tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48907083350750839482024-03-05T18:32:04.472-08:00Russell Family HistoryAspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-78509520757838796542009-11-24T07:07:00.000-08:002009-11-24T07:12:58.577-08:00Do you know these people?The following people my be living descendants of Ray Nichols b abt 1925 son of Elva Russell and Ray Nichols (trying to locate):<br /><br />Victoria, Zachary, Jessica, Crystal, Ashley, Garry, Larry (recently deceased), Mary (approx age 56-70), Annette and Kathy (recently deceased) Nichols all of Burton, MI<br /><br />Henry and Anna Nichols of Orlando, FL<br /><br />April Badour of Bay City<br /><br />CJ Henning of Bay City<br /><br />Anna, Isabella, Aubrey and James Kenney of Flushing<br /><br />David, Little Rich, Samantha and Nicole Hackett of Lennon<br /><br />Chelsea Holt of Bay City<br /><br />Dorcas and Pat Boegner of Millington<br /><br />Earlene Brown of Flint (approx age 74 - 95)<br /><br />Garth and Sheri Brown of Millington<br /><br />Joseph and Kathy Brown of Yelm, WA<br /><br />These people may be descendants and Jenny or I would love to get in touch with them.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-53996599756927123002009-11-23T23:59:00.000-08:002009-11-24T00:15:40.741-08:00Delay in Death, Delay in LifeI apologize for the lack of posts on the Milo front. I relocated to Michigan from Portland, OR in September and am horrified to report that I have done not one ounce of research since then. Unless you count being on Main Street, and you could.<br /><br />Off the top of my head we still have the following cases open:<br /><br />Proof (other than DNA) that Frank RUSSELL is Milo FREEMAN<br /><br />Thomas COOPER's death certificate and correct regiment information (both of these things are unavailable under mysterious conditions)<br /><br />Bridget Rachel nee GILLESPIE, maybe nee BISHOP, ROGERS's place of origin<br /><br />Whereabouts of Robert ROGERS b 1809, b 1840 and Rachel Bridget in 1860 (Roberts obit states he left New Brunswick at the age of 19 and even I can tell you that was 1859 and the first child of Rachel and Robert Jr was b in 1862)<br /><br />Location of living BARGER (COOPER) descendants<br /><br />and finally the ongoing saga of our David POSS almost for sure the son of NICHOLAS POSS for sure for sure the son of David POSS of Lewis and Jefferson, NY, Lapeer and Huron, MI, where they came from and who the heck is Betsy WALBOUGHT<br /><br />That is all.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-91183714214111833692009-11-23T23:54:00.000-08:002009-11-23T23:58:41.842-08:00Frank Russell’s Playlist 1864 - 1869The Russell Family History Blog Presents<br />Frank Russell’s Playlist 1864 - 1869<br /><br />10. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover<br />9. Run Baby Run<br />8. I Fought the Law<br />7. Never Going Back Again<br />6. You Know I’m No Good<br />5. We Never Change<br />4. It’s My Life<br />3. Take The Long Way Home<br />2. Interstate Love Song<br />1. You Only Live OnceAspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-25747020417705307822009-10-06T23:00:00.001-07:002009-10-06T23:49:08.043-07:00ObituariesThese obituaries are Russell Genealogy Team discoveries from my April 2009 visit. Some were found at the Rochester Hills Library and some at the Library in Lansing. Mt. Avon Cemetery is referred to as the Rochester Cemetery. <br /><br />John Warren Powell died at the Pontiac Asylum last Saturday night, aged 73 years. He was a native of Rochester and lived here all his life up to 16 years ago when he removed to Pontiac. He was an old soldier and pensioner and for more than 50 years was a familiar figure in and about Rochester. He had been deranged for some time and arrangements had been made for his admission to the Pontiac asylum, when death intervened. The remains were brought up to Rochester Tuesday for interment. Besides his wife he leaves a daughter by a former marriage, one brother, William of Rochester, and two sisters, Mrs. Lewis, of Pontiac, and Mrs. Tom Cooper, of Rochester. So passes another of Rochester’s early pioneers and old soldiers. He had been married five times. <br /><br />Personal Notes: John W POWELL is the brother of Lydia (POWELL) WILSON which makes him the brother in law of Frank RUSSELL AKA Milo Verta RUSSELL. <br />John is buried at Mt. Avon and his death certificate lists his cause of death as Organic Heart Disease, Arteriosclerosis and something called Urania Nepteritis. As far as I know we only have three wives on file for him. <br />Wife: Almira HALL of Ontario b 1844 with which Laura and May were born with only May surviving.<br />Wife: Hattie b 1860-something in MI<br />Wife: Sarah A VAN BRACKLEY b 1840 in MI<br /><br />Jerry R. Wilson, 84, of 2804 Oldsmobile Avenue. LaSalle park died at St. Joseph Mercy hospital Wednesday after a three years illness and five days in the hospital. He was born at Rochester, Feb 27, 1860, the son of Reuben and Lydia Wilson. Mr. Wilson married Minnie A. Hier Dec 24, 1886 at Ovid and came here from Carson City. He was employed as a maintenance superintendent at the Hudson Covert school and prior to that at the Pontiac Motor division. He was a resident of the city for 21 years.<br /><br />Survivors include his widow: his daughters, Mrs. Asceneth Stevens of Drayton Plains, Mrs. Cleo Brownell of Detroit and Mrs. Leila Weisenberger of Pontiac; his sons, Guy of Flint, Lloyd C. of Auburn Heights, Norman D., of Pontiac, and Paul E. of Benton Harbor; his brothers, Frank Russell, of Royal Oak and Cordie Russell of Rochester, 23 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the Sparks-Griffin chapel, and burial will take place in the Rochester cemetery.<br /><br />Personal Notes: Jerry is the son of Reuben WILSON (of the WILSON/FOX family native to the area as far back as the 18-teens) and Lydia POWELL. Lydia's marriage to Frank RUSSELL AKA Milo Verta FREEMAN made Jerry WILSON (and sibling Robert) step-sons to Frank/Milo and half siblings to Cordie, Frank, Lewis and Cora May. We have been in contact with living descendants of the Wilson's, namely one very helpful Cheryl Burtch. She has provided picture of Jerry WILSON. The home Jerry lived in at his time of death (2804 Oldsmobile Ave Waterford) still stands and is/was inhabited by a WILSON as recently as 2002. There is no proof of relationship as the WILSON residents have not been approached. (Pardon me, can you tell me who your father is? And his father's father? What's your mother's maiden name? Where is your family from? Can I see some identification?) Jerry died of a heart attack at the age of 84. He outlived two brothers Lewis RUSSELL and Robert WILSON and two sisters Minerva (WILSON) and Cora May (RUSSELL) HILTON.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-38166372171164436742009-07-08T10:47:00.000-07:002009-11-24T00:16:33.070-08:00Always thinking about the possibilities<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQyICeCWeT3BGL-HHWnDwUjciL50Qq_G-0w9dVQ4DTUxohZMiE1zLN4m4fUr4YEhaai_15PKYunjOBKuNQClcqDU3LqkYAjyS1cembP4psu0zkm-GkQcNK86gmBDsnUcvhMH0cx_x8vs/s1600-h/mink.