My Trails into the Past

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. The Thomas & Mary Davey family, who hailed from Cornwall, England, came to the United States in 1852. [1] Their youngest son, Frederick, was born in Pennsylvania the following year. [2] The family lived in Pennsylvania and later moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana, where both Thomas and Mary died. [3] Their eldest son, Thomas Nicholas Davey, did very well in life as a mine owner in Jasper County, Missouri, located in the southwest part of the state. He had a large house built and made a few trips to England. The earliest trip discovered was in 1896 when Thomas, at age 61, traveled home aboard the SS Servia from Liverpool with his wife, Anna, and daughter, Marie. Their quarters were in the saloon area of the ...

Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great documenting our own. I’ll write about what I’ve been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme. I have completed twenty-nine (29) weeks of semi- “lock down” due to Covid-19. I did phenology at the meadow as usual. I took some things to the Hospice for donation. And I went to volunteer at the History Center on Tuesday and Saturday. And I took photos at the Sunday Farmer’s Market on Main Street in downtown Martinez for my photo class. Margaret left Friday night and we drove her to the airport. Elizabeth came for the afternoon and evening on Thursday. Genealogy Blog Writing : Blogs posted this past week: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 40: Oldest—Matilda Wollenweber’s German Ancestors   I wrote about Matilda’s parents and grandparents, including a pedigree chart. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Create a Fact List in Your Genealogy Software .  We cr...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing's assignment for us tonight: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1.  Does your genealogy management software (e.g, Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, Reunion, Heredis, Family Historian, etc.) create a "Fact List" report (or something similar) - a list of the profiles in your family tree that have (or don't have) a specific Fact (e.g., birth, death, burial, immigration, etc.)? 2.  If so, run a Fact List to determine which people have a specific Fact (or don't have a specific Fact) and share it with us.  3.  Share your results with us in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Leave a comment on this post with a link to your results. Here’s mine: I, too, use RootsMagic and found all the people wh...

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I have many ancestors listed in my tree that go back pretty far that I could select one to be the oldest person in my tree. However, many of those “old” people were obtained not from my own research, but from trees in books or on websites. They have not been verified with my own research. Now to select someone that I have personally researched, I could select Matilda “Tillie” Wollenweber’s ancestors, whom I found in Pfalz and Württemburg. Matilda was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky on 27 Aug 1859 to Ludwig Wilhelm “Louis” Wollenweber and Philappina Margaretha Voehringer. [1] Both of her parents were not native born, but married in the U.S. Louis and Philappina married on 5 September 1858 in Louisvill...

Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great documenting our own. I’ll write about what I’ve been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme. I have completed twenty-eight (28) weeks of semi- “lock down” due to Covid-19. I did phenology at the meadow. I took some things to Goodwill and visited at Salvation Army store. I went to volunteer at the History Center on Tuesday. And I took photos at Heather Farm Park on early Friday morning where I hardly saw anyone. Margaret is still here but went to visit her friend in Tracy. Elizabeth and her dachshund, Doobie, came for the weekend. Genealogy Blog Writing : Blogs posted this past week: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 39: Should Be a Movie—Lorene Hork Traveled the World with Three Chums   I wrote about how my aunt and three of her girlfriends traveled Asia and Europe after a tour of work with the U.S. Army in Tokyo in the 1950s. Saturday Night Gen...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!!   Our assignment today is from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing: 1. DNAsleuth (Ann Raymont) created a 7-in-1 chart showing 7 generations of ancestors on one page several weeks ago - see her blog post at  https://dnasleuth.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/7-gen-1-sheet/ .  In her post, there is a link to her Word document if you wish to use it. 2.  Linda Stufflebean's husband, Dave, took the concept a step further, and created an Excel template of the 7-in-1 chart.  You can download Dave's file from my Google Drive at    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7rTacxacWVCWxUEWq5pAArJCv8mCZWT/view?usp=sharing .  Linda's chart is in  https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2020/09/using-excel-to-display-7-family-generations-on-1-sheet/  (I opened it to "Editor" so you can download it and work with it). Here is an image of the b...

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. In 1952, my paternal aunt, Lorene E. Hork, applied to work for the U.S. Army in Japan. She wrote home often telling of her adventures and these letters were saved by the family and put together in a binder. I wrote about her adventures in Japan here . Where her year was up, she resigned, and with three girl friends (Anne Ankers, Mitzi Seale, and Donna Oehm) that she met there in Tokyo, embarked on the start of a around the world adventure. I have written several posts about their adventures:      “ Travel--Lorene’s First Leg ”      “ Dear Diary—Taipei, a Continuation of Lorene Hork’s Trip ”      “ Transportation: Lorene Traveled Around the World Part III ”  ...