I decided to still not do too much typing today. That meant I didn't touch the Timberscombe Bishops Transcripts. Instead I spent a little time searching on Find My Past - just a few letters and a whole list of data appears. I looked at the Taylor family in Birmingham/Lancashire to see if I could find any clues for Ellen Taylor (my great grandmother and my mtDNA line), Blake, Knight, Butt, Pincombe, and then a long look at the BMDs in Dorset. That is a real bonus to have the records for Dorset as it is the one record office that will not sell Parish Register Fiche/Film to me. I have acquired a number of documents on Ancestry from one of the public trees but this set of records will also help to fatten up the bare bones that I have for many of my Dorset ancestors.
I have been doing my shoulder exercises as I had moved away from them the last couple of months since my shoulder appeared to be so much better. I think it is quite a bit better but suspect that it is a lifelong necessity to continue doing the exercises at least a couple of times a week. I shall do that.
We celebrated Father's Day this evening with a lovely meal at a local restaurant. My husband had his favourite pork side ribs and I had a 1/4 chicken meal which was also very good. Then we went back to our daughter and her fiance's home for a chatting time and to talk about the wedding. It should be quite beautiful and I said that I would do the cake. I will do a preliminary run with the cake for the Engagement Party later in the summer. We will see how well I do with that and if I am pleased (and they are as well :) ) then I will do the wedding cake.
I uploaded the bare bones gedcom to Find My Past and when they open it up to matching that could prove interesting as all my ancestors are English. Perhaps in the near future that will happen. I have been very lucky with Genes Reunited.
Tomorrow I hope to get back to the Timberscombe Bishops Transcripts.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Finding an apartment
We, my daughter and I, spent yesterday looking at apartments via the internet. We found two very interesting ones and just have to wait now and see if they are available. It is fascinating hunting for an apartment one thousand miles away from your location on the web. You can go into Google Maps and trace the streets to locations and see the store fronts, the library and where you are going to work. The only thing you do not get is the real feel for distance although you can estimate just from the size of the houses/apartment buildings/etc.
We also went out shopping and found yet another pot of flowers (on sale) that will look great on the porch. We are going to have the engagement party for our daughter and future son in law in August and I want some plant pots to put around the back yard (hoping for a non rainy day!) since we will have a "tea" in the backyard for the announcement. We will be about 30 people so should be able to manage that fairly well plus there will be people dropping in probably during the two hours. Our gardens will just be at their best by August so should be quite lovely. Ed has put in a lot of bedding plants as per usual and more flowers this year than vegetables. We need fewer and fewer vegetables for just the two of us.
Hence I did not touch the Timberscombe Bishop Transcripts. I shall try to get in some time on them today but it looks to be another busy one so may not put in a lot of hours. I did spend some time looking at the Mecklenburg 1819 census for my husband's Schulz/Passow/Naumann ancestors. These records are totally in German but actually are fairly searchable on Ancestry. We know the birthplace for his great grandparents - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz was born at Brohm and Fredericka Rachell Naumann was born at Staven. We have parents for both and I hunted for them on the 1819 census but it will require extracting all the Schulz entries in the area and translating the entries to determine which one since there are many many Johann Schulz and also the second and third name entries. The same with the entries for Charles Naumann. He and Sophia may or may not have been married and it would be neat to determine that. We need to borrow the parish registers from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
An online friend has kindly said that he will check the Little Cheverell registers for a marriage between John Tanner and Ann Stratton which I have from the IGI 27 Jan 1752 at Little Cheverell. Although they marry at Little Cheverell both of their children Sarah (baptized 31 Dec 1758) and John (baptized 10 Mar 1756) were baptized at Tilshead where they appeared to have lived and I found a burial for Ann Stratton Tanner 2 Oct 1779 at Tilshead but no burial for John. I checked these records when we were at Salt Lake City in the Tilshead parish registers where I also found the gratifying confirmation that Jeremiah Rawlings who married Sarah Tanner at Tilshead 1 Nov 1780 was indeed Jeremiah Rawlings from Enford (hence my ancestor). Jeremiah and Sarah Rawlings were my four x great grandparents. Since it is 1752 I do not expect to find a lot in the entry but I may be lucky with the priest recording home parish if not Little Cheverell.
Tomorrow I want to work on the Bishop Transcripts as the day doesn't have anything scheduled yet!It will be nice when I am caught up to the Parish Register fiche so that I have that second check on the transcripts. They are a derived document from the original registers which, in this case, are missing for the 1600s up to 1656 although these Bishop Transcripts exist from 1599 to 1655 but have breaks (I am moving from 1611 to 1621 in this first large break).
