NOTE: This is a repost from December 2012.
This is part of the "Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories" by Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers. If you'd like to join in the fun, just click HERE.
December 2 – Christmas Cards
Do you still send Christmas cards or has electronic communication taken the place of this tradition? Do you remember sending Christmas cards as a child – making a list, sending out your family’s cards and then checking the mailbox for cards sent to your family? How did your family display the cards?
Write about anything related to Christmas cards and your memories of Christmases past.
My parents did send and receive Christmas cards. And they were displayed in our home. As you can see from the photo below, one of the ways my mom displayed them was by attaching the cards to a ribbon which was then attached to the wall.
I don’t display my Christmas cards the same way my mom did, but I have kept up the tradition of sending Christmas cards to family and friends. Lately though, I’ve started sending those fun Christmas photo cards from Costco instead of traditional Christmas cards. I also include a Christmas letter updating the happenings of our family.
You could say that my Grandma Ingrid sent a type of photo Christmas card as well in 1939. Here is a cute little Christmas card I found in one of my Grandmother Ingrid’s Books of Remembrance. Pictured are my Grandpa Arthur and Grandma Ingrid Iverson with their three children.
At this special time of year when we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, I'd like to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas!
Thanks for reading!
Jana
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This is part of the "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" Challenge begun by Amy Johnson Crow, author of the blog No Story Too Small.
Today, I'd like to introduce you to Lucinda A. Waterman. She was the ninth child born to my 4th great-grandparents Dr. Luther L. Waterman and Phebe Barker.
Lucinda was born in about 1803. She was most likely born in New York. Every census I've seen her listed in states her birthplace as New York. Also, her brother, David Bassett Waterman, who was the eighth child born to Luther and Phebe was also born in New York. And Luther passed away in New York in 1807, about four years after Lucinda's birth.
Lucinda married Daniel Bicknell, son of Isaac Bicknell and Sarah Green, on 17 July 1833 in Athens County, Ohio.
According to the book Waterman Family, Descendants of Robert Waterman, Volume 1 by Donald Lines Jacobus, Lucinda and Daniel had no children. On page 569 of this volume is the following paragraph.1
Mr. Bicknell was a farmer. He and his wife were listed in the 1850 Census at Troy, Athens co., Ohio. No children were listed, and descendants of a brother of Lucinda state that she left no children.
Mr. Jacobus mentioned that Lucinda and Daniel were listed in the 1850 census living in Troy, Athens County, Ohio.2 I also found them in the 1860 and 1870 US censuses as well. In the 1860 census they were still living in Troy, Athens, Ohio.3 But by the time the 1870 census was taken, they had moved to Olive Township, Meigs County, Ohio.4
Here's Lucinda and Daniel listed in the 1870 US Federal Census. They are at the very bottom of the page at lines 39 and 40.
And here's a cropped portion of the census page to get a better view of Daniel and Lucinda Bicknell's listing in the 1870 census.
Lucinda passed away on 20 June 1879. She was buried in the Reedsville Cemetery located in Olive Township, Meigs County, Ohio.
Thanks for reading!
Jana
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1 Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. Vol. 1. New Haven, CT: E.F. Waterman, 1939. 569. Print.↩
2 Year: 1850; Census Place: Troy, Athens, Ohio; Roll: M432_660; Page: 65A; Image: 134. Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.↩
3 Year: 1860; Census Place: Troy, Athens, Ohio; Roll: M653_934; Page: 106; Image: 216; Family History Library Film: 803934. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.↩
4 Year: 1870; Census Place: Olive, Meigs, Ohio; Roll: M593_1242; Page: 104A; Image: 211; Family History Library Film: 552741. Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.↩
NOTE: There will not be a Fab Finds post next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Fab Finds will resume on Friday, November 28, 2014. I would like to wish all of my wonderful readers a very Happy Thanksgiving!
