Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Fluharty Genealogy

Fluharty Genealogy

I ran a Descendant Rreport for the Fluharty family, which included an every name index and a place name index. Currently I have compiled 1,220 pages of information about this family.

Dick Henthorn
30 Oct 2019

Ancestors

Ancestors

Each of has:
2 - parents
4 - grandparents
8 - great grandparents
16 - great great grandparents
32 - great great great grandparents

62 - ancestors in six generations, counting yourself as generation one

Generation Defined:
generation is "all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively." 

It can also be described as, "the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own".

Dick Henthorn
30 Oct 2019

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Tennant Genealogy

Tennant Genealogy

I ran a test report to see how much information I have compiled about the Tennant family.

With an every name index and a place name index I can currently create a Descendant Report of 1,686 pages.

Dick Henthorn
29 Oct 2019

Thursday, October 24, 2019

New Search on Find A Grave


New Search on Find A Grave

Find A Grave has announced a new more robust search option.  Here's a link to the announcement.


Dick Henthorn
24 Oct 2019

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Ancestors

Ancestors are the people in your tree who came before you.

You have 32 great-great-great grandparents

Descendants are people who come after you.

Here's a great article about Ancestors by Dick Eastman

Ancestors

Dick Henthorn
10 Sep 2019

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

West Virginia Couples Who Married in Greene County, Pennsylvania

West Virginia Couples 
Who Married 
in 
Greene County, Pennsylvania

"Some important info for those who may not know this. The reason so many people from Monongalia, Wetzel & Marshall Counties went over to Greene County to get married (this is all prior to the year of 1885) was because there was no Law requiring a Marriage License to get married there (prior to 1885)...

Thousands of marriages took place there from the early 1800's right up to the year of 1885 simply because if you lived in the Western end of Monongalia County, or the Central & Eastern part of Wetzel County, or the Eastern part of Marshall Count, it was a 'heck' of a lot easier to just go over the Greene County Border just to get married, then it was to take a 1 or 2 day trip to the respective Court Houses in Morgantown, New Martinsville and Moundsville to get a marriage License, as no waiting period, or no Marriage License was needed to get married in Greene County any place just along the Border, and all that was needed was a Justice of the Peace or a Preacher to marry you there and it was a "Legal Marriage"... The large number of marriages performed prior to 1885 was NOT recorded in the Court System and the only records of these marriages was put in the Docket Books of the J. P.'s and the Records kept by some of the Preachers and most of those Books are no longer existent and was not recorded by the official Court Records... That's one reason many people can't never find a marriage record of their WV Ancestors who went over the Border to get married and there are no records of them found... In 1885, was when they first started to issue Marriage License's in Greene County and it put a big slow-down on the large number of people from the adjoining 3 WV Counties as to going there to get married just over the Border as it was a lot easier and quicker to do that... I'm sure that many people are not aware of this situation and I would like for the ones who are not aware of this to be informed. "
(Source: Information from Historian and Genealogist Lloyd Roupe - April 27, 2015)
(Used by permission of Lloyd Roupe to Richard E. Henthorn on Facebook, 24 Jul 2019)

Monday, July 8, 2019

Clarice Vivian (Eller) Stanley

Clarice Vivian (Eller) Stanley

An ancestor report for deceased researcher, Clarice Vivian (Eller) Stanley, with name and place name indexes is currently 198-pages.
Clarice and I collaborated on updating her original work on the Rine family. I have that data in my PAFYOH file. There is probably a copy of the first compilation in the genealogy room of the library at Wheeling, WV. I think Clarice donated a copy of our project to the DAR library in Washington, DC.

Dick Henthorn
8 Jul 2019

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Joseph Elsworth Ice

Joseph Elsworth Ice

I've been working on the family of Joseph Elsworth Ice of Indiana. I have enough information to create a 31-page descendant report for him and his wife, Melvina Surber.

Here's a summary for Joseph.


