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By Joe Hung, Special to The China Post Monday, July 6, 2009, 10:34 am TWN
The Ministry of Education launched a one-and-a-half-year campaign last month to make the people on Taiwan acquire "character," "grace" and "taste." Cheng Jui-cheng, the minister of education, got his NT$1.2 billion movement under way because he was convinced our people considered rude and vulgar worldwide are not that bad and all they need is a little more character, grace and taste. Of course, he is right. But he has prescribed a naive remedy.
His campaign has four features: ethical education, art embedded in school education, formation of a life-long habit of reading, and public awareness of the importance of sustainable ecological development.
It's impossible to make the drive a success in a brief span of time. The campaign has to be a long-lasting one, like the Moral Rearmament Movement of 1938. I don't know whether our good education minister has that in mind when he decided to kick off the most ambitious movement ever in history, for it involves not just moral revival but cultivation of refine ladies and gentlemen as well.
At any rate, Cheng got President Ma Ying-jeou to appear like a railroad station master with a regulation cap but wearing no uniform to speed off a group of schoolchildren aboard a special train to highlight the inauguration of what should be better called a new moral rearmament on Taiwan.
Remember Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek started a "new life" movement in China before the Marco Polo Incident of July 7, 1927 and President Chiang Kai-shek's similar campaign in Taiwan in the late 1960s? Chiang wanted the Chinese on the mainland and Taiwan alike to behave like decent people.
Chiang failed.
Actually, nobody can make such a movement successful in just a few years.
The Moral Re-Armament Movement (MRA) Dr. Frank Buchman launched is, essentially, a religious one.
Confronted with a sinful world, his Buchmanites taught the importance of absolute honesty, absolute purity and absolute usefulness. The influence of the movement shouldn't be underestimated, but the Christian world hasn't been made less sinful.
Religion, in a wide sense, is a system of truths and the obligations arising therefrom which constitute man's relationship with God or Tao as by far a greater majority of us who are basically agnostic Confucian Chinese believe. We used to be taught to honor and obey our parents and ancestors, love our brothers and sisters, and teach our children to be honest, not to waste anything, to work hard and, above all, to do nothing that may reflect shame on our family.
That moral fabric began to fray long before the West knocked at the door of China with the Opium War of 1939. But westernized bureaucrats and political leaders, unlike their Confucian predecessors, have made the situation worse in the recent past.
Cheng's campaign was planned by such bureaucrats, who are, in the best characterization Premier Liu Chao-shiuan gives them, "those who lack common sense, though they have academic knowledge." They may not be as bad as Tu Cheng-sheng, who claimed Taiwan is in the center of the world by putting the island right in the center of a world map, or his chief of staff at the education ministry, who called Ma Ying-jeou names and insulted his father in public while he was campaign for president. But all the bureaucrats under Cheng do not know character is built up over the long years, including the formative years, albeit taste and grace can be learned much later.
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>Thanks. I was unaware of this change. Not that I find any fault with
>David regarding it. He has made an excellent contribution, and it is
>reasonable to me that he no longer make it freely available. I would be
>willing to pay $50 for the drawing packages, had I not already them in my
>possession (and, no, I _don't_ have money to burn!). On the other hand,
>I would prefer that it be sold through WRI rather than a 3rd party. Of
>course, I'm not privy to any negotiations that took place. I do consider
>WRI a national treasure, and want to feel confident that they have the
>resources to continue to improve Mathematica. So I would prefer to see
>that they share with authors the revenues from derivative products. Of
>course, that's only IMHO.
>I will in the future warn folks of the cost before sending them to the
Agreed. Mr. Park's solutions are invariably helpful and interesting.
If he makes some profit from the Kagi site, more power to him. From what
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Jeff Bailey has been promoted to branch manager of the company's Prescott, Ariz. office, while Mike Vialpando is the company's new brand and marketing strategist.
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Truly Nolen of America announced the promotion of Jeff Bailey to branch manager in Prescott, Ariz. (6594 E. Second Street). He will monitor and evaluate administrative staff and technicians as well as manage sales inspectors and handle the day-to-day operations.
Previously as service coordinator for Truly Nolen in Chandler, Arizona, Bailey succeeded in this capacity as providing unsurpassed quality service to his customers. Beginning his pest control career servicing Florida, Bailey looks forward to assisting others in becoming successful in their career paths. Having begun his manager-in-training duties last October, Bailey will graduate from Truly University this March.
"Jeff continues to bring to the table great service, knowledge and the epitome of the Truly Nolen culture," said Dave Johnson, district manager for Truly Nolen. "We hope to see Jeff continue his professional development in his career with Truly Nolen."
Truly Nolen of America also announce the addition of Mike Vialpando as its new brand and marketing strategist.
With more than two decades of brand development, graphic design and leadership experience, Vialpando will build upon Truly Nolen's recognizable brand and support its marketing efforts to expand the company's national footprint. In addition, Vialpando will help communicate Truly Nolen's brand identity and services through strategic planning, creative design and unique messaging.
Vialpando most recently worked as the Interim vice president of marketing and sales for HF Coors Dinnerware, where he led the development of new products to market, PR campaigns, brand identity and web design. He was also responsible for the re-branding efforts of ACS Air Conditioning Services while serving as marketing director and brand manager.
"From brand management to graphic design, Mike brings a wealth of leadership skills and experience to our marketing team," said Michelle Nolen Senner, director of Marketing and Advertising for Truly Nolen. "He knows what it takes to bring a brand and its services to life through creativity and well-thought-out strategies."


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England's batting was as inept and reckless as umpire Daryl Harper's decision-making as the tourists imploded in their second innings with South Africa storming back to share the Basil D'Oliveira Trophy at the Wanderers.
Paul Collingwood woke up on the fourth morning having been hypnotised into thinking he was Denis Compton, and proceeded to unfurl a staggering array of strokes around the Bullring as he was left to wonder why everyone was so shocked.
Collingwood's wagon-wheel looked like it had been pinched from a Sir Vivian Richards archive as Brigadier Block was transformed into Captain Charge and pummelled 12 fours and an almighty six to leave the England balcony as bewildered as the hosts. At times, it appeared the number five was playing in Antigua not Johannesburg as his team-mates poked around haplessly.
Even television-umpire Harper could not overshadow Collingwood in a frenetic morning as Kevin Pietersen blocked the ball obdurately before he adopted the role of the slip cradle in a quite bemusing role-reversal.
Giraffe-like paceman Morne Morkel ravaged the England lower-order with a spell of 3-0 in six deliveries, as the tourists resembled storm-troopers, marching back and forth from the wicket with alarming regularity.
The manner of Matt Prior's dismissal was the most harrowing, as the number seven swaggered to the crease, bristling with intent, and continued to pretend that he was playing Brian Lara cricket on his Playstation as he was dropped first ball by Hashim Amla at short-leg following a flamingo-flick.
Prior's second and final act was to take on a hook shot to the revved-up Morkel - a shot not even Sir Viv would have entertained at such an embryonic stage in his innings - and utterly disregarded the match situation and his team's plight as he skied the ball up in the air.
The look on Collingwood's face at the non-striker's end resembled that of Raymond Illingworth's countenance when Chris 'Prat without a hat' Lewis developed sun stroke in 1994, as Prior stalked off after his breathtakingly deplorable slog-jaunt.
South Africa's man-of-the-series Mark Boucher did his best to write England off before attempting to dig himself out of his hastily-dug hole while using the term 'pressure' as frequently as possible before the start of play. But he proved to be entirely accurate in his prediction.
"They say one foot is on the plane already for the tourists - I'm not saying that's the case with England - but we've had them under pressure for five or six days of Test cricket now and pressure does eventually get to do you, as is always the way when pressure builds," Boucher said.
Lunch was due to be taken prior to what proved to be the final over of the day but, despite Jacques Kallis's vehement protestations, play continued until the final wicket of Ryan Sidebottom had been taken.
But Kallis need not have feared as Prior et al had a tee-time booked at Wanderers GC for the afternoon, and the portly all-rounder would have been left to plunder the luncheon at his own pace with his lifetime-achievement award sat on the table beside him.
England move on to Bangladesh in March, and a press conference tomorrow is expected to confirm that Alastair 'Yes skip' Cook is to be promoted from vice-captain to lead the tour.
Much has been made of Collingwood's monopolisation of the EGA Tour (England's Golf Association on Tour), and the Test series starting in Chittagong will give Strauss valuable time to re-model his swing ahead of the summer.
The Bangladesh tour will clearly provide much more than just an opportunity to bolster Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott et al's ailing batting averages, and give James Tredwell a honeymoon period in international cricket - really, everyone is a winner.
England can take a lot out of this series, having demonstrated copious amounts of character and application to save two Tests in improbable fashion, and after a stunning demolition of the hosts in Durban.
But equally, the propensity of England's batsmen to assume that the lower-order is made up of Sir Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Sir Len Hutton and Compton is ultimately misplaced, and greater accountability must be taken if Strauss's/Cook's side are to move to the next level.
SHOT OF THE DAY: Colly finally had enough of watching wickets tumble at the other end and danced down the track to bulldoze an emphatic drive straight back over Steyn's head at the Golf Course End. After seeing the batsman reach the neighbouring driving range, a rather peeved Steyn could not think of anything banterous or derogatory to offer until halfway back to his mark. He then turned and walked all the way back over to remind the bewildered batsman of his supposed shortcomings.
STAT OF THE DAY: Umpire Harper came into the fourth Test in Johannesburg boasting a 50 per cent success rate with the validity of his judgements according to subsequent replays. Despite it taking a very notable dip over days two and three, Harper confounded his critics by making a correct judgement on day four to haul his average back up to the 50 mark.
USER COMMENT OF THE DAY: Poor batting, poor bowling and a lack of application cost England a series victory. If KP cannot get runs against Bangladesh I think he should throw his bat away. Broad, I know you are young but just grow up and stop throwing tantrums and be a man and stop shaking your head when you know that you edged the ball. As for Prior, I think he should admit to Priory Clinic to get his head examined! Well done to South Africa for drawing the series. (P does his best Geoffrey Boycott impersonation and comes off his long run!)


