My Genealogy Trails

Greetings!! Once again I am back with more questions than answers on my great grandfather, George W Parker Sr.  It seems like he is throwing me curve balls from the grave, LOL. I have never been able to find him in an 1870 census.  I was pretty sure the reason he was not in the 1865 state census was he was just getting out of the army after the civil war.  That was expected, but the 1870 census was a mystery to me.   Recently I came across a newspaper clip about his marriage to my great grandmother Ruth A Hulse.  It stated, they were married January 30th 1870 at the home of her father Albert Hulse and all were living in Bethel, NY at the time of the marriage.  A-ha!!  I know where he was in 1870!! Well,,,,,,,  not quite.  Yes, he was there to get married, but he still was not listed in the census.  Ugh!!  So the marriage was January 30th.  The census for Bethel was enumerated in July, about 6 months after t...

Greetings! I know it has been over a month since I have written.  I am sorry.  I have been obsessed with finding one of my ancestors.  He has been quite the mystery. My great great grandmother Emeline Elen Bennett Parker's sister was Frances Bennett Anderson (according to her aunt's will.)  However, I have never found any records of Frances with this Anderson person.  In 1840 she is still single and living with her mother and sister.  The mother is a widow by 1840.  Both sisters seem to marry sometime between 1840 and 1842, but no marriage records to prove it yet. In 1850 Frances shows living with her two youngest children, Edward L Anderson and Isaac H Anderson.  Her other 3 children are living in the home of her mother and step father. Frances never shows with her husband and I have no idea who this Anderson person is.  Keep searching! In 1855 Frances is living in the home of her mother and step father with all 5 of her childre...

Greetings!! Back way too many years ago, when I was a kid in school I absolutely hated history.  I just could not get interested in it to save my life.  I could not understand how it would affect me today.  If I knew then what I know now I think I might have tried a lot harder to learn everything I could about history. Genealogy is all about history.  First, family history, but also the history of the times that involved our ancestors.  Doing my family genealogy has lead me to a new found love of history.  I think basic genealogy should be a history course in school to get kids interested in American and even world history. Searching both sides of my family I found a long line of military men on both sides of the family all the way back to the Revolutionary War and beyond.  Just one example is my great grandfather George W. Parker.  I found he served in the Civil War.  That intrigued me so I studied the Civil War and the role Grandpa Ge...