The Fun of Sharing

John Ogden posted a Facebook request for a photo of William Henry Montgomery of Monroe Co., OH. I posted information about him from Find A Grave to my file. During that process I made a discovery and linked a daughter of William to the Jeffers, Jackson and Henthorn families that I have worked on for many years. Here's what I wrote to John Ogden. William Harvey Montgomery and Sarah Ann Stephens had a daughter, Margaret Maudena Montgomery, b. 17 Apr 1871 in Monroe Co., OH. I found her in Find A Grave. Here's the fun for me. She married James L. Jeffers, no date of marriage. He was born on 19 Aug 1863 in Monroe Co., OH. Surname is also spelled, Jeffries. I don't know if the couple had children. The paternal grandmother of James L. Jeffers was Deborah (Jackson) Jeffers whose grandparents were: Robert Jackson, Sr. and Mary Ann (Henthorn) Jackson. Some of the Jacksons became LDS and went to Utah. Years ago I worked on Jackson genealogy with Judge Norman Jackson of Salt Lake City. I met face to face with Norman a couple of times when he was in Washington, DC.. Dick Henthorn 18 sep 2018

Enlarging a Newspaper Clipping

Sometimes, when newspaper clippings are shared on Facebook, they are hard to read or the bottom part isn't visible. Here's what I try to remember when this happens.

Downloading the image gives me more control. I can open the image with IrfanView. This "free" program has an option that allows me to, gain control of, and enlarge, the image. Almost every time this allows me to make the text large enough for easy reading. My goal is to be able to type the article in order to include the text in the Note field of my genealogy file.

Dick Henthorn

18 Aug 2018

Tennant Genealogy

I did a test run to see how many pages of information I have about the Tennant family.

The information is stored in one of my RootsMagic files.

A narrative descendant report includes an every name index and a place name index.

In general, my policy is to exchange information only with people who have done substantial work on recording their own genealogy and who are willing to share.

The current page count for the Tennant family is - 1571 pages.

Dick Henthorn
7 Aug 2018

THE Monroe County Ohio, Connection Site by Alan Berry

Here's a link to a very nice website with information about families of Monroe County, Ohio.  It's part of the RootsWeb - WorldConnect Program.

THE Monroe County, Ohio Connection Site by Alan Berry

Dick Henthorn
4 Aug 2018

Henthorn Family Wiki Shutdown on 31 Jul 2018

My Henthorn Family Wiki will be shutdown on 31 July 2018. The company where I had this paid subscription is going out of business.

If there is something there that you want Download Now. I am not sure I want to build another set of webpages.

Dick Henthorn
28 Jul 2018

Glesenkamp, Conger, Schumacher

I just discovered any interesting link on Find A Grave. Mary Glesenkamp, daughter of William Wilson Glesenkamp and Eliza Melissa Taylor, married John Ambrose Schumacher. Mary had a sister, Ruth Glesenkamp, who married James Abraham Conger.

John and Mary Schumacher lived in Woodsfield, Monroe Co., OH.

James and Ruth Conger lived in Delaware, Delaware Co., OH.

Several years ago I worked on the Conger family in general. In my Conger file I have information about James and Ruth Conger. Some of my Conger work is available online, hosted by a Conger friend.

Right now I am working on the Schumacher family of Woodsfield, Monroe Co., OH and Allegheny Co., PA. Does anyone have a summary style descendant list for the Schumacher family?

Dick Henthorn
26 Jul 2018

RootsWeb Update

RootsWeb Update

Here's a new post about the RootsWeb restoration project.

Dick Henthorn
18 Jul 2018

RootsWeb Update

Here's a link to a July 2018 update on the status of the Rootsweb restoration project.

This is very good news.

I've already looked at some of the restored pages. I think those of us who used this resource are going to appreciate what a valuable asset we weren't able to access for several months.

RootsWeb Update

Dick Henthorn
1 Jul 2018

Test of Sharing a Diigo Bookmark

I have a Diigo account where I often bookmark the URLs of pages I find interesting on the Internet.

