If the weather is any indication, we are in for a very hot summer.
Worked on genealogy again today. Ancestry.com has added some new features that are nice. They need to fix a method where like names can be merged an where when you find someone in a public tree and incorporate into your tree that it looks for names of people you all ready have rather than create a duplicate.
Worked on the recipes for my bio that I'm doing for my family. This has evolved into a lot larger project than I first set out to do, but hope my children and descendants will enjoy the end item.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
'Tis A Great Morning Today
After a couple of days of great cool weather with the house open and fresh air flowing it went back to Texas weather HOT and we had to close all the windows and turn on the AC. This morning is Great in that I feel good, I slept good last night and for all intent and purpose it is a great day to be alive.
Spent the day yesterday working on my genealogy, every day I find more - there is no end. About 1980 I saw a chart listing 5 generations of ancestors for a person and decided that would be a neat gift for my children. So my search began. A few were easy to find, most were not. In the beginning resources were limited and at first I relied on Mother to tell me who was related to whom, what children they had etc. This gave me a starting place. With my computer addition to my life I found the Internet and resources were better - but still not that many. As I progressed, I learned of a Family History Center connected with the local Church of Latter Day Saints and went there many times to search their records. Then I learned of the State Genealogical Society that has a library "FULL" of records and data near the State Capital in Austin and went there and spent many hours only skimming the surface of all the records I might find there.
Time, life, money, family, jobs, etc it all interferes or makes it where I can't do what I want all the time. Hmm think we all have those problems at times.
I found on the Internet as more people began to search their roots more and more resources - some good, some Ok, and others not so good - you have to learn to be selective and check and recheck what others have out there.
In these I found access to birth/marriage/divorce records, and census records and with this I was able to support some of my findings and find other information I'd been seeking. For years I had ancestors for my children back the 5 generations for all but one link and others back many more generations. In 2007 while searching for this family in the census I found Mr. Glaspy as a stepchild with his mother and step father. I now had a complete 5 generation of ancestors for my children. I don't have her maiden name yet and that is my goal at the moment who was Elizabeth married to Mr. Glaspy.
Sometime in the 80s you had been receiving Internet with unlimited usage, and they decided people were spending to many hours using it so they changed and you had just so many hours to use each month. Before this change with AOL there were groups where you could go for genealogy and get loads of help. Many of the members were house bound and enjoyed being able to talk to others through the Internet and would have purchased books of records to use. If you were looking for example Mr. Glaspy as I was you could post the information you had and then others seeing it would research it in the material they had and if they found him, give you book, page number and the information there. I got a lot of help from this and filled in quite a few gaps in this ancestor search I was doing. But with the on sought of the limited usage times this service dwindled and I had to seek other ways to find our roots.
I have written my own biography for my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and any future generations that would be interested in reading it.
If I can find a stopping place as there is no finishing place in genealogy - it continues to grow either through new finds or through new marriages and births. But somewhere I need to say enough is enough and put all that I've gathered into one huge book. I have direct lines back to 1000 and other lines for people marrying into this family back many generations as well. It is a very multi-branched tree with lots of little off-branch limbs.
I don't have nor do I have the time and energy to search out and prove every leaf attached to every limb in this tree. I just hope that most of it is correct to the best of my ability or someone else (that had it out on the Internet to share). That when this book is done that the reader will realize the magnitude of time it would take to resource every entry and verify all the data, etc. and use it as a reference point to give them some information to possibly verify if need be for their usage.
Spent the day yesterday working on my genealogy, every day I find more - there is no end. About 1980 I saw a chart listing 5 generations of ancestors for a person and decided that would be a neat gift for my children. So my search began. A few were easy to find, most were not. In the beginning resources were limited and at first I relied on Mother to tell me who was related to whom, what children they had etc. This gave me a starting place. With my computer addition to my life I found the Internet and resources were better - but still not that many. As I progressed, I learned of a Family History Center connected with the local Church of Latter Day Saints and went there many times to search their records. Then I learned of the State Genealogical Society that has a library "FULL" of records and data near the State Capital in Austin and went there and spent many hours only skimming the surface of all the records I might find there.
Time, life, money, family, jobs, etc it all interferes or makes it where I can't do what I want all the time. Hmm think we all have those problems at times.
I found on the Internet as more people began to search their roots more and more resources - some good, some Ok, and others not so good - you have to learn to be selective and check and recheck what others have out there.
In these I found access to birth/marriage/divorce records, and census records and with this I was able to support some of my findings and find other information I'd been seeking. For years I had ancestors for my children back the 5 generations for all but one link and others back many more generations. In 2007 while searching for this family in the census I found Mr. Glaspy as a stepchild with his mother and step father. I now had a complete 5 generation of ancestors for my children. I don't have her maiden name yet and that is my goal at the moment who was Elizabeth married to Mr. Glaspy.
Sometime in the 80s you had been receiving Internet with unlimited usage, and they decided people were spending to many hours using it so they changed and you had just so many hours to use each month. Before this change with AOL there were groups where you could go for genealogy and get loads of help. Many of the members were house bound and enjoyed being able to talk to others through the Internet and would have purchased books of records to use. If you were looking for example Mr. Glaspy as I was you could post the information you had and then others seeing it would research it in the material they had and if they found him, give you book, page number and the information there. I got a lot of help from this and filled in quite a few gaps in this ancestor search I was doing. But with the on sought of the limited usage times this service dwindled and I had to seek other ways to find our roots.
I have written my own biography for my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and any future generations that would be interested in reading it.
If I can find a stopping place as there is no finishing place in genealogy - it continues to grow either through new finds or through new marriages and births. But somewhere I need to say enough is enough and put all that I've gathered into one huge book. I have direct lines back to 1000 and other lines for people marrying into this family back many generations as well. It is a very multi-branched tree with lots of little off-branch limbs.
I don't have nor do I have the time and energy to search out and prove every leaf attached to every limb in this tree. I just hope that most of it is correct to the best of my ability or someone else (that had it out on the Internet to share). That when this book is done that the reader will realize the magnitude of time it would take to resource every entry and verify all the data, etc. and use it as a reference point to give them some information to possibly verify if need be for their usage.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Only for the love of a Child
A little boy's harvest of his first crop.
Mothers are mothers even when they become grandmothers or in this case a great grandmother. I told you earlier about the pinto beans we planted and they grew and now we could pick pinto bean snaps. This little one has been collecting his beans all week and I think he now has enough to cook for him to eat with his meal tonight.
My children grew flowers and vegetables, had rabbits and calves and chickens. This little one lives in town so he can help grow flowers and vegetables. And does he ever get a great thrill when he finds a bean big enough to pick and he is good and leaves the little ones on the vine to get bigger.
I'll report later on how he liked to eat the harvest of his crop.
My children grew flowers and vegetables, had rabbits and calves and chickens. This little one lives in town so he can help grow flowers and vegetables. And does he ever get a great thrill when he finds a bean big enough to pick and he is good and leaves the little ones on the vine to get bigger.
I'll report later on how he liked to eat the harvest of his crop.
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