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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HenthornFamily - Cemeteries

HenthornFamily - Cemeteries:

New Cemetery Reports - May 2017

Today I added seven new cemetery reports to my WikiSpaces genealogy website.

These cemetery reports were created using information in my RootsMagic file, named, pafyoh. To create the reports I had to master the creation of Custom reports on RootsMagic. It's a multi-step process. Once you get the hang of it it isn't too complicated. I found the learning curve challenging.

The reports are in the PDF format and show cemetery information based on county names. The reports can be viewed on your computer screen and they can be saved on your computer.

There are three columns in the report.

1. Surname, Given
2. Death Date
3. Cemetery location and cemetery name

The reports are sorted by: Surname, Given Name, Date of Death.

When death dates aren't complete or cemetery names are not present, I seek this information.

Dick Henthorn
27 May 2017
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WikiSpaces Account

Today I renewed my subscription to HenthornFamily on WikiSpaces for another year.

The cost of an annual subscription has doubled to $100.00 which made me question whether I wanted to continue to make information available via this means.  In the end I decided to spend the money rather than get involved in another website building project.

If you are interested in viewing what I make available I hope you will avail yourself of the opportunity in 2017.  Your use of the website will justify my expenditure.

If you are willing to share information with others contact me to discuss how this could be accomplished using my WikiSpace.  My Gmail address is: Dick.Henthorn@gmail.com

Here's the link to the homepage.

HenthornFamily WikiSpaces

Happy New Year

2017

HenthornFamily Wiki

I did some updates to my HenthornFamily Wiki.  Most of the links on the Wiki take the viewer to web pages that aren't stored on the Wiki. I modified many of the links to open in a "new" window. This makes it easy to return to the Wiki after viewing the web page. As time permits I'll continue to work on this project.

If you are interested in my genealogy projects I encourage you to visit the Wiki. You can visit as a Guest with no need to "Join." If you are interested in collaboration you can contact me with a request for membership. Members can: edit pages, create pages, and upload files.

An easy way to find the Wiki is to use Google Search. In the search box enter, "HenthornFamily" with no spaces. When I tested, the first hit in the list took me to the Wiki.

Comments, corrections and additions are welcome. It's especially important that any broken links are reported and fixed or removed.

Dick Henthorn
7 December 2014

HenthornFamily Wiki

HenthornFamily Wiki

Today I am pleased to announce that the HenthornFamily Wiki is once again active and available to family and friends who are interested in my genealogy projects.

The WikiSpaces company discontinued "free" Wiki space.  Rather than lose all of the information I've been sharing I decided to pay for a one-year subscription at the "Plus" level.  I haven't thought much about what features this will entail.  Perhaps the most important aspect is that the subscription includes 2GB of space.

WikiSpaces Page

Did you know that the HenthornFamily Wiki is a collaborative Wiki? This means two things and perhaps more 1) Visitors can make comments and 2) they can post their own information. As far as I know no one has done this in the months that the Wiki has been available.  Therefore, I'm not certain how this works. I'm interested in working with anyone who has the time and interest to try out this idea.

Here's the link to the HenthornFamily Wiki:

HenthornFamily Wiki

P.S.
After I reactivated the Wiki I noticed there is a problem with PDF files that I stored on the Wiki. They don't display correctly.  I think you can download to your computer.  Before I contact the Help folks I'll need to refresh my memory about how files are uploaded and stored on the Wiki.  I wonder if the problem has anything to do with the fact that my account was inactive for a while since they stopped offering the "free" space.  I'm making no promises about how soon I'll deal with and resolve the problem.  I apologize for any inconvenience.

Dick Henthorn

4 December 2014

George Lemley & John Otho West

Today I added a descendant chart for George Lemley & John Otho West to the Lemley section of the Collateral Families page on the HenthornFamily Wiki. To the same area I also added a link to an Ahnentafel chart for Rufus Lemuel West. There is a connection to the Yoho family.

Several years ago this information was shared by Samuel Lee West of Benson, AZ. Thanks to Mr. West for his willingness to share.

Dick Henthorn
5 August 2013

Conger Family Ahnentafels

Today I'm announcing the creation of thirteen ahnentafel charts for deceased Conger family researchers. The charts were produced using version 3 of RootsMagic.

