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Has blogger changed or has it been that long since I've posted ... anything?



I have found out my grandmother was not born with the name McMinn. Yet other than a newspaper clipping from Ancestry, the person that pointed me in this direction and a census form, I've yet to find anything else.

I like Ancestry.com but it needs to be taken exactly for what it is... users enter information. Over the years this information can be, bit by bit, changed. Hhhmm.. akin to an exersize a teacher had us do when we were younger. It had nothing to do with geneaology but it was meant to show how when something is passed from person to person the meaning, words, small things change which make the end result drastically different.

She whispered a phrase in the ear of the first person. Each in turn repeated in secretive whispers to the person on down the line. When the phrase finally reached the last person in line they told the teacher and the class what the teacher's original message was.. as the child was told the information.

"Wash, wash, wash, wash, wash."

The teacher was in tears laughing.. well maybe not but I seem to remember that so I will include the laughing part in my tale. (See how things change?) We repeat stories dependent upon our memories. Genealogy is very much the same and often has the same outcome. It can come out totally wrong.

Oh, yes.. and what was that original statement the teacher made so we may pass it to each in the class?

"Washington's wash maid washed Washington's wash."

With this in mind I've connected people in my ancestry line but they are only there until such time as I've been able to research them. As such, any entries in mine should be considered suspect unless otherwise stated.

C's Ancestry~ Aleut Indian

I flit from one person to another far too much. The research can be tedious as I find it more difficult than I anticipated to find stories, events, REASONS for why things happened to different members in this family tree.

Recently, I decided to add my first born son's ancestry. His father an Aleut Indian, with a Russian name.. or at least last name. It's hard to pin point and say without question that what I have found is true or not.

My son was adopted by my second husband, however, it's clearly evident the young man is NOT of Irish decent. So, for him and my grandchildren I include this. I am embarking on the unknown as I have no contact with his father and have only a clue as to his whereabouts.

This much I do know. They were of Alaska, then Russia took over and named everyone with Russian names. I assume much as the the Padres did in California with the Indians there?? I know because of Russia my son's father was I THINK Russian Orthodox Catholic?? Some kind of Catholic but he himself was not practicing his religion that is simply how I understand him to have come by his religious classification, if one might put it that way.

When my son was born, I did not know any different and THOUGHT all tribes fell under the title of Eskimo. I could not remember exactly which Indian so the birth certificate lady, a rather impatient person with a job to do, suggested Eskimo and that's what his birth certificate says he is.. but he's not. Now, his father was born in Alaska.. not sure if it was Kodiak.. which I believe it was, or Old Harbor.. but he was born there and raised primarily in San Diego I believe.

I do believe his (my ex's) father has died but his father seems to have had a Native American name and not a Russian name. I found that interesting.. I don't know if the mother married but I do know the name she gave her son, my ex husband.. was her last name. Child born out of wedlock or was that how babies were named at the time??

I debated going there when I was rich to see what I can learn as I feel like my son's heritage has been taken from him and now he; living in the plains area ... well.. I need not go further I'm sure. However, Alaska is a very cold place so I don't see myself going there any time soon. Not to mention the "rich" part of the equation isn't ever going to happen.

I would also like to research this so I can find out if there is a way he can receive medical care. His lack of medical insurance and consequential medical attention following a couple of accidents seem to be causing him some problems. He doesn't live in Alaska though.

Ellen strickland

clipped from www.geocities.com Spouse: John Carleton (1), b. ca. 1554 in Beeford, Yorkshire, England Father: Thomas Carleton, b. ca. 1527 in Beeford, Yorkshire, England Mother: Jennett Wilson They had six children. Married 1582. This family may be traced back to England to 1066. Ellen Strickland Carleton was a direct descendant of Kings Edward the First, Second, and Third of England as well as of certain royal lines of Scotland, France and Spain. Her pedigree also goes back to Cederic, King of the West Saxons, 519 to 553. They had six children.

Ellen strickland

clipped from www.geocities.com Father: Walter Cecil Strickland Esq., b. 5 April 1516 in Sizergh, Westmoreland, England, d. 8 April 1569 in Sizergh, Westmoreland, England Mother: Agnes Hammerton, b. ca. 1520 in Wigglesworth, Yorkshire, England, d. 20 October 1588 Ellen Strickland, b. ca. 1560 in Sizergh, Westmoreland, England This family may be traced back to England to 1066. Ellen Strickland Carleton was a direct descendant of Kings Edward the First, Second, and Third of England as well as of certain royal lines of Scotland, France and Spain. Her pedigree also goes back to Cederic, King of the West Saxons, 519 to 553. They had six children. Spouse: John Carleton (1), b. ca. 1554 in Beeford, Yorkshire, England Ellen Strickland, b. ca. 1560 in Sizergh, Westmoreland, England Father: Walter Cecil Strickland Esq., b. 5 April 1516 in Sizergh, Westmoreland, England, d. 8 April 1569 in Sizergh, Westmoreland, England Mother: Agnes Hammerton, b. ca. 1520 in Wigglesworth, Yorkshire, England, d. 20 October 1588

rev james noyes

something to research

clipped from www.roadchurch.org 1674 - June 3, the First Congregrational Church of Stonington (Road Church) was officially established with nine members - Rev. James Noyes, Thomas Stanton, Sr. and Jr., Nathaniel Chesebrough, Thomas Miner, and his son Ephraim, the brothers Nehemiah and Moses Palmer, and Thomas Wheeler. In September Mr. Noyes was ordained minister of the Gospel.

This goes with Nicholas Noyes cartoon

clipped from www.iath.virginia.edu Caption: "The sheriff brought the witch up the broad aisle, her chains clanking as she stepped." Description: This drawing illustrates a scene in John Musick's book The Witch of Salem in which Rebecca Nurse is brought in chains to the meeting house where the Rev. Nicholas Noyes pronounces her excommunication before the congregation. Source: The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad. By John R. Musick. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1893: 275. Artist: F. A. Carter.

nicholas noyes

clipped from www.iath.virginia.edu