Collateral Family

I ended up spending a goodly part of the day working on my 2nd cousin's family lines. When we visited them a year ago they were quite interested in the family tree work that I had done and expressed an interest in their family. I decided to extract their families' information and was quite successful at getting back to pre-census in just the one day. I passed it on to my cousin to see if he could find any errors or omissions.

I sent my old family images that we found the negatives for to my sister to work on. She has the original family albums but they were missing some of the pictures when we looked at them a couple of years ago. My husband photographed them in the 1970s so have shared those images with her. The big find was the picture of my father as a child of 3 in his sailor's uniform with his parents. I now have this excellent picture of my grandmother when she was about 30. Before this the pictures were of her when she was in her mid 40s and her ill health was starting to show. She died young at 64 years of age.

Tomorrow I need to get back to working on the Great Driffield records. My eyes were rather tired after my e hour session at the LDS and then another 3 hours at home.

Proofreading DNA study - 3

I completed my proofreading of the DNA study and spent a little time in organization. It is good to be finished and I will pass it on to my co-investigators. It has been a very interesting study. Since it will be published, I can not, of course, share it online.

I also got back to transcribing the Andover Parish Registers burial portion for the first register. I am up to September 1626 and 1594 entries. Another seven years to complete and then the first register will be complete.

It turns out that the LDS has supplied images for some of the Somerset parishes of which I am the online parish clerk. One of these is Timberscombe so I now have 36 scans to my fiche to work with but they are a good deal easier to read as I can blow them up to look for clarity. Ancestors of mine that lived at Timberscombe in Somerset included: Simon Moggridge, Grace Mogeridge, and Mary Vicary. I have the transcriptions by T. Stoate of the parish registers but it is always nice to look at them yourself to see if you can see something that he didn't. Plus I like to put the family lines together when it is possible.

Tomorrow I shall complete the Andover Parish Register for the burials and set that aside for a while. I will then begin the Timberscombe parish registers. I have also taken on transcription of the Birmingham Parish Records for FamilySearch. I have now done over 1200 records for Family Search. I may once again go back and do Free BMD after a year's absence. I found that reading from the old scans to proofread the work already done was really difficult. I need to have a feel for the names in particular areas to be of real help. I will try again to see if I can assist in completing this very fine task. I have entered more than 20,000 records into FreeBMD since I started.