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQyICeCWeT3BGL-HHWnDwUjciL50Qq_G-0w9dVQ4DTUxohZMiE1zLN4m4fUr4YEhaai_15PKYunjOBKuNQClcqDU3LqkYAjyS1cembP4psu0zkm-GkQcNK86gmBDsnUcvhMH0cx_x8vs/s320/mink.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356147619549851122" /></a>Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-29848511592532247912009-06-07T16:41:00.000-07:002009-07-20T11:44:45.289-07:00If a Berber Falls in the Forest...I know I have not updated you much on the DNA front, but there hasn’t been much to share. I belong to a group at haplozone.net that has been gathering data on us (the artist formerly known as E3b) and doing some sub-clade predictions. All you really need to know is the prediction, which is E1b1b1b2 or M183 and you should also know that the work they are doing is completely voluntary and very super expensive and full of very amazing technology related items. This new name and predicted sub-clade doesn’t change our Berber-ness, it makes us more common Berbers, if there is such a thing among a group of people born in Michigan*. Wikipedia is saying that 80% of the Maghreb** can claim this sub-clade as well, which is substantial in a culture that is pretty much gone. I wonder what Juba would think of that? Well Juba II probably wouldn’t give a shit since he could not find anything wrong with being all kissy-kissy with the Romans. Juba Sr. was pretty serious about his loyalty so he would be really mad.<br /><br />I just recently finished re-reading chapters one through four of <span style="font-style:italic;">The Berbers</span>. The very first thing they do is beat to death the topic of what it means to be a Berber (or what it means to categorize someone as a Berber or what it means to speak a Berber dialect or what it means when you identify yourself as ohmygodshutup). So the decision seems to be made that there will be no decision or that the definition of a Berber could be one who speaks a Berber language (which as they point out actually defines them as possible variations of the words <span style="font-style:italic;">Tamazight</span> or <span style="font-style:italic;">Imazighen</span> but whatever, they’re the experts). They only touch on the dispute that the Romans (who would have liked to oppress Berbers but were only materially successful because the Berbers suffer some kind of weird self-oppression Xtreme complacency) called us <span style="font-style:italic;">Mazices</span>, which could possibly have at some point translated into the words Free Man. This is only the most exciting discovery (for me anyway) since the results themselves came in. Anyway as much as I would like to get into how popular a past time it was to invade the North African coast I clearly don’t have the time or resources. I’m not sure how to research someone that nobody cares about. There are a few books available aside from my favorite so I’ll let you know what I find as I find it.<br />http://books.google.com/books?id=8Zcz91t29ukC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Berbers&client=firefox-a<br /><br /><br />Actual DNA non-discovery:<br /><br />Originally I was going to tell you about the Gonzales’ from El Bierzo, Spain but<br />towards the end of this entry I began to check and double check my info and I realized that I missed one very important detail about them. I had to take my best paragraph out because of this oversight. I was going to tell you about these Gonzales’ and their kit number 30660/XJYA7 and how close of a match they were and how interesting that is and what it means for blah blah blah. To give you a better idea of distance and DNA within our haplogroup our Freeman matches hover around a distance of 3 at about 22 markers. Back to the important detail that I missed, the Gonzales’ have only tested 12 markers, which is no better than knowing your blood type, no better for DNA anyway. At 12 markers we now have 9 exact matches**** which sounds pretty neat but more common haplogroups (ah-hem R1b or whatever you are calling yourselves now) can have upwards of 100 of those exact matches. So at this point my opinions and the opinions of the psudo-science-mostly-genealogy community part ways. They think these 9 matches we have are totally insignificant. Well, easy for them to say when they have hundreds.<br /><br /> <br /><br />* That is going to be the name of my new quilting group, the Berbers of Michigan.<br /><br />** I can’t find any other info on this statement aside from <span style="font-style:italic;">The Berbers</span> since no one cares about Berbers except people who study DNA for family history purposes. There is pretty much no data for me to find…online.<br /><br />***YSearch is a website database sponsored by (I believe) FamilyTreeDNA at which any person with their YDNA results can enter them for all the world to see (and compare).<br /><br />**** Four Freemans, one Aviles, one Gonzales, one Lujan, one Lovato, one North African Test Group including 112 people from Algeria and one Magann.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-43515068110754440912008-11-12T09:51:00.000-08:002008-11-12T09:52:35.745-08:00Excellent resource from the Rootsweb ReviewYou have received your great-grandfather John MAIR's death certificate. The certificate tells you he died of "phlegmonous erysipelas." In reading your Grand-aunt Martha's diary you learn that her sister was afflicted with "ablepsy" and that your Uncle Alfred suffered from "dropsy." In the diary you also read that John MAIR worked as a "dyker" in his native Scotland. Martha's husband was a "cordwainer" and Uncle Alfred was working as a "huckster." <br />Genealogists frequently encounter archaic, foreign, regional, or merely unfamiliar terminology for causes of death and illnesses, as well as for our ancestors' occupations. <br /><br />ILLNESSES, DISEASES, AND OTHER ARCHAIC MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY<br />The following websites are among many I've used over the years to learn the meanings of terms no longer in common use or with which I wasn't familiar: <br />http://rmhh.co.uk/illness.html (Illnesses.)<br />http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~billingh/disease.htm (Diseases.)<br />http://www.neonatology.org/classics/old.terms.html (Terms concerning neonatology.)<br />http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm (Archaic medical terms.)<br /><br />DISASTERS—NATURAL and MANMADE <br />Sometimes the factors involved in ancestral deaths could indicate that family members died as the result of a disaster. Disasters should be considered when multiple family members died at exactly the same time. A disaster could be an earthquake, flood, fire, shipwreck, mining accident, train wreck, etc.<br />http://www.cyndislist.com/disasters.htm (Disasters.)<br /><br />EPIDEMICS<br />Deaths of more than one person over a short time period (but not necessarily on the same day), especially when children are involved, might indicate an epidemic caused by the flu, typhoid, yellow fever, or any other contagious disease.<br />http://www.cyndislist.com/disasters.htm#Epidemics (Epidemics.)