My Genealogy Question Is:
Did James A Wake serve in the Civil War?
Here is a link to an Ancestry.com Image of an 1863 Congressonal Registration Record:
How does one interpret records that have been "crossed out"? For example, I found in county court minutes a notation referencing a that "commissioners were appointed to lay off a year's support for Elizabeth Barnesm widow of J.L. Barnes" on 3 November 1857. The entry was crossed out. The next relevant entry wa son 5 January 1858 when a "petition for dower" was made by Elizabeth Barnes, widow of John L. Barnes.
I am having issue regarding two records which cannot be both true. Both are in original church record books, microfilmed in Local Historical Archives of my birth town.
The first one is from a baptismal record, which I cite as: St. Nikola's Church (Jezevica, Cacak): "Baptism Record Book 1864-1875," p. 142, no. 6, Delic Drinka Ljubomir baptism (1875), microfilm 10, frame 00154; Historical Archives, Cacak.
I read through Quick Lesson 13 about evidence analysis, especially the case of Thomas Woodson, who some say was a son of Sally Hemings. I agree with the conclusion, based on Sally's year of birth and the lack of a son Tom in Jefferson's slave record. One thing I did not understand, though, was the assumption that if Tom Woodson was to be Sally Hemings' son, he had to be the child born in 1790. Could he simply have been missing from Madison's list? I know one would expect Madison to know who his siblings were, but he would also be expected to know if they survived childhood. Pretending
I am beginning to revise my work and the first ancestor has a name problem. She has at least ten variations on the records and, though she could read and write, I have no record signed by her. None are used more than once in combination. There are many Trees on this family and they have chosen one of the names, the one settled on after about two generations of descendants. Before that, the whole family seemed to have a name problem.
I'm trying to apply the GPS to tear down one of my brick walls in Aalten, the Netherlands.
My ancestor Hendrik Bengevoort married in 1767, had three children with his first wife, remarried in 1778 (no children) and again in 1795. He then went on to have two more children with the third wife, the last of whom was born in 1799. Hendrik had died in 1798, leaving a pregnant wife behind.
Long ago I remember a lecture, a class or maybe somebody just told me that it was not uncommon for someone to only name there single children in a will as the married ones had already received there inheritance. I have a will dated 22 July 1850 from Canada where only the single children are listed and the oldest son is listed as one of two executors.
Are there any articles or books that might explain the reasons for this? Was this really common practice and why?
Ann Gilchrest
For my master's thesis, I am trying to reconstruct slave households and track the famlies after Emancipation. Many of the blacks enslaved by this white family, which had more than one plantation, had the same names. When I use the records created by the slaveholders, how do I determine which slave the record is talking about?
When writing a proof argument, how do all of you decide when and where to draw the line on discussing “negative” searches (that is, searches that yielded no relevant findings)? Providing extensive lists of sources checked is not practical, particularly in a work product intended for possible publication, but failing to acknowledge the examination of important sources would suggest the search was less than thorough.
What criteria do you use to decide which negative searches are worth mentioning?
Laura
I am wondering just how much straight-up technical knowledge would one require to be able to properly analyze the evidentiary value of information contained only in a URL? MJN recently publicized such a case on the APG list and there was a discussion of how to cite such a thing. I'm wondering how (or whether) a non-techie could analyze and evaluate it.
Harold
