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Jefferson County Bulletin
April 2005
As editor of The Genealogical Journal of Jefferson County, New York
(as well as for Oneida and Oswego counties), editor Patricia R. James
(Pat ~ that’s me!) compiles this online Bulletin. It contains items
found along my route of discovery that don't fit into any of my newsletters. It
is free to all.
What's New from
www.NewYorkAncestry.com:
NewYorkAncestry.com is reproducing Franklin B. Hough’s “The
History of Jefferson County, New York.” Originally published in 1854, it
contains 600 pages but very little index. Our reprint will be a soft-cover
book. For those who order through the website before April 30th, you
will receive a (separate) coil-bound index that contains 175 pages of over 7000
everyname entries and 4 appendices. Total price for you Early Birds will be
$35.00 plus shipping. (Book available in the middle of May.)
1.
Lost & Found – While researching in Salt Lake City’s Family
History Library last month, I was browsing in the Ontario, Canada section
and ran across a work entitled: “Born in the USA; Married in Ontario, Canada,
1869-1879.” This 208 page work is so new, it doesn’t yet appear in the FHL’s
FamilySearch.org online library catalog. Basically, it’s a finding aid
that helps locate your ancestor’s marriage information contained in the first
ten years of Ontario, Canada’s national vital statistics. Its fields are: Name,
Age, Birthplace, Father, Mother, Spouse, Date Married, Volume #, Registration
#. The author extracted all records where one (or both) of the spouses were
born south of the Canadian border. Below are the surnames of those spouses that
listed Jefferson County as their birthplace:
ABBOTT, ALLEN, BAKER, BELL, BISHOP, BONNER,
BORDER, BROWN, BUTLER, CARTER, CHAPMAN, CLEMENT, CLUNE, COMSTOCK, CORNWALL,
CORNWELL, COWEN, DAVIS, DICKINSON, DOBBIN, DONOON, EATON, EMERSON, FARNING,
FOLGER, FOSTER, FOWLER, FULLER, GIBBS, GILL, HALL, HARPER, HAWORTH, HOADLEY,
HOSELTON, HOSELTON, HUNTER, HURLBURT, HURLBURT, IRVINE, Surname, JARRELL,
JOHNSON, JOHNSTON, JUNE, KINCHLER, LANDUS, LANGDON, LAWSON, LEE, LEE, LINDSEY,
MARRATT, MARSH, MATTIS, MC CANNA, MC LIVER, MC PHERSON, MERRILL, MOTT, MURPHY,
MURRAY, OATIS, PATTERSON, PEACOUR, PEARSON, PENNY, PERCY, PICKARD, PRICE,
ROGERS, ROSE, SELVAGE, SMITH, SMITH, SOLMES, SPENCER, SPINK, STOLIKER, TOOMAS,
TOURJE, TOWNSEND, TREWLEY, TROWBRIDGE, TUCKER, TYO, TYO, TYO, VAUGHN, WHETMORE,
WOODMAN, WRIGHT.
2.
Website WeView – Genealogical Abbreviations and Anacronyms
Ever come across an abbreviation in a will or religious register that you
didn’t have a clue what it meant? So you did a google search on ‘genealogical
abbreviations’ and came up with 122,000 result and then found that even looking
at the first 2 pages of results took more time than you had to spend in such a
pursuit!? Then, to your chagrin, you found that within the first 15 results
there were four websites that contained the exact information word
–for-word? Let’s me make it simple, then. Here are my three recommendations:
www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/abbrev.html
Good. This is a straightforward list, alphabetized
www.zeal.com
Beter. This site is quite comprehensive. It divides abbreviations into
subject areas.
For instance, you can find links to law terms, religious connotations; military
anachronisms. On the home page will be a search box. Just type in
‘abbreviations’
and a list of 317 resulting links will appear.
www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/abbr.html
Best. This site has EVERYTHING. Quick and easy.
3.
Eye Spy - features rare (out-or-print
or otherwise valuable) books that have a genealogical or historical Jefferson
County slant and are found at bookseller websites.
Josiah Allen’s wife
A prolific author in the late 1800’s, Jefferson County native, Marietta HOLLEY,
wrote under the pseudonyms of both Josiah Allen’s wife and Samantha Allen. Most
of her books highlighted the disparity of the sexes as far as equal rights were
concerned. Her gentle tongue-in-cheek style of writing was often compared both
in content and popularity with that of the famous Mark Twain… For example,
Samantha could not understand why men would try so hard to protect women from
the effort it took to walk to the polling booth and slip a piece of paper in a
box. She observed that these same protective instincts did not apply to
churning butter, baking bread and washing clothes…” (“Ten North Country
Pioneers in Profile” authored by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the
American Association of University Women, 1989.)
