John McLeland, father of Thomas Asher McLeland, took the unusual step of applying for a Civil War Service Pension based on the service of his deceased son James R. McLeland. J.R. McLeland (the first in a long string of J.R. McLelands in this family culminating with my father) died, unmarried, of disease at Fort Scott [...]
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The pension file of my dreams!
Posted in McLeland, methodology, research notes on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lumberjacks – the cowboys of early Maine
Posted in Gould, methodology, research notes on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Following up on the legend of the death of Moses Gould in 1816, I had some questions. Would a logger’s death have been so commonplace it wasn’t recorded in a local newspaper? Was it likely that Moses was working as a logger? The rest of his family appear to have been primarily [...]
Trying to tease Moses out of the shadows
Posted in Gould, methodology, research notes on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My 4th great grandfather, Moses Gould died, reportedly at age 40, while lumbering in the Maine woods. He left a wife, Anne Adams Gould, and 7 young children. My 3rd great grandfather was his youngest son Joseph Gould. Joseph never knew his father. In fact if the various brag book entries for Joseph and his [...]
Wikis Anyone? Why Not?
Posted in Technology issues and ideas, methodology on November 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One thing about going to a library conference these days is that there is alot of technology under discussion. Wikis are probably not technology in the classic sense but I wonder why they aren’t being used deeply in genealogy. It seems to me that they would be a great vehicle for collaborative [...]
Flickr for Genealogy
Posted in Technology issues and ideas, methodology on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m at a library conference and suddenly – someone is talking about various archives that have uploaded their historic photos into Flickr. I never considered Flickr as a possible source for older/old photos of houses, main streets and even family members. But I did some searching and discovered quite a number of wonderful [...]
Anstoetter/Anstoeter – Is the spelling of a name an artifact of a family fight?
Posted in Anstoetter, methodology, musings on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My husband (and my kids of course) is descended from one of two men named Anstoetter, who were probably brothers, who came to the US in about 1868 from the region around Salzbergen, Hannover, Germany. Both settled in Iowa, one in Dubuque County and one in Carroll County. Actually, they both appear to [...]
Geni.com – an interesting way to collaborate
Posted in Technology issues and ideas, methodology on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been playing around (in between rebuilding the website and restoring the house – looks like a theme there) with Geni.com which is basically a collaborative genealogical workspace. Not quite a wiki and not quite family tree software, Geni.com allows you to create pedigree chart style linked family trees and share them with relatives [...]
The Thomas Asher who died in Texas – how does he relate to my Thomas?
Posted in Asher, methodology, research notes on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to the War of 1812 pension file of Thomas Asher, who died in TX in 1885, he was drafted in Anderson County, Tennessee, in October 1814 and was discharged at Anderson County Tennessee in May 1815. He married Mary McGee in Anderson County on 6 May 1817. And he was a widower residing in [...]
Updates and corrections to the Asher timeline
Posted in Asher, methodology, research log on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A big thank you to cousin Darrel who went over the Asher timeline with a fine toothed comb and discovered errors and helped with additions. Rather than do a second post, I added Darrel’s notes and corrections to the existing timeline but put them in red. I, also crossed out the far too [...]
An underutilized source – military service records
Posted in Whitman, methodology on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve done so much research on the Whitman family of Greenbrier County, West Virginia that I suspect I could spout family trees in my sleep. But in all my years working on this family I never even considered War of 1812 records. Which is a terrible admission to make. Afterall, the three [...]
