Closing Down

So sorry--Ancestor's Connect is no longer operating. My thanks to everyone who has followed and taken part on this blog. Hope you will all hop on over to my new site at http://www.truemiracleswithgenealogy.com and follow that one instead.

Truemiracleswithgenealogy.com  is for updated information about my new book True Miracles with Genealogy, which should be in stores October 2010. It is also a place to which readers may send more inspiring research stories for the enlightenment of us all. And hopefully, the site will bring together researchers looking for their family names--especially those with brick walls.

Closing Down

STIVERS, KRAMER, ZIEBOLD, DURCHOLTZ, BRAUN

Today is crazy busy, so I'm posting this entry as is. Hope someone  can help this researcher. Please contact me for her contact information.

 

Catherine STIVERS. We think her father's name was Edward or Charles. We don't know Cathy's mother's name.

 

Cathy had several brothers and sisters (we think 6 in all - maybe more after the first group of children were sent to foster homes). Only her brother Jimmy went with her to the KRAMER's foster home. The others were split up. We think some of their names were Shirley and/or Betty.

 

The family was split apart in Georgetown, Ohio, just east of Cincinnati, Ohio in the early 1950's.

 

Unfortunately, her younger brother Jimmy had muscular dystrophy and died at an early age: somewhere between 15-20.

 

Also, I'd like to find my grandmother's family: the ZIEBOLDs and the DURCHOLTZs.

 

Both the Ziebolds and Durcholz's came over from Germany in the mid 1800's. They settled in either the Cincinnati, Ohio area or neighboring Indiana.

 

My grandmother was born Mary (May) Augusta Ziebold. May was born April 2, 1900. She married Walter Charles Braun and lived most of her life in Mt. Healthy (Cincinnati, Ohio). She died when she was 86 in 1986.

 

May's mother was Josie Durcholz (perhaps Josephine?). May's father was Andrew Ziebold. Her oldest sibling was Sadie Ziebold. The second oldest was Andrew Ziebold Jr. who died of mustard gas poisoning in WWI.

 

Grandma never introduced me to Sadie or her children/grandchildren. I'd love to meet them. I think they stayed in the Cincinnati area but I'm not sure. I think one of Sadie's children was named Jo Ann but again, I'm not sure.

 

Another reason I don't know much about the Durcholz family is because Josie died when May was under 6, so May didn't know much about her mother or her mother's family. Unfortunately, the Georgetown, Ohio courthouse burned in 1912 and that family's Ohio records had been in that Georgetown facility.

STIVERS, KRAMER, ZIEBOLD, DURCHOLTZ, BRAUN

ROGERS, RODGERS, BERRY, BANKSTON, ADAIR

Joseph ROGERS (RODGERS), b. abt. 1832, Illinois. Married Nancy J. BERRY BANKSTON, Illinois,1865.
(Joseph was 2nd husband, first husband John C. Bankston died in the Civil War.)

Nancy J. Berry Bankston Rogers remarried about 13 years after Joseph Rogers death to Isaac ADAIR and became Nancy J. BERRY BANKSTON ROGERS ADAIR

ROGERS, RODGERS, BERRY, BANKSTON, ADAIR

GARDNER/GARDINER, RANDALL, BRIERS

Benjamin GARDNER/GARDINER; b. abt 1720, Boston, USA, d. 7 June 1797, d. Salem, Massachusetts.
Married first, 10 October 1751, Boston to
Sarah RANDALL, three children.
Married second, 2 November 1782, Salem, to
Mary BRIERS of Marblehead, no children.

Benjamin Gardner was a rope maker with Josiah Gaines, listed in the Salem City directory of 1800, and in Rev. William Bentley's Diary as having a brother in Boston who died about the time he wrote an entry for 27 September 1789. There was a Thomas Gardner in the Boston Death records who died on 22 September 1789.

GARDNER/GARDINER, RANDALL, BRIERS

Creating a Genealogy Blog--Video from Lisa Cooke

I found this useful  video on YouTube this week and thought this a good place to share, since I've been asked many times how to create a blog.

Watch as Lisa Louise Cooke host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast and the Family History: Genealogy Made Easy podcast shows you how to create your own genealogy blog. It's quick, easy and free. Listen to the companion podcast episode Family History: Genealogy Made Easy Episode 40.

Creating a Genealogy Blog--Video from Lisa Cooke

MOORE, HUNT

Sarah Ann MOORE; b. abt 1842, London, England
Bristow HUNT; b. abt 1838, Manchester, England

MOORE, HUNT

Grave Transformations

Here's a great YouTube video from Family Tree Magazine that shows how to use photo-enhancing software to make photos of headstones easier to read. Lisa Louise Cooke serves as your insider, dishing up these valuable tips and tricks.

Grave Transformations