My Trails into the Past

I have completed the prep for the upcoming release of the 1950 federal census on April 1. This last set are for my husband's paternal relatives.  I need to know the address of each person in order to locate them in specific Enumeration Districts. At first, we will be browsing the records until indexes are completed. To find their address, I used city directories, voter registrations, newspaper articles, and other records that give addresses. These are the direct ancestors who I expect to find on my mother’s side of the family. By using the Unified Census ED Finder on the Steve Morse One Step site, I located the Enumeration District (ED) numbers for the following addresses. Those on farms, will be more troublesome and I will likely have to wait for an index. NARA is supposed to have an index, using an application that can “read” handwriting. We’ll see how well it works on April 1. Below is the list of his ancestors, their address and the possible ED they will be in. ...

My father's side of the family were Roman Catholic. I’ve collected some photos of churches my families have attended, and some were captured from Google street view. St. Mary's Church, Walnut Creek I was confirmed and married here. Two of my siblings were baptized here. St. Peter Martyr Church, Pittsburg My first communion was here and three of my siblings were baptized here. Queen of All Saints, Concord My parents were married here and I was baptized here. St. Patrick's Church, Butte, MT My grandparents, Wm Cyril Hork & Anna M. Sullivan were married here. St. Paul's Church, Anaconda, MT This is where the Sullivans attended St. Philip Church, Richmond, Ontario, Canada The Gleesons attended church here and their children were baptized here. St. John the Baptist Church, Joliet, IL Where the Sieverts attended. Kirche St Peter und Paul, Kirchhundem, Germany My Horks attended this church photo by Wolfgang Poguntke , Creative Commons These are just some of the churches I...

Happy Presidents Day! I have completed one hundred three (103) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. I went out to the History Center twice this week, the meadow for phenology, library to pick up a book, and a visit to Santa Rosa to our daughter’s. Genealogy Blog Writing : Females: Our Maternal Line I wrote about my maternal line up to my great-great-grandmother. I have photos, showing six from daughters to my great-grandmother. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: RootsTech 2022. We were to write about our time at the virtual RootsTech conference. O nline Study Groups & Meetings Attended: Online meetings included Monday Morning on Zoom, meeting with Jacqueline on Monday, my AppGen partners on Wednesday to conduct interviews for a new administrative assistant, and the Peer group on Friday to check in with everyone’s progress. It was actually a light week for meetings! Amigos is on hiatus while two members are vacationing. Client Work/Presentations : I gave the vital re...

It's  Saturday Night  - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1)  The RootsTech 2022 Virtual Conference was Thursday through Saturday (March 3-5) this week.  Did you register and attend classes?  Did you watch the Keynote talks?  Did you visit the virtual Expo Hall?  What was your favorite experience? Here’s mine: I registered for RootsTech with the idea of viewing the presentations, but ended up having other activities that took up my time. I watched no live presentations and viewed seven videos on Thursday and Saturday. I have collected links to others that I will watch in the future.  Many of the presentations are basic or intermediate level, but I view subjects I’m interested in to get tips on possible sources to use in my own presentations. These presentations often give me ideas on how to improve or create my own. I also checked out the RootsTech Relatives. Of the 31,625 r...

Happy Presidents Day! I have completed one hundred two (102) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. I went out to the History Center twice this week, the meadow for phenology, library to pick up a book, and train club for a show. Genealogy Blog Writing : Courting – The Courtship and Marriage of Amos Gorrell Jr & Catherine E Sayre in Ross County, Ohio I wrote about my husband’s great-grandparents’ courtship, based on Amos’s diary. 1950 Census Prep: Norman’s Maternal Relatives I located the Enumeration District numbers for my husband’s mother’s family. 1950 Census Prep for Maternal Relatives . I found the Enumeration District numbers for my mother’s side of the family, both in California and in Texas. O nline Study Groups & Meetings Attended: I met online with Jacqueline, my AppGen partners, Amigos, RootsMagic SIG, Peer group, and a group trying to start up the APG NorCal chapter again. Jacqueline and I were the only Amigos to meet. I am becoming frustrated wit...

I have begun locating the Enumeration Districts (EDs) for our relatives who were living in 1950. Lisa’s paternal relatives can be found here . Her maternal relatives here . In order to locate the EDs, I need to know the address of each person. I begin by checking my genealogy database for a clue to their address and if I don’t have one near the 1950 time-frame, seek out a source on Ancestry or FamilySearch, using such sources as city directories, voter registrations, newspaper articles, and other records that give addresses. These are the relatives I expect to find on my husband Norman’s maternal side of the family. Nilsen Family Arthur N. Nilsen is Norman’s maternal grandfather. I know he and his wife, Lena, were living at 2114 X Street in Sacramento around 1947 from a city directory. When he died in 1954, he was living in Rio Linda on their chicken ranch. But when did they move there? Rio Linda is a small town in the county of Sacramento and there are no Sacramento County dir...