tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14468935526618879652024-03-18T14:30:28.123-04:00TheAncestorFiles<em>“It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future...”</em>Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.comBlogger930125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-58104177677305027912020-12-20T12:53:00.002-05:002020-12-20T12:53:51.179-05:00Marinus Christensen's Birth FamilyMarinus Christensen was adopted as a small child in Denmark by Jens Christensen and Karen Marie Johannesen. Not long afterward they went to America. Jens died as they crossed the Great Plains so Marinus grew up in the home of his sister and brother-in-law Mary and Ove Oveson. When he died, his son could not give the name of Marinus's parents for the death certificate.Now, we have easy access to Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-72790308197099270232020-05-11T14:35:00.001-04:002020-06-09T11:05:41.728-04:00When FamilySearch Makes Changes
John Morgan's FamilySearch Family Tree entry is blocked from changes because he was a Latter-day Saint general authority. FamilySearch blocks changes to certain notable people whose entries tend to become the target of either malicious changes or adoring but not genealogically significant content.
In order to make changes to a closed entry, you have to contact FamilySearch, and I've never Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-2487356150452101002020-04-26T10:12:00.001-04:002020-04-26T10:13:20.866-04:00John Tanner's Mission: Sources
In the ongoing effort to move the content from this blog over to FamilySearch Family Tree, I compiled the information here and added some new information to a document called John Tanner's Mission: Sources. You can view and download it here:
John Tanner's Mission: Sources
Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-22599362105341096212019-12-26T16:52:00.002-05:002019-12-26T17:00:35.160-05:00John Tanner Documents at The Joseph Smith Papers
The Joseph Smith Papers continues to identify and catalogue papers about the life of Joseph Smith. Their biographical entry for John Tanner has quite a few new entries. I've added links or images of the important items to John Tanner's FamilySearch page. Here's a promissory note that shows John Tanner's signature:
Here's a screen shot of the listed documents:
JS and 30Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-55443873754851570282019-06-23T12:37:00.003-04:002019-06-29T14:55:26.866-04:00The Wessman Home in Göteborg
If you were to visit today, this is the Swedish neighborhood where the Wessman family lived in the 1880s through the 1890s. It appears to have been greatly gentrified.
The Swedish Household Examination Books are an excellent genealogical source. Here is the page for the Wessmans. Their entry begins on the top line.
Here is the first part of the entry for the family.
It lists Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-4903409087572691792019-05-12T15:00:00.000-04:002019-05-12T15:26:29.874-04:00A Matrilineal Chart for Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day! For the occasion, here is a chart of matrilineal descent, with pictures where possible. I have joked before that my matrilineal line goes straight back to Scotland, and that's where I got all my qualities of frugality and thrift. (This post is originally from May 2011, here updated and republished.)
My mother with her mother, Beverly Lucille Glade Wessman (1924–2008)Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-37246253015275942912019-04-11T14:15:00.000-04:002019-04-22T08:34:14.027-04:00"Twittertonians"
This came up through a hint on Ancestry. This is from the East High School yearbook from 1941 showing Beverly Glade (Wessman) and her cousin Patricia Glade (Curtis) participating in a number of school activities including "Twittertonian." Any suggestions what that was? Definitely not connected to today's Twitter!
Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-62708264923641533422018-11-16T11:24:00.000-05:002019-01-15T09:53:02.402-05:00Editor's Note: Comments!
Blogger hasn't been sending notifications for the better part of a year, and just the other day I noticed that there were about a dozen unapproved comments. Thank you to all who have left questions and comments.
It is surprising to see that this blog is approaching half a million page views. I started it in September 2007 when my youngest was at home full-time with a serious medical Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-47605686971812778752018-11-15T11:06:00.000-05:002018-11-16T16:45:15.788-05:00Roy Tanner: World War I Service
Roy Tanner, picture courtesy of stephanieelesewhatcott1,
FamilySearch Family Tree.
