Heartland Genealogy

Leon Russell Crawford was born in Newton Kansas on the 6 th of Feb 1894. According to Leon’s wife, Winnie Crawford, the family lived in Oklahoma when Leon and his sister Bernice were young. Winnie stated: Judson Crawford worked on a ranch in Oklahoma because Josie’s sister and husband were there. The family all almost died. Judson was extremely ill. The children, Bernice (over 2) and Leon (1) almost died because of poor diet. Documentation for this story has not been found. However, Josie’s sister and husband did live in Oklahoma. The family was living in Dodge City by his 6 th birthday. As a child, Leon attended the Third Ward School that was located on Boot Hill.

Genealogy Proof Standard Study Group Homework Chapter One  -What is the Genealogical Proof Standard? Your Name Reference: Christine Rose, Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case 4th Edition Revised, (San Jose, California: CR Publications) 2014. My book arrived today -- so I can get the homework done in time! While waiting on my book, I've been thinking about which areas of my research that I could pull from for the assignment. However, after spending my day working with a genealogical resource and trying to figure out the mystery behind it, I've decided to use it for my homework. The resource in question is a journal found in the archives of the Nemaha County Historical Society titled: Dr. Fangman's journal of baby deliveries . This journal contains birth information from June 1932 until August 1955. I would categorize this journal as a derivative source . The handwriting is very similar throughout the journal. This would imply that the s...

The number one question I've been asked in the last month has been, "How do you like retirement?" Quickly following that question is one wondering what I do with all my time. My answers to the 2 questions are 'loving it' and 'researching my family'. Since they rarely understand that I could spend all of my time working on my family history, I quickly follow my answer up with the fact that I'm volunteering at the Nemaha County Historical Society . For me, researching my family history is like doing a jigsaw puzzle.

Lately, there has been an emphasis on using the FAN club to help break down brick walls. Evidence of this interest is the recent Legacy Family Tree Webinar by Elizabeth Shown Mills titled "FAN + GPS + DNA". Tonight's "Wacky Wednesday" DearMyrtle Hangout is scheduled to discuss this same topic. I've previously used the FAN club principle in my research. However, I did not branch out as much as Ms. Mills suggested in her presentation. Since I have a brick wall in Kentucky prior to 1800, I want to revisit my research and see if I can apply a broader FAN club along with DNA to make some headway on my CRAWFORD line.

My Crawford lineage has always been like putting together a jigsaw puzzle -- trying to figure out how hundreds of pieces fit together. Many years ago, I wrote about dissecting these pieces in order to identify my line. At the time, I identified four James Crawford families that were in the same region of Kentucky prior to 1800. Rev. James Crawford (1752-1803) who married Rebecca McPheeters James Crawford who married Rebecca Anderson James Crawford (1772-1854) who married Sally Duggins in 1799 in Garrard County, KY James Crawford (1770-1833) who married Martha Knight in 1793 in Lincoln County, KY

Have you had your DNA tested? Do you have a family tree linked to your DNA test? If not, please, please, please post a tree! Over half of the 4th-6th cousin matches on my first page of matches either don't have a tree or have a very small (<10 people) tree. Thus, I can't begin to figure out how we are related. I would love to work with you to research our common ancestor -- so please post a tree

They're Gone (At least on the surface) Even though I already had many of these in my RootsMagic database, I elected to tackle these leaves. Some might ask why I am spending so much time on this versus locating new information. As I was doing this I found that I could double-check my data (i.e. a Go Over) convert my citations from the format I used in Master Genealogist to current standards add images to the citations Besides updating my data, I found that several of these 'shaky leaves' actually led to sources that I didn't realize existed.  Unfortunately, I probably have quite a few more shaky leaves to tackle since I have descendants for at least a generation or two for each of my ancestors. Thus, there are a lot of people waiting for me to look at their screen and confirm or ignore each 'shaky leaf'.