Saturday Night Fun – 06/27/09

Here’s Randy’s challenge for this week:

1. Identify one genealogist that you would like to meet. The person could be living or deceased.
   
2. Why do you want to meet with this person?
   
3. What would you talk about? What questions would you ask this person?
   
4. Write about your choice on your blog or in Comments to this post.

This is actually a little hard to answer.  Personally, through blogging and Facebook, I feel like I’ve already “met” many great genealogists.  There are many that I follow in order to learn from, and others I befriend because they’re wonderful people and we share a passion for genealogy. 

But there are a select few that I would love to meet in person and have face-time with.  They are:

Sheri Fenley – I love Sheri’s sense of humor.  She’s a wonderful Facebook/blogging friend and I’d love the opportunity to meet her in the “real world.”  Pull out the Scrabble board, Sheri…I’m coming!   :)

Colleen McHugh – Another great Facebook/blogging buddy.  I love her passion for genealogy and the fact that she has Irish roots like me.

Randy Seaver – A wonderful man with a huge passion for genealogy.  I’d love to just sit down and learn from him.

Thomas MacEntee – Thomas is just a lovable guy and a great Facebook/blogging buddy.  He and I share a passion for the “technology” side of genealogy.  I’m sure there’s much more I could learn from him.

Pam Warren & Dave Weller – My Michigan buddies, who have helped me out in Oakland County.  I’d love the opportunity to thank them for their help, in person.

footnoteMaven – Need I say more?

Maureen Taylor – The true Photo Detective, what wonderful things I could learn from her to aid in my love of old photographs.

There you have it!

Saturday Night Fun – 06/20/09

Here’s Randy’s challenge:

1. Go to www.DeathClock.com (it takes awhile to load) and enter your birth date, sex, mode (normal, optimistic, pessimistic or sadistic), BMI (body mass index - there's a handy calculator for this) and smoking status.
   
2. Click on the "Check Your Death Clock" button.
   
3. Write about it in your blog, or in comments to this post. Or keep it secret - your choice!

According to the Death Clock, I will expire on 18 August 2046.  Not complaining.  I’ve still got some time to get some things done.  :)

Family Events – Week of June 28 to July 4

Elizabeth “Lizzie” V McMAHON & Arthur L FRANCOEUR – Lizzie is my second great-grandaunt.  She and Arthur married on 29 June 1937 in Cook County, Illinois.

Timothy McMAHON & Margaret RYAN – Timothy and Margaret are my third great-grandparents.  They were married on 29 June 1876 in Cook County, Illinois.

Timothy “Thomas” G McMAHON & Eleanor BRANDENBURG – Thomas is my great-granduncle.  He and Eleanor married on 30 June 1937 in Cook County, Illinois.

Mary “Polly” Wheeler SMITH – Polly is my fifth great-grandmother, who was born circa 30 June 1781.  She died on 30 June 1844.

Charles Henry ROTTMAN – Charles is my first cousin twice removed, who was born on 1 July 1912 in Iowa.  He died in September 1976 in Durant, Cedar, Iowa.

Thomas Robert CAHILL & Margaret “Maggie” MILLETT – Thomas and Maggie are my second great-grandparents.  They were married on 3 July 1887 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.

*Based on information from several compiled source, of which I have not personally verified at this time.

Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)

• Graves Family Association

  tags: graves family, graves surname

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Saturday in the Attic – 06/27/09

This is a baptism certificate for my great-grandfather, Emil Charles MILLER.  The document is 120 years old and is in written in German.

Friday Finds

My research focus this week has been my Connecticut ancestors, including the WEBSTER, HOPKINS, JUDD, BRONSON, GRAVES, and LEWIS lines.  Fortunately there are some good references available, which I will share in today’s Friday Finds column.

BOOK  Lucius Barnes Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1977) – Fortunately this book is available at my local genealogy library, but I also purchased it (along with other books) on the CD collection Connecticut Local and Family Histories available from Genealogical.com.

DATABASE / INDEX  Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), and Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.  These databases are based on the index, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records Vol. 1-55 compiled by Lorraine Cook White (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002).  They are available through Ancestry.com (with subscription).