Joseph Elsworth Ice

PARENTS: Benjamin Shreve Ice and Susanna Fortney

BIRTH-CONFLICT: Tombstone photo shows dates: 1868 - 1940
(Source: FindAGrave)

BIRTH: 15 May 1867, Delaware Co., IN

MARRIAGE: 13 Dec 1887 in Summitville, Madison Co., IN to Melvina Surber

CHILDREN: 13

DEATH: 10 Jul 1940, in Summitville, Madison Co., IN

BURIAL: Jul 1940 in Delaware Co., IN, Zion Chapel Cemetery

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 34667740

Dick Henthorn
4 Jun 2019


Friday, May 24, 2019

May 2019 File Backups

May 2019 File Backups

Today I ran the RootsMagic Database Tools on the nineteen files that I've updated since January 2019. 

For the first time ever I got a message about a file problem with one of my largest files, the one where I currently do the majority of my updates. I continued to run all of the database tools on this file and then returned to the first tool, where the error was reported, and ran that first test again. Fortunately the error was corrected by one of the other database tools tests.

After I ran the Database Tools for each file I backed up each RootsMagic file to a backup folder on my laptop hard drive..

Next, I copied all of the backups to a thumb drive that I use solely for genealogy backup.

I also have an external hard drive that I salvaged from a laptop that broke down. I copied the same files to a genealogy backup folder on this hard drive.

I have a paid subscription to cloud storage with the Box company. The final step in the backup process was to upload the nineteen files to my RootsMagic backup folder on Box.

The final result of my backup project is four sets of backup, one on my laptop, two external in my house, and one in the cloud.

I keep Notes in a Steno notebook. I created a page with a table that recorded the extent of my 24 May 2019 backups.

Dick Henthorn
24 May 2019

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

French Morgan


French Morgan

PARENTS: Hezekiah Boyers Morgan and Manerva Jane Brunner
[Note: The mother's first name may have been, Minerva. REH]
(Source: FindAGrave)

BIRTH: 31 Aug 1880, at Palace Valley on the Buckhannon River, near Buckhannon, Upshur Co., WV.

PARENTS: s/o Hezekiah Boyers Morgan and Minerva Jane (Bunner)
Information: Marla (McConnell) James Find A Grave contributor - 47003603
(Source: FindAGrave)

RESIDENCES:
Buckhannon, Upshur Co., WV;
Washington, DC at 2601 Brentwood Road, N.E.

MARRIAGE: 5 Sep 1906, Mary Geneva "Mattie" Pick

CHILDREN:
Norman D. Morgan, b. 1 Dec 1907
Arthur Raymond "Raymond" Morgan, b. 17 Apr 1913, d. 1928, buried, 1928 in Buckhannon, Upshur Co., WV, Heavner Cemetery

COMMENT:
In the Year Book Of Upshur County Historical Society, First Annual 1928, Buckhannon, WV, French Morgan is listed as a Charter Member, Upshur County Historical Society, also a Lorel N. Morgan was listed.
(Source: FindAGrave)

REFERENCE: “A History and Genealogy of the family of Col. Morgan Morgan, the first white settler of the State of West Virginia” — written by the other, non-Californian, French Morgan.
(Furnished by French Morgan of California, Aug 2007)

REFERENCE: RECOLLECTIONS OF BUCKHANNON, WEST VIRGINIA: 1888-1958, French Morgan. Edited by Upshur County Historical Society. 232 pages with index and photographs, Softbound. 2014.  $26.00
(Available from The Upshur County Historical Society as of May 2019)

REFERENCE: The History of West Virginia, Old and New, Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 610.
[This is a French Morgan article.  See the record of Col. Morgan Morgan, born 1 Nov 1688 and died 17 Nov 1766 in this genealogy for the text to the entire article or use the URL below. Written by Richard E. Henthorn on 21 May 2019.]
URL: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/upshur/bios/morgan.txt?fbclid=IwAR05BG4FxRWsgLoavCxnDAr5pXAg06s5ZK4_1pqenAOp3PxSe-AxE0gW0q8
(Shared to Richard E. Henthorn by Chris Castle on Facebook, 22 May 2019)

RESIDENCES: Lived in Upshur Co., WV and Washington, DC
(Furnished by Richard E. Henthorn)

RESEARCHER: Member of the Upshur County Historical Society. He wrote a genealogy of the Morgan family and a history of Buckhannon, WV (see References above).  He was probably also responsible for the 1923 article in The History of West Virginia.
(Furnished by Richard E. Henthorn)

HISTORY:
Mr. French Morgan was born at Palace Valley on Buckhannon River, near Buckhannon, August 31, 1880. He graduated from the Buckhannon High School in 1898, then taught school a year, and in 1901 entered West Virginia Conference Seminary at Buckhannon, graduating in the classical course in 1903, and completing the business course the following year.

