Wednesday's Child ~ Remembering Asbury

From FindaGrave.com
Photo by Crystal Vannest Danko

Asbury Bateman Webster was born on October 20, 1840 in Racine, Meigs, Ohio.  He was the son of my maternal 3rd Great-Grandparents, Moses Augustine Webster and Amanda Melvina Carlisle.  Asbury was the second of eight children born to Moses and Amanda.  He passed away on December 2, 1849 at only nine years of age.  According to the United States Census (Mortality Schedule) for 1850, Asbury's cause of death was "Inflammation of the Lungs" with the duration of the illness being 60 days.¹

I wondered what "Inflammation of the Lungs" meant in today's medical terminology.  I also wondered if this term meant Asbury could have had Asthma.  My understanding is that the tendency to have Asthma can run in families.  Asbury's older brother, Ebenezer (my 2nd Great-Grandfather), suffered from Asthma.  How did I find out my 2nd Great-Grandfather had Asthma?  It was documented in his Civil War Pension File.

In today's medical terms, Inflammatory Lung Disease includes Asthma, COPD, Cystic Fibrosis, etc.  But, what did "Inflammation of the Lungs" mean in the 1800s?

I checked the website Nineteenth Century Diseases, and it stated the following:

"In the last century, cause of death often was listed as inflammation of a body organ; such as, brain or lung, but this was purely a descriptive term and is not helpful in identifying the actual underlying disease."

I did a bit more sleuthing and found different information in the website  eHistory's Common Civil War Medical Terms.  According to this website, "Inflammation of the Lungs" was the equivalent to pneumonia today.

So, with conflicting information, I guess it's really not clear what the underlying cause of death was for poor little Asbury.

Unfortunately, Asbury wasn't the only child of Moses and Amanda's children who died before reaching adulthood.  They lost three more children:  two under the age of five, and one when he was fourteen years old.

If you'd like to check out Asbury's FindaGrave memorial page, just click the following link:  Asbury's FindaGrave.com Memorial Page

Thanks for reading!

Jana

© 2013 Copyright by Jana Last

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1 "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M36N-P4J : accessed 30 Jan 2013), A B Webster, Meigs county, Meigs, Ohio, United States; citing NARA microfilm publication M432^↩

Follow Friday–Fab Finds for January 25, 2013

My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order) -

1. “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore by Sue Shellenbarger – The Wall Street Journal
2. GeneaBloggers Celebrates Four Years! by GeneaBloggers
3. "Photoshop" Early 1900's Style by Erica's Adventures in Genealogy
4. What I learned at SLIG 2013: Ponder and Mull. Sorting Saturday. by Finding Forgotten Stories
5. Surname Saturday – Dork by Sally Searches
6. A Timeline - Marcellus Fulton White by Leaves For Trees
7. Meeting Uncle Donnie by Gail Grunst Genealogy
8. FamilySearch Wiki Main Page Has Been Revised by FamilySearch Blog
9. WikiTree Upgrades Its Gedcom Upload Features by Begin with 'Craft'
10. A Research Guide to the Pennsylvania Archives with Links to Records Online by Genealogy Decoded
11. Taking Notes From the Bible by Ancestral Breezes
12. But . . . . What Happened to Marthy? by A Southern Sleuth
13. How to Export Your Blogger and WordPress Posts by Free Technology for Teachers
14. Another Look at Genealogy Education by Family Cherished
15. Just How Many Murders Can One Family Have? by Ancestoring's Ask A Genealogist
16. Fielding Jollett - A Decree in the Court of Equity by Jollett etc.
17. A Comment on Blog Comments by The We Tree Genealogy Blog
18. Treasure Chest Thursday: Grandma & Grandpa Doerflinger’s 50th Wedding Anniversary Album by Elyse's Genealogy Blog

Thanks for reading!


© 2013 Copyright by Jana Last

Tech Tuesday - OneNote For Genealogy ~ Research Bookmarks

I absolutely love OneNote. (And no, I don't work for the company and I'm not getting any compensation for this post.) Last year I shared how I use OneNote to create my Fab Finds Posts.

Today I want to share another way I use it. I've discovered that OneNote is a fabulous way to save my place while I'm doing genealogy research. You can think of it as digital scratch paper.

So, here's a real life experience I had while trying to find the death record for my Grandaunt, Edna Lillie Webster. I was looking through a record set on FamilySearch.org when the time came for our family to go to the movies. Hurray! We were off to see The Hobbit! But, I hadn't finished looking at the record set in FamilySearch. Bummer! So what did I do? I just used OneNote as a research bookmark.

