Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
NEW THOUGHTS ON MARY ANN SAYLOR
I have been pondering my husbands great grandmother, Mary Ann Saylor Coleman. I have been searching for her parents and I found two likely candidates when I visited the Huntingdon County Historical Society. In a DAR file a woman lists a Mary Jane Saylor, b. 21 June 1813 and married a Henry Coleman. My ancestor is Mary Ann Saylor, born 21 June 1813 and married to Michael A Coleman.
Is this the same woman or are the women twins, both married to a Coleman man?
The copy of the family group sheet was submitted in 1921 and no citation of the sheet? If she had the information it is out there somewhere. But where, I have to find it.
Is this the same woman or are the women twins, both married to a Coleman man?
The copy of the family group sheet was submitted in 1921 and no citation of the sheet? If she had the information it is out there somewhere. But where, I have to find it.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING.
I have been so busy the past two weeks, I had hardly anytime to breathe. GIRLS WEEK OUT, me, my daughter and my sisters had a road trip and a good time.
Last week I attended the GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH. The biggest thing I learned is how much I have to learn. I took the class INTERMEDIATE GENEALOGY: TOOLS FOR DIGGING DEEPER. Paula Stuart Warren and D. Joshua Taylor both gave excellent lectures, and now my brain is full.
I have been sitting here going over my notes, highlighting links I wrote and books I may want to purchase that were mentioned in the lectures. I was successful in an attempt to follow their advice. Paula said to search all in your tree. One of my goals is to find the parents of my great grandfather Patrick O’Rourke. He has a sister Mary who married Daniel Rogan in about 1876. Sometime closer to 1890-1900 they moved to New Castle PA.
I found two of their children's Baptisms and one death on the Family Search site. My theory is that they were married in Pittsburgh and some of their children were Baptized there. The death was a infant daughter, Mary Rogan who died from diarrhea and is buried in ST. Mary's Cemetery. There were many St. Mary’s cemeteries and now I have to find which one it was. If I find the marriage record, perhaps, it will name the parents. Irish Catholic records are sort of minimalistic but I do have a bit of hope for that.
If not there I will send for Mary’s death certificate.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
VERY EXCITING FIND TODAY
For the past few months I have not made much progress in my ancestor searching. Today I was perusing Family Search and who knows why, but I entered my great grandmother, Anna Meta Margarethe name and came up with SIX siblings.
I knew her date of birth (8 April 1868) from a hand written note that I found among my fathers paper after he had died. The rest of those listed is her husband and their children and spouses.
The second line says “Mutter 8 April 1868” So when I came to her information I knew I had the correct parents. As it develops she had six brothers, and I have not found any sisters. Her fathers name was Ernst Frederich Wilhelm Hackmann and her mother was Elsie Marie Rittel
Hermann August Karl Hackmann 22 September 1865
Ernst Frederich Wilhelm Hackmann 24 February 1867
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackmann 5 March 1871
Michael Friedrich Hackmann 21 July 1872
Heinrich Wilhelm Hackmann 23 July 1873
Friedrich Jacob Heinrich Hackmann 24 December 1874
Now I was really excited and I searched for Elsie Marie Rittel, my great great grandmother, and what did I find was a list of Elsie’s siblings. Her father’s name was Karl Friedrich Bermandi Rittel and her mother was Anna Meta Margarethe Lurssen. That was my great grandmothers name.
Michael Friedrich Bermandi Rittel 26 December 1842
Elsie Marie Johanne Rittel 13 July 1844
Karl Friedrich Rittel 27 October 1845
Jacob Friedrich Heinrich Rittel 10 March 1848
Johann Friedrich Lucie Rittel 14 March 1850
Adelheide Henriette Rittel 25 December 1853
Johanne Friedrika Louise Rittel 1 June 1856
Johann Gottfried Rittel 25 May 1859
Johann Bernhard Rittel 2 September 1861.
Where do I go from here? That was certainly a lot of family to find for one day. My hat is off for the person who indexed this list. The list was updated recently and I am extremely glad to find it.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
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