Death Certificates:
In
last week’s Follow-up
Friday post, I mentioned that I ordered 5 death certificates from the State
of Arkansas Department of Health Vital Records Section in Little Rock. I received the first 2 of those death
certificates in the mail this week. I scanned, transcribed them, and entered
them into my notes and as new sources in my RootsMagic database.
I
received the death certificate of my 2nd great-grandfather, William
Edward Peters from Pocahontas, AR. He died in 1948. Unfortunately it did not
list his parents’ names, however it did list his date of birth as March 10,
1874 and place of birth has Thomasville, Missouri. This information correlated
with his obituary; however, most of his census records said he was born in
Illinois. Click here to view his death certificate.
Follow up: I feel more
comfortable going back and combing the census files again for Peters families
in Thomasville (also Moore Township), Oregon County, Missouri now.
I
also received the death certificate of my 2nd great-grandfather,
James Franklin Lasiter from Fort Smith, AR. He died in 1968 at the age of 92. I
found a photo in my grandmother’s collection of him and someone called “John
Riley Lasiter,” presumably his father. The death certificate stated his
father’s name was John R. Lasiter and his mother’s name was Emily Jones. His
mother’s name was new information to me.
Follow up: I can now start
looking for records for Emily Jones Lasiter and John Riley Lasiter including
census records, death records, and marriage records.
Richard Smith’s Confederate Service Records:
As I
also mentioned in last week’s Follow-up
Friday post, I located the Confederate service records of my ancestor,
Richard Smith. I posted the muster roll
cards to my Smith and Fox family Blog here.
And I set some new goals and things to follow
up on for next time, including to continue looking for his original
enlistment muster roll and to see if I can find the Confederate records of
Richard’s brothers John and Claiborn Smith who supposedly joined at the same
time as Richard.
Fox Family:
One
of my Family Finder matches indicated that we might have a connection via the
Fox family in Indiana. My Fox family is concentrated in Arkansas and Oklahoma,
however, for some reason, my 3rd Great-Grandfather, John A. Fox,
moved to Indianapolis after his wife, Sophronia Maynard died in 1917. I guess
his son Dillard Fox lived up there, so he went up there to be with him.
Anyways, he was only there for 3 years before he died in Indianapolis. My
grandfather had given me a copy of John’s death certificate, which is how we
were able to locate him in Indiana.
So I went into my RootsMagic
database and “touched” it up a bit by adding my sources and updating my notes
in both John and his son Fred Fox’s files. Fred Fox was my 2nd
great-grandfather. I did things a little bit differently this time: I added the
notes about each source to the individual notes section for each fact. Normally
I just add everything to the main notes section under the name fact. I then
added my commentary on the source.
I also updated my sources to
Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Evidence Explained
standards. Boy was that complicated! I encountered several problems with doing
this, one of which was that Rootsmagic has several template options to choose
from which may or may not follow EE.
As it turned out, my match
mentioned Parke, Vigo, and Putnam counties, Indiana and I immediately knew right
off the bat that it was NOT the Fox family that we connected on. This location
would be my Godwin family that moved from North Carolina to Putnam County,
Indiana in 1828. This is the first connection I’ve made with someone on my
Mother’s side of the family!
Follow up: I am still waiting to hear back from him to see
if he recognized any of the surname I sent to him.
Update ** October 5th, 2011 ** I have heard back from this Family Finder match and he said that he did not recognize any of the Godwin collateral line surnames that I sent to him from Parke, Vigo, Putnam and Clay Counties, Indiana, so we are back to square one!
Update ** October 5th, 2011 ** I have heard back from this Family Finder match and he said that he did not recognize any of the Godwin collateral line surnames that I sent to him from Parke, Vigo, Putnam and Clay Counties, Indiana, so we are back to square one!
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