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 a...

Greetings!! One of my favorite things to search is old newspapers.  There are several available online in both paid subscriptions and free sites.  You never know what you will find and it is an incredible way to learn about history, especially history local to your ancestors. The following article was found at fultonhistory.com and dated in February of 1900.  The Mr. Parker who was a surveyor from Eldred mentioned was none other than my great great grandfather Benjamin Burlin Parker.  Benjamin had passed 11 years prior to this article being written.  It was a surprise to see that he was remember so well by Mr. John D. Rockefeller.  (If you do not know who Mr. Rockefeller was I have included a little blurb about him, found on wikipedia, below the article.)  Also mentioned in the article was George Layman, a friend of my great grandfather George W Parker and owner of the Spring House in Barryville, NY which is still standing today.  Dr. Aus...