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I am also running the cloner through a Spline Wrap deformer.
Is there a way to get the plain effector to recognize the deformed position of the clones, so the sort effect will occur when the cloner is offset through the deformer, and visually passes through the effector? Please see this vid that illustrates the problem.
I want the spline wrapped cloner to sort when passing through the effector, rather than having the cloners true global coordinates being evaluated. Perhaps there is a better way to approach this? A bit of python /xpresso I need to get this to work?


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324097432017-06-27T21:14:57.849-07:00Untangled Family RootsMy interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history. Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-7747156896769383162017-06-10T20:46:00.001-07:002017-06-10T20:46:06.488-07:00I'm Back! And This Time Armed with DNA!Life sometimes has a way of throwing you curve balls and you either strike out or you knock it out of the park. Two and a half years ago it was announced that my current employer would be closing our plant. I had a choice, either I could go on the hunt for another job and likely lose ground with the kind of pay I was making at the time, or I could put in two years of hard work, work part time for lower pay, tighten the budget, and get my degree so that I would finally have a chance at a better future. I choose to go back to school. With the help of my wonderfully supportive family I made it, and now I have an amazing future and I love what I'm doing as a paralegal.

The hardest part of going to school was resisting the urge to be pulled into solving another family mystery, especially when my in-law and then my parent's DNA tests came back before I was done with school. That was so hard to not dig in and focus on my priorities first.

Having our autosomal DNA done has begun to break down some brick walls, not only for us but for other people as well. The first wall to crumble was for someone else. His name is Anthony and he contacted me about eight months ago. I explained to him that I was focused on school, but certainly willing to help him if he could wait until I was on Winter Break. He agreed and patiently waited for me to get back to him. While I was on Winter Break he and I emailed almost daily regarding the Ward's in my father-in-law's family. He had told me that he and several other family members had done their DNA and had a surprising story to tell me. It turned out that one of my father-in-law's ancestors had left his first wife, which explains why I could never find his death record, changed his name slightly and had a whole other family with another woman. He probably would have never been able to solve that mystery if it were not for DNA.

The next mystery on the demolition list was my father's 2x great grandfather. He was a man that ran away from home and disowned and even denied his parents. Through DNA we have proven the connection to his Aunt's descendants. I still want to try and get the descendants of his half siblings to do DNA to have a more definitive connection, but I'm pretty certain we have proven who the parents of William G Woolsey are because of DNA.

Right now I am eyeballs deep in a new mystery that seems to crumble a little more each day. I have been searching for my mother's great grandparent's families prior to their marriage. When my mother did her DNA, I was able to find that all Roes that we connected to descended from one Jeremiah Roe who immigrated from Ireland where he was born in 1750. Right now I am compiling a tree of all of his descendants. It's hard because I have some gaps between siblings where I think there are other children that I am missing because the records were very sparse then. So far I have not been able to find the exact branch of the Roe family that my 2x great grandfather Jerry Roe belongs to, but I will. I have, however, had a breakthrough on his wife, Rachel Mason.

DNA helped me make a connect with several Roe cousins, very closely related actually. I started a facebook group for all of us so that we could exchange stories and photos. One of the things I learned is that the oldest brother of my great-grandfather continue to live the Gypsie life that he had learned from his parents and passed it down to his descendants, unlike my great grandfather who left that life behind. Well heck, that explains it all! No wonder I couldn't trace the family or find them in most census records, and the children I knew of are all born in a different state! With that in mind I also used our DNA to see who we shared in common with the last name of Mason, and again a particular family kept popping up. This family turned out to be Rachel's parents, and the best part is I finally found a census of her with her parents, and in the margin was a notation about a group of families that were traveling together as Gypsies! That's it!

Now I have a theory I'm pursuing on my Roe connection to solve who the parents of Jerry Roe were. I hate to keep all of you in suspense, not really I've been in suspense for twelve years, but I'll have to report back when I do finally solve this mystery and I'll have to write more about Rachel's story.Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-87508704483486855692016-07-14T13:01:00.002-07:002016-07-14T13:01:05.057-07:00Don't Like the Background? Change it!Often times we have pictures that we love for one reason or another, but at the same time hate for another. What do you do? Change it.

Case in point. Recently, the company I am a receptionist for had a group photo done. We wanted an outdoor photo of the group, but there wasn't a perfect location for that, so our wonderful photographer at The Big Picture found the best possible location, while knowing that the background could be altered if need be. In our case, we ended up with a washed out parking lot on one side of the background, but when I was done with it, there was a beautiful background full of nature and color with just the right amount of light.

I currently working on another photo taken of a bride by her relatives. Though she liked the photo of herself the door in the background screams amateur photographer and is distracting. She wants to have the photo blown up to wall size and hang on her wall. Plus she wanted her skin tone evened out. The lighting in the room made her look blotchy. With a little clean up of her skin and a completely new background that makes it appear that her photo was taken in a professional studio, she will have an image ready to blow up and hang on her wall.

There are many times when the perfect action or the perfect smile are captured, but something in the background is very distracting or in some way steals away from the beauty of the photo. We don't have to put up with that anymore. It can be changed!

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Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com Falls, ID 83854, USA47.7179578 -116.9515855999999947.6324963 -117.11294709999999 47.8034193 -116.79022409999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-80651689773405777632016-07-06T09:50:00.004-07:002016-07-06T09:50:45.952-07:00The value of Alien Cases FilesIt's been a rough year watching a dear friend of my husband's suffer and succumb to his fate of cancer. After his death, his wife asked me to do some research on his family. Many of his family heirlooms that he has kept and stored over the years, such as a car his mother drove and a horse drawn carriage his grandparents were married in, and other farm implements will be displayed in various locations, but primarily in a museum that we hope to see open in Hayden. The curator is currently looking for an ideal venue. Anyway, his wife asked me to do the research in order to compile the family history to add provenance to the items when they go on display.

Gary Rowles 1951-2016 was the son of Sidney Rowles and Clara Marie Neustel. Gary knew his mother and her family. He even grew very fond of and loved his step-father, Victor Ferdinand Wycoff, dearly, but sadly did not know his father Sidney Rowles very well. Gary's wife was curious about Sid, which sparked a curiosity in me to find out more about this man. What was known about Sid is that he was from Wales, but little else was known about him, beyond his marriage and ultimate birth of two sons in Coeur d'Alene, ID.

As with every genealogy project I undertake, I started with the latest generation, Gary, and worked my way back. Gary's mother's line quickly expanded into a full grown tree with many documents that were easy to find. It's rarely difficult to compile a tree on a family when they remain in one location for generations and establish themselves as part of the community.

Gary's father on the other hand would prove to be almost as elusive in documents as he was to his son. I did the usual research of census, birth, death, marriage and other common records often found on sites like familysearch.org and ancestry.com.

I found Sidney's death index in nearby Spokane, WA. Which was surprising considering he lived and (we thought) died in Coeur d'Alene, ID. Another lesson in the importance of considering neighboring counties and states when searching for elusive ancestors. Spokane is a big city compared to Coeur d'Alene, and even more so back in 1965. It's very likely Sid had a long term illness that took him to the large hospital in Spokane where he then passed. Unfortunately the index didn't tell me much other than his death date and location. I'll work on obtaining a death certificate later.

I continued to dig until I came across an index for another set of records I wasn't very familiar with, the Alien Cases Files archived in Kansas City. This time I read more of the details below the index information. Since the index only gave me name, birth and country of birth I still didn't have much. Below the index was a bit more information on the index, but still just source information. Then I seen the link that said "learn more". When I clicked on the link I went to a search screen for the index, but I kept scrolling, and to my surprise I found an email where I could send off for the records I had found in the index for Sidney Rowles.

I emailed firstname.lastname@example.com right then and anxiously awaited their response. I was so excited to open the response the next morning. After a few emails I had paid $20 for the entire packet and received it that day via email in a PDF file. Talk about exciting! In the packet was a photo of Sid, boy did Gary look like his father. Digging deeper through the file also revealed his parent's names as well as a copy of his father's naturalization record!

Armed with the new information I was able to find his parents in Pennsylvania and slowly piece together the story of Sidney Rowles. Sidney was born 27 Sept 1903 in Aberdare, South Wales, Great Britain to James Farmer Rowles and Elizabeth Ann Lewis. At the age of eight he left from Liverpool England on the Baltic with his mother to join his father who had already come to America in 1910. They settled in Lackawana, PA as evidenced in the 1920 census. His mother passed away on 17 Mar 1930 in Scranton, PA. As of yet I have been unable to find a death record of any kind for his father and his paper trail goes cold after Elizabeth's death. Shortly after Elizabeth's death, Sid left PA and by 1935 had settled in Rimrock, ID where he would start a family.

The Rowles family story ends here for now. Now the challenge will be to research Walsh records. I have found them in census records for England, but nothing more.Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-23188319621255873922016-01-31T17:06:00.001-08:002016-01-31T17:07:22.702-08:00Untangle Family Roots Photo Restoration and moreIt's time to finally time to create a website and start putting myself out there as a restoration artist. I've always enjoyed restoring photos to their original beauty. On top of that, my passion for genealogy and writing can all come together in one place. I'll add more services to my website for genealogy research and digital scrapbooking. I'm still perfecting those service details and will add them soon. Basically, my idea is a one-stop shop for anyone looking to preserve and compile the stories of their ancestry.

