tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612884905719387872024-02-23T18:03:15.171-08:00Debby's Indiana GenealogyDebbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-39420388174934059392013-04-16T09:57:00.001-07:002013-04-16T09:57:54.708-07:00Update to the Wilson Family Cemetery - a long abandoned burial site<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have just updated this cemetery with photos submitted by Ed Castor and an article that was in the Pharos Tribune.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> See more here:</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/cemeteries/abnd/wilsonfamily/">http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/cemeteries/abnd/wilsonfamily/</a></span><br />
<br />Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-23174447972729373812012-09-11T08:44:00.000-07:002012-09-11T08:44:52.417-07:00Remembering 9/11 on September 11, 2012September 11, 2001 We all have memories of this date if we are old enough and conscious at the time. That day was to be a big day for me and my colleagues. We were driving in the KHCPL Van to the Federation of Genealogical Societies Quad Cities Conference in Davenport, Iowa that day. In the busyness of gathering my belongings to take on the trip, we had not turned on the television or radio. I arrived at the library just a bit early not knowing that the first attack had already happened. Michele, our boss, had decided to forgo this conference and to stay in Kokomo to hold down the fort at the library. I was checking my email when Michele arrived and told me our country was under a national emergency. I was stunned, not knowing what that meant.<br />
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I quickly looked online to see what I could find. The news was not nearly as complete as I imagine it would be now in a terrible disaster. And it was time to leave as my co-workers Ron and Janice had arrived. They had seen or heard the news. We loaded the van and set out to pick up Julia who was riding with us to the conference. By the time we got to her home I believe the second tower had been struck. That was a very quiet trip across half of Indiana and the state of Illinois with only the radio constantly updating us on what was happening in the east. Shocking. They were telling us that all flights were being canceled. It was rather strange not seeing a single plane in the sky. Traffic was light due to our paralyzed nation. Then we saw the large plane flying from east to west, an eerie sight, we were sure we had seen Air Force One.<br />
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Here is an email I sent the next day.<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"Hi my dear friends,<br />Wanted to let you know that we arrived safely. With all the flood of news yesterday, we had a quiet trip and arrived about 4:30. We listened to the radio all the way to Davenport, so had to use our imaginations to visualize the great terror out east. I prayed a lot and as quiet as we all were, I think there were lots of silent prayers being sent from the library van.<br /><br />I learned that my cousin Ruth's husband flew in to LaGuardia from Japan yesterday morning, safely. I am sure they had some very frightening moments since they live and work in NY-NJ area. <br /><br />I was finally able to call Ed and Amber this morning before Amber left for school. Long distance lines have been hard to access since we arrived. So this may be the only way to efficiently communicate.<br /><br />I am on the computer at Davenport Public Library. I am thankful to have access here.<br /><br />We still don't know if several of the conference speakers will get here since several were to fly in from one of the coasts and we heard there were 13 foreign (would be) attendees stranded in Spain."</span></i></span><br />
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The conference went on. Our first day was for librarians. I had to step out during one presentation. I went to the restroom and cried for awhile. I just wanted to be with my husband and my 15 year old daughter, Amber. <br />
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The conference hotel had set up televisions in all the hallways in the conference area. I would go there every break, mesmerized by the news. At every break more chairs would appear in these areas. There was a woman attending who had a son who worked in one of the towers. It was at least two days before she knew he had made it to safety and was alive. There were attendees whose plane was grounded in Chicago who found each other, rented a car and drove the last leg of the trip to Davenport. Many of the speakers added talks to their schedules to fill in for speakers who could not get there.<br />
