Well, I guess you're never too old for a new adventure. We've moved close to the Virginia area from which some of our Kentucky ancestors moved over eight generations ago (counting from my grandkids generation). We're also working on the parents living with their grown kids and their family "thing". Still living in boxes. Still constructing a real kitchen from a basement wet bar (think 8 inch sink or so). Guys standing behind me as I type this, are running wires from one end of the basement to the other end of the house to the breaker box; drilling into concrete to lay a drainage line for my washing machine; Virginia basement bedrooms need windows to the outside so the firefighters can save you; the hills/mountains disrupt cell phone coverage; google maps is my constant companion; finding new doctors, hair stylists, on and on and on. The forest and trails behind our backyard are beautiful. The schools in the neighborhood are great. The kids have made instant friends among the 31(!) kids at their school bus stop. After the current (and more to come) construction is finished and the boxes are unpacked I can enjoy even more the little voices that yell "hello" at the top of our basement stairs and run down for a good night kiss or come down to just talk or help throw leaves off the patio. I have signed up for my first Virginia Genealogy in-person seminar. They'll be discussing local resources at the National Archive, the DAR and the Library of Congress. All just across the Potomac River from us!! What fun, and meeting more "genealogy people" too. More to come and I'll add pictures!

No reply

A followup to the post just before this one. I found another tree owned by someone with the LeGrand name, so I messaged them also. I haven't heard from the first person I messaged, nor from this second person yet. Maybe someday!

Genealogists share. That's why we do what we do. My mother-in-law passed away in March of 2020, at the start of the Covid Pandemic. We had a viewing/family get together at the funeral home, and a burial, but no REAL funeral or celebration of life for her. We planned to have one in the future. Well, the future has arrived and I think we're all getting together to talk about her and celebrate her next month - 3 years later. That's a good thing. I started looking through some of her old pictures. During World War II, she used to meet with the sailors at the USO (or whatever they were called) and dance and party just about every week. I had made a book of her pictures after her niece shared them with me. I pulled those out again, thinking to use them in her celebration. I noticed the name of one of the sailors was Bates LeGrand. The genealogist in me thought about what an unusual name that was and that maybe I could find him or a family member and share the picture. I know that I would love for someone to surprise me with a picture like that. So I started with a Google Search, progressed to an Ancestry Search. I found his mom's obituary, his dad's obituary, his sister's obituary, his daughter's marriage. The USO clubs were in Texas, and he was from Texas. I then found his name in a tree on Ancestry and messaged the person explaining about the picture and asked if he knew a family member who would like to have it. If I hear from them I'll post again, here, along with a copy of the picture. In a different light, I've been asked to do a beginning genealogy class, with a class "activity", for kids age 6 to 10. This is my current challenge. It's a REAL challenge for me. I'm teaching my usual BEGINNING DNA class in two weeks. It's a "what" class, not a "how" class. Strictly discussing which DNA testing site would be the best place for solving your mystery; biology of DNA etc. How to actually solve your problem and understanding your matches is a later class. A full couple of months....

It's been a year and a half since my last post

We downsized our home about 6 years ago when moving from Tennessee to Arkansas. The time has come to complete the job. I've designated one room per month on a schedule posted with a magnet to the side of my refrigerator as the declutter/downsize target!!! I think I'm already overwhelmed and it's January. I planned to do the office first. I'm thinking I should have started with something like the guest room which has nothing but linens in a dresser and a closet full of games to start this process!!! Sigh. I need to take my genealogist hat off and look at things with the following questions in mind: (1) Would anyone else really want or care about this; and (2) where am I going to keep it and why. When we downsized the first time I took those multiple shelves of white three ring notebooks with all the family surnames on the edge of the binder and scanned everything of importance in them. I have those in directories on my computer, backed up online and on external hard drives. That was a big job, and boy did it feel good to finish it! What I came across today was several small boxes of cards from funerals of my parents, grandmother, husband's grandmother and husband's great grandmother. The genealogist says "oooh, I need to figure out who all these people were who sent flowers and signed the visitation book"..... Do I really? I know the important dates involved with each of these people. I generally know the relatives who signed, but not all the friends ..... None of my children has taken up the family history/genealogy mantle...yet... Will they care? I don't believe these are something important to local genealogy societies..... getting rid of stuff is hard. I suppose I could make a spreadsheet with the names from the cards for each of the funerals involved and maybe scan in the signature pages of the funeral books. Maybe I'll sleep on it and decide tomorrow.......

