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17 December 2015

Working a trade - the wife requires a land swap before relinquishing her rights to land being sold

Example of a deed where the wife worked a land trade as part of consenting to the sale of her "Maiden Land"

The Legal Genealogist (Judy G. Russell) recently posted Saying no where she discusses the lack of legal rights enjoyed by female ancestors and shared an example where a female ancestor did say no to the sale of land unless certain conditions were met ...

So… here’s the question: did any married woman ever really say no to a land deal her husband wanted?

I’ve long thought that, if she ever did, the next court would be divorce court, or maybe the criminal court, where somebody would be charged with assault and battery.

But, it turns out, there really are cases where wives said no. And ended up winning something important in the end.

This post was very serendipitous for me since on Friday, I acquired a deed where Mrs Boddie (actually Leah S.M. Boddie as stated in the deed) worked a deal for not her dower land and for her “maiden land.”¹

James B.H. Boddie received $1 consideration from Leah S.M. Boddie “the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and in further consideration of the said Leah S.M. Boddie’s having consented to the sale of her maiden land by the said James B.H. Boddie the proceeds of which has been applied to his own use with the understanding and agreement that the land herein described should be conveyed to her in lieu of and in substitution for her said maiden land has given granted bargained and sold and by these presents does give grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Leah S.M. Boddie part ... all that tract or parcel of land ...

This is the first time I’ve seen a deed where the wife worked a specific trade for land she brought into the marriage, though I have seen marriage contracts here and there where a wife retained ownership of “her” land and/or possessions.

So, the Legal Genealogist has shared a good reminder to not assume that women always and automatically agreed to the sale of land that they had a right to. On occasion they worked a “deal” favorable to themselves along the way.

¹ Nash County (NC) Deeds, Book 59, Page 110, J.B.H. Boddie to Mrs. Boddie, 20 February 1884

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16 December 2015

DNA Test Sales -- Great Holiday Gift for the Genetically Minded Genealogist

All images from FamilyTreeDNA website
(accessed 15 Dec 2015)

Every year during the holidays, FTDNA and AncestryDNA have sales on their DNA testing products. This year is no different! The Legal Genealogist has written about some of the various testing options given budget constraints here: (http://legalgenealogist.com/blog/2015/12/13/all-you-want-for-christmas/).

Once the test results are back, don't forget to take advantage of the NEW educational course offered by NGS to help you make the most of your results! NGS Launches Its Newest Course -- Genetic Genealogy: Autosomal DNA Course.

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15 December 2015

Don't Overlook Non-English Language Newspapers (U.S. & Canadian Published)

page 1152 from the 1910 N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual and directory, Hathi Trust Digital Library

I write about newspapers often as so many have become accessible through recent digitization efforts. Newspaper content can really help your research by adding in details that won’t be found in official documents – social news, farming news, community news, birth/marriage/death announcements, reunion news, sports reporting, fraternal organization membership, and so much more.

As a country of emigrants, not all U.S. newspapers published have been nor are currently published in English. There is the so-called Ethnic Press which most often means newspaper published in a foreign language.

Two articles have been written about Chronicling America and some of the American ethnic press included in its collection -- Chronicling America’s Historic German Newspapers and the Growth of the American Ethnic Press & New Mexico, New Spain, Old Cultures: Historic Spanish-Language Newspapers in Chronicling America.

These are a good place to get started on appreciating the scope and breadth of the American Ethic Press.

Once curiosity is peaked, I suggest visiting the Chronicling America, U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present. A search option is to select language and included are languages from Albanian to Asue Awye to Cebuano to Choctaw to Finnish to Inupiaq to Marathi to Persian to Uzbek, etc. I think you can appreciate the great diversity of languages represented.

Additionally, the Center for Research Libraries - Global Resources Network has a list of Ethnic Newspapers held in its collection. A great resource for early 20th-century ethnic newspapers in circulation is the N.W. Ayer & Son’s American newspaper annual and directory. You can access the years 1910-1923 via Hathi Trust Digital Library. Check out page 1152 from the 1910 directory, “Publications in Foreign Languages.” The list is organized by language and then state. Unfortunately, for my own personal research, MA was not a hot bed for non-English language newspapers in Finnish, Polish or Russian.

BTW, did I mention that the Chronicling America project hit the milestone of posting its 10 millionth page!?!?!

There are other newspaper collections that include Ethnic Newspapers. These are not free to access like Chronicling America and you may have access via a local university library -- Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 & Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 (Readex).

Additionally, there are other resources for Ethnic Newspapers such as:

+ Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press (The University of Arizona)

+ Ethnic Newspapers Database and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library (Presentation on collection)

+ Multicultural Canada – includes digitized ethnic newspapers

These newspapers are invaluable as you research your emigrant ancestors.

Do you have a favorite ethnic newspaper and/or newspaper collection?

What is the best bit of “news” you learned from a non-English language U.S. or Canadian newspaper?

Editor’s Note: Previous Upfront with NGS blog posts on related topics.

+ British Library Using Robots to Preserve Newspapers

+ Will Digital Newspaper Archives for ALL Newspapers Be Available to Our Descendants?