Untangled Family Roots Photo Restoration and related services.Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-59427784524619942712016-01-29T20:45:00.000-08:002016-01-29T20:46:09.120-08:00Photo restoration and a mysteryI've done a few wonderful photo restorations this week. One was using two different photos of a building and scenery to restore a building to its original beauty. The other photo was an absolutely destroyed wedding photo. Both turned out amazing.

This lovely photo comes with a little mystery as the caption states. The bride Winifred Baker was born Anna May Corbett in Bridgeport, CT. The family has been searching for years for her roots with no such luck. Maybe one of my genealogy buddies will see this and know who Anna was and where she came from.

This photo was a lot of fun! First the customer wanted the storefront returned to its original grandeur of the early 1800's According to his research the building was a tavern around 1804. It was later turned into a store front, which is what you see in the photo in the top left which was taken in 1938. The building was then demolished in the '70's. As part of my customer's research, he wanted a photo of the building that would appear as it did in 1804. With his input from his research, I was able to recreate the front of the building and then with using a period photo from the area I was able to place the building into it's surrounding area. Viola! We have the old tavern in PA circa 1804 on the right. According to the research, if the building were still standing it would be one of the oldest buildings in PA. Research and original photos provided by Mark Jaskolka. Thank you, Mark for a wonderful opportunity to show my skills.

Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-25127617206581560212015-05-19T12:06:00.000-07:002015-09-15T15:40:40.881-07:00Black Sheep of the FamilyI think I've actually written about my great grand uncle before. I never even knew about Leonard Rollett until a few years ago when I finally broke through who his parents were and subsequently discovered him as the brother of my great grandmother May Rollett.

Leonard Rollett was born 7 Jan 1908 in Missouri to David Rollett and Rosa (Clark) Rollett. He died at the young age of 21 on 31 July 1931. When I discovered this it automatically had my attention. I've come across other family members that died at young ages and I find myself digging for answers. How did they die? Why so young?

The one thing I love about doing research on my Missouri ancestors is the availability of birth and death records at Missouri Digital Heritage. I found Leonard's death certificate while searching through looking for any records of his father, mother or siblings. On his death certificate for cause of death was "homicide, fire arm" and for contributory "shot by officer." Knowing that there had to be a story, I went searching for newspaper articles. In this case I was not disappointed.

And there you have it. I have a robber in my family tree. This is a story I can tell to my kids to remind them the crime doesn't pay. His partner in crime, Flutty, received 5 years for his involvement in the crime.

Leonard's sister May left behind her husband and four children and never looked back (as far as I know). I really would like to know more about this family. Crime and irresponsibility seem to be a part of their lives.
Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-15386709324099901322015-05-12T17:02:00.001-07:002015-05-12T17:02:30.241-07:00So Young, Yet Such a ManOnce again it's time for another #52Ancestors post. I've written about my 3x great grandfather many times. First because he was such a mystery to all of us, but now that I've solved the mystery, I write about him because his life was what novels are made of.

William George Woolsey was born in Iowa on 15 Dec 1865 to Richard W Woolsey and Charollette Ann (Beck) Woolsey. William refused to talk about his parents or his family. When asked by his children and grandchildren where he was from or who is parents were his response was, "I was born in Iowa and ran away as a young lad from an abusive Irish step mother, and that's all I'm going to say about that." Well he was successful in keeping the family, for generations, from finding out about his past until a couple years ago when someone saw a post I put on a forum and knew about a William Woolsey in their family who was born in Iowa and ran away from home. When we began putting the pieces together we all understood why.

In order to understand William's hatred for his parents we need to back up in time a bit. At the time of William's birth the Civil War had just ended. Charlotte lost her first husband and the father of her first three children on 3 Apr 1863, John Nolan. Richard Woolsey, too, had suffered the loss of his first wife Alice Susan (Buck) Woolsey in 1862. Richard and Alice had six children. It would appear from the trail of records that Richard and Charlotte were devastated and lost after their first spouses died.

Richard then married Charlotte on 6 Sep 1863 in LaGrange, IN. Then William was born two years later into a very large blended family. I'm not sure what went wrong, but by 1870 Richard is no longer in the picture. He and his six children are living in Creswell, Cowley, KS. Shortly after this Richard built the first hotel in Arkansas City, KS known then as the Woolsey House and he in turn was endearingly known as Uncle Dick. I have never found a record of divorce, but clearly they were no longer together because Charlotte was living in Lincoln, Linn, KS with her four children, William being one of them and only four years old at the time.

By 1875 Charlotte is still living in Lincoln, KS, but now under a new name. She is in the home of James Kennedy (Kenneda). She is listed as C.A. Kennedy. James has three children from a previous marriage, Charlotte has her three Nolan children and William Woolsey and then together James and Charlotte have an eight month old Ella. Dear Lord, talk about a blended family of monstrous proportions. Poor William must have really felt left out, being the only Woolsey in the home. Charlotte then died in Linn County on 13 Apr 1876 at the age of 38.

At this point William is left without a mother and has a father chasing gold across the country. William is only 11 years old at this point. Even if his father was not a part of his life it became clear that at least his Woolsey half-siblings were when I found him in the 1880 census living in the home of his half sister Eva (Woolsey) Brown. In this census he is enumerated by his middle name, George. What I find strange is that he is listed as a boarder instead of half-brother-in-law. Then again when you look at that title I can see why, boarder was just easier to record. He at one time in his life mentioned that he named two of his daughter after his sisters, Eva and Minnie, however, Minnie turned out to be a niece, a daughter of his half-sister Caroline, but close enough.

I don't find Richard in the 1875 Kansas State Census, probably because he has caught "gold fever" and is off chasing his pot at the end of the rainbow. In 1880, however, Richard is in Sauk City, Whatcom, WA. He is just one of the many miners hoping to strike it rich. I don't know when Richard left Sauk City. What I have been able to determine is that the original Sauk City was destroyed by fire (all except the general store of George Perrault) in 1889. I wouldn't be surprised if Richard through in the towel and took off at that point, but unfortunately that is likely lost with time.

Sometimes before 1900 Richard starts mining in Faulkner, Sierra, New Mexico where he was enumerated in 1900 on the US Census. I think it's very likely that he had been there for many years. He had an established mine and was again well known in the area. In some newspaper account Hillsboro is mentioned. Faulkner no longer exists and Hillsboro is an unincorporated town, basically a ghost town. I'd love to go visit this old mining ghost town some time. It's where he spent his last years until he fell ill. He was then brought home to Arkansas City, KS by his children where he died 21 Oct 1908. In his obituary each of his children is mentioned, including William, who's "whereabouts unknown."

At no point do I ever find any indication that Richard was involved in his life. At least Eva was, though no one knows for how long he was able to be with his Woolsey siblings. This mystery drove me crazy for years, and if it hadn't been for someone from the other side of that story in the family, I may never have solved it. Message boards have brought about such break throughs on more than one occasion. When you have a mystery, don't forget to use the message board. You never know who will be reading and knows the other half of the story you are looking for.

The amazing part is that John Woolsey who solved the mystery when he found my post was also born and raised in the same town in Modesto, CA as I was. He told me one time that he had asked his dad before if he was related to the Woolsey's in the phone book, and it turns out that he was. The Woolsey names he had seen and asked about where my grandfather and father (and his siblings). It makes you realize what a small world we live in and that we may be more closely related to our neighbors than we realize.

Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-50000979111851409082015-04-28T15:47:00.000-07:002015-04-28T15:48:36.682-07:00Life Wasn't EasyAs part of this week's #52Ancestors "Where there's a will" I will write about my husband's grandmother. I have written about her many times. She is a dear sweet woman who has lived through some very difficult times, especially in her childhood.

Estelle Conner was born the 25 May 1929 in Hollis, OK in a little one room wooden shack to Ernest Ghamo Conner and Flora Mae Manning. She was a twin, but her twin brother died shortly after birth. By 1930 Ernest had picked up his small family and moved to Brown County, TX. He was likely following work, which he would do for a large portion of his life.

Let's back up and understand Ernest a bit. He wasn't called Ernest by his family. He was known as Joe Conner. He was born in Williamson, TX to William Monroe Conner and Laura Alice Barnett in 1898. They would spend the next 20 years moving around Texas. They were farmers after all and likely following farm work, but not having land of their own. Eventually they settled down in Harmon County, OK and owned a farm of their own. Unfortunately after William's death in 1936 Laura would loose the farm due to taxes. Ernest had 14 siblings. Can you imagine having that many siblings to share with?! As if life in rural Texas wasn't hard enough, I'm sure it was made more difficult by the shear number of mouths to feed. Yet somehow they came together and remained a very tight and loving family.

Rumor has it (according to Aunt Mattie) that Flora's family disowned her because she married an Indian (Ernest). My research isn't turning up enough Indian in the family to actually call Ernest Native American. Just speculation on my part, but I'd say it had more to do with their age than the fact that he had a small drop of Indian blood in him. Ernest was 13 years her senior and when Estelle and her twin brother were born, Flora was only 18 years old, so she was likely around 17 when they were married. I have yet to find that record.

Anyway Ernest and Flora end up in Amarillo, TX. In 1940 he is listed as a "common laborer" for the WPA. That was farm labor or ranching. Since the rest of his life involved moving farm to farm as a farm laborer and grandma never mentioned him as a cowboy, I'd say it's safe to say he was doing farm labor.