This is a test of sharing one of those URLs

Create Family Tree, Add Photos, Notes

Dick Henthorn
20 May 2018
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No News, Is Bad News

There have been no updates concerning the RootsWeb out of service issue from Ancestry since 6 Mar 2018. That's about 70 days without any information about what they are doing.

I know this is a "free" service and therefore probably has a very low priority.  Perhaps they have come to the conclusion that they shouldn't have become involved in the first place.

The least they could do is post periodic updates to keep people who have an interest informed.

Dick Henthorn
16 May 2018

Compare Classic Google Sites & New Sites

Compare Classic Google Sites & New Sites:

As of 20 Mar 2018 there are two versions of Google Sites, Classic and New.

If you are currently using the Classic Google Sites or if you are contemplating building a "free" website with this service you need to be aware of the ramifications.

• What are the differences?
• What will I need to learn if I migrate to the new style?
• When will Google drop support of Classic Sites?
• Is "free" really "free?"

This link takes you to a page where Google explains the situation. Click on the down arrows to read the details.

Dick Henthorn

20 Mar 2018

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LDS Ancestral File Numbers

Here's a PDF that lists the LDS Ancestral File Numbers (AFN) in my pafyoh RootsMagic database.

An HTML link to the report, which is stored on my Google Drive account, displays the report. I adjusted the width to 425 to make the pop-out button visible on this page.

There is a "pop-out" arrow in the upper righthand corner. The bottom and right hand scroll bars also work without using the pop-out option. Use the plus-sign to enlarge the display to make the bottom scroll bar appear.

The purpose of this post was to assist me in the learning process. I think the result is pretty cool. There is always more to learn.

Dick Henthborn
13 Mar 2018

Virginia Helen Conaway Project Update

I continue to work on the project to re-type the 8-page, "Ice's Ferry" document written by Virginia Helen Conaway of West Virginia many years ago.

Susan Henthorn proofread my work and made some comments and suggestions. The next step is for me to review her efforts and incorporate the necessary changes into my draft.

I also started to put together my own piece about the project. My goal will be to help readers of the Conaway document understand what she wrote and identify who were the people mentioned.

It's a big project. I'm not predicting when it will be completed.

Dick Henthorn
5 Mar 2018
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WikiSpaces Closing

WikiSpaces Closing

Yesterday, while at the Senior Center to attend the twice-monthly Bowie Seniors Computer Club meeting I was using one of the two public computers in the hallway for a half-hour session.

The first thing I noticed was that a lady had been using Gmail and left the computer without signing off. She left over 4,000 Email messages open to public view. I was able to quickly figure out how to sign her off.

Next, I noticed a message from WikiSpaces. They announced that they will be shutting down the business in 2018 in a phased manner.  This will have an impact on me. In January I paid them $100 for a yearly subscription for the web space where I share lots of my genealogy information. I didn't determine how long I have to save my work. I didn't see this coming.

WikiSpaces Closing Message

If you are interested in downloading anything I share on WikiSpaces or if you want to record any of the Links to other content that I share, now is the time to take action.

My WikiSpaces

At this point, I haven't had enough time to think about what I want to do next. Building a website isn't a trivial matter, it takes many hours. If you have any proven suggestions that have worked for you I'm interested in what you have to say.

Dick Henthorn

2 Mar 2018

RootsMagic Search Everywhere

RootsMagic Search Everywhere

Today I noticed a search option with RootsMagic that I hadn't seen before. 

This option finds records by searching the text of the Note field. 

I ran two tests looking for data tags that I entered in all caps:

• Search for all records with the word, RESEARCHER
• Search for all records with the word, OBITUARY

Here are three screen captures I made during the process.

First, enter the word you seek, in this case, RESEARCHER. In my Note fields this word is in uppercase (all caps) so I checked the Match case box. You have the option of searching for more than one word. In my test I was only interested in one word.

Next, after you click on "OK" the Search Everything box appears with a thermometer in green displaying the search progress.