More Lyon County Kentucky Residents (1930's - 1940's)

I thought I'd attempt to post a collage of pictures as a test. I've been posting one picture at a time on one of the Lyon County Facebook pages and I don't want to take up all the oxygen with so many pictures, so we'll see what this looks like.

FamilyTree DNA has come out with an extensive redesign of their site

FamilyTree DNA has come out with a new look, increased filtering and enhanced matching for their site. The following article will need to be read several times to catch all the changes, but be patient with yourself. There's a lot going on. Remember to clear your filters, as they're easy to overlook and that can cause great frustration. The HELP section on the site has also been revamped to help you, but the following blog post by Roberta Estes should be get your started. https://dna-explained.com/2021/07/01/familytreedna-relaunch-new-feature-overview/

 July 1, 2021

I've been posting quite a few old pictures to the Facebook Group "Lyon County Love Affair - Kentucky Celebration" lately.  I have quite a few pictures, from my grandmother and her sister, that show MANY people who lived in Lyon county.  They're not all relatives, although they might be, as my ancestors have been in Caldwell/Lyon/Trigg for a couple hundred years.  That means that I probably share DNA with most of these people, but haven't researched ALL the people who are not within three generations or so.  It's been a satisfying thing to do.  I wish everyone on the group would do it, as we ALL probably have pictures that contain someone else's ancestors and I know I'd LOVE to see pictures that other people have of MY ancestors.

Here's an example of one I posted:

This is one of my Aunt Iva Cummins (1880-1957).  I used the MyHeritage site (to which I have a subscription, but you can do a certain number of enhancements without a subscription).  Post those pictures folks!!!!!

Oh The Places I Have Been (Sorry Dr Seuss)

 The last time I looked for the number, I found that only about 15% of the world's records have been digitized and indexed.  New records have a good chance of being digitized and there are valiant efforts being made to digitize old records.  As I continue my genealogy journey, I was thinking about future researchers and where they will have to look for records of our family and where I continue to look for my ancestors.

In our little family, I was born in Kentucky; husband born in Texas; three children born in Turkey, North Carolina and Tennessee.  When I was born, our family lived in one county, but I was born in the adjoining county because our home county had no hospital.  The same is true for one of my grandchildren.  His parents lived in one county but the hospital was in a different county, which also happened to be in a different state!

Being from western Kentucky, researchers are used to looking across county and state lines for birth and marriage records, and that was in looking for records of families who had been born in the same county for multiple generations.  On my side of the family, I was the fourth generation to be born in that same Kentucky County (although it did change names in 1854), and in several of my lines, I am the fifth generation to be born/live in that exact same place.  Looking at the birth places of my children, I think it's going to be more difficult for researchers (especially for the one born in Turkey!!).

New genealogists are so used to jumping online and looking at trees and thinking they've found all their family.  Trees are hints.  Trees are not sources nor are they proof.  You need documents to "prove" something.  Even documents that are primary sources may contain some secondary information that's not to be trusted as correct.  For instance, a death record is a primary source as it was created at the time of the event (death), but also included on that document is often information that is NOT primary, AND that doesn't mean that errors can't happen with that primary information also.  Sometimes you'll find the names of the parents on that death certificate.  Well, the person who died did not give them that information.  Who did?  The informant is usually listed on the document.  If the informant was a sibling of the deceased, then the information is probably (maybe) correct.  If the names of the parents were given by the cousin of the sister of the brother-in-law, then not so much.

