Year: 2014

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52 Ancestors Fanny Lulu: Back from the dead

I know what you’re thinking but no, it’s not quite that dramatic. Last month in response to the A to Z blogging challenge, I posted some quilt designs that I had named after females in my family tree over on my quilting blog. Letter F was a quilt design for Fanny Lulu Williamson. [How could I pass up using a name like Fanny Lulu?] When I started the blog post, the information I had for Fanny in my genealogy software showed that she was born about 1861 in Rochester, New York. She was my 1st cousin 3 x removed—her father, Thomas Williamson was the brother of my 2nd great grandfather, William Henry Williamson. Information found on FindaGrave.com showed that Fanny Lulu had died in October 1887.

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Find A Grave Memorial #41439483

[There are a couple of glaring inaccuracies in the brief bio on the Find A Grave Memorial page
but I am going to save clearing that up for another post.]

Because Fanny had died fairly young, I wanted to list her cause of death in my quilting blog post. To find her cause of death, I used the Mt Hope Cemetery Interment Books available online because they have that information taken from the death certificate in them. According to the interment book, Fannie Williamson was 32 when she died of typhoid fever in 1887 which would put her year of birth about 1855—not 1861/1862 as shown in the 1870 and 1880 censuses. She was buried on 6 October 1887 in SE 1/4 410 R1—a plot owned by Thomas Knowles according to the Mt Hope Plot Map Books also available online. [See Note #1 below for links to these records online.] There are no other Williamsons buried near her which is unusual for my Williamson ancestors and given that her father owned a full plot, I questioned why she wasn’t buried there. Looking at this new information, it seemed unlikely that this Find A Grave memorial was for my Fanny Lulu Williamson.

Further searches on FamilySearch.org didn’t turn up anything concrete for Fanny before I posted her quilt design. She disappears after the 1880 New York Federal Census where she is enumerated in her father’s household as a dressmaker, age eighteen. In addition, the family trees on Ancestry.com are riddled with the [inaccurate] FindAGrave.com information. I surmised that she may have actually married rather than died young and knew further investigating would be needed.

Later I was kind of kicking myself that I had written brief biographical information about the women each of the quilts were named after but hadn’t thought to post that information over here for the 52 Ancestors Challenge. As you have probably guessed, I dug a little deeper to try and find out what really happened to Fanny Lulu. Her marriage record was the first find and without it, it would have been difficult to go further.

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City of Rochester Marriage Records online at cityofrochester.gov

Here is what I have pieced together from later census and death records…

Fannie Lulu’s given name was Fannie Louise Williamson

  • born: 5 November 1862 in Rochester, New York to Thomas and Mary [Duckett] Williamson
  • died: 12 January 1926 in Detroit, Michigan
  • married: 14 October 1886 in Rochester, New York to:

John Nicodemus Hyle

  • born: 14 July 1859 in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania to Frederick and Margaret [Nicodemus] Hyle
  • died: 17 November 1947 in Marion, Ohio

John and Fannie had two children:

  1. Frederick Williamson Hyle, born: November 1887 in Pennsylvania
  2. Fannie Louise Hyle, born: 28 May 1891 in Pennsylvania

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Notes:

  1. Find A Grave Memorial #41439483 should be for Fannie Williamson, born about 1855. See Mt Hope Interment Book PDF and Mt Hope Cemetery Plot Map Book.

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Cite This Page:

Erin Williamson Klein, “52 Ancestors #6 – Fanny Lulu: Back from the dead.” My Family History Files, 06 May 2014 (https://myfamilyhistoryfiles.com/williamson/52-ancestors-6-fanny-lulu-back-from-the-dead : [access date]).

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Attaching Files in OneNote

alphabet treeHere I am going to show you how to Attach and Insert Files into [onto?] Pages in OneNote. I equate “attaching” with “linking.” I am linking to a File on my hard drive, another Notebook, Section or Page or linking to information on the web.

The first place I do this in each Surname Notebook is in the Table on the Direct Line and Non-Direct Line Sections for each Surname Notebook. Both Tables combined are a list of everyone I have entered in the Surname Notebook so far.

 

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Making Text a Link is the same procedure you use in MSWord. Highlight the text with your cursor−in this case Margaret Pollitt. On the Insert Ribbon [menu], choose Link. I am using the “Pick a location in OneNote” option so I find my way to where Margaret Pollitt’s Page is located in my Williamson Notebook. When I Click > OK, Margaret’s name in the Table becomes a link to her Page in the Notebook.

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You can Attach a File anywhere on a Page by placing your cursor wherever you would like the Link to appear. Click > Insert > Link. You can browse the Web or Folders on your hard drive for files to link to in addition to your Notebooks, Sections and Pages. I found the folder for my grandfather’s files on my hard drive and chose the census document I needed to attach in my Table. After I found the appropriate file, I changed the Text to Display to show the year and location of the census.

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I linked to all the census documents I had for my grandfather.

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Below, the PDF icons link to newspaper pages that contain articles about a great uncle that found himself in a bit of trouble in his early twenties. I used File Attachment to add them to his Page. I could insert a copy of the newspaper page using File Attachment, however it only displays a portion of the newspaper page.

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In a later tutorial I will show you how to insert the individual newspaper articles as another option.

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Erin Williamson Klein, “Attaching Files in OneNote.” My Family History Files, 14 April 2014 (https://myfamilyhistoryfiles.com/organization/attaching-files-in-onenote: [access date]).

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Printing to OneNote

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The easiest way to add a file−document, PDF, photo, genealogy chart−is to use the Print Function in the program where you are viewing the document. If you would like to “see” the file on a Page in your Surname Notebook, this is the simplest way to accomplish that.

One of the Pages that I have added to my direct line ancestors is a Timeline that I’ve made up as a table in MSWord. Shown below is the 8 page Timeline for my great grandfather, Henry George Buisch.

 

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To get this document into the Buisch Notebook in Henry’s Section, I would Click File > Print > Under “Printer” choose “Send to OneNote 2013” from the drop-down menu > Click Print.

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Note that I have OneNote in my task bar at the bottom of the screen but it’s not currently opened. After a few seconds, the task bar icon will start to blink. When I open OneNote, I get a window that that asks where I want to insert the printout with a list of my Notebooks. I can choose a Section or a Page inside a Notebook. I want the Timeline to be on its own Page that I will make a Subpage of Charts & Reports so I chose the Buisch Notebook and then Henry’s Section.

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OneNote opens the Notebook and Section I chose and the Timeline is added as a Page at the bottom of the Page Navigation Menu as “Printout”. All that’s needed is to change the name of the Page and to move it up under Charts & Reports and then slide the Page tab to the right to make it a Subpage.

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I really love this option for the Charts & Reports that are available in my genealogy software. I decided to add the Bow Tie Chart I created for yesterday’s post where I was trying to figure out how many names I would have going back 5 generations from my father’s parents to his Charts & Reports Page. Here is the chart in Family Tree Maker. Click Print > Choose Send to OneNote 2013.

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This time I chose the Charts & Reports Page instead of just my father’s Section in the Williamson Notebook.

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The Bow Tie Chart is inserted onto the Charts & Reports Page for my father. I moved the second page of the chart up to nest next to the first page.

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In the next two posts, I will show you other ways to attach and insert files.

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Cite This Page:

Erin Williamson Klein, “Printing to OneNote.” My Family History Files, 12 April 2014 (https://myfamilyhistoryfiles.com/organization/printing-to-onenote: [access date]).

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