Family Is Forever

Not My Ancestors For Sale

  There I was in the Antique Mall of my city.  In one of the stalls.  I could not believe it.  There was indeed old photos for sale.  Someones instant Ancestors.

How is it these photos end up in an antiques place with no near relatives having them in there photo albums or hung on a wall?  

So for $10.00 you could have yourself Instant Ancestors.  Amazing

Caryl Family of Worcester & East Worcester, NY late 1700's to early 1800's

With plopping in the name JOEL CARYL into Google.  I came across part of a book on GENWEB.  Have you used GENWEB much?

So in the book mentioned Joel Carly.  Now if you have followed me me much or know me much you know finding my Joel Caryl is important to me.

How ever this such post of Joel is not mine.  Since it is so laden with early New England post Rev. soldiers & families I figured I would include all the names in this here post.

Isaac Caryl, Aaron Leland, Susan Snell,  Mary Barnes, Rev. Aaron Leland,  William H. Ely, Richmondville, W. W. Babcock, Derrick Livingston, Carylville, Edmund B., Wallace, Jerome, Gouverneur,  Huldah Howe

John Caryl, Isaac Caryl and Susan, Captain Giles Kellogg,  Hannah Lampman,  John G. Caryl, Christina Ann Smith, Samuel Smith

 Joseph Webb, Mr. Elias Brooks,  Nathaniel Todd, John P. Russ, E. F. Knapp.

William Gott,  Isaac D., Mary D., William S. After,  Samuel Witt

Elder Thomas Tallman,  William H. Ely, Dr. Benjamin C. Ely, son of Dr. Sumner Ely,  Lasell J. Hayden and Louis C. Hayden,  Dr. Timothy P. Fay

Mr. Jennings, Noah Adset, William Barrett, James Lamoune, Elisha E. Freeman, Joseph Powers, Rev. Ingram Powers, Captain Chester Powers.

John H. Hudson, Jonathan L. Pinney,  David Babcock, Joshua Bigelow,   General Edmund B. Bigelow, by Benjamin Delamatter, Amos Starkweather,

Josiah Hill, and one Bonsteil, Isaac Caryl,  Andrew Little

Colonel Bela Johnson, second wife, sister of Seneca and General E. B. Bigelow, Seth Dickenson, Bradley Ritton, Samuel Robbins, Francis Dickenson,  Jonathan Pickering,  Hon. Lewis Cass,  Captain Samuel Houghton,

Colonel Wm. H. Chase,  Robert Quail,  Mr. John Tricky, John Cook, Uriah Bigelow, Nathaniel Todd, Major Todd, Solomon Hartwell, Dr. Joseph Carpenter,  Delos Van Hueson, Stimpson, Adoniram Thompson, Calvin Clark, Orange Wright, Adam Clark, Dr. Uriah Gregory Bigelow,

Mr. Briggs, Daniel Crippen, Silas Crippen, John Waterman, Jacob Stener, Henry Albert, Frederick Albert,  Seth Chase,  Schuyler Crippen,  General Edmund B. Bigelow, Leonard Caryl,  Samuel H. Grant,  James Stewart,General James Stewart, William H. Ely, Strain, Timothy Murphey, Lodowick Becker, and Josiah Darwin

Ruloff,  Abram Becker, Michaels, Martins, Robertsons, Beckers, and Darwins 

You can read the entire trancript here: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/otsego/book/worchester/pioneers.html

Name origins ARETHUS

NAME ORIGINS
by Julie Helen Otto of NEHGS  newsletter.

Arethusa (f): A Spring. A Nymph.(Century Encyclopaedia of Names, 1905).  

 ARETHUSA BIGELOW (1786-1811), daughter of Andrew & Sarah (Fawcett) Bigelow of Boylston, Mass...  the name was sometimes abbreviated to THUSA. 

Genealogist Wish List

Ah what could be on a genealogist Christmas wish list?  