I have a death certificate of my husband's great grandmother, with her name shown on the death certificate as Lady Clara Henson.  We did not know the names of her parents.  The only clue I had were the names, listed as the parents, on the death certificate.  Those names were given by a granddaughter of the deceased person.  I looked for those people, on and off, for twenty years.  She had died in Dallas TX and the death certificate said she was born in Memphis TN.  No.  She was born in Davidson County TN (Nashville) I found later in a printout of a funeral packet.  One census showed her dad as born in GA and her mother as AL.  The next would show TN and VA.  This great grandmother had been married at least twice also, with the second husband being part of the paternal side of her daughter's husband's family (sorry for that convoluted statement, but that's how that research went).  On the death certificate the father was listed as Will Guinn and the mother as Margeurite Goodall.  I had information from family members of the identity of the siblings of his great grandmother, so I had found her (between marriages) and her children were listed.  I finally ordered the death certificates of those siblings to compare the parents listed on them to the ones listed on the death certificate of the great grandmother.  The name of the mother on the certificate of one of the siblings listed the mother as Margaret Nanney and the other listed her as unknown, and the father was listed as Mart Guinn, rather than Will on one and Mark Quinn on the other.  So onward with the search for Will or William or Mart or Martin or Mark or any other combination I could find.

Finally, a visit to the Tennessee Archives in Nashville Tennessee produced a marriage license, from 1861 between Martin Gwin and Margaret James Nanny.  Further research showed these two to be the parents of Lady Clara Guynn in Texas.  I learned a LOT by that long, painful search.  Now onward to my next mystery!!  I still don't know how that person came up with Goodall as a surname.

Good luck with your mysteries and remember your sources in the new year, 2021, and here's hoping we get to open the archives and libraries with healthy, happy people sooner than later!

I'M STILL HERE

 I haven't added to my blog in a year or more.  I've been active in teaching DNA webinars during COVID and teaching DNA classes before COVID, and playing with active grandkids for the last few years.  I'm still here.  I'll hopefully add something useful to my site.......  soon.

Debbie

Moving from GEDMATCH to GEDMATCH/GENESIS

I'm doing a few presentations this year on DNA.  I'll be doing three presentations for the GSCCA (Genealogical Society of Craighead County Arkansas) in Jonesboro Arkansas (Beginning DNA, What to do with the results of your DNA test, and Advanced DNA Tools).  I'm also doing the second hour of Let's Discuss It this Saturday at the Tennessee Genealogical Society and will be doing a quick look at the transformation from GEDMATCH to GEDMATCH/GENESIS.  I'm posting the one page handout so the blog links can be available for attendees.

23 March 2018

GEDMATCH & GEDMATCH/GENESIS

https://www.gedmatch.com

https://genesis.gedmatch.com

Tips for Using GEDMATCH:  http://www.genie1.com.au/blog/78-tips-for-using-gedmatch

GEDMATCH updates to GENESIS:  https://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/dna/gedmatch-updates-genesis/?ranMID=43068&ranEAID=GGIf2GFEj0Q&ranSiteID=GGIf2GFEj0Q-e_mAxG3PmEursPNI8uk_0A

Time to move to GENESIS:  https://blog.kittycooper.com/2018/12/time-to-move-to-genesis/

GEDMATCH GENESIS tutorial for beginners:  http://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/2018/12/21/gedmatch-genesis-tutorial-for-beginners/

GENESIS Basics – GEDMATCH reinvented Part 1:  https://blog.kittycooper.com/2019/02/genesis-basics-gedmatch-reinvented-part-1/

The Beta One-to-Many Tool -  GENESIS Basics 2:  https://blog.kittycooper.com/2019/03/the-beta-one-to-many-tool-genesis-basics-ii/

GEDMATCH/GENESIS is a FREE site for uploading autosomal DNA from many different testing companies with the ability to compare SNP data.  This is especially useful for AncestryDNA testers as that site does not provide segment location data with its reported results.  On the tools at GEDMATCH/GENESIS you also have the ability to adjust many reporting thresholds for your matches.

