{"id":9788,"date":"2020-03-06T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:29:45","slug":"its-1900-where-are-your-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9788","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s 1900: Where are Your Ancestors?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nOn 1 January 1900, I had the following ancestors alive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great-grandparents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Charles Neill<\/li><li>Fannie Rampley<\/li><li>George Trautvetter<\/li><li>Ida (Sargent) Trautvetter<\/li><li>Frederich Ufkes<\/li><li>Trientje Janssen<\/li><li>Mimka Habben<\/li><li>Tjode Goldenstein<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Great-great-grandparents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Samuel Neill<\/li><li>Nancy (Newman) Rampley<\/li><li>John Michael Trautvetter<\/li><li>Ira Sargent<\/li><li>Johann Ufkes<\/li><li>Noentje (Grass) Ufkes<\/li><li>Jans Jansen<\/li><li>Fredericka (Sartorius) Janssen<\/li><li>John Mimka Habben<\/li><li>Anke (Fecht) Habben<\/li><li>Focke Goldenstein<\/li><li>Anna (Dirks) Goldenstein<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Great-great-great-grandparents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Barbara (Siefert) Bieger Fennan Haase Haase<\/li><li>Hinrich Sartorius<\/li><li>Trientje (Behrens) Sartorius<\/li><li>Antje (Jaspers) Habben Fecht<\/li><li>Hinrich Fecht<\/li><li>Bernard Dirks<\/li><li>Heipke (Mueller) Dirks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>They weren&#8217;t living in that many places and fortunately I have them all located in the 1900 census. They are living in seven townships in Hancock and Adams Counties in Illinois. The Hancock County townships are fairly clustered, and it&#8217;s very probable that the St. Albans and Walker families knew of each other as did the Prairie and Bear Creek families. Only one set of my great-grandparents were married by 1900 (the Trautvetters). The rest would marry by early 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1900 locations and number of direct line ancestors who were residents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>St. Albans Township, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;2 (Neill)<\/li><li>Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;5 (Rampley, Trautvetter)<\/li><li>Bear Creek Towship, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;8 (Ufkes, Janssen, Goldenstein)<\/li><li>Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;6 (Habben, Fecht)<\/li><li>Warsaw Township, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;2 (Haase, Sargent)<\/li><li>Honey Creek Township, Adams County, Illinois-2 (Dirks)<\/li><li>Northeast Township, Adams County, Illinois&#8211;2 (Sartorius)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This was an interesting little exercise, but I&#8217;m not going to bother to map them. The best way to map them would be to plat their precise locations. All would have owned at least a small piece of real estate where they lived except for Ira Sargent. It&#8217;s not until 1880 that I have a direct line ancestor living somewhere other than Adams or Hancock Counties.<br>The other item of note personally is the fact that only one of my 3rd great-great-grandparents living in 1900 is on my paternal side-Barbara (Siefert) Bieger. All the others are ancestors of my mother.<br>Where are your people in 1900?\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 January 1900, I had the following ancestors alive: Great-grandparents: Charles Neill Fannie Rampley George Trautvetter Ida (Sargent) Trautvetter Frederich Ufkes Trientje Janssen Mimka Habben Tjode Goldenstein Great-great-grandparents: Samuel Neill Nancy (Newman) Rampley John Michael Trautvetter Ira Sargent Johann Ufkes Noentje (Grass) Ufkes Jans Jansen Fredericka (Sartorius) Janssen John Mimka Habben Anke (Fecht) Habben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}