A Sad Farewell

Today was an unhappy day; it began with my knowing I was going to go to a wake. Not just any wake, but to one of a former genealogy club member, somebody I've know about 12 years. Our genealogy club has about 70 members, of which usually 15 people show up, and more often than not, the same people attend. Our club is pretty unique in that we have five husband and wives, a mother with two daughters and a mother with a daughter and son-in-law. Most of the regulars have been attending as long as my husband and I.
 
The other day when I was notified that one of the long-time members died suddenly at 59, it was a shock to us all. As written in her obituary, her passion was genealogy and she was a proud member of the genealogy club. How could you not cry? Her love of genealogy was like all of ours. Her mother also did it, and her husband seemed to be interested in it as well. This afternoon, I asked her husband about it, and I think he might try to do it, since my friend was also working on his lineage. We all hate going to a wake alone, but I did, and met two of the couples there, as well as one of the other members. We all knew each other and it was comforting. More members were going this evening.

I think too, my friend would be pleased with the number of her genealogy friends who showed up. We will all miss her.

Madness Monday -- Asking For Help#1

An update to my question regarding converting a PDF to a Jpeg brought many responses and many different methods.  See post of March 1.

I just called Smart Computing magazine's technical support office and presented my question to them. As a subscriber, the support is one of their benefits.  I was told there wasn't a way, other than getting an application downloaded to your PC.  Some applications may be free, free for a while or you pay immediately.

However, as I learned yesterday, a Mac will do it.  Kathryn Doyle at CaliforniaAncestors emailed, and had me send her my DAR certificate image to her, and within minutes I had the image back in a jpeg format!  Publically, I want to thank Kathryn.  In addition, Kathleen Brandt at a3genealogy had offered to do it for me as well.

I am thinking this might be an idea for the Monday posts.  And, I am hoping others have questions about blogging and technology.  Perhaps you could send me your question or questions, and I can post here.  I would love to hear your suggestions about this idea.

1914 DAR Certificate and FedEx

DAR Certificate of 1914 belonging to my great-grandmother.

I don't have many items that belonged to my great-grandmother but the three things I have pertain to the DAR.  She and her mother were both early members of the organization. Therefore, this document is quite meaningful to me. Some of you may remember my post about donating the 1901 certificate to the DAR, and they now can't locate it.

The other day, I went to FedEx armed with several items and many questions.  What joy to find there was no line, and I had the clerk all to myself.  We began with my five cemetery photos, 4 x 6 in color, which I wanted enlarged and put on heavy paper. That was done quickly.  Then from my flashdrive, the clerk found an image I had saved and printed it on heavy paper.  The last thing was to scan the above DAR document, which measures 14' x 17' and saved it on my flash drive. (There machine didn't do color, but a FedEx nearby does.) The machine used was amazing, as it can scan anything 36" wide and as long as you need.  I didn't need the image printed out, just saved..to show you.  In the future, I will have some descendant trees printed there.  Anyway, everything came to just under $6 and I was very pleased.

Once home, I tried out the flash drive.  The DAR certificate was there, but saved as a PDF, all I could get was the much smaller image (at 36% in size) to print out, which is what is above.  Yes, I can open the huge document, but of course, can't put it on the blog.  Seems like I experienced this problem before.

A quick phone call to FedEx and I was told, I could bring back the flash drive, and they can put the image into jpeg format.  Yes, I will do that. The employee was great, and really seemed to know his job and best of all, didn't mind all my questions. I learned, it is a good place to go to get information.


Based on the replies I received from a number of people who had suggestions to my Monday Madness  -- Asking For Help#1 post, there are several different ways to put a PDF onto your blog, but no easy way.  When I go back to FedEx next week, I will ask for their opinion.  Maybe there will be another way.

Surname Saturday -- KNAP Connecticut to Canada

The Knap line was one of the lines that I had a very easy time tracing their migration. Since I worked backwards and was initially stuck on the parents of Anna Knap, daughter of Jonathan. How was I ever going to locate Jonathan? He wasn't anywhere in the Quebec area where his daughter and husband were. During a cemetery hunt in Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada to see where my Anna Knap Pell was buried, there were two large stones, those of her parents! Written on the tombstones were what we all love to see:


"Knap, Jonathan (Capt.) b. Redding, CT. May 17, 1750 - Apr. 25, 1828 h/o Mary Alvord" And, next to him was,


"In memory of Mary Alvord wife of Capt. Jonathan Knap who departed this life July 31, 1842. Aged 88-3-5." Perfect.


