow.<br />
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Today's find:<br />
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Paul's paternal great-grandfather, Nels N. Melvey (1867-1942), was a resident of nearby Moorhead, Minnesota at the time. This is the first time I have heard mention of him serving as president of the Fargo/Moorhead Carpenters' Union. Newspaper archives contain nuggets of contextual treasure just waiting to be discovered!<br />
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Fargo Carpenters Out On A Strike (1909, July 21).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bismarck Daily Tribune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Retrieved from http://www.elephind.com</div>
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-39887890162583437382015-09-28T10:35:00.001-07:002015-09-28T10:35:20.419-07:00Chicken or Duck?I'm feeling a little scattered these days. Could be the breezy Fall weather - a wonderful sight after three long years in Sicily's arid climate. Instead of olive and blood orange trees, I'm gazing out of my kitchen window appreciating our collection of hardwoods. Leaves are everywhere, and the piles are only going to get bigger. I am treasuring every last one.<br />
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My research brain is also a bit scattered. A little genetic genealogy over here...a little "other people's genealogy" over there. Most of this is flat-out procrastination from dealing with the pile of photos I need to archive and the folder of newly-located probate records to transcribe. <br />
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There's also that little thing of needing to manage my household. Oh, and clean. And feed children :).<br />
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In the meantime, I stumbled upon a snippet from the Reading Times (A Web Footed Chicken (1890, August 4). <i>The Reading Times</i>, p. 1. Retrieved from www.newspapers.com)).<br />
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Sarah M. LUDEN is a 4th great-grandmother on my mother's side of the family. Over the past couple of years, I have written several posts about Sarah Ann Musser Luden, including <a href="http://memorytreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-yeager-luden-saga-another-clue.html" target="_blank">THIS ONE</a> and <a href="http://memorytreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/02/lingering-questions.html" target="_blank">THIS ONE</a>. Overall...the woman had a very fascinating life in Reading. Enough to fill at least one season of Days of Our Lives - Victorian style.<br />
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Let's add genetic mutation in poultry to the list of exciting events at the Luden household!<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-49193953981098117062015-09-27T12:35:00.002-07:002015-09-27T12:36:15.842-07:00Photo Repatriation - Part I<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Dear ______, <br /><br />My
name is Sarah Melvey, and I am writing in regard to the Howell branch
of your family. I currently live in Williamsburg, Virginia...and while
browsing through one of our many local antique shops, I came across a
beautiful baby portrait taken in the late 1890s with the name "Josephine
Fulton Howell" written on the back. Out of curiosity, I decided to put
my genealogical skills to work to try to identify as much as possible
about Miss Josephine - mainly in an effort to identify current living
relatives (potentially with family trees in Ancestry). My goal is to
repatriate or re-home the photo and make sure it returns to the family...</i></blockquote>
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Genealogical serendipity. I have been on the receiving end of so many research hand-outs that I only thought it worthwhile to attempt to pay it forward in my own little way. Enter Josephine Fulton Howell - the beautifully staged baby in the portrait above. Note the detailed background - the flowers on the sideboard, the tufted velvet settee. She gazes lovingly and curiously to the side (maybe mother is making silly faces?). What's not to love?<br />
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I was heartbroken to discover that Josephine died in 1907 in Philadelphia - of a cause I cannot yet determine (without purchasing and ordering her death record). The indexed version gives no clue as to cause of death, though I do know that Philadelphia suffered a large Typhoid fever outbreak in the early 1900s. Her parents, Charles and Mary Howell, had two remaining daughters - Louise and May. It is my greatest hope that I can locate a next-of-kin willing and appreciative enough to accept this original photo or a digital copy, for that matter. Time will tell! I sent the note above to a likely candidate via Ancestry.com. Fingers crossed - and I promise an update as soon as possible...<br />
<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-45660913969524385392015-04-20T12:28:00.000-07:002015-04-20T12:28:35.330-07:00The Gardener and Our Driveway - William W. Wyatt (1902-1971)<br />
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My family and I are fortunate enough to spend the next couple of months living in a historic home on our local military installation until we close on our new, permanent home a few minutes away. Our time here will total five months; plenty of time to enjoy the views of the York River and the spring greening taking place more and more each day. The house itself is an entity. Huge, overwhelming, and beautiful. Dusty, creaky, and drafty. Almost like living in a museum. Wind blows off of the water at the end of the day, whistling through the windows. Stinkbugs surprise me at every turn. Sun shines through the entry windows in the morning to create a warm glow that will stay with me forever. It was the best of times...it was the worst of times shall we say?<br />
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Now, what I do absolutely LOVE is the yard. This lovely piece of property - and the acres surrounding this area - are supremely historic. It would take me an hour to type out the history, so feel free to read about it <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrma/installations/nws_yorktown/about/history.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span>. And do! It's truly amazing! I walk the dog each morning around the yard, breathe the fresh air, and think about the footsteps walking this property hundreds of years ago. A casual glance at the bare earth beneath the trees hints at communities past...from the glass fragments to the salt-glazed pottery shards...to the arrow points. <br />
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Something that intrigued me as soon as we arrived was the street sign at the beginning of our driveway - "William Wyatt Lane". A quick online search yielded a few answers <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.norfolknavyflagship.com/news/from_the_fleet/footprints-from-the-past-remembered-at-naval-weapons-station-yorktown/article_a0046a3e-5a89-53f5-8a2e-0b1f077f412c.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span>. William Wyatt (1902-1971) was once the gardener employed by the installation to care for the beautiful landscape. I'm not 100% sure if he had another position on base, but most of what I found shows that he was the gardener here. During his tenure at Navy Mine Depot Yorktown (now called Naval Weapons Station Yorktown), he was able to meet several distinguished guests. Most famously, he presented then President Harry Truman with fresh rockfish he himself caught in the York River:<br />
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According to an article I found in the Fredericksburg, VA "Free Lance-Star" published on 5 October 1950, Truman was enjoying a woodland stroll through the base along with Commanding Officer Captain William Longfellow (pictured above) when Mr. Wyatt met up with them and surprised Truman with the fish. A touching moment captured in time. Longfellow apparently was the catalyst for naming the driveway leading to the commanding officer's quarters after gardener William Wyatt. <br />
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SO - genealogical work put to the test. What could I find out about Mr. Wyatt? My main reason for writing this post is that this street name is honorary and is not searchable on any map. Extended family might not even know about this sign or history. Why not preserve it for future Wyatt generations? A pay-it-forward sort of thing :). I've been on the receiving end many times of genealogical serendipity. My time to serve!<br />
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Here's what I know. William and wife Mattie Wyatt lived in the area just outside of the military installation - an area called Lackey. In 1930:<br />
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They had two children, Theodora and Norman. William Wyatt's highest level of education was 8th grade - and he and his parents were all born in Virginia. I looked further back to try to locate William in the 1910 and 1920 censuses, but I couldn't find a record I could identify 100%. There are a handful of William Wyatts in Virginia...and I'll have to evaluate the records to be concise.<br />
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Mattie and William are both buried at the Rising Sun Baptist Church cemetery:<br />
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Here's to hoping that someone - anyone - from William Wyatt's family tries to search for information about his work at the Navy Mine Depot and finds this blog post :). Now that we are in the middle of spring, I enjoy his handiwork daily as I admire the blooming bulbs and flowering trees.Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-8030857317872108182015-04-13T18:20:00.001-07:002015-04-13T18:20:58.763-07:00Camp Butler - Newport News, VirginiaIn my previous post I introduced my third great-grandfather - Hachaliah McMath, Jr. (1840-1916) - and his experience specifically at the end of the Civil war as a prisoner of war. <br />
