Finding Cousins: Crowley

See previous post.  The Crowley family is another example of where we could find cousins to take to the temple. 

I only have record of Dennis Crowley and Elizabeth Parsons having one child, our direct ancestor Elizabeth Ann Crowley.  Does Elizabeth Ann have siblings? Has their work been done?  Who knows ... but you could find out!  You better watch out, though, cause once I get all of this stuff on our Ancestry.com tree, you best believe I'm gonna' be all up in dat bizness.

Finding Cousins: Beans

With families that have a lot of work down, the new challenge is filling in your family tree.  This is done by going to the end of your line and tracing it forward, attempting to find cousins that need work done.  For example, all of the work has been done for our grandparents back at least six generations on the Bean side.  However, there could be any number of branches that split off that were either never members of the Church or their descendants left the Church, leaving work undone.

This is a link to a family tree I am creating on ancestry that shows all the people I can fit into my tree with verifiable data (Family Tree).  Start by going to the very end of the line: William Bean.  Then, click on "Family" right next to "Pedigree."  This will show you all of William's descendants.  You can see that there are stoppages in the line with Louisa Bean, Jane Bean, Sarah Bean, George C. Bean, and Mary Bean in the third generation and even more on the fourth.

These are where we find potential names for the temple.  These are people that I have no record of either getting married or having children with their spouse.  The research will be determining if that person was married and if they had children for however many generations to present, and if all the work has been done.

NOTE:  I have not checked these names on FamilySearch, so you may look there and say, "Hey, here's a spouse and children and all their work is done.  Greg must not know what he is talking about."  I just don't have time to check them all right now.  But that's the point.  See if their work is done, and if it is, go on to another.

Please download copies of all records you locate (or screen shots of you can't download) to send to me.  FamilySearch is the best place to start, but remember, not all FamilySearch information is accurate! It needs corroborating primary documents!!!!  Call me! We can talk about it!!!!!

Well, why didn't you tell me I was illegitimate?

A couple years back, I was searching through some of the records my father had obtained from his uncle that had recently died.  I knew my Asmussen line hadn't been explored too thoroughly, so I was excited to fund quite a number of documents on my Asmussen line.

Unfortunately, as I was searching, I realized that the information had all been recorded and the temple work for the individuals had already been completed.  That is, until I came across a shocking discovery.

I was looking upon some records regarding my great great grandfather Johan Heinrich Asmussen when I found a record pertaining to his birth.  I started deciphering the writing, expecting to find as his father Heinrich Conrad Asmussen and his mother Wilhelmina Benedicta Schmidt.  However, I noted a word in German that looked familiar, but that ultimately I did not recognize.  When I looked up the translation, it said "illegitimate."  My eyes widened when I realized what I had discovered.  My great great grandfather was not the son of Wilhelmina Benedicta Schmidt at all.  In fact, he was the child of Sophia Magdalena Lucie Schmidt, a name I had never seen before in any records.  Apparently, Johan had been born of Sophia, but raised by Wilhelmina as one of her own.

What did this exciting revelation mean? It meant that I had an entirely brand new line of ancestry that had never been researched before! What luck! What glory! I carefully studied all of the records in my father's possession and uploaded the names to Familysearch.org (here's a link to Sophia's page).  However, I have done nothing further on the line.

Project:

1) Flesh out this family tree

There is a ton of research that could be done here, but I know very little about German family history.

Ideas:

1) What we need to do is see if we can find any records pertaining to Sophia: See if she remarried, see if she had any other kids.
2) We can look for all of her brothers and sisters in records, too; see if the married, had kids, etc. (plus, I need more information on them so we can do endowments, sealings, etc.)
3) We can try and push this line back as well, starting with attempting to find more information about Sophia's parents (again, I need more information on them so we can do endowments, sealings, etc.)

Where to go first:

1) The best and easiest thing to do would be get the records from my dad, see where they came from, and look in similar records (also, they all need to be digitized for record keeping purposes)
2) Familysearch has an awesome wiki that has so much valuable information.  You could start by reading the Germany page.
3) Then, you might check out the page for Schleswig-Holstein, the area where Sophia was born.  That should give you some idea of records that are available.
4) You could always just Google it.
5) After you are done, check out my favorite German soccer team, Holstein Kiel.  Can you guess why they are my favorite? :)

This is all original research! If you want to talk about it, give me a call! I would love to brainstorm!