Ms. Holley’s books (about 50 in number) can be readily found on both
www.Amazon.com and www.ABE.com for reasonable prices. For instance,
at the latter site, you can find:
Sweet Cicely or Josiah Allen as a Politician. Published in
1885. $7.95.
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet’s: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide
Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness but Which May Be Read by
Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book.
Published in 1884. $7.70.
4.
What's New - The Genealogical
Journal of Jefferson County, New York -
April 2005 issue. Available at our website. Yearly subscription: $11.50.
Topics are:
1) Jeffersonians “Born in the USA; Married in Canada” 1869 – 1879.
2) Vitals Statistics of Jeffersonians found in Early Onondaga County records
3) Court Records: Criminal cases during the year of 1833.
4) Marriages in Universalist Newspapers, 1842 – 1865, part 1.
See List of surnames at the bottom of this page.
5. FYI
– NewYorkAncestry.com is opening up this year a new and unique
line of research for genealogists. As you’ve probably discovered along your
genealogical wanderings, it was not customary in the 1800’s to include a
comprehensive, everyname index at the end of history books. Therefore, many
worthy publications are foregone in research because it’s just too time
consuming for you, the family historian, to do more than glance through them.
What we’re proposing is a searchable online everyname index (including page
numbers) of rare/ old/ out-of-print books that have an interest re: New York
genealogy and/or history. These works could be school catalogs, church
commemorative booklets, town histories, court cases, a diary written by a
neighbor, business account registers, family histories, scrapbooks of newspaper
clippings and various other types of secondary source records.
Upon learning that your ancestor’s name is found in a particular work and
accessing it, you’d at the least know he was in a certain place at a certain
time. You’d also learn something of his/her personality / beliefs, etc. - in
effect, piecing together the history of their lives.
We’d like to have your input in assessing the value of this index to
researchers. Would you take a moment to answer these three questions? We’d
greatly appreciate it. Any additional comments are most welcome.
1. Have you ever subscribed to a paid subscription genealogical website such
as Ancestry.com?
2. Would a website that indexes secondary sources (such as those listed above)
be worth a subscription to you?
3. What would be the value of such if you were to subscribe?
a. $4.95 month b. $12.50 quarter c. $19.95 half-year d. $37.50
year
e. none of the above (please comment on reason)
Thank you for your participation!!!
Sincerely,
Pat and Rex James
www.NewYorkAncestry.com
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Surnames to the April 2005 issue of
“The Genealogical Journal of Jefferson County, New York.”
ABBOTT, ACKERMAN, ACKLEY, ADAMS, ADSIT, AINSLIE,
AINSWORTH, ALDEN, ALDRICH, ALLEN, ALLICE, ALLING, AMEY, ANDERSON, ANDREWS,
ANDRUS, ANGEL, ANTHONY, ARMS, ARMSTRONG, ARTHUR, ASPINWALL, AUBURN, AUSTIN,
AYRES, BABCOCK, BACON, BADORE, BAILEY, BAKER, BALDWIN, BALL, BARBER, BARKER,