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<i><b>Context:</b> Hachaliah McMath, Jr. is my 3rd great-grandfather on my father's maternal side of the family.</i><br />
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After his capture in Farmville, Virginia following the Battle of Saylor's Creek, McMath was transferred to City Point, VA (Grant's headquarters) and then on to Newport News, Virginia. From what I can determine, the Newport News area was occupied by Union troops for a large portion of the war. Camp Butler was heavily fortified, as seen in the lithograph below - from the "Civil War in Newport News" collection of the Newport News Public Library System:<br />
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From what I understand, the Prisoner of War camp was created alongside of Camp Butler to accommodate excess Confederate soldiers captured toward the end of the war. Essentially - the POW camp in Newport News served to solve an "overflow" of prisoners. My relative only spent 2 short months at the POW camp until his oath of allegiance and eventual release. <br />
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While this lithograph was created in 1861, it still gives a great overall impression of the look of Camp Butler in 1865. Views possibly similar to those seen by my 3rd great-grandfather during his time as a POW.<br />
Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-27352410105515359112015-04-13T12:34:00.002-07:002015-04-13T12:36:34.102-07:00Hachaliah McMath, Jr. (1840-1916): Prisoner of WarApril 9, 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. This seems like such little time - and such a long time all at once, yes?<br />
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It dawned on me this week that last week also marked the 150th anniversary of my 3rd great-grandfather's capture after the Battle of Saylor's Creek...one of the major turning points in the ultimate demise of Lee's Army. This battle fractured his starving, weary troops just days before the inevitable end. On April 6, 1865, Hachaliah McMath, Jr (1840-1916) - a sergeant in the 11th Florida Infantry Regiment - was one of many (almost three quarters of Lee's entire remaining Army, from what I've read) captured. <br />
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Context: Hachaliah McMath, Jr. is my 3rd great-grandfather on my father's maternal side of the family.<br />
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McMath and other prisoners were sent to City Point, VA (Grant's headquarters) on April 14, 1865 and then on to Newport News, VA to be interred as a prisoner of war at Camp Butler. Ironically, this is just minutes from my current house!<br />
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More information about the Battle of Saylor's Creek - as well as a map of the engagement - can be found <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/sailor-s-creek.html" target="_blank">HERE.</a><br />
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On my agenda for the coming week: a visit to the site of Camp Butler, the prisoner of war camp located in Newport News, VA where Hachaliah McMath, Jr. signed his Oath of Allegiance to the Union on June 15, 2015. He was then released to return home, though I am still trying to located information pertaining to how he managed to travel from Hampton Roads in VA all the way back to Henry County, Alabama.<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-53159652916513759882015-03-06T12:32:00.002-08:002015-03-06T12:32:47.673-08:00John Smith (1778-1860) and Jane Wain (1778-1863) | Thirsk, Yorkshire, England<span style="font-size: large;">Taking a break</span> from unpacking our household belongings to blog a little about family history. Always a great excuse for a diversion! We just completed a transatlantic move from Sicily to Yorktown, Virginia...and I'm so happy to be back HOME.<br />
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This weekend, <a href="http://findmypast.com/" target="_blank">FindMyPast</a> is offering FREE access (thanks for the heads-up, Kathy!). While I wasn't sure exactly what I would find, I'm happy to report my research break definitely proved fruitful. <br />
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Here is a snippet of a marriage record from the parish records in Thirsk, Yorkshire (North Riding), England from 1799...including my 4th great-grandparents, <span style="font-size: large;"><b>John SMITH and Jane WAIN</b></span>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yorkshire: Bishop's Transcripts of Marriages. Thirsk, North Riding, Yorkshire, England. Borthwick Institute for Archives. Accessed via http://www.findmypast.com</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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While a little difficult to read, here's a transcription of the record:<br />
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<i>John Smith, bachelor, and Jane Wain, spinster, both in this parish, were married in this church by banns on November 27th.</i></blockquote>
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John and Jane eventually left England and settled in Deaborn County, Indiana. I previously wrote about this exciting couple in <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/10/early-dearborn-county-indiana-john-and.html" target="_blank">THIS POST</a>. An entire website is devoted to tracing the history of their children and grandchildren - <a href="http://www.ewbank-smith.org/tng/">http://www.ewbank-smith.org/tng/</a>.<br />
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Happy hunting! Now I'm off to hang a few pictures!<br />
Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-78429774751037660912015-02-24T05:18:00.002-08:002015-02-24T05:18:53.383-08:00The Yeager & Luden Saga | Another Clue...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Deed of Sale
from Amos B. Yeager to Jacob Luden, 1855 (filed 2 April 1855), Berks
County, Pennsylvania, Deed Grantor 1752-1926, page 2. Recorder of Deeds
Office, City of Reading, Pennsylvania.
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<span style="font-size: small;">In my two previous posts, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2015/02/lingering-questions.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> and <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2015/02/part-ii-dna-vs-documentation.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span>, I outlined an intriguing family mystery from my mother's maternal line - specifically involving the LUDEN and YEAGER families of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Nutshelll summary: I have lingering paternity questions about my 3rd great-grandfather, who was born just before my 4th great-grandmother and grandfather divorced. Until I started working on our family history, I was unaware that my 4th g-grandmother had been previously married (with two children, no less); quite a bombshell discovery. Autosomal DNA testing is casting some doubt on my 3rd great-grandfather's paternity. A very complicated mystery indeed!<br />
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Just last week, I spent time digging through the Berks County, Pennsylvania Recorder of Deeds <a href="https://portal2.recordfusion.com/countyweb/disclaimer.do" target="_blank">online search tool</a>. While the results provided are indexed records (typed summaries of the actual record), it is possible to contact the office for actual copies. Low and behold, I found a very fascinating nugget of information!<br />
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Remember in my last article that I gave a timeline for my 4th great-grandparents' divorce. Here's a recap:<br />
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<li>April 21, 1856 - Amos Bright Yeager (1808-1889) files for divorce from Sarah (Musser) Yeager (later, Luden).</li>
<li>April 22, 1856 - Sarah Musser Yeager served papers.</li>
<li>September 30, 1857 - Interrogations completed and filed.</li>
<li>June 7, 1858 - Case closed - plaintiff (Amos Yeager) pays court fees.</li>
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*My 3rd great-grandfather, Edward Musser Luden (1854-1920) is born on 9 November, 1854*<br />
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SO - let's look at the image above from the Register of Deeds. In April of 1855, Amos Yeager sells his N 5th Street, Reading, PA home to Jacob Luden. At this point, I am not sure exactly where he and his wife, Sarah, live until he eventually files for divorce the following year; I cannot find a record of another mortgage to determine whether or not he purchased another home. Ironically, when Sarah and Amos divorce, she ends up living in the N 5th Street home with her new husband - Jacob Luden - and their children, including my 3rd great-grandfather. As I mentioned in a previous post, Amos Yeager moves to the Mishler Hotel with his two children, Frederick Musser Yeager and Susan Ann Yeager.<br />
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Interesting twist, yes?<br />
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From my conversations with another researcher in Berks County, I understand that Amos Yeager sued Jacob Luden in conjunction with the divorce case whose timeline I noted above. A separate filing. <br />
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You'll also see on the image above that Amos sold another property to a Conrad Beidler in a Deed of Assignment in 1855 (recorded March 1856). From what I can tell, a deed of assignment usually occurs when a person in debt (Amos Yeager, I believe) assigns a property to another party in lieu of filing for bankruptcy. Could it be that he had some sort of underlying financial problems at the time or leading up to the divorce?<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">McAtee, William. <u>The
Members of the Legislature of Pennsylvania and Heads of Departments: Session of
1895</u>. Harrisburg, PA: J.H. McFarland
Company, Mount Pleasant Printery.
