I saw in the 1850 Federal census that my 3x great grandfather, Abijah Hitchings of Salem, Massachusetts, was a “gum copal worker.” After doing a double take, I wasn’t sure that I even transcribed these words correctly, so I called over three other people to look at the image on my computer monitor. It seemed to be very clear, but some thought perhaps it could be “gun” or other variations on known words. We looked up copal, but it didn’t seem to make sense.
So I turned to the Google Book Search.
NULLMEYER Family.
Husband HERMANN NULLMEYER,
Birth abt. 1805 Bremen, Marriage 10 December 1837, St. Phillips Church L/Pool,
Father Frederick NULLMEYER (1781-) , Mother (Mother) (-).
Wife Harriet COCHRANE,
Birth abt. 1811 Lancashire,
Father Lawrence COCHRANE (1787-), Mother (Mother) (-).
Childern
1. F. Harriet Metta NULLMEYER, Birth 1838 Liverpool, Death 1843 Liverpool.
2.M. Herman Lawrence NULLMEYER , Birth 1841 Liverpool, Death 1842 Liverpool.
3.M. Herman NULLMEYER, Death 1916 Islington London, Birth 13
Looking for others who descend from this line to share information. My direct lineage is as follows:
My dad, Robert Charles Taylor, b. Cedar Rapids, IA, d. Terre Haute, Vigo County, IN
Elmer Robert Taylor, b. ATlantic, IA, d. Rochester, MN
Charles R. Edward Taylor, b. Derby, Lucas County, IA, d. Des Moines, Polk County, IA
Robert Calvin Taylor, b. Wapello, IA, d. Omaha, NE
John M. Taylor, b. Lucas Co, IA, d. Humeston, IA
Robert Taylor, b. Truro, Nova Scotia, d., Canton, Fulton County, IL
Matthew Taylor
I haven’t yet finished going over all the material I brought from the Who Do You Think You Are? Live event in London, but wanted to let everyone know about my recent trip. It was really a dream come true in every aspect.
Considered the major genealogy event in Europe, it was important for me to attend the London show - not only as the MyHeritage.com Genealogy and Translation Manager, but also as a genealogist with a great passion for the hit BBC series, now also available in several international
My great great grandfather, the music Professor Caleb Rand Bill came from Nova Scotia to New England with his wife. They had their nine children in succession from New Brunswick, Maine, Boston and then Salem as he moved from place to place teaching music. According to the Bill Family Genealogy, he had three brothers. One died while studying away at Acadia College, and the other two went on a mission to New Zealand. This made sense to me, since their father was the Nova Scotia Baptist preacher R
J. Richard Liles
Birth 27 June 1869 in Manor, Texas, USA
Death 31 May 1894 in Austin County, Texas, USA
This is the grandfather of my paternal grandmother. He was only 25 years old when he was killed. He was hauling water in big barrels with a team of mules, something happend and he was crushed by a water barrel. He left behind a wife Mary Jane Meneffee, and his daugher Rosa Lee, and his son Walter Earnest.
I've seen quite a collection of posts for Liles', is anyone missing a son?
David Clark Moren 1841 Sevier, Arkansas Territory, United States is my great great grandfather. He passed away in 1928 in Dresden, Navarro County. His children were Thomas Mathew, Elijah David ( my GG), and "Betty" Augusta Emily Moren. My grandfather is Woodrow Wilson Moren and just reciently passed away. My father is Woodrow Carlton Moren.
I am wondering if anyone knows for sure who his parents are and has any hard proof. I would love to be able to trace him out of the United States, and find th
Today I called the Choctaw Nation and I found out that even if you are Native American you have to be a direct descendent of a person who's NAME APPEARS on the DAWES list, BETWEEN 1898 to 1906 on INDIAN TERRITORY at the time.
http://www.nls.uk/blogs/bartholomew/index.cfm/2009/2/13/The-Indian-Territory Map of Indian Territory.
If your family didn't take the roll number, and didn't go and live on Indian land they are discounted.
As I understand it, Indians weren't listed on US census records because
After all that breast beating about my failure to find my grandmother's birth in my previous blog entries, when the birth certificate for Florence Brooks eventually arrived, everything was wrong. The date of birth was wrong; the father's name was wrong and the father's occupation was wrong. Back to the drawing board! The census entry showed a sister for Florence whose name was Minnie, apparently born in Clerkenwell about 1873. I decided to look for her birth. Free BMD had a Minnie registered in
Ran across your post of Healy-Crosby from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
the Comfort Healy you show as your gggrandfather, is my grandfather's grandfather. (Also named Comfort Haley)
I have the copy of the same inscription from his tombstone: They are taken frp, Watt's Psalms and Hymns, - the first four lines of Hymn No. 18, and the last four lines of Hymn No. 19.
His son, Ebenezer Haley, the California pioneer , has the samae four lines on Hymn No. 18 on his gravestone in the old cemetery at Irvington (Fr
