One of my genealogy goals is to go through the stacks of paper that is under my desk. Today I happen to be sorting through some of my Hilts/Hiltz relatives. I have a lot of newspaper clippings that came from my grandmothers scrapbook. Years ago I photocopy her scrapbook and cut out the articles and sorted them by family. Now that I have many more names than when I made the copies, these people are easier to sort. Plus with so much more available online, I am able to figure which family they may belong too.
So today as I sub divided them down, I have made new pages of these clippings. I scan them on one side of the page and put the image into word. Then I explain who these people are on the other half of the page. This comes in handy with those social clippings that tell who is visiting who. I printed out the page and file it with the correct family and then threw those little scraps away. Now my notes are on a standard size 8x11 sheet of paper.
It may seem boring, but I am finding some new facts and that is always fun and rewarding.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Thursday, December 6, 2012
More on Eliza J Hilts
In my previous post I talked about the website that I found a wealth of Eliza J Hilts information, it lead me to the author/webmaster who directed me to an e-book he did on his Handy Ancestors. Through this site I was able to get little more information on the descendants of Eliza J Hilts. Again no documentation but names are a gold mine too.
I took one of the names, Edda Handy, granddaughter of Eliza through her only son, Milton and his wife Marie. Doing reverse genealogy can be tricky. I find that I sometimes have to print out lots of census pages and then figure out which one is my person. This is why I like Ancestry.com, I like when they give me suggestions, keep in mind these are only suggestions and some don't always pan out, but when they do. YAHOO!
So how do I do my reverse genealogy, I try to find Edda with her known parents and then see if I find any suggestions. If I find suggestions, I start looking at them. Especially for females it can be challenging because names change. I found Edda as a Warren and how do I know this might be the correct Edda, because living with her in 1940 was her Mother Marie Handy. That is all I need to confirm that this is most likely my Edda and now I have two children, Charles F and Masie Jeanett or Marie J. I have a lot more research to do on Eliza's descendants, but this at least keeps the fire going.
I took one of the names, Edda Handy, granddaughter of Eliza through her only son, Milton and his wife Marie. Doing reverse genealogy can be tricky. I find that I sometimes have to print out lots of census pages and then figure out which one is my person. This is why I like Ancestry.com, I like when they give me suggestions, keep in mind these are only suggestions and some don't always pan out, but when they do. YAHOO!
So how do I do my reverse genealogy, I try to find Edda with her known parents and then see if I find any suggestions. If I find suggestions, I start looking at them. Especially for females it can be challenging because names change. I found Edda as a Warren and how do I know this might be the correct Edda, because living with her in 1940 was her Mother Marie Handy. That is all I need to confirm that this is most likely my Edda and now I have two children, Charles F and Masie Jeanett or Marie J. I have a lot more research to do on Eliza's descendants, but this at least keeps the fire going.
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