1895. 11 February 2015 <a href="https://archive.org/details/portraitsbiograp00mcat">https://archive.org/details/portraitsbiograp00mcat</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Yeager, James Martin (1857-). <u>A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington,
Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman, and Woodside Families and Their Collateral
Kindred of Pennsylvania</u>. Lewistown,
PA. 11 February 2015 <a href="https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofye00yeag">https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofye00yeag</a></span></div>
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Yesterday, I started the slow, winding description of one of
the l<a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2015/02/lingering-questions.html" target="_blank">argest mysteries in my family tree</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s one of those continuing stories over which I have continued to mull
over, setting it down for a month or two only to pick it back up again to ascertain
whether or not I missed a detail here, a document there.</div>
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A few developments recently (I’m referring to these
developments as my giant “elephant in the room”) have given me pause…and lead
me to put pen and paper together to allow my jumble of thoughts to spill out
onto the paper for posterity’s sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
sanity’s sake, because I can only mull over so much at a time!</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Man meets woman, man
marries woman.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Husband and wife have two
children.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Wife meets another man,
carries on extramarital relationship.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Another child born…followed
almost 2 years later by another (*this is my maternal 3<sup>rd</sup>
g-grandfather).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wife leads husband
to believe that the first of these two children (a girl) is his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Girl is baptized with husband’s last
name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second child born
(presumably out of wedlock…though this part is the crux of my debate) is
not baptized until 7 years later, with the boyfriend (now new-husband’s)
last name.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Husband figures out game,
files legal action against boyfriend.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Divorce follows, but not
before yet another child is born.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Wife loses custody of
eldest two children; husband takes said children and moves out of family
home.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Boyfriend moves in;
marries woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By an act of the
State Legislature of Pennsylvania, the three children born (apparently
fathered by boyfriend/new husband) are made legitimate (“legitimated” in
legalese) and full heirs to his estate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Three more children born –
one of them to include a boy who would eventually pioneer an entire candy empire
out of his home kitchen as a teenager.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Boyfriend/new husband dies
less than 5 years later, ironically the same month in which his 6<sup>th</sup>
child is born.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Wife raises five children
(one passed away at a young age); leads a life completely separate from
her first two children from previous marriage -even though they live just
minutes apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ex-husband parents
these children on his own and never remarries.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Wife’s will specifically
entitles her two children from the 1<sup>st</sup> marriage to $1 each; the
remainder of her rather large estate and personal belongings are given to
her 5 remaining children…the ones she states are specifically “born” of
her 2<sup>nd</sup> husband (now deceased).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two of these five children are executors of her will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Got that? Test later.</li>
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So much!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Makes my
brain hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, here’s where I
add that in order to create the timeline above, I amassed a large collection of
US Census records, death records, wills, baptismal records, legal records,
naturalization records, and on and on and on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Several emails with local historical libraries, aging historians,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hours spent combing through
newspaper articles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All documentation saved
in my library of personal papers<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to see something in particular,
please ask!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll gladly scan, email,
whatever you need.</div>
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BACK to the issue at hand – the lovely, nudging, elephant.</div>
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What exactly IS this proverbial elephant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DNA evidence casting a nagging, somewhat
annoyingly dark cloud over the nice, neat family tree I completed listing the
parents of my 3<sup>rd</sup> great-grandfather, <b>Edward Musser Luden (1854-1920)</b>
as the following:</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2;"><b>Sarah (Musser) (Yeager – 1<sup>st</sup>
marriage) LUDEN (1822-1896); </b>born in Reamstown, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania to parents William Musser (1790-1847) and Elizabeth Sweitzer
(1796-1838). </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2;"><b>Jacob Luden (1824-1864);
</b>according to naturalization documents, born in <b>Cleves, Kingdom of
Prussia.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parents’ names
unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traveled from Antwerp,
Belgium to the port of New York and arrived on 11 August 1849.</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2;"><i><b>*Side note here.</b></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have examined all ship manifests from
11 August 1849, days, and weeks prior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not a single “Jacob Luden” to be found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s possible he had another name…and I
will probably never know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
little squirrely if you ask me!<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have an 1850 US Census record from
City of Reading, Berks County, PA listing his as a boarder in a hotel –
under the name of G. Luden, Prussia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1860, he tells census takers that he is Prussian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After his death, his family lists his
birth location in all census listings as “Holland”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing up, I was under the impression
from oral tradition that I was part “Dutch”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turns out that he was not, in fact,
Dutch; he may have lived in Holland for a few years prior to arriving in
the US, but when he was asked personally about his birthplace he always
indicated “Prussia”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good lesson
for all families to CHECK THEIR SOURCES and never believe family history
is 100% accurate until you have the documentation to support all claims. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My two cents.</li>
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About two years ago, my mother and I both completed
autosomal DNA testing through AncestryDNA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a nutshell, autosomal testing presents information gleaned from both
sides of your family tree –unlike yDNA (male only, surname lineage research)
and mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the maternal line only).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to calculating your ethnicity
using their in-house algorithm (all testing companies are a little different in
this respect), you also receive weekly updates as other people test and start
to match your DNA in some way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These “cousin
matches” are presented in a variety of ranges: parent, 1<sup>st</sup>-2<sup>nd</sup>
cousin, 3<sup>rd</sup> cousin, 4<sup>th</sup>-6<sup>th</sup> cousins, and 5<sup>th</sup>-8<sup>th</sup>
cousins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First cousins share a
grandparent, 2<sup>nd</sup> cousins a great-grandparent, and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a “match” has connected their DNA data
with their family tree, you might also receive a notice that the database has
found an actual common ancestor (this is really great – assuming their tree is
correct!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you receive a cousin match
notice, and their family tree profile is “public”, you can scan the tree
yourself to identify a match or even reach out to that person via messages to
shake out the tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s what I
typically see when I log in:</div>
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You’ll see “28 Shared Ancestor Hints” – and this refers to
people who match my genetic data AND my actual family tree…and the database
identifies a shared ancestor.</div>
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There is also a way to filter your cousin matches by surname
or birth location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the months, out
of curiosity, I started searching for surnames belonging to the 1<sup>st</sup>
husband’s side of the family in this particular family saga – the family of
Amos Bright Yeager (1808-1889).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surnames
such as Bright, Baum, Yeager, even Hunter – a translation from the original
German “Jaeger”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All names used by Amos’
relatives within a few generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Would you know…I started getting hits?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I started noticing that several of my cousin matches (at least 10 for
each surname) shared similar family members with Amos Bright Yeager?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reminder:
my 3<sup>rd</sup> great-grandfather was born when his mother was still married
to Amos Yeager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were still living
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had already tried to pass
of his older sister as her husband’s daughter, a story that was later
recanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While my relative was a
toddler, Amos filed for divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Makes a
person start to wonder.</i></div>
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Looking at my tree, the only way I could have these sorts of
matches with the first husband’s family were if he and his wife were somehow
cousins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have worked out Sarah (Musser)
(Yeager) Luden’s family tree for several generations, and this seems to be impossibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no other way that these several
matches can connect to my tree in any other family line.</div>
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I have Yeager matches, my mother has Yeager matches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have Baum matches (Amos’ grandmother’s maiden
name).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have Bright matches (his
mother’s maiden name).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is getting
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When I search both of our DNA matches by surname for “Luden”
or a variety of spellings of the name, I find a sum total of…ZERO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cleves, Prussia?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would help if I knew more about Jacob
Luden’s extended family – in his meager defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s being generous, really.</div>
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In my actual family tree, I have the parents of my 3<sup>rd</sup>
great-grandfather, Edward M. Luden, listed as Sarah Musser and Jacob
Luden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All paper documentation points to
this arrangement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biographies written
about him – as well as his candy-coated brother William H. Luden – say as
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><b>BUT – the DNA is starting to chip
away at this story, if I’m to believe it.</b></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What to believe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will this
elephant ever stop bothering me??<br />
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On Monday, I did something drastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I changed my privacy settings on my online
family tree in Ancestry.com to “private” to prevent people from copying my
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I moved Jacob Luden over, and I
put Amos Yeager in his place as the father of my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3<sup>rd</sup> GG.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Y’all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guess what happened</i></b>.</div>
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When I logged into my DNA matches yesterday, the database
had figured out that I have at least TWO new DNA matches with an identifiable
common ancestor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FOUR in my mother’s
data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The database estimates that we
share DNA in common with several people who are direct descendants of Amos B. Yeager’s
grandparents and one great-grandparent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Actual matching relatives in our trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b><i>What the what?!?</i></b></div>
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So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking back to my seriously mysterious 4<sup>th</sup>
great-grandmother and her web of personal relationships, I have to wonder a few
things about my 3<sup>rd</sup> great-grandfather’s paternity.</div>
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…she either:</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Knew that her child, my 3<sup>rd</sup> GG, was
her husband’s son, but since she was also engaged in a relationship with
another man, she didn’t want to upset both and kept the secret to herself.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">B)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Was confused about her child’s paternity and
decided to say he belonged to her boyfriend</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">C)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Didn’t know and truly believed the child to be
her boyfriend’s son.</div>
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With her husband filing for divorce due to adultery, she was
going to lose her oldest two children from the marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had another 3 year old daughter (by Jacob
Luden?) and a 1 ½-2 year old son (my relative).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plus, she was pregnant with a third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If she admitted that the middle child – her toddler – was not the
biological child of her boyfriend, Jacob Luden, I presume she would have lost
parental rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hate to play the “if
it were me” game…but I personally feel it would have been devastating to do
anything to lose custody of my small baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe this is what happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have absolutely no idea.</div>
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Here I am in 2015, and the DNA
evidence is blowing holes in family stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who is Edward M. Luden’s father?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For all intents and purposes, it’s Jacob Luden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least by way of memory and emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, who is his biological father?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All I can say is that the DNA evidence is casting enough doubt that I
can’t confidently say one way or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Honestly?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it is Amos
Yeager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But – with that revelation, how
do I feel about his entire family line – a line I have always viewed with some
distance (a “not my people” attitude).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are they ours?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we claim
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just don’t know.</div>
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What I DO know is that somewhere
in Reading, Pennsylvania – between the years of 1856 and 1896 – there were two
pre-teen children living with their father, without their mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their mother moved on, lived a separate life…a
life fully documented in the Reading Eagle newspaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parties, a huge extended family of children
and grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frederick M. Yeager
served heroically in the Civil War; his sister, Susan Yeager married Evan
Mischler and they operated his family’s hotel business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did they see their mother while
shopping?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mourn her?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disown her?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would love to know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
mention of them in the newspaper articles referring to her large birthday
celebrations hosted by Luden children…no mention of them in her obituary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No mention of them in my own family’s oral
history…in fact I stumbled upon Frederick, Susan, and their father Amos Yeager
while searching for Sarah Musser Luden’s will and her whereabouts in 1850.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A completely fortuitous accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What’s next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A yDNA test would love this mystery
once-and-for all, but sadly, the only male child of my 3<sup>rd</sup> GG died
unmarried and childless in 1946.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
would have been the key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Testing his
yDNA in comparison with a male descendent of Fred Yeager.</div>
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Maybe I’ll reach out via message
boards to identify living, direct relatives of Frederick M. Yeager or his sister,
Susan Yeager Mischler…to see if either have done DNA testing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, to see if any have personal knowledge
of the family history.</div>
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If you are still reading…thank you :)<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a story!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not sure if it is bringing me closer to understanding how to balance
DNA results and paper documentation – but at least the truth is there,
somewhere, for us to tease out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
challenge to all to dig, discover, and don’t make assumptions just because a
story has been told for generations – publicly or privately!</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Sarah</span></i></div>
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Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-45710345753540973452015-02-10T06:02:00.001-08:002015-02-10T10:02:22.774-08:00Lingering Questions...<!--[if !mso]>
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There is a huge, genealogical elephant in my living
room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every so often, he nudges me with
his trunk, he asks for fresh water, and bats his long eyelashes at me in hopes
that I will scratch behind his giant elephant ears.