Once I returned home and made a trip to the library to get the Alvord Genealogy, it stated, "Mary Alvord (Elisha, Thomas, Thomas, Alexander), born Fairfield, Conn., Apr. 26, 1754; died in her 89th year; married Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 7, 1772, Jonathan Knap, son of David and Anna (Mallory) Knap. Res. Redding, Conn." A few additional sources tied the Connecticut line to the Quebec line rather easily. He was a loyalist who left Connecticut and went to Canada. But, it was all by accident that I even looked at those stones.


The five generations are below, and my direct lines are in All Caps. The first four generations are all documented in History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus, several other books, a will and early census. The fifth generation has my Jonathan Knap born in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut and died in Quebec, Canada.


1. JOSIAH KNAP (ROGER KNAP) was born 1652, and died 1690. He married SYBIL DICKERSON BEF 1677 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, daughter of THOMAS DICKERSON and MARY. She was born ABT 1655 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died BEF 2 AUG 1709 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
 
Children of JOSIAH KNAP and SYBIL DICKERSON are:


2 i. Mary KNAP was born 7 NOV 1677 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


+ 3 ii. MOSES KNAP was born 1688 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died BET 3 AND 11 NOV 1755 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


4 iii. Jonathan KNAP was born 21 APR 1690 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


5 iv. Daniel KNAP was born ABT 21 JUN 1696 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died ABT 1771. He married Abigail BANKS 5 MAR 1709/10 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, daughter of Benjamin BANKS.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 2

3. MOSES KNAP (JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born 1688 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died BET 3 AND 11 NOV 1755 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. He married GANDA ADAMS BEF 1712 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, daughter of NATHAN ADAMS and MARY JAMES. She was born BEF 23 DEC 1694 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died AFT 1755.


Children of MOSES KNAP and GANDA ADAMS are:


6 i. Hannah KNAP was born in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Ebenezer MALLORY 6 FEB 1743/44.


7 ii. Ruth KNAP was born in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Daniel LYON. She married Seth WHEELER 27 OCT 1746.


+ 8 iii. DAVID KNAP was born ABT 15 MAR 1711/12 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 7 MAY 1795 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


9 iv. Sarah KNAP was born ABT 24 AUG 1712 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Gerrard FINNEY. He was born in of Dutchess Co., New York.


10 v. Jonathan KNAP was born ABT MAY 1715 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


11 vi. Rebecca KNAP was born 8 SEP 1717 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Simon DeWolf \ DOLPH 1739 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. He was born 8 MAR 1708/09 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and died 1771 in Northeast, Dutchess Co., New York.


12 vii. Moses KNAP was born ABT 28 JUN 1719.


13 viii. Rachel KNAP was born 7 JUN 1726 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Josiah WHITLOCK in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, son of John WHITLOCK.


14 ix. Eunice KNAP was born 1728 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Jabez WILLIAMS 1753 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


+ 15 x. Mary KNAP was born ABT 1730 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 9 DEC 1756 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 3

8. DAVID KNAP (MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born ABT 15 MAR 1711/12 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 7 MAY 1795 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. He married ANNA (__) w\o Isaac MEEKER 24 OCT 1736 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She was born ABT 17 MAY 1713 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 4 AUG 1797.


Children of DAVID KNAP and ANNA (__) w\o Isaac MEEKER are:


+ 16 i. Anna KNAP was born 29 JUL 1737 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 1811 in Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


17 ii. Aquila KNAP was born 20 DEC 1738 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 11 SEP 1760 in Fort Edward, Washington Co., New York.


18 iii. Priscilla KNAP was born 8 MAR 1740/41 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married John SEYMOUR.


+ 19 iv. Lois KNAP was born 1 JAN 1742/43 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 8 MAY 1833 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


20 v. David KNAP was born 18 MAY 1745 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 1769. He married Ruth. He married Abigail BENEDICT 16 MAY 1765 in Danbury, Connecticut.


+ 21 vi. JONATHAN KNAP was born 6 MAR 1749/50 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 25 APR 1828 in St. Armand E. (Freighsburg), Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada..


+ 22 vii. Moses KNAP was born ABT 1754 in of Arlington, Vermont, and died 13 FEB 1816 in Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


15. Mary KNAP (MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born ABT 1730 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 9 DEC 1756 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Gershom FAIRCHILD 19 NOV 1754 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, son of Alexander FAIRCHILD and Mary MALLORY. He was born ABT 1734 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 20 DEC 1792 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


Child of Mary KNAP and Gershom FAIRCHILD is:


23 i. Mary FAIRCHILD was born 9 DEC 1756 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 4

16. Anna KNAP (DAVID KNAP4, MOSES KNAP3, JOSIAH KNAP2, ROGER KNAP1) was born 29 JUL 1737 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 1811 in Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Nehemiah WHITLOCK.


