My Trails into the Past

Outside activities included phenology, bird watching, two memorial services, and lunch with friends. Genealogy Genealogy Volunteer/Work: This week, I volunteered at the History Center twice. I got a lot done with the assessions and with the library database. I picked up a death certificate for my long-time client. Genealogy Meetings:  I met briefly with Jacqueline on Monday. We talked about her possibly coming for the CGS open house, but later she decided against it. Genealogy Writing/Research : I spent the last part of the month finishing up the Bishop family research and started on the Sullivan family at the beginning of the month. I wrote up the John Coor’s timeline for the South Carolina class and sent it to Craig Scott. John Coor had served in the War of 1812 for a month.   Blog Posts Published: Frederick and Susannah Bishop of Ross County, Ohio – 12 for ‘26 I wrote about Mary Ann Bishops’ parents, Frederick and Susannah Bishop. SNGF: What Were You Doing ...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings, is to: 1)  Do you recall what you were doing in 2001?  Family, school, work, hobbies, technology, genealogy, vacations, etc? Here's mine: I am not fortunate to have created yearly Christmas letters, so I had to jog my memory by looking at the various Creative Memories photo albums to see what events I memorialized. I was working at BART as an Employee Development Specialist, working out of Hayward Yard. During that year, my coworker, Johanna, and I talked our supervisor to let us teach new train operators out of the building located at the end of the storage tracks at C75. We proposed to have a 3-car train parked there for our use, because I had created an all-new training based on performance standards. We moved tables and chairs there. There were already desks. But we needed lots of other supplies and it ...

Mary Ann Bishop, who married Daniel Shotts in Ross County, Ohio, was the daughter of Frederick Bishop and Susannah Kress/Cress. This information came from the 2x-great-grandson, John F. Bishop of Carmichael, California. [1] The goal in this post is to document as much as I can the information that was presented by John F. Bishop. Frederick Bishop was born 27 July 1778 probably in Maryland and died 20 Sept 1819. He was buried at Bishop Hill Cemetery in Ross County, Ohio. He was the son of Henry Bishop and Catherin Strayer. He married c. 1798 in Virginia to Susannah Cress, who was born 27 July 1776 and died 28 August 1852. She was also buried at Bishop Hill Cemetery. They had five children: David Clay Bishop , born 11 September 1799, died 9 February 1873 in Indiana, married Rebecca Ferguson on 20 October 1828 in Kentucky. Jacob G Bishop , born 22 May 1801, died 7 August 1861 in Ross County. He married Margaret Shotts on 7 September 1821 in Ross County. She was born 24 February 18...

Outside activities included phenology, hikes, visit to a friend’s train layout, train club show, and three trips to the gym. Genealogy Genealogy Volunteer/Work: This week, Traci, John, and I met at the History Center to continue our work with the Maffei collection. We continued sorting photos and transferred them temporarily into folders and document boxes. On Tuesday, I worked on several queries sent to the History Center. On Saturday, I hosted the presentation of the California Genealogical Society on Zoom. Genealogy Meetings:  I attended the NARA SIG at Kinseekers and the Irish SIG at California Genealogical Society. week. Genealogy Writing/Research : I spent Thursday, Friday, and the weekend researching the Bishop family and wrote two blog posts. Blog Posts Published: My Grandmother Told Me the Story of her Childhood For the theme of “What Wasn’t Written Down,” I wrote about my grandmother’s childhood. David Shotts and Mary Wagoner of Ross County, Ohio – 12 ...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1)  What is "Your Oldest Confirmed Record?"  What is one of the oldest documents you've personally found for any ancestor?  2)  Share your oldest confirmed record:  what it is, where it came from, and what it revealed.  This topic was suggested by Linda Stufflebean. Here's mine: Like Randy, my earliest documents are church records. I have a few German records from the mid-1700s for my Hork family in the area of Westphalia. The surnames I found were Döbener, Horoch, Sommer, Trösster, Voß, and others. One of the earliest is from the church, Saints Peter and Paul Church in Kirchhundem. Since it is so old, there is very little information in the church record.  All it says is: Matrimonium Joannes Rottgens Horareck ex Meggen et Dorothea Voß ex Altenhundem [apud?] Jodoco Henric...

The last post was written about Daniel Shotts and his wife Mary Ann Bishop. Before tackling the Bishop family line, I will write what I know about Daniel’s parents, David Shotts and Mary Wagoner. David Shotts (1760-1825) married Mary Wagoner/Wagner in 1788 or 1891. He died in Ross County around October 1825. His known children were: Catherine Shotts (1795-1833) Jacob Shotts (1796-1883), m. Sarah Toops 1817 in Ross Co. Elizabeth Shotts (1798-1894), m. Ezekiel Timmons Margaret Shotts (1800-1884), m. Jacob G. Bishop 1821 in Ross Co. Hannah Shotts (1801-1884) Mary Shotts (1802-1801) Daniel Shotts (1804-1875), m. Mary Ann Bishop 1831 in Ross Co. Sophia Shotts (1806-1881), m. Amos Bishop 1830 in Ross Co. Jonas Shotts (1809- ), m. Isabel Haynes 1838 in Ross Co. Susanna Shotts (1811-1905), m. Henry Bishop 1856 in Ross Co. My children’s line is through Daniel Shotts & Mary Ann Bishop, through their daughter, Catherine E, who married Amos Gorrell in 1866. Family Histories & C...