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Madison County Kentucky Deed book B page 269-270 page 269 Crawford to Rice

It's almost the first of the month - the time when many bloggers remind us to backup our genealogy data. Normally, I ignore those reminders. I ignore them because I feel like I have a good backup plan. I backup my RootsMagic database every time I close it after making any changes. (I change the name to add a character or two to reflect the time.) My genealogy files are stored on the hard drive of my computer and synced with Dropbox I use Second Copy to copy files (documents, pictures and music) to an external USB drive I use Backblaze to backup my files off site Since I am backing up my files in multiple ways, I usually don't worry about the reminders. That was until this morning. When I sat down to my computer this morning, I had a BackBlaze warning that my files hadn't been backed up since May 22nd.  So, how did my backup system fail? Two factors caused Backblaze to not be current: the weather and the loss of Internet connectivity. Many would quest...

This morning, I watched one of the Barefoot Genealogist''s new videos: What Are Ancestry ThruLines? Even though I was already familiar with Ancestry's ThruLines - and appreciate how they are helping me with my DNA matches, I learned several things about how Ancestry's 'Common Ancestors' and 'ThruLines' work from this video.

Deed-KY-Lincoln-Crawford-Kennedy Lincoln County Kentucky Deed Book A page 219 image 120 FH Microfilm 192238 Kennedy to Crofford This Indenture maid this 19th day of April in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eight six between Thos Kennedy of the county of Lincoln and State of Virginia of the one part and James Crofford of the state and county aforesaid of the other

Madison County Kentucky Deed Book D page 712 and 713 FamilySearch Film #183285 This indenture made this third day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight between Samuel Campbell and Mary his wife of the County of Madison, Bez' l Maxwell and Margret his wife, James Crawford and Rebeca his wife of the County of Garrard, James Anderson and Hannah his wife of the county of Madison, John Gap and Anne his wife of the County of Bourbon and William M. Morrison

Jefferson County Indiana Deed Books Book D page 307 (images 158) Family Search Film #1310268 DGS 8059613

While trying to find an obituary or notice of death for my husband's relative who died during World War II, I came across a great resource for anyone researching Kansans who served during World War II - particularly those who were injured, captured or killed. The Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan, Kansas) had a series of articles entitled 'War Casualties' that appeared on a regular basis. The Manhattan Mercury was the only paper that had this type of article. Since Fort Riley is near Manhattan, that may have been a factor in the papers decision to publish this information. This paper is searchable on Newspapers.com.

As I was transcribing deeds from Jefferson County, Indiana, I found a connection with a guardian record. In the deed, Isaac Crawford sold land to Thomas Alexander. In the guardian record, Thomas Alexander is reimbursed for expenses as a guardian of an orphan on Isaac Crawford. So, what is the connection between Thomas Alexander and Isaac Crawford? Jefferson County Indiana Court Records image 612 - C Index Crawford M all to Alexander 085 Crawford M settlement 087 Crawford J alld Alexander 85 Crawford M settlement 87 Probate Order Book v. C, Feb. 1827-June 1830 Family Search Film 1310225 Items 3-5; DGS 7663707 183? - actual date not found Ordered that Thomas Alexander be allwd sixty four dollars and eighty cents for keeping Isaac Crawford an Infant orphan of Isaac ^Crawford [Or] take credit on a note by the adm of P. Crawford [RC] Jefferson County Indiana Deeds Book E page 452 Image 239 Family Search Film 1310268 DGS 8059613 page 453 This Indenture, ma...

Jefferson County, Indiana Deeds Deed record v. B. (corrected version) cont. Aug. 1817-Aug. 1820 FS Film 1310266 DGS 8059611 Book B page 105 Top of deed very faded Deed signed by Thomas Crawford Jane Crawford Possibly dated 14 Oct 1819

Jefferson County, Indiana Deeds Deed record v. B (corrected verson) cont. Aug. 1817-Aug. 1820 FS Film 1310266 DGS 8059611 Book B page 11 (image 9)

Jefferson County, Indiana Deeds Deed record v. B (corrected version cont. Aug. 1817-Aug. 1820 FS Film 1310266 DGS 8059611 Deed Book B page 9

Jefferson County Indiana Deeds Deed record V. A (corrected version) Mar. 1812-Aug. 1817 FS Film 1310264 DGS 8059609 Book A page 152

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Determine where your ancestral families were on 18 May 1919 - 100 years ago. 2)  List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible).  Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist? My Grandparents Leon Crawford was living with his parents at 504 Ave G in Dodge City Winnie Letha Currey was likely living with her sister, Myrtle. Winnie traveled from Kansas City to Dodge City in 1918 to help Myrtle with the birth of her first child, Dorothy. Winnie and Leon were married on Christmas Eve in 1919 at Myrtle's house. Edward O. Briles and his wife Pauline (Mentzer) Briles were likely living in Woodson County in 1919. Edward's World War I draft card indicated they were living in Everett Township, Woodson County in June of 1917. By 1920, they had moved to Allen County.

