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 »
Thomas Asher McLeland – Part Two – Family Man and Government Employee
Posted in McLeland, musings on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once T.A. returned to Deer Creek, from the Civil War, his married life truly began. He and Caroline Decker McLeland began married life as farmers on the rolling prairies of SW Kansas. Over the next 20 years, they had 8 children and buried 3 as infants. Life was not easy for them but they got [...]
The uneveness of Life – 2 immigrant families 2 very different futures
Posted in Wieser, research notes on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 1847 two families immigrated from Bavaria to Iowa. They were closely related – a sister and brother and their families. Both families had relatively high education levels, they both came with some skills and a moderate amount of money and both families settled in Dubuque County, Iowa. But they had very different lives in [...]
The parents of John Herman Anstoetter
Posted in Anstoetter, research notes on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was sent this information by a very kind researcher from Salzbergen, Germany. I am, regretably, very late in sending her information in reply. Sorry Karin – it will come.
The information comes from the parish records of St. Cyriakus, Salzbergen, Hannover, Germany. These records are not on microfilm at the LDS Family History Library. [...]
Thomas Asher McLeland – finding the pieces of an ordinary life – part 1
Posted in McLeland, research notes on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(thanks to my cousin Darrell for catching several typos in the post – they have been fixed. Any existing errors are my own, sadly) This photo of Thomas Asher ( T.A.) McLeland is one of a pair (much large and with the details painted in) that hang in my front hall. The other is [...]
Genealogical Serendipity a.k.a. the power of the Internet to make connections
Posted in Anstoetter, musings, research notes on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This lovely photo shows Bernard Joseph Anstoetter and Lidwina Kramer just after their wedding in Dyersville, Iowa, December 1919. My mother in law, child of Ben and Lydia had one of the rarest surnames I’ve ever researched. Every person in the United States with the surname Anstoetter/Anstoeter was directly related to her within [...]
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 [...]
Asher research – resuming
Posted in Asher, research notes on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m headed to Salt Lake City in a few weeks and I decided to pull together a county list for the Asher’s who appear on my timeline. Now I’m a bit depressed. There is no way I’ll be able to be thorough for all these counties in less than 7 days! But [...]
Ancestral illness – perhaps
Posted in McLeland, family matters on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am very very prone to colds and other upper respiratory nastiness. This year, Seattle weather being what it is and with no walls or insulation in the house, things have been nastier than usual. The doctor has suggested that my “weakness” is probably the result of growing up in a household of smokers. Which [...]
