I finally broke down and bought Legacy. I was tired of the excessive pop-ups when accessing Ancestry through FTM. A new one started popping up and that was it. I still haven't figured out which browser it is using because it is not using my default browser. It is up-to-date.
So, Legacy. Well, I hate having to figure out how a new program works, but it is coming along. I still haven't figured out where to put extra descriptions for details. FTM has a field with the date and place which is handy. Where do I put the cemetery a person is buried in? I have more to learn.
I do like how easy it is to add sources, not that FTM was hard. I haven't figured out how to use the same source for more than one field so I'm having to retype some information until I get that figured out. It's probably something simple, but it hasn't been for me, at least not yet.
Reports and speed were more reasons why I wanted to switch. The Legacy program is much faster. Maybe it is because it is not searching while running. (However, I have turned the online portion of the FTM program off and it didn't make any difference.) FTM has messed and messed with their reports until I'm frustrated. So much for being able to create your own report. The parameters have been reduced and the report is worthless. I haven't found where I can create my own report in Legacy and I still can't get the report I want. I want a report I can run for a county in any state so that when I am planning a trip I can find out who I have in the area and their birthdates/death dates and where buried. I finagled FTM's to do list, but I am not sure how to finagle Legacy. So much to learn and so little time.
Update: Sept. 19 2015
The pop-ups on FTM stopped after purchasing Legacy. What's with that? Now I get one when I view a document in another window on my browser. Apparently it doesn't like my cookie settings. Every once in while I will get one of the old pop-ups on FTM, but nothing like what I used to get. So, I still use FTM to search Ancestry because I find it is easy. Maybe I am just too lazy to search with Legacy as I haven't attempted to use the search features with it.
I am still frustrated as I cannot get a cemetery report with either program. I like to know what cemeteries are where and who from the family is buried there.
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Connections
Yesterday was a fun day researching as I found more connections between my branches and also connections between my husband's Pennsylvania family and mine. No, we are not cousins...yet.
I spent some time this summer connecting the dots on my Luxembourg family thanks to a distant cousin. He posted just enough information about my great-great grandmother for me to realize that she is his great-great grandfather's little sister. One branch of his family ended up in Kansas in the same county as my great-great-grandmother. I wondered if they knew they were all related after a generation or two. (This wondering stems from going to school with distant cousins and finding out after high school that we are related. In fact, three of us in one class are in three different generations of the same family.) I contacted the source of the family information. I think he was as excited to hear from me as I was him. As we asked questions and gained more information he realized he had heard my family name before. He has pictures of some of my family from generations past. That answers my questions about whether or not they knew they were related. As time passed after the family settled in the area, that knowledge was lost. It's been fun to bring the family back together.
I spent some time this summer connecting the dots on my Luxembourg family thanks to a distant cousin. He posted just enough information about my great-great grandmother for me to realize that she is his great-great grandfather's little sister. One branch of his family ended up in Kansas in the same county as my great-great-grandmother. I wondered if they knew they were all related after a generation or two. (This wondering stems from going to school with distant cousins and finding out after high school that we are related. In fact, three of us in one class are in three different generations of the same family.) I contacted the source of the family information. I think he was as excited to hear from me as I was him. As we asked questions and gained more information he realized he had heard my family name before. He has pictures of some of my family from generations past. That answers my questions about whether or not they knew they were related. As time passed after the family settled in the area, that knowledge was lost. It's been fun to bring the family back together.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Abraham Baldwin
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would find a connection to one of the signers of the US Constitution. Abraham Baldwin, a signer from Georgia, is a very distant cousin of my husband.
I was looking for information on a Great Grandmother Cross on his (my husband's) side of the family and I found a document with a tiny piece of information that led me to her sisters and parents. Eventually that led to a great-grandmother by the maiden name of Baldwin. As my husband has Baldwins on his father's side, I was doubly intrigued.
I took the new Baldwin line back as far as I could ending up in the same area of the US as the old Baldwin line. I still haven't found a connection between the two other than my in-laws share cousins. I think at some point the families are related (meaning my in-laws are distant cousins to each other) but that connection is probably back in the 'old country' before any of them immigrated to the US. It will be fun to continue to research and hopefully find the connection.
This has been a fun line to research.
I was looking for information on a Great Grandmother Cross on his (my husband's) side of the family and I found a document with a tiny piece of information that led me to her sisters and parents. Eventually that led to a great-grandmother by the maiden name of Baldwin. As my husband has Baldwins on his father's side, I was doubly intrigued.