WEBSITE  The Graves Family Association – A collection of information pertaining to the GRAVES surname.  I was lucky enough to have found a family tree for George GRAVES, my twelfth great-grandfather.

Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #25

Prompt:  Visit a cemetery and talk about your ancestors buried there. Bring their stories to life for your readers.

Most of my McMAHON clan is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Cook, Illinois.  The family has two plots: one in section 24 and one in section T.

There are five family members buried in section 24:

• Timothy J McMAHON (my second great-grandfather)
• Sarah Jane WARD McMahon (my second great-grandmother)
• Nellie Helen FENNEMA McMahon (Timothy and Sarah’s daughter-in-law)
• Marie Doris McMAHON (Nellie’s infant daughter)
• Unknown McMAHON (Nellie’s infant son)

What’s interesting about this site is that this little Irish family is buried among an overwhelming amount of Italian families.  Additionally, my grandaunt told me that everyone is buried near a tree; that was the deal when the plots were purchased.  And so far, she’s right (other family, including my dad, are buried in Elm Lawn Cemetery in Elmhurst, DuPage, Illinois; both family plots are near a tree.)

There are six family members buried in section T:

• Timothy McMAHON (my third great-grandfather, father to Timothy J. listed above)
• Margaret RYAN McMAHON (my third great-grandmother, father to Timothy J. listed above)
• Jeremiah “Jerry” William McMAHON (son of Timothy and Margaret)
• Nellie McMAHON (daughter of Timothy and Margaret)
• John Joseph McMAHON (son of Timothy and Margaret)
• Elizabeth “Lizzie” V McMAHON Francoeur (daughter of Timothy and Margaret)

This group is buried in a mostly (if not all) Irish section of the cemetery.  And of course, they are right by a tree.

There is a family monument on the site in section T, bearing the surname.  Someday, I would like to have all of their names inscribed on the monument.  I would also like to erect a monument at the site in section 24, identical to the one in section T, and with the names of those buried there inscribed.

Wordless Wednesday – 06/24/09

Family Events – Week of June 21 to June 27

Raymond J CAHILL – Ray is my granduncle, who was born on 8 February 1918 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.  He died on 21 June 1987 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.

Maida “Meta” HOFFMANN – Meta is my great-grandaunt (by marriage), who was born on 22 June 1906 in Germany.  She died on 28 July 1997 in Arizona.

Dorothy E TRAPP – Dorothy is my second cousin twice removed, but was more like an aunt.  She was born on 22 June 1918 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.  Dorothy died in 2004.

Christopher Scott MILLER – Happy birthday to my cousin, Chris, on June 23.

John Ward McMAHON – John is my great-grandfather, who was born on 7 April 1902 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.  He died on 24 June 1962 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

John WEBSTER III – John is my fourteenth great-grandfather, who was born in 1510 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England.  He died on 24 June 1575 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England.*

Clarence M CAHILL & Della ROCHE – Clarence is my first cousin three times removed.  He and Della married on 25 June 1930 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

Allen Minor PARKS – Allen is my fourth great-granduncle, who was born on 26 June 1808.  He died in 1852.*

*Based on information from several compiled source, of which I have not personally verified at this time.

Saturday in the Attic – 06/20/09

Since Father’s Day is tomorrow, I thought I’d go through the old greeting cards and see what I could find.  Here’s one that was given to my grandfather, Harold MILLER, from the family dog, Buff.  Cute, isn’t it?

Friday Finds

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.

• Saturday’s Child, written by JamaGenie – This is sort of a new-to-me-blog.  I say this because I’m pretty sure I was subscribed to it, but I think it was one that was lost during my IE broweser/RSS failure.  JamaGenie was kind enough to leave a comment on my blog the other day and I’m glad she did as I found a lost blog.
  
• “Long Island Sound as a Genealogical Region,” by Frederick C. Hart Jr.  This article was published in the Winter 2009 edition of New England Ancestors (pg. 26-29).  It’s a really good article to read, especially if you have relatives along the southern border of Connecticut, the eastern borders of New York and New Jersey, as well as Long Island.  I personally have ancestors in New Haven, New London, and Stonington counties of Connecticut, so this article gave me some new ideas for research in that area.
  