William and Sarah - Someone thinks we're married ...

William Bean and Sarah Wallage are my fourth great grandparents on the Bean side of the family.  I found information that their marriage record was extracted way back when by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  However, I don't have copies of the original.  I have found that looking at the original Marriage records and searching through the entire film can produce a wealth of additional information.  This is the printout of the extraction:

This is the information you will use to locate him on the film. Now, this one is confusing, because there appears to be no film for 1832 ....  However, after a little research, I think 0254576 is the way to go.  I literally have no primary documents on these two, so this record would be awesome.

Oh, and if you're interested, this is the sweet church they got married in.

Project:

1) Order the film number 0254576 from the family history library (use this link) (the films cost $7.50 to rent on a short term basis)

2) Find a Family History Center with a film reader

3) Search the film for the name "Bean" or "Wallage"

4) If your Center has the capability (and let's pray they do), capture each image that could potentially be related to the Bean and Wallage families; otherwise just write down all the information

5) Rejoice in your discovery!

William Bean - I've been Christened!

William Bean is my second great grandfather on the Bean side of the family.  I found information that his Christening record was extracted way back when by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  However, I don't have copies of the original.  I have found that looking at the original Christening records and searching through the entire film can produce a wealth of additional information.  This is the printout of the extraction:

This is the information you will use to locate him on the film. 

Project:

1) Order the film number 025462 from the family history library (use this link) (the films cost $7.50 to rent on a short term basis)

2) Find a Family History Center with a film reader

3) Search the film for the name "Bean"

4) If your Center has the capability (and let's pray they do), capture each image that could potentially be related to the Bean family; otherwise just write down all the information

5) Rejoice in your discovery!

William Aspey - Christening Records

William Aspey is my third great grand uncle coming out of the Bean/Wainwright side of the family.  I found information that his Christening record was extracted way back when by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  However, I don't have copies of the original.  I have found that looking at the original Christening records and searching through the entire film can produce a wealth of additional information.  The extraction says that he was Christened on May 29, 1829, In Wigan, Lacashire, England.  This is the information you will use to locate him on the film.  Who knows, you may even find my direct ancestor, my third great grandmother Margaret Aspey, born 20 Nov. 1833 in the same place!

Project:

1) Order the film number 94033 from the family history library (use this link) (the films cost $7.50 to rent on a short term basis)

2) Find a Family History Center with a film reader

3) Search the film for the name "Aspey"

4) If your Center has the capability (and let's pray they do), capture each image that could potentially be related to the Aspey family; otherwise just write down all the information

5) Rejoice in your discovery!

Peter Aspey and His Two Sara Sisters - Christening Record

Peter Aspey was my third great grand uncle coming out of the Bean/Wainwright side of the family. I had two Sara Aspey's, sisters of Peter.  One of them died 8 days after birth, and three years later, another Sara was born.  I found information that each of their Christening records were extracted way back when by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  However, I don't have copies of the originals.  I have found that looking at the original Christening records and searching through the entire film can produce a wealth of additional information.  This are the printouts for each of the extractions:

This is the information you will use to locate him on the film.  Who knows, you may even find my direct ancestor, my third great grandmother Margaret Aspey, born 20 Nov. 1833 in the same place!

Project:

1) Order the film number 94034 from the family history library (use this link) (the films cost $7.50 to rent on a short term basis)

2) Find a Family History Center with a film reader

3) Search the film for the name "Aspey"

4) If your Center has the capability (and let's pray they do), capture each image that could potentially be related to the Aspey family; otherwise just write down all the information

5) Rejoice in your discovery!

John Aspey - Christening Record

John Aspey is my third great grand uncle coming out of the Bean/Wainwright side of the family.  I found information that his Christening record was extracted way back when by the Church.  However, I don't have copies of the original.  I have found that looking at the original Christening records and searching through the entire film can produce a wealth of additional information.  This is the printout of the extraction:

This is the information you will use to locate him on the film.  Who knows, you may even find my direct ancestor, my third great grandmother Margaret Aspey, born 20 Nov. 1833 in the same place!

Project:

1) Order the film number 94032 from the family history library (use this link) (the films cost $7.50 to rent on a short term basis)

2) Find a Family History Center with a film reader

3) Search the film for the name "Aspey"

4) If your Center has the capability (and let's pray they do), capture each image that could potentially be related to the Aspey family; otherwise just write down all the information

5) Rejoice in your discovery!