Finally, the search results are displayed, in alphabetical order, based on the names of the person whose Note contains the word or words of interest. Here, before making the screen capture, I scrolled to the entry for deceased Yoho family researcher, Denver Clayton Yoho. 

For each person in the report a snippet of the the text of their Note with the search word(s) highlighted in red is displayed. 

Also, there are two hot spots, in blue, that can be clicked to go directly to a person's record

• (edit)
• Note:

The HTM file can be printed or saved. 

Dick Henthorn

23 Feb 2018

George Tennant and Margaret Ann Wells

George Tennant and Margaret Ann Wells

Dick Henthorn

23 Feb 2018

Abraham C. "Lame Abe" Ice and Mary "Polly" Lewman

Abraham C. "Lame Abe" Ice and Mary "Polly" Lewman

Abraham C. Ice Ancestors

Abraham C. Ice

PARENTS: William Galloway "Indian Billy" Ice and Margaret Higginbotham

AKA: Lame Abe

CENSUS: The 1790 federal census of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania indirectly lists Abraham, age 9, living with his parents in Derry Township.

1790 United States Federal Census, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Derry Township, NARA Film M637-9, page 80, Enumeration Date: Unknown.  Wm ICE.  Enumeration: [143], 

one white male 16 years & upwards (1774 & earlier , William) ; 4 free white males under 16 

(1775-1790, John 1775, William 1 779, Abraham 1781, Isaac 1789).  Two other sons gone from home in 1790 are thought to be George (1767) and Thomas (1772); 

three free white females (daughter Mary 1774, daughter Eve 1783, wife Margaret 1767).

CENSUS: 1810 United States Federal Census, Monongalia County, Virginia, NARA Film M252-69, page 510.

Abm ICE.  Enumeration: [M:10010 - F:10100], 

one male under 10 (1800-1809 , Thomas 1808), one male 26-44 (1766-1784, Abraham), 

one female under 1 0 (1800-1809, Nancy 1809), one female 16-25 (1785-1794, Mary 1791).

CENSUS: 1820 United States Federal Census, Monongalia County, Virginia, Western Division, NARA Film M33-142, page 54.  

Abraham ICE.  Enumeration: [M:11001 0 - F:41010 - 01], 

one male under 10 (1810-1819, Isaac 1817), one male 10 -16 (1804-1810, Thomas 1808), one male 26-45 (1775-1794, Abraham, 1790) ; 

4 females under 10 (1810-1819), one female 10-16 (1804-1810, Nancy 1809 ), one female 26-45 (1775-1794, Mary 1791), one person engaged in Agriculture.

CENSUS: 1830 U. S. Federal Census, Monongalia County, Virginia, Western District , NARA film M19-191, page 402, Enumeration Date: not recorded.  Line 12: 

Abraham ICE, enumeration: [M: 001001... - F: 20001...], 

one male 10-1 5 (1815-1820), one male 30-40 (1790-1800, Abraham 1790), 

2 females under 5 (1825-1830),  one female 20-30 (1800-1810).

LAND: An indenture was made 10 September 1832 between 

[the heirs of William Galloway Ice and Abraham C. Ice, s/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham in Monongalia county, Virginia]

Adin BAYLES and Margaret his wife and 

[Adin "Hayden or Aden" Bayles, s/o Jesse Bayles, Sr. and Margaret Elizabeth Marie Monraine

married to Margaret Ice, d/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham]

Abram SHREVE and Mary his wife and 

[Abraham Shreve, s/o James and Margaret Shreve 

married to Mary Ice, d/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham]

Isaac ICE and Mary his wife and 

[Isaac W. Ice, s/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham, 

married to Mary Fortney, d/o John Fortney]

George WATSON and Katharine his wife and 

[George Watson, s/o John Watson and Susannah Ice, Susannah was d/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham

married to Catherine Barker, d/o Joseph Barker, Jr. and Catherine Carpenter]

Ephraim MARTIN and Mary his wife and 

[Ephraim Martin [parents unknown] 

married to Mary Ice, d/o George Washington Ice, Sr. and Catherine Paden, George was s/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham]