It was super quick and easy!

In OneNote, I created a Research Bookmarks Notebook.  I organized the notebook like this:

• Sections (top tabs) = genealogy websites
• Pages (along the right side) = ancestor(s)

Saving my place using OneNote -

To save my place while I was researching Edna Lillie's death record, I copied the URL from the record set in FamilySearch.org, and then pasted it onto Edna Lillie Webster's page in OneNote. (see above)

 


When I'm ready to continue searching for Edna Lillie's death record in FamilySearch, I'll just click on the URL on Edna's page in OneNote, and I will be taken back to the exact location in FamilySearch.org where I left off.  How cool is that?!




But wait! There's more!

Let's say you don't want to create a separate Research Bookmarks notebook. Perhaps you've organized your genealogy research in OneNote by creating separate notebooks for different ancestors, surnames, localities or whatever. And you want to just add your research bookmarks within those notebooks.

But what about the possibility of these research bookmarks getting buried and forgotten inside all of those notebooks?  Will they be found again easily without having to go through each notebook? That's a valid concern if you're anything like me. I tend to research more than one ancestor at a time.

Well, there's an easy way to find those research bookmarks again. How? By using the "tag" feature in OneNote.

Simply create a "Research Bookmark" tag in the "Tag" drop-down menu.




Then place that tag next to each research bookmark you create. Tags help you "remember" where you have placed your research bookmarks.




To find all of your research bookmarks again, just click "Find Tags" at the top of OneNote.




You will then see this handy-dandy box (below) on the right side of your OneNote page. You can search for tags by Tag Name, Section, Title, Date, or Note Text in the drop-down menu.

Now you're all set to find the Research Bookmark you are looking for and resume your genealogy research.  Once you've found the bookmark you want, just click on it and you'll be taken to that page in your OneNote notebook.



So, that's it! I hope this will be a helpful tool for you in your genealogy research.

Thanks for reading!

Jana

Copyright © Jana Last 2013

Follow Friday–Fab Finds for January 18, 2013

My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order) -

1. Sepia Saturday: Christine Forever 24 by Jollett etc.
2. Now It's Six by Kinexxions
3. Torn and Ragged by Ancestral Breezes
4. Wedding Photo Challenge! AND Where Was This Picture Taken? by Past – Present – Future
5. You Genealogists with More Experience than Me, ... . . . may I please have a moment of your time?  I have a question for you. by My Ancestors and Me
6. Duck and Cover ! by Maybe someone should write that down…
7. When a Genealogy Hobby Digs Up Unwanted Secrets by Sue Shellenbarger - The Wall Street Journal
8. Welcome to a New Year of Indexing by FamilySearch Blog
9. Giving Our Ancestors a Second Chance by The Spiraling Chains: Kowalski – Bellan Family Trees
10. A Blast from the Past! by Nutfield Genealogy
11. Treasure Chest Thursday- Help Needed! Can You Date My Ancestor's Furniture? by Carolina Girl Genealogy
12. In Response to Comments on Family Tree by Genealogy's Star
13. Family Recipe Friday: Abuelita's Mexican Rice by Many Branches, One Tree

Concerning Blog Awards…some food for thought

1. Blogging Genealogy: Blog Awards & SEO by Blogging Genealogy
2. TO AWARD OR NOT TO AWARD???… by Seeking Susan ~ Meeting Marie ~ Finding Family
3. Blog awards - what do you think? by Leaves For Trees

On Saturday, January 12, 2013, I received a press release from Jen Baldwin announcing major changes to The In-Depth Genealogist Digital Magazine.  I encourage you to check out these exciting new changes by clicking on the link below. 

• The In-Depth Genealogist

Thanks for reading!


Copyright © Jana Last 2013

May I Introduce To You…Me

In November of 2012, Gini at Ginisology surprised me with a request to interview me for the "May I Introduce To You" series at GeneaBloggers.  What an honor!

The "May I Introduce To You" series provides a wonderful way for us to get to know our fellow geneabloggers.  Gini does a fantastic job with these interviews.  I'm sure it must take a great deal of time on her part to put these all together.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Gini for giving me this opportunity, and Thomas MacEntee for publishing this series on his GeneaBloggers website.

If you're interested, you can read my interview by clicking this link ~

May I Introduce To You...Jana Last

Thanks for reading!

Jana

Copyright © Jana Last 2013