Recently, Randy Seaver posted about the number of DNA ThruLines he had for each ancestor. Curious, I decided to check out my own ThruLines to see how many I have for each ancestor. How Many DNA ThruLines do I have for each ancestor? Grandparents: Leon Russel Crawford / Winnie Letha Currey - 2 Edward Osmond Briles / Pauline Edith Mentzer - 7

While trying to figure out why I can't find 4th cousin matches for descendants of Nelson G. Crawford, I ran across my first obviously incorrect ThruLines screen. One of my known third cousin once removed showed up on the ThruLines for my 4th great-grandfather, James Crawford thru the Walter Beggs and the Monroe line.

I like Ancestry's new ThruLines feature! Unfortunately, it is pointing out one of my frustrations with my DNA results. I have several verified second and third cousin DNA matches on my Crawford line but we never got a DNA circle for my 3rd great grandfather, Nelson G. Crawford. When Ancestry released ThruLines, I was hoping to locate some fourth cousins thru one of Nelson's other children. However, the ThruLines for Nelson G Crawford only includes DNA matches going thru my 2nd great grandfather, Washington Marion Crawford. It does not include any lines going thru the siblings of Washington Marion Crawford.

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), answer the question: 1)  It's story time - tell us how you met your spouse or significant other.  If you don't have one, tell us about how your parents met each other. It's the spring of 1971 and I'm a freshman at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia. I've just started my new job as an assistant in the chemistry department. I worked two afternoons a week - Tuesdays and Thursday - in the storeroom. It was my job to check out and then check in glassware, thermometers and other supplies to the chemistry students. Most of my 'customers' were in Chemistry I or II students. Since dress codes for my sorority were still enforce, I was not only one of the few females working in the department, but I was the only one in a skirt. 

One of the challenges in genealogy is proving that a person in one location is the same person in another place and time. I often turn to land records to help make that connection. Thus, finding a land patent for Indiana land indicating that James Crawford came from Garrard County, Kentucky is 'genealogy gold'. United States Bureau of Land Management, "General Land Office Records," database with images,  BLM.Gov  (http://glorecords.blm.gov : viewed online April 2019), James Crawford.

I thought I had figured out those James Crawfords who appear on multiple family trees with intermingled records and families. To my surprise, I have found another one in Fleming County, Kentucky. James, the husband of Sarah Vansandt, died in May 1836. This is the James Crawford I already knew about. When I located the will of James Crawford, I found the will of another James Crawford dated September 1836. This James Crawford was the husband of Elizabeth D. Crawford, daughter of Mrs. Stockton. Not only are there TWO James Crawfords in Fleming County, Kentucky, but they both die in 1836! Fleming County Kentucky Probate Records Vols. D-E 1829-1837 FS Film 344040 DGS 4818899 image 316 - start of book E Image 522 Page 463 James Crawford Will

James Crawford's 1835 will found on pages 435-436 of Book E in Fleming County, Kentucky Legacies daughter Mary Kennerey son Crawford late son Henry Crawford son Josiah Crawford daughter Margery Blankenship (Maargary Kenney) late daughter Sarah Conran son James Crawford Son Samuel Crawford Daughter Jane Hamlett daughter Elizabeth Crawford son Joshua Crawford daughter Ann Barton son John L Crawford James Crawford Will

When working with Ancestry hints, do you look at the 'Member Tree' hints, or do you just ignore them? I look at them and often accept them without adding information to my tree. This creates a connection to other researchers that I can go back to. While working with a non-ancestor, Rev. James Crawford (1752-1803), the suggested member trees really puzzled me. Many were trees for the James Crawford that married Rebecca Anderson. However, they also included the family information for the James Crawford that married Sarah VanSant

Do you ever go back thru your research trying to use your older research to try and find new information? If so, that is what I'm working on with my James Crawford brick wall. As part of that process, I'm reviewing the other Crawford families I've identified and trying to prove/disprove a relationship with my ancestor, James Crawford. Thus, I was looking at the James Crawford who was a Presbyterian minister at Walnut Hill Church outside of Lexington, Kentucky. Not only am I trying to find additional information, but I'm also trying to make sure I have good source citations for the information I have already located. For Rev. James Crawford's death date, I had cited Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854

James Crawford was born on 17 Apr 1772 in Virginia, British Colonial America. 1 – 5      He was listed on the tax rolls  in 1800 in Garrard, Kentucky, United States. 6      7 He registered a stock mark in 1811 in Washington Township, Preble, Ohio, United States. 8 James  voted in first election in 1814 in Washington Township, Preble, Ohio, United States. 9     He filed land entry papers indicating full payment for the NW 1/4 S14 T7 Range2E on 8 Jun 1816 in Ohio, United States. 10