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My theory about family history research is that nothing is
as cut and dry as it seems at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dig
a little deeper – search a few newspaper archives – and you’ll either make your
particular research question a) more complicated, or b) exceptionally clear in
a way you never expected.</div>
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By the time I actually his “POST” on this article, I will
most likely have re-written it several times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This elephant is giant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>HUGE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Effecting the way an entire
branch of my family will view its identity – even its surnames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m putting on kid gloves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But most importantly – I want to outline for
my extended family and my future family exactly how I arrived at my present hypothesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel deeply convicted that the truth is
most important, and simply pushing the glaring evidence to the side or turning
a blind eye really is no way to share and spread the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like embracing a half-truth, because the
full truth is just too different from what we were lead to believe all
along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s not my style.<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sensitivity and empathy are key, because this
is a touchy subject.</div>
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<i>OK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ready to address
this elephant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s staring at me
full-on!</i></div>
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About three years ago, when I first started exploring
genealogy and my own family tree, I stumbled upon a huge brick wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those impossible-to-solve research
questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturally, I channeled my
frustration into further research, reaching out to local historians, libraries,
anyone who could help me answer my burning questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I swore, while trying to prep for this
article, that I had posted on this blog a while back about this particular
family unit – the <b>Jacob Luden and Sarah (Musser) Luden</b> family<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- previously, but it looks like I did so on
my now-deleted family blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s the
twisted/turning tale of my fourth great-grandparents…</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sarah Ann Musser
(1822-1896) marries a man named Amos Bright Yeager (1808-1889</b>) in 1838 in her
hometown of Reamstown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 16.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah and Amos have two children together:</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;"><a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2013/02/a-brush-with-lincoln_17.html" target="_blank">Frederick Musser Yeager (1840-1920)</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;">Susan Elizabeth Yeager
(1843-1917)</li>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">US Federal Census 1850, Reading, North West Ward, Berks
County, Pennsylvania</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Year: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1850</span></i>; Census
Place: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Reading North West Ward, Berks, Pennsylvania</span></i>;
Roll: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">M432_752</span></i>; Page: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">245A</span></i>; Image: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">491</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Notice Amos Yeager’s profession: “Confectioner”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the only point in which I note that
his employment is in the candy business; after his time serving in the Civil
War, he works in various trades to include photography, in the shop of his son
Frederick M. Yeager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now, here is where life becomes extremely
complicated for the Yeager household</span></b></i><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At some point between 1850 (presumably) and 1853, Sarah (Musser) Yeager
strikes up an extramarital relationship with a man named Jacob Luden
(1824-1864).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luden is a jeweler whose
business is located on the same block in Reading, Pa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In 1853, Sarah (Musser) Yeager gives birth to daughter Caroline Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have hard copies of Caroline’s baptismal
record at the First Universalist Church of Reading, Pennsylvania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her name is listed as “Caroline Mary Yeager”.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In November of 1854, she gives birth to my 3<sup>rd</sup>
great-grandfather, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Edward Musser Luden</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have copies of his baptismal record,
which didn’t take place until July of 1860 – six years later – at the First
Universalist Church, Reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the
last name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luden.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Subsequent children born to Sarah (Musser) were: </span></i></div>
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</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alburtis Musser Luden (1857-1864)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here’s where I’ll give you the Cliff’s Notes version to spare you a little
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here’s an snippet of Sarah (Musser) (Yeager) Luden in 1860:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Year: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1860</span></i>; Census
Place: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Reading, North West Ward, Berks, Pennsylvania</span></i>;
Roll: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">M653_1077</span></i>; Page: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1106</span></i>; Image: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">248</span></i>; Family History Library Film: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">805077</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here is Amos Bright Yeager, living in the Mischler Hotel in Reading, PA
along with children Fred and Susan in1860:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Year: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1860</span></i>; Census
Place: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Reading, North West Ward, Berks, Pennsylvania</span></i>;
Roll: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">M653_1077</span></i>; Page: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1104</span></i>; Image: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">246</span></i>; Family History Library Film: <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">805077</span></i></span></div>
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Living just blocks apart!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Separate lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mother in one
home with new husband and children, ex-husband in another home (a hotel, no
less) with their children from the 1<sup>st</sup> marriage.</div>
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I obtained documents from the Prothonotary office in Berks
County, Pennsylvania detailing a few of the legalities of the separation and
subsequent divorce of Sarah (Musser) and Amos Bright Yeager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arrest warrants were issued in 1856 for Jacob
Luden (I believe this was pretty typical of a situation in which an extra-marital
affair occurred), depositions filed (or misfiled, since this is the “meat” of
the mystery that I would love to see…and unfortunately the documents have gone
missing and the Prothonotary can’t locate them), legal fees paid, and case
closed in 1858.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking at the timeline,
this means that the initial complaint wagered by Amos Yeager didn’t occur until
two years after the birth of my 3<sup>rd</sup> great-grandfather, Edward Musser
Luden.</div>
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So, a vortex of time between 1853 and 1856.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two children born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Divorce filed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One additional child born (Alburtis Luden) to
Sarah Musser, and presumably, Jacob Luden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Now comes another interesting document focusing on this complicated
love triangle.</div>
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From the <a href="https://archive.org/stream/lawsofgeneralas_1860penn#page/n7/mode/2up">Laws
of the General Assembly for the State of Pennsylvania in 1860</a>:</div>
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A document essentially making Caroline, Edward, and Alburtis
Musser, legal heirs to Jacob Luden – as if they had been born “in lawful
wedlock”</div>
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I mentioned that Caroline Mary was baptized in 1853 at the
First Universalist Church of Reading as “Caroline Mary <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yeager</i></b>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, husband #1 was under the impression that
Caroline was his daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, things
dramatically changed.</div>
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I just wonder…what did Amos B. Yeager think when Edward Musser was born –
my 3<sup>rd</sup> great grandfather?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did
he believe the child was his?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did he
know about his wife’s indiscretions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What about the birth of Alburtis in 1857?</div>
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It’s easy to forge that this was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1855…not 2015</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Reading, Pennsylvania, not New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to verify family law specifics at the
time, but typically there was a waiting period of at least 5 years – if divorce
was even allowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a progressive
issue for a non-progressive era, for sure.</div>
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To cap off my treasure trove of Luden/Yeager/Musser
documents, I have to include a clipping from Sarah (Musser) Yeager’s will :<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: "Pennsylvania, Probate Records,
1683-1994." Images. <i>FamilySearch</i>. http://FamilySearch.org :
accessed 2015. County courthouses, Pennsylvania. Berks County, PA.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I give and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bequeath unto my two children, being the
children of my former husband, Amos Yeager, to each of said two children the
sum of one dollar, which shall be their full share coming to them out of my
estate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I give and bequeath
all the rest and residue of my property, real personal, and mixed unto my five
other children, being the children of my deceased husband Jacob Luden, to them
or the survivor or survivors of them their heirs and offsigns forever to be
divided between them share and share alike…”</i></div>
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Frederick Musser Yeager and Susan (Yeager) Mischler: $1
each.</div>
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Caroline, Edward, Alburtis (deceased), William (Luden Candy
millionaire), Sally, Jacob: the remainder of her estate.</div>
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Seems a little harsh?</div>
