My Genealogy Trails

Greetings!! I have been hot on my genealogy trail and loving every minute of it, LOL.  When I wrote last I had discovered my great great grandmother's maiden name to be Bennett.  Boy have I discovered a lot more since then!! First off, the name on the 1840 census turned out to be "Widow" Bennett, not Andrew.  The 1830 census showed the name William Bennett.  It turned out that William was my g g grandmother's father.  Also by 1840 my great great grandfather, Benjamin Parker was living in the household with the widow Bennett and her two daughters, one of which was my g g grandmother Emeline Elen Bennett Parker. Hot dang, I am on a roll!!  William's father, my 4 xs g grandfather was Benjamin Bennett.  Benjamin Bennett fought in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Minisink in July of 1779.  Unfortunately he died there.  His name is on the battleground monument. The search has been continuing virtually non-stop every moment I am awake since this bre

Greetings!! Yesterday I had a real stroke of luck and broke down a huge brick wall.  I am so excited!!  A distant cousin had told me that my great great grandmother Emeline Parker's, (wife of Benjamin B Parker) maiden name was Horton.  Turns out that was wrong!!  I had searched for a Horton that would fit the correct location and time frame for years to no avail. I had found that on my great grandfather's military records it said his mother's name was Elen Bennet.  Elen is Emeline's middle name and often members of my family went by their middle name.  Anyhow, I asked the cousin about this record but he stated it must be wrong because we "know" Emeline's maiden name was Horton.  He was sure of it.  So, I took him at his word and kept searching.  He had also stated she was from Wayne County, PA.  A statement he now denies.   After a long time searching I finally decided to take a look at the last name Bennet.  Primarily because the only source I could

Greetings!! Once again reading through old newspapers has helped me with a brick wall.  This time I was at nyhistoricnewspapers.org  I was just doing a general search for my great grandfather, George W Parker when I came across an email regarding him going to a funeral with his wife Ruth.  I did not recognize the name of the person who had died at first.  But then it hit me, that was Ruth's grandmother!!  Meaning that would have been my third great grandmother on Ruth's line!! I had not researched Ruth's line all that much yet but had done some work on it.  As I sat staring at the article the pieces began to fall into place.  Since then I have also been able to add in my fourth great grandparents as well. Never under-estimate the information you can find in old newspapers!!  It is amazing to me what I have found and I continue to find things.  I go back to the newspapers time and time again and run new searches.  Yes, I often find additional items.  Yesterday I found