At 23 and me, you’ll often get an idea of Cousinship with a match request. It will say something like “estimated 4th cousin with a range of 3rd to 5th cousin” or “5th to distant cousin”. Some lines in my family end at second great grandparents, so I’ve tried to note them in every generation …
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Time for a pep talk. About four years ago, I started this blog to keep track of my progress finding my Thompson family. A pretty narrow scope. Straight up the male line. That was my intent. Once I entered the realm of genetic genealogy, the scope creep was inevitable. My Y DNA results were ambiguous. …
I decided to spend some more time looking at the man from Butler PA that I can follow fairly well. John Burgess Hollingsworth. This time I focused on histories. Using three histories of Grant county I was able to figure out that John B. Hollingsworth is John Burgess Hollingsworth, his middle name reflects his mother’s …
Quite a long time ago now, I ordered Levi Thompson’s pension records. Not the full pension, but a partial pension. It was listed as the pension most appropriate for genealogists. I think it’s an awesome thing, but I was disappointed in how little information on family it really gave. For instance, not even his wife …
I ordered several obituaries form The Anderson Public Library for Henry Williamson, Ida Williamson (Thompson), Rena Frances Thompson (Tyler), Mattie Thompson (Clifford), James Thompson and Mary Thompson (Fennimore). Trying to get more information about these people and their families. I was happy to see that Henry Williamson’s obituary listed his civil war service, but a bit …
When I first found out about Butler Pennsylvania (after ordering Levi Thompsons state records from Indiana). I was really really excited. I thought I would surely find him there. Since then, I’ve been all over the place trying to locate any tie to the area that I can, and I just can’t place a Levi …
I was printing off my forms for death records for Rosa Blades and Henry Williamson (see task list) when it struck me that there was more I could do at the Anderson public library. In the past I ordered obituaries for Rosa Thompson and for Thompsons I thought might be related to Levi. This time around …
This is the Bermuda triangle of family names. I need to make this note for myself because it can easily become really confusing. I was researching John B Hollingsworth and family (Hollingsworths Next Door) and it turns out that they bulk of their family moved from Butler PA to Grant county IN, not Madison county. …
I made an informal survey of Thompsons from Butler PA in 1840 that have children in the 5 year old range. On the assumption that Levi Thompson would be about 5 or 6 and would still be living in the Butler area (lots of assumptions). If his age is right in his other census records …
Things I should do without DNA: I want to make some kind of list of Thompsons who emigrate from England before 1835, but it may not be worth it because there are many of them and their point of entry into the U.S. may not be telling. Also even though my Y seems to be …