Last weekend was a travel weekend which didn’t leave much time for genealogy. Of course, a whirlwind trip cross-country to spend less than 48 hours with my sisters during cold and flu season can take a toll and I ended up with a massive head cold as a result. I’m on the mend and ready to finish up Ben and Sarah’s family narrative.
But first, Ancestry has compiled a few year-end statistics for me.
- Apparently 131,000 new hints were added to my tree
- 26,850 of those hints came from new collections that were added to the site this year
- I viewed 8703 records
- I added 2138 people to my tree
- My tree helped 1661 other researchers
- My DNA matches increased by 2510 people
I did accomplish a bit of writing this weekend. I sorted out Joseph Cox who was the focus back in Week 32. He was the one who had previously been identified as a bachelor at the time of his death, but appears to have actually had six children! I also merged duplicate files for him on FamilySearch.
I should be able to finish up Jonathan Piety Cox’s bio before the day is over. He was my focus during Week 33. Since he had not yet reached his majority when he married in 1817, he needed his father’s permission to obtain the marriage license. I think it is so cool that an image of the permission note is available and carries the handwriting and signature of my 5th great-grandfather.
I’ve been playing around with Google’s NotebookLM. I really like the concept of the Infographic. Too bad the free version only gives you three per day. Need to be selective in what you create! I have noticed that when I do a document dump, it tends to make up names and dates, making the graphic worthless. I decided to upload the narrative I wrote for a single family unit–in this case, Gabriel and Nancy (Squires) Cox–to see what it might do. So. Much. Better! It didn’t mention John S Cox having served and died in the Civil War, but that was because his story was told in a previous chapter, focusing on him. I’ll have to decide what to include about the linking child on future runs. At any rate, I thought I’d share the output of my experiment on Gabriel and Nancy. Once I get the process perfected, I think including these in my manuscript will break up the monotony of lots of text.
Since I missed a week, I have 6 error hints to resolve. The last available update: I have 4926 errors in the tree–376 possible duplicates, 4094 with no documents, 456 other errors.
- Distant cousin needed a source.
- Husband of a distant cousin needed a first name and a source. I have not been able to identify this individual.
- Husband of a distant cousin. I used a marriage announcement for the cousin’s brother (also a cousin), to ballpark marriage dates for the siblings and their spouses.
- Father-in-law for a distant great-granduncle has no sources attached. Since I am pruning extended family from the tree, I deleted him and his wife.
- Father-in-law for a distant cousin has no sources attached. Again, since I am pruning the tree, he and his wife were also deleted.
- Distant cousin has no sources attached. I found a few sources for him and cleaned up his family while I was at it.
This week in the past…
I’d like to take an opportunity to celebrate the anniversaries of births, marriages, and deaths of my bloodlines from last week and the week ahead.
325 years ago – birth of Anna Schmidt (7th ggm)
304 years ago – birth of Elizabeth Quincy (7th ggm)
298 years ago – birth of Rachel Van Winkle (7th ggm)
264 years ago – marriage of Rachel Maquinet (6th ggm) and John J Pea (6th ggf)
243 years ago – birth of Joseph Cardinal (5th ggf)
235 years ago – birth of Jonathan McCullough (4th ggf)
227 years ago – marriage of Barbara Mattox (5th ggm) and Samuel Wilks (5th ggf)
213 years ago – death of Rachel Van Winkle (7th ggm)
193 years ago – birth of Eli T Butler (3rd ggf)
190 years ago – death of Rebecca Jones (5th ggm)
187 years ago – birth of Joseph Ellis Cardinal (3rd ggf)
170 years ago – marriage of Louisa Reeve (3rd ggm) and Isaac DeMoss (3rd ggf)
165 years ago – death of Margaret Gray (5th ggm)
164 years ago – marriage of George Winkler (3rd ggf) and his second wife Katie Bean
162 years ago – death of Nancy Squires Cox (3rd ggm)
140 years ago – death of Letitia Casey (4th ggm)
Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,008 people
End of Week: 27,006 people
Change = -2 persons
Tasks for coming week:
- Finish writing the biographies of the family of Benjamin and Sarah Piety Cox.
- Review the information in The Other Polks to see if there is anything I don’t already have.
- Confirm the data from Polk Family and Kinsmen has been added for this family and page numbers are noted for easier citation adding
- Review Coxes of Cox Creek
Digging Up My Roots 