GENESIS is the rebirth of GEDMATCH providing matching for many more testing companies and chips than GEDMATCH handled previously.  GEDMATCH has not yet gone away, but all DNA kits which had been uploaded to GEDMATCH have been ported to GENESIS.  Any NEW uploads will be made to the GENESIS site.  To make things a little confusing, at the moment, any NEW ACCOUNTS will be created on the GEDMATCH site.  Several tools on GENESIS are labeled as Beta and may change as the company tweaks its new site.  The tools at GEDMATCH still function, but no new kits for comparison are added there.

The CURRENT process for using GEDMATCH/GENESIS is to:

1.  Download your raw autosomal DNA data to your computer in ZIP format from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, 23andME, FTDNA or other DNA testing companies.  Each company provides directions for doing this.  If you don’t see the menu item, use the HELP facility at your testing company. [If you’re a MAC user, set default to NOT unpack ZIP files.]

2.  Create an account at GEDMATCH.

3.  Login to GENESIS

4.  Upload your ZIP file to GENESIS.  You can upload multiple DNA files (for multiple people) in one account.

5.  Wait a couple of days until the matching is complete (there is an icon indicating completion on GENESIS).  While waiting you might read the links above and the HELP files at GEDMATCH/GENESIS.

6.  After your wait, login to GENESIS and begin using the tools, upload a GEDCOM file and assign the point person in your GEDCOM file.

7.  Any password changes you wish to make still need to be made on the GEDMATCH site, currently.

There is another part of GEDMATCH/GENESIS that you will see called TIER ONE.  This is a section of additional tools that are part of a PAID section.  The cost is $10 per month.  You can purchase as many or as few months as you’d like.

Things you can do on GENESIS:

One to Many Matching

Chromosome comparison

User Lookup tool

X-DNA matching

Ethnicity tools

People who match both or 1 of 2 kits

These links will be useful to those who have attended the DNA Part 1 Class on Choosing a DNA Test.  While you're waiting for your ordered test results to be available, read, read, read.

Learn about DNA:
1.  Beginner's Guide of DNA Resources (ISOGG):  https://isogg.org/wiki/Beginners'_guides_to_genetic_genealogy
2.  Learn about genetic genealogy (ISOGG):  https://isogg.org/
3.  Genealogical DNA testing myths (OSOGG):  https://isogg.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_testing_myths
4.  Genetics Glossary (ISOGG):  https://isogg.org/wiki/Genetics_Glossary
5.  Autosomal DNA (ISOGG):  https://isogg.org/wiki/Portal:Autosomal_DNA
6.  Mitochondrial DNA (ISOGG):  https://isogg.org/wiki/Portal:Mitochondrial_DNA
7.  Y-chromosome DNA (ISOGG):  https://isogg.org/wiki/Portal:Y-chromosome_DNA

HINT:  After you have ordered your DNA kit and before you receive your results, log in to the company from which you ordered the test, read the FAQ and Help files and tutorials.  Also create or upload your tree to the site and set up your profile for the site.  After your DNA results are available, LINK your DNA to your name on your tree.  Now comes the hard work, analysis AND fun!

DNA Link Pages:
Cyndi's List of DNA Resources:  https://cyndislist.com/dna/
Genie Links - http://www.genie1.com.au/links

YouTube has MANY videos on Getting Started with DNA Research
Example: Do a search on YouTube for  DNA Bettinger or search for DNA genealogy, you'll see several interviews and classes by Blaine Bettinger and useful videos.

