Birthday of Frances Elizabeth Smith Davison b. 11 Jun 1899

This is my Nana, whose birthday is today.  This photo was taken at the Bethany Congregational Church on Main St. in East Rockaway, Long Island, New York, on the day that her youngest daughter, Doris Audrey Davison was married to Kenneth Russell Cotte.  February 14, 1954.  I used to love going to visit her in the summers, when I was out of school.  We lived in Newington, CT, then Rocky Hill, CT and then Madison, CT.  She was a wonderful knitter, and made me a sweater every year for Christmas.
One year, 1956 I think, I was allowed to take my best friend, Nancy Thompson, with me to visit for a week, and Nana sewed matching sun dresses for us.  People asked us if we were twins.  I loved it!  She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  A charter member, I believe.

Travels and Online Research

It is a pleasure to be able to travel to visit our children in far away places without having to abandon my research.  Thanks to modern technology, we can still look for information about our dear departed ones when we have Internet access. We can also check and send emails. And, not to be forgotten, we can blog about our adventures.

This is an experiment in creating a link.  Wish me luck!  www.familysearch.org

Hope you can use it.  If so, just watch out for more.

www.ancestry.com/DNA  We have done our tests with AncestryDNA, and are having a lot of fun with them.  When I went to RootsTech last month, I was able to buy 30 DNA kits for friends and family at a deeply discounted price of $49.00.  I had the plan to help each person do the saliva sample start a tree and activate the test.  Well, that only worked out in a couple of instances.

Now, I am looking for new cousins, helping someone find her birth father, and helping someone else (adopted at birth) find blood relatives.

What fun!  Check back for updates.

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT will be my place of research for the next couple of days. It's time to line up things to look for when we are back east in May and June.  So far, this afternoon, I was able to find references to records that are digitized and online. There must be some  things in the library that have not been digitized yet.

Just last month, I found a microfilm that had not been digitized. It was an index of land and property transactions for Suffolk County, NY back in the 1600s and 1700s. Those are my people! 

Even though it was in the index, it had some good information. It referred to Joseph Conklin, son of Isaac Conklin. That shows a relationship right there. I am looking forward to digging into that farther.  

There was a vending machine that had flash drives for sale for six dollars each. I took a roll of microfilm over to the copy room, and a nice young man showed me how to use the electronic reading machine. I was able to save copies of some of the images that were on the microfilm onto my flash drive.  Because of licensing restring, I was not permitted to copy the entire film onto my flash drive.  That was a very fruitful, though short, trip to the family history Library.

Today's date is 13 March 2017, and I just noticed that I haven't published this yet.  Not sure exactly which day I wrote this originally, but thought it would be good to send it out today.  Maybe something in here will be useful to somebody.

New Records Found for Long Island Davison Family

Today, among other things, I left a note on the memorial of my second great grandfather, Oliver Davison.  To see his memorial on Find A Grave, try this link.  

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31564742

I also found a record for my two great, great aunts, Amelia and Susan Davison, showing their entry into the United States at St. Albans, Vermont.  They had been on a voyage to England, and this was where they came back to.  If I learn how to share the link or post the image I found on Ancestry, I will share it.

Enjoyed participating in an online Google+ Hangout On Air called Mondays With Myrt, featuring Pat Richley-Erickson as dearMYRTLE and Russ Worthington as Cousin Russ.  Now I have to figure out how to make a link and insert an image for you at this point.  Wish me luck!

Baby Steps, With Help, in Seeking my True Great Grandfather, John Buckley

LOOKING THROUGH LEXINGTON

The first thing I want to do is acknowledge and express my gratitude to a few wonderful people who are encouraging me to make another attempt at solving my brick wall dilemma regarding my two John Buckley men.  Pat Richley-Erickson, aka dearMYRTLE, your friend in genealogy, has gently encouraged me to blog more often.  blog.dearmyrtle.com

There is another wonderful woman on Facebook, Elizabeth Shown Mills, who is a genealogist, author, and so much more.  She posted something yesterday about having two men in the same place with the same name, and trying to identify who fits where in a family tree.  Well, I commented on her post about my John Buckley challenge, and she replied.  Thank you!  She was helpful and encouraging.

Jill Morelli shared some tips about how she uses timelines.  So, I started one for each John Buckley.  Baby steps here.

Jeri Leigh Satterwhite-Dearing mentioned some puzzles she has in her family tree, and how using the FAN

Karin Berry explained about her strategy of writing everything out.  That sounds appealing to me also.

So now, in the course of learning about my John Buckley person, I am also developing skills in post a blog.

Happy hunting!

Homework for QuickLesson No. 1, Analysis and Citation Study GroupSession

                                     

Homework for QuickLesson No. 1, Analysis and Citation Study Group Session

Thanks to the generosity of my dear cousin, Susan, I am now in possession of a color copy of the Marriage Certificate for a couple of my ancestors..  

Now I have taken a photograph of each page of the Marriage Certificate, and figured out how to display them here. 

The first page tells me what this is, a Marriage Certificate.  And that's all.  

The second page shows the date, 15 September 1917.    Then we see the names of the people who are getting married, Russell Simonson Davison and Frances Elizabeth Smith.  Next it shows the address where they were married, 120 Barrett St., Jamaica, NY. This is followed by the signature of the person who performed the marriage ceremony (Rev.) Egbert C. Macklin (Pastor).  The last item on this page includes the signatures of the witnesses - Margaret S. Collins and Jennie M. Hendrickson.

The third page shows some scriptures that were used in the ceremony.

The fourth page shows an expression of congratulations, a printed quote worth remembering and a personal, hand-written expression of good wishes.  The signature of Egbert C. Macklin concludes the infomation on this final page.

There are some questions that have answers within these pages.  

What is this?  A marriage certificate

When was it created?  Most likely on 15 September 1917

Where was it created?  Most likely at 120 Barrett St., Jamaica, New York.

Who created it?  Reverand Egbert C. Macklin

Who got married?  Russell Simonson Davison and Frances Elizabeth Smith

Who were the witnesses?  Margaret S. Collins and Jennie M. Hendrickson.

There is nothing on the pages that tells me that a seal was used.  

Since this certificate is in my possession, and the original is in the possession of my cousin in Florida, I would say just this.  My understanding is that a citation is intended to help searchers find the document for themselves.  Come and see me.  I'll show it to you and we can share a snack.

Oh!  You might want to know who these people are.  They are my maternal grandparents, Daddy Russ and Nana.  I knew them and loved them a lot.

Learning New Blogging Skills

Today you will see if my attempt to show you the image of the 1910 U S  Census for John Buckley, Jr. and his wife, Emma C. Buckley is successful.  They never had any children, and were very active in the social events of the local community and in Boston.

Well!  How about that?

Now you see my attempt to give you a link to this image that I found on Family Search.

https://familysearch.org/search/linker?pal=/pal:/MM9.1.1/M2VH-D8Q&id=KCPR-4H8&hinting=%2Ftree%2F%23view%3Dancestor%26person%3DKCPR-4H8&icid=ft-hinting

Is this what it's supposed to look like?  Does it work for you?

The reason I want to post this is that my parents and sister lived in this house when I was born at Cambridge Memorial Hospital.  My next two brothers, William Gleason Buckley, Jr. and Stephen Davison Buckley were also born when we lived in this house.

We lived there until 1948, when my father got a new job and we moved to Newington, CT.