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If I could time travel – I would visit this family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would ask the tough questions and demand
the tough answers.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What does this mean for my research now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should I take my 4<sup>th</sup>
great-grandmother at her word and believe that her son, Edward Musser Luden, is
in fact a son of Jacob Luden and not her first husband, Amos Yeager?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what the probate records and family
history support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When should I rely on DNA testing to negate the truth purported in
legal documents and oral history?</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THIS, my friends and
family, is the huge elephant in the room.</span></i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next up: What, pray, does the DNA say? </span></i></b></div>
Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-39381065724768652172015-01-27T01:39:00.002-08:002015-01-27T01:39:54.086-08:00Military History and a New Resource from Ancestry.comEvery so often, I browse through the new searchable resources available on Ancestry.com. The majority of my research these days is done on the local level, or using free sites such as <a href="http://familysearch.org/">FamilySearch.org</a>, <a href="http://www.castlegarden.org/" target="_blank">Castle Garden</a> (for immigrants arriving in New York before 1890), newspaper archive sites such as <a href="http://genealogybank.com/">Genealogybank.com</a> and <a href="http://newspapers.com/">Newspapers.com</a>, and <a href="http://fold3.com/">Fold3.com</a> for military information. I still pay pay a monthly subscription (begrudgingly!) to Ancestry because of my DNA testing and results; also, I occasionally use the local search features by state or county. <br />
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This week, I noticed a GREAT new resource for anyone with veteran ancestors who served in the US Navy - <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9268" target="_blank">"Registers of Patients at Naval Hospitals from 1812-1934"</a>. My husband is the one in our household with family members who served in the US Navy (he's doing his job to keep that tradition alive!). Since our surname - Melvey - is very uncommon, I always start there when searching a new database. Never know what you might discover!<br />
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A while back, I wrote a Memorial Day post about <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2013/05/memorial-day.html" target="_blank">Ernest Melvey,</a> my husband's paternal great-uncle. While not a direct ancestor (I usually focus my research on directs only), we were both captivated by his story of survival from WWI. According to a news article published in the Aberdeen American in South Dakota (1 January 1919), Melvey's ship - the USS Westover - was blown out of the water en route to Europe by a German submarine. Eleven of the ninety-three crew members were killed. The remaining crew managed to swim their way to three freed rescue boats, including the captain, who brilliantly tossed his officer's coat for a seaman's uniform. When a group of Germans approached the rescue boats "demanding surrender of the captain", the crew "told the [Germans] he had been killed when the torpedo struck" (Aberdeen American, 1 January 1919). <br />
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After four days of floating in open water, the survivors were rescued by a French fisherman and brought to Brest, France. Ernest Melvey sustained a hip injury in the accident and spent some time in the Naval Hospital 5 in Brest. Using the new database on Ancestry.com, I located his entry in the hospital register:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">22 November 1918</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">30 November 1918</td></tr>
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What a neat snippet of history to add to the news stories about his ordeal! According to other news articles I located, his parents - Paul's great grandparents Nels N. Melvey and Ingeborg (Johannesdatter) Melvey - did not hear about their son's accident until weeks after it occurred. I can only imagine their shock and worry. <br />
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Very thankful for these digital resources that enable us to add a little color to our research!<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-60852176982387374742015-01-26T05:33:00.000-08:002015-01-26T05:33:07.740-08:00Anselmus Ostholthoff - Hamilton County, OhioWelcome back! Yes, that was self-directed. The entire month of January - it seems - was a bit of a wash, due to our upcoming move, a kitty health "cat"-astrophe, and overall craziness after the Christmas holiday season. Our home is packed and all belongings are on their way to Virginia from Sicily. The day of the pack-out, the movers did a fantastic job...but I was sweating bullets over my large plastic tote of genealogical files. Of course I have scanned copies of the critical documents - but the remainder of the files represent hours of digging, printing, browsing through old newspaper archives online. Buried stories resurrected with care. Please, oh please do not let anything happen to my box of treasures! <br />
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Yesterday, while the boys napped, I worked a bit on my #1 genealogical goal for 2015 - tracking down naturalization paperwork, passenger lists, and potential hometowns for my half-dozen "German" immigrant relatives. For each family unit, I follow the same rule; track down all information on THIS side of the ocean before jumping across into German records. I want to have all pertinent census docs, death records, addresses, etc. <br />
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Today's post focuses on ANSELMUS OSTHOLTHOFF (1831-1876). Previous post with information about New York Passenger Listings for the family of Anselmus Ostholthoff can be found <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2013/01/maritime-monday.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Context: Anselmus Ostholthoff is my 3rd great-grandfather on my mother's maternal side of the family. My maternal grandmother's maiden name was OSTHOLTHOFF.<br />
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From at least 1870 (when he is listed in the <a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/7163/4278414_00465/38770932?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1870usfedcen%26h%3d38770932%26ti%3d0%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26ssrc%3dpt_t40956095_p19560123661_kpidz0q3d19560123661z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t40956095_p19560123661_kpidz0q3d19560123661z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord" target="_blank">US Federal Census for Hamilton County, Ohio</a>), Anselmus and his family lived in the Cincinnati. Until this weekend, I did not know exactly when he passed away - only that he was not present in the 1880 census; his wife, Maria Anna (Doepke) is <a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/6742/4243606-00303/23456052?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1880usfedcen%26h%3d23456052%26ti%3d0%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26ssrc%3dpt_t40956095_p19560128276_kpidz0q3d19560128276z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t40956095_p19560128276_kpidz0q3d19560128276z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord" target="_blank">listed in 1880 as a widow</a>. <br />
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Using the University of Cincinnati's <a href="http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/Births_and_Deaths/" target="_blank">Digital Records Collection</a>, I finally located a death record for Anselmus:<br />
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Listed above, we have cause of death (encephalitis), age at death (46 years), address, place of birth (Germany), occupation (laborer), attending doctor, burial location (<a href="http://www.cccsohio.org/who-we-are/cemeteries-we-operate/st.-john-catholic-cemetery.html" target="_blank">St. John Catholic Cemetery, Hamilton County, OH</a>).<br />
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Death date mystery solved!<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-55776129499890685192015-01-02T06:09:00.001-08:002015-01-02T06:09:16.081-08:00Etzel Family Connections: Reading, PAThis month, I have been spending the majority of my research time working
through one particular family unit from my mother's side of the family -
John (Johann) ETZEL (1826-1904) and wife Maria (Schumacher) ETZEL
(1837-1894). Here are quick links to previous installments -<a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2013/05/john-etzel-city-of-reading-berks-co-pa.html" target="_blank">part I (from 2013)</a>, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/etzel-family-origins.html" target="_blank">part II</a>, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/john-etzel-continuing-search_24.html" target="_blank">part III</a>, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/etzel-research-part-iii.html" target="_blank">part IV</a>, and <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/new-york-welcome-to-land-of-freedom-1887.html" target="_blank">part V</a>, and <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/12/john-etzel-place-name-game.html" target="_blank">part VI</a>.<br />
<b>Research Goal: </b>To locate information about John ETZEL (1826-1904)
and wife Maria SCHUMACHER (1837-1894) prior to their listing in the
1860 US Federal Census in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.<br />
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<b>Context:</b> John Etzel is my 3rd great-grandfather on my mother's maternal side of the family.<br />
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Happy New Year! In my last installment of ETZEL research, I outlined the discovery I made concerning the hometown of Johannes Etzel and wife, Maria Schumacher. A breakthrough! Just before I stumbled upon the couple's immigration and marriage records, I made another discovery that enabled me to start to link Johannes (John) with another Etzel family in the Reading, Pennsylvania area.<br />
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I had always wondered WHY and HOW Mr. and Mrs. Etzel ever ended up in Reading, PA of all places. It turns out that they had family there all along, potentially encouraging their move from Cincinnati to Reading sometime between 1856 and 1858.<br />
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Here is what I know:<br />
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Johannes Etzel had a nephew - Jacob Etzel (1853-1903). According to his obituary, as well as census records, Jacob Etzel was also born in Bavaria. He was married to a woman named Mary LEYER (1855-1941). From his obituary in the Reading Eagle:<br />
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Mr. Etzel was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and lived in
this country since boyhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When still a
young man, he came to Reading and secured a position in the brewery of the late
Frederick Lauder, where he remained a number of years, succeeding by
meritorious work in rising to a responsibility position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leaving the employ of Mr. Lauer, Mr. Etzel
went to New York, where for some years he conducted a hotel in the historic
building that had been Washington’s headquarters during the revolutionary war,
at Broad and Pearl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After relinquishing
the hotel, Mr. Etzel returned to Reading and engaged in the saloon business at
10<sup>th</sup> and Green, which he conducted up to the time of his appointment
as first sergeant of the police department under Mayor Weidel in April
1896.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In May 1897, he became chief of
police, succeeding John Albrech, resigned, a position he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>filled with credit until the close of the
administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Etzel again went
into the saloon business at his old stand, 10<sup>th</sup> and Green, where he
remained until April of last year, when on account of ill health, he retired
and entered private life…Mr. Etzel was a member of St. Paul’s Catholic Church
and leaves his widow and one son, Jacob C. Etzel (Reading Eagle, 15 July 1903).