LeRoy Parkinson Tanner served in the 141st Infantry, 36th Division, part of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. He had been fighting under General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing on the Mexican border (think Pancho Villa) and his regiment became part of the 36th Division in Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-89328064312192662202018-08-06T10:12:00.000-04:002018-11-09T11:23:17.650-05:00Fighting the Good Fight, or How Do You Explain to People That They Don't Know What They Think They Know
Lehi and the Brass Plates.
John Tanner knew the name of his great-grandfather, so his son, Sidney Tanner, served as proxy for his great-great grandfather William Tanner in the early 1840s in some of the earliest baptisms for the dead in Nauvoo.
Unlike the dramatic story of Lehi's family in the Book of Mormon, John Tanner and his family did not leave their original home with a record Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-47879498210079812652018-08-03T13:55:00.002-04:002018-08-03T13:56:32.402-04:00Elisha Tanner in Manhattan
John Tanner's son Elisha practiced medicine in Manhattan from the 1830s through the 1840s or 1850s. This map shows his places of work and residence as listed in city directories. Note his progress north as he progressed in his career.
Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-6999291662862033612018-07-15T22:10:00.000-04:002018-07-15T22:13:28.605-04:00Speaking in Texas
I'll be speaking in the Dallas area on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Here are details. (Link.)
A quick update since I'm not posting much. I've finished a preliminary draft of my book and it needs some revisions, which I will begin when the children start school at the end of August.
Here are some of the other things happening while I'm not blogging.
* I recently attended andAmy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-2579866901334211982018-04-18T14:15:00.000-04:002018-04-18T14:18:51.984-04:00Trek 2018: Who Were the Mormon Pioneers?
The youth of my Philadelphia-area LDS stake are participating in "Trek" this year and I am helping prepare historical information and serving as a historical advisor for the different activities. Here are my remarks for an opening fireside this past Sunday.
One hundred and sixty-four years ago, a young Irish immigrant named
Samuel Linton picked up the Philadelphia newspaper and saw a Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-65876474768395106442018-02-23T17:55:00.000-05:002018-02-23T17:56:21.214-05:00“Remembering Utah's Forgotten Black Pioneers”
Last week I had the amazing experience of giving a presentation at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. Here is a promotion for the event.
Here is an advance notice in the Salt Lake Tribune. The quotes were from an interview for a story that did not run.
Historian to discuss black Mormon pioneers such as Green Flake and Utah’s relationship with slavery
Here is a write-up of Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-23850212969918107312018-02-18T13:00:00.000-05:002019-06-05T11:59:35.429-04:00Researching Your Mormon Ancestors
... reposting from 2014 ...
Here is a short guide to researching Mormon ancestry,
including a summary of some of the more useful resources.
Collect and Examine Family Records
What genealogy work has already been done in your family? Do you have a copy? If not, who has a copy of the research? Can you get a copy? Who did the work? When? Which family lines did your relative Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-29973121178645378092018-01-06T11:05:00.000-05:002018-01-06T11:05:01.311-05:00Ebenezer Godfrey Defriez: A History
Ebenezer DeFriez was the older brother of Charles Godfrey DeFriez Jarvis. Jim Bowden has just written an excellent, detailed history of Ebenezer. The pictures above are from his history. He kindly provided the document on Ancestry and FamilySearch, and it should be of interest to any descendant of Dr. Joseph George DeFriez and his wife Mary Ann Godfrey DeFriez. Here's a link to the copy at Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-8322987225740852692017-09-17T18:00:00.000-04:002017-09-17T18:34:30.761-04:00"Teething as a Cause of Death": Frances Ann Elizabeth Glade
The parents of Frances Ann Elizabeth Glade were recent immigrants to the United States. Frances's mother, Eliza Mary Litson, arrived in Salt Lake City in 1863 and married widower James Glade, who had been in the country just two years longer. Eliza was from Wales and James was from Devon, England, by way of Wales. James's wife Mary died while crossing the plains, and he had one young Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-14515507602938258262017-09-03T20:30:00.000-04:002017-09-03T20:37:04.187-04:00Happy Labor Day
It's Labor Day tomorrow. The picture to the left is Rose Biodo of Philadelphia, ten years old in 1910. She had already worked for three summers, minding a baby and carrying berries, two pecks at a time. "This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks more."
