HAPPY 2015 10 GENEALOGY RESOULTIONS

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10 GENEALOGY RESOULTIONS

1. Find The Mayflower Connection and be able to Vett It and Prove It.
2. Join the DAR with the correct information that the paper trail exist.
3. Have Memorials for all of my 3rd Great-Grandparents on Find A Grave.  Already one of them helped me find Ancestrrol connections.
4. Using DNA test results from Ancestry.com for better Family connection results. 
5. Contribute to a Billion Graves.
6. Find that connection in my DNA results that lead to a southern family connection.
7. To Explore the Migration pattern of the Ancestors, mostly to find any kin that made a mark in their area.
8. Martha Gray WHO are her parents?  To find the answer.
9. Make a List of the Military Ancestors to Honor Their Service and knowing what they did for us.
10. To Have Fun While Discovery all the aboove

Lake Erie from Ohio point of View

Lake Erie

Lake Erie is one of the Great Lakes and currently serves as part of Ohio's northern boundary. During the 1700s and 1800s, Lake Erie provided a quick means of transportation for men engaged in the fur trade as well as settlers hoping to improve their fortunes in the Ohio Country. Its importance grew during the 1810s and the 1820s as Americans began to build canals. The completion of the Erie Canal, connecting the Hudson River in New York with Lake Erie, provided the first navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the upper Midwest. This allowed farmers in Ohio a relatively quick and inexpensive route to transport their products to market. Cleveland quickly grew and became one of the leading industrial centers of Ohio thanks to its location on Lake Erie. 

Scottish Castle Duart

My Scottish Ancestors seem to of found so many ways to have Castles in their troves.  Another Castle associated with my ancestors.






                         Duart Castle

Scotland

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 Lets Fight Over The Castle

*In 1350 Lachlan Lubanach Maclean of Duart, the 5th Clan Chief, married Mary, daughter of the John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and she was given Duart as her dowry.^[2]

In 1647, Duart Castle was attacked and laid siege to by the Argyll government troops of Clan Campbell, but they were defeated and driven off by the Royalist troops of Clan MacLean.
In September 1653, a Cromwellian task force of six ships anchored off the castle, but the Macleans had already fled to Tiree. A storm blew up on the 13 September and three ships were lost, including HMS Swan.
In 1678, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, son of the Marquess of Argyll, successfully invaded the Clan MacLean lands on the Isle of Mull and Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet fled the castle and withdrew to Cairnbulg Castle, and afterward to Kintail under the protection of the Earl of Seaforth.^[3]
In 1691 Duart Castle was surrendered by Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet to Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll.^[1] The Campbell clan demolished the castle, and the stones from the walls were scattered. Donald Maclean, 5th Laird of Torloisk used some of the stones to build a cottage for his family close to the site of the castle.^[4]
By 1751 the remains of the castle were abandoned.
Descendants of Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll sold the castle in 1801, to MacQuarrie, who then sold it to Carter-Campbell of Possil who kept it as a ruin within the grounds of his own estate to the north, Torosay Castle. He later sold his Torosay Estate which now included the ruins of Castle Duart to A. C. Guthrie in 1865. On September 11, 1911, the ruin was separated from the rest of the Torosay Estate and was bought by Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, the 26th Chief of the Clan MacLean and restored.<sup>[1][5][6]

* All information found on Wikipedia.org  Amazing what great Family History stuff you can find there.</sup>

10 Ways to do your Family History

1.  Look through all the family know books for Family History  Bibles, High School Year books, Business directories.  Family Scrapbooks etc... On the close family level.

2.  Ask Ask Ask questions of your parents and if possible grandparents, Uncles Aunts and other family members who might know details about the family.

3.  Gather paper work:  Documents, Certificates, Land Deeds,  Diplomas, letters.

4. Use Google to search for Family names.  I like this method I find all kinds of things out.  You just might find that there is a book published on your family.  Then you will have a wealth of family history easily available to you.

5. Start a Family Tree keep track of your progress.  You have many choices of how to do this:

a]  Write it all down on pedigree sheets/ family group sheets
b]  Purchase software for your computer  A word of advice print out all you have in case of a computer catastrophe!  I have had to many, I know first hand what saved me further frustration.
c] Join Ancestry.com  [ I have invested in my Family Tree every penny has been worth it.]

6. Contact cousins ask family questions.  A excellent source of information from another point of view.

7. Go to the local libraries where your family lived.

8. Go through your tree to see where your missing information, seek to capture what you are missing.

9.  You have so many resources at your disposal use them.  Message boards, email, snail mail.  They all work, most its years in the making  They work.

10.  Have Fun Most Of All!!!   Learn of your family and enjoy.

 

Beauty of Ancestry.com

Reasons for Joining  Ancestry.com

·        Genealogy

·        A great place to keep your Family Tree neat & Tidy

·        Place to discover so much more on your Family Tree

Ways to use Ancestry.com
 

·        Family Trees

·        Where you start & store your Family Trees

  A]  Unlimited for Family Trees 4 u & those your researching

* Upload GEDCOM files

·        Search

·        Search All Records

·        Census & Voters Lists

·        Birth, Marriage & Death

·        Public Member Trees

·        Military

·        Immigration & Travel

·        Card Catalog – Now you do not have to travel to distant libraries to find a book

A]  Search & Find Historical Non-Fiction Books ie… Biographies, Town Histories, Gazettes & etc…

B] Search & Find Book Published Family History & Trees ie…

·        Collaborate

·        Recent Member Connect activity

A] don’t remember whos tree you looked through you can review here and find it again.

        * Message Board

            A] My most favorite Tool.  Where you can post who, where, dates for your ancestor.  You may get a response eventually or even the same day.

              B] Your families name not there no worry you can start your own family thread.

            * World Archive Project

                 A] Where you can Volunteer by using some time to Help Others find records too!  Find out how you can help!

             * Member Directory

                   A] search through to hopefully find someone else researching your brick walls.  They might of broke through for you.

              * Public Profile

                   A] This is where its about you.  Where you can enter in about you and your research.

·        Learning Center

·        Whats New

·        First Steps

·        Next Steps

·        Family History 101

·        Webinars

·        Help – FAQ

·        Family History WIKI

·        Etc…

·        * DNA

·        * Publish

·        * Hire an Expert

·        * # days left before 1940 Census released

My personal take on Ancestry.  In just the first month I joined I advanced my research by leaps & bounds.

 What could of taken me 20 years to assemble & find the old fashioned way. Voile Ancestry brought it to me so quickly.  I keep saying Ancestry. Com has been worth every penny I have paid in my subscription.  Try the trial.  See what you can find.  Then continue.  If you want to know more about your family then by all means keep going back.