In 1906 Mr. Morgan married Mary G. [Geneva "Mattie"], daughter of George W. and Hatie (Townsend) Pick [George William Pick and Harriett M. ["Hattie"] Townsend], of Buckhannon, and to this union have been born two sons, Norman D., born December 1, 1907, and Arthur Raymond, born April 17, 1913.

For about twelve years after leaving school he was associated with his father and brothers in operating a planing mill at Buckhannon. At the beginning of the World war he disposed of his interest in this enterprise, and, going to Washington, worked one year for the auditor of station accounts for the Southern Railroad. Since then he has been in the Government service as an employe of the general accounting office, Navy Department Division. His home in Washington [DC] is 2601 Brentwood Road, N. E.
(Source: The History of West Virginia, Old and New, Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 610)


DEATH: 7 Apr 1973, unknown place

BURIAL: Apr 1973, Buckhannon, Upshur Co., WV, Heavner Cemetery

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 29997097

Posted 22 May 2019


Richard E. Henthorn

Sunday, February 3, 2019

H. H. Hardesty Book for Wetzel & Tyler Counties, West Virginia

The Hardesty Book for Wetzel & Tyler Counties, West Virginia
1 Feb 2019

Joe Haines owns a rare copy of the 136 year old, "Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Illustrated, Special History of the Virginias, Maps and Histories of Tyler and Wetzel Counties, West Virginia." - H.H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Chicago and Toledo - 1883, 337 pages.

Cover page image on Facebook.
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50061176_10210939534439232_4757511763128221696_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=fc006d54529361ec146c934ad159a067&oe=5CFD559C

There are several libraries that list this book as part of their collections.
Virginia Historical Society Library - Richmond, VA
West Virginia University Libraries - Morgantown, WV
Bethany College - Bethany, WV
Yale University Library - New Haven, CT
University of Michigan William Clements Library - Ann Arbor, MI

Joe graciously scanned and shared some of the biographical articles with us on the "Wetzel County, West Virginia Genealogy" closed Group on Facebook.

I like to include the information from Hardesty articles in the Note field of my genealogy file and assume that others might want to do so also. I used the Google OCR capability of Google Docs/Drive to convert some of the articles into "text" files. I proofread each file and corrected any conversion errors that I noticed.  To improve readability I added blanks lines between what I considered to be paragraphs.

As of 1 Feb 2019 I converted approximately 80 articles. I plan to share the results as individual files to the Files area of this Group. This will take place over time. As of this date, Joe continued to scan and post additional articles from the book.

If you find any typos that I missed please let me know. I always need proof reading help. You can post your comments to the Group, just be sure to include my Facebook name in the post so I won't miss the post.

Joe Haines prepared an index list of the names found in the book. This information is included below.
* = image uploaded to Facebook by Joe Haines [some images included more than one article]
+ = text file uploaded to Facebook by Richard E. Henthorn [one article in each file]

HARDESTY BOOK CONTENTS

TYLER COUNTY - Centreville District

Thomas Jefferson Anderson
George M Baker
Ralph Baker
Barney B Bond
Lorenzo D Cain
Alpheus Conaway
E B Conaway MD
Rees Cooper - he's in the tree [of Joe Haines] as he's the "husband of niece of husband of 3rd great-grandmother". In short, he married a Grimm.
Andrea Lynn Corbly
GeorgeF Cumberledge
Bowers Davis
Andrew W Duty
Ingram L Fordyce
James T Holt
Jacob W Hudson
*Nathan Ireland
Noah R James
Isaac Smith Jones MD
Nathan Joseph
Caleb Perkins
Daniel Ripley
James M Smith
George Stathers Sr
Solomon Stewart
William L Vancleve
Canada Vandegrift
William W Waters
Daniel Weekley
Stephen C Wilcox
End of Tyler County - Centerville District