• Learned that you can set up a feed from Alltop’s genealogy page by entering http://genealogy.alltop.com/rss in the address bar.

Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #24

Prompt:  Document a genealogy event with photos and share in your blog. Show others how much fun your local luncheon can be, or how your genealogy field trip turned into a landslide of books. Don’t forget to get permission before posting photos of others.

On May 2, a group of us cemetery lovers got together in Springfield, Illinois for a little field trip.  I met some great people, and I also got to meet Minda Powers-Douglas and Beth Santore in person,

First up was the Museum of Funeral Customs.  Right now, the museum is only open to group tours. It was a neat place with a variety of exhibits showing the many sides of funerals.

Horse-drawn hearse Replica of Abraham Lincoln’s coffin Coffin plates

Widows’ Weeds Decorative urn

After the museum, we headed next-door to Oak Ridge Cemetery, home of Abraham Lincoln’s tomb.

Lincoln’s Tomb Inside Lincoln’s Tomb   Some of the gang outside Lincoln’s Tomb Me rubbing Lincoln’s nose

Lincoln’s Tomb GAR Memorial   Tomb of John R. Tanner, IL Governor

Our last adventure was the Lincoln’s Ghost Tour in downtown Springfield.  It was a neat tour, showing many of the Lincoln sites and filled with history.

Lincoln statue on the Square

Lincoln’s home

We had a lot of fun.  Can’t wait to do it again!!

New Twitter ID for Genealogy

Hey there fellow GeneaBloggers and genealogy Twitter buddies.  Just wanted to let you know that I have created a Twitter ID specifically for my genealogy persona @geneaJulie.  You can now follow me there for genealogy-related tweets.  You can of course still follow me @juliemc77 for business and social media tweets.

Wordless Wednesday – 06/17/09

 

Family Events – Week of June 14 to June 20

Harold Leslie MILLER – Harold is my grandfather, who was born on 4 August 1918 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.  He died on 15 June 1982 in Maywood, Cook, Illinois.

Edward MULLIGAN – Edward is my second great-granduncle, who was born on 8 April 1867 in Michigan.  He died on 17 June 1924 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

Florence June McMAHON & Robert Anthony DOMBROWSKI – Florence is my grandaunt.  She married Robert on 19 June 1948.

George ROTTMAN – George is my great-grandfather, who was born on 19 June 1882 in Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa.  He died on 19 February 1946 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

Samuel PARKE – Samuel is my ninth great-grandfather, who was born on 20 June 1621 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut.  He died on 22 March 1709 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut.

*Based on information from several compiled source, of which I have not personally verified at this time.

Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)

• Encyclopedia of Chicago

  tags: no_tag

• Ancestral Atlas - Family Tree Maps - Genealogy Software

  Our vision is to provide an enjoyable and informative website that allows you to add your ancestors' life events where they happened and to be able to share that knowledge in a secure and collaborative environment. Over time, as more and more people add their data, Ancestral Atlas will be a site for not only creating a visual data base of your family tree maps (your own Ancestral Atlas) but also a primary source for continued research into your family's history.

  tags: maps, mapping

• Illinois City, County, and Rural Directories

  Ever wished you could find links to all the online city directories in one place? A place where they were listed by location and in date order? This is the purpose of the Online City, County, and Rural Directories Website. It is meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other researchers.

  tags: city directories, illinois city directories

• Online City, County, and Rural Directories Website

  Ever wished you could find links to all the online city directories in one place? A place where they were listed by location and in date order? This is the purpose of the Online City, County, and Rural Directories Website. It is meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other researchers.

  tags: city directories

• World History

  Interactive Maps, Timelines, Videos, Geocoded Photos, Museum Artifacts, and your Ancestors are just a few things you can do and discover on WorldHistory.com, the new social history experience. We connect the dots of history, we connect you to history. Sources, partners, and YOU provide the content, history provides the story.

  tags: history

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – 06/13/09

Thought I’d actually participate on a Saturday night. And wouldn’t ya know, Randy’s challenge was something I literally JUST posted a few minutes ago…too funny.

Here is the task for this week:

1. Think of three things that you learned about Genealogy or Family History today.
2. Tell us about them in a blog post or a comment to this post.

