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2025 Week 11

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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One of the Facebook groups I follow is Genealogy Tip of the Day by Michael John Neill. On a daily basis, he’ll post interesting little tidbits related to genealogy. I recommend genealogists of all levels subscribe to his posts. On Monday, Michael led off a post with “Is it necessary to research your fifth cousin’s third mother-in-law whose daughter he was only married to for a few weeks?” That made me stop and think. Was I doing something similar by researching all the descendants of my 4th great grandparents? My end goal isn’t to do a descendants report on the Cox family. My goal is to research the lineage of my grandfather Samuel T DeMoss Sr. When I started the project, I decided that the end product would contain biographies of each couple for each bloodline that I could reasonably prove. As part of the biographies, I would include a list of any children either parent had, with limited details on the children and their spouses. To keep the project manageable, I would not delve further down the lines in my manuscript. So, I ask myself, why am I spending so much time right now researching people who will not make it into my book? I did this before when I was working on the DeMoss line. Ultimately, I checked myself and got back on track. I think I need to check myself again and get back to the current topic at hand, namely the children of Gabriel and Nancy Cox.

There was a mini-rant in one of my Facebook genealogy groups this week about how women were just extensions of their husbands–Mrs. John Doe, Mrs. Harry Smith, etc. They were never listed by their given names. I chuckled and moved on. At least it was funny until it hindered me from finding an obituary for Elizabeth Mabes, aka Mrs. John Mabes.

Sadly, women were considered extensions of their husbands. Can’t find her? Check under ‘Mrs. His Name’

This week Ancestry gave me three new errors to resolve. I have 5281 errors in the tree–390 possible duplicates, 4283 with no documents, 608 other errors. That’s 10 more than I had last week. Must be some of those sixth cousins or so that I added or their spouses or their kids.

  • A 6th cousin from my DeMoss line. He had several hints and I was able to clean up his record.
  • My second error to clean up was for Margaret Cowhick. I *think* she is my 5th great grandfather William DeMoss’s sister-in-law. She married Lewis DeMoss in 1802 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Someone posted an image of the marriage bond, so I attached that to her and she should be good to go now.
  • The last error is for a living 3rd cousin. She’s probably about the same age as my daughter and doesn’t have any hints available yet. I gleaned her name from her grandfather’s obituary. Won’t be able to fix that one for now.

This week in the past…
I’d like to take an opportunity to celebrate the anniversaries of births, marriages, and deaths of my bloodlines which will occur during the week ahead.
235 years ago – marriage of Mary Overlin (6th ggm) and Christian Hibner (1st husband)
189 years ago – birth of John W Fielden (3rd ggf)
183 years ago – birth of George Winkler (3rd ggf)
180 years ago – birth of Joseph Nagele (3rd ggf)
32 years ago – death of Phyllis Keller DeMoss (mother)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,549 people
End of Week: 27,584 people
Change = +35 people – goal not met
Goal for coming week: Finish research on Sarah Piety Cox and Philip Smith family. Start research on Joseph D Cox family. Continue to look for documentation connecting John S Cox to his siblings as further proof that he was a child of Gabriel and Nancy.

2025 Week 10

09 Sunday Mar 2025

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While researching Wanda Delaney (4th cousin 1x removed) I’ve come across a bit of a conundrum. A marriage record for her and Marion Sherman says they were married in 1950. Three days later, they are listed in the 1950 census with three children ages two to seven. Wanda died in 1967 and Marion remarried. His obituary clearly states that Wanda was his first wife. Her find-a-grave memorial states they were married in 1943 but no location is listed and a marriage record does not readily come up. I also cannot find the birth record for the oldest child where said child indicated she was born on her marriage record. Was Wanda and Marion married before the kids were born, had a falling out and got remarried in 1950? I have no idea. I guess I could expend a lot of energy on this one and try to find out. Or, I could move on and see if anything pops up at a later date. I’m leaning toward the latter since this is a distant collateral family. My musings have been documented on my tree so if anyone wants to pursue that search, I give you my blessing.

While a significant fraction of Martha and Jerome McCain’s family migrated from Pike County, Indiana to Cass County, Indiana to settle and raise their families, the family of Della McCain and Charles DeWeese landed in Martinsville, Indiana. Martinsville holds some personal interest since I have a sibling who lives there. I wonder if she has had interactions with any of these distant cousins of ours. We may never know.

I am about half done with Della’s family and should have that wrapped up this week. YAY. That will leave me with one more McCain sibling and my plan is to complete that family as well. Then I can start on the next child of Rebecca Cassidy and Isaac Arnold. Hmm? Someone posted on one of my Facebook groups the oath Benedict Arnold signed to the colonies before he sold us out. I wonder if this family is descended from him? I will not be falling head first down that rabbit hole.

Nothing remarkable to say about my DNA matches this week. Maybe someone will shake out of the tree next week.

This week Ancestry gave me three new errors to resolve. I have 5271 errors in the tree–390 possible duplicates, 4273 with no documents, 608 other errors.

  • The first one was the mother-in-law of a distant cousin. I no longer add the parents of someone who marries into my tree unless there are multiple siblings that do so. I have decided to remove her and her husband as they aren’t really a member of family. While I was at it, I reviewed the hints provided for their son.
  • The second was for a distant cousin who had no records attached. Reviewed some hints, cleaned up the record for his wife and added a child.
  • The third one was for the husband of a distant cousin who had no records. Unfortunately, the only record I have for his wife is from the Tanguay Collection which I cannot view using my US only subscription. I have tagged both of them as Canadian and will revisit when there is a free Canadian records weekend. Did I mention they were from the 1700s?

This week in the past…
I’d like to take an opportunity to celebrate the anniversaries of births, marriages, and deaths of my bloodlines which will occur during the week ahead.

344 years ago – birth of Louis DeMoss (7th ggf)
330 years ago – birth of Elizabeth Norton (8th ggm)
262 years ago – death of Elizabeth Bennett (7th ggm)
247 years ago – birth of Sarah Kerr (5th ggm)
226 years ago – birth of Nancy Squires (4th ggm)
222 years ago – birth of Henry Thompson (4th ggf)
201 years ago – death of Michael Keller (5th ggf)
192 years ago – birth of Isaac DeMoss (3rd ggf)
173 years ago – death of Therese Lefebre (6th ggm)
167 years ago – death of William Fielden (4th ggf)
143 years ago – death of Francoise Courtright (4th ggm)
80 years ago – death of Samuel Isaac DeMoss (ggf)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,485 people
End of Week: 27,549 people
Change = +64 people – goal MET!!
Goal for coming week: Add 50 new people and continue researching the Isaac and Rebecca Arnold descendants, specifically the Martha and Jerome McCain family this week.