<br /><br />OBSOLETE AND UNFAMILIAR OCCUPATIONAL TERMS<br />Unfamiliar occupational terms and obsolete occupational terminology often varies from country to country or even from region to region within a country. <br />http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wiashlan/occupations.html (American.)<br />http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/occupations.shtml (Medieval English and early New World.)<br />http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html (United Kingdom.)<br />http://www.worldroots.com/~brigitte/occupat.htm (German occupations and illnesses.)<br /><br />A quick review of the websites referenced here reveals that your great-grandfather died of a severe inflammation and fever, Martha's sister was blind, and Uncle Alfred had swelling or fluid retention (edema). Your great-grandfather worked as a stonemason in Scotland. Martha's husband was a shoemaker and Uncle Alfred sold small wares.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-75052244160284207142008-07-22T12:40:00.000-07:002008-07-22T12:51:26.930-07:00Milo Goes to JailAfter receiving Milo Freeman’s Pension records I ordered some intake<br />records form the prison that had had been assigned to. I was not sure<br />that he had actually made it to jail but the papers I received<br />yesterday confirm that he did complete his sentence there. Milo was<br />admitted to the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus on 28 JUN 1865 and<br />was ordered released early by an order from the war department. The<br />order was received on 04 DEC 1865 and carried out on 11 DEC 1865.<br /><br />The<br />assumption had always been that Milo changed his name to avoid this<br />sentence but now that we can see it was served there is no explanation<br />of him.<br /><br />Some of the information submitted to me by the Ohio<br />Historical Society include his physical description and information<br />about his family. His intake form also included his age at the time of<br />arrival (19) and confirms his unit (9) and company (c) as well as his<br />place of arrest which we already know from military records was Little<br />Rock, Arkansas.<br /><br />The Register of Convicts lists his nativity as<br />Michigan and his occupation as a laborer, height is 5 feet 11 inches<br />and hair is light, straight, soft and fine. He has grey eyes. It looks<br />like everyone on that page is either a laborer or farmer and they are<br />all quite young. Under general appearance it lists his Complexion as<br />Common (the only other ones on the page were Light and Dark).<br />"Freeman<br />has narrow low forehead. Flat face widest at eyes, eyes sunken, heavy<br />brows, close vertical ears horizontal scar in left temple, very large<br />scar on right arm." <br />Under Habits it says he is a moderate drinker, some of the other men are temperate, very moderate and free drinkers. HIs<br />education is Common School although others on the page are categorized<br />by weather they can read or write. They claim he has no property but<br />residence of relatives says; “Has father Alva Freeman, mother Betsy, 1<br />brother, 4 sisters near Keokuk, Iowa.”<br /><br />Now, in case you have not<br />really been following this, Milo (for everything we know about his and<br />his family and generations of his family) does not have 4 sisters. This<br />begs the questions, whose daughters are these? I is possible that he<br />has none and he has made this up. But that seems odd now, after he has<br />told the truth about his age on the intake form (19) when he joined the<br />9th Cavalry he gave is age as 18 and that was three years ago. So he tells the truth about his age and lies about siblings? <br />There<br />is no real way to know how many children a woman had, even now, the<br />only real record you can consider is your own birth certificate, which<br />should list how many children have been born to your mother. In 1867<br />there was certainly no information like that and while birth, death and<br />marriage records had just been mandated they were records and not<br />certificates and frequently listed no information other than the<br />parents names and child's date of birth, if the child had a name that<br />was also listed. However, in 1900 census enumerators were told to ask<br />how many children had been born to each mother and how many were<br />living. I’ll give you three examples of how this works.<br /><br />Eliza<br />(Powell) Cooper’s 1900 claim was 3 children born and 3 living and for<br />her we have, in fact, 4 children born and 3 living.Claud 1882, Cora and Cordy 1870 and only today Jennifer discovered that they had a boy in 1869 who by 1870 was no longer. <br /><br />Lydia<br />(Powell) Wilson Russell’s claim was 2 born and 2 living, but we know<br />from records that she had at least seven (we have conclusive<br />information on records on the following children JerryRueben Wilson<br />1862, Robert Wilson 1868, Minerva Wilson date unknown, Frank Henry<br />1872, Louis 1873, May 1879 and Cordie 1881) and we know that at least<br />one (Minerva) was deceased, although we suspect May also did not<br />survive.<br /><br />Betsy (Hicks) Freeman’s claim was 2 born and 1 living<br />but we do not have an actual record that states Betsy is the mother of<br />Milo, according to Betsy’s other son’s death certificate she s his<br />mother, but we have no such document for Milo. In Betsey’s letters to<br />the pension office she certainly claim’s she is Milo’s mother and she<br />does mention her husband Alva and other son William but never anything<br />about daughters.<br /><br />So as you can see the claims of maternity vary<br />wildly and I’d have to say accuracy is about 50/50. In all of the above<br />mentioned cases we have the same claims on paternity as far as getting<br />proof from records except for Milo, again because we have no official<br />record, unless we consider Milo’s intake record an official document. <br /><br />With<br />those inaccuracies in mind it is entirely possible that Alva, not<br />Betsey, had four daughters. Milo was born in 1847 or 1848 and William<br />was not born until 1852. We know that Alva spent a lot of time<br />traveling and we’re not sure how much of this he did with his family.<br />In 1845 Alva is listed as a tax payer inLodi, Washtenaw , in 1850 he,<br />Betsey and Milo are in Wayne County and in 1856 they are enumerated<br />twice in the Iowa state census once in Mitchell and once in Osage. In<br />1860 they are in Black Hawk county and of course two years after that<br />Milo enlists in Marion county, Iowa. Betsey says to the pension office<br />that her husband went to Davenport, Iowa in 1865 to meet Milo but Milo<br />never shows. In 1867 (I think it’s 67) Alva’s father dies and leaves<br />him some land (I have not substantiated this claim with any documents<br />but I have spoken to someone who gave me that information from memory)<br />but Alva does not go himself toWashtenaw and instead sends someone else. In 1870 Betsey, William and Alva are in Geneso, Illinois. In 1872 Alva dies while in Berrien county but his death information is placed in the Washtenaw county death returns, there is not information about his will at the Washtenaw Probate Court. In 1879 Betsey marries one George F Hughes in Washtenaw<br />but in 1880 Betsey, William and his new family are in Kalamazoo Aurora<br />and in 1890 Betsey applies for Milo’s pension from Aurora, Illinois.