Links to the ahnentafels, in the PDF format, can be found in the second Conger section of the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki.

A review of the charts will give readers a good understanding of where these major Conger researchers fit into the family tree.

There are charts for:

• Samuel Hays Conger
• Shea Smith
• Elijah Hagens Conger
• Charles Leslie Conger
• Charles Greenwood Barker Conger
• Franklin Barker Conger
• Ethel (Conger) Heagler
• Helen Maxine (Crowell) Leonard
• Joyce (Powell) Posey
• JoNelle (Wagner) Linnaus
• Grace Sidney Conger
• Shirley J. (Keevert) Craib
• Clement Ellis Conger

Dick Henthorn
30 July 2013

Gershom Conger & Ann DeSigney Descendant Chart

I added a link to a 9-generation descendant chart for Gershom Conger & Ann DeSigney to the Collateral Families section of the HenthornFamily Wiki.

Dick Henthorn
14 June 2013

Morgan Family of Virginia/West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri

I added a section for the Morgan Family of Virginia/West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri to the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki. This is the family that founded Morgantown, WV. There is a link to the Henthorn family via Brooky Kyger.

I included a link to the Stories page, on the Wiki, where you can find the very interesting stories written by T. Clifford Morgan.

Dick Henthorn
12 July 2013

Parsons and Gorby

I added Parsons and Gorby to the Collateral Families section of the HenthornFamily Wiki.

Dick Henthorn
11 July 2013

Mary Evangela & Mary Ernestine Henthorne

I added a webpage about Catholic Sisters of Charity, Mary Evangela and Mary Ernestine Henthorne to the Most Wanted section of the homepage of the HenthornFamily Wiki.

This information hasn't been available on the Internet since the Fall of 2008.

Feedback is welcome.

Enjoy.

Dick Henthorn
10 July 2013

New HenthornFamily Wiki Links

Today I added five links to descendant charts, to the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki. 

• 6 generation chart for Job & Mary Keziah (Thorp) Conger
• 7 generation chart for Joseph & Mary (Marsh) Conger 
• 6 generation chart for John & Hannah (Foote) Mozena
• 6 generation chart for Michael & Christine (Fisk) Stine
• 7 generation chart for Thomas & Elizabeth (Baskins) McCoy

These charts haven't been available on the Internet since the Fall of 2008. This is part of my continuing project to restore some of my information to availability.

Dick Henthorn
8 July 2013

John Belconger and John Conger, Jr. & Mary Tuttle - Descendant Charts

Today I added a link to a three-generation descendant chart, with textual notes, for John Belconger to the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki. 

I also added a link to a six-generation descendant chart for John Conger, Jr. & Mary Tuttle to the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki.

These charts haven't been available on the Internet since the Fall of 2008. This is part of my continuing project to restore some of my information to availability.

Dick Henthorn
7 July 2013

Johannas Yoho & Susanna Catherine Lau - Descendant Chart

Today I added a link to a four-generation descendant chart for Johannas Yoho & Susanna Catherine Lau  to the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki.

This chart hasn't been available on the Internet since the Fall of 2008. This is part of my continuing project to restore some of my information to availability.

Dick Henthorn
6 July 2013

Lazarus and Elizabeth Rine Descendant Chart

Today I added a link to a five-generation descendant chart for Lazarus and Elizabeth Rine to the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki.  This chart hasn't been available on the Internet since the Fall of 2008.

Dick Henthorn
5 July 2013

Centennial Reminiscences

Centennial Reminiscences

I posted two webpages (I prepared in 2002) to the Baker section of the Collateral Families page on the HenthornFamily Wiki. I'm pleased to announce that these pages, which were last posted on the Internet in 2008, are once again available. Thanks to researcher, Clarice (Eller) Stanley who provided a copy of the original newspaper clipping which I believe was written 137 years ago, in 1876.

If you are working on the Baker family of the Ohio River Valley these pages should be of interest.

The pages are:

• Centennial Reminiscences - A Talk With Col. Samuel Baker of Marshall County
• Comments About Centennial Reminiscences - A Talk With Col. Samuel Baker of Marshall County 

It is the opinion of this researcher that Col. Samuel Baker was Samuel Parr Baker who married Caroline L. Tomlinson.

