I'm so excited!

Just short and quick but I wanted to mark the day that I found my 3rd greatgrandmother's baptism in the Irish Parish records!!

So I now know where that side of my family came from in Ireland!!

I'm at work so I can't post a picture yet, but I know she was baptised on 1Aug 1848 in Killeagh, Cork, Ireland, parents Patrick Higgins and Catherine Fitzgerald Higgins.

I gots goosebumps!!

President Millard Fillmore - Welcome To The Family!

I know, I know, nothing for months and then 2 posts in one day. I had forgotten that I was working on the other post until I went to do this one. Short and sweet today, I've got to get ready for work.



My research shows that Millard is my 2nd cousin 6x removed!

Millard Fillmore (1800 - 1874)
2nd cousin 6x removed
Nathaniel Fillmore (1771 - 1863)
father of Millard Fillmore
Nathaniel Fillmore (1739 - 1814)
father of Nathaniel Fillmore
JOHN Fillmore Capt. (1702 - 1777)
father of Nathaniel Fillmore
JOHN Fillmore (1726 - 1796)
son of JOHN Fillmore Capt.
Abigail Fillmore (1750 - 1826)
daughter of JOHN Fillmore
Abigail Oulton (1772 - 1839)
daughter of Abigail Fillmore
Daniel Tingley (1796 - 1879)
son of Abigail Oulton
Agreen Tingley (1830 - 1919)
son of Daniel Tingley
Watson Eaton Tingley (1873 - 1945)
son of Agreen Tingley
John Leonard Tingley (1917 - 1990)
son of Watson Eaton Tingley
June Carole Tingley (1940 - )
daughter of John Leonard Tingley
Lisa Grace Roth
You are the daughter of June Carole Tingley

This post was originally an email I sent to my family back in October. Still think it's neat so decided to turn it into a blog post.

First of all I want to compliment my brother Gar on his picture taking and careful notations when they went down for Aunt Dorothy’s interment.

I was looking at the photos again [reason will be explained in a minute] and he did a great job. The pictures are great and to be honest, I wish he would embellish his notes from that trip and turn it into more of a journal. I know journals can be hard, but might be easier if he just tells a ‘story’ about each of the pictures. If you have windows 10 I’m pretty sure it comes with voice recognition software. you wouldn’t even have to type anything. Really you should think about this.............this would be a great little nugget for future generations......even the boys, who were so young the probably don’t remember any of it.

Ok, off my soap box and the reason for this email. The German Genealogy Group that I belong to in Brooklyn was doing a cemetery crawl to St. John’s a few weeks ago. [Yes, Mom, what we do when we go on our trips is apparently called cemetery crawling!] Anyway, I knew that there wasn’t any way that I could go, but I emailed the organizer and asked if she would take a few pictures of the ‘Roth’ stone if it was convenient. She had no problem with this and she sent me the pics last night. After looking at them I realized that you had probably taken some pics on your trip so I went back and found them. Look at the difference?!?

2006 trip pics

Pics Joanne just took for me

Ok, so my question now is, did they clean up the area because you asked them to, or did they decide to clean it up because they had to for Dorothy’s interment, or did they clean it up because they now know that there is family who cares?

Just thought this was kinda cool – gotta hop in the shower!

PS - My mother told me that they paid to have the area cleaned up. Nice to know that the cemetery did what they said they would do!

George Joseph? George John?

Sitting here trying to get organized for my big trip to Salt Lake City and of course I get side-tracked. Such is the nature of genealogy and I've learned to just go with the flow...................

The flow this morning led me to quite a find, albeit a confusing one. I found my great grandfather's WWII Draft Registration Card.

Hey, wait a minute! I thought his middle name was Joseph!! So back I go through all of the documentation I have on him only to notice that this is the only document I've found that states his middle name. So where the heck did I get Joseph from?? And to make matters worse, he's a Sr, so that means I have my grandfather's middle name wrong also? Sheesh........................

On the positive side though I now know where they were living in 1942.

Well Butter My Buns and Call Me a Biscuit !! Looky what I just found!!

Anyone who dabbles in genealogy already knows that trying to map out an ancestors life can be a whole lot of endless drudgery of looking at pages and pages of information that have nothing to do with said ancestor. 

Yes, sites like Ancestry.com can make life easier, but for those of us who really want to dig into an ancestors life, there is nothing else to do but roll up your sleeves and browse countless pages of documents until your eyes cross.

Why bother, you say?? Because when you have just about had enough up pops a gem, that's why.

Looky what I just found!



This is a photograph of the house where my great great grandfather lived with his second wife from sometime in 1925 until at least 1929. I believe he was living here when he died, but haven't been able to confirm that yet. 

Still, to find a photograph of the house right around the time they lived there is such a find!!

I found the photograph at Maine Memory Network which is a part of the Maine Historical Society.

Here is the direct link if anyone is interested

https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/53361

I 'm not done fleshing out this particular find yet, but have to get ready for work.

Just thought this was very cool and wanted to share!!

Charles is being elusive folks.................

For anyone who is following along you'll already know that I have proof that one of my 6th great grandfathers fought at Bunker Hill.  I also think that HIS father fought, but that's another story. 

I have bits and pieces but putting them together isn't proving to be easy.

Charles' account has him enlisting for 8 months, then re-enlisting in Dec 1775 for one year. He was then asked to extend his enlistment for a few months and was discharged from Peekskill, NY in March 1777.

Another source has him at the Lexington Alarm in April 1775, then in Cambridge also in 1775 . It then has him serving in NY from Dec 5, 1776 to March 15, 1777. It also places him in Rhode Island in 1778.

Couldn't find out much more about him specifically so I had to move on to his regiment, the 1st NH. There is quite a lot written about the 1st NH, including them being at Fort Ticonderoga and The Battle of Trenton. You know, the battle where Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve and surprised a bunch of Hessians? 

So now I have to go and learn about these battles and the commanding officers of the 1st NH, John Stark and William Scott. There is much written about these two, but getting a definite timeline of their movements is turning into quite a task.

So nothing on Charles yet people. I have a lot of reading to do!

Ok, I fibbed. I do have a couple of tidbits. Here is a page from Charles' pension file, where he explains his service....

Yes, that's his signature...........

We also learn from this document that he was a cobbler.......pretty cool!!

Sometimes you hit pay dirt.......................

Sat down at the computer this morning determined to pay bills and take care of some other paperwork that keeps piling up and, of course, I get an email which leads me on a merry chase..................

So here I sit, about an hour later, still haven't paid the bills, but I'm SO glad that I decided to 'chase' the email I received cause I hit paydirt!

Bottom line, I found out some more information about my 4th great grandfather, John F. Bryant, and his Civil War experience.

It's not so much that I found out new information, but that I'm fairly sure I now have a copy of his signature.

I was led to the original Muster In Rolls for the State of Maine and after some searching and lots of squinting [the print is so small!] I was able to find that he joined the Bethel Rifle Guards.

Sorry, it's so small. If I make it bigger than I have to crop some of the words. Just take my word for it that it says 'Bethel Rifle Guards'

Here's the cool part though..............

Over in the right hand column is his signature!! 

and then on the back side of this document is the proof of his taking the oath..............

another cool/not so cool piece of info I found was more confirmation of his death as listed in the Muster Out Rolls.

So sorry that some of these pictures are so small. I'm hoping once I publish this you'll be able to click on them and make them bigger, but not sure. Still learning here folks!!

Hoping to do a post on one of my Rev War ancestors, Charles White, in honor of Independence Day, but no guarantees. Those bills are now screaming at me!!