UPDATED BLOGGER PROFILE - I'VE BEEN BLOGGING ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY SINCE 2009! FIFTEEN YEARS !!!

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About me
Gender Female
Industry Consulting
Occupation Researcher - Writer - Genealogist
Location United States

Introduction Bit by bit, I'm working on a book about my adventures in genealogy, a book that's alternatively spiritual! I encourage you to include niche specific history into the genealogy and family book you're writing! I have at least three decades of experience as a genealogy researcher. I started with interviewing my own relatives years ago. I use books, maps, family artifacts and records, microfilms, and specialty databases, at private and governmental archives, museums, libraries and historical societies... And of course there is now the amazingly impactful Internet... I've researched, written, and produced books. I've taught Genealogy on the Internet. I like to help other researchers break through research blocks!

Christine

Interests ANCESTRY WORSHIP - a Genealogy BlogSpot was founded in January 2009 and is still going strong! My interest is in conveying professional genealogy standards with a focus on American - United States research. I provide links to useful databases, give advice and experientials, make commentary, and review books. I also touch on some alternative spiritual notions such as reincarnation, ancestral memory, and ancestor worship. (Are you the reincarnation of an ancestor?)

Favorite Movies I love going to a big theatre and being taken out of my seat - going to another time and place and forgetting that I'm sitting there. I loved binge-watching Boardwalk Empire and also The Crown.

Favorite Music I do love all sorts of music but what I listen to has much to do with what mood I'm in. I listen to everything from Gregorian Chants to Indian Music to Rock and Roll!
Favorite Books I seem to always have a book ordered in to one library or another and over the years I've found I love memoirs most of all.

How do you pronounce the 'g' in bologna?

You don't. Where I come from, back in the day when we actually ate this meat, we said BA LONE EEE!

UPDATES at ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT

I've been blogging here for a long long time!  Through the years Google Blogger has changed or updated and I change the format or something else about the way the blog looks.  Recently I decided to update my blog visually with the idea that it might be easier for my readers to find subjects if I tagged them and put a picture icon on each post in a series. So, a reader can go to pages rather than archive.

I've also moved some lists that were at the bottom of my blog up into PAGES. I realized that the links on the posts are usually the first place a reader is going to go. I hope that you will enjoy and learn from my blog.

  

I'm an unconventional genealogy researcher and writer. I'm working on a book about my adventures in this field, a book that's alternatively spiritual! I have at least two decades of experience as a genealogy researcher. I started with interviewing my own relatives years ago. I use books, maps, family artifacts and records, microfilms, and specialty databases, at private and governmental archives, museums, libraries and historical societies... And of course there is now the amazingly impactful Internet...

FROM ONE BOOKWORM TO ANOTHER - HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

This one I like and can relate to.

But is it a Valentine?

WHAT HAPPENED TO HER PARENT'S MARRIAGE RECORD - QUESTIONS FROM READERS of ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY

Question:

I sent away for the marriage records (civil) of my aunts, uncles, and parents and grandparents. I wanted the marriage dates and places as well as the mother's maiden names.  Eventually everything came in. My shock was learning that my parent's did apply for a marriage license but there is no record of them actually having got married. I got a note back stating that an extensive search had been made.

I'm sure they did marry. But now I'm not sure they married the same year they got the license.  This is because there's a story about how they got married and then went back to work on Monday, no honeymoon, and that they got married on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. The year on the license and the date I recall they celebrated their marriage doesn't line up with the Friday, Saturday, or Sunday or the story that they met and married in a year. I remember celebrating their Silver Anniversary but I can't remember what year we did!

What can I do to prove they married?

Ruth - Pittsburgh PA


Answer from ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY

Hi Ruth, I checked FAMILYSEARCH which does have SOME records of marriages for Allegheny County - Pittsburgh area - Pennsylvania, just in case, and nothing came up. Sending away was the right thing to do.

I suspect that your parents got married in a local church and the priest didn't send the paperwork in that he should have to the Allegheny County people to make a CIVIL RECORD of it.  But as usual it could simply be a missing, burned up, or otherwise destroyed-missing document.

But there are a few things I want you to do.

First, check the date you remember as their anniversary for several years after that license to see if the dates work for the story.  It might give you a date, it might not.

Second, call and ask Allegheny County this question, "Once a couple applied for a marriage license, was there a time limit that they could use it, say a few months or a year or two, before they would have to apply again?  (This could vary by location, so anyone else reading this, call the location)

Three, check city directories and or census or possibly Social Security APPLICATION, to try and figure out about where they were living.  Then check to see what churches might have been in the area.  Additionally, if the area is right next to another county, then maybe they married in another county.  So you also want to ask, "In PA, if a couple got a marriage license in Allegheny County, could they use it in Washington County?"

