Rest In Peace Dad You Are Missed

Rest In Peace  Dad You Are Missed

Ray Dee Jones Sr was born 19 May 1913 in Waterloo, Iowa area.  His parents were Carl Fremont Jones and Victoria Mae Foulk Jones.  He was their first child of 6 known children. One dying in infancy, in his arms.

He had tears in his eyes as he told of his baby sister's death. Very hard on a very young man, this event was. He was not 10 years old.

He grew up helping to raise his siblings and putting food on the table.  When older he tried to keep
his family together and maintain a family.

I think they all appreciated it after they got past the shock of not all was as they remembered.

Parents sometimes do not think of the children they just spew in front of them causing much hurt and pain for children.

Dad worked on a cattle ranch in Wheatland, Wyoming  he married and later worked doing the same in Greybull, Wyo.   I was born in Wyoming then we moved to California.

He had 3 more children in California.  He worked as a Coast Watcher during the War.  Why does no one talk about Coast Watchers?  Or C B's.?

He worked hard and was fair and taught us about God and family and respect and to be truthful.
He used to say:" You can talk to God anywhere".  He tells us that, is in the Bible. He was taught a lot by the Father's from Boys Town, while he worked on the Diamond Tail Ranch in Greybull, Wyo.
His boss brought back earrings blessed by the Pope for Mom and she said they were to be mine.
I have them now.

He was always going to write the story of his family and life with his siblings. He could share some great stories of what he and his siblings did.  Some were very funny and some were a wee sad. Alas he never got them on paper. Now days people can record these stories from their family if  the would stop and take the time.

His sister wrote a couple of books and both other sisters wrote awesome poetry. His brother was an artist of great abilities.  He carved, painted, wrote, built and designed many things.

Dad died 12 April 1995, joking with his favorite waitress with Mom beside him.  Sometimes it is like yesterday.  Dad I love you.

Lemon Grove Library Wed 6 t0 8 pm Libraries in our Region

Libraries in our Region

 Suspecting few people really know how many libraries are in our region. Also fear they have no idea what those libraries may hold to help people in their historical and genealogical research.

So have put together bits and pieces of some of our libraries. We have County, and City and Law, and other libraries.  Yes, I found them.

Wondering how many teachers are aware of what the libraries in our community may offer their students.  Have they ever had them come and talk about what their holdings are or may be?

Pondering how many Genealogical or Historical Societies have looked at what local resources have to help move their projects forward.

Discovering it will talk a few talks to cover some of the major possible places people may want to
make sure they do not miss.

Of course, one starts with your own local library and it's many branches, maybe?

Our colleges in the area have some awesome libraries also that carry data on some of their main topics for their students.  Yes, those topics are pertinent to your research.

What I did not find was a Medical group with a library.

Come to Lemon Grove and learn some of the things I knew and some of the new things I learned about our regions local libraries.

May 18, 6 pm

Free, always free.

Avunculate Marriages --explained here. Thanks Darrel Hockley

Avunculate Marriages --explained here.  Thanks Darrel Hockley

As we are struggling to unscramble inter marrying families, I received this information from Darrel Hockley.  He gave permission for me to reprint and show one correction.

No wonder some of the lines are so confusing. Also some of our programs are struggling to deal with this inter linking.

On May 12, 2016, at 10:34 PM, Darrel Hockley via wrote:

> Avunculate marriage is the marriage of an uncle with his niece or an aunt with her nephew. These type of marriages were usually done to keep wealth and property within families. In England before the Reformation, a Papal Dispensation had to obtained for such a marriage to be legal.

> In colonial New Jersey such marriages were declared void in 1682. However avunculate marriages were not made illegal in the neighbouring Province of New York until 1893. (Since 2014 they are once more legal in New York.)

> Now knowing the above, various entries concerning the Woolley/Wooley families make sense as taken from the Trella May Hall Collection located in the Archives at the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

> Edward Woolley, born 16 January 1691/62 at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey (some people said he was born in Rhode Island which I believe is wrong), was a son of Edward Woolley (1655 to 1729) and his wife Lydia Allen (1660 to 1742). His older sister was Elizabeth Woolley (1685 to 1723) the wife of Gabriel Stelle (de L'Estoile) (1685 to 1738) of Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Elizabeth and Gabriel had a daughter named Lydia "Lida" Stelle who was born in 1709.