+ Newspapers -- a new site for genealogists to consider and a reminder of some older sites that are goodies!

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14 December 2015

Have you gone out on a Limb? Have you researched your Civil War ancestor and his artificial limb(s)?

General Assembly Session Record (NC) (1891) -- A bill to be entitled an act for the relief of J.J. Bennett of Ashe County – “having right arm off below the elbow, and left hand off with the exception of two fingers”

The outcomes of any war are often great losses of life and “limb.”

For losses of life we check probate records, cemetery records, etc.

What about for a lost limb? If the soldier (or wife or children) lived long enough (and/or were poor enough) we might find a pension record that mentions a lost limb. Sometimes compiled service records will mention that a soldier is in hospital and the nature of that stay (possibly) a lost limb. Or a newspaper article might suggest a grievous injury to a limb.

Like today, after the Civil War (and other conflicts and my focus is the Civil War), soldiers who lost limbs had an opportunity to receive artificial limbs. A difference is that many credit the Civil War as the real genesis of artificial limbs, The Civil War and the Birth of the U.S Prosthetics Industry.

As with other Civil War records you will need to know whether your ancestor was a Union or Confederate soldier.

Records of artificial limbs for Union Civil War Veterans are found in NARA. I was reminded about these great records from the NARA program series, Know Your Records. There was a program Genealogy: Using Records of Artificial Limbs for Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1927 whose video you can watch. Do check out the related Research Guide to Records of Artificial Limbs Provided to Civil War and Later Veterans, 1861-1927.

I have researched Artificial Limbs for Confederate Civil War Veterans where qualifying soldiers were offered limbs or money. For many reasons, many soldiers accepted money in lieu of artificial limbs (even if physically able to make use of such).

NC State Auditor, Register of Artificial Limbs (1866-1870)
left side

As an example, in NC, I tracked one soldier J.J. Bennett through the support services available in the post Civil War and found mention of him in the listed papers and his mutilated arm (qualifying for an Artificial Limb) as noted by [Q]. This is a reminder to do try and exhaustively search for the extant paperwork for your soldier. The papers for J.J. were found at both state and county level as his civil war records reference four different counties where he lived in the immediate post Civil War time period.

+ [Q] Newspaper article about Chancellorsville May & June 1863 – “J.J. Bennett, in hand, severe”

+ [Q] Army of the Confederate States, Certificate of Disability for Retiring Invalid Soldiers (1865) [part of compiled service record] – “Gun Shot wound Requiring Amp. of right arm”

+ [Q] State Auditor, Register of Artificial Limbs (1866-1870) & Register of Pensioners (1879-1884) – “arm below elbow” received payment 1 April 1867

+ [Q] General Assembly Session Records (1891) – A bill to be entitled an act for the relief of J.J. Bennett of Ashe County – “having right arm off below the elbow, and left hand off with the exception of two fingers”

+ [Q] Soldiers Pension Application (Joseph J. Bennett) (1892 & 1901) – “his right arm off below the elbow”

+ [Q] Soldiers Home Application (1901) – “wounds right arm below elbow”

+ Ashe County NC Pension Records Annual Lists (1901-1904)

NC State Auditor, Register of Artificial Limbs (1866-1870)
right sid

+ Widows Pension Application (Susan M Bennett) (1914) – note that we can only prove that she lived with J.J. before the Civil War (and that’s another story) & her application makes no mention of his disabilities

Though not found for J.J., I would also suggest checking hospital records (held at NARA even for Confederate Hospitals. For example, a compilation for Confederate Hospital No. 4 (Wilmington, NC 1861-1865) is found online though the original records are held by NARA. This list does contain a few entries for amputated limbs though most had specific diseases.

As for NC, other states where the Confederate Army raised troops, also looked after their Confederate soldiers as the war concluded.

+ [Virginia] Confederate Disability Applications Database

+ [Mississippi] Lesson plan – Confederate Pensions and Prosthetics (a great read for anyone interested in the subject matter)

And, as you can see, there are many places where one might learn that an ancestor could have had an artificial limb which information you can then use to do further research into the applicable records (Federal for Union soldiers and State-level for Confederate soldiers).

Does your state have a great resource that documents Civil War soldiers and their need for artificial limbs?

Did your ancestor have a limb amputated?

Have you acquired his paperwork?

What was the most interesting tidbit you learned?

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11 December 2015

Cleaning house?!?! Soon to disappear Genealogy Tools and Services

Yesterday’s blog post was about changes to 23andMe where information previously available to genealogists appears to be not available in the newest incarnation of the site.

After I wrote that blog post, within the span of 1 minute, I checked a website (Godfrey Memorial Library Online (remote access option) which I have been a subscriber to for years, mostly for the newspaper access) and saw the notice at the top of this post where access to NewspaperArchive will no longer we available as 2016 starts. I've always liked the ability to access that and 19th Century US Newspapers in one place and affordably. Now my research into digitized newspaper archives will become more fragmented!

And, in case you haven't heard ... as I know this information was posted seemingly everywhere ...

