Heartland Genealogy

This morning, I watched part of the Wacky Wednesday episode: The Source Is Gone and hope to finish it watching it later today. During this presentation, Cousin Russ discusses how he is rethinking how he cites memorials on Find A Grave. During the presentation, Cousin Russ compared the suggested citation for a Find a Grave memorial to how he was citing the memorial in his software. This made me curious about my own citations and how they compare. Below is the suggested citation for the memorial of my second great grandfather, Washington Marion Crawford. When I looked at the footnote for the Find a Grave source in my software (RootsMagic), I found that the footnote was similar to the suggested footnote. My footnote is 'created' using a template to enter the information. The above template is a 'custom' template that I created. I often copy a built-in template and then customize the copy. I like using templates. They make it easy for me to remember to include the importa...

As mentioned in a previous post, my John Thompson ancestor and another John Thompson of a similar age are both living in Warrick County, Indiana at the same time. I'm hoping that land records for Warrick County, Indiana will help me separate these two families. Buried in my paper files were some notes I took from the deed index books for Warrick County. Since there are additional notes in the margins of these notes, I'm assuming I looked at the deeds while on a research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake.

Last week, I stumbled upon a hint that the father of my ancestor, John B Thompson , was David Thompson of Barren County, KY. Following that hint, I found the will of a David Thompson in Barren county, KY. Among his children was a John B. Thompson.

I descend from John Thompson -- the John Thompson who married Sarah Iglehart in Ohio County, Kentucky, lived in Warrick County, Indiana, Wapello County, Iowa and Adams County, Iowa. The 1830 and 1840 census records for Warrick County, Indiana include two men named John B Thompson. 1840 Census 1830 Census

I am researching John Thompson who married Sarah Iglehart in 1820 in Ohio county, Kentucky. According to cemetery records, John was born in Kentucky. According to a history of Adams County, Iowa, John resided in Warrick county, Indiana before migrating to Wapella County, Iowa and then to Adams County, Iowa. John and Sarah's children include William Taylor Thompson (1820-1898) md Mary Ann Evans Jacob Thompson (1822-1905) md Rhoda Evans Benjamin Franklin Thompson (1824-1875) md Catherine Black Levi Thompson (1826-1828) Martha Jane Thompson (1828-1848) md Alexander Van Winkle Andrew J Thompson (1832-?) Mary Elizabeth Thompson (1834-1917) md Henry Evans John Lowe Thompson (1836-1917) md Martha Ingersoll Francis Marion Thompson (1838-1921) md Martha Schooling Sarah Ellen Thompson (1841-1844) James Allen Thompson (1841-1868) md Margaret Scott