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| Irish I knew where in Ireland my ancestors came from. |
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Cousins remain Connected
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| Cousins are connected Heart to Heart distance and time can't break them apart |
Genealogical research and DNA testing brings cousins back together.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
23andMe DNA Kits- Price Reduction Again!
I didn't think we would see a sale at 23andMe so soon after their massive price reduction, but to my surprise, kits are on sale!
The first kit is still $99, but additional kits are 20% off!
Just after I purchased several kits without the sale.
Time to purchase more . . .
The first kit is still $99, but additional kits are 20% off!
Just after I purchased several kits without the sale.
Time to purchase more . . .
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| Current pricing for autosomal DNA kits 23andMe.com |
Monday, March 4, 2013
Testing More Family Members
I will be testing more family members at 23andMe. This will bring me a lot more matches and a lot more work, but should enable me to better assign the matches to a branch in the tree. Results should arrive within two months.
Like Father, Not Like Son
Applications for passports are digitized and offered online through sites such as Fold3 and Ancestry. Even if you think that your family stayed in the same place and never left the United States, search for them in the passports.
I found the passport application for my great-great-great grandfather, John R Winterton. This provided me with his date and place of birth: December 3, 1831 in New York City. We are also provided with his signature! We share a birthday!
It is important to note that "Jr" follows John R Winterton's name. Do not assume that this indicates that John shared a name with his father.
The bottom of the page is the attestation from John's father that the above information is correct. His name is Samuel Winterton. We get his signature as well!
Based on John R Winterton's use of "Jr," we can now look for a family member in an older generation with this name, such as an uncle.
I do not know if John sailed abroad. In 1855 he married Sophia Walling in Raritan Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. In the 1860 federal census, the growing family was living in nearby Matawan. (The names and borders of these locations have changed over the years and that is a study unto itself.)
I found the passport application for my great-great-great grandfather, John R Winterton. This provided me with his date and place of birth: December 3, 1831 in New York City. We are also provided with his signature! We share a birthday!
It is important to note that "Jr" follows John R Winterton's name. Do not assume that this indicates that John shared a name with his father.
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| I John R Winterton Jr do swear that I was born in the City of New York on or about the 3rd day of December 1831, that I am a citizen of the United States, and am about to travel abroad. Sworn to before me this 12 day of June 1849 Notary Public, New York. |
The bottom of the page is the attestation from John's father that the above information is correct. His name is Samuel Winterton. We get his signature as well!
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| I Samuel Winterton do swear that I am acquainted with the above named Jno R Winterton Jr (my son) and with the facts above stated by him, and that the same are true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. Sworn to before me this 12 day of June 1849. Notary Public, New York. |
Based on John R Winterton's use of "Jr," we can now look for a family member in an older generation with this name, such as an uncle.
I do not know if John sailed abroad. In 1855 he married Sophia Walling in Raritan Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. In the 1860 federal census, the growing family was living in nearby Matawan. (The names and borders of these locations have changed over the years and that is a study unto itself.)
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Bishops of Morris County, New Jersey
For several weeks, on Amanuensis
Monday, I posted pictures of handwritten records along with my transcription,
of the contents of the family file for Bishop found at the New York State
Library in Albany, New York. As I uncover my Bishop line back in time, one generation at a time, I hope to link up with one of those documented Bishop lines (and continue researching).
The most recent Bishop in
my family line was Minnie Caroline Bishop, my great great grandmother. Minnie was born in Newark, New Jersey about 1866
and died in Newark in 1910. She is buried with her parents and siblings at Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, Union County, New
Jersey.
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| List of burials in plot owned by William R Bishop Courtesy of Evergreen Cemetery located in Hillside, Union County, New Jersey |
Minnie was one of several
children born to William Reuben Bishop and Susan Jennie Marsh.
William Reuben Bishop was
born in the 1840s in Morris Township, Morris County, New Jersey, to Reuben
Bishop and Susan Ayers. The earliest
child I have found for this couple is Mary Bishop, born about 1836. Reuben died in after the 1850 census. I do not know where he is buried. Susan remarried in 1860 in Newark to Enos Whitehead
and died in 1890.
My strategy at this time
is to uncover more records in Morris County on Bishops prior to 1860. I need to find a record of the marriage of
Reuben Bishop to Susan Ayers, probably in the mid 1830s. There are some Bishop burials at the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown that I need to explore. I have two possibly relevant wills probated in Morris County in
1823. One is for Rachel Bishop, where
she names two daughters, Elizabeth Smith and Mary Jones, and a son, William
Bishop. The other will is by Reuben
Bishop and mentions brothers, Calvin Luther Mills and Abner Bishop.
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