TYLER COUNTY - Ellsworth District

Charles Ervin Barr
R E Billingsley
James Andrew Burgbacher
James Burns
Benjamin Engle
Abner Headley
John Henderson
David Hickman
Jarrett Ingram
Benjamin F Leach
John F Lewis
John McHenry
Myron Rees Maloy MD
*Jeremiah Milton Martin
*Reuben Alexander Martin
*Robert BF Martin
George Mason
Samuel Mayfield MD
T N Parks
Sidney M Peterson
William Meredith Powell
Eli Roberts MD
Henry A Ryder MD
James Davis Shaw
John Shepherd
Ambrose Smith
Arthur Boreman Smith
Sidney M Smith
John Stamm
James Stealey
Benedict Swan
Joseph William Twyman
Francis Marion Weekley
Cyrus M Wilcox
Jacob Williams
End of Tyler County - Ellsworth District

TYLER COUNTY - Lincoln District

Edwin A Barr
Felix E Boyles
John N Cutter
Elmor H Fetty
James T Forsyth
David C Garman
William W Givens
*Sylvanus Hood
Samuel Lasure
Nelson Martin
John Wesley Meredith
William Miller
Jeremiah Murphy
End of Tyler County - Lincoln District

TYLER COUNTY - McElroy District

Osborn Allen
Noah Booker
Charles I Conaway
Jesse L D Gatewood
+*Absalom George
+*John B Gorrell MD
Christopher Hays
James D Johnson
Rev George W McIntyre
Jacob McIntyre
*Lloyd W Parks MD
John E Piatt
John Seckman
John M Smith
William M Stealey
Rev James Stewart
Daniel C Sweeney
J C Underwood
John G Underwood
*Zane Underwood
*James H Weekly
*Jesse White
End of Tyler County - McElroy District

TYLER COUNTY - Meade District

John G Ash
Charles W Carse
Aaron W Cornell
Charles Eberhart
Alfred C Evans
Barnett W Fox
John Amos Funk
Moses Galloway
John W Garrison
John Jacob Gorrell
Moses Gorrell
William Archer Gorrell
John Johnson Haddox
Silas Henderson
Lycurgus Hill
John Wesley Loneburger
Eli B Long
Joseph H Marshall
John Odell
Joseph Owens
William Ira Robinson
Anthony Smith
William King Smith
Richard Stealey
End of Tyler County - Meade District

TYLER COUNTY - Union District

Capt. William A. Beagle
Nelson H Brown
Benjamin Cornell
Frances Hissam
Daniel D Johnson
J L McCollum MD
Joseph Martin
William Martin
Benjamin S Morgan
David C Smith MD
John C Way
*James Washington Williamson
End of Tyler County - Union District


WETZELCOUNTY - Centre District

+*Daniel Lindsay Anderson
+*Richard John Anderson
David Barr
James M Burch
+*John L Carney
+*Matthew Carney
+*Solomon Carney
+*Stephen Carney
+*Ellis Dulaney
+*Pete Glover
+*PH Glover
Theophilus P Horner
*Caleb Jackson
Franklin Jackson
William C Jackson
*Amos Jolliff
John Haines
Enos Perry Haught
James D Hays MD
Eugene Hibbs
Joseph Washington Homan
John Hudson
Thomas J Hudson
*Ira Jolliff
James Kimpton
William Latzsch
*William W Lemasters
Richard Lemley
Crawford McHenry
Gilbert Melott
Lindsay Merrill
Silas Miller
Solomon C Miller
Edgar D Musgrave
William A Newman
James Park
*John Phillips
*William Spencer Phillips
Hugh Snider
Wilson Snodgrass
Zachariah Stewart
William Street Swann
*Samuel Taylor
John D Thompson
James A Wood
Alonzo N Wade MD
*James Willey

Misc. Wetzel - Bartin Oliver
Misc. Tyler - Alexander C Ullum
End of Wetzel County - Centre District

