TUESDAY'S TIPS ~ Using Legacy's Search Function to follow up on previous research

This is Tuesday’s Tip for those who use Legacy as their personal database.  I am using version 9, but this tip should work with most recent earlier versions.

A question was recently asked on the Legacy Users Facebook group.  If you haven’t joined this group, I highly recommend it. 

There are 26,119 members and it’s a very active group with several posts per day.

Everyone from beginner’s to experienced users are welcome.  The questions asked each day are responded to quickly by the many, around the world, members.

As experienced as I am with this program, I am always learning a new tip or trick.

The question posed by the user was “Is there a way I can search for a certain word in the General notes field and then delete the note?”

The answers –

·       You can use a search and replace to search notes for a word or phrase and then delete or replace it.

·       You can use the Detailed Search tab and find what you are looking for Individual>General/Research/Medical Notes>Contains>use the word or phrase you are looking for>Create List

I have personally done the Detailed Search many times to find things in my program.  Today I decided to use it to locate all those individuals for whom I have entered the word "verify" or the phrase "need to" or a version of it, in Research Notes.

I keep extensive research notes, including the date I entered a particular note.  In doing so, I often type something up and enter a phrase such as “verify this”  “need to verify this” or something similar.

I may not see that note again until I am researching that particular person.  It could be YEARS between my research on a particular line or person.

How many people have I written a “verify” or "need to" note for and have I gone back and done so?

Here’s the screen shot showing my Search.

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My search created a list of 279 individuals!  Legacy uses the Search List to allow you to view the list you have created.  From this you can use the various tabs.  This is very handy because I can see exactly what I have entered into the Research Notes and decide if it’s important enough for me to go back and work on.  I can also quickly edit those notes if needed.

Here is a sample showing a view of my Research Notes for Addison Nichols Boggs.  You can see that my notes are dated 2009 and 2011 and that I clearly have not gone back and entered further research notes.  Meaning I've never followed up on this.

Creating a list such as this gives me a direction to focus my research, should I choose to do so.  I doubt I can clear up all 279 individuals for whom I have the words “verify” or “need to.”  But, I can save the list and go back to it occasionally and work through it.  It would be a great project during those evenings in front of the TV or on a nice rainy day. 

Would this type of search be helpful to you?  Do you keep research notes and if so, do you follow up?  I’d love to hear from you.

If you are related to or connected to anyone in this or any of my other blog posts, please get in touch.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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CENSUS SUNDAY~The 1921 Scottish census for the George, Isabell & Euphemia Fitzcharles

 

As promised here is the follow up post regarding the 1921 Scottish census records I talked about in How to Locate New Information on My Scottish Ancestors ~ Using the 1921 census

Let’s begin with 11 yr old Euphemia Anderson FITZCHARLES.

Here is the 1921 Scottish census record for this family

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1921 Scottish census for Isabella, Euphemia & George Fitzcharles

In this record we see her mother Isabella, Euphemia and her brother George living in the parish of Arboath & St. Vigeans, in the burgh of Arbroath in the Quoad Sacra Parish of Invenbrothock in the First ward.  They are enumerated on the schedule in the schedule as #69.  The road or street is Lindsay Street and they are at No. 35.  There are 2 rooms in the house with 3 persons.

How interesting that they live on LINDSAY Street.  My paternal grandmother’s surname is Lindsay and this family is part of that line.

Isabella is head of household, age 35 and widowed.  She born in ____ (I cannot make out the location).  Euphemia is 11 yrs. 5 months old and born in Sterling.  Her brother George is 8 yrs. 6 months old and born in Forfar. Isabella’s occupation is abbreviated as H.D.  I wonder if that means Keeping house or household domestic?  There are 2 minor children in this house.

I don’t see anyone else with the same surname or any familiar family names on this census page. 

When we view pages on a website like Ancestry or Family Search, we can scroll to the next or previous page looking for family members who may live close by.  However, since each page view on Scotland’s People website costs me 6 credits, I don’t do that.

This census provides plenty of information to assist me in furthering my research on this family.

·       I have specific birthplaces and not just ages in years, but also months.

·       Isabella is listed as widowed.  If I didn’t already know this, I could then search for her husband’s death record.  However, I do know that her husband and father of her two children, was killed in action in World War I on 27 Mar 1918 in France.  Here is a blog post about him MILITARY MONDAY–Killed in Action–A Tribute to George Briggs Fitzcharles 1886-1918

     ·     In further research for this family it will be helpful to have         the details of their ages and birthplaces.