I received an email from Ancestry about discontinuing Family Tree Maker. I have used Family Tree Maker for many years. I have found it a decent tool for my client projects where I just sometimes need to create a basic tree and keep some personal and research notes along the way. It has suited that purpose admirably – easy to read reports and trees that I could share with my clients regarding their ancestors. I really don’t have an interest in creating cloud based trees for these projects (and I definitely will not create Ancestry.com ones) and at least I have through the end of 2017 to come up with a new game plan ...

Ancestry is proud to have made a significant investment this year to bring valuable new content and records to the Ancestry site. In 2015, we’ve made 220 million searchable historical records from Mexico available, more than 170 million pages from the largest collection of U.S. will and probate records, among others. We’ve also introduced new features such as Ancestry Academy, and major advancements for AncestryDNA.

As we strive to provide our customers with the best experience possible, we are constantly evaluating our services and product offerings. True to this focus, we’ve taken a hard look at the declining desktop software market and the impact this has on being able to continue to provide new content, product enhancements and support that our users need. With that, we’ve made the tough decision to stop selling Family Tree Maker as of December 31, 2015.

We will continue to support existing Family Tree Maker owners at least through January 1, 2017. During this time, all features of the software, including TreeSync™ will continue to work. Our Member Services team will also remain available to assist with questions or issues you may have.

These changes are never easy. But by focusing our efforts, we can concentrate on continuing to build great products for our loyal Ancestry community.

You can find additional details about the retirement of Family Tree Maker on our blog.

In the wake of the above announcement RootsMagic is offering an "update discount for Family Tree Maker users" to purchase its software product. You must use the special link provided in the offer post to take advantage. Additionally, Family Historian 6 is also available at a discount. There might be other options available at a discount so definitely do look around.

There are many other genealogy software alternatives if such is of interest to you. Here is a comparison page.

Most importantly, do remember that just because a piece of software is no longer supported, this does not mean that you cannot continue to use it. If you like to synch your FTM to your online Ancestry.com tree, that capability will go away, as will any "following leaves" and related online interactive features and as far as maintaining a record of your ancestors with notes, images, etc -- none of that will be affected! You can still add people and records to your tree and you will still be able to export that information to others. I still use the Microsoft 2003 suite of software products and they work pretty well given their age and for having not been supported for a long time!

It’s always hard to say “goodbye” to tools that one has used for a long time, and, on the other hand, change is inevitable.

I just figure that everyone must be doing some “cleaning house” as 2015 rolls to a close ...

Have you heard of any other changes/discontinuations that impact family historians?

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10 December 2015

Important Notice about 23andMe for Genetic Genealogists

The world of genetic DNA testing is always changing. Back in October, we reported that 23andMe receives approval to provide health information. These changes were accompanied by a price increase.

Then, those who had tested with 23andMe received notification that effective November 11^th preparation was underway for a “new 23andMe experience.” Part of that preparation appears to be that just not is the “new” 23andMe site different, but that information that genealogists have come to rely on is not now provided.

The result of this, according to The Legal Genealogist (Judy G Russell) in Now… and not now is the following ...

And it’s clear to me now that — well — at the very very best the new 23andMe site is a work-in-progress. And when all the dust settles and the smoke clears, we may find that it’s significantly less useful for genealogists than the old site used to be. That’s not a given; there is some nice potential to the new site. What’s also not a given is whether 23andMe cares about the genealogical community, and whether it will listen.

So… what do we do now?

If you’ve already tested with 23andMe, the time is now — right now — today — this minute — to save any information that may just up and disappear when 23andMe gets around to switching your kit to the new system.

Do read her full post as it provides links to a couple of blog posts written by Roberta Estes and Shannon Christmas which you will want to read where you can learn more about the coming changes and are provided with explicit instructions on how to best “save” the information currently available to those who have tested with 23andMe.

Good luck with your current mission – save, save, save your 23andMe DNA information if you tested before the “new system” is implemented.

For readers whose kit has been switched from the old to the new, what do you think?

If your kit was switched, have you found a way to still access the information previously available after the switch?

Editor's Note: 10 Dec 2015, 22:00, corrected affective to effective.

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09 December 2015

NGS Launches Its Newest Course -- Genetic Genealogy: Autosomal DNA Course

Arlington, VA, 9 December, 2015— The National Genealogical Society (NGS) proudly announces the release of its newest Continuing Genealogical Studies course, Genetic Genealogy: Autosomal DNA.

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The course was developed by Debbie Parker Wayne, CG^sm, a nationally recognized lecturer, educator, and full-time researcher experienced in using DNA analysis and traditional techniques for genealogical research. Her DNA research focuses on client projects and on research into her own family project that includes Y‑DNA, mtDNA, X‑DNA, and autosomal DNA studies. Her traditional genealogical research focuses on Texas, the Southwest, and the Southern U.S.

In addition to being a full-time board-certified genealogist, Wayne is a trustee for the BCG Education Fund and is the Texas State Genealogical Society's DNA Project Chair. Her publications include a column in NGS Magazine on using DNA analysis for genealogical research. She coordinates and teaches comprehensive, interactive genetic genealogy courses on how to interpret and apply DNA test results to genealogical research at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) and the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR).

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