Ernest and Flora would go on to have four more children all born in TX: Mattie Josephine, Lotti "Laura" Bell, Billie Joe and Geneva. Geneva and Flora died shortly after Geneva was born due to complications of the birth in Mar 1940. In the 1940 census taken on April 13 Ernest is renting a home in Amarillo. In the household are his four living children, Laura (his mother) and his two youngest sibling. What is unknown is how Ernest and his mother end up back in Hollis and the children removed from him. It may be that Laura traveled to Amarillo with her last two children still at home to help him with his children after the death of his wife and was in the process of bringing him and the children back to her home when the census was taken.

Regardless of how or when, Joe's children were taken from him and put into an orphanage in Tipton, OK. She wasn't in the home for long. It wasn't a bad place to live, they just missed their dad. He wanted his children back and the only way to do that was to get married again. Supposedly in that day people in the infinite (misguide) wisdom thought that a father was not capable of raising children on his own. So he married a widow who had a fifteen year old son. Her name was Bernice. Joe was able then to get his children back, but life with Bernice was anything but good. Estelle's only fond memories in that home was of a colored maid who loved the kids. She couldn't remember her name, but loved her. Joe finally had enough of this woman and how she made the children feel, so he packed them up and snuck away in the middle of the night. He went back to Oklahoma about 80 miles from his mother where they all helped him pick cotton on a cotton farm. From then on the children would go with him, living in tents on farms and help him with farm work.

A photo I restored of Grandma Estelle and two of her siblings: Laura (L) and Billie (R). Grandma is in the center.

Estelle never got more than a fifth grade education. She was too busy working on farms with her dad to survive and helping her dad raise her younger siblings, that education wasn't that important. I know at this point some of you may be thinking they were right to take the kids from him, but it only broke his and the children's hearts to be away from each other. Life was hard, but it made grandma and her siblings strong, independent, self sufficient people.

When he went back to Amarillo, TX he meet Curley, the woman he would later marry and spend the rest of his life with. The kids all loved her. Grandma missed her mother, but Curley was her second mother and she loved her just as much.

Joe was never able to afford a headstone to put on his wife or baby girl's grave. Several years ago my mother-in-law took Grandma on a road trip before her memory became too bad. They were able to visit the graves of Flora and Geneva Conner. Grandma was so moved that not only did they not have a headstone but the little bricks with their first name had to have layers of dirt removed before they could be seen. Grandma went that day and paid for headstone to be put on their graves.Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-2902845005147816672015-04-10T16:19:00.002-07:002015-04-10T16:20:41.051-07:00Living 100 yearsCan you imagine it? Few can even imagine living to be 100 years old, but Emily Lutitia (Scott) Hoard experience exactly that and she lived in two centuries at that. Can you imagine all that she saw and experienced in her life time?

Let me put her life time into perspective. Emily was born 1 Sept 1848 in Metamora, Franklin, Indiana. Now let's think about that for a minute. She would have been 15 when the Civil War began. Knowing what I've learned about this side of my family I believe they were very loving and very likely against slavery. When she was a child slavery was still legal, travel was horse and wagon, the west was still being discovered!

In 1850 Emily is found in the census as a two year old living with her parents and her maternal grandmother in Center, Marion, IN. Next we see the family in the Iowa state census for 1856 in Union, Lucas, IA. There are now two more family members; A.F who is 5 (Alexander) and M.E who is 2.

So far no more records have been found for any of the family members between 1856 and 1866 when Emily shows up on 12 Jul 1866 in Platte City, Platte, MO where she marries James W Hoard. According to a deposition Emily gave for her pension file they left for Jackson co., MO in 1868 and then back to Platte co., MO in the spring of 1869.

There are then no records found for George and Aner, or the boys, until 1880. In 1870 Emily and James are in Carroll, Platte, MO. It's very likely that George and Aner are in this part of Missouri at this time, just no records have been located. In 1870 census Emily and James have two boys; Thomas - 3 and George - 1. During this time period she would have likely heard of many of the Indian wars that happened in and around the states she was living in. As much as I believe the US government wronged the Native Americans I can also understand the fear of Indian attacks that someone like my 3rd great grandmother would have felt. One of the saddest and most disturbing Indian battles was the Battle of Wounded Knee, which occurred on 29 Dec 1890. It's likely Emily and James would have been in NE or MO at that time. I would have loved to have known how this effected her.

In 1880 George and Aner are living in Plum Creek, NE while 160 miles away Emily and James are in Vesta, NE. Vesta is just over the MO border from where George and Aner are buried in Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas, USA.

Emily would then live out the rest of her life in Kansas from 1900 until she dies in 1948. She lived in Harvey, Latham and Union, Kansas. In 1903 the The Wright Brothers Make the First Flight at Kitty Hawk and the First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery comes out. I wonder if she would have seen it, or maybe her boys and their families? Her husband, James Hoard, died on the train to Arkansas to visit family on 14 Jun 1911. A year later The Titanic Sinks. She would have witnessed both World Wars and seen sons and grandsons go off to war. She must have been a woman with wonderful Karma because from what I've seen all of her sons and grandsons that would have served returned home to have families and live long lives. In many cases her sons and daughters lived into their 80's and a couple of the daughters to 98. I'd say the longevity gene was strong in her family.

In the 1920's she would have seen the beginning of Prohibition in the U.S., The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer, and First Mickey Mouse Cartoon. In 1920 she is living along at the age of 71 in Union, Butler, KS. In 1929 the Great Depression began. I do not know where she was in 1930 after the Depression began. I can only imagine that she must be living with one of her children at this point, but my 1940 she is once again living along in Latham, Butler, KS. Though Roy is living near by it is still amazing that a 91 year old woman is living on her own. In 1934 she would have been in the midst of The Dust Bowl and yet she stayed. The Hoard family was not one easily driven out of the Great Plains.

I've often been asked if I could go back in time and spend time with an ancestor, who would it be? Emily would be one such ancestor. I can only imagine the stories that she could have told. 100 years of life spanning the most volatile, industrious, changing, progressing two centuries in American history.

Emily died, just shy of her 100th birthday on 28 Mar 1948 in Wichita, Sedgwick, KS. She was then laid to rest beside her husband, James in the Latham Cemetery in Latham, KS.

In the photo L to R: Emily (Scott) Hoard, Thomas Hoard, Roy Hoard and Fontana Hoard. 4 generations of Hoards.Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-17903782462079091582015-03-31T08:58:00.002-07:002017-03-31T07:26:18.622-07:00Never forgetThis week's challenge in #52Ancestors is "Favorite Photo." I would have to say of all the photos I now have of my ancestors one of my all time favorites is not what you'd expect. It doesn't have someone's face, but tells me so much about my great grandfather, General Martin Hayes.

My favorite photo is a photo of this cabin where Martin Hayes was born. And to make it an even great treasuer, on the back in my great great grandmother's, Mary Jane (Vest) Hayes, writing is a note to him. "To Martin a Reminder Mother." She was reminding him to never forget where he came from.

General Martin Hayes was born 4 Apr 1907 in Hominy, OK to James Martin Hayes and Mary Jane (Vest) Hayes. Martin lived in and around Hominy until he was in his 30's. The last known record of him living in Hominy is the 1940 census. Though his obit states that he moved to Turlock, CA in 1941. On 17 Oct 1943 Martin enlisted in the Army to serve in WWII from Sacramento, CA. Note that he was given the name of General Martin Hayes as a child. He was not a General in the army, at least not that I know of. By 1950 he moved his family to Modesto, CA. He died on 17 Dec 1960 in Turlock, CA.

This photo will always be a treasure as it truly represents many of my family lines and the hardships they endured. It just shows where my strength and ambition comes from.

Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-55643475283234347392014-09-26T20:15:00.000-07:002014-09-26T20:15:00.535-07:00A Case of Murder
It all began with a death certificate. My Woolsey ancestry can drive me crazy sometimes when I hit brick walls, so I've gotten in the habit of looking at everyone and trying to find everything possible even on distant connections. I was looking at the family of Minnie Agnes (Woolsey) Tandy, my grandfather's aunt when I stumbled across this death certificate for her daughter Amie Urisa Tandy. Normally I would just capture the dates and places and move on in order to establish connections to my direct line, but then I notice the cause of death "punctured lung - gunshot wound, Hemothorax and Severed Spinal Cord" That alone just sounded so sad. I realized though that there had to be a story to this, so I began to search for newspaper articles on Newspapers.com.

I was shocked to discover that my grandfather's very own cousin was shot and murdered by her own husband Leo Nichols. Leo had come home drunk and began taunting his son Bobby Jack by shooting at him! I can only imagine the horror a mother must feel to witness her husband shooting at their own child. She confronted Leo and he turned his attention on her. He began shooting at her. Bobby Jack recalls on the stand that he saw his mother jump. He thought at first she had jumped out of the way, but in fact she had been shot and the impact of the bullet threw her body.

The Sheriff would later recall that he came to the home to find a woman moaning. She lay on the floor in her own blood screaming.

Leo Nichols was found guilty and given a life sentence. I never could find anything more on Bobby Jack Nichols. I can only imagine how hard it would have been on a little boy to witness his father shoot his mother. Bobby was only eight years old at the time. This was a sad sorry to discover in my family.