Useful charts, tools and methods to help in determining relationships with DNA:
1.  Shared cM Project chart - https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2017/08/26/august-2017-update-to-the-shared-cm-project/
2.  The McGuire Method:  http://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2017/03/19/guest-post-the-mcguire-method-simplified-visual-dna-comparisons/
3.  X-Chromosome inheritance charts - http://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2008/12/21/unlocking-the-genealogical-secrets-of-the-x-chromosome/
4.  Y and Mitochondrial (mtDNA) inheritance - https://isogg.org/wiki/Paths_of_DNA_inheritance
5.  Mirror Trees - http://www.borninneworleans.com/how-to/what-is-a-mirror-tree/
6.  More on Mirror Trees - https://dna-explained.com/2017/07/29/concepts-mirror-trees/
          (update 4 Jul 2018 - Mirror Trees are used less often now)
7.  DNA Mapping - https://isogg.org/wiki/Chromosome_mapping
8.  DNAGEDCOM - http://www.dnagedcom.com/adsa/adsamanual.html.php
9.  More on DNAGEDCOM - http://blog.kittycooper.com/2017/09/solving-unknown-parentage-cases-with-dna/#more-5321
10.  DNA Painter Part 1 - https://dna-explained.com/2018/03/28/dna-painter-chromosome-sudoku-for-genetic-genealogy-addicts/
11.  DNA Painter Part 2 - https://dna-explained.com/2018/04/04/dnapainter-mining-vendor-matches-to-paint-your-chromosomes/
12.  DNA Painter Parts 3 & 4 - TBD
13.  The DNA Green Chart - http://thednageek.com/the-limits-of-predicting-relationships-using-dna/
14.  MAPMY23 - tool for transferring Ancestry data to FamilyTreeDNA  - http://www.mapmy23.com/tools/ancestry_ftdna_fix.php
15.  Genetic Genealogy Using GEDMATCH - http://smithplanet.com/stuff/gedmatch.htm

Blogs on DNA:
1.  DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy - Blog by Roberta Estes - https://dna-explained.com/
2.  The Genetic Genealogist - Blog by Blaine Bettinger - https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/
3.  KittyCooper's Blog - Blog by Kitty Cooper - http://blog.kittycooper.com/

Useful DNA Facebook Groups:
1.  GEDmatch.com User Group
2.  Autosomal DNA-Gedmatch-FTDNA-23andME-Ancestry-MyHeritage
3.  GEDmatch Lazarus Tool
4.  DNA Detectives
5.  Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques
6.  Genealogy! Just ask!
7.  Kentucky DNA and Genealogy-  (one I read, but look for YOUR state)
8.  GAA (Genealogy Addicts Anonymous)
9.  FTDNA User Group
10.  DNA for Genealogy
11.  Ancestry DNA Matching
12.  DNA Painter User Group
13.  DNA Newbie
14.  Genome Mate Pro
15.  DNAGedcom User Group

The four major testing companies in our presentation:
1.  Ancestry - https://www.ancestry.com/
2.  FamilyTree DNA (FTDNA) -  https://www.familytreedna.com/
3.  23andMe - https://www.23andme.com/
4.  MyHeritageDNA - https://www.myheritage.com/

#52ancestors - Valentine

A vintage pop-up Valentine sent to my mother, when she was a little girl. I don't know the date, but she was born in 1921, so it was probably sometime in the 1920's. The back says to: Geneva. from: Aunts. The aunts are probably Aunt Fannie, Ivey and Billie Cummins, sisters of my mother's mother, Mary Cummins Gray. The aunts lived together in their later years and earned a living by running a boarding house in Old Eddyville Kentucky.

#52ancestors - In The Census

I learned SO many interesting things from the U.S. Census records, but I'll make this a short entry.  Elizabeth Jones married Willard C Town in 1840 in Caldwell County Kentucky.  He died in 1847.  I had found her in the 1870 census, living with her oldest son and still showing her married name, Elizabeth Town, so it was a shock to find her, with her children, living with Samuel Pearce and going by the name Elizabeth Pearce in the 1860 census.  A trip to the courthouse was needed.  Sure enough, she had married Samuel Pearce in 1859, but they divorced on Tuesday the 9th of June in 1868 by petition of Samuel.  Sure would like to know more.....   Genealogy is such a wonderful mystery trip!!!

One more note.  Those frustrating things that happen between those ten years between census records:
A birth and subsequent death of a child (pre birth certificates; no burial record as probably buried on the home farm.....
A marriage and divorce in between census records.
A marriage and a death between census records.....