So the post I just did was about three things I learned about my own family tree.  I thought I’d go ahead and include three general genealogy things I learned/found over the last few days as well.

Chicago Catholic Priests & Parishes – This tool was created by ChicagoGenealogy.com.  Right now, it is not accessible from the Chicago Genealogy site, but the site owner was kind enough to send me a link to the “orphan” page as it pertained to a lookup she did for me.  The tool allows you to search for the “possible parish when all you have is a priest’s name from a marriage license.”

MyGenShare – Site launched delayed until late summer.  You can read more here.

NEHGS Digital Library – I learned how to use the library card catalog to find digital archives available online.

And the Happy Dance Continues

The other day I posted And the Wall Begins to Crumble, in which I explained that I had finally found the names of a set of third great-grandparents, Henry WACH and Amelia WIETZKE.

Today, I believe I have found the names of two additional sets of third great-grandparents!

According to the death certificate for my second great-grandmother, Margaret RYAN McMahon, her father’s name is Michael and her mother’s name is Margaret (no maiden name listed).  Both hail from County Tipperary, Ireland.

According to the death certificate for my second great-grandfather, Timothy McMAHON, his father is John and his mother is ?? O’BRIEN (I cannot make out the first name).

Plus, I believe I have found the death certificate of my third great-grandmother, Bridget Ward, but I need to do a little bit of digging to confirm.

It’s been a great genealogy week for me!!

Saturday in the Attic – 06/13/09

This is a receipt for the interment of a Susan GARRISON, dated 29 April 1894.  I assume that J M GARRISON is my second great-grandfather, James Manly GARRISON.    I am not sure who Susan is, but I suspect it may be James’ daughter.  I show his “first” born as James Norton GARRISON, born on 19 September 1895, but it is possible that he had another child.  I’m hoping that the cemetery will have some additional information, such as the age of Susan.  If it turns out that she was an infant, then it is quite possible she is James’ daughter.

MyGenShare Update

Received the following email yesterday regarding the new site MyGenShare.com.

MyGenShare.com is almost ready for beta testing.

The planned launch of MyGenShare.com was set for May 2009.  The launch of the website has been delayed for late summer.  I have chosen to delay the launch so that the MyGenShare can team can:

• Take advantage of new technology that will greatly enhance the user experience.
• Expand available content for patron use.

Prior to the launch of MyGenShare, we will conduct beta testing to give the website a thorough review to make sure it is ready to serve the needs of genealogists.

MyGenShare.com is a website where genealogists will find thousands of educational and mentoring resources for the beginner to the most passionate across hundreds of topics. Resources include a rich and growing selection of articles, tutorials, videos, podcasts, and slideshows.

Kindest regards,
Barry J. Ewell
barry.ewell@mygenshare.com

MyGenShare.com is coming soon
Click here for more information:  http://www.mygenshare.com

Register to become a beta tester for MyGenShare.com
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Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #23

Prompt:  Talk about anything that’s haunted. Readers love spooky genealogy.

I wouldn’t exactly consider this haunted, but it is kind of spooky.

My great-grandmother, Catherine M SCHWARTZ, died on 26 January 1925 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.  Her death was ruled a suicide, but it seems that some of the family wonders if it wasn’t.  A few family members have mentioned that her husband was a shady character.  One even goes so far as to say that it may be possible that he was involved, based on the circumstances of the suicide. 

I have one newspaper article after the coroner’s jury ruled her death a suicide.  I requested a copy of the inquest several month’s ago, but have yet to see anything.  Guess it’s one of those mysteries that may never be solved, but we’ll see.

And the Wall Begins to Crumble

I’ve been wanting to know more about the parents of Hulda WACH (i.e., my third great-grandparents), but have only had a few pieces of information:  the surname and the mother’s first name (Amelia).  I’ve talked about this brick wall a few times here on my blog, and in fact, just wrote about it a few days ago for Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post.

Had I entered the information from the death certificates I collected a few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have needed to write that information in the last post.  Why?  Because I found Hulda’s brother’s death certificate…and it lists the names of the parents, including…wait for it…Amelia’s maiden name!  So I now know that my third great-grandparents are Henry WACH and Amelia WIETZKE.  Woo-hoo!!  Making progress.  Happy dance!!

