I have been really caught up lately working in Massachusetts, trying to find everything I can think of - and that my genealogy program says I should search for before the subscription runs out. I have pulled hundreds of records, some of them not very readable, which makes you wonder how they were indexed in the first place! Fortunately, my finds are petering out and all I will have left to do is enter all the information I've found and link the images. And that is exactly what I have been doing on these stormy days we had last month. In between company, housework and helping older daughter with the new apartment.
Every other person I seem to find has links to Sandwich, Massachusetts, so I haul those books out and take a look at them trying to figure out how some people seem to have gotten missed in the Massachusetts Vital Records.
So far, I have 87 birth records, 105 marriage records and 92 census records calling my name. I know that census number will grow exponentially as I add new information to the database.
And I still have the letter project to finish. I always have something to work on!
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
I Keep Looking
The OCFRD is still working in high gear and I have been fruitlessly searching for a death record or a second marriage record for Calista Percival Thayer also found as Collista, Corlista and Clystia. I'm also looking for her on the 1880 census. So far no luck. She either remarried after the death of her husband in 1865 - actually later as I have found her in 1870 with her surviving children. Surprisingly, she is not the only Calista Thayer either in Massachusetts.
The research trip is again on hold - again due to weather concerns. I just can't plan a trip to a cemetery with a 60-70% chance of thunderstorms. Maybe next week?
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
The research trip is again on hold - again due to weather concerns. I just can't plan a trip to a cemetery with a 60-70% chance of thunderstorms. Maybe next week?
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Post Holiday Lethargy
First, let me preface everything with the fact that DH and I are retired. Because we are retired, we lose track of what day it is, so that when a holiday comes along, well, sometimes you forget.
So I am surprised that I am feeling that post holiday lethargy. Maybe it is because Older Daughter moved during the last week. Literally, every day. Today she spent cleaning the old place in preparation for walk-through. She had her much younger (than us) friends help her with the move, and we didn't really have to do anything. Since we moved her stuff here from North Carolina three years ago, that is a real blessing. Also, the steps to her second floor apartment - both old and new - are killers. The old place had an indoor landing which was darker than anything and the new one has metal see-through steps. I hate heights. So it's a good thing I didn't have to haul boxes up to the new place while worrying about putting my foot through the space between the treads.
DH and I are hoping to get out of town this week for a much needed break. Since we also have a free night coming to us courtesy of Priority Club Rewards and I sure want to use it. Soon. Hoping the weather clears up. My research plan has been ready and waiting for a few weeks now and so have I. If it doesn't happen? I have other things to keep me busy!
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
So I am surprised that I am feeling that post holiday lethargy. Maybe it is because Older Daughter moved during the last week. Literally, every day. Today she spent cleaning the old place in preparation for walk-through. She had her much younger (than us) friends help her with the move, and we didn't really have to do anything. Since we moved her stuff here from North Carolina three years ago, that is a real blessing. Also, the steps to her second floor apartment - both old and new - are killers. The old place had an indoor landing which was darker than anything and the new one has metal see-through steps. I hate heights. So it's a good thing I didn't have to haul boxes up to the new place while worrying about putting my foot through the space between the treads.
DH and I are hoping to get out of town this week for a much needed break. Since we also have a free night coming to us courtesy of Priority Club Rewards and I sure want to use it. Soon. Hoping the weather clears up. My research plan has been ready and waiting for a few weeks now and so have I. If it doesn't happen? I have other things to keep me busy!
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
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