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March 2nd, 2010 8 comments

It’s not hard to begin your search for the roots of your family tree. Here is some useful information.

The first step toward building your tree is to start with yourself and move backwards. You can use a regular notebook to document your information or use a software program that will help you keep everything sorted out.

Next, you will want to find as much information as possible about each of the members of your family. The basic pieces of information you need are the date and place of birth, wedding date, spouse name and date and place of death. These bits of information will allow you to work further towards getting the information you need. If you don’t have all the information, you will be able to do research to find it later.

Begin to write down your family tree. Start with who you know and work backwards in time. Don’t worry if you have blank spaces – that’s what researching your family tree is all about. Later you can conduct research for your family tree to fill in the missing information.

There are many places to research your family tree. Start with your current family members. Interview your family members to gather as much information as possible. Sometimes family stores that have been passed down may hold clues to important information about your family tree. Document the information so that you can go back to it later. Another family resource is the family bible. The bible is the place where past generations recorded life events such as births, deaths and marriages. Someone in your family may also have records like birth or death certificates and marriage certificates.

Besides the family there are other places you can go to research your family tree. With access to the Internet, you won’t even need to leave home. Some resources on the Internet have free access. Other websites that specialize in genealogy require a subscription. You can access many public records for free. However, the further you go back, the fewer records you are likely to find. You can use birth records, death records, marriage records and even the census records to find information that is useful.

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http://www.articlesbase.com/diy-articles/family-tree-674881.html

Can you find this girl on the census?

January 22nd, 2010 2 comments

Here’s all I know about her:

Entry from family bible:
Julia Deverux died Jan 14th, 1904

Obituary:
Chicago Daily News – 15 Jan 1904
DEVEREUX – Jan. 14 at St. Joseph’s Hopsital, 360 Garfield-av., Miss Julia Devereux, recently of Rosecrans, Lake County, Illinois. Funeral Saturday, 16th 10 am from hospital to Calvary.

Death Certificate:
All fields except name and death date/location are blank. =/

Cemetery Record:
Julia Deveroux (age 45) – interment 1/14/04
She’s the only one buried in her plot, which was purchased by Rev. M. H. Bruton on 15 Jan 1904.

1900 Census – Newport Twp – Lake Co, IL – Page 180A
Michael Bruton – W-M- Sept 1849 – 50 – Single – IRE-IRE-IRE – Imm.1867 – Catholic Clergyman
Julia Devereux – Boarder – W-F – Nov 1847 – 42 – Single – NY-IRE-IRE – Housekeeper

I can’t find her anywhere before this 1900 census. Can you?

I think she must be the sister of my Mary Devereaux, who was in Troy, Rensselaer County, NY in 1860, living with another family as a domestic servent. I have no clue who Mary’s parents/siblings are. But check this out….

At Mary Devereaux’s wedding to James Ryan (1860 in Troy, NY), the witnesses were a William Burke and a Hannah Devereux. And look at this census entry:

1860 Census – Troy, NY – Ward 9 – Page 112
Bartholemew Katon – 43 – Laborer – IRE
Mrs. Katon – 37 – IRE
James Grace – 40 – Switchman – IRE
Julia A. Grace – 61 – IRE
James Grace, Jr. – 19 – Laborer – NY
William Burke – 19 – Spring Maker – IRE ************
Michael Fanning – 30 – Laborer – IRE
Ann Devix – 16 – Servant – IRE *****************
Julia A. Devix – 5 – NY *****************

Do you think that Ann and Julia Devix could be Hannah and Julia Devereux???
And by the way, the bible entry is from the bible of Mary Devereaux Ryan. That Julia is the only Devereux listed.

Standard for census is that they are "off" probably more than half of the time.. and the most correct will be the earliest one. In other words.. it is hard to make a mistake re a 5 yr old. By the time you get to 40 or more, the women are frequently shaving anywhere from 5-10 yrs, of vanity.
1855 is almost absolute.. and my vote is that they are sisters, not mother/ daughter. One or both parents have most likely died in the preceding 5 yrs. The immigration is between 1844 to 1855. With a little luck, the parents and Hannah/ Ann are in NY in 1850 census.
If you have Hannah in any later census ie 1900, you may have the immigration year included.
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one source for you to follow up…
the diocese records in the NY area. They are absolute Catholics.
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on the off chance that Bartholomew/ wife are relatives, he served in the CW, and has a pension index card in 1891. fwiw.

http://www.rcda.org/parishes_rensselaer.html
churches in the area… with date of founding and emails…

where were they really born?

December 9th, 2009 5 comments

I’m doing some family history research and I’ve found some death records for certain family members…other documents state that this person was born around 1860 in texas, but when I looked at the state where the social security number was issued it said kansas…why would this be?
keep in mind that this person would have been born a slave in 1860…I’m assuming that he may have moved to kansas sometime after the emancipation of 1863, and that’s where he applied, but I have yet to find a record for him in kansas…all of his children where born in Indian Territory, Oklahoma in the early 1900’s and 19-teens. and I have found census records of that.

Social Security was first enacted in August 1935; payroll taxes were first collected in 1937; the first monthly payment was issued in January 1940, but it wasn’t until 1972 that the US government authorized Social Security to enumerate children at the time they first entered school. Only in 1988 did Congress require a taxpayer identification number, which was ordinarily a Social Security number, of each dependent child age two or older.

Accordingly, US Census records could very well document that your ancestor was born in Texas in 1860, but his or her Social Security records would indicate he or she was living in Kansas at the time his Social Security card was issued. I can personally remember a 9th-grade teacher obtaining Social Security numbers for all his algebra students in 1965, so at that point, enrollment for non-working minors was completely voluntary.

You also need not look for a birth certificate for an ancestor born in 1860 Texas. Indeed, about the best you can do on that score, other than looking at US Census records, is to find his or her birth date recorded in a family bible. Up through the 1920s, births in many states were only recorded if a child was born in a hospital, but in rural and small town Texas, most children were born at home. My mother and dad who were born in 1920 and 1925 respectively didn’t have thieir birth certificates issued until 1981 when Dad decided to take Mom to Europe and show her just where he had been stationed in World War II. In each case, older siblings swore that they were present at the time of birth.

P. S. African-Americans who were slaves weren’t enumerated until 1870, although depending on the family, the census records are fairly accurate in the latter decades of the 19th century. From 1870 and any time afterwards, a census would prpbably show that your ancestor was born in Texas in 1860.