Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) Pick an ancestor, any ancestor. What do you know about them? What source type(s) do you have for each item? Answer the 20 questions below about your chosen ancestor.
2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link on this post if you write your own blog post.
Here’s mine:
1) Ancestor’s birth name:
- James Crawford (Find a Grave Memorial 8559177 )
2) Ancestor’s parents:
- Unknown
3) Ancestor’s birth date and place:
- 17 April 1772 (Find a Grave Memorial 8559177 )
- Virginia (1850 Preble County Ohio census)
4) Ancestor’s baptism/christening date and place:
- Unknown
5) Ancestor’s spouse birth name:
- Sarah “Sally Smith Duggins (Find A Grave / Obituary Abstracts / Marriage Records)
6) Ancestor’s spouse parents:
- Ann Shoemaker (Virginia, Amherst county. Register of Marriages, Amherst County, Virginia, 1763-1853. Film #30273 DGS 7578824. Alexander Duggins Jr, 1788 Jan 22; page 40; digitized images, FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.org : viewed online 6 August 2022.)
7) Ancestor’s spouse birth date and place: 25 Feb 1770, Virginia
- 25 Feb 1770 (Find a Grave Memorial no. #8559179)
- Virginia (1850 Preble County Ohio Census)
8) Ancestor’s spouse death date and place: 2 May 1856, Preble County, Ohio
- 2 May 1856 (Find a Grave Memorial no. #8559179)
- Preble County, Ohio (Obituary Abstracts 1850-1890 from Eaton Register & Eaton Democrat newspapers in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio)
9) Children of Ancestor and spouse:
- Polly Crawford – two children named in will of James Crawford
- Nelson Garret Crawford – named in will of James Crwaford
10) Ancestor’s death date and place: 5 July 1854 – Preble County, Ohio
- 5 Jul 1854 (Find a Grave Memorial 8559177 )
- Preble County, Ohio (Obituary Abstracts 1850-1890 from Eaton Register & Eaton Democrat newspapers in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio)
11) Ancestor cause of death:
- Unknown
12) Ancestor’s burial location: Mound Hill Cemetery, Eaton, Preble County, Ohio
- Mound Hill Cemetery, Eaton, Preble County, Ohio (Find a Grave Memorial no. #8559179)
13) Ancestor’s occupation(s):
- Farmer (1850 Preble County, Ohio Census)
14) Ancestor’s military service:
- Unknown
15) Ancestor’s residences:
- Virginia — place of birth (1850 Census)
- Garrard County, Kentucky (Marriage Record, tax record)
- Possibly Barren County, Kentucky (tax records – listed as James Jr or James (small) in record with James (big) Senr)
- Preble County, Ohio (land records, tax records, 1850 census)
16) Ancestor’s land records:
- 50 acres on Marrowbone (tax records for James Crafford Jr — but deed yet to be located)
- NW 1/4 Section 14 Township 7 Range 2 East (Bureau Land Management Patent)
17) Ancestor’s probate records:
- Will of James Crawford – 28 July 1854 – Preble County, Ohio (Preble County OH Will Book C page 389)
18) How do you keep track of this information?:
- RootsMagic 8 software
19) What records do you need to find?:
- Anything identifying siblings
- Anything identifying parents
- Deed for 50 acres of land on the Marrowbone to James Crawford
20) Have you written an ancestor genealogical sketch about this person?:
- Untangling James Crawford
- Crawford Brick Wall
- 26 April 2019 James Crawford Husband of Sally
- 21 August 2019 Clues from a Letter
- 29 March 2019 Will of James Crawford
- 28 Nov 2022 Tax / Deed Puzzle
- 17 Nov 2022 1814 Preble County Voters
- 15 Nov 2022 Complicated Deed
- 14 Nov 2022 Sellers Land
- 12 Sep 2022 Tax Lists
- 2 Feb 2022 Tax Lists
- 1 July 2020 Crawford — Duggins Marriage Bond
- 2 July 2020 Data Review – Preble County Ohio Marriages
- 24 August 2019 Re-Visiting Tax Lists
- 21 Feb 2019 Barren
- 20 Feb 2019 Barren County Connection
- 19 Feb 2019 Arrival in Ohio
- 17 Feb 2019 Migration Clues
- 7 Feb 2019 Garrard County Tax
- 27 Jan 2019 Revelation
- 26 Jan 2019 Tax Man Cometh
- 25 Jan 2019 Marriage Bond Mystery
- 23 Jan 2019 Tennants in Common
- 19 Jan 2019 James Crawford of Preble County
- 24 August 2017 Crawford Research: Which James Is Which?
- 31 Jan 2023 Crawfords in Early Kentucky
- 18 Feb 2019 Lincoln County Mystery
- 15 Feb 2019 Crawford Brick Wall Research
- 9 Oct 2016 Crawford Puzzle – One Piece at a Time
DNA
- 3 Jan 2023 yDNA Mystery
- 14 Dec 2022 Coincidence
- 24 Jan 2022 Crawford yDNA
- 14 July 2021 R1b Crawford
- 27 AUg 2020 DNA Joy
- 28 Apr 2020 Crawford yDNA
- 1 March 2020 yDNA – Big News
- 7 Aug 2019 Crawford Clan DNA Challenge
- 14 May 2019 Crawford ThruLines Question
- 7 APr 2018 DNA Puzzle – Crawford Line