Wordless Wednesday – 06/10/09

Saturday Night Fun – June 6, 2009

The challenge for Randy’s Saturday Night Fun is:

1. Which of your ancestors were alive in 1909?
   
2. Tell us where your ancestral families were living in 1909. What country, state, county,  city/town, etc. Who was in the family at the time? Use the 1910 census as "close enough."
   
3. Have you found each of these families in the 1910 census?
   
4. Write a blog post about your response. Or write a comment to this post.
   
5. Have fun. Learn something!

Here’s mine (those in bold are direct line ancestors):

Third great-grandmother, Amelia (a.k.a. Emilie), was living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1910, with her son Heinrich “Henry” (my second great-granduncle) and his family.  Amelia is a mystery to me; she was married to a WACH and had three children.  She then married a SCHULTZ and had one daughter.  I have no idea what her maiden name is or the first names (and fates) of her two husbands.

Another mystery woman, my third great-grandmother, Bridget Ward, was living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1910 with two daughters, Sarah and Rose, and Sarah’s husband Timothy McMAHON.  Again, I have no idea what Bridget’s maiden name is, or the first name of her husband.  I am not able to find her after 1910 in censuses or death records.

My second great-grandmother, Mary (or Anna or Marie) BRAUN Stoffel, was living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois with her seven children:  Henry C, Anna E, Margaret, Charles L, Elsie A, William, and George.

Thomas Robert CAHILL, my second great-grandfather, was living in Aurora, Kane, Illinois in 1910 with his wife, Margaret “Maggie” MILLETT and four of his six children, Margaret, Thomas Michael, John F, Robert Emmett.

My second great-grandfather, James Manly GARRISON, was living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1909, when he died on 23 May 1909.  His wife, Sarah Jane “Jeanie” MULLIGAN was living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1910 with her four children, James Norton, Joseph Webster, Emma Jane, and Robert Parks.

My second great-grandparents, Herman LEPPIN and Minnie HAEMFIFLER, were living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1910 with their four children, Alma Mary, Henry August, Herman Paul, and Charles F.

My third great-grandparents, Timothy McMAHON and Margaret RYAN, were living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1910 with four of their five children, John Joseph, Nellie, Jerimiah William, and Elizabeth V.   Margaret’s grandson (through her daughter from another marriage), Francis J, was also living with them in 1910.

Emil Charles MILLER, my great-grandfather, was likely living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1910, but I have yet to find him in the census.

My great-grandfather, George ROTTMAN, also eludes me in the 1910 census, but he was likely living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

My second great-grandparents, John SCHWARTZ and Margaret KRAMER were living in Aurora, Kane, Illinois in 1910 with their six children, Henry Ferdinand, John J, Catherine M, Mary J, Theresa K, and Herman J.

Saturday Night Fun – May 30, 2009

Doing a little catch up here on Randy’s Saturday night challenges.

May 30th challenge:

1. Go to the www.PaulSadowski.com web site.
   
2. Read his Bad Jokes page. What was the first one that popped up?
   
3. Click on his Birthday Calculator link. What are five Fun Facts you didn't know about your birthday?
   
4. Click on the "what your name means" link. What are your Number, your Soul Urge number and your Inner Dream number? Do the descriptions of your numbers match your perception of yourself? Note - females need to enter their birth name, not married name.
   
5. Tell the world your answers (with as much privacy protection as you wish) in a blog post or in comments to this post.

Bad Joke

A policeman was patrolling a local parking spot overlooking a golf course. He drove by a car and saw a couple inside with the dome light on. There was a young man in the driver's seat reading a computer magazine and a young lady in the back seat knitting. He stopped to investigate. He walked up to the driver's window and knocked. The young man looked up, cranked the window down, and said, 'Yes Officer?'

'What are you doing?' the policeman asked. 'What does it look like?' answered the young man. 'I'm reading this magazine.' Pointing towards the young lady in the back seat, the officer then asked, 'And what is she doing?' The young man looked over his shoulder and replied, 'What does it look like? She's knitting.'