More mysteries....

#52ancestors - Who would I have liked to invite to dinner

This is the next installment of the #52ancestors challenge.  I'm supposed to decide which of my ancestors I would have loved to have had to dinner.  Since I'm a "gimme data" type of person, it would have been to grill the ancestor who could answer my most pressing brick wall questions, but there are others that I would have loved to invite to just listen to their life's story.

So many things I'd want to know.  So little time at a dinner.

I would have loved to talk with Willard C Town.  He was my first ancestor to move to Kentucky.  He arrived before 1840.  In 1830, in Ohio, his dad, Willard Oliver Town, left home and "headed west", never to be heard from again.  I would like to know about that.  What was his dad's reason for heading west?  Many questions.  I knew nothing about Willard C Town until I started researching my family in 1977.  He was my Second Great Grandfather.  HIS fourth great grandfather was the brother of two women hanged for being witches in Salem MA.  Did Willard C know this?  Were they better at handing down family info than our current generations?  My Willard C was born in Vermont, but moved with his parents and siblings to Ohio before he moved to Kentucky.  The family of witches was in MA and then in VT.  Maybe he knew.  The fifth great grandfather of Willard C Town was our immigrant ancestor from England.  I would love to know what Willard C knew.  I'd love to know what his trip was like from Vermont to Ohio.  Why did he move to Kentucky?  He married in 1840, not long after his arrival.  He did in 1847.  He was about 43 years old.  I don't know how or why he died.  He left a wife and two very small sons.  I want to know everything and I know so little.

I would also have liked to talk with David Bigham, whose father was born in Ireland.  What did he know about the trip by ship to North/South Carolina from Ireland.....

I would love to hear about the life of Beulah Chittenden, my fourth great grandmother.  She was the daughter of  Thomas Chittenden, who was the first governor of Vermont.  She married Elijah Galusha, who died at the age of 23, in a sawmill accident.  He had served in the Revolutionary War.  She then married Mathew Lyon, who became a representative from Kentucky and the first person in this country to ever be charged with sedition.  They moved to Eddyville Kentucky, from Vermont. What was her life like?

I would love another chance to sit down with my own grandparents and ask them the questions I never asked as a child and very young woman. 

Other questions:  A second great grandmother had 15 children, losing the first four as very young children or infants.  What was her life like?

Can't wait for that time machine to be invented.

#52ancestors - Longevity

My mother-in-law will be 91 this weekend.  I've spent the last couple of weeks scanning in her scrapbook photos from the 1940's.  She was in a group called Navy Sisters, which was a group of women with brothers in the Navy.  They met at the USO once a month.  She visited the USO many more times than once a month, however.  She met and danced with many sailors during that time.  From the pictures, it looks like a good time was had by all.  One of the sailors asked her to marry him but she turned him down because he would be shipping out and she planned to be seeing other guys.  I think he wrote to her once many, many years later, but all she'd tell me was that she "threw the letter away".  She, and he, went on to marry someone else.  There are quite a few pictures of him in the ones I've been scanning.  Her name is Velda Littlepage.  His name is Ray Schmorance (or Schmorans - she wasn't sure at this point), in case any of his descendants find this post and would like copies of the pictures I've scanned.  She didn't remember the names of the other people in the picture.  Velda and Ray are the first couple, in the front, on the left side of this picture.  I think age 91 qualifies as longevity!

#52ancestors - Favorite Photo

This is week two of the #52ancestors challenge and we're supposed to post our favorite picture.  I've just been loaned two scrapbooks from my mother-in-law, who will be 91 this month.  In the scrapbooks are pictures from the 1940's World War II era.  She obviously visited many clubs in Texas that look to be USO type clubs where she would talk with and dance with sailors.  MANY sailors.  I'm in the process of removing them from the black paper type scrapbooks and attempting to scrape off the remaining paper that is attached to a LOT of glue on the backs of the pictures.  It's going to be a LONG process and it looks like there are very few names on the backs of the pictures.  The glue and black paper have done their bad deed of helping to seep through the pictures, so I'm restoring the pictures (through software) also.  I'll post some of those when I get further along in my processing of the pictures.

