Posting more documents on Family Tree

About four years ago, I prepared a document "The Descendants of Johann Altgelt, Lay Judge of Siegen."  He was a distant ancestor of Cyrene Standley Merrill (8th great grandfather) and her father Alexander Scoby Standley.  It is 114 pages.  I have it in PDF format that I can e-mail to anyone interested. There are photos that I took of the cities mentioned and the original document in German and then a descendancy chart in English with the line to the Standley and the Stolts families with an index of names at the end.  I put this on Family Tree today.  I have not yet tagged all of the individuals mentioned in the document.  That will be my next big project.

You can download it from there.  Since Family Tree does not want patriarchal blessings on the web, I had to re-edit the document to exclude the ones I had in the original, but I do have the original with the blessings that are in a small enough file to attach to an e-mail.

The introduction details the provenance of the original document.  I put this together into PAF while I was in Frankfurt on our mission in 1997-2000 and then finished the document in 2009.   

More Additions to Family Tree and another Adventure

I did get some more postings to Family Tree and updated my own database with the postings. Click on the links below.

Alexander Scoby Standley 

Salmon Gee Research Notes 

Photo of Orlando Lysander Gee family

Now I just have to identify all the members of the family in the photograph. I did this once before, but can't readily locate the e-mail that I sent. 

I also wrote up a little Adventure in Family Tree that I posted to the family history class website.  This is a little exercise in how to deal with duplications of ordinances.  

There is more to come.  I just need the time. There are more histories that I have, but they need to be scanned and converted to a machine readable format.

 

Adding histories from the archives

I snatch a few minutes here and a few there and am able to add a history or two when I can't go back to sleep.  Here are the additions.  Just click on the name for the link.

Vernon Ray Gee

Philinda Upson

Nancy Jane Rawlins

Marion Joseph Kerr

Ella Rebecca Merrill 

There are more.  It just take time to add them.
 
 
 

 

More Additions from hidden sources

Today I was looking around on my computer for some files to put on Family Tree.  There were a number that I ran into. I had them on my Compaq laptop which was the computer that I had before the last one, a Dell laptop. It crashed and now I have a new one running Windows 8. I had transferred all the files from the Compaq laptop to the Dell and put them in a folder and forgotten about them. I ran onto them today. So I decided to add some stories that I had in that folder. 

Two historical documents on Salmon Gee. Click here.  And Here. 

Also a History on Cyrene Standley Merrill written by two of her granddaughters, one of which was my grandmother Mary Ellen Kerr Gee.

There are more to come, but I ran out of time.

The link is Here.  

Memorial Day

What does one do on Memorial Day?  When I was growing up we called it Decoration Day.  It is usual to go to the cemetery and place flowers on the graves. My brother Martell will visit my grandfather and grandmother Gees graves in Pocatello and then on to Sugar City and then back through Paris where we have family buried.  I assume that my brother Glendon will be in Paris and visit the cemetery there.

I went to the Bountiful Cemetery.  We have an ancestor who was the first person to be buried there.  Along side his marker is his wife and on the other side his grandson.

Alexander Scoby Standley was Cyrene Standley Merrill's father.  The link to his gravestone is:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28813676

Philinda Upson Standley was his wife.  The link to her gravestone is:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28799938

There is a marker for Nathan Alexander Merrill, but no one has put a photo on Find a Grave.  I will do it and hope to have the task accomplished this next week and link it to his mother and father.

Someone already had decorated the graves.  I did not meet anyone there.  An ordinance worker on our shift by the name of Glenn Tonge is a descendant of Alexander and Philinda.  He also served a mission in the Western States Mission, but never got to Lander.