15TH BLOGIVERSARY!

 Well, it's 15 years now, and I'm still here. I'm not back to the level of productivity I had in the past,but I'm still chugging along and hope to do better this year

Here's  where I'm at according to the stats.

283 followers

2771 posts

3317 comments

And here's my all time most viewed posts;

Thanks to all the viewers and commenters over the years!

ON THIS DATE: JANUARY 14th

 

Two ancestors named Sarah: one born and one died in the same year on this date:

 

On This Date:

 

BIRTHS:

14 Jan 1755 4x great grandmother Elizabeth Wiley was born in Andover, Ma.

14 Jan 1661 8x great grandmother Sarah Farnum was born at Andover, Ma.

 

MARRIAGE:

14 Jan 1702 7x great grandparents Samuel Upton & Abigail Frost were married in Salem, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

14 Jan 1719 8x great grandmother Deborah (Barnes) Davis died at Haverhill, Ma.

14 Jan 1733 7x great grandmother Hannah (Marston) Barker died at Andover, Ma.

14 Jan 1661 10x great grandmother Sarah (Parker) Converse died at Woburn, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: JANUARY 12th

 

On This Date:

MARRIAGES:

12 Jan 1688 7x great grandparents William Hoyt & Dorothy Colby were married at Amesbury, Ma.

12 Jan 1702 7x great grandparents James Thorn & Hannah Brown were married at Salisbury, Ma

12 Jan 1845 3x great grandparents Christian Luick & Christiane Ruppmich were married at Wurttemberg, Germany

 

DEATHS:

12 Jan 1776 6x great grandmother Edna (Bailey) Hastings died at Bradford, Ma.

12 Jan 1777 6x great grandfather Joseph Herrick died at Gloucester, Ma.

12 Jan 1717 7x great grandfather Jonathan Hallett died at Yarmouth, Ma.

ON THIS DAY: JANUARY 5th

 

On This Date:

MARRIAGE:

5 Jan 1696 7x great grandparents Abiel Kelley & Rebecca Davis were married at Newbury, Ma.

DEATH:

5 Jan 1666 10x great grandfather Roger Mowrey died at Salem, Ma.

MY GENEAPLANS FOR 2022

 So my geneaplans fpr 2022 are the same as they were for 2021 and 2020. Luckily they are all things I can do online since I am no longer driving. And getting anything done depends on my health, so we'll see how this goes this year.

The geneaplans:
1.Continue adding more of my ancestors siblings and their lines to my database.

2. Again.this year I'm  going to set a goal for my blogging: to try to reach 200 posts in this blog and to post anything, anything at all, in my Graveyard Rabbits  blog. But anything over 50 posts will be an improvement over this year.
(I ended up with 70 posts here for 2021 but failed to post anything on the Gravetard Rabbits blog. I have a plan to remedy that this year.)

3. Post more photos for Find A Grave from the many I still have sitting in folders on my computer..

4. Continue to stay organized:  Keep putting images  I download into  the folder they belong in immediately,

5. Transcribe more of the wills and probate files I've downloaded already.

6. Find and download the wills and probate files of female ancestors.

7.  Keep working  on  the timeline for my ancestors who were involved in the Colonial New England Indian wars, including those who were captured.

8. Go back and finish the series about the "Hot Mess" probate file of ancestor Nathaniel Stowe which I forgot to finish in May 2015. (Probably because it's such a "hot mess").

9. Write more  about my ancestor Gov. John Endecott. I keep pushing it aside, I think, because he did somethings that were nasty.

10. Make more use of the MyTreeTags feature to make lists of things my anestors were involved in .

11. Keep having fun with genealogy
Hopefully I will do better this year!

ON THIS DAY: JANUARY THE 3rd

 

On This Date:

BIRTH:

3 Jan 1682 8x great grandfather John Laughton was born in Lynn, Ma.

 

MARRIAGE:

3 Jan 1692 7x great grandparents James Thomas & Mary Tilden were married at Duxbury, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

3 Jan 1698 8x great grandfather Peter Ayer died at Haverhill, Ma

3 Jan 1737 8x great grandfather Ralph Farnham III died at Andover, Ma.

ON THIS DAY: JANUARY 2ND

 

On This Date:

BAPTISM:

2 Jan 1574 10x great grandfather Edmund Greenleaf was baptized at St. Mary's-la-Tour at Ipswich, England.

 

BIRTH:

2 Jan 1651 7x great grandmother Mary Sawyer was born at Lancaster, Ma.

2 Jan 1627 7x great grandfather Henry Ingalls was born at Skirbeck, England.

 

MARRIAGES:

2 Jan 1688 7x great grandparents Benjamin Barker & Hannah Marston were married at Andover, Ma.

2 Jan 1738 6x great grandparents Nathaniel Dana & Abigail Dean were married at Boston, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

2 Jan 1743 7x great grandfather Samuel Ayer died at Haverhill, Ma

2 Jan 1754 7x great grandmother Martha (Conant) Perkins died at Plympton, Ma.

2 Jan 1692 8x great grandfather Francis West died at Duxbury, Ma.

2 Jan 1682 8x great grandmother Sarah (Pitney)Thomas died at Marshfield, Ma.

ON THIS DAY: JANUARY 1st

 

Today's List has three New Year's babies and a birth and marriage on the same day.

On This Date:

BIRTHS:

1 Jan 1643 9x great grandfather Jeremiah Swain was born in Charlestown, Ma.

1 Jan 1707 7x great grandmother Hepzibah Stimson was born at Reading, Ma.

1 Jan 1702 6x great grandfather Moses Coburn was born at Dracut, Ma.

MARRIAGES:

1 Jan 1651 9x great grandparents John Lovejoy & Mary Osgood were married at Andover, Ma.

1 Jan 1643 10x great grandparents Henry Rice & Elizabeth Moore were married at Sudbury, Ma.

1 Jan 1698 7x great grandparents John Moore & Hazadiah Fairbanks were married at Concord, Ma.

DEATHS:

1 Jan 1669 8X great grandfather William Barstow died at Scituate, Ma.

1 Jan 1777 5x great grandmother Mehitabel (Abbott) Abbott died at Andover, Ma.