1 1.    Brick Wall Breaker – secret codex for brick walls 

   2.    DNA that proves a Ancestors Line with out a doubt  

   3.    After hour- Library hours  {Local Town Library} for genealogy research.  Like 9 p.m. till 2 a.m.   

   4.   All ancient text { any text before 1900}  straightens out  to Arial Font with special Genealogist Glasses

   5.    Passport/VISA s  to all research port of call;

   6.    New York State records from 1799 – 1850 Including  Adoption  Records

   7.   Access to all hidden Historical records  

  





 8.  The Truth regarding THE KINGS DAUGHTERS

   9.   Oral History verification

  10.              Church records open to all descendants no matter where the descendants are from.

Christmas has Special Sentiments When Your Heart Longs For The One

With my Mother dying this summer I have done my best to remember all the good and fun times.

My Dad sent me a Christmas package.  A very special one.  One full of emotions for me.

How can a Poem and Christmas ornament give me such strong emotions?  It did, so all my avoiding the first Christmas with out her didn't work.

I am glad that I had her for my mother.  That my Dad knew just how to touch my heart with LOVE!

Santa Claus & Christmas

How did Santa Claus come to be the Big part of Christmas?

From CoolQuiz 
                     http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/santa.asp
                            they offer this explanation:

Tell a Friend How did the idea for Santa Claus originate? The American version of the Santa Claus figure received its inspiration and its name from the Dutch legend of Sinterklaas (a Dutch variant of the name Saint Nicholas). Dutch colonists took this tradition with them to New Amsterdam (now New York City) in the American colonies in the 17th century. As early as 1773 the name appeared in the American press as "St. A Claus," but it was the popular author Washington Irving who gave Americans their first detailed information about the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas.  In his History of New York, published in 1809 under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, Irving described the arrival of the saint on horseback each Eve of Saint Nicholas. This Dutch-American Saint Nick achieved his fully Americanized form in 1823 in the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" by writer Clement Clarke Moore. Moore included such details as the names of the reindeer; Santa Claus's laughs, winks, and nods; and the method by which Saint Nicholas, referred to as an elf, returns up the chimney. (Moore's phrase "lays his finger aside of his nose" was drawn directly from Irving's 1809 description.) The American image of Santa Claus was further elaborated by illustrator Thomas Nast, who depicted a rotund Santa for Christmas issues of Harper's magazine from the 1860s to the 1880s. Nast added such details as Santa's workshop at the North Pole and Santa's list of the good and bad children of the world. In the first Nast illustration, Santa was delivering Christmas gifts to soldiers fighting in the Civil War. The cartoon, entitled "Santa Claus in Camp" appeared in Harper's Weekly on January 3, 1863. A human-sized version of Santa Claus, rather than the elf of Moore's poem, was depicted in a series of illustrations created by Haddom Sundblom for Coca-Cola advertisements introduced in 1931. In modern versions of the Santa Claus legend, only his toyshop workers are elves. An advertising writer named Robert May, invented Rudolph, the ninth reindeer, with a red and shiny nose, while working on a catalog for the Montgomery Ward Company in 1939. In looking for the historical roots, one discovers that Santa Claus, as we know him, is a combination of many different legends and mythical creatures. The basis for the Christian-era Santa Claus is Bishop Nicholas of Smyrna (Izmir), in what is now Turkey. Nicholas lived in the 4th century A.D. He was very rich, generous, and loving toward children. Often he gave joy to poor children by throwing gifts in through their windows. The Orthodox Church later raised St. Nicholas, miracle worker, to a position of great esteem. It was in his honor that Russia's oldest church, for example, was built. For its part, the Roman Catholic Church honored Nicholas as one who helped children and the poor. St. Nicholas became the patron saint of children and seafarers. His name day is December 6th. In the Protestant areas of central and northern Germany, St. Nicholas later became known as der Weinachtsmann. In England he came to be called Father Christmas. St. Nicholas made his way to the United States with Dutch immigrants, and began to be referred to as Santa Claus. In North American poetry and illustrations, Santa Claus, in his white beard, red jacket and pompom-topped cap, would sally forth on the night before Christmas in his sleigh, pulled by eight reindeer, and climb down chimneys to leave his gifts in stockings children set out on the fireplace's mantelpiece. Children naturally wanted to know where Santa Claus actually came from. Where did he live when he wasn't delivering presents? Those questions gave rise to the legend that Santa Claus lived at the North Pole, where his Christmas-gift workshop was also located.