My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order)
- Free Guide to Research at the Ohio History Center by Shelley Bishop, author of A Sense of Family
- 10 Online Genealogy Webinars You Should Be Attending AND 5 Ways to Celebrate Your Ancestors This Thanksgiving AND Interview with OrganizeYourFamilyHistory.com by Crestleaf Blog
- REMINDER: 3rd Annual Share a Memory Contest by Pat Richley-Erickson, author of Dear Myrtle
- Family Recipe Friday – Mom’s Sticky Buns by Eileen A. Souza, author of OLD BONES GENEALOGY
- Identifying Early Photographs by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, author of The Olive Tree Genealogy
- Genealogy Learning Gap: What Topics Matter To You? by Thomas MacEntee, author of GeneaBloggers
- I Do Not Like This Part of Genealogy! by Valerie Hughes, author of Genealogy With Valerie
- And So It Begins: Why Does MY Preservation Matter? by Luckie, author of Our Georgia Roots
- 12 Kinds of Organizations Genealogists Should Follow on Facebook by Diane Haddad – Genealogy Insider for Family Tree Magazine Blog
- RootsTech, FGS, NGS Program Announcements by Ancestry Insider, author of The Ancestry Insider
- Thanksgiving Recipe: Turkey Dressing by Vera Marie Badertscher, author of Ancestors in Aprons
- David Archuleta and Studio C to appear at #RootsTech 2015 Closing Event by James Tanner, author of Genealogy's Star
- Looking For a Needle In a Høystakk* by Mary Perkinson Nelson, author of Celebrating Family Stories
- Chiapas, Mexico Online Genealogy Resources by Moises Garza, author of Mexican Genealogy
- Tuesday's Tip: Was one of your ancestors admitted to The King's Inns? by Jennifer, author of 'On a flesh and bone foundation': An Irish History
- When Motivation Has Stalled . . . by Nancy, author of My Ancestors and Me
- Family Recipe Friday: Cleo Clemmon's Custard Pie by Pam, author of Our Own History
- EVER HAD ONE OF THOSE “SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD” MOMENTS IN YOUR RESEARCH? by Diane Gould Hall, author of MICHIGAN FAMILY TRAILS
- What’s your biggest organizing challenge? by Janine Adams, author of Organize Your Family History
Some articles regarding the latest developments about AncestryDNA
- AncestryDNA Launches “DNA Circles” by Thomas MacEntee, author of GeneaBloggers
- Ancestry’s Better Mousetrap – DNA Circles by Roberta Estes, author of DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
- Goodbye False Positives! AncestryDNA Updates its Matching Algorithm by Blaine Bettinger, author of THE GENETIC GENEALOGIST
- Changes at AncestryDNA by Judy G. Russell, author of The Legal Genealogist
- New AncestryDNA Technology Powers New Kinds of Discoveries by Anna Swayne for Ancestry.com Blog
The 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge by Amy Johnson Crow, author of No Story Too Small -
This week's "May I Introduce To You" Interview
New Blog Discoveries
In Case You Missed Them….My Contributions to the Blogosphere This Week
Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog
Grandpa's Postcards
Jana's Place
Thanks for reading!
© 2014 Copyright by Jana Last, All Rights Reserved
This is part of the "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" Challenge begun by Amy Johnson Crow, author of the blog No Story Too Small.
Over the past several weeks, I've been introducing you to the children of my 4th great-grandparents, Dr. Luther L. Waterman and Phebe Barker. One of their nine children passed away before reaching adulthood.
Unfortunately, I don't even know the name of this child, or when he or she was born. I say "he or she" because I don't know if this child was a boy or a girl. He or she was only listed as "Child" in the book Waterman Family, Descendants of Robert Waterman, Volume 1 by Donald Lines Jacobus.1
Even though I don't know much about this little child, he or she deserves to be remembered just as much as the other children of Luther and Phebe Waterman. And so, here's what I know about the little Waterman child known as "Child" Waterman in my family tree.
This little child is listed along with the other children of Luther and Phebe Waterman on page 297 in Volume 1 of Mr. Jacobus' book about my Waterman family as follows.
- Samuel, b. 4 Apr. 1778; d. 28 May 1857.
- Erastus, b. 6 May 1780; d. 13 Apr. 1859.
- Child, d. at Franklin, Conn., in 1784.
- Jerusha, b. 8 June 1786; d. 1 June 1867.
- Phebe, b. 22 Jan. 1789.
