Julie's Genealogy blog

Reorganizing

A little at a time.
(from tips from Family Tree Magazine)
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Made a general surname marking folder for "Zerbe".
Hanging folder for Zerbe-Sonder nuclear family.
Each family member gets a regular folder in green or red.
(Green regular folders are for the males of that surname, red for females).
- What goes in it...
Family charts, census forms

Tasks:
William Lloyd Zerbe
Add location of tombstone
Have photo of tombstone - add to online database
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Started data sheet for family group to attach to database.

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J. Hart Truesdale's Draft Card

I was browsing on ancestry.com today (with membership) and came across this. John Hart Truesdale and Nellie A. Truesdale were my grandparents. There were others, but I will go back and search those out later.

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New Links!

My nephew Wayne emailed me the following today:

"Hey Aunt Julie,

Mom, Dad and Grandma are here in TN right now. I saw the
Marinda Picture they brought, so I did a Google search and found your site
and took a look. I jotted down the names of the siblings and then started
Googling them. I put in "Phebe C. Fry" and got a hit. It looks like the
right family (same parents, and sibs) with more generations above Joseph and
Elizabeth (it is a geneaology page for the Frey family, so we may also have
a spelling change). Anyhow, Phebe, Rebecca, Edward, and Marinda are
mentioned as the 6th generation, and they have the 5 previous generations
mapped out already. Hope this shortens your legwork and expands the tree.
The site is http://www.fmoran.com/frey/html
It was the only hit that came up when I
Googled "Phebe C. Fry". Take care.

-Wayne

So I went to the Jarvis Family Web Site and sure enough, there was Marinda with her siblings. So I have written to the owner of the web site and given my information and the link to the photo. I have filled in the information for several generations back on the Fry family, along with a pointer to the source information in Marinda (Fry) Whicker's record to await further research on my part. I need to finish the 1860 Forsyth County, NC census, but I am fairly certain I had already found Marinda with only her father in 1860 in Indiana. *Need to check that. In the meantime, I need to ready PA information on Steve's maternal ancestry to check when we go through PA and get some photos of gravestones and churches, etc.

But this is a real breakthrough on Marinda M. Fry's line, as well as adding a few more surnames for research!
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Photo of Marinda (Fry) Whicker?

My mother let me scan what she believes to be a photo of Marinda (Fry) Whicker. If you click on the image, you get the photo with the background as well. If that is her Grandma Gibson's house in the background (Sarah (Whicker) Gibson) then it most likely is Marinda (Fry) Whicker.

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I need to research...

John Samuel Claxon
- br March 24, Owen CO., KY.Died Oct. 30, 1953, believe in Delaware CO., IN.
- since he was a Claxon, he was obviously related to my Claxon/Claxton
ancestors in Owen County, Kentucky
- Is he the same John Claxon as John D. "Sam" Claxon I have a photo of,
brother to my Elizabeth Katherine Claxon Oliver?
Points to research:
- census records in Delaware County, Indiana
- census records in Owen County in addition to what I have
- marriage records where available
- check my cemetery records also.
Source: info on him came from:http://genforum.genealogy.com/in/delaware/messages/51.html
in a message from Kenneth Ellis.

Research:
Thomas Oliver Whicker
1850 NC Forsyth Co US Federal Census pg313 taken 26th Nov 1850, Roll # M 432_630
Source of this info:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=1841627&id=I5344
Suzanne Young Brayer

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While following up on this last I found my Marinda M. Fry at last! She is there in Forsythe County, North Carolina with her parents, Joseph and Elizabeth AND her siblings, Phebe C., Rebecca J. and Edward G.! This is something I have been looking for, for years and years, in order to find out what her mother's name was. And of course, I also got Thomas Oliver Whickers information, just where it was supposed to be. Thank you Suzanne for the reference!

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So I spent time researching that census and came up with a lot of Whickers in there as well as Smiths, a few Starbucks and a lot of CREWS that I made notes what pages they were on. I have to translate my notes into a web page now, for research purposes. But there's another generation beyond Marinda that I have gained...