Child of Anna KNAP and Nehemiah WHITLOCK is:


24 i. Solomon WHITLOCK was born ABT 1760 in Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died ABT 1830 in New Brunswick, Canada.


19. Lois KNAP (DAVID KNAP, MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born 1 JAN 1742/43 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 8 MAY 1833 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married John DAVERN. He was born 1739 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


Children of Lois KNAP and John DAVERN are:


25 i. David DAVERN was born ABT 1764 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


26 ii. John DAVERN was born ABT 1766 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 1832.


+ 27 iii. Talcott DAVERN was born 1768 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 18 NOV 1847 in Warrensville Heights, Ohio.


28 iv. Lucy Jane DAVERN was born 1770 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 1856 in Bethel, Connecticut. She married Lemuel PATCHEN. She married Samuel CROFUT.


29 v. Betsey DAVERN was born ABT 1775 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 10 DEC 1854. She married Eri CROFUT 29 NOV 1798 in Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


21. JONATHAN KNAP (DAVID KNAP, MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born 6 MAR 1749/50 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 25 APR 1828 in St. Armand E. (Freighsburg), Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.. He was buried 28 APR 1828 in Bishop Stewart Memorial Cemetery. Frelighsburg, Missiquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. He married MARY (Molly) ALVORD 7 SEP 1772 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, daughter of ELISHA \ ELIAS ALVORD and HANNAH GOODSELL. She was born 26 APR 1754 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 31 JUL 1842 in St. Armand E. (Freighsburg), Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.. She was buried 2 AUG 1842 in Bishop Stewart Memorial Cemetery. Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


Children of JONATHAN KNAP and MARY (Molly) ALVORD are:


30 i. Mary KNAP was born 15 APR 1774 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. She married Joseph DOLPH.


31 ii. Jonathan KNAP was born 29 DEC 1777 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. He married Lucy BURR 10 APR 1800 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


+ 32 iii. Aquila KNAP was born 5 DEC 1785 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 23 MAR 1877 in of Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


33 iv. Priscilla KNAP was born 25 APR 1788 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 20 APR 1864 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


+ 34 v. Moses KNAP was born 8 JAN 1790 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 27 DEC 1863 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


35 vi. Rachel KNAP was born 6 SEP 1792 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 26 AUG 1854. She married Lewis Leach \ COCHAN.


+ 36 vii. ANNA KNAP was born 22 APR 1798 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 20 FEB 1866 in Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


22. Moses KNAP (DAVID KNAP, MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born ABT 1754 in of Arlington, Vermont, and died 13 FEB 1816 in Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. He was buried 16 FEB 1816 in All Saints Anglican Church Cemetery, Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. He married Charity HURD ABT 1789, daughter of Abraham HARD and Charity Munsee \ Mamsee \ MUNSON. She was born ABT 1760 in Connecticut, and died 13 MAR 1851 in Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. She was buried 17 MAR 1851 in All Saints Anglican Church Cemetery, Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


Child of Moses KNAP and Charity HURD is:


+ 37 i. Diantha KNAP was born 23 APR 1791 in Salisbury, Addison Co., Vermont, and died 24 MAY 1852 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 5

27. Talcott DAVERN (Lois KNAP, DAVID KNAP, MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born 1768 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 18 NOV 1847 in Warrensville Heights, Ohio. He married Temperance (__) DAVERN.


Child of Talcott DAVERN and Temperance is:


38 i. Laura DAVERN was born 1814 in New York, and died AFT 1880. She married Ransom BILLINGS 27 AUG 1831 in Thompson, Geauga Co., Ohio. He was born 1803, and died 3 JAN 1861.


32. Aquila KNAP (JONATHAN KNAP, DAVID KNAP, MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born 5 DEC 1785 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 23 MAR 1877 in of Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. He was buried 25 MAR 1877 in Bishop Stewart Memorial Cemetery*, Frelighsburg, Canada. He married Margaret (Sands) DAVIS 1828. She was born 1794 in Long Island, New York, and died 1855.