WETZEL COUNTY - Church District

Francis J Black
Jacob Carpenter
Hugh K Cosgray
+*William L Cunningham
Benjamin Earnshaw
+*E J Freeland
+*Joshua Garner Jr
Lamech Glover
William H Haskins
Alexander Haught
*William Himelrick
John H Hinegardner
Levi K Hoge
Charles Horner
James A Johnston
William H Lee
Morgan B Lemley
Patrick McDonnell
Samuel S Main
George W Mariner
Jacob Matthews
*Isaac Moore
*David McCollough
*Eli Roberts
John W Roberts
Morris Rose
William G Snodgrass
*Joshua R Thomas
George F Throckmorton
James Vanhorn
End of Wetzel County - Church District

WETZEL COUNTY - Clay District

Richard L Adams
Lewis Anderson
Elijah Albaugh
George Albaugh
+*Reason Bissett
M M Dunlap
James J Freeland
Eli Gorby
Benjamin F Jackson
Samuel M Hatfield
William Henderson
John Hendrix
P D Kane
Abraham Kimbel
John G Liston
*John Megee
George Pettit
John F Reger MD
William McReynolds
David A Rush
Henry R Thompson
Thomas Tucker
*Wenman Wade
End of Wetzel County - Clay District

WETZEL COUNTY - Green District

+*Thomas H Alley,
Allen Bell,
+*Levi Booth,
James Cochran,
Oliver Cochran,
John Cosgray,
Frederick Fox,
James Hager,
*Thomas Harrison,
*Anthony Hart,
*William Hart,
*Anthony Headley,
*Caleb Samuel Headley,
*Charles Kiger,
Jasper Newton Kincade,
*Thomas E Liston,
Thomas W McAlister,
Andrew L Mooney,
*Mrs Elisha Morgan,
*Stephen Morgan,
*Rolley W Postlethwait,
*James Clark Robinson,
*Jacob S Schamp,
*Alfred Bowen Steel,
*Augustus B Streight,
*Isaac J Workman.
End of Wetzel County - Green District

WETZEL COUNTY - Magnolia District

*Andrew Jackson Ashby
*Henry Briggs
*Abraham P Brookover
*Abraham Presley Craig
*Samuel Davis
*Septimus Hall
*Joseph S Harman
*Joseph Edward Hart
*George Hitchcock
*Walter Harvey Hitchcock
*Nathan Hanes
*Jacob Koontz
*John McCaskey
*James W McIntire
*Elijah Morgan
*John Moser
*John Murphy Jr
*James W Newman
*Theophile Probst
*Andrew Rist
*Samuel J Robinson
*William W Selby
*James H Sharp
*George W Shepherd
*Levi Shuman
*Washington Snodgrass
*Alpheus M Snodgrass
*James Steepleton
*Marshall Whiteman
*Francis E Williams
*Christian Yost
End of Wetzel County - Magnolia District

WETZEL COUNTY - Proctor District

John Burris,
+*Albert G Calvert,
+*Oliver Calvert,
Robert Carpenter,
Clement Foster Clark,
Friend E Clark,
Jacob Finch,
Joseph M Garrett,
William Green,
Rev James Guthrie,
John Hafer,
Joseph Hammon,
*Thomas Harlan,
*Jacob Higgins,
*Isaac Huff
*Michael Huff
*Thomas Huff,
John Hurley,
William Laflen,
Marcus Lambey MD,
*Isaac Lemasters,
Asbury Marshall,
Oliver G Mason,
*Anthony T Morris,
John Miller Null,
Michael Oppman,
John W Palmer,
Seth J Parsons,
*Joseph Postlethwait,
*Michael Pyles,
M L Shriver,
*Enoch St. Clair,
*David F Suter,
John Wiley Yater MD,
Rev Harrison Yoho.
End of Wetzel County - Proctor District

Written by Richard E. Henthorn - 1 Feb 2019
Revised - 3 Feb 2019

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Year-End Backups

Year-End Backups


Today, in order to get 2019 off to a good start, I'm doing Backup on some of my genealogy files.

 I ran the Database Tools on the last eleven genealogy files I'd opened. RootsMagic keeps track of the file names of the most recently opened files.

 Then I backed up those eleven files to my laptop.

 Then I made copies to three external media
1) 4GB Sandisk thumb drive with green smiley face sticker
2) 30 GB Dell external drive
3) Box cloud account

I made notes in my Steno notebook to remind me when and how I did this backup. I spent about an hour doing this task.

Dick Henthorn
1 Jan 2019