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When the conference was over, we happily headed home to our loved ones.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Debby</span></i>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-37065527787869598852012-03-10T13:58:00.000-08:002012-03-10T13:58:30.807-08:00Another update - Grable Cemetery, Cass County, IN<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Updates have been made to <a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/cemeteries/abnd/grable/index.html" target="_blank">Grable Cemetery</a> in Cass County. I found a couple of death notices and was sent some images by Matthew Burrell of Noblesville to share with you.</span></span><br />
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<i>Debby</i>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-2228626338838445262012-03-03T15:27:00.000-08:002012-03-03T15:27:43.703-08:00I'm not sure I am meant to be a blogger I'm not sure I am meant to be a blogger, although I think it is a great idea, it is just not something I think about doing. On the other hand, I am passionate about putting cemetery information out there to help you with your research in Cass, Miami and Howard Counties. I work on something cemetery related nearly every day. I just don't talk (or) write about it much. I realized a couple of days ago that this blog may be giving some of you the wrong idea about what I am doing. This happened when I got an email update from a wonderful sexton who had heard a rumor that I was no longer updating the cemetery sites. This is so not true. There is so much going on behind the scenes that you may not see happening.<br />
With 117 cemeteries in the database, plus a few others that have not been migrated over, this project is very time consuming. Ed Beheler, John C. Anderson and Tom Quinn also manage cemeteries that are not included in my database. I love that I have sextons who will send me updates on a regular basis in easily managed amounts. It makes what I do so much easier. One thing that I am guilty of, is updating it on my computer, but not generating new files to upload, so that you can see the updates. I am going to really work on that as I have time. I have already been making my list of those that need to be checked and then uploaded to the websites. <br />
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My current big project is Greenlawn Cemetery at Mexico, Miami County, Indiana. I am hoping to get up there to photograph headstones when it warms up and the grass turns green. I am not fond of cemetery photos taken with the bleak colors of winter, nor do I enjoy freezing to death.<br />
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Please try not to complain too much, unless you are willing to devote the hours to something like this. It is hard to walk in another's shoes. <br />
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Stay out of my databases!<br />
Blessings to all, <i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Debby</span></i>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-65817400963347598912011-02-09T13:41:00.000-08:002011-02-09T14:10:36.730-08:00Long time, no post<span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Sorry I have been so out of touch for months. It's not because I have stopped doing cemetery work, because I keep busy with it. When you consider that I have 112 cemeteries in my cemetery database program, it is easy to not notice updates and changes. However, at the bottom of each cemetery page, the last update date is listed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">For anyone in the cemetery business, </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="mailto:john@instonedata.com">John C. Anderson</a> <span style="font-family:lucida grande;">has a new program geared just for maintenance of cemetery records, lot records, ownership, etc. He calls the software "In Stone." Please contact John for more information.</span><br /><br />I have been rebuilding my Ever-Rest Memorial Park Cemetery database. This cemetery is in Cass County east of Logansport on old 24. There are many Miami County people interred there as well as Cass County people.<br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br />More later. Soon I hope. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Debby</span><br /></span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-43200099171159729552010-07-02T17:31:00.000-07:002010-07-02T18:48:28.953-07:00Remains From Long Abandoned Cemetery DiscoveredWhile browsing the<a href="http://www.pharostribune.com/"> Logansport Pharos Tribune </a>site this afternoon, I plugged in our somewhat unusual surname and got a hit! <a href="http://pharostribune.com/local/x563620060/Remains-may-be-from-private-cemetery">The story </a>(published April 15 2010) was about remains found, possibly from a long forgotten burial ground called <a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/cemeteries/abnd/reed/">Reed Private Cemetery</a>.<br /><br />Anyway, I had to share my excitement that one of my websites was given credit for solving a mystery and Ed and I were mentioned in the article.