QUESTIONS:  Isabella is widowed at age 32 with two young children to raise.  How was she supporting herself?  Based on her death record from 1955, she never remarried.  

Of course I had to go looking for more records.  In doing so I may have answered the question about how Isabella was supporting herself and her children.

In Euphemia’s hints on Ancestry there is a link to UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923.  The image can be viewed on Fold3, which I do not currently have a subscription to.

However, I do have a Carlsbad Library card which may give me access to this website.

Sure enough I was able to sign into the library and use my membership number and view the website for Fold3, right here from home.  I found this image of a pension card for Isabella Fitzcharles for her deceased husband’s service in 1^st Royal Scots.  Certainly not as much information as I’d like to have, but this still gives me information about what income Isabella had.  How much was it?  Good question.

Well, I was going to write about the other 1921 Scottish census record I uncovered.  However, this post is already long enough, so I’ll cover that one in a future post.

Do you have Scottish ancestry?  Have you used Scotland’s People to find records?  If so, I’d love to hear your stories. 

If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post, please get in touch.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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HOW TO LOCATE NEW INFORMATION ON SCOTTISH ANCESTORS~USING THE 1921 CENSUS

 

It’s always fun when a new record set is released.  Many of us are still discovering family in the 1950 census.

When Scotland released the 1921 census on November 30th, I was sure I’d find family in it.  To learn more about this latest record release you can read here 1921 Scottish Census Released

I created a list, using Legacy, for ancestors who “might” appear in that particular census.

I did this by going to the Search tab, then to the Census List and choosing the criteria, then Create List

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This produced a list of 90 individuals from my Legacy tree.

When I view the list it gives me options to view all the tabs and information I have entered for that particular person.  Because of that, I was able to choose the candidates who would likely be found in the 1921 census, based on their timeline.

By viewing their Detail and Events tabs I could easily see who may have already moved from Scotland prior to 1921 and not bother to look for them in this census.

I selected two ancestors.

They were:

·       Euphemia Anderson FITZCHARLES born 12 Feb 1910 in Grangemouth, Stirling, Scotland, probably living with her parents and

·       Alexander DALE born about 1878 and possibly his wife Clara LINDSAY.

I went to the Scotland’s People website, which I have used very often in the past, and conducted my search.

Because Euphemia would have only been 11 years old, I included her mothers name, Isabella, in my search.  I was immediately able to select the correct record from my list of choices, based on Euphemia’s age.  Fortunately, there were only 2 choices and I knew she was not 64 years old at the time.

Viewing this image costs 6 credits on the website.  I usually have credits saved from my prior searches.  In this case I had 12 credits, which is perfect since I’m trying to view 2 census records.

How much does viewing these records cost in U.S. dollars you might ask? Good question.  I purchased an additional 40 credits today at a cost of £10 UK pounds.  At today’s exchange rate that is $12.17 U.S.

Let’s do some quick math.  $12.17/40 credits = .30 per credit. If viewing one record costs me 6 credits, that equals $1.80.  Pretty reasonable when you think of the cost of ordering birth, death and marriage records from repositories or traveling to find them. 

Next, I went searching for the 1921 census record for Alexander & Clara Dale.  I used Clara’s name, as it would be less common than Alexander.  Again, I was rewarded with only 2 results.  In this case they appeared to be duplicates so I chose the first one.  I was able to ascertain from the record, because of ages and his occupation, that this is the right couple.

This record gives me more evidence to add to the timeline for these ancestors.  I have downloaded the images and will be adding them to Legacy and adding the source etc.

Stay tuned for Sunday's blog post and I’ll be sharing the images with you.

If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post, please get in touch.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN ~ 20 Questions about Christmas and other genealogy musings

 

Randy Seaver from Genea-Musings posted this fun exercise and I thought I’d play along.

A)  Genea-Blogger Linda Stufflebean created a "December Genea-Meme" - so this is our challenge for Saturday Night.  Thank you, Linda!!

 B)  Copy the 20 questions below to your own blog post or to a word processor, and answer the questions.

 B)  Please share it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.

 Here are the 20 questions and my answers:

1. What is one genea-accomplishment this year of which you are proud?  I was able to complete many digital heritage scrapbook pages and print books from them.

 2. Is there a particular song that when you first hear it, tells you that the holidays are here? Not really.  For me it’s more about the lights going up on houses around the neighborhood.

3. Share a holiday memory which is special for you. Spending Christmas with my grandparents as a young child up in Detroit.

