Finally, an update!

 

 It has been entirely too long since I posted!

 I took December off to visit with family, but then 2023 did not start very well.  January and February 2023, I spent in bed with various illnesses, and the month of March was mostly recovering, healing, and trying to catch up on everything that needs to be done in regular life!

 Today, I f-i-n-a-l-l-y got the last of everything caught up!  Yay! 

August through October I spent doing miscellaneous genealogy while not a “project” I was still quite busy.  November 2022, I finished my grandmother’s book of genealogy, documents, and awards.  I was able to give these tribute books to family for Christmas.  They will be available in a couple of weeks.  November also brought several great finds, thanks to a Facebook post of a resource I was unaware of,  I was able to order 8 death certificates and one birth certificate.  This was a really great break through and I was so excited!

December 2022 I spent with family and coaching grandchildren in journaling.  I am teaching them fun ways to journal hoping it will instill lifelong habits of recording their little lives.

I was able to work in Family Search, clean up, and utilize hints and problem helps for all of the Hugh & Margaret Roberts family members and their descendants.  I started this same process for the 99 coal miners from the Frontier Mine No. 1 disaster, but have not yet completed this task.  I am also, adding all the documents I have and the photographs of the coal miner’s headstones.  The last time I went through and spent a great deal of time in Family Search was 2012 through 2014.  (Thankfully, Family Search has a “My Contributions” tab, which tracks many fun things!  Go check it out!)  Therefore, I am long over-due to work in Family Search again!

There are several new features on Family Search that I love.  I am happy that you can no longer delete some individuals; records must be combined. 

 


 


The other feature I love is the red banner alert across the top for special situations.  This banner notifies others of specific research and documented findings.     

 


I also love the record hints, and the way that Family Search has you compare records, explain reasoning, and easily add information from the source to the individual record.  This comparison and explanation is also used, when you combine or do not combine what the program deems as duplicate individuals.

I have also, been Indexing again.  It has been a long time since I indexed, and I am glad my ward is meeting regularly to index as a group, as it persuades me regularly contribute.

Finally, I am looking forward to May, and placing Memorial Day flowers at the graves of our ancestors and the 99 Frontier Mine No. 1 coal miners.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Walking Where They Walked: Park Hotel

Image
Park Hotel, Rock Springs, Wyoming, September 2013, RR&B 19 Elk Street, Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming The Park Hotel opened in 1914 and was the hub of Western Wyoming until the late 1950’s. It was the largest and most modern hotel in the city. Advertisements boasted of hot and cold water in each of its 38 rooms, twenty of which had private baths and toilets. The fourth floor was added in the 1920’s. The Park Hotel catered to commercial men and automobile tourists traveling the Lincoln Highway. The hotel had a boisterous barroom and a sedate restaurant with sparking white table cloths. Rock Springs Miner, 30 January 1914, page 1, Wyoming Newspaper Project online. One memory of the Park Hotel, is related by Thomas P. Cullen, “One summer afternoon while walking up Elk Street toward the C Street Crossing, my attention was drawn to the small crowd assembled near the north end of the Park Hotel. A slight man, of short stature, stood rolling up his pantlegs
Read more

What is a mortcloth?

A mortcloth, or pall, is a funeral cloth used to cover a coffin in the funeral ceremony or the deceased prior to burial.   The deceased’s family usually rented a mortcloth from the local church and after each use, the fabric was washed and readied for use again.   The word comes from the Latin word “pallium” meaning cloak. The Mortcloth case of 1792 begins:   “ For many centuries, and probably up to the 20th, the Church of Scotland was the sole supplier of mortcloths.   As the name would suggest, they were cloths used to cover the dead prior to burial, and after use, were washed ready for rehire. The Church hired these for a few pence, or in some cases loaned out these cloths, until the time of the funeral. The revenue raised by this service, typically around £40 pa, was distributed to the poor of the parish at frequent intervals.”   In the late 1780’s a local Society of Colliers decided to purchase and rent out their own mortcloths preventing the local church from making re
Read more

Bagillt, Flintshire, Wales

Image
Bagillt, Flintshire, Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagillt) The parish of Bagillt was gazetted on 23 May 1844, having been created from the townships of Bagillt Fawr, Bagillt Fechan, Coleshill Fawr and Coleshill Fechan, which were formerly in the parish of Holywell. It is located in the Northern part of Wales. (Genuki, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Bagillt/index.html)   The 1841 British Census finds Margaret(2) Roberts, aged four years living with her parents and siblings in Bagillt, Flintshire, Wales. In 1831, J. Poole penned: "Bagillt is a bustling place, and will continue so, as long as her smelting and coal works go on in their present prosperous state. Well conducted boats go from this place to Chester every day; with a favorable wind, these little barks make the 17 or 18 miles in little more than two hours."   (J. Poole, Gleanings of the histories of Holywell, Flint, St. Asaph and Rhuddlan, 1831 as qtd.  in http://www.genuki.org.uk/
Read more