> The younger Edward was mentioned in the Will of his father Edward Woolley dated 3 January 1728/29. However, he is not in the Will of his mother which was written on 3 November 1732. Daughter Lydia Stelle is also not named in the Will of her father Gabriel. I believe that sometime in 1729 Edward Woolley the Younger and his niece Lydia Stelle eloped (she was probably pregnant with their son Jehu/John), leaving New Jersey for Dutchess County, New York, where they married (legally) and settled there. Widow Lydia Allen Woolley and Gabriel Stelle did not approve of this marriage and that is why they cut off their respective children from any inheritance.

> Children of Edward and Lydia were:

> Jehu/John Woolley (1729 to 1812)William Woolley (1730 to 1817) married Elizabeth EvartsAbel Woolley (1734 to 1826) married Mary CarterLydia Valeria Woolley (1737 to 1813) married Zephaniah HowardPontius Woolley (1739 to 1814) married Content Palmer

> William Woolley and his wife Elizabeth later moved to Middleton, New Jersey and I believe that it was his descendants that Dr. John E. Stillwell found living in New Bargain Mills, Howell township, Monmouth County, NJ  in 1893.

> I do not know what religion Edward Howard and his wife Lydia Steel followed. They were not Quakers as Edward's ancestors were. Lydia's branch of the Stelle/de L'Estoile family were Anglicans. Daughter Lydia Valeria and her husband Zephaniah Howard were Baptists. Son Pontius Woolley probably became a Quaker in order to marry Content Palmer who came from an Connecticut Quaker family. I do not know when Edward and Lydia died.

> Some family historians say that Peter Woolley (born 1732; died unknown) whose wife was Hannah Potter, was also a son of Edward and Lydia (Stelle) Woolley. He was actually the son of Peter Woolley and his wife Mary Tilton. The elder Peter in turn was a son of William Woolley (1662 to 1718) and his wife Ann West of Shrewbury, NJ. Actually Peter Woolley (c.1695 to after 1732) was married three times. His first wife was Margaret Stelle (born 1705; died probably about 1725), the oldest sister of Lydia. His second and third wives were Martha Tilton and Mary Tilton. Young Peter moved to Dutchess County also and had a very close relationship with Abel and  Pontius Woolley and with Zephaniah Howard so that made some to think he was a brother to Abel, Pontius, and Lydia Valeria.

> Thus, with none of the Woolley historians knowing about Avunculate marriage - also the idea that an uncle marrying his blood niece would have filled those Victorians with dread about incest - that line of the Woolley family has not been recorded properly.

> Darrel Hockley

> Regina, SK, Canada

> 

> Correction is here:

Hello Susi,

Yes, you can print my email, only I have a correction to make, It has been pointed out to me that Lydia Valeria and her husband Zephaniah Howard were Quakers and not Baptists; one of their grandchildren (Chauncey Howard, my ancestor) became at various times a Baptist or a Methodist, depending on where he lived in Illinois.

Darrel Hockley

Regina, SK, Canada

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My request to Darrel

Darrell

May I print your letter in it's entirety on my blog. I think you have opened the door for many people struggling to break brick walls.  Awaiting your reply.

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Thriller Thursday======== New Source for Information

Thriller Thursday======== New Source for Information

Today I read my mail today.  In the email box was a bit of new source information.

It is a book review done by Genealogy Bank--The Official Blog

It covers a topic I have not seen addressed and reminded me of a thought I had
last week about another source not covered. (more to come).

I would love to post the data here but will refer you to their sight.

Book Review: ‘Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters’ Posted: 12 May 2016 08:34 AM PDT Myron J. Smith, Jr. has done a real service to genealogists by compiling this biographical dictionary of 956 Confederate and Union naval personnel as well as others closely allied to the war effort – politicians, steamboat pilots, government officials and others.

For further Information go to the above listed site and enjoy.

Yes, it names people, ships, places, events.  

Please click this link and learn more.

We had ships in the War against England and all battles since.

Now has anyone addressed our American CB's from WW2?

They were the Construction Battalions that went in before the troops to set up the ground for arrival of our troops. They took very high casualties.

Land Records, Presented, More Here

Last Saturday, I did a presentation on Land Records and Deeds. It is a very solid topic for genealogists.

Different Deeds can tell you different things about the deceased and where you should look for more data.  Example if no Will you look one place if Will you look another. You find different information.