- Asher, b. 26 Oct. 1791; d. 19 Jan. 1785.
- Eusebius B.
- David B., b. abt. 17 mar. 1798; d. 3 Mar. 1851.
- Lucinda, b. abt 1803.
You can see "Child" Waterman listed as number 3, stating that he/she passed away in Franklin, Connecticut sometime in 1784.
I also found the following record on Ancestry.com. It's a page from Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 for Franklin, Connecticut.2
The entry near the bottom shows a record of death for one of Luther Waterman's children. The child died in 1784. Unfortunately, this record doesn't indicate whether this child was a male or female or when he/she was born.
This is cropped from the page above.
I went back a few pages in the record on Ancestry.com and found the title page. Here is a cropped portion showing the title of the record.
Perhaps someday I'll be able to find information regarding the birthdate for this little child and whether the child was a male or female.
Thanks for reading!
Jana
© 2014 Copyright by Jana Last, All Rights Reserved
1 Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. Vol. 1. New Haven, CT: E.F. Waterman, 1939. 297. Print.↩
2 Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013. Volume 36. Page 4. Franklin, Connecticut. Pautipaug Hill Congregational Church. Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.↩
Note: As you read through today's Fab Finds list, you may notice that I have not included any of the wonderful Veterans Day posts that were shared this week. There were so many of them that it would have been difficult to choose which ones to include here. Rather than including some and excluding others, I decided not to include any of them. I actually began to include each one I came across, but if I listed all of them here, this post would have just been way too long. Hopefully you've been able to read the wonderful Veterans Day posts this week via the blog reader service of your choice. Thank you to all who paid tribute to military veterans this past week.
My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order)
- Are You in the “Space of I Don’t Know”? My Success in Confirming Family Stories by Thomas MacEntee, author of GeneaBloggers
- 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: The Sequel? by Amy Johnson Crow, author of No Story Too Small
- Frustrations over DNA test results by Pat Richley-Erickson, author of Dear Myrtle
- Speaking of houses by Debi Austen, author of Who Knew?
- Do You Remember---Travelin in the Wagon by Michelle Ganus Taggart, author of A Southern Sleuth
- Facebook for Canadian genealogy by Gail Dever, author of Genealogy à la carte
- Six Reasons to Blog about Your Ancestors by Legacy Family Tree News
- Missouri State Fair 1968 by Valerie Hughes, author of Genealogy With Valerie
- Natural disasters and genealogy by Andrew Krea for Vita Brevis Blog
- DocSouth: helping overcome challenges by Judy G. Russell, author of The Legal Genealogist
- Oaxaca, Mexico Online Genealogy Resources by Moises Garza, author of Mexican Genealogy
- Holiday Cookbook Contest: Send us your recipes! by Emma for MyHeritage Blog
- Hello, Instagram! by Janet Hovorka, author of The Chart Chick
- Legacy’s User ID field by Michele Simmons Lewis, author of Ancestoring
- The Daily 10 Genealogy Things You Need To Know Is Coming Back AND A New Single Surname Society Has Been Launched by Caroline Pointer, author of 4YourFamilyStory.com
- 120 Years of Pioneering Genealogy by Logan Steele for FamilySearch Blog
- Researching the Forgotten Side of Your Family Tree by Diane Hewson for Worldwide Genealogy ~ A Genealogical Collaboration
- Find my family village. Hold your genealogy horses! by lostrussianfamily, author of Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family
- Quick tip – List of Newspaper Archives by YVETTE HOITINK, author of DUTCH GENEALOGY
- A Very Special Holiday Boot Camp! Saturday 29 November 2014 by Thomas MacEntee, author of Hack Genealogy
- Search for Old Addresses, Not Just Names by Joanne Cowden, author of Researching Relatives
- Fabulous Tip of the Day – Facebook Groups by BernfeldFamily, author of Bernfeld Family of Galicia & More
The 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge by Amy Johnson Crow, author of No Story Too Small -
This week's "May I Introduce To You" Interview
New Blog Discoveries
In Case You Missed Them….My Contributions to the Blogosphere This Week
Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog
Grandpa's Postcards
Jana's Place
Thanks for reading!
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