Thomas DUNN and Margaret his wife 

[Thomas Dunn [parents unknown] 

married to Margaret Ice, d/o George Washington Ice, Sr. and Catherine Paden, George was s/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham]

all of Tyler County and 

Henry BARNHOUSE and Matilda his wife of Monongalia County and 

[Henry Barnhouse, s/o John Barnhouse and Polly Jane Ice [parents unknown]

married to Matilda Youst, d/o Henry Youst and Sarah Ice, Sarah was d/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham]

Jonathan FREELAND and Mary his wife of Ohio 

[Jonathan Freeland [parents unknown]

married to Mary Watson, d/o John Watson and Susannah Ice, Susannah was d/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham]

of the one part and 

Abraham ICE of Harrison County of the other part. 

[Abraham C. Ice, s/o William Galloway Ice and Margaret Higginbotham

married to Mary Lewman, d/o Joshua L. Lewman and Nancy Ann Dicken]

Abraham ICE purchased for the sum of 464 dollars the tracts of land formerly belonging to William ICE Sr. that was decreed by the Clarksburg Superior Court of Chancery to the aforesaid heirs.  This purchase contained 80 and one-half acres and 14 poles that had been surveyed by William Haymond.  

Note: A "pole" is a measure of distance used in surveying equal to a rod or sixteen and one-half feet.

Note: Comments, in square brackets, about the possible identity of each couple, were written by researcher Richard E. Henthorn on 27 September 2014.

(Source: Monongalia County, Virginia Deeds, Vol. 11, pp. 447-449)

CENSUS: 1840 U. S. Federal Census, Monongalia County, Virginia, West Monongalia , NARA film M704-567, page 115, Enumeration Date: not recorded.  Line 4: 

Abraham ICE, enumeration: [M: 2100001... - F: 011001...], 

2 males unde r 5 (1835-1839, Moses, Andrew), one male 5-10 (1830-1835, Abraham, Jr.) , one male 40-50 (1790-1800, Abraham, Sr. 1790), 

one female 5-10 (1830-18 35), one female 10-15 (1825-1830, Sarah), one female 30-40 (1800-1810, Mary).

COMMENT: Marion County was formed from Monongalia County in 1842.

CENSUS: 1850 U. S. Federal Census, Marion County, Virginia, Western District 35 , NARA film M432-958, page 206B, Enumeration Date: 18 September 1850.  Line 1, dwelling 681, family 683: 

Abraham ICE, Sr., age 60, farmer, birthplace: Pennsylvania.  Mary, age 57, birthplace: Maryland, cannot read or write.  

Children were born in Virginia.  

Abraham, age 21.  Moses, age 18 .  Andrew, age 15.  Sarah M., age 26.

HISTORY: Buried- Barrackville, WV- Ice Cemetery

Leg Amputated After Logging Accident

In the outset of this brief history, I stated "America to the 10th Generation".   "Indian Billy" had 15 children; one of these was Abraham, who married Mary Polly Lewman.   

Abraham had the misfortune to have a tree fall on his leg while cutting timber on "Hoult Hill", now Hillcrest, and not being able to get free, it was necessary to cut his leg off. He was a very large man and it is said that he stood the cutting with the crude timber saw, cutting the bone, and it was done without anesthetic. He wore a wooden peg leg until his death and became known as "Lame Abe". Lame Abe had 13 children; one of which was James, who married Levina Snodgrass. 

James a farmer was shot during the Civil War for being a southern sympathizer, but that is another story. James and Levina had five children and one of them was John Linsey who married Rebecca McDougal.  

John, a railroader, was killed near Grafton when he was impaled through the middle by a Jennie Coupling between two railroad cars. John and Rebecca had two sons,  James Lee, married Minerva Jane Pyles, James Lee and Minerva had three children. William Ice married Rebecca Williams.