Dick Henthorn

3 July 2013

Updates to HenthornFamily Wiki

Yesterday I added additional links to the Collateral Families page of HenthornFamily Wiki.  I added links to information about the Yoho family.

• There are links to Yoho pages I shared on this blog. 
• There is a link to an Ahnentafel report for researcher, T. Vernon Anderson and a link to his extensive collection of descendant charts. 
• There is a link to the webpages of researcher, Tim Yoho. 
• There is a link to the webpages of researcher, Billy Lee Yoho. There is another link to a piece that Billy Lee Yoho wrote about deceased researcher, Denver Clayton Yoho.

I hope you've discovered the Wiki and that you are finding it useful. I like that it allows me to present links to the available information in a more organized way. Your comments are welcome. Do you know that you can also make additions and corrections to the Wiki? I don't think anyone has done this yet.

Dick Henthorn

1 July 2013

Okey Family of Monroe County, Ohio

Today I added a set of eleven links to Okey family information on the Collateral Families page of the HenthornFamily Wiki. This will make it easier for anyone interested in the Okey family to find the information I shared.

Dick Henthorn
28 June 2013

The Amos Tree - Revisited - 2nd Installment

More comments about the document, History and Descendants of Amos and Elizabeth (Sharp) Henthorn - 1816-1959 sometimes called The Amos Tree, by Roy Lee and Norma (Latham) Henthorn.

I think the quality of the 44-page document, The Amos Tree was quite good considering that it was created before the advent of personal computers and genealogy programs. I particularly like the four-page name index and all of the textual information. 

That said, there are some issues with readability. This is because the numbering system used is difficult to follow. Arabic numbers are used to designate more than one generation and the oldest person in a line doesn't have a number. 

For example:

THIS IS THE FIRST MEMBER IN A FAMILY
     1. THIS IS HIS SON (or daughter)
         1. THIS IS HIS GRANDSON  (or grand daughter) (sometimes this level doesn't use a number)
             1. THIS IS HIS GREAT GRANDSON (or daughter) (sometimes this level doesn't use a number)
           
This isn't too hard to follow on a single page but gets quite confusing when the family is large enough to cover several pages.  

Entering the information from an older genealogy report into a computer genealogy program improves clarity of the prior researcher's work and makes it much easier for readers to follow the family structure. The challenge, for the person doing the data entry, is to "get it right."  Success in the task depends on the ability of the person doing the data entry to read and interpret the numbering system used in the source document.

Years ago I entered the information from The Amos Tree into my DOS Personal Ancestral File (PAF version 2.31). In June 2013, as part of a project to learn how to use version 5 of RootsMagic, I keyed the data a second time.  I also extracted additional information from my own file and added it to my new file. 

I produced a 46-page PDF report with RootsMagic version five which is now available from the "Henthorn" page on the HenthornFamily Wiki. This four-generation report is for Robert and Mary (Nicholson) Henthorn, the parents of Amos Henthorn. It includes an every name index and a place name index. The report was limited to four generations. A report including additional generations is available, on request, to researchers who are known to me and who are willing to share their own research information.

Robert and Mary (Nicholson) Henthorn

Dick Henthorn
25 June 2013

Updates to HenthornFamily Wiki

Numbering Systems

I added two links to the Numbering Systems section on the first page of the HenthornFamily Wiki. One link points to the genealogy numbering systems page on Wikipedia and the other points to the Ahnentafel page on the Wiki itself.

Story by Mary Josephine (Henthorn) Bolerjack

On the Stories page of the HenthornFamily Wiki I added a link to a 48-page PDF file written by Mrs. Mary Josephine (Henthorn) Bolerjack in October 2005, titled, The Irish & The Dutch.

During one of my many computer disasters this file was misplaced. Yesterday I found it on a thumb drive that I paid a computer shop to load with data from one of my failing laptops. I converted the file to PDF yesterday to get it ready for uploading today.

Have you considered writing stories or recollections about your family? I urge you to undertake the project. If you don't do it, who will?  If you are willing to share your stories on the Internet I will include a link on the HenthornFamily Wiki.

24 June 2013