Merging Records on April 25 2014

I did some extensive work in Family Tree on a line of a third cousin once removed who is married to my first cousin. That sounds strange, but she is related on the Gee side and married to my cousin on the Stucki side. As they would say in the south, we are doubly related.

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Know your ancestors

I posted this on my Letters to Grandpa blog today and by accident posted it on this one as well. I will leave it, because I feel impressed to do so. 

You might want to print this out and answer the questions.  If you have trouble answering the questions, you can always ask.

Where was your mother born?

Where was your father born?

How many siblings does your mother have?

Can you name them?

How many siblings does your father have?

Can you name them?

How many first cousins do you have?

Where was your grandmother Gee born?

What was her maiden name?

Where was your grandfather Gee born?

Where was your other grandmother born?

What was her maiden name?

Where was your other grandfather born?

What did he do for a living?

You had 2 ancestors who were general authorities in the church.  Can you name them?

The first Gee to come into the United States settled in Connecticut.  What did he do for a living?

His grandson moved to Ohio near to the town of Kirtland.  He did not join the church, which was organized in 1830, but his son joined the church in 1832.  What was his name?

Your grandmother Gee's ancestor had a vision.  What was that vision and what was her name?

How did it influence her to join the church.

True or False?

You had ancestors who came from:

1. England

2. France

3. Switzerland

4. Germany

5. Australia

6. Denmark

7. Holland

8. Baltic States

9. Russia

10. Greece

11. Africa

12. China

13. Mexico

14. South America

15. Wales

16. Scotland

17. Ireland

18. Austria

19. Italy

Cousins by the dozens

Cousins by the dozens

I recently have been working on Lysander Gee's descendents from my database of 5000+ individuals and have found a number of individuals who need ordinance work done. One of them was the ancestor of my third cousin once removed on my father's side who is married to my first cousin on my mother's side, so I did some searching and found a number of ordinances that needed to be done. 

I then went to my fathers side and found Elmo Cunningham Gee who was married to three wives and placed sources on his record and his wife's record. I was able to do this with my iPad while I was watching a ballgame during the halftime and timeouts. I was able to accomplish this while still watching the ball game. I also placed sources on Lillian Lucy Christiansen and Gladwyn Marie Mickelson's records.

I reserved some ordinance work and emailed my third cousin once removed and ask her if she would be interested in doing the ordinance work for those people, because they were in her direct ancestral line, not mine. She responded that she would be interested and that they were going to the temple this next month, so I sent her, by email, the family ordinance requests that I had reserved and now she has them in her possession and can have the ordinance work done. 

I will not document here the names of everyone that I found.  I will have to be more careful in documenting them in the future, but they will be noted in Family Tree with my name as the author on the sources and ordinance reservations.

Cleaning up some more records.

I have printed out an incomplete ordinance list for the descendants of Lysander Gee (5600+ individuals).  I check to see if the ordinances have been completed and if not, have reserved them.  I always check to see if there are duplicates.  I also check to see if there are any notes or disputes.  On the record below, I found a dispute from a David Dahlquist.  Since he had an e-mail address, I wrote to him as follows:

Family Tree shows duplicate parents for Johanna Wilhelmina Dahlqvist 18 September 1857 – 23 October 1933 KWJN-56C.

I think we have sufficient evidence to remove Eric Johan MMR3-332 as the father and Gustafa Osterberg MMR3-3Q6 as the mother. 

I will proceed with this if you have no objection.

I have merged two duplicates for Johanna today and one for Augustus Gee.

There are two more duplicates for Johanna that cannot be merged at this time and one for Augustus Gee.  I will be working to clear up these records.

I would appreciate corresponding with you.

Sincerely.

We will now see if I get a response. 

I was lucky.  Here is his response.

"I'm good with you removing the two mentioned above.  I've known for some time they weren't the right parents."

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.   

Finding lost relatives

My grandson Nicholas was called to serve in the Manchester New Hampshire mission.  His first area of service was in Middlebury, Vermont.  When he went to church he met a brother Gee.  I e-mailed him and asked him to get me some information on this brother Gee. His name was Edward Gee.  I asked my grandson to get some information about his parents.  This was his reply:

His parents are Albert Richard Gee and Phyllis H. Gee

His grandparents to that side are Walter Allen Gee and Bertha Sumner.

He doesn’t remember how to spell them, so I had to guess, so the spelling may differ.

With this information I looked on Family Tree and found the individuals. 

I wrote him the following:

I found his parents and grandparents on Family Tree.  There are some ordinances that need to be done. You might let him know of these.  If he would like me to do them, I would be happy to do it or process them and send him the cards to take to the temple.

Our common ancestor is Solomon Gee of Lyme, Connecticut. 

His line goes as follows; Edward, Albert Richard, Walter Allen, Willis Freeman, Allen B, Solomon, Leuman, Solomon Jr. and Solomon Gee of Lyme Connecticut. (8 Generations).

Your line goes as follows, Nicholas, Rachel, Ivin Laurence, Ivin Lafayette, William Erastus, Erastus Rowe, Lysander, Salmon, Zopher, William, Solomon Gee of Lyme Connecticut (11 generations)

Looking in Family Search Record Search, I found the birth date for Edward and also his parents and grandparents.  I also found three of his siblings and their birth dates and birthplaces.  I also found five siblings for his grandfather and one for his grandmother.  There were ordinances to be performed for these individuals as well.

I still need to do further research and work on this line back to Solomon.  Most of the work has been done, but sources need to be attached.

There is work enough to e'er the sun goes down, on my life at least. 

I also found a gee cemetery just outside of Middlebury.  This does not seem to be indexed.  Another project 

My experience with documents in Family Tree

My experience with documents in Family Tree

I looked on the blog and found that they had added a Beta or trial to upload PDF files to Family tree.  It is called Documents and can be found on the right if one clicks on photos.

I uploaded a 114 page PDF document of 8 + megabytes and it was a bit slow, but it did upload without a problem.  I linked it with the individual on Family Tree and that seemed to go seamlessly, however when I went to the person on Family Tree, It did not show up.

I had changed a PDF photo of a death certificate that I had previously attached as a photo to show as a document.  Now what I get is the following when I click on documents:

The Death Certificate appears and is attached to Frances Gates record, but the PDF file indicates that the Processing failed.

If one clicks on the Processing Failed the following PDF file appears.

The file is still there, but it appears to be unattached to the record.

I will have to check with support to see what happened.