Gilead Cemetery, Miami Co., IN

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.

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.

Debby

January has been a busy month

• Ed continues to update the Sunset Memory Gardens web site from current obituaries.
• Kokomo Tribune Obituary Index - 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.
• Sharon Stafford Aldardyce recently sent me 34 tombstone photos for Center UB Cemetery in Cass County and they have been posted online.
• I am working on putting Wooleytown/Macedonia Cemetery online on the Miami County site.
• Beverly continues to send me the monthly interrments for Peru Mount Hope Cemetery and the web site was updated today.
• Mast/Hensler Cemetery (Howard County) is now online.
• I also added some updates to Galveston Cemetery and Walton Cemetery in Cass County in January.

Enjoy! Debby

My Ethnicity

I saw this August 8, 2009 post on Cheryl Fleming Palmer's Blog "Heritage Happens." 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.

• 3 - Howard County
• 1 - Miami County
• 1 - Clinton County
• 1 - Pike County
• 1 - Daviess County
• 1 Bas-Rhin, France

So, that would mean I have 12.5% French

Aside from that French line, the next generation back, great-great grandparents were born -

• Indiana - 7
• Virginia - 4
• Ohio - 2
• North Carolina - 1

So no new ethnicity to add in that generation.

The next generation is no better in revealing ethnicity. (3rd great grandparents)

• Virginia - 10
• Pennsylvania - 6
• Kentucky - 5
• North Carolina - 4
• Indiana - 1
• unknown (US) 1
• Tennessee - 1
• Maryland - 1

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.

What is your ethnicity? Try this and learn or be satisfied that you are an American of the Heinz 57 variety.

Happy hunting! Debby