I took the new Baldwin line back as far as I could ending up in the same area of the US as the old Baldwin line. I still haven't found a connection between the two other than my in-laws share cousins. I think at some point the families are related (meaning my in-laws are distant cousins to each other) but that connection is probably back in the 'old country' before any of them immigrated to the US. It will be fun to continue to research and hopefully find the connection.
This has been a fun line to research.
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Don't Go!
Dear JP,
I learned about you last night.
You are my 3rd cousin 3x removed.
Absolom Carr is our common ancestor.
I read about your military training from articles your mother placed in the paper.
In July 1943 you wrote about joining the 25th Regimental Choir and how young men need the discipline and training they receive in the Navy.
I chuckled when you talked about how the food is served by 'some very attractive WAVES' which apparently makes the food there the best there is in September of 1943.
You received the third class petty officer's rating as aviation radioman in Jan of 1944.
Your mother and sister visited you in Florida in February of 1944. This is when I first knew about you. I had already been told about your sister, but I didn't know about you. It was exciting to learn. I love finding new cousins!
In June of 1944 you left Indiana for San Diego, California.
Your military training reminds me of my own brother and oldest son. Neither learned the skill you trained for, however, boot camp in Chicago -that's the same, school in Florida -my oldest, and then stationed in San Diego like my brother. Yea for the Navy!
I read where you became engaged in 1945. How exciting!
I've given you the timeline that I have of your military life. You lived it. However, before I found some of the articles posted above, I discovered you were missing in action over the Pacific Ocean during a bombing mission. My heart sank to learn about your tragic fate.
This turned me into Sandra Bullock's character in The Lake House where she was able to send letters back in time. Every article from before the tragedy I found myself thinking, 'don't go' and, of course, there isn't any realistic way to change history.
I want you to know you are remembered. You are much more than a statistic from the war.
Your cousin.
I learned about you last night.
You are my 3rd cousin 3x removed.
Absolom Carr is our common ancestor.
I read about your military training from articles your mother placed in the paper.
In July 1943 you wrote about joining the 25th Regimental Choir and how young men need the discipline and training they receive in the Navy.
I chuckled when you talked about how the food is served by 'some very attractive WAVES' which apparently makes the food there the best there is in September of 1943.
You received the third class petty officer's rating as aviation radioman in Jan of 1944.
Your mother and sister visited you in Florida in February of 1944. This is when I first knew about you. I had already been told about your sister, but I didn't know about you. It was exciting to learn. I love finding new cousins!
In June of 1944 you left Indiana for San Diego, California.
Your military training reminds me of my own brother and oldest son. Neither learned the skill you trained for, however, boot camp in Chicago -that's the same, school in Florida -my oldest, and then stationed in San Diego like my brother. Yea for the Navy!
I read where you became engaged in 1945. How exciting!
I've given you the timeline that I have of your military life. You lived it. However, before I found some of the articles posted above, I discovered you were missing in action over the Pacific Ocean during a bombing mission. My heart sank to learn about your tragic fate.
This turned me into Sandra Bullock's character in The Lake House where she was able to send letters back in time. Every article from before the tragedy I found myself thinking, 'don't go' and, of course, there isn't any realistic way to change history.
I want you to know you are remembered. You are much more than a statistic from the war.
Your cousin.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Maude, Where Are You?
I don't have any record to prove her existence. Maude B. Brasher is supposedly the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Mollie) Kester Brasher. She has a sister, Lou, born in 1877. I am assuming that Maude would have been born between 1880 and 1883, probably in Cincinnati, Ohio. Did Joseph and Mary/Mollie have a daughter named Maude?
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Family is Family
A very distant cousin caused confusion today until I figured out he married his second wife twice. Altogether he had four marriages. The first marriage produced a daughter, the second/third marriages produced three more daughters, and the final marriage produced two sons. The fourth wife had a son from a previous marriage to bring into the family.
I found most of the kids out on Facebook today and discovered the kids from the last marriage are not FB friends with the sisters from the first marriages. I find that sad. I hope someday they put aside whatever differences they have and get to know each other.
I found most of the kids out on Facebook today and discovered the kids from the last marriage are not FB friends with the sisters from the first marriages. I find that sad. I hope someday they put aside whatever differences they have and get to know each other.
Kate and Frank
I found where someone thought Kate had married Frank, but I found a marriage record for her with someone else. I finally found a marriage record in another state for her and Frank. Then it was a dead end until I found a possible Find A Grave record for them in Minnesota. But, I just didn't have enough to connect the dots. Google, who is a really good friend of mine, came through. I found an old music critic document authored by someone who apparently loved some good gossip. Kate divorced her husband of less than ten years and ten days later married her vocal music teacher, Frank. Yes, that information was pretty much in the article.
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