December 21 2012

Here it is 21 December 2012

We are all still Here

Mayan calendar has not changed anything for us.

Well except all know when a calendar ends it is not the End of the WORLD!!!

Christmas Traditions Now & For Your Ancestors

Are your present day Christmas Traditions the same  ones your Ancestors kept?

Was there a large Family Gathering?

Was there a Tree?  Where did the tree come from?
The property, a neighbors yard, etc...?

photo from: http://www.shorpy.com/node/9599

Were do you get your tree?  A tree farm, Your property, a neighbors etc???

Christmas has so many traditions woven in it.

When I was little my parents would give us new PJ's or nightgown on Christmas Eve.  It was the start of many more surprises.

Name Origins Ambrose

Name Origins

by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist

AMBROSE (from Late Latin family name AMBROSIUS) (m): 

The name came into use in the Middle Ages due to the great Church Father 
St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (339–397).

 While rather uncommon in Puritan New England (probably because of possible Catholic connotations), AMBROSE does appear in certain families and localities, often as a "marker" name; e.g. at Stratford, Conn., where it usually indicates descent from or associations with descendants of immigrants John and Mirable (Griggs?) Thompson, whose son Ambrose Thompson was born there 1 January 1651 [Barbour Collection].

Name Origins Mephi.

NAME ORIGINS
by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist NEHGS

 MEPHIBOSHETH (M): Hebrew. “And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet.  He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nirse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame.  And his name was MEPHIBOSHETH” (2 Samuel4:4). 

Mephibosheth Sanborn, b. 5, 9 mo. 1663, was the son of William and Mary (Moulton) Sanborn (Hampton VRs, 1:96, 552).

Rev. Mephibosheth Cain performed marriages at Dresden, Maine in the late 1790s. 

Were these men born lame, or was this a name randomly chosen from the Bible?

Name Origins Christmas

Name Origins

by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist NEHGS

Christmas (m and f): Over time, the U.S. census has enumerated a number of people with the first name Christmas, both male and female. Most likely, the majority were born on or near Christmas Day. In 1790, there was one person listed in the census named Christmas: 

Christmas Hunt of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. 
In 1850, there were 37 people named Christmas; in 1880, 125 people; in 1910, 308 people; and, in 1940, there were 95 people named Christmas.

A search of the databases on AmericanAncestors.org also shows a number of examples, including

Christmas Dumore, son of Godfrey and Philomon (___) Dumore, who was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1869, and

 Christmas L. Morse, daughter of Frank and Josephine (Gaudard) Morse, born in Adams, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1887.

NEHGS & Ancestry.com Day in March 2013

NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
www.AmericanAncestors.org

Ancestry Day with NEHGS

Plan to join NEHGS on March 2, 2013, for “Ancestry Day with NEHGS.” NEHGS is again partnering with Ancestry.com for a special day-long genealogy event, which will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Boston hotel in the Back Bay.

The program will offer you a chance to discover and celebrate your family history.

 Classes and sessions throughout the day will help you get the most out of your research using Ancestry.com and NEHGS resources. Full day admission to this special event is only $30.

As an added offer, on Friday, March 1, 2013, one-on-one consultations with members of our expert staff will be available. Space is limited! While here, you can also learn more about using the NEHGS website AmericanAncestors.org. 

To register:

http://ancestrydaynehgs.eventbrite.com/#

Your Religious Freedom Did Your Ancestors Help In It?

