The 5th and final night for “Introduction to Genealogy and Family Research” will be this Monday, July 30. It’s very difficult trying to sort out what would be suitable…there’s so much more I could keep this going for weeks! The 1940 US census is being rolled out, or more correctly, the latest available census is out there, but it’s the indexing that everyone’s waiting for. That opens a lot of possibilities.
We’ve got to finish up some issues from the past couple of weeks, introduce a few more basic concepts, share some excellent web sites and then I have a few “extras” for all the participants. I’m also going to take a few more minutes to discuss internet safety as it relates to e-mail. There’s always a new scam to warn everyone about.
How about a 200 year old family bible…well, maybe 175 years old, but it’s OLD!! My dear departed Aunt Sarah had found pages from an ancestor’s bible and gave them to me along with hundreds of other pages of research that she’d completed. There are 3 pages, but only 2 are reasonably legible. They describe the parents of 5th great grandfather, Richard Grantham, a Revolutionary War veteran. By describing his marriage and all of his children, it provided me a huge jumpstart for me to gather up that branch of the family tree. With Richard and his father, John Grantham, and their ancestors, I have 12 generations of that line! Richard is also the link to my Robertson/Robinson/Robison line. My 4th great grandfather, Hezekiah Rob***son, married first to Anne Grantham who died when he returned from serving in the East Tennessee Volunteers during the War of 1812. He then married his sister-in-law, my 4th great grandmother, Tabitha Grantham. Altogether, Hezekiah and his wives gave him 12 children, 9 of whom lived to adulthood and raised families of their own.
More on Hezekiah on another day!
Remember to visit www.oldbones.co! There are updates coming that could be of interest to you. Also, there’s a link to a Civil War Reenactment at Look Park in Northampton, MA. Old Bones will be there….who better: I have Union and Confederate ancestors!!