<br />There is never any mention of Betsey's second marriage and Mr. Hughes<br />is not dead, he continues to live on with, Ibelieve, his daughter and her family, but of course his only purpose in adding himself to our difficulties is to be enumerated<br />twice but at least in the same county, once listed as widowed and once<br />listed as married. In 1900 Betsey, William and family are still in in<br />Aurora. Betsey never gets the pension and stops applying after her 1898<br />denial, she passes away at age 85 in in 1904 in Aurora. In 1910 William<br />and family are living in Chicago but in 1916 William, while a resident<br />of Oak Park, IL (not too far from Chicago) dies in Cleveland, Ohio. <br /><br />I cannot list all the conclusions I am able to draw from this. So you’ll have to work on your own for now. <br />I still have not received the Court Martial Records from the National Archives.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-21622609118216729182008-07-17T10:28:00.000-07:002008-07-17T10:33:28.156-07:00Rachel Bridget Gillespie RogersOur subject is the mother of John Rogers (b 1863 in MI) who is the husband of Nellie Mae Albro. <br /><br />In the 1870 census Bridget states her birthplace as Ohio and her birth year as 1843. She is listed as not being able to read or write. In the household are Robert Rogers age 29 a laborer of Canadian birth whose value of real estate is $300, nine year old John, 8 year old Ellen, 7 year old Robert Jr, 5 year old Margaret, 4 year old Alice Agnes and William who is just one year. We know from records that a daughter was born and died in March of that same year.<br /><br />In 1880 she is going by Rachel and still says she is born in Ohio with a similar birth year. She lists her parents as having been born in Ireland. The children and husband are the same. Robert Sr. is now listed as a logger, no doubt making more than a laborer. <br />In 1880 relationships are listed in the census so we can confirm she is the husband of Roger and the mother of the children in the home. So far we have not been able to locate a marriage record.<br /><br />Marriage records between some of the children indicate that Bridget was born in Ireland.<br />In 17 OCT 1895 a request for guardianship is filed by the Rogers children in Manistee at the Probate court.<br /><br /><em> In the matter of appointing a guardian of Bridget Rogers, an alleged incompetent married woman. The undersigned, John A Rogers, William Rogers, Robert Rogers Jr, Alice McDonald, Margaret Adams and Ellen Hansen your petitioners, would respectfully represent to the Court, that they are children of said Bridget Rogers, that said Bridget Rogers is of the age of Fifty-four years, and an inhabitant of, or resident in said county, and is possessed of personal and real estate, situated and being in said County, and the estimated value of the personal real estate the sum of sixteen hundred dollars, or there-abouts as your petitioners are informed and verily believe. Your petitioner further represent that it is necessary that a guardian be appointed, of the person and of the estate of said Bridget Rogers for the following specific reasons to wit; That said Bridget Rogers is now and has been for two years last sick and insane and wholly incompetent mentally and physically to take care of herself and to have the charge care and management of her property. Your petitioners further represent that her husband Robert Rogers, Senior is abdicted to the habit and use of intoxicant liquors and spends and squanders the most of his earnings and such property as he can get control of for drink, and has not and does not support said Bridget Rogers and furnish her the necessary medical attendance which she requires, and is therefore an unfit person to be appointed the Guardian of said Bridget Rogers.</em><br /><br />The document goes on to say that all of her children reside in Manistee and Robert Rogers Sr resides in Wexford. It asks that John be appointed guardian. Just under a month later in November Bridget is dead. There is no indication of how she died but the application for guardianship that places Robert Sr in Wexford leads me to believe they are no longer living together.<br /><br />At the start her estate is managed by a few people, among them John Rogers and John Albro. Margaret’s husband Adolf Adams appears to have been in charge of burial arrangements from seeing that the grave was maintained for the first year after her death to paying someone to dress Bridget for the burial. Eventually John Rogers becomes the sole executor and he spends a good deal of money on remodeling her home.<br /><br />28 NOV 1898 Robert Sr. marries Eliza Logan in Wexford; they are still together in the 1900 census with Robert Jr living in the home, no less. <br /><br />The 1920 census captures the Widowed Eliza living in the Wexford county poor house. Robert Jr. marries and lives with his own family after 1900 as do all of the children.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-69681513694856782742008-06-30T16:03:00.000-07:002008-06-30T16:19:44.126-07:00Everyone, please say hello to MiloI would like to update you as far as Milo V Freeman goes but there is just so much I don't know where to start.<br /><br />I recieved Milo's civil war records. For those of you who are interested in the National Archives you can order a few different types of records <a href="https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/start.swe?SWECM=S&SWECmd=Login&SWEHo=eservices.archives.gov&SWEFullRefresh=1&SWEFullRefresh=1">from there website here.</a> I ordered the complete file and actually I was dissappointed. I was really hoping for a physical description.<br /><br />It took just over 30 days and cost me 75 smack-a-roos. Just as I suspected there is no proof Milo died, nor is there proof that he ever showed up in Ohio for his two year prison sentence for larceny. <br /><br />Can stealing $30 really be larceny? <br /><br />I have some files on order. I sent in a request for more data from NARA, specifically the court martial records and also some penitentiary records from the <a href="http://www.ohiohistory.org/NoFlash.html">Ohio Historical Society</a>. They have a blog, and a link to the <a href="http://www.ogs.org/">Ohio Genealogical Society </a>on their site.<br /><br />Frank Russell does not exist, genealogically speaking, until 1867. Milo stops existing, also genealogically speaking in 1865.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-15617936449254828712008-06-27T07:02:00.000-07:002008-06-27T07:15:43.686-07:00Other Genealogy BlogsSome Genealogy Blogs, I've put the title first and surname (when possible) in Parentheses.