Cold genealogy, finding random ancestors
Bits — as we find them
Scholefield Family Tree When attempting to verify the hypothesis that Michael Moore who married Jane Dunlap and Jacob Moore who married Ann Armour were brothers, I’ve run across one of the hurdles that genealogists have to consider: Where does one take that leap in order to state that a person with different spellings of a …
Scholefield Family Tree Ok — I don’t have to do the explaining, but apparently Archibald Moore did. And, this is a reminder try odd search strings. A Google search for “‘Archibald Dunlap Moore’ Ann” turned up this result: ANOTHER HABEAS CORPUS TO TEST A WOMAN’S INSANITY. In the matter of the petition of Catharine McGowan. …
Scholefield Family Tree So, I’m working along, making connections and adding data to this family line, and as I look at the next names from the lawsuit, I hit some difficulties. At this point, I have to think back to the Genealogical Proof Standard and determine how to deal with conflicting information. I can’t just …
Innis Family Tree Provided by family member ‘Kate’ and used with her permission. The photo is undated. It’s always so nice to have a face to go with a name.
Scholefield Family Tree Checking at FamilySearch leads me to a baptismal record for the Jacob Moore who is likely the father of the four boys I have just been tracing. This Jacob is the great-grandfather of Clara Ann Moore, the wife of George Parsons Scholefield and the couple from which this cold genealogy project has …
Scholefield Family Tree It turns out that this group REALLY wanted to keep the Armour name alive. What do you do when your mother is an Armour, you have the middle name Armour, one of your brothers has the middle name Armour, and your brother married an Armour? Well, you marry an Armour too! However, …
Innis Family Tree My first search was in Ancestry and simply for John Ennis (the spelling from the 1850-1860 census) to see if I could follow both John and his son John, who was born about 1824. Amazingly, one of the records that came up was a death record for John W. Ennis from the …
Innis Family Tree Since I have done some of the basic research on Ancestry to establish the family line, I thought I would take a quick look at the archives in Tennessee and Kentucky to see what other things they might offer. I was very disappointed to go to the Tennessee State Library and Archives …
Scholefield Family Tree As I continue to check out possible siblings of the direct Moore ancestral lines, I have another apparent match. According to the law suit, Jacob Moore married Hannah. And if he was born in 1791… Jacob H. Moore, age 58, Seaman, NY* Hannah Moore, age 50, NY Richd R. Moore, age 22, …
Scholefield Family Tree I suspect that the Moore Lawsuit1 is between family members. So now I need to determine how those family members are related to the Moore family I am tracing and whether the information leads me to an additional generation. The first place to look for these people is the 1850 Census. Because …