My Trails into the Past

  It's  Saturday Night  -  time for more  Genealogy Fun!   Our mission from Randy Seaver of GeneaMusing is to: 1)  What is your favorite summer memory?  [Thanks to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting topics!] Here’s mine: I have many summer memories: playing in the creek, eating watermelon on the back patio, pretending to be a teacher and playing school with my younger siblings, barbequing hamburgers, going to the summer rec program, sleeping outdoors on super-hot nights, and reading in a cool, shady spot in the backyard. We took few vacations. We went once to the beach in Santa Cruz, spending a few days in a cabin in the redwoods and visiting the beach daily. We spent a week with my grandmother at her cabin in Nice, on Clear Lake. I spent three weeks with my grandmother, Nana, in Southern California and visited Disneyland for the first time. I spent a week after sixth grade at Twin Canyons Girl Scout Day Camp. I have no photos ...

I have completed one hundred twenty-one (121) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. I volunteered at the history center twice, drove to Fairfield for three civil court cases, picked up my new glasses, and went to Kaiser for a mammogram. Genealogy Blog Writing : Identity – Telling the Story of Those Who Had No Descendants: Arthur L. Gorrell   I wrote about one of my husband’s great-uncles who had no children. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: What Genealogy Activity Have You Spent Time On? I wrote about how I created a detailed timeline of my great-aunt’s life and how I can use that to begin writing about her life. O nline Study Groups & Meetings Attended:   Started the Monday Morning group meeting but the internet wasn’t working right, so I made someone else co-host and dropped off. Met with the AppGen partners and we made plans about the upcoming registration. Tried to meet with the Peer group on Friday, but my internet was acting up and I couldn’t stay conne...

Hope everyone has a safe and sane 4th of July and California and the west remains free from grass fires started by fireworks. Copyright © 2022 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1)  What genealogy activity have you spent time on this week? 2)  Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook Status post or note. Here's mine: Part of the week, I worked on creating a detailed timeline for my father’s great-aunt, Helena M. Gleeson. She never married and worked most of her life as either a school teacher or grammar school principal. For two years, she served as Deer Lodge County Superintendent of Schools for the term 1899-1900. How did I do it? I used a word processing program. Each line is a fact, recorded chronologically. I began with the basic information: birth, baptism, census records, death, and burial. I then filled in the details using newspaper, directory, and deed records. The timeline ended up being eight pages! I also learned a lot about Aunt Helena. Besides teaching school, she liked...

I make an effort to tell the story of those family members who had no descendants. I don’t wish that they be forgotten. One such person was my husband’s great-uncle, Arthur Leonidas Gorrell. Arthur was the youngest child of Amos Gorrell and Catherine “Cate” Elizabeth Shotts, who was born 27 February 1876 and died 19 April 1916. [1] My father-in-law, George Gorrell was just barely one years old and it’s possible he never met him. Arthur married Millie Gillespie on 3 October 1903 in Marshall, Saline County, Missouri. It’s interesting that his license said he lived in Kansas City, Missouri and she lived in Blackwater, Cooper County, Missouri. [2] It is likely that was where he met her, as his parents lived in Blackwater at that time. Perhaps they attended school together even though he was three years older. Taken in Blackwater about 1913 Three years prior to the marriage, Minnie lived in Blackwater with her parents, James Henry and Nancy Crockett Gillespie. She was twenty years old...

I have completed one hundred twenty (120) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. I volunteered at the history center twice, went to the recorder’s office in Martinez for deeds,  Fairfield for a civil court case, train club for our end of the month show, and to the Beaver Festival in Martinez where I worked at the Friends of Alhambra Creek booth. Genealogy Blog Writing : Randy Seaver highlighted my Broken Branch post in his Best of the Genea-Blogs post for the week of June 19-25, 2022. Broken Branch – When the End of the Line Families are not Well-Documented   I wrote about how as a baby genealogist, I found books about my families and entered them in my genealogy database without researching them in original sources. These all need further research. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Your Paternal Grandfather’s Matrilineal Line Randy Seaver had us list the maternal line of our paternal great-grandfathers. I could list three generations, which isn’t bad for a German lin...

It's  Saturday Night  - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1)  Who is in your paternal grandfather's matrilineal line (i.e., the mother of your paternal grandfather, and her mother, etc.) 2)  Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook Status post or note. Here’s mine: My paternal grandfather was Johan Anton Hork (1843-1906), born in Oberhundem, Westfalen and died in Sheridan, Wyoming. His mother was Maria Catharine Trösster (1813-1874), born and died in Oberhundem. She married Joseph Heinrich Horoch (1804-1857) 2 Aug 1835 in Oberhundem. Her mother was Maria Elizabeth Döbener (1792-??). She married Johann Joseph Trösster (1778-1831) 22 Jan 1809 in Kirchhundem. Her mother was Anna Elisabeth Schmies. She married Caspar Döbener. I have no dates. Their names came from Maria Elisabeth’s marriage record. That is as far back as I have researc...