Do you ever participate in one of Blaine Bettinger's DNA quizzes? Or, do you ever see someone else's post about their DNA stats and decide to investigate your own? I know I often take the time to look at the data and see how my data compares. That happened two days ago when someone (and unfortunately I don't know who and can't find the original post) posted about his Ancestry DNA Common ancestors. Basically, the poster indicated how many common ancestors he had at each cousin level and wondered how that compared to other testers. Thus, I decided to look at mine: One 1st cousin Three 2nd cousins Five 3rd cousins With over 3,000 4th cousin or closer DNA matches, I expected a lot of common ancestors at the 4th cousin level. Thus, I was shocked to only find EIGHT . Out of curiosity, I looked at my incomplete ThruLines spreadsheets to see how many cousins I have identified so far.

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is known for his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenges. His blog post, DNA Tests and Analysis Summary wasn't a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge, but I decided that I needed to view it as a challenge to review my DNA results. Gedmatch highest cM match - 387.2 cM # matches sharing 68 cM or more - 9 # matches sharing 34 cM or more - 53 yDNA matches 18 at 111 markers with genetic distance of 6 or higher 52 at 67 markers with genetic distance of 1 or higher

Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to visit the Family History Center in Topeka, Kansas. During this visit, I was able to access digitized images from Botetourt County, Virginia. I was thankful these records were available at the family history center since they were locked at affiliate libraries. Botetourt County, Virginia List of Tithables, 1770-1789 FS Film 9106467 DGS 7856374 Looking for Crawford, Douglass, Maxwell 1770 Image 9 Anderson, Lemuel - 1 Crawford, James - 1 Dooley Kenery - 1

On my way home from the Northeast Kansas Library System's monthly board meeting, I stopped in Topeka to use the library and archives at the Kansas State Historical Society. One of the books I used was Montgomery County, Virginia: The First 100 Years. [Text by Judge C. W. Crush; Index by Mrs. Frances Terry Ingmire. St. Louis, MO: Mrs Terry Ingmire, 1982.] On page 94 of this book is a list of Captain Love's Company of Militia. Since James Crawford was listed as a lieutenant for the company, this list may prove useful to my Crawford research. By knowing the names of the various men in this company, I can search their pension records for mention of James Crawford (or any other Crawford). Page 94

Have you used 'shared events' in your genealogy software? Michelle Simmons Lewis had a Facebook post today that is causing me to re-visit the concept of shared events. In her post, she indicated that she was using shared events to help with a one-name study in early South Carolina. This post caught my attention today for two reasons: My Crawford research in Kentucky is similar to a limited one-name study; I could be using shared events to tie the various members of my Kentucky FAN club together. Unfortunately, Michelle Simmons Lewis' post contained hints for Legacy Family Tree software and I use RootsMagic. Knowing that the software packages are similar, I looked for information on shared events in RootsMagic. I found a video by Bruce Buzbee explaining shared events in RootsMagic.

Is something causing Ancestry's hinting system to merge people of the same name? I'm in the process of trying to disprove several Crawford men as the father of my James Crawford of Preble County, Ohio. Today, I'm trying to work on Rev. James Crawford (1752/3 to 1803) of Fayette County, Kentucky. I've found James Crawford [LZN5-SCD] in some of the Fayette County, KY records on Family Search. However, I have yet to find anything that would link James to his children. Thus, I decided to see if the Ancestry tree hints would help. I've had Rev. James Crawford along with several other Crawford families from early Kentucky in my tree for quite some time. Thus, I expected to find legitimate hints. Instead, I found a lot of hints for other James Crawfords, whom I also have in my tree. At first, I just assumed that other researchers had confused some of these Crawford families in their trees. However, when I looked at the hints for Ancestor Member trees, I realized t...

Have you ever run across a record in a county you've been researching and have no idea how the person in the record fits with known families in that area? Well, that's my situation -- and it is anoter James Crawford. James and Martha Crawford sold land in Barren County, Kentucky. Tax lists for Barren County show a James Crawford with 200 acres on the Marrowbone River. These tax lists also show another James Crawford with 50 acres on the Marrowbone. This second James Crawford is thought to be James and Sally (Smith Duggins) Crawford. I've also identified the family of David Crawford who died in Barren County, KY in 1812. Now, I've found a deed for a James Crawford and Patsy his wife selling land in Wythe County Virginia to Peter Kinson. This 1806 deed indicates that James and Patsy were living in Montgomery County, Ohio at the time.

I've seen several negative posts and comments about Ancestry's new DNA tool, ThruLines . I haven't come close to looking at all of my lines, let alone verifying them. However, I am thrilled Ancestry developed this new tool.