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If you're in the Celina, Ohio area Sunday, I'll be speaking at the Mercer County Genealogical Society at 2 p. m. My topic is Talking to the Dead. When you can't find a death certificate or obit or you do find one but it doesn't tell the info you're hoping to find, you've got to think outside the box. I'll be giving you 89 resources for death and death related records to help you find what you need. Hope to see you there!
If you make it Sunday or have heard me speak, scroll down to my gadget and click on "Have you heard me speak?" and give me a review. Your comments help me know if I'm doing a good job or need to work on some improvements. Hope to see you there! I'm sure that you may have heard that Cyndi's List was stolen. Someone copied Cyndi Howell's entire website and put it on his or hers and pass it off as being Cyndi's List. This is just unthinkable. I can't imagine what she is going through or how anyone managed to do this hideous act. As we all know, there is only one Cyndi's List and it will always be the true and only Cyndi's List. When I started doing genealogy, I literally learned how to sue the internet and how to trace my family history by using Cyndi's List. You could say Cyndi's List was my first mentor and an excellent one at that.
I still use Cyndi's List and recommend it to everyone and always will. It's on most of my lecture handouts and it's the first place I tell beginners they need to go. I hope that whoever did this to Cyndi will be caught and gets everything that person deserves. Give Cyndi your support at her Facebook page (www.facebook.com/http://www.facebook.com/CyndisListCyndisList) as she has to deal with this culprit. Don't you love Family History Month? Every October, there are always so many exciting genealogical events going on all over the country. My calendar was full all month. I spoke at 3 county genealogical societies and will be wrapping the month up this Sunday when I speak for the Mercer County (Ohio) Genealogical Society. Actually, Sunday is November 4 but it is the weekend of the week ending the month of October. I will be presenting Talking to the Dead, my lecture on death records. Not just death certificates and obits, but 89 resources created by a person's death. I did this same program last Sunday for the Allen County (Ohio) Genealogical Society. On October 10th, I talked about So You Want to do Your Family History? to beginners at the Delphos (Ohio) Public Library. The Shelby County (Ohio) Genealogical Society had me as their speaker on October 16th where I told them about Uncle Sam's Records, which is an overview on researching military ancestors. In addition to speaking every week, I've managed to make it to 3 seminars. The first one was October 6th put on by the Allen County (Ohio) Genealogical Society. I was the chairperson so was kept hopping at this one. The theme was Native American Photo taken by Sara Crump, a Find A Ancestry presented by Snowflower. If anyone is trying to trace Grave volunteer, October 6, 2012 their Native American ancestry, especially if your ancestor hid and did not go to the reservations, this is the person you want helping you. She is the leading expert in the field and always willing to help anyone. I can connect you with her if you need some help in this type of research. After the seminar, my friends and I took Snowflower, her husband, and her assistant, Bluecorn Woman out for dinner and then went to Shawnee Cemetery just outside of Lima, Ohio. At the cemetery, we showed them the memorial for Chief Pe-Aitch-Ta or PHT as he is better known. PHT was the last chief of the Shawnee Indians in Allen County, Ohio during the time when they were removed to the reservations in Kansas. He is believed to have been buried in his garden next to his cabin, which would mean that he is actually buried under the road in front of the cemetery. No one knows for sure where his burial place is, only the location of his cabin. The next Saturday, the Latter Day Saints Family History Center in Lima, Ohio put on their first ever seminar. It was fabulous. All day, LDS volunteers were teaching sessions to attendees on how to index for Family Search. It is so easy! I'm going to try my hand as a volunteer indexer when I finish my current projects and recommend it to anyone who would like to give back to the genealogical community. Indexing for Family Search is a great way to help preserve the old records and to get them online for everyone to use. Several speakers presented a variety of topics, including Karen Miller Bennett, CG, Karen Jones of the Family History Center, and national speaker, Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG. Needless, to say, the quality of the speakers and programs surpassed expectations for a small, local seminar. The highlight of my day was getting to talk and become acquainted with Peggy Clemens Lauritzen. So often at the big conferences, you don't get a chance to speak to the speakers except to ask a question and it was really nice to be able to get acquainted with a speaker whose lectures I've admired. This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of hearing "Miss Peggy" again all day! The Darke County (Ohio) Genealogical Society presented her as their featured speaker for their annual seminar at the Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio. As usual, her topics were informative and sprinkled with her great sense of humor. What a wonderful finale for Family History Month. Wilbur Silas Carder and Erma Jeannette Alford Poole 20 March 1945 For years, I was not able to find my grandpa, Wilbur Silas Carder and step-grandma, Erma Jeanette Alford Poole's marriage records. Grandpa had taken a job in Tucson, Arizona shortly before they married. When I asked my dad where they got married, all he knew was that they got married "on the way to Arizona". That's a lot of territory to research between Ohio and Arizona! When Familysearch began digitalizing Indiana marriages, I immediately found their marriage after years of searching. Needless to say, I was elated. I immediately wrote to the courthouse in Decatur, Adams County, Indiana and obtained copies. I found several other family members married in Decatur and assume that Decatur was a Gretna Green for people who lived in West Central Ohio. Mystery solved! Note: Contact me for source citation I started my family history 15 years ago to answer one question. My dad wanted to know who his great, great grandfather was. The man in question would be the father of John M. Carder. This is all I’ve ever found as clues to the identity of John’s father. 1850 U. S. Federal census, Greene County, Ohio John M. Carder, head of household, shown as age 24, b. Va. (b. abt. 1826, however other records show his birth year to be 1822 or 1823. 