[Note: The author of this History piece is unknown.  Richard E. Henthorn]

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 52461094

Mary Lewman

PARENTS: Joshua L. Lewman and Nancy Ann Dicken

AKA: Polly

REFERENCE: FILM: Salt Lake Library film #0163774 Ice Family.

CENSUS: 1860 U. S. Federal Census, Marion County, Virginia, Barrackville Post Off ice, NARA film M653-1361, page 600, Enumeration Date: 23 July 1860.  Line 7, dwelling 1158, family 1101: 

Mary ICE, age 68, birthplace: Maryland .  Andrew, age 24, occupation: farmer, birthplace: Maryland.  

Martha (Andrew's wife), age 17, birthplace: Maryland.  

Sarah ROWAND, age 12, birthplace: Virginia.

Immediate neighbor: dwelling 1157, Moses ICE (son).

CEMETERY: Buried- Barrackville, WV- Ice Cemetery

NAME-COMMENT: Some have spelling as "Leuman"

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 52461087

Abraham C. Ice Descendants

Dick Henthorn

21 Feb 2018

Virginia Helen Conaway

Virginia Helen Conaway, 9 May 1843 - 31 Jan 1922, was a West Virginia spinster. She wrote a short piece titled, "Ice's Ferry." Apparently, no one has seen a copy.

My friend, Susan Henthorn, librarian at Berea College in Berea, KY located a finding aide that indicates the document, and several others, are located at the West Virginia University Library in Morgantown.

Virginia Helen Conaway

PARENTS: Thomas Franklin Conaway and Elmira Hall

RESEARCHER: Wrote the story, "ICE'S FERRY"
[Note: As of Feb 2018, many have written about this document, which is sometimes called "a book." I don't think anyone has a copy or that anyone knows how many pages there were. Written by Richard E. Henthorn on 17 Feb 2018.]

REFERENCE:
Below is the record from the WVU Archives. Contact info can be found on the homepage. https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu

Title: Ice's Ferry. History and Genealogy. Typed Documents
Call number: A&M No.: 379
Creator, Corp name: Ice's Ferry
Inclusive dates: 1920, undated
Extent: 1/4 in. (1 folder)
Abstract: Five typescripts pertaining to Ice's Ferry and the Ice family. The first typescript is "Ice's Ferry," (8 pp., undated) an account of the Ice family and of Ice's Ferry in Monongalia County, with comments on frontier and pioneer life in western Virginia, apparently written by Virginia H. Conaway of Marion County. The second item is a variant copy of the "Ice's Ferry," typescript (10 pp., undated). The third typescript is a copy of "Historical Notes on Ice's Ferry," written by John L. Johnston (6 pp., 1920). Covering the time span of 1758-1920, the narrative describes early settlements, roads, forts, Indians, industries, land offices, and families prominent in the development of areas near Ice's Ferry. Mention is made of the proposed construction of a dam and recreation area on the Cheat River. The fourth item is a facsimile typescript of "Some of the Earliest History of the Ice Family" (9 pp., undated), which covers roughly 1680 through the 1900s. The fifth typescript is a magazine article facsimile about Adam Ice (1 p., undated).
Search Results: 2 matches in Entire Finding Aid
search terms in context | standard view | full text File Size: 8 K bytes | Add this to my bookbag ManageHome | West Virginia & Regional History Center WVRHC.LIB.WVU.EDU
(Furnished by Susan Henthorn of Berea, KY on 17 Feb 2018)

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 58512445

Dick Henthorn

20 Feb 2018]

Benjamin and Mary Edgell

From time to time I like to run a test to determine how many pages of information there would be in a Narrative Descendant report if I decided I wanted to share with someone.

The RootsMagic narrative descendant report, as I compile it, includes an "every name index" and a "place name index."

This morning I ran a test for the family of Benjamin and Mary Edgell. There were 1,411 pages in the report.

I'm willing to discuss an exchange of information with members of the Edgell family, but there must be a willingness to share in order to obtain the information I have compiled.

Dick Henthorn
16 Feb 2018

RootsWeb Status Report as of 23 Jan 2018

RootsWeb.com Home Page:

Here's a link to the 23 Jan 2018 RootsWeb status report. Progress has been made.