<br /><br />A <a href="http://pharostribune.com/local/x1612539501/Remains-believed-to-be-from-burial-site">follow up article</a> appeared on the next day, April 16th Pharos Tribune.<br />A 2nd <a href="http://pharostribune.com/local/x563630048/Remains-confirmed-as-human">follow up article</a> appeared in the April 23rd 2010 Pharos Tribune.<br /><br />I'm glad to have provided a source to help others.<br /><br /><em>Debby</em>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-16105817923880338382010-06-19T07:57:00.000-07:002010-06-19T08:22:11.720-07:00Gilead Cemetery, Miami Co., IN<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuP-eVkshacUZLk2b8OZc51CyX02HOGli4hk7DFJxxv-Fq1pNuVM168BSvXbu_piw7c9rL1yqVRvKgxK38pasHyhzlBHKcX37eWVZdF9zdG7PyjHBAvDq7LBmxJRsBOINRJ5-EyhqCjAFq/s1600/100_0493.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484504448069517986" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuP-eVkshacUZLk2b8OZc51CyX02HOGli4hk7DFJxxv-Fq1pNuVM168BSvXbu_piw7c9rL1yqVRvKgxK38pasHyhzlBHKcX37eWVZdF9zdG7PyjHBAvDq7LBmxJRsBOINRJ5-EyhqCjAFq/s400/100_0493.JPG" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#000099;">Had a fun day yesterday and the day before with my friend Rebecca Miller. Thursday we photographed the south section of the Gilead Cemetery. Friday we photographed the north section of Gilead Cemetery, picked berries and wild asparagus and saw a doe with twin fawns. Then had lunch together.</span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;">It will be quite some time before I get this online as I have several others I am working on at this time, but it is coming.</span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;"><em>Debby</em></span></div>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-53169595553012770342010-05-10T09:01:00.000-07:002010-05-10T09:08:34.119-07:00Peru Mount Hope Update online<span style="font-family:georgia;color:#003300;">I have uploaded the most recent burials at Peru Mount Hope adding 220 added burials since the January upload. There have also been date and grave locations added to many more additional. And there is still lots more to be added. If your loved one has not been added, please be patient. I still have many more pages from the burial books to go through.</span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-3780139567377068932010-03-21T10:10:00.000-07:002010-03-21T10:17:09.165-07:00Alto Cemetery Update (Howard County)<span style="color:#003333;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jNzS5ZDdChekBmzvpxOS3K88e7bIdMtfB8uTk0w8BxMcRLlwjWT3ps2rH7S11u3rK7vfkF4V8Yj31vTnpV1YXin6qQ2W1-4TenEUZv40PEuYz0GV6YEBtAT_rd8DqykWRwzpRaCT3aiF/s1600-h/ALTObanner.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 71px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451136693266297378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jNzS5ZDdChekBmzvpxOS3K88e7bIdMtfB8uTk0w8BxMcRLlwjWT3ps2rH7S11u3rK7vfkF4V8Yj31vTnpV1YXin6qQ2W1-4TenEUZv40PEuYz0GV6YEBtAT_rd8DqykWRwzpRaCT3aiF/s400/ALTObanner.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#003333;">I uploaded an update of <a href="http://edanddebby.com/HCC/Alto/index.html">Alto Cemetery </a>Database. I hope to put up a page of unidentified markers soon. Perhaps you will be able to identify one and help make this database more complete.</span></div><div><span style="color:#003333;"></span> </div><div><em><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#336666;">Debby</span></em></div>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-82258036405876860122010-01-21T17:53:00.000-08:002010-01-21T19:36:05.974-08:00January has been a busy month<ul><li>Ed continues to update the<a href="http://www.edanddebby.com/sunset/index.html"> Sunset Memory Gardens web site </a>from current obituaries.</li><li><a href="http://www.edanddebby.com/ktobits/index.html">Kokomo Tribune Obituary Index </a>- Ed is currently adding birth and death dates to 1971 and 1940. I am adding dates to the 1935 obits. These additions will be uploaded as we finish our years.</li><li>Sharon Stafford Aldardyce recently sent me 34 tombstone photos for<a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/cemeteries/centerub/index.html"> Center UB Cemetery </a>in Cass County and they have been posted online.</li><li>I am working on putting Wooleytown/Macedonia Cemetery online on the Miami County site.</li><li>Beverly continues to send me the monthly interrments for <a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/miami/cemeteries/perumthope/">Peru Mount Hope Cemetery </a>and the web site was updated today.</li><li><a href="http://edanddebby.com/HCC/Mast/index.html">Mast/Hensler Cemetery </a>(Howard County) is now online.</li><li>I also added some updates to <a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/cemeteries/galveston/">Galveston Cemetery</a> and <a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/cemeteries/walton/">Walton Cemetery </a>in Cass County in January.