O yes, what I forgot in my presentation was the Tomahawk Deeds.  A Tomahawk Deed was when a
barren land was found to the settler's liking they would take an axe ie tomahawk and mark the boundaries with their mark.  Then they had to go to the nearest land office and report the description of the land and there by get a Land Deed to that property.  The marks on the trees and rocks etc were to let another know someone had already picked out that piece of property.  Sometimes these
markings lasted the life of the trees and rocks many other times the tree died, was taken down and no one could see the markings made in the beginning.

Today I am going to share another place that has data on Land Records. If your researching in IOWA, be aware they have this site on line for  you to browse and potentially use for assistance.

https://iowalandrecords.org/portal/

https://iowalandrecords.org/portal/clris/ShowHomePage

I have not looked to see how many states may have a page /url for you to use in other states.

As located will post the information here for you to use.

You are aware of Grantor and a Grantee position in Land Records?
A Grantor gives or sells the land(building) etc. The Grantee is the receiver of the property.

It was a twist for me for a long time while in college.

Are you aware of the many types of Deeds that can be involved with the change of hands
of the property?

Treasure Chest Thursday Facebook

Treasure Chest Thursday

 We have a great Treasure Chest if we just use it.

 Yes, it is free, & it is accessible from home.

  It covers: DNA, FAMILY HISTORY, GENETIC GENEALOGY, COUNTIES, STATES, AND SURNAMES.


  It even covers the background of various ethnic and religious groups.  I suspect that there is very little that this site does not cover.

 It has current news data on it also.

 What is this site you ask?  Facebook.

 I have found lost kin,  misplaced families due to moves, current family that a death created  a separation.

 Family has shared photos, documents, details of family events,  

 There is nothing like learning history at the same time as doing your research so you understand the  area at the time your digging.

 We had a cousin share a picture of husbands Grandfather we have no pictures of this person.

 We have had visits by family we had hunted for 40 years and Facebook put us in touch.

So if you do not want to join the local chatter put various topics in the search box and see how many sites will come up that will help you find kin in an area you are stuck in.

Family lines of ours come from Greene Co. PA, Moravia, Ia and Halifax Co. VA.
We also have kin from old Albany Co. Ny.,  Mass., New Hampshire, Maine and VT.

I suggest you make a list of the places your stuck on and then find the places on Facebook and some may even be what they call Pages with in Facebook.  See if you do not find at least one or more
assistance with your research.

 
 

May Day, What Do You Remember?

May Day,  What Do You Remember?

Being born pre 1950, we celebrated May Day at school all my school years.

Mom helped us gather a flower or two and put it in a piece of newspaper and attach it to a neighbors door.  

At school we all had to wind the ribbons around the MayPole.  Having taught my children to do the same on May Day, I wonder if they remember?   Schools stopped doing it and the tradition died.

Today they imply that it was a Political Event so not allowed.

Here are some links that state it as I remember it, and think it a shame we do not continue to do it.

http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/05/01/what-is-may-day-facts-holiday/

It has to be one of the older celebrated events by peoples everywhere that does not constitute blood shed and pain. It recommends fun and love and caring for others

Going to copy a wee bit from the above site but it would behoove you to click the link and learn more.

"Who doesn’t love a good holiday? While May Day is a celebration that has happened worldwide for centuries, it’s still a little mysterious. Not religious, not secular, it’s a little both, and it’s celebrated every May 1! Click through to find out five important facts about May Day!"

1. There’s a reason why it’s celebrated on May 1  It represents the beginning of summer holiday in pre Christian Europe.

2. It’s been celebrated since the Roman Republic era

It mentions the Goddess of Flowers via Romans, and Gaelic  summer festival of Beltrane , still done in areas of ireland today.

3.  It changed significantly after the rise of Christianity

It became a more secular,  now light hearted and celebrating spring and summer. 

I did not find what I was taught about the Maypole on any of the sites. Wonder how the Sister's came up with their comments and said it was to do with Germany and Russian peoples.

4. The holiday is best symbolized by the maypole

(I was taught the weaving of the ribbons were binding people together). I think it really implies alot.  As humans we are bound together more than most accept or realize maybe.

5. Germany has the biggest May Day celebration

 it represents a pagan  Tradition and a celebration of St. WAlburga, who is credited with bringing Christianity to German..  Interesting how one led to the other.

Click the link above and learn about May Day.

What a nice way to wake up in the morning step out the door and find a couple of flowers hanging on your door knob or in a vase.  They weaving the colored ribbons together to make us remember we are all one people of many color but blood is the same color inside.