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.kenspangler.com/blog/">Beyond Fiction</a> (Spangler)<br /><br /><a href="http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2008/06/50th-carnival-of-genealogy-family-pets.html">West in New England</a> (Too many to list)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.deadpeopleblog.com/">I Seek Dead People </a><br /><br /><a href="http://back-track.blogspot.com/">BackTrack</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.genealogue.com/">Genealogue</a><br /><br /><a href="http://fortyyearchain.blogspot.com/">The Register of Misdeeds</a>Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-40096670458803936502008-06-09T07:52:00.001-07:002008-06-09T07:56:25.061-07:00Thomas CooperBad News, I got my second "rejection letter" from the National Archives. Thomas Coope of the 11th Ohio Cavelry was not our guy. There was no Thomas Cooper in the 8th MI Cal and no Thomas Cooper in the 3rd Ohio Cal. I'm not sure what the next step is. <br /><br />I have not heard anything back about Milo's records but I am keeping my fingers crossed and hopin' and prayin' and all that. I'm not sure where to go from here if he doesn't work out. There is a Freeman Family in Pennsylvania that is looking good these days.<br /><br />I'm waiting for Ancestry to make some changes to their DNA ordering system so that we can upgrade to the next set of Markers (I think it's 48). I heard a rumor that will happen soon.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-44386296151180889912008-05-30T11:28:00.000-07:002008-06-02T16:01:39.816-07:00Ordering Records and BooksOn May 27th the military records for Thomas Cooper were ordered from the National Archives. On May 29th I put myself on a waiting list for the book "Freeman Footnotes" and today I placed an order for the Military Records for Milo Freeman from NARA. Now we wait.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-26589912046114964002008-05-27T11:56:00.000-07:002008-05-27T11:59:01.182-07:00Bad Census PagesI found this in my Ancestry Weekly Journal, it's quite helpful when dealing with Images. Most of my problems lie in the way Ancestry Indexes things. Like Cordie Russell being listed as Eva Russel in 1920.<br /><br />Help for Hard-to-Read Images<br />by Juliana Smith<br />So you’ve found what you think might be your ancestor in the census. The problem is, when you view the image, what you find sends your heart plummeting. The image is a) too dark, b) too light, or c) looks like a chimpanzee with writer’s cramp wrote it. So what’s a twenty- first-century family historian to do? Let’s explore some options.<br />Image EditingMany of the records we use today were microfilmed when that technology was in its infancy. So it’s no wonder we run across faded images or dark, hard-to-read records. Photo-editing tools are great for optimizing record images that are in digital format. I use Photoshop Elements, but many of the photo-editing programs out there have the same or similar options. Here are a few ideas for sprucing up those difficult to decipher images:<br />Darken highlights. I had a really faint 1910 census entry for my great-great-grandmother. Using the “Darken Highlights” function that is available in the Quick Fix mode, I was able to make the image much more readable. (<a style="COLOR: #566c10" href="http://email.ancestry.com/cgi-bin13/DM/y/numg0UWzyV0HHn0m570GE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View before and after images on the blog</a>. The “before” image is in the center so that you can compare it with both of the edited images I’ve posted.)<br />Invert. Another option for lighter images is to invert the colors (i.e., the background would change to black with white writing on it). (I’ve also posted an example of this using the same example--see the bottom sample.)<br />Lighten Shadows. Another census image, for my Dyer family, had the family enumerated on the bottom of the page. The corner was very dark and writing from the other side of the page bled through. I used the Lighten Shadows tool and it helped remove some of the darkness. You can also play around with exposure tools to help clear out a little more of the “clutter.” (<a style="COLOR: #566c10" href="http://email.ancestry.com/cgi-bin13/DM/y/numg0UWzyV0HHn0m570GE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The second grouping on the blog</a> has an example of this.)<br />Crop. This won’t really enhance readability, but by cropping black edges off of digitized images, you can save a ton of ink when you print a copy for your files.<br />Save a Copy of the OriginalWhenever I’m editing a record image, I make a copy of it first. I always save a file with the original image and then save it with the same title, adding “_edit” at the end. Sometimes the edits will help one portion of the record, but make another portion harder to read so it’s good to have that original to refer to.<br />When It’s the HandwritingWhen we’re dealing with “chimpanzee writing,” there are low-tech options that can help us decipher letters and numbers. The easiest is to compare the character in question--whether it’s a number or a letter--to others on the page that are more readable.<br />At Ancestry on each of the main census search pages, you’ll find a box on the right with a link to a pop-up “Handwriting Help” box. It contains several handwriting samples for every letter in the alphabet and by leaving it up in the background, you can compare the samples to the records as you are searching.<br />Also look for marks that are carried down from the line above or up from the line below. If the bottom of a fancy J spills down and overlaps the name you are trying to interpret, you may be misled. So with hard to decipher names or words, look at the lines above and below too.<br />Another technique is to trace the letter. Sometimes retracing the path of the enumerator’s pen may give you that “Aha!” moment.<br />Some commonly misinterpreted letters include:<br />T and F<br />J, G, and Y<br />I and J<br />K and R<br />O and Q<br />P and R<br />U and W<br />(From <a style="COLOR: #566c10" href="http://email.ancestry.com/cgi-bin13/DM/y/numg0UWzyV0HHn0m6Y0Gn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy</a>, ed. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking.)Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-35014155424233706082008-05-13T11:45:00.000-07:002008-05-13T11:58:28.850-07:00Salt Lake CityLast October a pilgrimage was made to Salt Lake City. I found a few things, like a death records showing Nicholas Poss as the father (and not the brother!) of David Poss. I found a listing of ancient <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">British</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Aspenwalls</span> and a few other tidbits. I really planned ahead and tried to make the most of my time but there are all kinds of unpredictable problems to run into there. <br /><br />Problems in Salt Lake City<br /><br />1. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Unbelievably</span> <a href="http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net/Utah.htm">Small list of Starbucks</a><br />2. You can't bring all your data (unless you have a laptop)<br />3. <a href="http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/articles/slc.shtml">Forgetting your list of Tips for Salt Lake City</a><br />4. <a href="http://www.slctravel.com/nightlife.htm">The system enabling you to purchase liquor</a>, even at a bar, no especially at a bar is very complicated. Ask me about Murphy's, go ahead.<br />5. Does not start with a capital B so does not rhyme with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056262/">P and could not stand for Pool</a>.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-21618783599937639482008-05-13T10:58:00.000-07:002008-12-09T01:57:05.815-08:00The Seven Faces of Frank's Parents<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfQ6P5iI17CyWgyYKOa2j1B7zMAF7RZE9QS2wWwcvW0JZZ_Wzztuqv7GLC9t53bqlntWnAQhAmxKiRgkHNYZlG_naVZ33yZsC9g3QzLze3OZAoU1LumxzeyDMVKxQt6MRnxgODFTCz2w/s1600-h/benros.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199923554978657698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfQ6P5iI17CyWgyYKOa2j1B7zMAF7RZE9QS2wWwcvW0JZZ_Wzztuqv7GLC9t53bqlntWnAQhAmxKiRgkHNYZlG_naVZ33yZsC9g3QzLze3OZAoU1LumxzeyDMVKxQt6MRnxgODFTCz2w/s320/benros.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Are these the faces of people willing to adopt a child? This is Benjamin Franklin Rosell and Jane Elizabeth Pelton. Parents of Abigail who was born in 1844 and not seen since the 1850 census (presumed dead), Helen born in 1848, Ida born in 1850, Frankling born in 1852, Sarah born in 1854, Sidney born in 1856 and William born in 1858. Jane is dead by 1860 and Benjamin remarries a Mary Harris and we don't have enough room here to go into what children they had. Theodore Freeman was living steps away from the Rosell's in 1850. We know Frank's father is a Freeman, not a Rosell so it could be assumed that Theodore is Frank's father and Frank was taken in by this family down the way. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I'm going to start scouring the 1850 census and the pages surrounding our little lonely orphan's possible father and adoptive parents to see if there are any suspicious looking women who could be Frank's mother.</div>Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-3228745544291657632008-05-12T15:00:00.000-07:002008-05-13T11:44:26.295-07:00For Those Of You Just Tuning InDepending on who you are:<br />Grandpa Russell (Vern, for most of us) was born in April of 1929 to Milton Jerome Russell and Judith Rogers (The Real Grandma Russell, for most of us). Milton was the fifth son of Cordy Russell and Maude Smith and he was born in Oakland county on 17 FEB 1910 and died in 1969 in Michigan. Cordy Alvin Russell was born on 04 APR 1881 in Oakland and died 01 FEB 1965. He was the last child of Frank Russell and Lydia Powell.<br /><br /><a href="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/aspenwall/russellfamgene.jpg">After the Russell Genealogy Team</a> established those facts they were unable to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">move</span> forward. It was as if someone was lying about who they were. A Y-chromosome DNA test was done and confirmed the life long <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">suspicion</span> of many that indeed, we are not Russell's. Although nothing is <a href="http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/Resources/education">100% in DNA</a> (no really, it's true) some things are known. What I mean is, we may not be able to prove who we are through DNA alone but we can prove who we are not.<br /><br />When comparing ourselves to other Russell's it must be noted that we have few genetic similarities. When comparing ourselves to all other surnames floating around in various DNA, Surname and Family Projects the family we matchis the Freeman's with the haplotype E1b1b (or the Haplotype Formerly known as E3b).<br /><br />That is where we are with our research.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-28677959954312226982008-05-09T09:38:00.000-07:002008-12-09T01:57:06.831-08:00How to get from Free Soil, Mason to Ypsilanti, Washtenaw<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4TDHVvm6mv5WYPLpPeCl56AXtAeFJBsb19eSRtDLYe3DUrSelKh-0_eoLfm2hdBFzZ-MZzhy1pbT_sGOgvOpvyHQ3YLaqeRQyqS9p4wmCb-dvnz1fCma85YB2lRj1PklpMeVJvxgGJg/s1600-h/chicagorail.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198421013155070706" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4TDHVvm6mv5WYPLpPeCl56AXtAeFJBsb19eSRtDLYe3DUrSelKh-0_eoLfm2hdBFzZ-MZzhy1pbT_sGOgvOpvyHQ3YLaqeRQyqS9p4wmCb-dvnz1fCma85YB2lRj1PklpMeVJvxgGJg/s320/chicagorail.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Railroad">Using the Michigan Central Railroad</a> was not much of an option because it appears as though the majority of the operating time they spent wandering to and from Detriot to Chicago. <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/documents/MDOT_Official_Rail_130897_7.pdf">This link offers</a> a look at current railway stops and routes, but be careful if you have dial-up, it's a PDF! </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>If you wanted to get there after 1879 you <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_River_Railroad_(Michigan)">had this option</a> but the dead people we are currently researching were in the area long before that. Isaac Elliot (who is running for the position of Frank Russell these days) was allegedly born in Michigan around 1851. In the 1860 census he is but a wee thing living in Little Sauble, Mason County (later on Eden, Free Soil and Indian Town). So he may have been born there. He lives in a home of some type with William Freeman, possibly age 24 and No Qua possibly age 26. There are no relationships listed on the 1860 census so there is no way to tell who those adults are to him. Page 7 of 8 of that census is rampant with surnames and unrelated Indians.</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>The Neighbor Study</div><br /><br /><div>Page 7 houses only Indians born in Michigan. There were three race options for a enumerator in 1860; White, Black and Mulatto. So all Indians are listed as Mulatto, except those who are listed as White, Black or in our case, Indians. :P</div><br /><br /><div>The enumerator for Little Sauble, Charles Roswell actually listed his Indians as "Ind." quite a new thing in those days. He may have even gotten a "talk-to" at work.</div><br /><br /><div>At the top of the page John Wakefield lives (age 20 born in Michigan) with belongings worth $50 and in his home a female, Ke Ge Qua age 15. I was curious about the relationship between these two people so I checked in with them in 1870. John Wakefield (of Indian Town, the new name of the same place) is now 50 and Ina Mee, a female in the house is 40. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>In a similar situation in 1860 Freeman Sutton, age 24 living with Oe Na Swa Ba a male who is 40 and Charita a female who is 22. Also in there house are two children, William Griffin age 2 and Mary Judson who is 5. In 1870 they still live next to the Wakefields and they have aged at about the same rate. He is now 40 and his new wife, Mary Sutton is a 25 year old Indian woman and they have three children, John, Jane and William, ages 4, 1 and 6. Poor Charita must have succumbed to the consumption! </div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Whatever Freeman was doing in his personal life is, I suppose, his own business but he did purchase land in 1872 under the authority of the Indian Allotment and again in 1879 with the help of the Homestead Act in 1879 in Mason county in Township 18 N, otherwise known (at the time) as Indian Town. By 1880 the Sutton's of Mason are pretty much a new family. </div><br /><div>Freeman is married to Jane (there is nothing to rule out the possibility that Jane, Charita and Mary are all the same woman) and there are two children, Johnson (6) and Andrew (15). They live quite near (next door in fact) John Wakefield, who is an old man, 70 in fact! What is interesting now is that Mr. Sutton Freeman has only aged 4 years since the last census and John Wakefield, in the last 20 years has aged 46 years. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Most of these people are unexplainable. I do know enumerators were not supposed to count Indian's who were not taxed. Can you imagine someone moving into your home and then charging you rent? Anyway, I don't know how this data was gathered. If the original data was transferred and transcribed that could explain all the errors in age and perhaps age. Did the enumerators make up names and identities for people they could not reach? Or people they did not want to reach? Did the Indian's think the Christian name's were a big joke? </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"Hey, hey, Shah Uou! What's my name? Guess!"</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"Ummm...is it Tom Bob?"</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"No, it's THOMAS MITCHELL!"</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"Ha ha ha, Oh that is sooo funny!" Ash E Wa laughs so hard he starts to cry.</div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>I'm not sure what happened to all of these other people. They may have died or disappeared. If they could have left, perhaps William Griffin and Mary Judson went too. Did Issac go with them? Did he go to Macomb and marry 38 year old Ester Graham, widow of the county-wide-famous Benjamin Graham?</div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XDl0QmdwACbWOJG1uL-1l-lffC0_ZmJ5yfoxVhH-Yg4XXm7sOPv9-wyBY-iTEWE_5iZsW5a1r8wmNqrs9ggNTRuJE-1yOpX0pKJ3U59r32zWK8KfCspx2f6F3qBeBr0n5ai9QgBMnf4/s1600-h/benjamin.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198493233030152962" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XDl0QmdwACbWOJG1uL-1l-lffC0_ZmJ5yfoxVhH-Yg4XXm7sOPv9-wyBY-iTEWE_5iZsW5a1r8wmNqrs9ggNTRuJE-1yOpX0pKJ3U59r32zWK8KfCspx2f6F3qBeBr0n5ai9QgBMnf4/s320/benjamin.JPG" border="0" /></a></div></div>Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-14195060941907424612008-05-05T15:24:00.001-07:002008-05-14T14:13:53.346-07:00Those Damn Rich Russell's<a href="http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=deneedham&id=I02053">http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=deneedham&id=I02053</a>Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-68315221233308525012008-04-11T08:21:00.000-07:002008-04-11T08:38:35.565-07:00Michigan TripHere is the schedule for the Michigan Trip<br /><br />April 23rd 2008<br />6:30 PM (PDT) Flight 2222/ Horizon Air and Northwest Airlines #AS 2496 from Portland to Seattle<br /><br />Arrive in Seattle at 7:25 P.M. PDT catch flight 208 on Northwest to Detroit at 10:10 P.M. PDT<br /><br />April 24<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span>, 2008<br />Arrive in Detroit at 5:19 A.M. EDT (or 2:19 A.M. PDT)<br /><br />Pick up rental car at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">alamo</span> (I have a coupon and a discount!!)<br /><br />Drive to Jen-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">wa's</span> house and pick her up before heading to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Mayfield</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Lapeer</span> to look at the White Opera House, then to the cemetery. <br /><br />At 11:00 A.M. the Oakland County Pioneer <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Museum</span> and Historical Society opens, poke around there.<br /><br />Thursday evening go check in at Aunt Jean's in Lake Orion, where I'll be staying.<br /><br />Friday April 25th, 2008<br /><br />10:00 A.M. Get Jen-wa (Christin? Brother Dave?) meet Jim Schaffer and sisters at Alex's for late breakfast.<br /><br />Noon, leave with Jen-wa (Christin?) for the Archives at the State Library, research like the dickens.<br /><br />Saturday April 26th, 2008<br /><br />Sometime (noon?) go to Uncle Harold and Aunt Mary's for get together with Bob and Diane, Patsy (Margarite?) Jenny, Christin, and Uncle Brother Dave.<br /><br />4:15 P.M. Be at Aunt Jean's to go to 5:00 dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Dowis.<br /><br />No Plans for Sunday (Thank God. No really, I might go to church.)<br /><br />The only thing I have not entered into the schedule is a visit to the Pontiac Library to visit Terry McCormick and look up some obits and a coffee with my Uncle Bill.<br /><br />Whew.<br /><br />Monday Morning at the crack of dawn I catch my flight home.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-72729571931479827532008-03-28T09:40:00.000-07:002008-03-28T10:05:47.392-07:00DNADYS19A=13<br />DYS19b=-<br />DYS385A=13<br />DYS385b=15<br />DYS388=12<br />DYS389I=14<br />DYS389II=30<br />DYS390=23<br />DYS391=9<br />DYS392=11<br />DYS393=13<br />DYS426=11<br />DYS438=10<br />DYS439=10<br />DYS441=15<br />DYS447=23<br />DYS448=20<br />DYS449=32<br />DYS454=12<br />DYS455=11<br />DYS458=17<br />DYS460=11<br />DYS461=13<br />DYS463=18<br />DYS464a=14<br />DYS464b=16<br />DYS464c=16<br />DYS464d=17<br />DYS464e=-<br />DYS464f=-<br />YCAIIa=19<br />YCAIIb=22<br />Y-GATA-h4.1=22 (7 for YSearch)<br />Haplogroup E3BAspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-54216459874860136022008-03-11T08:52:00.000-07:002008-03-11T09:20:47.707-07:00Vital RecordsVital Records are available at the Library of Michigan, <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-18835_18895_20699-51001--,00.html">here's a link</a> to some of that information. Most of the information posted here (or any any <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">genealogy</span> site) gives details on how to obtain the information on these records. Purchasing an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">official</span> copy of a vital records is different. <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-4645_6245---,00.html">Here's where you</a> can find that. Oakland County does not have much of a way to get information <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">without</span> ordering the actual certificate. <a href="http://www.oakgov.com/clerkrod/division_committee/vital_records/order_birth_death_marr.html">Here's their site</a>, but notice that you can only order birth records through the online system for persons born after 1935. If your dead people were born before that you'll need to print out <a href="http://www.oakgov.com/clerkrod/assets/docs/Birthreq.pdf">this form</a> and mail it in with the $15 fee and a copy of your drivers license. <a href="http://www.oakgov.com/clerkrod/assets/docs/marr_death_form.pdf">Here's the mail order death certificate copy</a> and <a href="http://www.oakgov.com/clerkrod/assets/docs/marr_death_form.pdf">here's one for the marriage</a>, neither of these need copies of your <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">driver's</span> license and they are also $15 each. They don't get into it much on the website but the data you seek must be post-1867. I am having a hard time surfing the laws of the state but from what I can gather 1867 was the year. What confuses me is that some counties seem to follow other guidelines, or at least they used to. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Lapeer</span> <a href="http://www.county.lapeer.org/Clerk/marriage.htm">says here </a>that they have marriage information dating from 1833. The Jackson Co <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Genealogical</span> Society says <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~mijackso/jcgs.htm">here</a> that they're library has sources records of all kinds from as early as 1830. <a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MIALPENA/2006-02/1140998991">Here's</a> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">rootsweb</span> conversation about vital records.<br />I'm exhausted! Maybe I'll try and tackle Macomb later.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-22400637319250174502008-02-27T11:03:00.000-08:002008-03-11T09:19:11.401-07:00Foxes of MichiganGustavus Fox<br />On 13 OCT 1835 Gustavus Fox bought some land in Macomb at the Detroit Land office. He lives in Macomb in 1850 on the same page as William and Mary Wilson and all their children including Rueben) 1860 and 1870, 1880. Gustavus is b in conn. in abt 1810.<br /><br />Henry Fox<br />On 04 APR 1833 Henry Fox bought Macomb land and then again in 1835. I can't find Hnery in 1850 and wonder if he is even still alive. There is a Henry living in St. Clair in 1840 and 1850. The Henry in St Clair says he is b in MI in 1808 and his wife Mary says she was b in MI in 1815. Their children Lewis and Mary both 16, Hannah 12, Oscar 10 and Dora 8 are all b in MI.<br />In 1860 they have moved to Macomb and Mary is listed as Male Farmer b in NY. Go figure. They live next door to the Colon family (hahaha). They have a 25 yo Henry (lewis?), Oscar is 18 and now there is a Francis who is b in 52 and a Manda b in 1855. Manda and Oscar are living together in 1870. Mary married MR. Bell and died in Charlevoix in 1882 of Lung Fever.<br /><br /><br />Dorus Fox<br />Dorus M Fox bought land in Macomb on 18 AUG 1837 and on Rootsweb he is listed in someones family tree as being a Col, he also has a son named Oscar. They live mostly in Ionia. Here's the link to his family tree: <a href="http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbwheeler&id=I83783" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbwheeler&id=I83783</a><br /><br />Zenos Fox<br />On 07 MAR 1825 Zenos Fox bought land in Oakland and more again in 1837 he m Maria (or Emaria or Elmaria or Elvira) Burt on 30 JAN 1827. In 1830, 1860 and 1834 Zenos is listed in the MI state census as living in Oakland. In the 1850 Federal Census he says his is b in Conn in 1806 (he is living ion Springfield, Oakland) occupation listed is farmer. Wife is Almina or Almira b in Mass in 1806. daughter Tilpha or Zilpha b 1830 in MI, Caroline b 18382 in MI and Lorina b 1835 in MI. Ont eh same page there is a William Wilson b in NY b 1820 wife, Lydia. In 1860 Zenos says he is b in 1798 in Conn, wife Almira is b 1804 in NY (I think it says NY) there is a 80 yo Simeon Burt b in NY also livingi n the house.<br /><br />In 1830 Zenus is in Oakland and in his house are 1 male between 30 and 40, 1 female 5 and under and on female between 20 and 30. In 1840 he is "Z Fox" in Oakland 1 male between 30 and 40 one female under five two between 5 and 10 and one felmale between 30 and 40. Daughter Lavina Fox (b feb 1833) m James S Hubbard on 26 OCT 1854 in OaklandAspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-21075448190032734302008-02-22T09:15:00.000-08:002008-03-11T09:19:58.994-07:00Change you can Xerox (Facts about Robert Wilson)Haha, just kidding. I hate politics.<br /><br />Robert Wilson (or The Mystery of the Family Doubles - Reuben Wilson Part Deux)<br /><br /><br />Robert Wilson is born in Rochester to Reuben Wilson and Lydia Powell.<br /><em>Sources: Reuben Wilson's Pension File and Batch M017303</em><br /><br /><br />He married Minnie Strong, parents Edgar & Eunice in Rochester on 16 NOV 1893. She was born in Imlay, Lapeer on 09 OCT 1878.<br /><em>Sources: Microfilm #974252 and Batch M017303</em><br /><em></em><br /><br />Robert and Minnie were married 16 NOV 1893 in Rochester, Oakland, Michigan. In Montcalm County in 1900 they live together with their son Willie who was born approx. 1899 in Michigan.<br /><em>Sources: Microfilm #1295530 and 1900 Census (Bloomer, Montcalm, MI pg 2 Dist 119)</em><br /><em></em><br /><br />In 1910 Minnie is living with George White. George and Minnie were married on 18 SEP 1905 in Pontiac. Minnie and George have been married for three years. Children in the house are William (12), Bessie K (9) and three year old Kenneth. It should be noted that they are living on page 19 and Eunice and Edgar Strong (parents of Minnie) are living on page 16.<br /><em>Sources: 1910 Census (Almont, Lapeer, MI pg 19 and 16, Dist 30) and Batch <a onclick="setRefineValue(1);" href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/IGI/search_igi.asp?batch_number=M018206&region=11">M018206</a>. </em><br /><em></em><br /><br />Robert is living with his brother Jerry in 1920 in Pontiac. Robert is buried at the Mt. Avom Cemetery and died on 17 APR 1921.<br /><em>Sources: 1920 Census (Pontiac, Oakland, MI pg 4, Dist 196) and City of Rochester </em><br /><br /><br /><br /><em></em>Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890708335075083948.post-42657714983652145312008-02-13T21:05:00.000-08:002008-02-13T21:15:49.927-08:00Polish EncouragementAfter a bit of googling I have found the <a href="http://www.pgsm.org">Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan</a>. Their mission, so far as I can tell is to "promote and encourage research". I don't believe any of the family's current polish researchers need any encouragement. But just in case there is also a great page of resources in the form of links, <a href="http://www.pgsm.org/index_030.htm">here</a>. I also found a site called <a href="http://www.polishroots.org">Polish Roots</a> that may be helpful and on genforum they even have a <a href="http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/">message board</a>.Aspenwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974388236918884519noreply@blogger.com0