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Weekly Genealogy Research Update

10 Sunday May 2026

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Yes, I skipped a week. Life was crazy busy last week, so I didn’t get much research done. I’m combining two weeks into one report.

Ancestry surprised me last week with a free 7 day trial of the World Explorer access. I switched gears a little and researched ancestors in Canada and Europe. I have several individuals that I have tagged as having German documents so I started there.

My maternal grandfather’s family is deeply rooted in Germany. Researching his paternal grandmother, Emma Nagele, both of her parents had the surname Nagele. Nagele has several spelling variants including Näegele, Nagele, and Nagley. While I am not certain as yet, her parents may have been second cousins. It will take some deep diving to document everyone sufficiently, but I have honed in on where in the Old Country they resided–Baden. There were some references of births in Bavaria for a few of the last German born generation. It will take some effort to determine when each of the family members immigrated from Germany to the United States and which port they arrived at. The dates provided on the 1900 census are inconsistent between parent and child and siblings. One would think that small children would have traveled with at least one of their parents, but that might not have been the case.

German vocabulary that might be useful in the future:

  • weiblich = female
  • männlich = male
  • taufe = baptism
  • heirat = marriage
  • März = March
  • Mai = May

Continuing with my maternal grandfather, his mother’s family, the Kaisers, seem to have migrated from Alsace in France.

Continuing on with the descendants of Jesse Cox and Mary Wagle. I have made a lot of progress on Richard and Sarah Taylor’s family this weekend. I have a little to finish up on their son Eugene’s family and wrap it all up on Leon Taylor’s family.

  • Louisa Cox + David Taylor > Richard Lewis Taylor + Sarah Emma Isaacs
    • Taylor
      • Texas: Harris, Rusk, Nueces, Gregg, Jackson Counties
      • Oklahoma: Ottawa County
    • McCoy
      • Texas: Galveston County
    • Trammell
      • Texas: Eastland, Erath, Haskell, Parker, Stephens Counties
    • Gray
      • Texas: Erath, Rusk Counties
    • Ayers
      • Texas: Harris County
    • Comer
      • Texas: Potter County
    • Huston
      • Texas: Dallas, Tarrant, Erath Counties

Error resolution. The last available update: I have 5026 errors in the tree–519 possible duplicates, 4060 with no documents, 447 other errors.

  • First up is a floater who is not connected to my tree. She was actually attached to a half dozen or so others who were not connected to the tree, so I removed all of them.
  • Next, a distant cousin who needs a source record. I’m not all that confident with the records offered up, but attached a land grant record which was consistent with documentation that other researchers provided. I can always remove it later.
  • Finally, a husband of a distant cousin who needs a record and a first name. I found notice of their marriage license in the paper, resolving the error and his first name.
  • The father in law of a distant cousin was pruned along with his wife.
  • Husband of a distant cousin needed some source documents. Their daughter’s marriage record primed the hints for him and his wife.
  • Wife of a distant cousin needed source documents. Finally found a Public Record Index entry, although I don’t really like using them.

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,519 people
End of Week: 27,622 people
Change = +103 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Continue research on Isaac Cox, “The Immigrant” and his wife Susannah Tomlinson.
  • Review Coxes of Cox Creek
  • Run newspaper search, especially for articles recounting local history
  • Review the Cox package of information from Sweden
  • Look for documents in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky

Henry and Nancy Cunningham Thompson

24 Wednesday Dec 2014

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My 4th great grandparents are Henry and Nancy Cunningham Thompson.  They are the grandparents of John Frank Thompson.

Henry was born on March 9, 1803 in Virginia.  Some researchers have identified his parents as Robert Thompson and Margaret Gray.  He ventured westward at some point prior to 1830, settling in Washington Township in Gibson County, IN.  He married Nancy Cunningham on April 20, 1830 in Gibson County.  Not a lot is known about Nancy since she died prior to 1850 when the Census listed each person individually.  She is thought to have been born between 1805 and 1810 and died between 1846 and 1850.  Henry died in 1853 and is buried in Vermillion County, IL.  It’s not obvious what he was doing that far from home since the boys remained in the Knox-Gibson area for the duration of their lives.

Henry and Nancy had six children that were alive in 1850 or later.

  • Stewart (1832-1904) married Margaret Jones (1841-1911) in 1858 in Knox County.  They had eight children – Florence, Alice, Eleanor, Thomas, Nancy, Maggie, William and Emma.  According to newspapers of the time, Stewart was a prominent farmer in Johnson Township.
  • Margaret (1835-?)
  • Robert C (1837-1880) married Sarah Roderick (1837-?) in 1860 in Knox County.  They had six children – Charles, Riley, Ora, Frank, James and Robert.
  • Sally (1840-?)
  • Elenor (1843-?)
  • Henry G. (1846-?) married Isadore Jones in 1866.  They had one daughter named California.  After 1870, Isadore and California cannot be found in any of the databases.  Henry disappears until the 1910 census which lists him as a widower working as a cook for the Anthis household in Decker.

The whereabouts of the girls is unknown after their father died in 1853.  They are not showing up in the 1860 census records or the Indiana marriage index.

It doesn’t appear that any of Henry’s sons fought in the Civil War, based on a quick glance of the 80th Indiana Infantry rosters.  Most of the men living in the Knox, Gibson area belonged to that regiment, although it’s not out of the question for them to have  joined up with another unit.

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Washington Township is in the north central part of Gibson County, IN, bordered by the White River on the north.  It sits east of Patoka.

Vermilion County IL is west of Lafayette, IN along the Indiana-Illinois border.