BARNARD, BARNES, BARNEY, BARNS, BARRETT, BATES, BAUM, BAXTER, BAYLEY, BEALS,
BECKEL, BECKER, BECKWITH, BEECHER, BELL, BELL , BEMIS, BENJAMIN, BENT, BENTLEY,
BENWAY, BERDEAU, BERSIA, BETHEL, BEVINS, BEZA, BIBBINS, BIGNALL, BIGWOOD,
BINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, BISHOP, BLACKSTONE, BLANCHARD, BLODGET, BLODGETT, BLOOD,
BONNER, BORDER, BOSWORTH, BOUTELLE, BOW, BOWEN, BOYCE, BOYD, BRACE, BRADFORD,
BRAINARD, BRANT, BRIGGS, BRIGHAM, BRIMMER, BRINNAN, BRISTOL, BROADBENT, BRONSON,
BROOKS, BROWN, BRUCE, BUCK, BUCKLEY, BUCKMINSTER, BUELL, BULL, BURNAM, BURNHAM,
BURNS, BUTLER, BUTTERFIELD, BUTTINGS, BUTTON, CALHOUN, CAMPBELL, CANE, CARD,
CARTER, CASE, CASTOR, CAUL, CHAMPLIN, CHAPMAN, CHARNICK, CHASE, CHENNA,
CHITTENDEN, CHRISTIAN, CHRISTIE, CHURCH, CHURCHILL, CLAPP, CLARK, CLEMENT, CLUNE,
COAN, COLE, COLLINS, COMSTOCK, CONGDON, COOK, COON, CORNWALL, CORNWELL,
COUNTRYMAN, COWEN, CRANKSHAW, CRAPO, CULBERSON, DANIELS, DAVIS, DE VILLIERS,
DEAN, DELONG, DENIO, DENNY, DEWEY, DICKINSON, DINGMAN, DOBBIN, DODGE, DONOON,
DOUGLASS, DRAKE, DRAPER, DRESSER, EARL, EATON, ECKERT, EDDS, EDDY, EDGARTON,
EDWARDS, EGAN, EGGLESTON, ELDRIDGE, EMERSON, EMONS, EMSLEY, ENOS, ERWIN, FARELL,
FARNING, FELLOWS , FISH, FOLGER, FORSYTHE, FOSTER, FOWLER, FOX, FULLER, FULSOM,
FULTS, GARLORD, GATES, GEORGE, GIBBS, GILBERT, GILL, GILLIS, GLEASON, GOOD,
GOULD, GRAVES, GRIMES, GUERSNEY, GUNN, HALL, HAM, HAMILTON, HARPER, HARRIS,
HAWLEY, HAWORTH, HAYES, HEALD, HELMER, HENDERSON, HEWIT, HEWITT, HEWMAN, HIBBS,
HICKOX, HILL, HINDS, HINKLEY, HOADLEY, HOBBS, HORR, HOSELTON, HOUSE, HOW,
HOWARD, HOWELL, HUBBARD, HUNGERFORD, HUNT, HUNTER, HUNTLEY, HURLBURT, IRVINE,
JARRELL, JOHNSON, JOHNSTON, JONES, JOY, JUNE, KEENE, KEITH, KELLAR, KELLY,
KELSEY, KENNEDY, KENYON, KERR, KILBORN, KINCHLER, KING, KIRBY, KIRKPATRICK, LA
VARGUE, LAFLER, LANDUS, LANGDON, LASSCELL, LAWSON, LAWTON, LECKNER, LEE, LEWIS,
LINDSAY, LINDSEY, LOOMIS, LYMAN, LYON, LYONS, MAC INERNEY, MACOMBER, MAINE,
MAMOT, MARRATT, MARSH, MASTIN, MATTIS, MAYNARD, MC CANNA, MC DONALD, MC FADYAN,
MC ILGRAM, MC LIVER, MC MULLIN, MC MUNIGAL, MC PHERSON, MENDALL, MERRILL,
MIDDLEMISS, MILES, MILLER, MOORE, MOOT, MORRIS, MORSEMAN, MOTT, MUIR, MURPHY,
MURRAY, MYERS, NIBLOCK, NIPPER, NORTON, NYE, OATIS, PARDEE, PARKER, PATERSON,
PATRICK, PATTERSON, PEACOUR, PEARSON, PEASE, PENNY, PENSE, PERCY, PERSON,
PETERS, PHILBRICK, PICKARD, PIERCE, PORTER, POSTLEWAITE, POTTER, POWERS,
PRENTICE, PRICE, PRIOR, PURVIS, RAMBOW, RATHBUN, RATHBURN, REYNOLDS, RICHARDSON,
RIGGS, RITTER, ROBLIN, ROCKWOOD, ROGERS, ROSE, RUGG, RUPOLE, RUSSELL, SABIN,
SANCOMB, SAYLES, SCIDMORE, SEARLS, SEAVER, SEEBER, SELVAGE, SHARPE, SHAW,
SHERMAN, SICKELS, SIMMONS, SKINNER, SLADE , SMITH, SOLMES, SOPER, SPALSBURY,
SPENCER, SPINK, SPRAGUE, SPRING, STAPLETON, STEADMAN, STEPHENS, STOCKWELL,
STOLIKER, STRATTON, STREETER, SURNAME, TARBLE, TAYLOR, THOMAS, THOMPSON,
THORNTON, TIMERMAN, TOOMAS, TOURJE, TOWNSEND, TREMSLE, TREWLEY, TROWBRIDGE,
TUCKER, TYO, VALLATT, VAN WEGENER, VANDERWATER, VAUGHN, WAIT, WAKEFIELD,
WALLWORTH, WARNER, WATSON, WEAVER, WEBB, WEBSTER, WHEELER, WHETMORE, WHITE,
WICKS, WILLIAMS, WILSON, WINEGAR, WINSLOW, WOOD, WOODMAN, WOODRUFF, WOODWORTH,
WOOLEY, WRIGHT, YENDES, YOUNGS.
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