Four, If they likely married Catholic, call the CATHOLIC DIOCESE ARCHIVES and ask them if they have records of marriages.  Explain that the CIVIL RECORD does not include evidence that the marriage actually occurred.  Possibly the actual PARISH still has records, but with so many churches closing, I'll bet on the archives first, especially if you cannot be sure of the church.

LINK! http://diopitt.org/department-chancellor/office-archives-and-record-center

I hope this helps!

Christine

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ACCESS NEWSPAPER DATABASE TIME WASTER!

Access Newspaper Database and Newspaper Archive Academic , which are related, have me quite frustrated.  A researcher at a distance provided me some notes via text of two death/funeral/burial/obituary announcements and since I've used this database in the past to locate copies of originals, I thought I would try.

Since my experience has been that in many small town newspapers that were typeset there re a lot of misspellings of proper names, as if they had run out of one vowel and used another, I decided that the best tactic would be to go the exact newspaper and date and page that the other researcher had provided me.

I would have preferred to have rolled microfilm and read page by page.

I wasted over an hour trying to make the database simply get me to the paper on the date specified, if not the exact page, WITHOUT ALSO PUTTING IN THE NAME, first and last.

Finding the WRONG date, I read the language the paper used.  Maybe it was my terminology?

I tried obituary. I tried funeral.  I tried died.   Certainly something should come up!

Once again I returned the search choices, this time with a librarian at my side to double check my moves.

I think Access should make it easy to get to the newspaper, by date, for those of us who would prefer to read it page for page, rather than only focusing on what comes up in a search.

STEAMSHIP POSTCARDS - RED STAR LINE and GG ARCHIVES LINK

Images from Dover Publications

 

(Search this blog for posts using the subject IMMIGRATION!)

 

FOUND AN INTERESTING NEW RESEARCH RESOURCE CALLED GG ARCHIVES

 

Here is the link to RED STAR information

GG ARCHIVES - STEAMSHIPS - RED STAR LINE

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN- AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. AN ELECTRIC MIND : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY FILM REVIEW

 

PBS VIDEO

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE.  AN ELECTRIC MIND.

 

Benjamin Franklin is one of my favorite American Historical Figures but before watching this film my reference for him came from a series about the Presidents of the United States, which he was never though highly involved in colonial history, and his time as an envoy for the Colonies in Paris, France, history classes, reading around him and reading one of his books.  The thing I most love about Franklin is his willingness to experiment and invent and his sense of humor.

 

This is a four part series that begins with his humble beginnings, covers an era from 1706-1753 when he became a printer and publisher in Philadelphia and his scientific experiments with electricity and lightening.  As a publisher wanting to sell newspapers he invented a much older woman character and wrote opinion from her point of view. His invention of the lightening rod is still used all over the world today.  A point well made is that our ideas about Franklin and our images of him come from his senior hood but was once a young handsome man about town and his genius was apparent early on.

 

Franklin was a bit promiscuous before he married but seems to have married well when it came to his choice of a wife, Deborah.  When his mind turned towards marriage and children, his mind turned towards making money as a necessity of life, rather than for grandeur. When he was successful he took a departure from the circumstances of his early life and became an influential person but you could say that he was never in any of it just for the money. 

 

From 1755-1776  Franklin lived separate of his faithful, loyal, and capable wife, Deborah.  He lived in London, never knowing when exactly he was coming back, and indeed she died before he got back to Philadelphia, so theirs was a long distance relationship kept together by letters.  His son went to London with him and distanced himself from his humble background in America, which increasingly caused a split between father and son in their world view, especially when it came to the independence of the Colonies from England.  His son was a Loyalist.  They never resolved their differences.

 

It wasn't until the American Revolution in 1776 that the Franklin that I most knew about, the diplomat to France during the American Revolution who hung out with aristocrats aiming to please him and attempted to get funding for the revolution from the French government/King, the one portrayed as enjoying the women, came to be.  He returned to the United States in 1790 but is credited with playing a very important role in creating our Constitution.  In this film the idea that in his last years of life he was a womanizer is questioned and downplayed.  Franklin is quoted at being amused by the way the French offered themselves and their women to him because they had heard he liked the ladies, as if he is surprised by it.  The indication is that his involvement was greatly exaggerated.  Perhaps a more Puritan or Protestant viewpoint of his behavior was in play.

All in all, one for my home collection.

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