Amie Nichols, Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Murder of Amie (Tandy) Nichols in detail

Lubbock Morning Avalanche

Lubbock, Texas

Wed, Apr 26, 1950 – Page 8

Murder of Amie Erisa (Tandy) Nichols

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Lubbock, Texas

Sun, Apr 23, 1950 – Page 3

Leo Nichols receives a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Amie Erisa (Tandy) Nichols. Lubbock Morning Avalanche

Lubbock, Texas

Wed, Apr 26, 1950 – Page 1

Murder Trial on At Morton

Murder trial of Leo Nichols who shot his wife Amie Erisa (Tandy)…

Lubbock Evening Journal

Lubbock, Texas

Mon, Apr 24, 1950 – Page 1

Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-82213849156669398022014-07-16T20:43:00.000-07:002014-07-16T20:43:02.080-07:00Sarah Ann Revell 1838-1892I've been writing lately about my great grandmother May Elizabeth Rollett and her ancestors, but I've really focused on her grandmother Sarah Ann Revell. I'm lucky that her father was one of the original members of the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints in Nauvoo, OK. As a result there are many records available to me.

The biggest challenge was not being able to find a husband with her in any of the census I found. She was always in the home of her parents Thomas Revell and Elizabeth (Brierly) Revell. In my previous post I showed her with her parents in 1870 and 1880. Between 1870 and 1880 Brierly was born with the same last name as the older children. So where was this elusive husband?

I had read in several accounts of the LDS that her husband's name was Elmer Rollett. One record Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is recorded that Elmer Rollett died in 1866. So if that's the case he can't be the father of Brierly Rollet who was born in 1871. At this point the only thing that I can figure is that Sarah did remarry after Elmer's death to another man by the same last name as Rollett, who according to Brierly's death certificate is named Phillip Rollet born in France. It's likely they weren't even related as Elmer was born in England. I still am searching for records on this Phillip Rollett.

Finally I found Sarah with her first husband in 1860 census in St Louis, MO. They had another child I wasn't aware of, Elmer F Rollett. He is 8 months old. It's likely he died before the 1870 census. Elmer is 43 years old and Sarah is only 22. Elmer was 21 years her senior, but I have yet to find any indication that he was ever married before Sarah.

I did find an Elmer Rollett age 32 in Northern Lights, Philadelphia, PA in 1870 census in the home of John Edgar. I'm not certain, but this could be my Elmer. I've not found any others that match.

I also found Elmer and Sarah's marriage. They were married 16 April 1858 in St Louis, MO. Elmer's first name though was recorded as Abner, or at least that's the way it was transcribed on Ancestry. I'll have to find a way to see the original.

So now to find the second husband Phillip Rollett. This woman's life is getting so interesting. Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-16269629656098630932014-07-14T18:00:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:10:08.121-07:00May Elizabeth Rollett and Ancestors Part III haven't had this much fun researching one of my family lines in probably more than a year, but once again I'm being sucked into the genealogy vortex and I just can't seem to pull away.

I wrote last week about a little minor detail that had gone unnoticed preventing me from discovering my Rollett ancestors in May Elizabeth Rollett and ancestors. Now that I've put the puzzle pieces together here is a bit more about her family. So far I'm able to trace May's father's side back to her great grandfather, Thomas Revel.

Thomas Revel was born on November 4, 1813, in Radford, England. He was married Elizabeth Brierly 28 Jan 1838. He died on April 24, 1896, in DeKalb, Missouri, having lived a long life of 82 years, and was buried there.

According to the book "Roots of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints in Southern Iowa" by Pearl Wilcox Thomas and Elizabeth joined the Latter Day Saints church in 1847 and came to America in 1851. They first went to Utah, but after nothing but disappointment moved to St Louis, MO where they remained until 1861. From there they moved to Council Bluff where they were one of the first to be baptized in the Reorganized Church. Thomas was ordained a elder 1 May 1862 and in 1864 sent on a mission to England. After he returned the family moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, IL where they lived until 1890. He died in the home of his grandson Brierly R Rollett in DeKalb County, MO.

I did find the family in 1860 in St Louis, Ward 7, MO. In the home is only Thomas and Elizabeth and the name is spelled as Ravell. However they appear to have boarders, unless they are family. There are four other families listed in the same dwelling. Not sure yet if any of them are related.

By 1870 they are now settled in Nauvoo, Hancock, IL. Thomas and Elizabeth with their daughter Sarah Ann Rollett (miss spelled Ballet in the census) and two grand children Elizabeth and Isaiah D Rollett. Isaiah is David Isaiah who was May's father.

In 1880 they are all still in Nauvoo, Hancock, IL only this time there is another child, Brierly. What I find interesting is that this child has the same name as his siblings, yet two census records have yet to record the father of these children or Sarah's husband. I've never encountered this before over two census records. It makes me wonder if this is the result of a plural marriage. Was she living with her family even though she was one of many wives to an unknown Rollett? I say unknown because I have yet to pin point who really is her husband and the father of these children. On Brierly's death certificate his father was reported to be Phillip Rollett born in France. I do find a marriage record in MO of a Sarah Ann Revel married to an Abner Rollett in 1858. But then there is one more.......in
"The Heritage of Buchanan County, Missouri, 1984
Johnson, Herman, author
Stevenson family biographical information [ca. 1984]

"Faced with the responsibility of raising 6 children, ages 1 to 16, William [Stevenson] remarried on Nove 14, 1880. His second wife was Sarah Ann (Revell) Rollett, widow of Elmer Rollett. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Revell."

So now I have another name. How can this man be known by three different names. From everything I read and find William Stevenson was only a second marriage for Sarah, so not likely that she was married to two different Rolletts, and I can see Elmer being mistaken as Abner or visa versa.

Sarah Ann Revell was born on April 29, 1838, in England, the only child (so far known) of Thomas and Elizabeth. She had three children, Elizabeth, David Isaiah & Brierly with Phillip/Elmar/Abner (to be determined) Rollett between 1862 and 1871. She then married William Stevenson and they had one child together, Joseph. She died on April 12, 1892, in Nauvoo, Illinois, at the age of 53.

I'm getting the feeling that David or at least his son Leonard was the black sheep of a strict Mormon family. Leonard if you'll recall I reported in one of my earlier post was a bootlegger shot to death by the Sheriff. A family that with in the span of three generations goes from extremely religious to outlaws. I can't wait to find more.Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-71691811106179323062014-07-10T20:31:00.000-07:002014-07-10T20:36:11.594-07:00May Elizabeth Rollett and ancestorsI have been on the search for my Rollett ancestors for years. I've written about that wonderful brick wall a few times. It's funny how sometime we consider a family line a brick wall, when in fact it's just a mater of not seeing the little details. That was the case with this family. I missed one little detail that blew the flood gates wide open when I finally saw it.

As of a few weeks ago I knew that my great grandmother May Elizabeth Rollett was the daughter of David I Rollett and Rosa D Clark of MO. I wrote about finding her parents and siblings back in a post in 2011, My Happy Dance. Since then I found myself once again stumped, until last night! That's when I realized my brick wall was self inflicted. I simply was not paying attention to every little detail.

So how did I break through.......

I opened up David I Rollett and Brierly R Rollett's death certificates. I still suspected they were brothers, but needed to connect them. Like I stated in my previous post Brierly was the informant on David's death certificate which clued me in to the possibility that they were brothers or at the very least cousins, being close in age with the same surname.

While looking at Brierley's death certificate I realized (and I still can't believe that I've missed it for so long) that it listed his birth place as Nauvoo, IL. So I looked up what county Nauvoo was in. I find that by searching by city, it's too narrow as people in my family often move around in an area, usually with in a county, but often don't stay put in the same city, especially in a family where one child was said to be born in MO and the other in IL. Knowing from Brierley's death certificate that his parents are Phillip Rollett and Sarah Revel, I began to look for the family. It didn't take long really and I had found a family in<a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/6742/4240488-00385/21137133?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1880usfedcen%26so%3d2%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26new%3d1%26gsfn%3dBrieley%2b%26gsln%3drollett%26rank%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26mswpn__ftp%3dNauvoo%252c%2bHancock%252c%2bIllinois%252c%2bUSA%26mswpn%3d37359%26mswpn_PInfo%3d8-%257c0%257c1652393%257c0%257c2%257c3247%257c16%257c0%257c1276%257c37359%257c0%257c%26msbdy%3d1871%26cp%3d12%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d_x&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults" target="_blank"> 1880 census in Nauvoo, Hancock, IL that partially matched the family I was looking for.

Name	Age

 Thomas Revel 	67

 Elizabeth Revel 	62

 Sarah Rollet 	42

 Elizabeth Rollet 	18

 Isaiah Rollet 	14

 Briley Rollet 	9

The problem was that only two of the four names I was looking for matched and since the only one I had a birth year for was Brierly I still unsure that I had even found the right family. I was darn near ready to give up and mark it as another of many possibilities in this family, when the light bulb went on. Notice the child listed above Briley, Isaiah? I can't believe I had missed it. David's middle initial was "I" so I went back and calculated the age. Isaiah being 14 in 1880 would put his birth at 1866. My David was born in 1866!!!! They are brothers. David was just known by his middle name then!

Now I can add anther generation to my tree. I have been busy over the last two days finding more records and attaching to my tree records. My tree is once again going. Not only did this census confirm that Sarah and Phillip (based on the death certificate) were David's parents and that Brierley was his brother, but I also now know that Thomas and Elizabeth Revel were their grandparents! I'm off to do more research on another generation!Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-26704157342711079972014-04-25T20:13:00.000-07:002014-04-25T20:13:03.670-07:00Minor photo restoration

This is a photo of my mother and her sisters in Mexico. With this one I started by removing the scratches and spots as always. Then I began to selectively correct the contrast in layers. I created a layer and selected all the washed out white areas and brought some of the detail back. Then by selecting different areas on the photo I was able to adjust them individually until they all worked together. This was such a cute photo of them and now I can give them and even cuter version of the photo.Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-76059197695740280472014-04-23T18:46:00.000-07:002014-04-23T18:46:28.915-07:00Severely Damaged Photo restoration

This photo was approximately six hours of restoration. I started with the background. A solid background is the easiest to repair. After repairing the cracks there was discoloration and tail-tail signs of the restoration in the background. So I used a fill with very little opacity to help blend the background. This would not be an option if the background had any sort of pattern. Solid background are a gem as a result. That's where the easy part ended. In the most severely damaged part of his hair I had to use a healing patch from another cleaned up portion of his hair that matched as closely as possible. Then blending is makes it look normal.