Dick Henthorn
23 Jan 2018

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Ice Family Project

Ice Family Project

Working on a big Ice family project today. A while back an undated, typed, family history of four pages was shared on Facebook. It was written by Charles Lee Ice. Very difficult to read because the ribbon was probably old when the piece was written. I used Google Voice Typing to read the document out loud. The results left a lot to be desired. Next I used my text editor to compare my product with the original to do the clean up edits. In the next step I will attempt to post the contents of the document to my genealogy file. I'm considering posting the entire piece to the record of Charles Lee Ice as well as posting pieces to the records of people I can identify. The final step will be to share my readable version of the document to the Ice page on Facebook. I'm leaving this step until last in case I discover errors that I made. Recently I was asked why I type obituaries. I type documents because I want to be able to read them and I want to be able to incorporate them into my genealogy databases. And, I like sharing.

Dick Henthorn
15 Jan 2018

Why I Seek Typed Obituaries

Why I Seek Typed Obituaries

This morning a frequent contributor to the Ice Family page on Facebook asked why I am typing and sharing obituaries.

Here's my reply.

Here's how I do genealogy. I use a genealogy program [RootsMagic] to record the information I obtain about each person. Each person can have a Note field where "text" can be stored. When I obtain an obituary I transcribe the information to "text" and save it in the Note field. This allows me to create narrative ancestor or descendant reports that show everything I know about a particular line. These reports are what I call, genealogy. In my opinion storing digital images in a genealogy database wouldn't work very well when one wants to print out the information.

Collecting "raw" data is an important aspect of the genealogy hobby, but in and of itself will never produce a readable genealogy. The only way this can be accomplished is to process the "raw" data and enter it into your genealogy program of choice.

Dick Henthorn
12 Jan 2018

Tri-County Researcher

I Seek

Does anyone have back issues of the West Virginia Tri-County Researcher that you want to sell?

I'm also interested in obtaining a copy of a 1983 volume about the history of people of Wetzel county, West Virginia. Title: History of Wetzel County, West Virginia, 1983, published by the Wetzel County Genealogical Society.

If the price is right I may be interested.

Dick Henthorn

11 Jan 2018

Finding the Records of Researchers in RootsMagic

Finding the Records of Researchers in RootsMagic

I wanted to be able to find all people in my file who I considered to be a Researcher. 

I created a Fact with that name. 

When I created their record I selected this Fact. When I want to remember more about a researcher I also write about their interest in the Note field. 

When I want a list of all of the researchers I go to: 

• Lists,
• then Facts Type List, 
• then scroll down and select - Researcher, 
• then click on Print. 

The result is a list of all Researchers with their RINs. 

Dick Henthorn
9 Jan 2018

RootsWeb Status Update as of 9 Jan 2018

RootsWeb.com Home Page:

RootsWeb has been down for several weeks. Today, 9 Jan 2018 an update message was posted to the Internet.

If you are interested in steps made to resolve the problems and plans for the future you can learn more at this link

Dick Henthorn
9 Jan 2018

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My Slovak Roots – A Genealogy and Travel Site on WordPress

My Slovak Roots – A Genealogy and Travel Site:

Here's someone's genealogy website built on WordPress.

Apparently there are genealogy templates available on WordPress.

This isn't someone I know or a family of interest to me. The link to the site was shared on Facebook.  I'm posting the link because some of us might be interested in seeing what can be accomplished.

Dick Henthorn
7Jan 2018

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Genealogy Year-End Backups

Genealogy Year-End Backups

Because I can't remember the things I think I can remember I keep a steno pad notebook for note taking. At the bottom of each page I write a label for the page and the date I used the page.

Today, 7 Jan 2018, I created a page for recording my RootsMagic Backup. My goal was to accomplish year-end (seven days late) backup of my genealogy files.

The RootsMagic program maintains a list of the last ten genealogy files I accessed on my C: hard drive.  A prudent backup strategy demands backing up to media external to the computer itself.