PBS has provided an excellent program about our First Liberty

Freedom Of Religion

http://video.pbs.org/video/2315729403

Please view and see what your Ancestors were a part of.

Then share what you know of your ancestors participation in this freedom or just tell how you have been able to enjoy the freedom.

The United States was the first country to establish separation of Church & State.

DNA WOW WHY SO DIFFERENT?

DNA and its complexities.  How does your results differ from your parents?

Does it can it be different from your parents DNA.

Short answer YES ! 

 Don't I get 50% from each parent?  NO

At time of your conception the DNA carried by the Egg and Sperm is different from the others.

So not only are we an individual and unique in a broad sense we are far more unique down to our DNA.

I have eight siblings every one of us will have different DNA makeup.

As in the case of my sister.

My dad is 53% British Isles

                 23% Scandinavia

                 10% Central European

                 4% not known

My Sister is

                       55% Scandinavia

                                     35% Central European

                       10% Southern European

I expected the Central European to increase

But where is the rest of my dads along with my moms half ?

We do not receive  50% of DNA from both of our parents.  

We can get all different kind of combinations. 

So maybe this is why one child will have Hazel eyes and another with brown eyes. 

A few blond children, Light brown hair & super dark brown hair.

For my dad my research backed up his DNA results.   As for my sister there is missing DNA.

So our paper trails is by far is our most accurate source of who we are. 

DNA testing can only help us in our journey of self discovery.  

Help to break down Brick walls.

Good Luck in your Family Search.

What To DO????

What to do with your DNA results when you receive them?

I do not have an answer for you.  It will all depend on where you had your DNA test done and which one you did.

I have shown you the possibilities with Ancestry.com. 

My suggestion is to find out what every DNA lab offers you with your results.  Then compare what they offer, find the best deal for your money, go for it.

To me you can’t go wrong with your DNA results.  It opens new doors for you, hopefully breaks down a brick wall or two.

Your Ancestors are waiting for you to find them.

Peleg Cook & Martha Jencks Connection

Ancestry way of helping you, they give you how directly your related yo another member.  
I think its Marvelous.

Shared Ancestor Hint

Peleg Cook

7th great-grandfather

&

Martha Jencks*

7th great-grandmother

Martha A Cooke6th great-grandmother

Benjamin Corey5th great-grandfather

Rachel Corey4th great-grandmother

Silas Babbitt3rd great-grandfather

Elizabeth Marie Babbitt2nd great-grandmother

Anna Minerva CarylGreat-grandmother

George Byron PutmanGrandfather

Etta M PutmanMother

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#97 Patience COOK6th great-grand aunt

#101 Hannah ARNOLD1st cousin (7x removed)

#299 Richard ARNOLD2nd cousin (6x removed)

Thomas Earle ARNOLD3rd cousin (5x removed)

George E. ARNOLD4th cousin (4x removed)

Thomas Earle * ARNOLD5th cousin (3x removed)

Louise Marion * ARNOLD6th cousin (2x removed)

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7th cousin (1x removed)

Connection of Van Valkenburg Line

The DNA results for a Tree that matches on the 
Van Valkenburg family line.

Shared Ancestor Hint

Isaac Vollick VanValkenburg

5th great-grandfather

&

Anna Maria Warner

5th great-grandmother

Catharina Van Valkenburg Vollick4th great-grandmother

Dorothy Hainer3rd great-grandmother

*John Putman2nd great-grandfather

William PutmanGreat-grandfather

George Byron PutmanGrandfather

Etta M PutmanMother

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Cornelius Vollick4th great-grand uncle

Mathias Vollick1st cousin (5x removed)

Catherine Vollick2nd cousin (4x removed)

Franklin M. Fenwick3rd cousin (3x removed)

Catherine Ann Fenwick4th cousin (2x removed)

xxxxxxxxxxx5th cousin (1x removed)