We also went out shopping and found yet another pot of flowers (on sale) that will look great on the porch. We are going to have the engagement party for our daughter and future son in law in August and I want some plant pots to put around the back yard (hoping for a non rainy day!) since we will have a "tea" in the backyard for the announcement. We will be about 30 people so should be able to manage that fairly well plus there will be people dropping in probably during the two hours. Our gardens will just be at their best by August so should be quite lovely. Ed has put in a lot of bedding plants as per usual and more flowers this year than vegetables. We need fewer and fewer vegetables for just the two of us.
Hence I did not touch the Timberscombe Bishop Transcripts. I shall try to get in some time on them today but it looks to be another busy one so may not put in a lot of hours. I did spend some time looking at the Mecklenburg 1819 census for my husband's Schulz/Passow/Naumann ancestors. These records are totally in German but actually are fairly searchable on Ancestry. We know the birthplace for his great grandparents - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz was born at Brohm and Fredericka Rachell Naumann was born at Staven. We have parents for both and I hunted for them on the 1819 census but it will require extracting all the Schulz entries in the area and translating the entries to determine which one since there are many many Johann Schulz and also the second and third name entries. The same with the entries for Charles Naumann. He and Sophia may or may not have been married and it would be neat to determine that. We need to borrow the parish registers from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
An online friend has kindly said that he will check the Little Cheverell registers for a marriage between John Tanner and Ann Stratton which I have from the IGI 27 Jan 1752 at Little Cheverell. Although they marry at Little Cheverell both of their children Sarah (baptized 31 Dec 1758) and John (baptized 10 Mar 1756) were baptized at Tilshead where they appeared to have lived and I found a burial for Ann Stratton Tanner 2 Oct 1779 at Tilshead but no burial for John. I checked these records when we were at Salt Lake City in the Tilshead parish registers where I also found the gratifying confirmation that Jeremiah Rawlings who married Sarah Tanner at Tilshead 1 Nov 1780 was indeed Jeremiah Rawlings from Enford (hence my ancestor). Jeremiah and Sarah Rawlings were my four x great grandparents. Since it is 1752 I do not expect to find a lot in the entry but I may be lucky with the priest recording home parish if not Little Cheverell.
Tomorrow I want to work on the Bishop Transcripts as the day doesn't have anything scheduled yet!It will be nice when I am caught up to the Parish Register fiche so that I have that second check on the transcripts. They are a derived document from the original registers which, in this case, are missing for the 1600s up to 1656 although these Bishop Transcripts exist from 1599 to 1655 but have breaks (I am moving from 1611 to 1621 in this first large break).
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Timberscombe Bishops Transcripts - 2
I continued with the Timberscombe Bishops Transcripts and completed up to the end of 1611. The next set of records is for 1621. There are now 59 baptisms, 13 marriages and 56 burials. It is nice to see more baptisms than burials. I found a Pincombe in this set of transcriptions - Dorothy the wife of George Pincombe was buried. Two years later George Pincombe was buried. Perhaps this is an older couple but there was a Pincombe family in the Timberscombe/Wootton Courtney area. Finding a George Pincombe there is the early 1600s is certainly interesting.
We went for a 14 kilometre bike ride this morning when it was cool. It was pleasant riding along the river edge and then we came back by the highway.
Tomorrow I shall work on the Timberscombe Bishops Transcripts once again. I have now completed 10 of the 127 scans. This will be the more difficult portion as the writing is 17th century English and usually quite tiny. As I reach the 18th and 19th century especially it will be easier to transcribe.
We went for a 14 kilometre bike ride this morning when it was cool. It was pleasant riding along the river edge and then we came back by the highway.
Tomorrow I shall work on the Timberscombe Bishops Transcripts once again. I have now completed 10 of the 127 scans. This will be the more difficult portion as the writing is 17th century English and usually quite tiny. As I reach the 18th and 19th century especially it will be easier to transcribe.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Timberscombe Parish Registers - Bishops Transcripts
I finally managed to download my scans for doing the BMDs of Timberscombe from Pando. A very interesting program which has its problems with Vista but works perfectly with XP. There are some fixes to make it work on Vista but I decided to just use XP! I have 127 scans now from LDS via the Somerset OPC group (I an OPC for Timberscombe and a few others). I also have the fiche from the Somerset Record Office that I can compare with the Bishops Transcript scans.