The rest of the restoration was pretty straight forward healing and cloning, keeping a close eye on shadows and lines that need to be maintained. Then a little selective color adjustment and some added film grain and I have a completely restored school photo of my dad.Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-21416460583586788942014-04-21T16:37:00.000-07:002014-04-21T16:37:19.217-07:00Restored photo to Art piece

This is the original photo of my grandmother Mary Ellen (Hayes) Roe. This took a lot of hours of work to clone and heal all the little spots of damage in the photo and remove the writing on her shoulder

Here is the photo part way through the restoration. As you can see there are still little specs in the photo. So I continued to clean up the photo and balance the levels.

Once the photo was cleaned up I began the fun part of recoloring the photo. By selecting each portion of the photo I wanted to recolor and then choose the "Hue/Saturation" option to create a layer. I could then adjust the Hue and Saturation until I got the desired colored. This is the best option especially when working with the face. However, you can also create again a layer with each new color and set the color using a brush and color in the area you desire (this was what I did for the shirt), this option is tricky and not always user friendly.

Here is the final result of a completely restored and recolored photo of Mary Ellen (Hayes) Roe. This is one of my favorite photos of her. I believe she was about 15 years old in this one.

For photo restoration contact me at amygennut at gmail dot com

Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-90606178624278527802014-04-07T17:21:00.001-07:002014-04-07T17:21:59.463-07:00New fun tool on AncestryThis is really cool. With the new tool on Ancestry.com you can create "Story" pages of your ancestors from the photos and documents that you have collected. So far it looks like it does a pretty good job of telling the story from the data. Again though what you put into it is what you will get out of it.

Here is the "Story" for my great grandmother Mary Joann (Williamson) Woolsey

Also on my dad's side of the family is my 3rd great grandfather Curtis Grubb Beeson A confederate Civil War Veteran. Though there is much more to his story that I have at home on his computer, Ancestry.com has put together his story as I have entered it into their data base. What it doesn't show are the pictures I have gathered of the Beeson property and graves. He lost the Beeson property after the war as his records that proved he was the owner of the land were burned during the war. Though he was wealthy and unfortunately owned slaves, he died a poor man not long after the war ended.

This is pretty cool. I will have to make efforts to put more into my Ancestry data base so that I can compile more complete stories of my ancestors.
Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-45219760598385020282013-11-27T09:43:00.000-08:002013-11-27T09:43:49.230-08:00Extreme photo restoration.

Here is a before and after of the photo I just finished restoring of my mother. It's one of my favorite photos of her. This one was an extreme challenge since the emulsion on the photo was deteriorating so badly. I'm not very happy with the hair, but it's probably as good as it's going to get considering there wasn't much of the hair to work with. I had to recreate the right eye, since there wasn't enough of it to use the healing function to restore it.

Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-56956176154272591932013-03-12T19:14:00.000-07:002013-03-12T19:14:00.083-07:00Restored Memories
I have been extremely busy lately. I'm now a volunteer with CARE for Sandy. I'm putting my skills to good use to restore photos that were damaged in Hurricane Sandy. At the same time I'm working on some of my own family photos. Here are just a few of the photos I've restored form my collection.

This photo is of my mother (striped shirt), her twin (blue), their baby sister (sitting), and their parents.

This is a photo of my grandma and grandpa Roe

These two ended up in my Jenkins genealogy book that I just finished. Yes I finally finished my Jenkins book! Woohoo!!!!!!

Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-39598142103738618012013-03-11T19:46:00.000-07:002013-03-11T19:50:29.099-07:00Jenkins Genealogy Book

It was nearly two years of blood sweat and tears, but I finally finished my first family history book. This book is about my Jenkins family. I could have never put together such a lovely scrap book with out the generosity and love of some very wonderful distant cousins that I met in the process. Very few of the photos were in my possession when I started this project. Now I have a 29 page book of photos and stories about my Jenkins ancestors. A few of the cousins ordered their copies. Now I'll be offering this book to anyone that wants a copy. If you'd like a copy of the book you can contact me to order. This book traces the genealogy of my grandmother Olivia Joyce Jenkins, her father John Hubert Jenkins, John Stephens Jenkins, and Michael Oliver Jenkins. Then the history gets interesting. We may never know for sure the name of MO's mother or father, but we had Jewel Dial's interview of him that spoke of his Grandfather Joseph Jenkins and his Aunt Margaret (Jenkins) Fronburger who raised him along with his cousin Barbara who was the same age.

I then spent a year researching this family of North Carolina Jenkins. They were an early family to Rowan and Lincoln Counties, NC. There is some mention in documents of Hugh Jenkins (the farthest ancestor) being from Lancaster County, PA. In Lancaster, PA is where the trail grew cold. If I ever break through there, I'll write a sequel.

Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-55685963500719152542012-09-10T16:36:00.000-07:002012-09-10T16:36:15.511-07:00Where were you 11 September 2001?Fall was in the air. I was six months pregnant with our second child. Our oldest Christopher was four years old. We were living in a two bedroom duplex in Coeur d'Alene, ID. My morning routin was always to get up and have my cup of coffee and breakfast while watching the news. This morning was no different. I had gotten Christopher up and given him breakfast and gone to take my shower. As always I left the TV going so I could listen to the news while I got around.

I was in the bathroom doing my hair when I heard something about a plane crashing. I came out of the bathroom and stood behind the couch that was by the hall way watching the TV to see what was going on. I'll never forget the sight of the second plane as it hit. I stood there frozen for some time. My hand rested on my belly. I still get teary eyed when I remember rubbing my tummy and looking down while whispering to my unborn child "what kind of world am I bringing you in to?"

I continued to get myself and Christopher ready for the day while listening. Popping back in to the front room often to see what was happening. We loaded up and headed out. I dropped Chris off at daycare with an extra big hug and rushed to work.

At that time I worked for a photography studio as their sales consultant. September was always a slow time of year. The senior pictures were done and no more sales to do. The gal who did the masking of the negatives was very busy in the office, but I had a lot of free time. We had a large TV in my sales room to show the customers their portraits. This day it was not being used to show photos. Instead the photographer and I spent most of the day on the couch, where customers would normally sit to view their photos, and watched the tragedy unfold.

It wasn't easy to hold back the tears. It must have been the hormones. We didn't know anyone in that part of the country, but my heart broke for them. At some point though, life goes on, especially if you weren't personally effected by the tragedy. I'll never forget that dreaded feeling of bring another child into such a horrible world, but three years later we were bringing another child into the world. For us life went on.Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-15405903810473921262012-07-12T13:23:00.000-07:002012-07-12T13:23:45.787-07:00If a Prostitute can make a living then why can't I as a genealogistI hate it when I get online for a quick read and before you know it I've got 50 pages up of a hot subject. Today was one of those day. It started with find a link on my facebook Looking for Ancestor's post To Pay or Not to Pay? The Cost of Genealogy which just sent me on a wild chase of all the others who have weighed in on this topic. First stop Genealogy – What Do You Mean It Isn't Free? A 2012 Update and then on to the various links through. In this post I especially like the part "I Don't Live In Beverly Hills Because I Can't Afford It" Amen to that. I'm the same way. I don't buy things I can't afford, and though I may complain to my family that I can't afford something I really like, I don't complain to the person providing the product/service because I know what it takes to get there and why they charge what they do. I am also quit creative and in many ways can find away to do or make it myself if need be ;-) Then when I ended up here: What Do You Mean It Isn't Free? and started to rant on that post I decided I best move my comment here.

From personal experience I can say that it does no one justice to undervalue your product/services. I did and as a result I ended up with pain in the butt customers (a few of them anyway, others were great) that in return undervalued all the hard work I put into their research especially when I didn't find what they wanted me to find, even though what I found was the reality and not the fantasy they want......oh Lord here I go again. I digress.

I also volunteer my time when I can spare it. It's always been my way of paying it forward. But nothing gets under my skin more than to see my hard word (when my name is attached ie: my blog) stolen and reposted elsewhere with out any credit. Though I must add that I actually get a really good laugh when I see a mistake I've made that resulted in the connection to a wrong family run like wild fire on the Internet and my name (though I was the original idiot) isn't attached LOL ;-) There is always a silver lining I guess.

But I agree with all of you that somehow we need to put our heads together to change this awful perception that everything in genealogy should be free (or at very little cost). It's time to educate the public when is really involved in what we do. I've actually walked away from a lot of what I did because it irritated my husband that I spent so much time in the genealogy helping others and in the end (considering the time I'd spent on a project) I'd make nearly nothing, compared to working full time and bringing home a paycheck. I'd love to do genealogy professionally, but I'd need to make a REAL LIVING to do it and support my family of three kids. Many of us that are wanting to make a living at this are not granny's looking for a hobby to fill our time (sorry ladies, I love many of you and many of you are the reason I volunteer) but busy mothers and fathers who need to support our families. Think of that the next time you think you deserve our hard work for free. Money doesn't grow on trees and it's getting hard to come by these days, partially because of the availability of "free" information, but with enough creativity and collaboration in the right direction we may get there.