4. Has your family passed down any holiday stories? None that I remember.

5. Which past genea-gift have you really appreciated? When my husband gave me the 3 volume set of New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey (excellent reference to have on hand, even though much of it is online now).

6. Does your family cook any holiday recipes that have been handed down? Not really.

7. What is your favorite holiday song? Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby

8. Is there a holiday song that you wish was forgotten forever? Yes!  Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

9. What is one (realistic) item on your Genea-Santa list this year?  To continue to learn and improve my skills using DNA.

10. What is one item on your not-so-realistic wish list for Genea-Santa? The ever present, long standing, brick walls coming down.  At least one of them in 2023.

11. What holiday meal will be served? We will be at family’s for Christmas and I’ve heard we’ll have tri tip and a smoked turkey.  Yum!

12. Will your family reminisce about past holidays when you get together?  I doubt it.  It’s a mix of collateral family, not direct lines.

13. Will you travel to spend the day with others? Yes, but only about 45 minutes.

14. Do you have old family holiday photos or home movies that will be viewed this year?  No.

15. Did you break through any brick walls in 2022? I wish, but no.

16. Has your family shared any holiday recipes/activities or ??? which have become new yearly traditions? Nope.

17. Do you have a 2022 genea-goal which could have been accomplished, but over which you’ve procrastinated? Yes.  I suppose I could have gotten some scanning done, but haven’t.

18. Do you participate in any holiday activities with your neighbors?  Yes.  We usually go to a neighbors home on Christmas eve.

19. Think – if you had to choose right this minute – which ancestor would you most like to meet?  My paternal 2^nd great grandfather, John C. Gould.  If he could just tell me who his parents were.  Did he have any siblings?  Is Gould even his “real” surname?

20. What is one of your 2023 genealogy goals? I would like to blog a lot more.  This has been a year of very few posts. 

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl 

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THIS MONTH IN OUR FAMILY ~ Who had a birthday in December before 1700?

Many times on my blog I’ve published posts that highlight a particular day.  Who among my ancestors were born, died or were married on a certain day.  Generally I’ll get 5-20 people.

Today I decided to run a search in Legacy for the people in my tree of 7,444 who have birthdays in December.

To conduct this search in Legacy. Go to Search>Find>Detailed Search>Individual>Birth date>Contains>Dec (or however you enter the months in your program)>Create list

Much to my surprise, my list contains 282 individuals.  I’m not going to list them all here.  But, I thought I’d conduct a second search and see who was born prior to 1700.

To do that in Legacy you add a second condition, using the tip I gave above plus Second condition>and>Individual>Birth Date>Before>1700>Create list.

This list contains only 8 individuals.  Let’s see who they are and how they are connected to either me or my husband, Ron.

CLARK, Ephraim, 4 Dec 1645 in Dedham, Colonial Massachusetts – Ron’s paternal 2^nd great granduncle

CLARKE, Rachel, 13 Dec 1692 in Medfield, Colonial Massachusetts – Ron’s paternal 5^th great grandaunt

CLARKE, Tabitha, 10 Dec 1672 in Massachusetts – Ron’s paternal 6^th great grandaunt

CLARKE, Timothy, 19 Dec 1674 in Massachusetts -  Ron’s paternal 6^th great granduncle (sibling of Tabitha)

CRITCHFIELD, Sarah, 7 Dec 1688 in Boston, Colonial Massachusetts – my maternal 7^th great grandaunt

FAUNCE, Martha, 16 Dec 1680 – my 7^th great grandmother and one of my Mayflower links – she married Isaac Doty a descendant of Mayflower passenger Edward Doty

FISHER, Nathaniel, 26 Dec 1649 in England – Ron’s paternal 7^th great granduncle

WOODCOCK, John, 16 Dec 1674 in Yorkshire, England – husband of my paternal 7^th great grandaunt

Five of the eight individuals are connected to my husband.  This is no big surprise as I’ve been able to conduct and prove a lot of his ancestors, going back many generations.

This was a fun and quick exercise.  Have you ever run such a query?  I’d love to hear about it.  What program did you use?  Did the results surprise you?

If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post, please get in touch.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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Today’s Rabbit Hole ~ The Wenger family of New Orleans - related by marriage on my maternal side

 

Today I kind of went down a rabbit hole.  My genealogy friends know that is when you find one thing that leads to another and another. 

In this case, I was still kind of tying up loose ends for the GILLEN family I wrote about a couple of days ago.  Adding findagrave memorial numbers to my Legacy database and adding links to parents in the findagrave database as well.