Children of Aquila KNAP and Margaret (Sands) DAVIS are:


39 i. Aquila Sands KNAP was born FEB 1830 in Quebec, Canada, and died 11 JUL 1830 in of Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


40 ii. Edward Sands KNAP was born 19 JUN 1831 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


34. Moses KNAP (JONATHAN KNAP, DAVID KNAP, MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born 8 JAN 1790 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 27 DEC 1863 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. He was buried 29 DEC 1863 in Bishop Stewart Memorial Cemetery*, Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. He married Ruth GETTY 8 JAN 1824 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, daughter of Robert GETTY and Eleanor MILLER. She was born ABT 1805 in Quebec, Canada, and died 3 FEB 1862 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. She was buried 5 FEB 1862 in Bishop Stewart Memorial Cemetery*, Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


Children of Moses KNAP and Ruth GETTY are:


41 i. Alvord KNAP was born 29 MAR 1820 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, and died 4 AUG 1836 in of Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.
+ 42 ii. Eleanor Meller KNAP was born 13 JUL 1827 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, and died 8 JUN 1900 in of Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


+ 43 iii. Jonathan KNAP was born 4 JUN 1829 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, and died 2 SEP 1867 in of Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


44 iv. Moses KNAP was born 27 APR 1834 in Quebec, Canada, and died 4 NOV 1835 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


36. ANNA KNAP (JONATHAN KNAP, DAVID KNAP, MOSES KNAP, JOSIAH KNAP, ROGER KNAP) was born 22 APR 1798 in Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, and died 20 FEB 1866 in Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. She was buried 22 FEB 1866 in Bishop Stewart Memorial Cemetery, Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. She married GEORGE A. PELL 26 MAR 1823 in St. Armand E. (Frelighsburg), Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, son of JAMES (GIBBINS) PELL and (__) w\o JAMES (Gibbins) PELL. He was born ABT OCT 1797 in Canada, and died 14 JUN 1832 in Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada. He was buried 15 JUN 1832 in Bishop Stewart Memorial Angl. Church Cemetery. Frelighsburg, Missisquoi.


Children of ANNA KNAP and GEORGE A. PELL are:


+ 45 i. Susannah M. PELL was born 14 FEB 1824 in St. Armand E. (Frelighsburg), Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, and died AFT 1881.


+ 46 ii. JAMES GIBBINS PELL was born 6 JUL 1825 in St. Armand E. (Frelighsburg), Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, and died 20 MAR 1913 in Frelighsburg, Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada.


+ 47 iii. George Anna PELL was born 31 DEC 1826 in St. Armand E. (Frelighsburg), Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada, and died 25 SEP 1916 in Waterloo, Shefford Co., Quebec, Canada.

Seeing President Ronald Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillippines

President Ronald Reagan and Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillippines on the White House lawn.

President Ronald Reagan meets with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the White House lawn.

Genealogy Reviews from Two Magazines

The two current (for March) magazines shown above have articles that might be of interest to some readers. As a lover of magazines, I often find bits of information pertaining to genealogy in them. Last night I found two.

It is without pleasure that the Entertainment Weekly magazine gave a review of “Who Do You Think You Are?” The write-up wasn't very good, but the rating of a D was pretty low. Considering this magazine is popular with TV viewers, it didn’t send a positive message to them, nor entice them to watch.

Smart Computing has an article, "Find it Online, Root out Your Family History." The magazine has always covered new genealogy products, so this wasn't a surprise. Covered are reviews of six genealogy sites, Dick Eastman's newsletter and Family Tree Builder.

Tombstone Tuesday - NEWELL (The wives, Norton and Woodruff)

South End Burying Ground, Southington, Hartford Co., Connecticut

Sarah Norton Newell

Born:  April 01, 1689, Southington, Hartford Co., Connecticut

Died:  December 05, 1775, Southington, Hartford Co., Connecticut

(Her husband was Samuel Newell, buried at another cemetery.)

They were my 6th great-grandparents.

Hannah Woodruff Newell Sloper

Born:  July 07, 1730, Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut

Died:  October 27, 1815, Southington, Hartford Co., Connecticut

(Her first husband was Asahel Newell (buried at another cemetery, her second was Daniel Sloper.)
Note:  I wrote about Hannah recently.

Asahel and Hannah were my 5th great-grandparents.

Monday Madness -- Asking for Help#1

I have so many difficulties when it comes to computer related issues.  Nothing has been easy.  The computer is ok, it is doing the little fun things pertaining to blogs.  For example, it took an hour to try to get the March birthdays report posted, but it still isn't right.  I did it with a version of FTM and then RM4. After all that time, I've decided to beg for help.  This isn't my first attempt with the below project, I tried it last month too.  The report is now saved in pdf format on the desktop and in my documents folder.  But there was no way to get it on to the blog.

So, what you are seeing is a printed copy which I scanned.  There must be an easier way.

I am hoping somebody takes pity on a much older person, and offers help.  I hate to warn you, but if I get help, I may use this tactic again in the future!  Like really soon.  I've already made a new label for Instructions.

