From the Probate Files: Thomas Tipton, Guardian of Jesse Tomlinson - Franklin County, Ohio, 1815

Thomas Tipton, who had married Elizabeth Tomlinson* in 1813, was named by the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County as the Guardian of Jesse Tomlinson** although I didn't find any mention of a probate for a Hugh Tomlinson*** in the surviving records available online.

["Ohio Probate Records, 1789-1996," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9MT-S72L?cc=1992421&wc=S2C9-923%3A266276201%2C266650901 : 1 July 2014), Franklin > Trustee and guardianship index 1806-1919 > image 208 of 529; 

county courthouses, Ohio.]

Unfortunately the Administration Docket Volume 1 Page 63 referred to in the far right column isn't available online.


*Elizabeth (About 1780-1864) was young Jesse's aunt.
**This is the same person who was the subject of last Wednesday's post.
***I haven't found any online records, such as marriage or census, for Jesse's father Hugh Tomlinson and there's no indication of what his mother's name was at all. It appears that Jesse was their only child.


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Limited Time Free Legacy Family Tree Webinar: "New York City Genealogical Research: Navigating Through The Five Boroughs" presented by Michael L. Strauss

I have always thought it a shame that I don't have any recent New York City ancestors.  Here and there I find a relative lived there but otherwise I don't know much about that iconic American city. To straighten out what areas comprise New York City I looked up what Wikipedia had:

New York City encompasses five different county-level administrative divisions called boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Each of the boroughs is coextensive with a respective county, the primary administrative subdivision within New York State. The Bronx and Queens are concurrent with the counties of the same name, while Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island correspond to New York, Kings, and Richmond Counties respectively.

Screen capture of the boroughs of New York. By Vector adopted by User:NafsadhOriginal:Julius Schorzman, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36401671

Michael L. Strauss presented "New York City Genealogical Research: Navigating Through The Five Boroughs" on November 8, 2017:

Many persons can trace their origins to the Empire State. New York City being one of the largest urban center offers many genealogical resources. Between the American Revolution and the Civil War-several key urban cities along the eastern seaboard populations increased strikingly. In 1790 New York’s population was about 33,000 persons, and by 1860 more than 1 million persons lived in the metropolitan area. This lecture offer a unique prospective into the various genealogical sources and historical records that are New York City.

Free to non-subscribers through November 15, 2017.

Runs 1 hour 41 minutes.

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Working on Wednesday: Jesse Tomlinson (1798-1857) & the Ohio Canal - 1831

The Tomlinsons left Maryland for Ohio early in the 19th century and the 1830 federal census located this maternal 3X great grandfather in Perry Township of Pickaway County (where he, his wife Catharine Gaskill Freeman and their five oldest children were living by 1824).

[1830; Census Place: Perry, Pickaway, Ohio; Series: M19; Roll: 138; Page: 108; Family History Library Film: 0337949. Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.  Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

Ohio Governor Jeremiah Morrow and New York Governor De Witt Clinton had taken part in the ceremonial start of the Ohio and Erie Canal (to link the river to the Great Lakes) on July 4, 1825.

[Map of Ohio showing canals built. Source: Ohio's Historic Canals]

And here's a detail from an 1831 Ohio map showing the route of the canal through Pickaway County.

[Detail from Ohio. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr. New York. Entered ... Nov. 11th in the year 1831 by David H. Burr ... New York. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection]

Obviously Jesse Tomlinson was affected by the construction of the canal as we can see from this page of The Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Canal Commissioners. He was awarded $125, a substantial amount at the time, for the loss of stone taken from his land.

[Ancestry.com. Public documents concerning the Ohio canals : which are to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River, comprising a complete officia [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Public documents concerning the Ohio canals : which are to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River, comprising a complete official history of these great works of internal improvement, from their commencement down to the close of the session of the legislature of 1831-32. Columbus Ohio: I.N. Whiting, 1832.]

Here's how I'm related to him.

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Reminder to Always Scrutinize City Directories

My 3rd cousin 2x removed Mildred Hester Nichols was married to Theodore William Woodbeck, and they lived in Jackson, Mississippi in the mid-1940's. They had one child under 18 living with them--how do I know that?  Jackson, East Jackson and Pearl City, Mississippi City Directory, 1947, "Woodbeck Theo W (Mildren H)" p. 1105; digital image, U.S. City Directories (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2469/13635560/828798955 : 7 November 2017).

Most entries in city directories are self-explanatory, but sometimes a directory will use code to indicate something extra about the residents.  In this case I found that the Jackson, Mississippi 1947 city directory indicated how many children under 18 were in the household:

Part of the explanation page shows that they accounted for children under 18, something I had not seen before.  Since the 1947 city directory was only partially digitized I could not find its Explanation page, but the 1945 Jackson, Mississippi city directory was complete and appeared to use the same format as the 1947 one.  Jackson, East Jackson and Pearl City, Mississippi City Directory, 1945, "Explanation" image 9; digital image, U.S. City Directories (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2469/12888254#?imageId=12888262 : 7 November 2017).

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Monday Is for Mothers: Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman

Several years ago the BBC broadcast this documentary looking at the role of women in 16th century England using Mary Arden as an example.  DNA tests suggest my own heritage is about 65% from the British Isles, so I definitely had carious female ancestors whose lives wouldn't have been that much different from hers.

The clothing worn by the reenactors was particularly interesting to me, especially the head coverings they all wore, even the little girls and boys.

[Sketch of a 16th-Century English Woman with Children

Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger]

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Sunday Drive: Tugboat at Bonneville Dam Locks - 1948

Bonneville Dam was formally opened on July 9, 1938 so the complex was ten years old when Dad took this photo.*

[From my personal collection]

Here's a general overview of the layout of the dam and locks.

[Bonneville Power Admin. pamphlet "Columbia River Power and the Northwest," p. 6, 1940. Source: The Oregon Encyclopedia]

And here's what the locks look like today, after extensive changes were made in 1993.

[The Locks at Bonneville Dam, 2008. This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication]

*As far as I know, the people in the photo weren't known to the Curreys.



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Legacy Family Tree Webinar: "Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques used in Genetic Genealogy" by Tim Janzen

MyHeritage is the one main DNA company I have not done DNA with yet.  I'm still getting used to 23andMe, and will soon have Living DNA to figure out, and am tapped out on learning new DNA companies for the year!  Maybe next year.

But this webinar, Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques used in Genetic Genealogy, originally presented in Israel by Tim Janzen for MyHeritage One-Day Genealogy Seminar on October 29, 2017, is a great way to see how to apply advanced techniques in DNA analysis (regardless of which company you use, I think):

This presentation will introduce some advanced techniques used by genetic genealogists including the use of triangulated groups, chromosome mapping, visual phasing, and phasing. Triangulated groups are clusters of matches who all share the same DNA segment and therefore all descend from a common ancestor. All serious genetic genealogists organize their matches into triangulated groups and then look for the shared ancestor common to everyone in each triangulated group. Chromosome mapping is the process of determining which portions of your DNA came from which ancestors and/or which geographic region or population. Chromosome mapping is essential to genetic genealogists. It allows you to focus your attention on a portion of your pedigree chart when you search for a shared ancestor with a match who shares a segment of DNA with you that you have mapped to a specific ancestor. Visual phasing is a powerful technique that helps you refine your chromosome maps if you have autosomal DNA test results from 3 or more siblings.

Runs 1 hour 2 minutes


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