I didn't make a start today as planned on the Timberscombe registers - I did get everything organized to begin though which is a necessary first step. The day was a busy one restocking the refrigerator and unpacking from our days away. I need to transfer my images over from my portable that I took at Archives Ontario. We also visited ROM so I took about 200 images of the Egyptian exhibit to share with our daughters who couldn't come with us unfortunately. They will enjoy them. The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit begins at the end of June and we will go back to see that exhibit once again. I saw it in Montreal a number of years ago but always worth a second look (and this will actually be a third look).
I also have my images of the Routledge Township papers and the Thomas Talbot maps that I took. I would like to transcribe the names on the blocks of land in London Township with respect to Lot # and Concession # using the Talbot maps. My Routledge families are spread across five concessions all in a line around lots 24 to 27 beginning with Concession 3 and ending with concession 9. They still farm some of that land.
Tomorrow I will begin the Timberscombe registers plus do the washing. It was supposed to rain here today and did look like it on and off all day. So I will need to do that tomorrow.
I didn't make a start today as planned on the Timberscombe registers - I did get everything organized to begin though which is a necessary first step. The day was a busy one restocking the refrigerator and unpacking from our days away. I need to transfer my images over from my portable that I took at Archives Ontario. We also visited ROM so I took about 200 images of the Egyptian exhibit to share with our daughters who couldn't come with us unfortunately. They will enjoy them. The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit begins at the end of June and we will go back to see that exhibit once again. I saw it in Montreal a number of years ago but always worth a second look (and this will actually be a third look).
I also have my images of the Routledge Township papers and the Thomas Talbot maps that I took. I would like to transcribe the names on the blocks of land in London Township with respect to Lot # and Concession # using the Talbot maps. My Routledge families are spread across five concessions all in a line around lots 24 to 27 beginning with Concession 3 and ending with concession 9. They still farm some of that land.
Tomorrow I will begin the Timberscombe registers plus do the washing. It was supposed to rain here today and did look like it on and off all day. So I will need to do that tomorrow.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 11 Dec 2008
I have 40 images of the Chittlehampton Bishop's Transcripts (full pages) and have now completed over half of them for a total of 500 line entries in my Excel file. I hadn't photographed the pages with that in mind actually as my intent was simply to collect all the Pincombe entries for my one-name study. However, it will be interesting to have this overview of Chittlehampton in the 1600s. A few Somerset records are next and then the Manor Books for Upper Clatford. I needed to get back into reading Secretary hand to work on those records and as I glance at them occasionally I am finding them easier to read. That will be at least two weeks of transcription to transcribe those records but will provide me with a very close birds eye view of Upper Clatford. The Blake family were there at various times between the early 1500s and the mid 1700s when my Joseph Blake moved there from Andover.
I completed Bryan Sykes's book Adam's Curse. An excellent read for the budding DNA enthusiast looking at UK families. He does tend to concentrate on his own blood lines but still the author feels drawn into his discussions as they give an interesting picture of possible scenarios on life in Neolithic British Isles. I want to write a Review of his three books - The Seven Daughters of Eve, Adam's Curse and Saxons, Vikings, and Celts for the Ottawa Branch Newsletter next edition in 2009.
Today I will continue with Chittlehampton Parish Register Bishop's Transcripts and also do a little work on the Abbots Ann fiche. Still pursuing the Pearce family of Abbots Ann and their relationship with the Coleman family there plus the newfound relationship between the Farmer family and the Hapgood families of Collingbourne Kingston. Still working on the Farmer family there as it appears to be a good possibility for my Isaac Farmer line.
I completed Bryan Sykes's book Adam's Curse. An excellent read for the budding DNA enthusiast looking at UK families. He does tend to concentrate on his own blood lines but still the author feels drawn into his discussions as they give an interesting picture of possible scenarios on life in Neolithic British Isles. I want to write a Review of his three books - The Seven Daughters of Eve, Adam's Curse and Saxons, Vikings, and Celts for the Ottawa Branch Newsletter next edition in 2009.
Today I will continue with Chittlehampton Parish Register Bishop's Transcripts and also do a little work on the Abbots Ann fiche. Still pursuing the Pearce family of Abbots Ann and their relationship with the Coleman family there plus the newfound relationship between the Farmer family and the Hapgood families of Collingbourne Kingston. Still working on the Farmer family there as it appears to be a good possibility for my Isaac Farmer line.
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