I've come to see it this way: If a Prostitute can make a living then why can't I as a genealogist. Not everyone is willing to pay for a prostitute and some find creative ways around it, though not recommended. So if you are unwilling to pay then I agree with the best of them, find a way to be creative. If you're willing to pay then someone else can do the hard work and you can reap the benefits. Dear Lord here I go again with my ranting and imagination getting the better of me.

I've abandoned my services of research for others. I'm working on another avenue and I hope this one pans out. I just got tired of the complainers and those that wanted something, including my help, for nothing, family/cousins excluded.

Okay I'm done rantingAmy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-63368648862956892132012-07-02T20:18:00.000-07:002012-07-02T20:29:17.283-07:00Madness Monday - Two Sides to Every StoryI have been searching for seven years for the ancestors of my great great grandfather, William G "Billy" Woolsey. I wrote about William Grant Woolsey (I had been told by my Aunt his middle name was Grant. Till this day I don't know where so got that) in my Madness Monday post in April '09. Today I can finally, with a great deal of confidence, say he is much less of a brick wall then three years ago.

I was contacted about two months ago, while I was eyeballs deep into my Jenkins family research, about my William Woolsey. If you read my recent post about my Jenkins, you'll know that I finally set that project aside for a break and picked this one up. So I contact John Woolsey again and we began working together. He has since brought two other people into the research that are also likely cousins, Jeff and Marci.

Until a month ago the only thing I knew of Williams life before he married my gg grandmother, Lillie, was that he ran away from home to escape an abusive Irish step mother when he was a young lad. He had also mentioned that he named two of his daughters after his sister, supposedly Eva and Minnie. He said he was born in Iowa. This was all I had to go on in order to discover who his parents were. As you can imagine, there were too many William Woolsey's so my search was not going to be an easy one.

When John contacted me my search became a whole lot easier. You see for every story in a family that is told there is often someone who knows the story from the other side. Such was the case with John. He had known of a young William Woolsey in his family that was born in Iowa and had gone west to be a cowboy (which really sounds right, because that was my William). His story of an abusive Irish step mother may also have some credence to it as well, though facts paint a slightly different scenerio. More on that later.

John had first brought to my attention the work of Donald C Hart who was a grandson of Eugene Denton Woolsey who died in Modesto, CA. Wait back up.......Modesto, CA that's right this possible brother of my great great grandfather lived in Modesto, CA where I was born and raised! When I discovered this I about tripped over myself to get back to my email and write to John, who also still lives in Modesto, CA!!! He said as a young child he use to ask his dad about the other Woolsey's that lived in the area and his dad use to tell him they weren't related. Little did he know they were! John even mentioned some of my family when he listed some of the names he saw in the phone book. We were all living in the same town, could have solved this mystery even before I was born and they didn't even know it, but I digress.

John sent me the following items that have aided me in piecing together this family:

Arkansas City Traveler, Cowley Co., KS, Thursday, Oct 22, 1908, page 5, Col 3. "Death of Richard W Woolsey Last evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs George O Allen.......aged eighty-six years....his daughter, Mrs Eva N Brown......burial in Riverview cemetery.......He was familliarly called by them Uncle Dick Woolsey. He came to this city in 1870 and remained until 1876. In that year he went to the Black Hills and remained there for several years......he was living with a family near Hillsboro, New Mexico.....Al Percival [grand son-in-law] was sent to Hillsboro to bring him to this city...... father of seven children, six of them still living as follows; Al W Woolsey of Kildare; Mrs George O Allen and Mrs Eva N Brown of this city; Eugene Woolsey of California; Mrs Gallatin of Des Moines, Iowa; and Wm Woolsey, whose post office address is not know by relatives in this city."

Weekly X-Ray, Arkansas City, Cowley County, KS, issue Saturday, Oct 24, 1908. this article was nearly a repeat of the previous, but also added "In the early days Mr. Woolsey built and ran the Central Avenue hotel, then, of course the leading hostelry of the town and in fact about the most important hotel in Southern Kansas."

LaGrange County, Indiana, Marriage record #3 Page 189 Richard Woolsey to Charlotte Ann Nolen, married 6 Sept 1863.

LaGrange County, Indiana, Marriage record #2, Page 6, Richard Woolsey to Alice S. Buck married 9 Jan 1848. Transcribed to record by Clerk Earline Harrin 14 May 1974.

With that we all did some digging. We found:

Wm Woolsey age 4 born in Iowa in the home of Charlette Woolsey age 32 born in Ohio. Living in Lincoln, Linn County, KS. Also in the home were three Nolan childre: Elizabeth (12), John W (11) and Bell (8). Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, Year 1870, Place: Lincoln, Linn, KS, roll: M593_438; Page 39A; Image 81; Family History Library film: 545937.

Wm Woolsey age 10 in the home of Jas Kennedy age 43 born in NY. Listed below Jas is C.A Kennedy, Female, age 37 born i Ohio. I believe this is Charolette Ann (prev Woolsey, prev Nolan). Also in the home of Nancy Nolan (17), C. B. Nolan (14) and John W Nolan (15). I believe these are Charolette three Nolan children previously listed. So sometime between 1870 and 1875 she remarried. Did she divorce Richard, as he was still living? Ancestry.com, Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA; Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Microfilm reels K1-K20. Kansas State Historical Society.

George Woolsey age 14 born in Iowa living in the home of Eva and John Brown in Bolton, Cowley, KS. Eva's name was mentioned previously in Richard Woolsey's obituary. I believe that William's middle name was George and that this George Woolsey in Eva's home is none other that William G Woolsey her half brother. The odd thing is that George is listed as "Border" as relationship to head of house, instead of brother-in-law. Ancestry.com, database online, 1880 United States Federal Census, Year: 1880, Census Place: Bolton, Cowley, KS; Roll: 377; Family History film: 1254377; Page 458B; Enum Dist: 170; Image: 0470

Richard Woolsey age 57 born in NY, marital status: widower [not sure if that was true] miner. All of this fits Richard except he may not of been a widower. We know that Richard left KS in 1876 to seek his fortune in the Black Hills of the Dakotas and supposedly traveled for some time before he ended up in Hillsboro, NM. Ancestry.com, 1880 United States Federal Census; Year: 1880; Census Place: Sauk City, Whatcom, WA; Roll: 1398; Family History Film: 1255398; Page 317B; Enum Dist: 004

Rich Wolsey age 43 born in New York living in Crewell, Cowley, KS. In his home is Phoebia (17) [this is Eva Alfred's twin sister] Alfred (17) and Alice (15) and next door is his son Eugene (22). Ancestry.com; United Stated Federal Census; Year 1870; Census Place: Creswell, Cowley, KS; Roll: M593_431; Page 335B; Image: 192; Family History Library Film: 545930.

Richard Wolsey age 35 born in New Yord living in Bloomfield, LaGrange, IN. In the home is [his first wife] Alice (32), Eugene (11), Caroline (10), Mary (8), Alfred (7), Evangeline (7) and Alice (5). Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census; Year 1860; Census Place: Bloomfield, LaGrange, Indiana; Roll: M653_274; Page: 693; Image: 247; Family History Library Film: 803274.

Groom: John W Nolan and bride: Charolette A Beck married 17 Dec 1855 in LaGrange County, IN. Familysearch.org; Indiana Marriage Collection, 1811-1959; Film Number: 1871247; Digital Folder Number: 4839056; Image Number: 00495

John W Nolen, Union Soldier, Civil War, 88th Infantry, Pvt. Fold3.com: Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Indiana; Publication: M540; Content Source: NARA; Source Publication Year: 1965; Fold3 Publication Year: 2011; Record Group: 94.

John W Nolen, Widow: Charlotte A Nolen, Minor: Richard Woolsey (Gdn), Service G 88 Ind Inf, Date of filing: 1863 June: Widow Application No 23169, Minor: 1866 Sept 15, App No: 133775, Certificate No: 142185. Fold3.com; Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861-1900. Publication No.: T289, Publisher: NARA; Civil War Pensions.

Dr Woolsey built the first hotel, his and and partner purchased a livery stable and his daughter Eva was the first to be married in Cowley County to John Brown. All of this came from Interesting first Facts About Arkansas City, KS online at: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/wortman/ArkansasCityFacts.htm

I'm still looking for records, but from this I can began to piece together the family story. Their story begins in LaGrange County, IN. Richard's first wife Alice passed away 29 Jan 1862 [this according to other trees and not verified by me]. It is unclear when John W Nolen died, but likely before Jun 1863 when Charolette applied for her widow pension. Then Richard Woolsey and Charolette Nolen were married 6 Sept 1863. I still don't have exact proof of when my William was born. His headstone states December, but records range from 1863 to 1866. Judging from the census records closest to his birth I'd say it's very likely he was born Dec 1866.

At this point I don't doubt that Charolette is William's mother. There was a therory that Charolette was a step mother and that William was the last child of Alice, but the evidence says that is not the case. By 1870 Charolette and Richard are two hundered miles apart. I have yet to find a record of a divorce, but that will be one of my next searches, since it appears Charolette may have remarried a Kennedy. Richard only has three of his seven children at home. William is with his mother and it's likely that Richards two oldest daughter's, Caroline and Mary are already married. Eugene is living next door to Richard.

According to Arkansas City town history Richard Woolsey was building and running his hotel in the early 1870's. It was known as the Woolsey house back then, today it's known as the Osage Hotel. At this point no records have been found of Charolette beyond the 1875 Kansas State census. In 1875 she and her four children, including William, are living in the home of James Kennedy. It's unknown if she really married him or was just living in his home and was assumed married in 1875.