</li></ul><p><em>Enjoy! Debby</em></p>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-44434949470621888022009-12-15T13:33:00.000-08:002009-12-15T17:10:03.785-08:00<em><strong><span style="color:#006600;">December 6 - Santa Claus</span></strong></em><br /><em>Did you ever send a letter to Santa? Did you ever visit Santa and “make a list?” Do you still believe in Santa Claus?</em><br /><em></em><br />I still believe in Santa and of course I visited Santa, made lists and wrote letters<br /><em></em><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">December 7 - Holiday Parties</span></strong></em><br /><em>Did your family throw a holiday party each year? Do you remember attending any holiday parties?</em><br /><em></em><br />Christmas Day was all family parties and exhausting. We children always got up early and opened presents. Then it was off to one side of the family to celebrate, followed by the Christmas party at the other side of the family. I refused to do this when I grew up.<br /><em></em><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#006600;">December 8 - Christmas Cookies</span></strong></em><br /><em>Did your family or ancestors make Christmas Cookies? How did you help? Did you have a favorite cookie?</em><br /><em></em><br />I never met a cookie I didn't like.... Mexican wedding cookies were always a favorite. Of course rolled cookies cut out with cookie cutters and decorated were a must at Christmas time. I carried on the tradition by baking dozens of these cookies on the last day the kids were in school. After everyone arrived home, the whole family gathered around the kitchen table and decorated the cookies with many colors of icing and lots of candies.<br /><em></em><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">December 9 - Grab Bag</span></strong></em><br /><em>Author’s choice. Please post from a topic that helps you remember Christmases past!</em><br /><em></em><br />I have a funny story. When my son and daughter, Eddie & April came to me asking if Santa was real, I wasn't ready to give up Santa and they had a baby sister, Amber who still needed Santa. So, I told them their suspicions were right, but that Dad doesn't know. You know Grandma. She would never have told your Dad about Santa. So all these years I have had to sneak around and do Santas job by myself and now I had them to help me. What a relief! So the legend of Santa lived on awhile longer. (I do still believe in Santa.)<br /><em></em><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#006600;">December 10 - Christmas Gifts</span></strong></em><br /><em>What were your favorite gifts, both to receive and to give? Are there specific gift-giving traditions among your family or ancestors? </em><br /><em></em><br />Secret gifts, ones that the person doesn't expect, but wants dearly and doesn't know who gave it. That is truly a blessing to behold. Of course the traditional bicycle, dolls, doll houses were fun to receive as a child and fun to give to children.<br /><em></em>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-70237632800940980282009-12-15T10:42:00.000-08:002009-12-15T13:29:50.895-08:00Geneablogger’s Advent CalendarIt has been a very busy month for us with Ed going through major surgery, so I have not kept up with the Geneablogger’s Advent Calendar. I thought maybe I could play catch up now that things are settling down a little bit.<br /><br /><em><strong>December 1, The Christmas Tree</strong><br /></em>Growing up, our Christmas trees were live, flocked trees. My paternal grandmother, Pauline DeMotte Smith, made Christmas centerpieces and flocked trees for the holiday. Many local businesses bought flocked trees from her every year. They had very thick flocking in a number of sparkley pastel colors. My dad would often help her with the flocking which required wearing a mask to protect the lungs. Grandma Pauline had taller ceilings and she would always flock a larger tree for her home, usually in a white or pastel blue with blue spotlights on the tree rather than strung lights and blue and silver glass balls.The year Grandma died in 1968, Grandpa bought one of those awful aluminum trees. We all knew Grandma would be turning over in her grave! My Grandma Rioth always had a real tree with tinsel, old favorite ornaments, bubble lights and candy canes. I even remember her having lit candles on the tree sometimes in remembrance of the days they did that.<br /><br /><em><strong>December 2 - Holiday Foods</strong><br />Did your family or ancestors serve traditional dishes for the holidays? Was there one dish that was unusual?<br /></em>Basically, it was pretty traditional. One thing that was unusual for the time, was that Aunt Mildred would bring pomegranates from Chicago area. They were something we never saw in stores here when I was growing up.<br /><br /><strong><em>December 3 - Christmas Tree Ornaments</em><br /></strong><em>Did your family have heirloom or cherished ornaments? Did you ever string popcorn and cranberries? Did your family or ancestors make Christmas ornaments?