Today I met a cousin of mine. We met at the Seattle Public Library. Although we had originally planned to meet on the University of Washington campus, I happened to be downtown for a morning meeting, so we met up on the ninth floor of the spacious central library. The main genealogy collection is on [...]
Archive for the ‘HILL’ Category
In September of 2009 I requested some information about Presbyterians in Pennsylvania. I sent a message via email to the Presbyterian Historical Society, which is part of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Is there a list of Pennsylvania churches available with mircofilm records? I am interested in records for 1763. I was specifically looking for birth records, hoping that I might [...]
I have been going through a bunch of old email messages and came across this one. It is a record of James Hill of Buckington, Somerset County. Apparently this is actually Beckington, England, though I am not entirely certain.1 James paid William Penn £10 for some land. The document is dated July 27, 1681. The [...]
This morning I received two messages from separate Hill researchers, asking about DNA. This is odd, because I rarely receive any mail about it. One of the men said that I had written to him in January of 2007. His earliest known Hill is a James Hill who married Armonda McGrea in 1839 in Butler [...]
My aunt died on the 13th. I posted her obituary on Wednesday, after it had been published in the major papers in central Iowa. A longer obituary, what I’d rather call a remembrance, for my aunt was sent to several newspapers in eastern South Dakota, near where she grew up, including the Lake Preston Times, [...]
Today I was poking around looking for my grandfather and great grandfather on the 1930 census. Free access has been granted by Ancestry.com for Presidents’ Day weekend. For some reason I haven’t been able to locate them. While searching for the birth and death dates of my great grandfather, Charles Martin Hill, I happened upon a record of [...]
Yesterday I clicked on a link to a photograph of three boys, printed on a postcard. It was from the early 1900s, rescued by someone and posted on Flickr. Dated July 4, 1910 and taken in Maxwell, Iowa, I took note of their surname. Transcribed as Longnecken, I recalled that one Hill relative, perhaps named [...]
Two grandchildren of John Tyler, tenth president of the United States, are still alive, according to ABC News. Tyler was born in 1790. This is equivalent to grandchildren of my ancestor Martin Hill, born in the early 1800s, living today, which is remarkable. Both of Tyler’s grandchildren are men and are direct descendants named Tyler. [...]
I stopped by the main libraries at UDub (the University of Washington) on Saturday to look at The Susquehanna Company Papers again. It’s been awhile since I’ve looked through this series of books. Some of my Tidd ancestors are included in some of the volumes. The man named Tidd of most interest to me is the [...]