RootsMagic Steps

• I ran the RootsMagic Backup Tools on each of the ten genealogy files to insure file integrity. 

• I backed up each of the ten files to my laptop hard drive to create a backup with today's date.

• I deleted all but the last three backups of each file from the hard drive, to free up hard drive space.

External Backups

• I copied the ten latest backups to my genealogy thumb drive (with the green happy face sticker).

• I copied the ten latest backups to my 30GB Dell external hard drive.

• I uploaded the ten latest backups to my Box account cloud storage. 

Storage Used

I used Properties to check how much available storage remains on the thumb drive, the external drive and the Box account. There was plenty of space left, so I didn't consider deleting old backup files from those three media.

Storage Strategy

The end result of this backup strategy is I have four backups of the ten genealogy files I'm actively accessing, three reside in our house and one is in the cloud.

Dick Henthorn
7 Jan 2018

Using Find A Grave Cemetery IDs

Using Find A Grave Cemetery IDs

Find A Grave assigns each cemetery an ID number. Currently there isn't a way to search on a known cemetery ID.

When I asked about this on the Find A Grave Facebook page I was provided with a tip that will be very useful.  You can go directly to a cemetery by adding the ID number to the URL for cemeteries.

For example, I've been working with the cemetery assigned the ID number 212241. Here's a link to the cemetery using that ID number.

Senecaville, Guernsey Co., OH, Salem Baptist Church Cemetery

Here's what the URL looks like:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/212241

So, if you know the ID number of some other cemetery, just replace "212241" with your ID of interest and you can go directly to that cemetery.

Which reminds me of another tip, that I came up with on my own. In the RootsMagic place name list you can record information about a place. When I obtain cemetery details from someone else or from Find A Grave I like to record that information in the Place List "text" field. I'm going to try to form the habit of recording the cemetery ID number as part of that information. This will help me when I want to quickly go to a particular cemetery on Find A Grave.

Here's what I recorded in the Place List text field for the Salem Baptist Church Cemetery.

Note: 

This cemetery is called, Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Senecaville, Guernsey Co., OH on FindAGrave. Catharine (Foreaker) Fedorchak) in her Foreaker genealogy mentions it at least a dozen times as, Salem Baptist Cemetery and on page, 4b, lists the location as Richland Twp., Guernsey Co., OH.

Researcher, Richard E. Henthorn also believes it is located in Richland Twp., Guernsey Co., OH and as of Jan 2017 was called Salem Baptist Church Cemetery.
FINDAGRAVE: Cemetery ID# 212241

Dick Henthorn
5 Jan 2018

HenthornFamily - Wiki on Wikispaces

HenthornFamily - Wiki:

On 2 Jan 2018 I renewed the annual subscription for my HenthornFamily Wiki on Wikispaces.

My Plus account is for 2Gb of storage with a 20Mb limit for any one file.

The cost per year is $10.00 a month or $100.00 a year. I think this is a little high (they doubled the price when they raised the price). However, I am willing to pay what they charge because I don't want to go to the trouble of moving the information to another host.

The Visitor Counter currently shows 2320 visits to the homepage. That's a little disappointing considering the cost of maintaining the Wiki.

I am willing to host information shared by others. I don't believe anyone has taken me up on this offer.

Please encourage your genealogy friends to visit.

Dick Henthorn
2 Jan 2018

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RootsWeb Is Down: Data Recovery Strategies for the Genealogist | Genealogy Gems

RootsWeb Is Down: Data Recovery Strategies for the Genealogist | Genealogy Gems:

As of 1 Jan 2018 there is no projected date for restoring the "free" RootsWeb service to the Internet.

Some of the information I compiled and share is hosted by RootsWeb.

The main website of The Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, where I sometimes provide website assistance, is hosted on RootsWeb.

This is an unfortunate and serious problem. Hopefully, the staff of Ancestry has the skill and finances to fix the problem and restore these valuable genealogy assets to the genealogy community.

Dick Henthorn
1 Jan 2018

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