I'm posting my favorite photo of MY side of the family today.  I've probably posted it before, but it's still my favorite.  This is a picture of my grandmother, Mary Evelyn Cummins (Gray), on the porch of their farm house, with some of her sisters.  This picture was taken in May 1907 in Lyon County Kentucky.  My grandmother was born in 1888, so would have been 19 years old.

Pictured, from L to R are:  Nina C Cummins 1893-1911, Fannie G Cummins 1876-1948, Iva Cummins, 1880-1957, Willie Moses Cummins 1886-1963, Mary Evelyn Cummins (Gray) 1888-1981, Rebecca Cummins (Gresham).

Not pictured are oldest child John Wesley "Pat" Cummins 1874-1959,  and Nonia Cummins (Oliver) 1883-1963.

The parents of these children were Michael Harvey Cummins 1845-1918 and Sarah Ann Warfield 1855-1893.  My grandmother was only five when her mother died and I've been told that her sister Fannie took over the responsibility of the household and the younger children.  Of all these children, only John Wesley, Nonia and Mary Evelyn had children who survived them.

I've also been told that Iva, Fannie and Willie ran a boarding house in Eddyville.

#52ancestors - Weekly Activities

I'm doing the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks ( #52Ancestors ) activity with https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/

I've been sending my kids more tidbits of interesting (I think it's interesting) stories on their ancestors, recently.  This is a notice to them that they'll be seeing more, hopefully.

Happy New Year.

Triangulation Tool for FTDNA

I've always uploaded my FTDNA data to GEDMATCH and used the Tier One tools for triangulation.  There's now a third party add on for FTDNA that will do triangulation of your FTDNA data while you're still on the FTDNA site.  Here's the info:

https://dna-explained.com/2017/10/21/introducing-the-triangulator/

New Album by the Wailin' Jennys

Click the link to play the music to their new album.  It's the whole album, so don't think you're finished after the first song:

https://www.prairiehome.org/story/2017/10/12/fifteen-wailin-jennys

The History of Lyon County Kentucky Lyon County Kentucky INDEX

The History of Lyon County Kentucky Lyon County Kentucky
With permission of the Herald Ledger Newspaper, these posts, in my blog
are a transcription of a special publication of the Lyon County Historical
Society and the Herald ledger Newspaper from July 3, 1996.  I didn't
scan the pictures from the articles at the time I entered these (2008), so
I'd be glad to do that upon request.  Send email to debatchley@gmail.com.
Here's the link in my blog.  You might want to scan down and read the
first one first, and then scroll up to Part 19, or do a search of a specific article.  Various Kentucky
residents wrote the articles.  It's a great look at our history:
http://debs-midlife.blogspot.com/search/label/Lyon%20County%20Kentucky

The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 19 (FINAL)  5/10/08 The Smith House by Bill Young
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 18  5/9/08 The Parkersville Lodge by Dale Hayhugh
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 17  5/8/08 The O'Daniel House by Odell Walker
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 16  5/7/08 Cobb's Battery by Glenn Martin & Dewey One Room School by Odell Walker
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 15  5/6/08 the Kelly Kettle by Odell Walker
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 14  5/5/08 The Hawley House by Odell Walker & The Skinner House by Cindy Simpson
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 13  5/4/08 The Battle of Saratoga by Odell Walker
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 12  5/3/08 Governor Charles Anderson by Odell
Walker
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 11  5/2/08 The Woodruff House by Margaret Wilford
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 10  5/2/08 New Bethel Baptist Church by Odell Walker
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 9  4/30/08 Rose Hill - The Cobb House by Odell
Walker
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 8 4/29/08 The Kentucky State Penitentiary (continued
2) by Bill Cunningham
The History of Lyon County Kentucky - Part 7  4/28/08 The Kentucky State Penitentiary
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