ira sargent

Martha, the Second Wife of Ira Sargent

Posted on November 4, 2016, updated on September 18, 2018 by mjnrootdig

My great-great-grandfather Ira Sargent’s second wife seems to have been dropped from a UFO into Adams County, Illinois, in 1886. I researched her quite a bit when Ira’s parents were unknown and I was hoping that something on her might lead to something on them. When I was able to locate Ira’s parents through other […]

Updating A Discrepancy Chart for Ira

Posted on June 17, 2015 by mjnrootdig

[this posting originally went live on 16 September 2012] I’ve blogged about this discrepancy chart before, but I realized I never bothered to update it with “new” information on Ira. Regular readers know that I’m a big fans of charts and tables for organization. Here’s part of the original post (and the discrepancy chart): Based […]

Ira and Ira or Ira and Isa: Which Is It?

Posted on June 1, 2015 by mjnrootdig

It’s easy to see how someone might think that the husband and wife in this Price household had the same first name. They do look an awful lot alike and that’s exactly how the transcriber creating the index at Ancestry.com transcribed it: Isa. The head of household was Ira F. Price. His wife was […]