1900 census has Oct. 1822.) Elis. Carder, age 47 (abt. 1803), Va. Probably John’s mother Joseph Carder, age 22 (abt. 1828), Va. Probably John’s brother Caroline Carder, age 20 (abt. 1830), Va. Proven as John’s wife per Greene Co., Oh. marriage records Amanda Moris, age 18 (abt. 1832), Va. Stephen Carder, age 12 (abt. 1838), Oh. Nancy Ann Carder, age 8 (abt. 1842), Oh. 1850 U. S. Federal Census, Greene, Ohio, population schedule, Xenia Township, p. 40B (40A stamped, not shown on 40B), dwelling 565, family 597, John M. Carder household; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 683; Greene Room. Greene County Library, Xenia, Ohio. On 11 September 1847, John’s sister, Adaline married Thomas Steen in Greene Co., Oh. Their marriage application says “father’s consent proven by John M. Carder”. On 15 October 1848, John’s sister, Susan married Moses Steen in Greene Co., Oh. Their marriage application says “consent given by mother”. Because women had few rights and consent would be given by the father if he were there and that no father is in the household on the 1850, this indicates to me that the father probably died between the marriages of the older daughters. The mention of the father’s consent on Adaline’s marriage record is the only thing I have ever found mentioning this man’s existence. John and all of his siblings died prior to Ohio requiring death certificates. This family was poor and illiterate, owned no land, had no wills or estates, and were not listed in the tax records. None of the Carder/Carter/Corder or similar surname variations on the 1840 Greene Co. census match with a wife or children with ages of those on the 1850 census. Virginia marriage records have been searched for a Carder marrying a woman named Elizabeth in the years prior to 1822 and in 1822. Any suggestions how to break this brick wall and learn who John M. Carder’s father was? I am now a proud member of the Geneabloggers community. What does this mean for you, my readers? It means that I will be improving my blogging skills by learning through other more experience genealogical bloggers, have more news and fresh ideas to make my blog more interesting and be able to point you towards other genealogy blogs that you may enjoy. I'm really excited to be a part of Geneabloggers.
Recently, there was a special on PBS called "Death and the Civil War". It was a very interesting show and opened up a whole new perspective on the subject. It made you think. Two years ago, I began to write a book on my dad's family history. One of the chapters deals with my Civil War ancestors. Moses Steen was married to my great, great grandfather, John M. Carder's sister, Susan. John was married to Moses's sister, Elizabeth. Both Susan and Elizabeth died young. A few years later, the widowed husbands remarried. John married Eliza Jane Dobbins, who was my great, great grandmother and Moses married her sister, Mary. In 1861, early in the Civil War, John, Moses, and their brothers-in-law enlisted. John, Moses, and brother-in-law, Nelson Dobbins enlisted in Co. I, 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Moses took sick at the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing (Shiloh). On June 4, 1862, he was taken to Clarksville, Tennessee and transported to the Third Street Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died on June 5th. The Third Street Hospital is now the Good Samaritan Hospital. The PBS show told that the general belief was that the War would only last about 3 months so the government didn't set up any type of system to identify dead soldiers or notify their families until later in the War. Many men died unidentified and some families never learned whether their sons or husbands died or just chose not to return home. A lot of soldiers got tattoos or kept tintypes of their families, diaries, or something on themselves that could identify them if they died. Many of them asked their comrades to contact their families if they should perish and tell them of the circumstances of their death. Because there was no system in place to notify families, newspapers began to publish lists of the dead and missing. People would flock to wait for the latest list to be available hoping that their loved ones were not on it. After the Civil War, the government implemented the use of dog tags to identify dead soldiers and notify their families in future wars. In my book, I've tried to write about what it must have been like for Mary and her children when Moses died. Mary was one of the lucky ones. Not lucky because her husband died, but lucky, in the sense that she knew. How she learned of his death or whether she was able to reach Cincinnati before he passed away is not known. But she knew. She had his body brought home and buried in Smith Cemetery in Christiansburg, Champaign County, Ohio, where they lived. Many years later, in 1913, she would be laid to rest next to him. Mary's brother, William owned the local sawmill and coffins for local funerals were made there. I don't know whether William went and brought Moses home for burial, but I do know through the pension file for his children that workers at the sawmill made his coffin. After watching this show and having a better understanding of what the aspect of death during the Civil War was like for the soldiers and their families, I plan to do some thinking and rewrite that section of my book-in-progress. If you missed the show, PBS will probably rerun it and you'll have the opportunity to see it. PBS also archives many of their programs on their website and you can watch many PBS specials on video directly from their website. Perhaps, they will put this one on there. Catch it is you can. My blog has been added to the Ohio Blog list. You can go to the list at: http://www.asenseoffamily.com/p/ohio-blogs .
This list is for people with Ohio ancestors and those who write blogs who are from Ohio or have Ohio ancestors. It was created by Shelley Bishop. The Fall 2012 issue of the OGS News has a great article by Shelley called "Using Genealogy Blogs for Ohio Research. I wish I had known about the Ohio Blog list before Shelly's article was published but I'm honored to be on it now, even if I wasn't listed on it in the OGS News. Take a look at her website and blogs and read the article if you get a chance. What would you like to read about on this blog? Genealogical "how to's", ancestors' stories, more of my ramblings about experiences I've had speaking, going to conferences, or whatever strikes my fancy at the moment? Let me know what you'd like to see on the blog.
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Rambling Along the Ancestral Trail
Ramblings about my family history and tidbits about genealogy