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.

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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

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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.

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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

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