Most people in Andover, Ohio, knew her as Jennie Morley, but her real name was Sarah Jane Howlett. Jennie Morley was important to our family as she raised Grace Green as her daughter. There probably was no formal adoption. It is worth noting that Jennie Morley “adopted” other children over the years. Jennie was born
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The New Ancestry Will Replace Old Ancestry as of December 15th 2015
On 16 Nov 2015, I received an email from Ancestry.com stating that it is switching all accounts over to its “new” Ancestry.com website on 15 Dec 2015. The “old” Ancestry.com will no longer be available. The most significant advances claimed for the new website are on the person page. The person page is organized into four
Read on »Logging In To Ellis Island Database
I received a call from a fellow member of the Cuyahoga Valley Genealogical Society (http://www.cuyahogagenealogy.org/CVGS/) inquiring how to access Ellis Island records these days. A few years ago, when the Ellis Island records were first made available online, I created an account to look up ancestors who might have come to America through Ellis Island.
Read on »FamilySearch Digitizing Records from Trumbull County, Ohio
Recently, FamilySearch.org has been uploading digitized images of a wide variety of records from Trumbull County, Ohio. The records range from 1795-2010. As of today (02 Feb 2015), the collection includes 666,927 browsable images. If you are interested, you will find the collection here: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2065327. Having this available for online research will be very valuable for genealogists
Read on »Generational Suffixes: When Junior and II Are–and Were–Used in Families
Today, I was double checking my “Dingmans of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio” family tree on Ancestry.com (it actually has a URL, which is http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/70859843/family), and I noted that the Junior suffix was used after the name of a son of Jacob (b 1788 in Schodack, Rennselaer, New York). The son, however, was Peter Jr, not
Read on »Welcome News about Finnfest 2015: It Will Be In Buffalo
My brother Walfrid just emailed me the news that Finnfest USA 2015 will be coming to Buffalo, New York. All righty! I am putting October 8-12, 2015, on my Google Calendar as a must attend event. Not only is Buffalo only 3 hours away from my home in Brecksville, OH, by car via I-90, but FinnFest USA
Read on »52 Ancestors — #13 We Are Sixth Cousins, Once Removed, Descending from Hezekiah Sumner 1724-1802
My wife, MJ, and I share many things from our growing up years and among our continuing interests: we graduated from the same high school in the same year (Andover; 1956); we were HS senior class officers; we lived all early our lives in Ashtabula County, Ohio; we prefer classical music to popular music; we prefer
Read on »52 Ancestors — #11: Baptist Robert Brush, My Irish Ancestor (sort of)
Today, on St. Patrick’s Day, I’m writing about Baptist Robert Brush, my fourth great grandfather as the eleventh subject in my 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series. He was born in about 1750 in Antrim, Northern Ireland. He had 11 children with Esther Gamble. He died in 1810 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, at the age
Read on »52 Ancestors–#10: Alonzo Green, Cheese-making Entrepreneur
This report is another in my 2014 series of postings about ancestors and relatives (see end for details). Alonzo was my great grand uncle. In the 1870s, Alonzo was a major owner of an important cheese factory in Amboy, a populated place in Conneaut Township in Ashtabula County, Ohio. He obviously prospered as a farmer
Read on »52 Ancestors — #9: William Henry Morley, Moving from Massachusetts to Andover, Ohio
This is another posting in my quest to record stories about 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, to meet the challenge issued by Amy Johnson Crow, back at the beginning of January, 2014. I am one of hundreds of people who have risen to the challenge of creating a weekly blog posting about an ancestor. For
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