Keep searching and make sure info is correct

The marriage records of a woman listed her as a Smith. A later census record showed she had 9 children with 6 still living. The children with the current husband did not seem to add up to the 9 children. The span in years for her pre-marriage to current marriage was across the 1890 void of census records, and we know the birth records are spotty for that period in the local court houses. I found a later census record with this woman living with an adult daughter after my "Smith" became a widow and living with them was a "brother-in-law" of the head of household son-in-law. The brother-in-law's last name was different from what I would have expected. I started looking for another marriage for that original "Smith" woman. I found one but couldn't prove it was her either. I finally found a death certificate for her and then went to look on find-a-grave and some kind hearted soul had posted a photo of this woman's tombstone. Boldly printed on that tombstone was the maiden name that I had thought I'd found, but been unable to prove, along with the final married name. Thank goodness for all the genealogy community doing the wonderful work that you do.

Keep reading those probate records

Keep reading through those probate records. Usually the reports from guardians just say how much money was received, from whom and the name of their ward. This guardian report listed in the probate records book actually gave a relationship for which I had been uncertain. It lists the ward, Wm W Jones as the GRANDSON of Peleg Rogers. I've been trying to find hard evidence of the relationship of my Elizabeth Jones (married to Willard C Town) to Wiley and Olive Rogers Jones and trying to connect Wiley Jones to other Jones' in the county and Olive to other Ro(d)gers in the county. Little pieces like this give me a few other clues. You never know where you might find something - read everything.

Kentucky, Probate Records, 1792-1977 Collection on familysearch.org

Lyon County Appraisals, Inventories, Sales, 1854-1870, Vol. 1

Page 645 (Image 376 of 379)

State of Kentucky County of Lyon

W J Rogers guardian of Wm W Jones a minor states that on this day he received a note against W H Harris dated the 15th day of January 1867 and due one day after date thereof for the sum of $23.18 for money due the said Wm W Jones from the estate of Peleg Rogers deceased the Grand Father of the said ward. No other estate due the said ward has been received by this affiant since his last report. That there will be a small amount coming to ward from the estate of Polly Rogers deceased, which when obtained will be duly reported. W J Rogers.

Sworn to and subscribed by W J Rogers before me this 19th day of June 1868

J W Clark Clerk

Familysearch.org - I'm impressed

I've been perusing the Kentucky Probate records the last few days, following one of my families. I was branching out into counties surrounding Lyon, Caldwell, Livingston and Christian. I went to look for Trigg and noticed that Trigg county probate records had been overlooked/dropped.....? I took a minute to send an email to let the familysearch.org folks know that they had left out Trigg county. I want you to know how pleasantly surprised I was to receive an actual response within a couple of days, not only telling me that they had replicated my problem/statement and they would let their engineering group know, but they also took the time to find Trigg on their wiki - AND send me the link - AND to find Trigg in their catalog - AND send me the link with the suggestion that I could order those probate records from the family history center. I've never received such a thorough and pleasant response from a support group - ever. Thank you familysearch.

I hope all of you take the time to let posters of data know if something is wrong - I'm one of those that sends corrections to ancestry.com when Wilson has been indexed as Hilson (or whatever the error) so that the next person will be able to find these folks too.

Just my thought for the day.

Emancipation of Cyrus White

I was reading through the Caldwell County Probate records (around 1848) trying to see if there was more enlightening information to help with one of my brick walls (Crittenden Armstrong) and I found this gem that I know would be wonderful for someone to find in their genealogical research:

Monday Sept 18, 1848; Caldwell County KY; Kentucky probate records 1792-1977; Order books, 1846-1850 Vol II; on family search.org site. [ note from Debbie: image #130 of 217 in this series]

[note from Debbie: in amongst all the guardian notices and road surveys, I found this entry]:

Monday Sept 18th, 1848

This day a deed of emancipation was produced in open court and acknowlel'd by Peggy Smith liberating her husband Cyrus White, of yellow complexion about 5 feet 10 inches high, rather spare made & about 46 years of age.

A EUREKA moment

I love AND I hate it when this happens.

I was looking for Homer Day. He was born 22 Sep 1899 in West Virginia per his WWI registration. I had found him in the 1930 and 1920 census. I couldn't find him in the 1910. According to his WWI registration, his nearest relative was Della Welch. Since he was only 18 at the time, I figured she might be his remarried mother. I looked for Rachel Welch in the West Virginia 1910 Census and the eureka moment happened: She was listed with a son INDEXED as HORRUN D DAIGH!! Looking at the census, it looks like HOMUR D DAIGH, and he's the correct age (11).

How cool is that?!!!

Lineage Societies

I attended a presentation at the Tennessee Genealogical Society today that was very enjoyable. There were representatives of several lineage societies. They talked about requirements to join and the purpose of each group. The groups represented were:

Memphis Scottish Society
Huguenot Society
Daughters of the American Colonists
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
Sons of the Confederate Veterans
Western Front Association
United Daughters of the Confederacy
General Society of the War of 1812
U S Daughters of 1812
New England Women Society
Jamestown Society
Descendants of Early Settlers of Shelby County (and adjacent counties) Tennessee [prior to 1870]

Questions were also asked about the Mayflower Society
Also present was a local author, Jama Richardson, who spoke about the genealogy based children's books she has created.

What a pleasant morning...

Other Western Kentucky Lunacy Records

Brenda Joyce Jerome has posted some lunacy records from Crittenden and Livingston counties on her blog. You can see them here:

Livingston Co Lunacy Record

Crittenden Co Lunacy Record

Concerning the Lyon County Inquest Book, I fast forwarded close to the end of my microfilm on Saturday, and I think I'm about half way through the records.... [at least I HOPE so!!!] I still learn more each day from reading these records. Hopefully, at the end of this project, I'll put together a useful index to these, and maybe put them all together... an ongoing project...