It was the plight of children like Rose Biodo that led my grandfather's grandmother, Utah Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-16893428500035784682017-04-30T18:30:00.000-04:002017-05-01T10:33:01.125-04:00Mapping History: Sidney Tanner HomesWhen I pulled up the map of Sidney Tanner's homes that I embedded in a previous post, I noticed that it had been viewed 180 times. It's a great way of representing data, and worth explaining. There may be other ways to create maps like this, but Google provides a nice platform, and will probably be around for some time, so that's the method I've chosen to do several recent maps.
I first used Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-15694105748141088372017-04-09T22:30:00.000-04:002017-05-10T03:04:40.040-04:00Remember the trials of Missouri; forget not the courage of Nauvoo . . .
The years of 1838–1839 were a tragic and unstable time in our nation's history as the Mormon War raged in Missouri. The Mormons were trying to protect their right to establish homes as a religious and cultural minority, and although they may have acted unwisely, nothing they did justified being driven out of their lawful homes and persecuted and murdered and the women and girls subjected to Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-26591559084348816832017-04-03T07:00:00.003-04:002022-10-27T09:16:56.141-04:00Slaves in the Family: Quom and Cloe
Soldiers at Yorktown, including a black
infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment.
When he died in January 1777, Francis Tanner of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, owned an enslaved man and woman named Quom and Cloe. He left Quom to his son Joshua Tanner, later the father of John Tanner. Since Quom became the property of Joshua and not one of his older half-brothers, he probably came into the Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-32794265721066327212017-02-16T16:30:00.000-05:002017-02-16T16:36:16.601-05:00Measuring Worth: Joseph Defriez Estate
Tanner Family Line
Joseph Defriez (1793–1874) was the father of Joseph George Defriez. His profession was Funeral Feather Merchant, and he had the Freedom of the City of London. (See Joseph Defriez and the Freedom of the City of London.)
When he died his estate was valued between £800 and £1000. I wondered what that would be in current dollars, and visited the site Measuring Worth. Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-41082601429281117212017-02-05T15:40:00.000-05:002017-02-05T18:46:51.234-05:00Sidney Tanner, "An Old Mountaineer and Veteran Mormon"
This morning I decided to spend a few minutes on my own genealogy, and searched for Sidney Tanner in CDNC (California Digital Newspaper Collection). One of the results was well after Sidney Tanner's death, but I looked at it anyway and saw this note.
T. S. Kenderdina, who came to this valley in 1858, was a guest of Sam Rolfe yesterday. Mr. Kenderdina comes all the way Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-75852268305956676592017-01-29T11:30:00.000-05:002017-01-29T11:42:17.052-05:00Refugees
Due to the events of the past few days, here are some portraits of refugees. One was a peace-loving man who fled Denmark to avoid conscription in the Second Schleswig War. Others fled religious violence or persecution in Europe or America. All hoped to find peace and security here. And as you could probably guess if you've known me for any length of time, these are my ancestors. Do my ancestral Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1446893552661887965.post-74855921072894463502017-01-16T07:00:00.000-05:002017-01-16T07:00:14.597-05:00Consecration Deed: Archibald N. Hill
Here, finally, is an actual consecration deed. So far I have only this one for Archibald N. Hill. There is one listed for Myron Tanner & Brothers, value $566.50, but other than that I'm not finding family names. There are very few deeds from the San Bernardino settlers; they would have been in transit at the time the deeds were being created, and as far as I know there were no deeds created Amy Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037263182287268748noreply@blogger.com0