Recent content by jenlyon60

Don't forget there are ocean currents and where any debris might be now may be a much different location than where it was days ago.

And that is one of my problems with Rootsweb Worldconnect (now owned by Ancestry) and the Ancestry trees... There is too much proliferation of inaccurate/incorrect and downright bogus info out there, and a lot of "newbie" researchers tend to assume that "because it's on Ancestry it must be...

I use RootsMagic, which I happen to prefer over FTM. A lot of people like FTM and they're basically the "10-ton gorilla" of the genealogy business these days. A lot of people also store their info on Ancestry.com's trees, but if you do that, be careful how you set it up, in terms of...

Depending on what part of Ohio, a lot of families moved to Ohio from either PA or VA. Also a chunk of early settlers in NE Ohio moved there from upstate New York.

Of course then there's the family group within one of my lines. They got married AFTER having something like 7 or 8 kids. Basically lived together for all those years. It appears that they got married soon after she "found religion" based on part of the text of her obit.

any Germans out there feel free to correct me, but isn't Ludwig a Germanic equivalent to "Louis" or "Lewis"?

April 1840 is what the 1900 census says. Which jives with the age given in the 1910 census assuming that the birth month is correct (which implies he was born in the last half of 1840, since the "as of" for the 1900 census was June 1, and the "as of" for the 1910 census was April 15. Of...

Here is a rather difficult to believe death certificate from Mercer County WV http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1036181&Type=Death Yep, 122 years old according to the death certificate. In the 1920 census, his age is listed as 120. In the 1910 census his recorded age is 69. In...

Many states did not require birth registration until the early 1900's. For Virginia, it was around 1912, although here was some limited birth registration at the county level before that. Same with death registration...not required or enforced for a long time. People just had a coffin made...

And when you start looking at death records, remember a death record is essentially a secondary source. The person answering the questions may or may not know all the information being asked. Or may only "sort of" know it. That individual (the informant) may or may not be a blood relative, even.