Michael John Neill's Genealogy Website
It’s one of the loose documents in the Civil War pension application file for David A. Newman. Unfortunately there’s nothing attached to it that indicated what it actually was. The page documents the two marriages of David Newman in Linn County, Iowa, and also contains the dates of birth for several of his children. […]
I wondered why they were all dressed up. There had to have been some sort of “occasion” as most of the snapshots of the Neills show the men in more traditional farmer attire (son-in-law Armin Shanks was a school teacher as was his wife Nellie) and the ladies in less formal dresses. Common sense told […]
I was wrong. ThruLines at AncestryDNA in their display of data in my ThruLines descent is indicating something is in my tree that is not. This screen shot from my ThruLines for John G. Trautvetter contains information from my database for every entry that’s in a white box. The gray box information is not in my […]
The 1823 death entry in the church records of the Evangelical church in Wohlmuthausen, Thuringen, Germany, list her name as Anna Catharina Trautvetterin. That’s how I should transcribe it because that’s what it says. Do I have a new surname for this family? Do I have a new spelling? Not really. In fact, I have […]
I’ve been reviewing in bits and pieces my copy of the Genealogy Standards Manual written by the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) . The nice thing about it is that one can read it in bits and pieces or in longer sessions. There’s a great deal of food for thought in the small volume about research, […]
ThruLines at AncestryDNA is a clue and can be helpful in sorting matches that have trees associated with them. Researchers should validate the connections that ThruLines shows in the trees it creates. This is true with any record. Just because ThruLines is partially associated with a DNA test does not mean that it is any […]
It seems like there have been some changes to ThruLines since I first experimented with it. ThruLines (through it’s automated processes) indicates as of 14 April 2019 that Charles Chaney had two sons named Thomas. My immediate family appears in the family of the left Thomas (shown in the first image). ThruLines (based upon my […]
Words elude me. While ThruLines had some issues we’ve discussed before at least it wasn’t somehow displaying information from my tree incorrectly or altering it based on other trees. This screenshot of part of my ThruLines for my third great-grandfather shows a display that apparently has taken information from my tree and not just added […]