<br /></em> The most special thing I remember was the bubble lights. Over the years, I have bought some of the Hallmark motion ornaments. And yes, we did string popcorn and cranberries.<br /><br /><em><strong>December 4 - Christmas Cards</strong></em><br /><em>Did your family send cards? Did your family display the ones they received? Do you still send Christmas cards? Do you have any cards from your ancestors?</em><br /><br />Yes, our family sent Christmas Cards and displayed them. I rarely send them. I often have good intentions of sending them, but... I don't have any cards from my ancestors. My dad has collected Christmas postcards and has some really beautiful ones. <br />I would love to post a photo, but my computer is down so can't use the scanner either.<br /><br /><em><strong>December 5 - Outdoor Decorations</strong></em><br /><em>Did people in your neighborhood decorate with lights? Did some people really go “all out” when decorating? Any stories involving your ancestors and decorations?</em><br /><em></em><br />We aren't too much for outdoor decorations. Mom and Dad used to hang a big lighted Santa Face on the front door and one year when the December weather was very mild, I draped the bushes in front of our house with white lights. I enjoyed that very much, but hubby really wasn't on board with it. Our neighbor across the road has tons of lights this year.Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-75987729267123779002009-10-13T07:07:00.000-07:002009-10-13T07:21:04.787-07:00Peru Mount Hope New Additions<span style="color:#333300;">In the past 3 weeks I have uploaded 2 updates representing a total of 435 new entries and about the same amount of updated entries. I just finished the Oak Grove/section D book. I believe there is a book with later burials for this section as well. There are 247 lots in section D. Most have 10 graves. And the majority of burial are in the period from 1890-1920.</span><br /><span style="color:#333300;"></span><br /><em><span style="color:#333300;">Debby</span></em><br /><span style="color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="color:#333300;"></span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-63072482287976789452009-09-11T17:25:00.000-07:002009-09-11T17:36:09.840-07:00Battle of Buckton Station<span style="color:#660000;">Week #36: Talk about military battles and your ancestors’ connections to them.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Andrew Jackson Vest, was my great-great-grandfather. On September 11, 1861 (exactly 148 years ago) he enlisted in the US Army as a private in Company B of the 27th Regiment Indiana Infantry.<br />He was captured at Buckton Station and imprisoned at Lynchburg & Belle Isle, Virginia.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">This Battle found many Union soldiers wounded and captured including my ancestor. I wish I had a photo of Andrew J. Vest. He lived to be 83 years old.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><em><span style="color:#660000;">Debby</span></em>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-76264275276264998372009-08-26T09:09:00.000-07:002009-08-26T09:32:53.262-07:00My Ethnicity<p><span style="color:#663366;">I saw this August 8, 2009 post on Cheryl Fleming Palmer's Blog "</span><a href="http://heritagehappens.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#663366;">Heritage Happens</span></a><span style="color:#663366;">." It was about ethnicity and calculating ones ethnicity by looking at your 8 great grandparents' ethnicity and giving each a value of 12.5%. This works with relative newcomers to the USA, however, 7 of my 8 great grandparents were born in Indiana. </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#663366;">3 - Howard County</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">1 - Miami County</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">1 - Clinton County</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">1 - Pike County</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">1 - Daviess County</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">1 Bas-Rhin, France</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#663366;">So, that would mean I have 12.5% French</span></p><p><span style="color:#663366;">Aside from that French line, the next generation back, great-great grandparents were born - </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#663366;">Indiana - 7</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">Virginia - 4 </span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">Ohio - 2</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">North Carolina - 1</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#663366;">So no new ethnicity to add in that generation.