Heartland Genealogy

My Communities Early Settlers of the Lower Midwest and Virginia 614 DNA Matches 460,062 AncestryDNA Members Confidence: 20% My Surnames (1775-1825) Beckerdite Bland Buckles Briles Browning Burke Butler Christy Crandall Crawford Foster Ricketts Rush  Smith Story Thompson 

Prior to the release of Ancestry's new genetic communities, Blaine Bettinger posted the following in the Facebook group, Genetic Genealogy Tips and Techniques: What are your two largest cluster predictions? Don’t list every possible cluster, just list two (2) probable clusters where the largest number of your relatives were located in 1800-1850 or so . Even though I've already looked at the genetic communities associated with my DNA, I decided to take the time to study my paper research to see what it would indicate. To help with that 'study' I decided to re-create the ' Where were they born? ' spreadsheet. I extended the spreadsheet to a sixth generation. For the most part, this sixth generation catches people born in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Current evidence indicates that my New Brunswick, Canada branch is actually loyalists from New York. Evidence also suggests that almost all of my New York lines go back to early New England. Thus, I...

Judson Foster Crawford was born in April 1866 in Warren County, Indiana. He was the second child born to Washington Marion and Mary (Foster) Crawford. Judson's father had only been home from the war for a year when Judson was born. At the age of 14, Judson was living with his parents in Warren County, Indiana. Family tradition says that as a young adult, Judson was a cook's helper on a cattle drive worked on a ranch worked in a grocery store Even though these stories are hard to prove, they could all be true. Judson's uncle, James H. Crawford migrated from Indiana to the Dodge City area where he owned both a ranch and a grocery store. Thus, Judson could have worked for his uncle on the ranch or in town at the store. The 1885 Kansas census indicates that Judson did work in a store since his occupation is listed as clerk.

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.