Monthly Archives: March 2014

My A to Z Challenge posts start with the letter A on 1 April and will end with the letter Z on 30 April. The days in between? In alphabetical order?? Well, not so much.
Just sayin’.
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alphabet treeThe 2014 A to Z April Challenge is designed to challenge bloggers to post Monday through Saturday during the month of April resulting in 26 blog posts. If you can keep up. The A to Z part of the challenge consists of using the letters of the alphabet—one per day—on which to base your posts. It helps to have a theme to tie your posts together and I think it was easier to come up with 26 words to use as topics because I had an overall theme. Although I fudged a little and some of my words are actually phrases. (hehehe)

Since this is a blog about family history, my theme is Using Microsoft OneNote 2010 for Genealogy Research. My focus for the 2014 A to Z April Challenge will be explaining the way I use OneNote in my own family history research. I have 26 topics — A to Z — for OneNote. My posts will begin with the Letter A on 1 April and end with the Letter Z on 30 April. However I won’t be posting the rest of them in alphabetical order. (You will thank me later when the posts flow in order through the 26 topics rather than alphabetically.)

You can find a link to all the topics as they are posted listed on my OneNote A to Z tab above.

 

I just love the quirkiness of a Leap Year wedding, don’t you? One hundred and ninety years ago, my 3rd great grandparents were married on 29 February 1824 at the Manchester Cathedral in Manchester, England.

Thomas Williamson
born about 1803 in Manchester, England
died 20 September 1849 in Rochester, Monroe, New York
Margaret Pollitt
born about 1803 in Manchester, England
died April 1856 in Rochester, Monroe, New York

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Notes:
  1. This post was last updated/edited on 14 March 2014.
  2. If you have questions about or corrections to anything posted here, please post a comment or contact me using the form on my Contact Me page.
  3. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 (Cathedral) [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. ImageNo: 1824 [accessed 01 Mar 2014].
  4. Manchester Cathedral exterior photo by Richard Rogerson. Licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
  5. Manchester Cathedral interior photo by Michael D Beckwith. Licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
  6. Manchester Cathedral aerial view in public domain with no copyright restrictions.
  7. Virtual Tour of Manchester Cathedral

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Erin Williamson Klein, “52 Ancestors #5 A Leap Year Wedding (Thomas Williamson and Margaret Pollitt).” My Family History Files, 1 March 2014 (https://myfamilyhistoryfiles.com/williamson/52-ancestors-5-a-leap-year-wedding/: [access date]).

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Erin Williamson Klein
New York to Nevada
Started my research in 1993

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Sourced Database Statistics:

2 of 2 people identified as parents
4 of 4 people identified as grandparents
8 of 8 people identified as great-grandparents
16 of 16 people identified as 2x great-parents
30 of 32 people identified as 3x great-grandparents
44 of 64 people identified as 4x great-grandparents
52 of 128 people identified as 5x great-grandparents
32 of 256 people identified as 6x great-grandparents
14 of 512 people identified as 7x great-grandparents
8 of 1024 people identified as 8x great-grandparents

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