By 1880 William is then living with his half sister Eva Brown and her family. They are living in Bolton, just outside of Arkansas City where Richard had been living previously. This is nearly two hundred miles south of where William lived with his mother. He is also going by his middle name, George. At the same time Richard is seeking his fortune in Sauk City, Whatcom, WA.

It is yet unknown what happened to William's, Nolen, half siblings, but again that is another search I will conduct. Eva and Alice raised thier families around Arkansas City, KS. Eugene went first to MO and move out west to CA. Alfred went just over the border to Kildare, OK. None of the Woolsey children knew where William went.

Then I began another search back on Charolette's line, and in finding the following records was able to learn a bit more about her roots:

Charolette Beck age 12 born in Ohio she is in the home of William Beck age 41 born in Ireland. Her mother is Elizabeth age 35 born in Ohio. Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), www.ancestry.com, Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: Richland, De Kalb, Indiana; Roll: M432_142; Page: 242A;

William Beck born 1809 in Ireland married Elizabeth Carney born 1816 in Ohio. Married in 1835 Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), www.ancestry.com, Database online. Source number: 5131.020; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code:.

This now tells us that Charolette was of Irish descent even though she was born in Ohio. I think that's where the Irish connection comes from in William's story. Now whether he was actually referring to his mother as abusive, one may never know. Though it's apparent this family as a little mixed up.

Now I need to search for:

Divorce record of Richard and Charolette

Each of the Nolen children after 1875 (likely census records) to discover where they may have gone.

Death record of Charolette Woolsey (Kennedy?)

I still have so much more I need to learn and holes to fill in, but I am so excited about all I have learned over the last couple weeks and thanks to the help of a few wonderful people and possible cousins, Jeff, John and Marci.Amy Crookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32409743.post-61523542075699315562012-06-20T17:47:00.002-07:002012-06-20T18:07:38.070-07:00Jenkins of Lincoln Co., NC
For those who follow my blog you'll notice that I've not been around much over the last year. It's all been for a few good reasons. One I finished my queen sized Native American themed Lone Star quilt for my bed, but that's off the subject. The rest of my time has been in studying and write a book about my Jenkins line.

My grandmother, Olivia Joyce (Jenkins) Woolsey was the daughter of John Hugh and Leota (Morton) Jenkins. John Hugh Jenkins was the son of John Stephen and Olive (Swofford) Jenkins and John Stephens Jenkins was the son of Micheal Oliver and Mary Ann (Freshour) Jenkins. There is where my colossal brick wall began several years ago. That was until a lovely lady named Betty Ann Roach found me.

I had began to put together a digital scrap book thinking, "Well this is as far as I'll get on my Jenkins line." Now we all know that given enough time and hard work, brick wall eventually crumble. Only this one I saw as granite. I had been told many time that no one knew who the parents of MO Jenkins were, and to this day I still don't know for sure, because it had always been known that he was as illigetemate child. However that doesn't mean you can't skip to the next generation if you know, from his account, who his Aunt and Grandfather were. This is where Betty came into the picture. She had wrote me about the works of Jewel Dial, a grandaughter of MO Jenkins who interviewed him personally! Now what a treasure! If it weren't for Jewel then my wall would most certainly have been made of granite, but today it is a pile of rubble!

Photo: Micheal Oliver Jenkins and wife Mary Ann (Freshour) Jenkins

According to Jewel's interview notes MO accounted that he had been raised by his Aunt Fronburger whose father (his grandfather) was Joseph Jenkins. This family actually wan't very hard to research. Thanks to the extrordinary efforts of Familysearch.org and the records of Lincoln County, NC. Using Wills, Probates, Land records and census records I was able to piece together the Jenkins family.

Margaret Jenkins the daughter of Joseph Jenkins did marry William Froneberger 7 March 1820. She was nursing her daughter Barbara at the same time that MO was born, so she was able to take on the care of MO as well. Once this connection was established, which matched with the details in MO's interview, the flood gates opened.

Most records I could find on this family were found on the Family Search website. Betty had sent me a copy that she already had of Margert's brother's (Hugh) will. Though this record can also be found in the Lincoln County wills on the Family Search website. Most of the records were not indexed, so I had to search them individually until I found who I was looking for. It was time consuming, but well worth it.

Here is the lesson I learned, never assume that all records on a genealogy data base site are indexed or that only the ones indexed are available for online viewing. I began looking through the catalog list for Lincoln County, NC when I notice something I had not noticed and certainly not taken advantage of before. In the list some records indicated they were online and no longer gave a film number. So I clicked on the link for North Carolina Probates and found that I could browse the records. Eventually I found probate, estate files and or wills for David and Hugh, both brothers of Margaret, Joseph, their father, Hugh and Steward, brother's who turned out to be cousins of Joseph, Aaron, brother of Joseph and Hugh Jenkins, the father of Joseph. From these records and support by census records I was able to compile two more generations back from my MO Jenkins. Now that I know the family came from Lancaster, PA guess where I'll start my research next. Though from what I've seen there doesn't seem to be the abundance of records that I had found with Lincoln, NC for Lancaster, PA. At this point I've decided not to finish writing my book until I can find more about Hugh Jenkins' family in Pennsylvania.

Generation 1

1. HUGH1 JENKINS was born in 1722 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He died in Nov 1800 in
Rowan County, NC. He married (1) MARY MASON KENT. She was born in 1739.
Hugh Jenkins and Mary Mason Kent had the following children:

 2. vii. JOSEPH JENKINS was born in 1758 in Rowan Co, North Calolina. He died in 1821 in
 Lincoln County, North Calolina. He married ELIZABETH HAMBRIGHT, daughter of
 Frederick Hambright and Sarah Hardin. She was born in 1755 in Lincoln County,
 North Calolina.
 viii. SAMUEL JENKINS.
 3. ix. MOSES JENKINS.
 4. x. MARY JENKINS. She married DAVID KILPATRICK.
 xi. SUSANA JENKINS. She married ROBERT JOHNSTON.
 xii. AARON JENKINS was born in 1762 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He died in
 1834 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA.
 5. xiii. HUGH JENKINS.
 6. xiv. JAMES JENKINS.
 7. xv. ANN JENKINS. She married WILLIAM COWAN.
 xvi. MARY JENKINS. She married MATTHEW STUART.

Generation 2
2. JOSEPH2 JENKINS (Hugh1 Jenkins) was born in 1758 in Rowan Co, North Calolina. He died in 1821
 in Lincoln County, North Calolina. He married ELIZABETH HAMBRIGHT, daughter of Frederick
 Hambright and Sarah Hardin. She was born in 1755 in Lincoln County, North Calolina.
 Joseph JENKINS and Elizabeth Hambright had the following children:

 died in 1870 in Gaston County, North Carolina, USA. She married WILLIAM
 FRONEBERGER on 07 Mar 1820 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA.
 ii. HUGH JENKINS was born on 09 Jan 1788 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA.
 He died in 1835 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA. He married SUSANA BEST
 on 25 Jun 1829 in Lincoln, North Carolina.
 iii. SARAH JENKINS was born in 1793 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA. She died
 in 1852 in North Carolina, USA.
 iv. SUSANNA JENKINS was born in 1780 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA. She
 died in 1827 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA.
 v. ANN JENKINS was born in 1782 in Lincoln County, North Calolina. She died on 14
 Aug 1858 in Lincoln County, North Calolina. She married HUGH ROBISON.
 vi. ELIZABETH "BETSEY" JENKINS was born in 1796 in Lincoln County, North Carolina,
 USA.
 vii. AGNES JENKINS was born in 1796 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA. She died
 in Poke, AK.
 viii. DAVID JENKINS was born in 1786 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA. He died in
 1835 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA.
 ix. MARY JENKINS.

3. MOSES2 JENKINS (Hugh1).

 Moses Jenkins had the following children:

 i. HUGH3 JENKINS.

 ii. STEWARD JENKINS.

4. MARY2 JENKINS (Hugh1). She married DAVID KILPATRICK.
 David Kilpatrick and Mary Jenkins had the following children:
 i. JENKINS3 KILPATRICK.
 ii. MARY KILPATRICK.
 iii. SUE KILPATRICK.

5. HUGH2 JENKINS (Hugh1).
 Hugh Jenkins had the following child:
 i. POLLY3 JENKINS.

6. JAMES2 JENKINS (Hugh1).
 James Jenkins had the following child:
 i. SARAH3 JENKINS. She married BENJAMIN TROTT.

7. ANN2 JENKINS (Hugh1). She married WILLIAM COWAN.
 William Cowan and Ann Jenkins had the following children:
 i. JANE3 COWAN.
 ii. POLLY COWAN.Amy Crookshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Could anybody post some sample linux C code to read the imu data through serial cable. I'm just starting on this and any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Chris: 08 CTS 4 15,126 miles. My CTS is a special car, used for special occasions and a few trips to Florida. PA has a annual inspection, and from 5/11/ to 5/12 I put on 1,679 miles. Last oil change by A GM Dealer was 10 months ago, Mobil 1 5W30 as required, and I have only put on abouty 1,200 miles, the oil change monitor indicates 88% remaining. Having read you exceptional post, my question, and I'm an old timer, 75, who has changed my own oil for a long time,.( Not on the CTS however.) is TIME. As an example, for years, even in some recent posts, you see 5,000 mlies or 6 months, which ever comes first. What has time, or age of the oil, have to do with its life expectancy? How can it go bad if just setting in the pan? Especialy synthetic. I'm beginning to think I shouild be changing my oil, although only 1200 miles, but almost a years life. Sure would appreciate your comments and many thanks.
Tim Jones


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