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SO - what clue did I have to his relationship with my relative, Johannes ETZEL (1837-1894)? Here I present the obituary for his wife, Maria (Schumacher) Etzel printed in the Reading Eagle:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.newspapers.com/image/45705464/?terms=%22John+Etzel%22" target="_blank">Reading Eagle, 15 December 1894</a> - Via Newspapers.com</td></tr>
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<b> SEVERAL</b> clues in this obituary to explore. First, you'll see the link to Jacob Etzel near the end. <i>"She was also an aunt of Jacob Etzel, of the New York House, Tenth and Green streets"</i>. The New York House was the name of Jacob Etzel's saloon. Second - and this is for further research - you'll see the names of her living siblings listed in the obituary (love these little gems!). Brother - Adam Schumacher of Kansas City; brother, John Schumacher of Hamilton, Ohio; sister "Mrs. Merkel" of Reading, PA. Going back to the original passenger list in my previous post <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/new-york-welcome-to-land-of-freedom-1887.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, Adam and John (Johannes) are both listed. Two sisters - Rosina and Asila - are listed. More digging for the "Merkel" surname in Reading will lead me to the identity of this particular sister. <br />
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I could go on with even more evidence here...but you get the picture. Johannes' nephew was Jacob Etzel. I can assume that Jacob's father was a sibling of Johannes. Working on identifying his name. A project for 2015! <br />
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<a href="http://newspapers.com/">Newspapers.com</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Newspapers</a> (FREE!) score again! Love these resources and the extra detail they help provide.<br />
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Happy Hunting!</div>
Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-68307400802191367892014-12-06T23:44:00.001-08:002014-12-06T23:44:11.517-08:00John Etzel: Place Name Game<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schöllkrippen, Germany (Image Source <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Buildings_in_Sch%C3%B6llkrippen#mediaviewer/File:Sch%C3%B6llkrippen_-_Ortseinfahrt.jpg" target="_blank">HERE</a>)</td></tr>
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This month, I have been spending the majority of my research time working
through one particular family unit from my mother's side of the family -
John (Johann) ETZEL (1826-1904) and wife Maria (Schumacher) ETZEL
(1837-1894). Here are quick links to previous installments -<a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2013/05/john-etzel-city-of-reading-berks-co-pa.html" target="_blank">part I (from 2013)</a>, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/etzel-family-origins.html" target="_blank">part II</a>, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/john-etzel-continuing-search_24.html" target="_blank">part III</a>, and <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/etzel-research-part-iii.html" target="_blank">part IV</a>.<br />
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<b>Research Goal: </b>To locate information about John ETZEL (1826-1904)
and wife Maria SCHUMACHER (1837-1894) prior to their listing in the
1860 US Federal Census in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.<br />
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<b>Context:</b> John Etzel is my 3rd great-grandfather on my mother's maternal side of the family.</blockquote>
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A week or so ago, I last wrote about my search for more information about my 3rd great-grandfather, John Etzel. I presented a great find - his name (and the names of his future in-laws and wife, Maria Schumacher) on a <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/new-york-welcome-to-land-of-freedom-1887.html" target="_blank">passenger list from the port of New York</a>. <b>One question remained: where was the city/village "Schillgrippe", listed on the passenger form, originally located?</b> Gazetteer searches proved fruitless...and I was out of ideas. Until I decided to ask the question on an Ancestry.com message board...<br />
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<b>Here was the reply I received from a gentleman in Germany in less than 24 hours after my initial post (yay</b>!):<br />
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<i>"...This location could be Schöllkrippen in the northern part of the
Bavarian county of Aschaffenburg (district of Lower Franconia), in the
local dialect "Schöllgröbbe". The older Catholic parish registers are in
an archive in Würzburg. Please keep me informed, if you need further
assistance."</i></blockquote>
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<b>YES!</b> Genealogical gold. <br />
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Here is the place name information as described in one of my favorite German genealogical resources - the Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire:<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Ancestry.com. <i>Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire</i> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original data: Erich Uetrecht. <i>Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs</i>. <i>5th Edition.</i> Leipzig, Germany: Bibliographisches Institut, 1912-1913.</span></blockquote>
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I find it so interesting that the town's name is Schollkrippen, yet as the person responding to my post indicated, this place name would have sounded like "Schillgrippe" in Johannes Etzel's regional dialect (especially to an English-speaking port authority). Schollkrippen is located due east of Frankfurt (love the airport, by the way!).<br />
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One mystery solved. Now, to track down the Etzel family in Germany. Sadly, it appears that his naturalization documents in Cincinnati, Ohio were destroyed in the late 1800s when a riot caused the courthouse - and important records - to burn. <br />
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<b>I last promised an article about a connection I found between my John (Johannes) Etzel and another Etzel family in Reading, PA...stay tuned! </b>Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-85205756479224550932014-11-28T06:30:00.001-08:002014-11-28T06:34:40.549-08:00Even more John Etzel research!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"New York: Welcome to the Land of Freedom" (1887). Library of Congress.<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b49155/" target="_blank"> IMAGE SOURCE</a></td></tr>
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This week, I have been spending the majority of my research time working through one particular family unit from my mother's side of the family - John (Johann) ETZEL (1826-1904) and wife Maria (Schumacher) ETZEL (1837-1894). Here are quick links to previous installments -<a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2013/05/john-etzel-city-of-reading-berks-co-pa.html" target="_blank">part I (from 2013)</a>, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/etzel-family-origins.html" target="_blank">part II</a>, <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/john-etzel-continuing-search_24.html" target="_blank">part III</a>, and <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/etzel-research-part-iii.html" target="_blank">part IV</a>.<br />
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<b>Research Goal: </b>To locate information about John ETZEL (1826-1904)
and wife Maria SCHUMACHER (1837-1894) prior to their listing in the
1860 US Federal Census in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.<br />
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<b>Context:</b> John Etzel is my 3rd great-grandfather on my mother's maternal side of the family.<br />
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<i><b>John and Maria (I believe she went by the name Mary) had two daughters:</b></i><br />
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<li>Rose Etzel (about 1856-?). Married Louis Oberly (or Oberle) in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.</li>
<li>Elizabeth Etzel (1858-1923). Married Edward Musser Luden in 1885. Elizabeth Etzel is my 2nd great-grandmother.</li>
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<i><b>Here is what I know about John ETZEL and Maria (Schumacher) Etzel's whereabouts based on the paper trail of census documents, birth/death records, and newspaper articles:</b></i><br />
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<li>1854 - John (Johann) Etzel emigrates from the region now referred to as Germany, arriving at Castle Garden in New York on 21 July 1854. I still do not know *exactly* when Maria Schumacher arrived, since she passed away prior to the 1900 census in which year of immigration is noted. </li>
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<li>1854 - John and Maria marry in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.</li>
<li>About 1855-1856, daughter Rose is born in Cincinnati.</li>
<li>Some time prior to abt. 1858 (year of daughter Elizabeth's birth), John and Maria move to Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.</li>
<li>1860 - living in Reading, PA- North East Ward (US Federal Census)</li>
<li>1870 - living in Reading, PA - Reading Ward 9 (US Federal Census)</li>
<li>1880 - living in Reading, PA - South Moss Street. Daughter Rose lives at home. Daughter Elizabeth, listed as a servant, living in a boarding house about 1 1/2 miles away on Walnut Street, Reading.</li>
<li>1894 - Maria passes away on 14 December 1894</li>
<li>1900 - John Etzel living in Reading, PA on 5th Avenue in the household of Edward M. Luden and wife Elizabeth Etzel Luden (John's daughter and my 2nd great-grandmother).</li>
