Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has had a bad week and wrote for this week: “I'm not in the mood for a long Saturday Night Genealogy Fun (SNGF) blog post, but I know that my readers count on me and love to have genealogy fun, so tonight (and tomorrow) let's do:”
GENEALOGY POT LUCK!! Whatever genealogy fun you want to
do - please spend an hour and do it! Then tell us about it in your own
blog post.
My thoughts and prayers are with Randy and his wife, Linda.
I hope things improve soon for them.
This afternoon, I have spent more than an hour reviewing and
writing about a widows’ Civil War pension I have found on Fold3 for one of the
collateral lines of my husband’s Davey family. This will be the third post
about the service and later pension of Andreas Pfotenhauer of Herman, Missouri
and the 4th Missouri Infantry. He died during service and his widow
filed for a pension.
I learned from the military class I took at GRIP last week
to take the documents and rearrange them into chronological order, so I have
spent a couple of hours working on that, by entering each sheet’s summary into
an Excel file. There are 35 sheets and I’ve have completed about half of them. The SF
Giants’ game has distracted me.
I hope to finish the analysis and get the post written
tomorrow. I better work on it before the Giants game comes on!
It is so helpful to put the documents into chronological order! They always make more sense to us that way. Did you also record the order in which they were when you received them?
ReplyDeleteI did. There are some nice documents in the file. Even the town doctor gave an affidavit about treating the soldier.
DeleteI love the Pfotenhauer surname. I can only imagine the number of ways that was spelled. Kind of like Stufflebean! Good luck with your analysis and write up.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Surprisingly, it's been spelled correctly most of the time. They lived in a German community, so the other recordkeepers were German, too. However, when they signed their names, they used the German script!
DeleteI need to do this for my 3x great grandfather. Can’t wait to read the rest of your story.
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