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!