In the past, one person offered help without me asking.  So I would like to publically  thank Apple.  There are others that I asked; they are Dru, Gini and Cheryl.  Last thing, I plan on doing this report every month, and possibly for deaths...you will be so tired of seeing it.  Thank you for any help.

Looking Back

Valentine's Day came and went, as did the figure skating at the Olympics, and soon life will be back to normal.  Genealogy research, blogging, and trying hard to have a more rounded life are in store. A few things I wanted to share are below.  And I will begin with a quick tour of the Missisquoi Museum and Historical Society in Stanbridge East, Quebec, Canada. I have mentioned this Historical Society in my My Favorite Historical Society is on a Stamp blog.  P.S. It is also on a post card, which I will show another time.

It was a big step for me to add something to the side on my blog.  When I asked Lindalee of Flipside if I could copy her image of the Dove of Peace, she said yes.  (Picture is at the left.)  But it was a week or more before I gathered the nerve to make a change to my home page.

While looking at blogs at a leisurely pace, I was quite surprised to see a post of mine in the Friday, December 18, 2009 issue of Shades of the Departed.  A very belated "Thank you" goes to Footnote Maven and the individual who submitted my article. My article was The Best Christmas Gift -- DAR and genealogy related, of course. Thank you again.  It always pays to read everything, even if you don't submit anything.

The day I posted my Tuesday Tombstone posting for two generations of Van Woerts buried in Oneonta, New York, I received a nice comment and email from a Van Woert cousin. Always very nice to make a connection like that.

Last month, I mentioned I was going to work on my photos, which meant scanning and copying to Find-A-Grave.  I started off with a bang, and then the Olympics came on. However, I managed to do over 100 scans and will try to finish up in March.

Once again, Randy Seaver and I are cousins, this time through our Gates line.  Update, found out yesterday, that we also shared the Sawtell line. And, Kathleen Brandt of a3genealogy was kind to do a Follow Friday, highlighting my above Gates article. Thank you Kathleen.

In closing, I have decided not to continue with my Looking Forward blog, mainly because I haven't given March any thought!

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How would I spend $20,000 from Ancestry?

For Saturday, February 27, 2010, Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun  pertains to the contest Ancestry.com is offering everybody to participate in.

Randy states, "Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) If you won grand prize in the Ancestry.com Ultimate Family History Journey Sweepstakes of $20,000 for genealogy travel to places of your choice, where would you go?
2) Tell us of your dream genealogy trip using the prize money in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this post, or in a comment on Facebook."
 
My answer was pretty much formed the minute I entered the contest.

While the desire to return to England is somewhere in the back of my mind, I realistically think I would travel around the United States, and Quebec, Canada instead. The furthest I would go will be determined by any new information obtained through the consults. But, since my family has been in the United States before 1800, I would think it would be one of the states.

There is only one library, the Newberry Library in Chicago I really want to visit. Three generations of Pooles were from Evanston, Illinois, and I would love to see where my grandparents were buried. From Chicago, I would go via train to Salt Lake City for five days of research.

A trip to Washington, DC to revisit the roots of my great-grandparents, and do research at my old stomping grounds, the DAR library.


A 4 or 5 day trip around Connecticut, and a completely different trip for Massachusetts, both times staying at bed and breakfast inns and visiting cemeteries, the area, homesteads and seeing the land. In addition, a return mini trip to Quebec, Canada, with stops in Vermont and New Hampshire, visiting areas of my ancestors. During the entire trips, I would be praying for great weather. It is pretty easy to get carried away here, but I think I would also like to go to New Jersey and New York to trace my Ten Eyck line from New Amsterdam, to New Jersey to Albany, NY. That would also require several days at libraries in Albany and Cooperstown.

Depending on the restrictions for spending the 20,000, I would like to purchase a new computer during the trip and a camera as well. If Ancestry.com allows it, I would like to attend one or two genealogy conferences within the year. Not knowing how much time I have to spend the money, it is hard to say when or where I would go, and could my husband attend as well, since this is his hobby too.

A few donations will be made to my favorite Historical or Genealogical Societies, I might even become a lifetime member.

So, let’s see, budget wise, it would cost about:

The four mini-trips by car would be about $12,000.
The trip to the Chicago area and Salt Lake City, about $4,000.
The week in DC, about $2,000.
$2,500 for camera and Apple laptop. If these aren’t covered by the award, I would extend some of the trips for a few days longer. And eat well!

Well, if I am over my budget, I would do them all, and pay the difference out-of-pocket. And, share everything with the blogging community. No, maybe not, I wouldn’t want anybody to be jealous.