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  • Busy Day

    Posted on by Sethen Comment

    I had a busy day in Milo today.  I went up for the grand opening of the shiny new Visitor’s Center that the Kiwanis built.  Saw some people I hadn’t seen in awhile, took a few pictures (that my phone then magically decided it never took).

    I spent the afternoon helping Dad clean out his shed. I ended up with a literal truck load of STUFF that was once mine.  On the upside, I did find my big awning tent that Dad thought someone else had.  It was just hiding in the far back of the shed.  I also found my NES and SNES!  I haven’t even dared to plug them in yet… Especially since the case of the NES is in two pieces for some odd reason.  Now if I could just locate the missing box with all the games in it… Only found a few with the systems.  I also managed to grab my hammock!

    Dad and I then spent a bit of the afternoon wandering around Evergreen Cemetery in Milo.  I was going over a bunch of the genealogy stuff I’d found lately, and suddenly we were looking for graves in the cemetery.  We didn’t find much we didn’t already know about. I need to put together a list and he’s going to talk to his buddy Bob who runs the cemetery. He has a fancy book with the location of everyone in it and can at least point us in the right direction.

    Now I must go, Buddy is being needy and wants attention. He hates that I left him alone last night.


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  • Spare Time + Boredom = Genealogy!

    Posted on by Sethen Comment

    I decided to put all this spare time on my hands to good use, and jumped back into family genealogy.  I’ve been working straight for 2 weeks now, and I’ve accomplished a lot!  You’d be surprised how far a two week free trial on Ancestry.com will  get you.

    I started out working on some ancestors I wanted to know more about but didn’t get very far.  I DID manage to find where Michael Dolan came from in Ireland along with his parents’ names, but still can’t locate his immigration info.   I also didn’t get any further with the Barden name, and may have taken a step back. I thought William Barden had come from England, but I found more evidence pointing to him being born in Massachusetts.

    I then decided to spend my time filling in as much of this tree that I could.  It shows 7 generations back from me.

    Pedigree tree of Seth

    I got as far as I could with Ancestry.com.  I managed to fill in a TON of ancestors for my Great Grandmother, Alice Louise Hoskins.  I found a lot of French heritage that had never been mapped out before!  Turns out her family all came form Canada, but they’d been in Canada since the beginning.  They were some of the first settlers 🙂

    I also did some research back into Nancy Rumbaugh and found German heritage! I probably should have figured it out from the name.

    Well, that’s all for now, I need a break from all this genealogy.


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  • Genealogy Strikes Back

    Posted on by Sethen Comment

    Whilst in Milo today, I got a lead in my genealogy research!  Dad had dug out an old genealogy that had been given to my grandfather in 1995 from some distant cousins, as their research involved some of our ancestors.  I got looking into it, and found that the linking family was the Dolans, the one I'm most interested in researching.

    Michael Dolan (my father's name-sake) was born in Ireland in 1790. As the family story goes, he immigrated to Milo, Maine (of all places) during a potato famine.  I've been trying to find records of him, where he came from, and his ancestors, but with no luck, as I was working off the dates of the potato famine.  I had always been under the impression that his wife, Tamson, had come from Ireland with him. This was WRONG. 

    In the genealogy that Dad found, it had more information.  Tamson's maiden name was Harding, and she was born in Prospect, Maine!  This means I need to drastically adjust my time frame for his immigration. Their first kid was born around 1830, so he had to have come here sometime before that.

    The roadblock in front of me now is the immigration records I need are on Ancestry.com.  I think I need to finally give in and get a damn account.  I just hate the idea of paying $20 a month for access to their crap.  Think I'm finally seeing that if I want to be serious about this, I'm going to have to break down and get the account.  It will help me by leaps and bounds, I know.  I'm just stubborn.


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  • Annoying Dilemma

    Posted on by Sethen Comment

    Whilst digging through my genealogy crap, I realized like 2-3 years ago I made a big breakthrough, connecting Frederick Barden back to a line of other Bardens, starting with his supposed father Stephen Barden.  Well, I forgot to make any reference of WHERE I found that tidbit of information.  I know I wouldn't have entered all that crap in if I wasn't at least pretty sure it was a real connection.  But now, I can't remember…  And its been driving me crazy for like 3 hours now.  I've scoured the internet and given myself a headache.  Its just bugging me that I can't even find a slight hint of the connection.  As far as the internet and history are concerned, Frederick Barden walked into Dover, Massachusetts out of nowhere, with no family.  But SOMEWHERE I found the name Stephen connected, and the dates / ages lined up.  Once upon a time.

    Sigh, that is all for now.  Back to uploading Google Map Data.


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  • Genealogical Progress Goes Boink

    Posted on by Sethen Comment

    I've finally gotten myself into a grove of working on some Genealogy stuff.  No actual research just yet, but I'm doing some major overhauls on my family genealogy webpage.  The old software I was using was severely outdated, so I've upgraded to a new software called Webtrees.  Its based on the system I was using, so its very similar, just not as outdated.  

    Today I'm working on finally getting the Google Maps portion of this thing to work.  I could never get it figured out before, but I got it working on the new system.  Just requires me to upload a ridiculous amount of CSV data files to give it coordinates and whatnot.  The end result will be that any properly entered location will have a corresponding map marker!

    The key issue is I need to get everyone who enters information here to use the standard layout for place names.  All of the US will be entered when I'm done, so its important!  The layout is "Town, County, State, Country".  For instance, Milo would be listed as "Milo, Piscataquis, Maine, USA". (I chose USA instead of United States of America simply cuz its much shorter.) If anyone has questions about place names, let me know!

    http://family.sethen.com


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