That lead me to Silas Gillen’s wife’s family, the WENGERs.  Mathilde Wenger had a brother named Henry who was 2 years younger than her.  I had an approximate birth year for him and a findagrave number 23405138, but not much else.

 
I did have mention, in my research notes in Legacy, of an obituary I had located a couple of years ago on the Genealogy Bank website.

 
So, I went back to the website and lo and behold, found so much more. I located Henry's obituary, which included a picture of him.

Here is Henry Wenger’s obituary.

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Published in the New Orleans Item, 20 Sep 1912, page 3

It turns out that Henry, whom I found out was named Rudolph Henry at birth, was well known in the New Orleans area.  It seems his father, Henry Sr., had owned a saloon/dance hall.  Upon his death in 1896, his son, Henry Jr., took over ownership.

 
This dance hall/theatre was called the Trocadero and located at Burgundy & Iberville, in New Orleans.  As we know, New Orleans is known for the jazz halls, dance halls and music venues of all kinds.  I was unable to locate anything on Google in regards to a dance hall by the name Trocadero, but not for lack of trying.

Google map showing the intersection of Burgundy St. and Iberville St. where the Wenger dance hall/theater was located.  It is very near Bourbon St.

I also learned that there was another sibling in this Wenger family, named William F. born in 1862. He sadly died at age 49 in 1911.

Published in Times-Picayune, 13 Aug 1911, page 9

I was able to continue searching and located Henry’s death record on familysearch.org.  He died of acute uremia and, as I read it, enterocolitis.

Given the ages of death of her brothers, 49 and 56, Mathilde was fortunate to live to age 77. I wonder if she missed her younger brothers as she went on in life?  It would have been a sad couple of years for her, losing them both a year apart.

You can visit Henry Wenger’s memorial on findagrave here #23405138

For now, I will stop my research on the Wenger family.  I generally stay pretty close to my tree and don’t go off on wild chases of the 1st cousin 4 times removed's wife's brother.  But, in this case I found it an interesting journey. And, sometimes it's just plain fun.
 
If you have any information to add to what I’ve found, I’d be happy to hear from you.
 
If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post, please get in touch.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,
Michigan Girl
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ANOTHER LEAD FROM A READER ~ A photo of young William Gillen who drowned in 1930 - leads to more information

I’ve been very fortunate the past couple of months.  First a contact from Ron’s side of the family and the Jeremiah Hall house in Massachusetts JEREMIAH HALL house built 1727 in Wrentham, Colonial Massachusetts

Now, I’ve received more information on a young man I’ve written about in the past.  He is a 3^rd cousin twice removed on my maternal side.  His name, William Dillon GILLEN, born 29 May 1913 and sadly, died 18 May 1930 in a drowning accident in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Here is my original post about him SUNDAY’S OBITUARIES ~ I’ve been busy finding obituaries this week for my Gillen line

When I wrote that particular blog post I had let my subscription to Genealogy Bank expire.  I was using newspapers.com and that was the article I located.  Now that I’ve renewed my subscription to Genealogy Bank, and thanks to the reader who contacted me, I have located more articles and pictures of young William D. Gillen.

Here's what I found when I entered William Gillen, 1930 in Louisiana and Ohio, in the search filters for Genealogy Bank. There are 23 different newspaper articles referring to William’s death, his burial etc. 

Among the 23 articles I located the one that was sent to me by my reader.  It was from the New Orleans States newspaper, page 1 on 19 May 1930.  The photo of William is no more clear than the one that was sent to me, but I am happy to have the entire article.

Two boys went out on Lake Pontchartrain around 2 p.m.  They were in a boat purchased by William with his savings.  He named the boat the Flaming Youth.  The boys worked together at the firm Arthur Duvic’s & Sons, dealers in boat supplies.

William’s nickname was apparently “Speedy” and the friend that was with him, Edward Delaney, age 15, was nicknamed “Cotton.”

Here are photos of both boys from the newspaper.

They purchased soft drinks from a lady selling them at Spanish Fort before heading out.

A brisk gale with high waves came upon the lake that afternoon which they believed caused the boat to capsize.

I searched but did not locate any articles that said they ever located the body of young Edward.  How sad for the family.

William is buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.  You may visit his memorial at #23405167.  May both boys rest in peace.

My takeaway from this, is we never know where we’ll locate newspaper articles for our family.  I know we cannot always afford the expense of more than one subscription.  However, keep in mind that many libraries do offer free use of their subscriptions to genealogy sites, to patrons.   

If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post, please get in touch.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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