Tombstone Tuesday - February 3, 2015

Charlotte Fox Morgan

 Charlotte Fox born in Canada around September 12, 1800.  I have yet to identified her parents.   She married David Morgan in Louth, Ontario.  They are recorded in the 1861 Ontario Census in Louth, Ontario.  By 1870, David has died and Charlotte has immigrated to Michigan where she is living with her daughter Susan Hayner in Romeo.  She is still residing with the Hayner family in Romeo at the time of the  1880 census as well in Romeo.
 
 She died on February 10, 1882 and is buried in the Romeo Cemetery.  Charlotte's stone is two pieces. The top piece read Charlotte wife of David Morgan and the bottom states that she died on February 10, 1882 at the age of 82 years, 5 months and 28 days.  All those years of living in Romeo, I wish I had known that we had relatives in this cemetery.  Now that I am living in Michigan, I plan to visit this cemetery next summer. 

Romeo Cemetery

Top half of stone

Bottom half of stone

David Morgan

 This photo is of David Morgan, Charlotte's husband.  Charlotte and David had three daughters all born in Louth Ontario.  They were Dorothy, Susan and Charlotte.  Dorothy and Susan married Hayner brothers, Robert Wesley and Thomas Hayner.  Both of these young Hayner families settled in Michigan. I am a descendant of the Robert Wesley linage.

Happy Hunting,
Jan

Long time...

It has been a long time since I have been here.  A lot of things have changed.  We moved.  I had to pack my genealogy stuff first and it went into storage for a few months.  We moved from Illinois to Michigan, about 7 1/2 hours away. We now live in a small farm town on Lake Huron.  It is quiet and much different than the suburbs of Chicago.  We love it!  Moving is a huge job after living in the same place for nearly 20 years.  It really consumed the whole year of 2014...between getting the Illinois house ready to sell, sell it, our belongings packed, a new house found and bought, belongs brought here and unpacked....I must say...I do not want to do that again. It took me months to unpack and put things away. So glad it is done!

I also had wonderful new distracts, like a fully planted garden.

Garden

Garden Bounty

Pumpkin patch

Raspberry patch

But best of all, I have three sisters and one brother who all live nearby.  We get to walk together, shop together and spent as much time as we want together.  I have lived away from them for 33 years.  It is like coming home! It is wonderful.  I did not realize that I filled so much of my time with other activities because I lived away from them.

Our new old home..

No sooner did we get here and begin to get settled and it was time to start canning the stuff from the garden.  Needless to say, my genealogy research was put on a back burner and that has been where it remained.

On Monday I will be going to Florida with my sister, Pam, to see my sister Sue and her husband Bob.  While we are there I will visit with a relative who will share with me old photo's from our Canadian Hainer and Densmore families. I am taking my PC and a portable scanner so I can scan them into my computer.  I am excited to get back at the hunt.

In April we will be traveling to Boston for the marathon (my brother will run it) and along the way we will stay in Niagara.  While there I plan to see Corlene Taylor, another Hainer relative so I can provider her with the Hainer photos.  She has wanted to get them for years but had no opportunity.  I am excited to be able to help her out.

So I am planning to start blogging again...regularly.

Happy Hunting,

Jan

DNA Data and Ancestry.com

Today I received an email from FamilyTreeDNA.com.  I am not sure if I had been notified of this before but according to FamilyTreeDNA.com, Ancestry.com is getting out of the DNA database business.  They are no longer doing DNA testing AND  the Ancestry.com DNA data will no longer be available to me after Sept 2014. Yecks...Wow... Really...I never guessed that would happen several years back when I did the DNA test. Ancestry.com was such a big site.  Oh shoot...that means I had better do something about preserving my data.

I never really got the results I was hoping for through Ancestry.com.  I got a few emails from people  with inquires but no real Smith matches... All my matches were for people with other surnames! I think what happened was that most people used different sites for their testing or did no testing at all.  As far as Ancestry.com was concerned, the DNA database was an under-utilized ancestry.com option so they decided to get out of it all together.

SO...I had mine done in 2010.  NOW what?   Back in 2010 and early 2011, I was able to add my results to several other DNA databases but not to FamilyTreeDNA.com without having to have the test rerun.  Well I was not going to ask my brother to that so I just dropped it.  I learned today that FamilyTreeDNA.com is letting you transfer you data...of course for a fee! A few years ago I was able to enter my data in another site called http://www.smithsworldwide.org.  And through this site I did get a match.  Joseph Smith...which was very helpful. I think I also added it to the National Geographic DNA site too.  I need to verify that ASAP.

So after getting the email today, I went ahead transferred my data...for a fee.. Not wanting to loose access to it and to have it available in a database somewhere so it can help me and other family members in our search. I realized that I really needed to sort this out tonight so I went in search of the other databases that I had entered my data in.  Going back through old emails which I had saved....I found the login information for http://www.smithsworldwide.org and several correspondences with a Deb Harper. After logging on there it appears that they may be an affiliated to or somehow connected to FamilyTreeDNA.com site ...Oh I hope I did not spend money I did not need to spend...

OK, one thing is for sure...I will have more work to do here.  I need to do some genealogy house cleaning and sorting.  This mess is my own fault.  I should have been more organized from the beginning but I never thought this would become such a large life long project!  I have to write these databases down somewhere after I get this all sorted out. I also realized that I had saved much of this kind of info in old emails in folders in an my local email account.

I have had the same email now for nearly 20 years now.....quite a number of years ago I added an @yahoo.com account  and tied the two account together because of my genealogy work...I don't want to lose this information.. I have been advertising my @yahoo account when needed ever since but the original @ameritech.net account will be the one that will go away when I move one day and it is that account that I have saved all this data to...Since my house is currently on the market and we have had a few potential buyers come to look at it....the move could be sooner rather than later.  I will be moving to an area that ATT does not provide service for... So I am not sure what to will happen with my email ID... I had tried to prepare for this event because I knew would happen some day, but now I am wondering if I did the right thing.  I guess I need to call ATT to find out what will happen..... sooner rather than later...like tomorrow.

What a headache this could turn into! Stay tuned and I let you know how it all works out!

Happy Hunting