Posts from 2020: https://wanderingtrees.com/2020/ DNA and Genealogy This year started off where last year ended. I had my own Big Y results back (before a human review) and tried to make sense of those results and the new FTDNA block tree. I had my MTDNA results back with the deepest testing I could do and …
When I ordered my records from the State digital archives I also ordered several other records from Madison County. From the Anderson Library I ordered some obituaries I thought might belong to my family and I also ordered death records from the county using the forms I got from the Madison County Historical society. The …
I was contacted in January by someone who found one of my postings out on the Thompson genealogy site. Ironically, he contacted me about the time I got my package from the MCHS containing all that information and when I had my Ancestry.com account active. So things all came together at once. All my droppings …
I could never find evidence of Rosa and Levi’s marriage. I haven’t been able to find grave sites or death certificate records for either person. To me they appear to be people that grow out of the ground in 1860 with children in tow, living with another family that I cannot tie them to through …
Picked up my ancestry.com account again as a Christmas gift and found an unexpected record for Levi Thompson in 1890. On ancestry the 1890 records are pretty dry and unorganized, but oddly that’s where I found him. Levi Thompson shows up in 1860 with his family and disappears after the 1870 census. I assumed he …
Here are some collected Notes I’ve attached to Levi Thompson (b circa 1835) father of Albert, who served in the 34th Indiana Infantry Volunteers: Name: Levi Thompson Residence: Alexandria, Indiana Enlistment Date: 21 Sep 1861 Side Served: Union State Served: Indiana Service Record: Promoted to Full Corporal. Enlisted as …
So now my tree look something like this: Levi Thompson 1835/6 – bef 1880 b: Pennsylvania or IndianaMarried abt 1855 to Rosa or Rosanna (unknown) 1837 – bef 1910 b: Indiana Mary Thompson 1856 James Thompson 1857 Emily J Thompson Silcott 1859 Nina Silcott. Rena Frances Thompson 1868 Albert Thompson 1870 – 1909 b: Indiana …