</span></p><p><span style="color:#663366;">The next generation is no better in revealing ethnicity. (3rd great grandparents)</span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#663366;">Virginia - 10</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">Pennsylvania - 6</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">Kentucky - 5</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">North Carolina - 4</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">Indiana - 1</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">unknown (US) 1</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">Tennessee - 1</span></li><li><span style="color:#663366;">Maryland - 1</span></li></ul><span style="color:#663366;">The previous generation (4th great grandparents) reveal some German, Swiss, a Scot and an Irish. I still have many things to discover about many of these ancestors and find the immigrant and document it. Although this little experiment did not give me the results I was hoping for, it did reveal some areas I need to work on. </span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">What is your ethnicity? Try this and learn or be satisfied that you are an American of the Heinz 57 variety.</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"><em>Happy hunting! Debby</em></span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-18990273509042145732009-08-25T20:37:00.000-07:002009-08-25T20:53:46.592-07:00<span style="color:#006600;">I uploaded over 300 new entries to the <a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/miami/cemeteries/perumthope/">Peru Mount Hope site </a>last week. I continue to work on adding from the burial books. The recent additions are burials from Section D and most are not later than the 1920's. Most are pre-1900.</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"><em>Debby</em></span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-19054419051986713232009-08-25T20:22:00.000-07:002009-08-25T20:37:37.185-07:00My silence<span style="color:#000099;">This has become a difficult summer for me. I became the economic cut-back in Kokomo-Howard County Public Library's Genealogy & Local History Department. I learned this on July 16th. I have shed many tears, as I loved this job and being emersed in genealogy & local history and working with the wonderful folks who call themselves genealogists and historians.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">I do count myself among the fortunate people who have been able to find a job doing something we love. I miss it terribly, but I know whatever happens, God is with me. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#000099;"><em>Debby</em></span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-86896922346482417972009-06-21T18:44:00.000-07:002009-06-21T18:49:54.340-07:00Peru Mount Hope database has 500 burials addedWith this evenings upload of updated pages, I have added over 500 burials to the database since the June 11th upload. There are many new surnames and lots of dates of burial that were in the cemetery burial books. If you have any connection to Peru, Indiana you will want to take a look at the <a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/miami/cemeteries/perumthope/">Mount Hope Cemetery database</a>.<br /><br /><em>Debby</em>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-18889300942679208212009-06-17T19:16:00.000-07:002009-06-18T11:41:06.503-07:00Grandpa Rioth was a cooper<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOp3tkJG3YSdE-K4-vh7HsB3vmDXBjdKcNrcl9b0Buj4TzqEpKOcCeblbZzmcTGrK5IwJsyNUkWswc-xNIkW7Q74j69iYM_hFauyv2-cHz1qKKmjFyeRvgCuiUhmtQR5wIj4WZRroborCx/s1600-h/COOPER.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348486312043152178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 326px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOp3tkJG3YSdE-K4-vh7HsB3vmDXBjdKcNrcl9b0Buj4TzqEpKOcCeblbZzmcTGrK5IwJsyNUkWswc-xNIkW7Q74j69iYM_hFauyv2-cHz1qKKmjFyeRvgCuiUhmtQR5wIj4WZRroborCx/s400/COOPER.jpg" border="0" /></a> My grandfather, Frank Ernest Rioth, worked as a cooper (barrel maker) at the Continental Steel Mill in Kokomo, Indiana in the 1930s. He is standing, second from the right.<br /><br />I am posting this as a participant in <a href="http://blogcarnival.com/bc/index.php">Blog Carnival </a>15th Edition for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30305424880">Geneabloggers</a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllaFKorEJ1Or59NmH7dK9ato40sHMTg5j4tIg4lMgZgXvjzXyFz9wuAShzdN5A3-z1syerv6mdX3FD2nuujYkktNOoqCbKKTH5GRkOmN1Ivo9eM_WGcqeAUAVPfg-XRjHGaVGu3J5w1sJ/s1600-h/COOPER.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div></div></div>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-1946691278886328122009-06-11T21:16:00.000-07:002009-06-11T21:27:25.555-07:00Cemetery updates<span style="color:#336666;">I have been busily adding burials from the Peru Mount Hope burial books. Tonight's update adds about 700 burials to the Mount Hope database. Hope this info will help someone break through a brick wall!