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Genealogy #3
Mar. 10th, 2014 09:53 pmThis post will serve dual purposes today, since I have two tidbits of information to share regarding my family tree.
The first post will center around a journal entry I made two months ago about my plans to research my Bradshaw roots in New Jersey. After two months of waiting, I finally sent in my request for a death record. It looks like I'm in for a long wait, as the process can take 14-16 weeks; a far cry from Pennsylvania's 4-6 weeks. Isn't it strange; since New Jersey is a smaller state, that the records would take longer to research? It must be the lack of indices. I only hope that this search will yield results, since I literally have nothing to go on where her ancestry is concerned.
My second little tidbit concerns Eunice Bradshaw's mother-in-law. I may have stumbled upon genealogical gold. Ancestry.com offers Recent Member Connect Activity and how that works is: A member researching records concerning individuals of your family tree; not necessarily records saved to your own tree, but about your family members, shows up in a feed. That's what happened with my 3x great grandmother. Everything is looking completely aboveboard (trust me, it's easy to save false/inaccurate information to your family tree if you don't take the time to properly research other members information) even though there is a lack of source citations. That isn't a deterrent, though; and doesn't mean that it isn't correct to the best of their knowledge. But if it's correct, then I have my 3x great grandmother's family going back to the early 1700s in Germany. Still not the earliest documented ancestor in my family tree: Mr. Johann A Segendorf born in 1660 in Germany.
The first post will center around a journal entry I made two months ago about my plans to research my Bradshaw roots in New Jersey. After two months of waiting, I finally sent in my request for a death record. It looks like I'm in for a long wait, as the process can take 14-16 weeks; a far cry from Pennsylvania's 4-6 weeks. Isn't it strange; since New Jersey is a smaller state, that the records would take longer to research? It must be the lack of indices. I only hope that this search will yield results, since I literally have nothing to go on where her ancestry is concerned.
My second little tidbit concerns Eunice Bradshaw's mother-in-law. I may have stumbled upon genealogical gold. Ancestry.com offers Recent Member Connect Activity and how that works is: A member researching records concerning individuals of your family tree; not necessarily records saved to your own tree, but about your family members, shows up in a feed. That's what happened with my 3x great grandmother. Everything is looking completely aboveboard (trust me, it's easy to save false/inaccurate information to your family tree if you don't take the time to properly research other members information) even though there is a lack of source citations. That isn't a deterrent, though; and doesn't mean that it isn't correct to the best of their knowledge. But if it's correct, then I have my 3x great grandmother's family going back to the early 1700s in Germany. Still not the earliest documented ancestor in my family tree: Mr. Johann A Segendorf born in 1660 in Germany.
