Random Thoughts of a Genealogical Nature

I was working on a blog for Surname Saturday and came across a printout from St. Joseph Cemetery in East Tawas, Michigan, where most of my Zimmeths are buried. Lot 120 appears to have two different family names on it. One is Zimmeth. The other is Fournier, which is my youngest sister's married name. It creeped her out, not because of the names, the cemetery part.

Where do people go from one census to another. I have obituaries stating so and so was born in Annsville in Oneida County, New York prior to the 1850 census and was a lifelong resident. Yet they are nowhere to be found in 1850. Anywhere? Darn Percival line anyway.

Hubby and I finished watching the reincarnation of the 1970's Battlestar Galactica series of the same name. My question is, do all these DNA test results show that we are part Cylon?



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Random Finds

The other night I was playing working on the Oneida County, New York GenWeb. Oh what fun. It's a great site and their indexing is wonderful. It's always great to find something you didn't have before, like births, deaths, maiden names! This is a great site, one that was last updated in December of 2009.  Since I have been working in this area, the Oneida county genweb has been a real boon.

And, while working on some census last night, I found enumerated with Charles and Lydia Percival Rice (daughter of Moses and Susan Percival) a man by the name of Lorenzo Percival born about 1824. I think he could be one of the three remaining elusive children of Moses and Susan, his birthdate falling well within the 1816 - 1841 birthdate time frame of Moses and Susan's children. Unfortunately that is the only time I find him anywhere.

I do love a mystery!




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