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<li>*Interesting note here! Edward M. Luden and wife Elizabeth lived on 5th Avenue in Reading...from what I can tell this is the house in which he was born, and the same property in which brother William Henry Luden launched his candy business (with his mother's encouragement and business acumen, from what I can tell...and even possibly her recipe). Edward Luden's mother owned several properties around Reading which were divided among her children upon her death in 1896. Have you heard of the candy bar "5th Avenue"? Did you know this was originally a Luden creation? Neither did I until today. Hershey's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luden%27s" target="_blank">purchased Luden, Inc. in 1986</a> and thus the bar eventually became a Hershey product. The "rumor" is that my 2nd great uncle, William Luden, named this candy after his childhood home address...on 5th Street, Reading, PA. Way cool.</li>
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<b><i>But I digress. Back to Etzel.</i></b><br />
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As mentioned above, I'm searching for more information about my 3rd great-grandfather and his wife...specifically their place of birth and potential immediate family members. Using the <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/john-etzel-continuing-search_24.html" target="_blank">indexed passenger list record</a> I found on the <a href="http://www.castlegarden.org/" target="_blank">Castle Garden</a> website, I tracked down an actual digital image of the document. What I discovered was seriously surprising...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steam Ship BERTHA, arriving New York 21 July 1854, <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=nypl&h=3442782&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t40956095_p19648882416_kpidz0q3d19648882416z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></td></tr>
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Starting at the top, you'll see Johann Etzel, age 28, male, farmer.<br />
Country (or locale - city, state) to which he belongs: "Schillgrippe"<br />
Country to which he intends to go: "Cincinnati"<br />
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<i><b>Listed in the same group of passengers - all from this "Schillgrippe" - are an entire family of Schumachers :)</b></i>.<br />
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Father, Johann A. Schumacher, 52<br />
Mother, Maria Schumacher, 52<br />
Anna, Michael, Maria, Rosina, Adam, Johann, and Asila Schumacher.<br />
Since they appear to be traveling in a group from the same home town - to the same destination of Cincinnati - could this be MY Maria Schumacher that John Etzel married just a few months later?<br />
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I was very excited to see this "Schillgrippe" listed as a hometown...yet I cannot find any information about it online or in the German gazetteer I usually use for old place names. In later census records, John and Maria both state they were born in Baden (1860), Bavaria (1870), and Prussia (1880). Keep in mind...the reason each census is a little different is because the location referred to that exact place at that exact time. For example. Their hometown must have been located in a region that was considered Baden in 1860, Bavaria in 1870, and Prussia in 1880, etc. The historical maps of Germany are one confusing mess for those unfamiliar with its history (and that would be me!).<br />
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<b>My next step is to try to locate naturalization documents for John Etzel</b>. I can also try to locate information (marriage or death records) for the other Schumachers listed in this passenger document to determine a connection to my Maria.<br />
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OK. Lots here, and I can already feel my mind melting. Stay tuned for the next installment in this Etzel research rabbit trail...where I will show how a random newspaper article helped me connect my Etzel family to another Etzel family living in Reading, Pennsylvania (but never in Cincinnati). <b> The adventure continues!</b><br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-25636140281140055852014-11-25T00:00:00.000-08:002014-11-25T04:13:03.676-08:00Etzel Research, part IIIEUREKA.<br />
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Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio<br />
<a href="http://www.probatect.org/courtrecordsarchive/marriageindex.htm" target="_blank"><span class="header"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Probate Court Archived Records Search Marriage License Index (1817-1983)</b></span></span></a><br />
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<span class="header"><span style="font-size: small;">John Etzel and Maria (Schumacher) Etzel are both listed in 1854, volume 6, page 635. Married in 1854? Fits with what I know about John Etzel's emigration from Germany to the United States in 1854. Daughter Rose was born in 1855 in Ohio (guessing Cincinnati), which also fits.</span></span><br />
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<span class="header"><span style="font-size: small;">Adding to the collection of Etzel sourcing!</span></span>Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-29766441120117101532014-11-24T04:50:00.000-08:002014-11-24T04:50:17.315-08:00John Etzel: Continuing the Search<b> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Topographic View of the City of Reading, Pennsylvania, 1881. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.02882/" target="_blank"> Library of Congress</a></b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></td></tr>
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<b>Research Goal: </b>To locate information about John ETZEL (1826-1904) and wife Maria SCHUMACHER (1837-1894) prior to their listing in the 1860 US Federal Census in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.<br />
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<b>Context:</b> John Etzel is my 3rd great-grandfather on my mother's maternal side of the family.<br />
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In 1860, John and Maria ETZEL are listed in the US Federal Census in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania -<br />
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John, age 35, male, laborer, birthplace - Baden<br />
Mary, age 23, female, birthplace - Baden<br />
Rose, age 6, female, birthplace - Ohio<br />
Lizzie, age 2, female, birthplace - Pennsylvania.<br />
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This indicates to me that John and Mary lived in Ohio at some time between 1855-1858, based on birth date and location for daughter Rose ETZEL. Census records are notoriously "off" when it comes to specific birth dates, and late US Census records give an approximate birth year of 1855 for Rose Etzel and 1858 for Elizabeth (Lizzie) Etzel. <br />
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With those dates in mind, as well as the date of immigration for John ETZEL listed in the 1900 US Federal Census (he gives an arrival date in the US of 1854), I searched through the passenger lists at <a href="http://www.castlegarden.org/">www.CastleGarden.org</a>. Castle Garden was the precursor to Ellis Island, accepting immigrants from 1855-1890 in New York (<a href="http://www.castlegarden.org/">www.castlegarden.org</a>). <br />
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Low and behold, here is what I found:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: <a href="http://www.castlegarden.org/">www.castlegarden.org</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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This is the only ETZEL listed in 1854 with a name and age the information I already know about my relative. Wife "Maria" is not listed. Destination: Cincinnati.<br />
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Could this be my John Etzel?<br />
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More research to follow! Also, did he meet Maria in Cincinnati...when did they marry...and did they come from the same hometown? <br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-89753950442285525632014-11-21T05:14:00.000-08:002014-11-21T05:14:05.981-08:00Etzel Family Origins...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Source<a href="http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/germany-map-unification-1815-1871.jpg" target="_blank"> HERE</a></td></tr>
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<b>...still a mystery! </b><br />
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<b><i>(*Context - John Etzel (1826-1904) is my 3rd great-grandfather on my mother's maternal side of the family)</i></b><br />
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Every family researcher - novice and professional alike - eventually finds themselves face to face with what is commonly called a genealogical "brick wall". In less than a minute, I can rattle off my list of most-wanted individuals. I will neither confirm nor deny that these brick walls have robbed me of precious sleep on occasion. <b><i>What if? Where? Who? Why? </i></b><br />
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Last year, I wrote a bit about <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/search/label/Etzel" target="_blank">John ETZEL (1826-1904)</a>, his will and probate record in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Etzel emigrated from Germany to the United States about 1854, according to the 1900 US Federal Census in Reading, PA. Prior to this, though, I hit a brick wall with both John and his wife, Maria Schumacher (1837-1894). The local prothonotary office could not locate a copy of his naturalization paperwork (which should give birth date, home town, etc.) even though I know from census records that he naturalized at some point prior to 1900. Also, since wife Maria died before the 1900 census (valuable because it requires citizens to answer whether or not they are alien or naturalized & approximate date of arrival)...I do not know whether or not the couple were married prior to arrival or afterward. I assume they arrived together - but that is just a gut feeling. As for home town - that is also a mystery. Here is a breakdown of info provided by census documents:<br />
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<u>Birthplace of husband and wife John and Maria/Mary ETZEL listed in US Federal Census:</u><br />
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1860 - Baden<br />
1870 - Bavaria/Bayern<br />
1880- Prussia<br />
1890 (no census available)<br />
1900 - Germany (John Etzel...wife died in 1894)<br />