</span><br /><span style="color:#336666;"></span><br /><span style="color:#336666;">I received photos of Center UB Cemetery tombstones yesterday, so sometime in the future, I will be posting about adding them to the Cass County Cemetery data. Photos are by Patrick Jackson. Thanks, Pat!</span><br /><span style="color:#336666;"></span><br /><span style="color:#336666;"><em>Debby</em></span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-39162377880028141222009-05-24T19:58:00.000-07:002009-06-18T11:43:10.513-07:00Peru Mount Hope Obits added<span style="color:#339999;">I added over 500 new obits today and over 200 "new and improved obits" from the collection of recent obits we digitized from Mount Hope files. These are all from the past 8-10 years. I plan to enter the interments in the Mausoleum next, then I will continue adding burials from the early sections of the cemetery including Oak Grove area.<br /><br />Debby</span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-30997549282790646342009-05-22T21:02:00.000-07:002009-06-18T11:45:26.841-07:00Peru Mount Hope Additions<span style="color:#3333ff;">I just uploaded a new version of Peru Mount Hope with 482 additional burials and lots of dates and locations filled in as well. There is lots more to come.</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><em><span style="color:#3333ff;">Debby</span></em>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-58194837277278307772009-05-20T14:08:00.000-07:002009-06-18T11:49:45.057-07:00Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #19<span style="color:#330000;">My favorite genealogy repository is Kokomo-Howard County Public Library's Genealogy and Local History Department. This is where I work. We have friendly and knowledgable service, a book collection of over 13,000 books, clipping files, microfilm of newspapers, court records, WPA Vital Record indexes for Indiana and much, much more. Please come visit when you are in the neighborhood.</span><br /><span style="color:#330000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#330000;">We also provide online databases for use in-house - Ancestry Library . com, footnote.com; as well as Heritage Quest for library card holders both at home and at the library and Kokomo Newspaper Archive is available by visiting the </span><a href="http://www.khcpl.org/glhs/index.html"><span style="color:#330000;">Genealogy Department Webpage </span></a><span style="color:#330000;">and following the instructions. </span><br /><span style="color:#330000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#330000;">Due to the upcoming remodeling project, we will be closed while we move the collection and set it up at the new temporary location (TBA). I expect this will be sometime in mid to late July until mid to late August.</span><br /><span style="color:#330000;"></span><br /><em><span style="color:#330000;">Debby</span></em>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961288490571938787.post-49751497699854274312009-05-17T21:52:00.000-07:002009-06-18T11:52:09.783-07:00Peru Mount Hope Update<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Nearly 2 weeks ago I was contactly by Beverly Jeffers, sexton of </span><a href="http://incass-inmiami.org/miami/cemeteries/perumthope/index.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Peru Mount Hope Cemetery</span></a><span style="color:#006600;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, with an offer of information for the website. Since Ed and I have a passion for cemetery information and honoring & remembering those who have gone before us, we were happy to have this opportunity.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">The next day, we drove to Peru to meet Bev and see what was available. We had our trusty digital camera and fresh batteries ready. We started taking digital photos of the burial books. Bev showed us some of the areas on the cemetery map including the original plat, Oak Grove, baby rows and sections, Potters Field and a Jewish area. There is also a circus area as Peru has a rich history of circuses and performers. This will allowed for a bit more detail in the mapping on the site in the future.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">In the past two weeks we have taken 4 trips to take digital photos of the burial books and a collection of obituaries and burial cards from about 2002 to the present. All of this information will be added to the site as time allows. I also have 3000 tombstone photos taken by Regine Brindle waiting to be matched. I believe that having the data in the database will be very helpful to matching photos of the very old and worn stones in the original and Oak Grove areas. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Watch for frequent updates.</span><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Debby</span></em></span></span>Debbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478731523547823863noreply@blogger.com1