'And how old are you?' the officer then asked the young man. 'I'm nineteen,' he replied. 'And how old is she?' asked the officer. The young man looked at his watch and said, 'Well, in about twelve minutes she'll be sixteen.'

Birthday Facts

• You are 1,016,459,843 seconds old.
• The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 10 April 1977.
• You were born in the Egyptian month of Paony, the second month of the season of Shomu (Harvest).
• Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/18/1977 and ending 2/6/1978.  You were born in the Chinese year of the Snake.
• The year 1977 was not a leap year.
• Your Life path number is 7.
• Your fortune cookie reads: We cannot do great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• Your lucky day is Tuesday.
• Your lucky dates are 9th, 18th, 27th. [today must be super lucky; it’s Tuesday, June 9th!]
• In 1977 there were approximately 3.1 million births in the US.

What My Name Means

Number is 4; characteristics of #4 are: A foundation, order, service, struggle against limits, steady growth.

Soul Urge number is 6; you would like to be appreciated for your ability to handle responsibility. Your home and family are likely to be a strong focus for you, perhaps the strongest focus of your life. Friendship, love, and affection are high on your list of priorities for a happy life. You have a lot of diplomatic tendencies in your makeup, as you a able to rectify and balance situations with an innate skill. You like working with people rather than by yourself. It is extremely important for you to have harmony in your environment at all times.

Inner Dream number is 7; you dream of having the opportunity to read, study, and shut yourself off from worldly distractions. You can see yourself as a teacher, mystic, or ecclesiastic, spending your life in the pursuit of knowledge and learning.

Saturday Night Fun – May 2, 2009

Doing a little catch up here on Randy’s Saturday night challenges.

May 2nd challenge:

Let's do a Top Ten list of Favorite Genealogy Web Sites. These can be record databases, data portals, how-to sites, family trees, software, entertainment, blogs, etc. Your choice, your opinion - what educates, helps, or entertains you in your genealogy quest for a big GEDCOM file?

Here are mine in no particular order:

1. Ancestry
2. Illinois State Archives
3. Genealogy Bank
4. Family Search
5. Find A Grave
6. New England Ancestors (NEHGS)
7. Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)
8. Irish Family History Foundation
9. USGenWeb
10. Footnote

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – April 25, 2009

Doing a little catch up here on Randy’s Saturday night challenges.

April 25th challenge:

1. Open your genealogy software program and search for a "Date Calculator." You could go exploring in your Tools or Options menu, or you could use the Help menu to find it.
   
2. Open the "Date Calculator" and put in a death date for one of your ancestors and put in an age at death (use the one you know, or just make one up - we're just testing this feature today). Do the same thing by entering a birth date and a death date in the "Date Calculator" and see how old someone was when they died.
   
3. Tell us what software you're using and where you found the "Date Calculator." Tell us the information you found out from using the "Date Calculator."

The wonderful thing about Legacy is that I don’t need the Date Calculator to answer the questions:  How old were they when they died? and How old would they be today?

The screenshot below is the data entry screen for my second great-grandfather.  On the far right, there are two numbers circled in red.  The first number is the age he would be today, while the second number is the age he was when he died.

The same can be said for age at marriage.  The screenshot below shows the data entry screen for Timothy’s marriage.  Circled at the top is the age of both the bride and the groom.

I have had to use the date calculator tool to determine birth dates.  For example, James Mulligan’s death certificate indicates that he died on 8 October 1879 and that his age was 66 years, 9 months, and 1 day.  Using that, I opened the calculator and put in that information (see below).

 

Once I hit the Calculate button, it displays the date I was looking for.  It also indicates that day of the week for each date.  I accessed the calculator through the person’s record while in the birth date field.  So I have the option to put that found date in the field by clicking the Select Date button on the right.

In addition to the date calculator, Legacy also has a calendar, which has come in handy for calculating death and burial dates based on the obituary.  For example, Timothy J McMahon’s obituary was published in the Chicago Tribune on 15 October 1939.  The obit indicated that his funeral will be held on Tuesday.  So in this example, I put the publication date of 15 October 1939 in the burial field and open the calendar.  I find the “Tuesday” and click on it and then click the Select Date button.  His burial is now set to 17 October 1939.

 

Did I mention how much I love Legacy???