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One solution - I am looking for a town that was located in Baden in 1860, Bavaria in 1870, Prussia in 1880, and "Germany" in 1900. This will require a refresher course in Germany history...specifically studying the ever-changing borders on historical maps. What was considered Baden in 1860 might just have been considered Prussia by 1880. I think I need about 5 extra hours in my day to tackle this one :).<br />
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In the meantime, here is a snippet from the US Civil War Draft Registration in 1863 including John ETZEL:<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-55063640646502187752014-11-16T01:20:00.001-08:002014-11-16T01:20:01.920-08:00Col. John Powell (1752-1826): Lanesborough, MAMy research lately is leading me down a Massachusetts rabbit trail of sorts. Having spent the majority of my life in the Deep South, little did I know that I had such roots in New England! One of my favorite parts of family history research is taking time to learn about locales that are completely new to me...familiarizing myself with geography, culture, and historical aspects of that particular town/state/country.<br />
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For context, today's ancestor is my 6th great-grandfather through my mother's father's paternal grandmother's side of the family :). Papa's grandmother was a MEAD, and Col. John Powell (1752) is connected through that branch of the tree.<br />
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Col. Powell is one of <a href="http://remembermegenealogy.blogspot.it/2014/11/our-massachusetts-patriots.html" target="_blank">four patriots </a>connected to the MEAD side of our family. While digging through newspaper archives in <a href="http://genealogybank.com/">GenealogyBank.com</a> this week, I located the following mortuary notice from <i>The Sun </i>in Pittsfield, MA:<br />
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John POWELL married Lois CURTIS (1753-1838) on 20 November 1755 in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Their daughter, Lois POWELL (an Independence baby! 1776-1871), who married Caleb MEAD (1773-1856), is my 5th great-grandmother. From FindAGrave, here is an image of John POWELL's grave stone in Center Cemetery, Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts:<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-60077604858317715642014-11-07T05:52:00.000-08:002014-11-07T05:52:05.735-08:00Our Massachusetts PatriotsFeeling a little patriotic this holiday weekend! Today I stumbled upon digital images of a text on Ancestry.com that includes names and specifics for "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War". Three of the patriots in my tree (yes, family...THREE - the number keeps growing!) hailed from Massachusetts, so I was eager to search with their names and see what I could uncover. Here are the entries, which really read like journal entries or summaries of their records of service:<br />
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Azor Curtiss has an incredible story - including time spent at Valley Forge. I will have to buckle-down and put pen to paper and share that one with everyone! John Powell is Azor Curtiss' son-in-law, and his daughter Lois Powell (1776-1871) marries Stephen Mead's son Caleb (1773-1856) in 1795. Confusing much?<br />
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Happy Veterans' Day, everyone!Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-73351498831763720052014-11-02T04:57:00.002-08:002014-11-02T04:57:57.354-08:00Lawrence ZELLER (1826-1880) and Rosine SCHUMACHER (1835-)Following my mother's maternal side of the family, connected by marriage to the OSTHOLTHOFF branch, Lawrence Zeller and Rosine Schumacher (also spelled Schuhmacher and Shoemaker) lived in Reading, Hamilton County, Ohio in the mid-to-late 1800s.<br />
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I am still working to locate the Zellers' immigration information and passenger lists. However, I do know from census records that they arrived at some point before 1860 from Bavaria. According to the 1860 census, youngest daughter Anna is 3 months old and listed to have been born in Bavaria. SO - if that is correct, maybe they arrived just prior to the census in June 1860? It's also possible that Anna was born in Ohio and the census taker didn't record correct information. Here is a snippet from the 1860 US Federal Census in Hamilton County, OH:<br />
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Lorenz Zeller - age 33, male, butcher (boocher! the spelling!), value of real estate $1100, value of personal estate, $500, birthplace - Bavaria.<br />
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Rosina, age 25, female, Bavaria<br />
Effie Shoemacher, age 15, female, Bavaria (possibly Rosine's sister? cousin?)<br />
George, age 3, male, Bavaria<br />
John, age 2, male, Bavaria<br />
Anna, 3 months, female, Bavaria<br />
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In 1863, Lorenz Zeller is listed on a Civil War draft registration document for Hamilton County, Ohio:<br />
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Zeller, Lawrence, age 37, male, butcher, born in Germany (his entry is second from the bottom)<br />
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Here is a brief chart from my own records for more perspective:<br />
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I am still working to identify exact date of birth, marriage, immigration, and death for both Lorenz and Rosine. Stay tune for any updates! Also missing - burial site for both.<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-81683226479888442812014-10-27T00:00:00.000-07:002014-10-27T00:00:03.357-07:00Matrilineal Monday: Catherine Margaretha Miller (1899-1945)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Matrilineal Monday - sharing photos, stories, or genealogical information about women in our family tree. <br />
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Today, I'm sharing a photo of my great-grandmother, Catherine Margaretha Miller. What's not to love about this sweet photograph? Taken at my great-grandparents' home in Samoht Ridge, Delhi, Hamilton County, Ohio, a copy of this photo was passed to me as part of a collection of family history information from my maternal grandfather. Catherine passed away while my grandfather was bravely serving the United States abroad during World War II. <br />
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Some of the details I love most about the photograph include her beautiful outfit, lapel pin, and necklace, the fact that my hair appears so much like hers (I get my dark hair from both sides of the family, though!), the brickwork on the front facing of the home, and the family dog making a cameo in the back left. Old photographs like this one really enable me to feel a personal connection to relatives I have never met!<br />
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Happy Monday -<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-17555560179115622762014-10-21T05:04:00.000-07:002014-10-21T05:04:00.660-07:00Tombstone Tuesday: Nancy Ann Barber (1822 GA-1887 AL)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Nancy Ann (Barber) Thompson (1822-1887) is one of my 32 (yes, 32!) 3rd great-grandparents. Does that number seem high? Never thought about it before? Folks, make sure to look at <a href="http://familyforest.com/resources/51/ancestors-at-a-glance" target="_blank">THIS WEBSITE</a> and let the math blow your mind.<br />
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Back to Mrs. Thompson. I realize that I have members of both my immediate family and my husband's family (maybe?) reading this blog...and the many family lines can get a little crazy. Nancy Ann (Barber) Thompson is related to my HUGHES family through my grandfather (Alto) and his mother (Hattie Bruner - 1881-1966) and then Hattie's mother, Mary Thompson (1848-1892). Nancy Ann (Barber) Thompson is Mary Ann (Barber) Thompson's mother. Nancy married Theophilus Thompson (1820-1877), and they lived first in Gadsden County, Florida (this is where Nancy's father, William Barber (1792-?) owned a considerably large farm. Both Barber and Thompson families lived in close proximity to each other in Gadsden County and also migrated just a bit north together to what is now Houston County, Alabama (at that time it was Henry County). One of my side projects at the moment has been to dig into the land and personal property records of William Barber and track the family's migration from Decatur County, GA to Gadsden County, Florida and lastly to Henry County, Alabama.<br />
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<br />Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244486577876019745.post-59353793822720275052014-10-17T04:49:00.002-07:002014-10-17T04:54:32.072-07:00Family Recipe Friday: Banana Sandwich<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This post isn't so much about a "recipe" as it is about a legend. The Banana Sandwich. OR - the 'nana sandwich. Have you experienced this wonderfully simple sandwich? Were you thinking peanut butter or fluff...and are now completely grossed out by the suggestion of mayonnaise? Don't fear the mayo! Trust me. It's a winning combination.<br />
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Just ask Matt LeCroy of the Washington Nationals. Obviously banana sandwiches didn't help his team make it to the World Series...but at least he gave the Southern delicacy<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/wp/2014/06/09/matt-lecroys-superstitious-banana-mayo-sandwich" target="_blank"> a little press</a>.<br />
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The truth of the matter is...this wonderful pairing of bread, thinly-sliced bananas, and mayonnaise is part of my family identity. Only one of my parents actually eats banana sandwiches (HI Dad!). At least I think so (Hi Mom! I don't think I've ever seen you eat one...). I *believe* this is a Southern tradition, and I will do my very best to promote this culinary tradition in my own home.<br />
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If you have ever watched an episode of "Finding Your Roots" on PBS, you'll be familiar with the host - Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. - asking his guests, "Who do you say are your 'people'?"<br />
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My "people" definitely eat banana sandwiches with mayo. No question! Sarah Melveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733331194258450104noreply@blogger.com0