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In this issue:
- New Databases Added Today
--- Western Nebraska History (Images online)
--- Westfield and Vicinity, Massachusetts City Directory, 1881-1882
(Images online)
- Historical Newspapers Collection Update
--- "Colorado Spring Gazette" (Colorado Springs, Colo.), 1876-78,
1888-97, 1900-1903, and 1909-14
- New U.K. and Ireland Records Collection Database
--- Yorkshire, England: Parish Records (Images online) Update adding
Maltby Parish Register, 1597-1812, Mirfield Parish Register, 1559-
1700, and Mirfield Parish Register, 1700-1776
- Today's Featured Map
--- Indian Battles, 1521-1700
- Family History Compass: "Random Thoughts from a Family History
Journey," by Juliana Smith
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NEW DATABASES ADDED TODAY
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WESTERN NEBRASKA HISTORY (Images online)

This database contains a history, published in 1921, of western
Nebraska, including the counties of Cheyenne, Box Butte, Deuel,
Garden, Sioux, Kimball, Morrill, Sheridan, Scotts Bluff, Banner, and
Dawes. This area of Nebraska is often referred to as the Panhandle of
Nebraska. This history covers a variety of topics and time periods,
beginning first with a general history of the state and then
continuing on with general histories of each of the above-mentioned
counties.

Historical works contain valuable information that can be a great
addition to your genealogical research. Although historical works may
not mention your ancestors specifically (unless they were prominent
individuals in the community), they do provide information on the
time and place in which your ancestors lived, which will help you
place your ancestors in a historical context.

Source Information: Ancestry.com. "Western Nebraska History"
[database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original
data: Shumway, Grant L. "History of Western Nebraska and Its People."
Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing and Engraving, 1921.

Ancestry.com subscribers can search this database at:
http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=4717&key=D8551

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WESTFIELD AND VICINITY, MASSACHUSETTS CITY DIRECTORY, 1881-1882
(Images online)

This database contains the 1881-82 directory for the Westfield area
in Hampden County, Massachusetts. This area includes the city of
Westfield and also East, West, and Middle Farms, Little River, West
Parish, and Owen District. In addition to providing the names of the
heads of households of this area, the directory provides their
addresses and occupational information. A complete census of
Massachusetts, list of incorporations and societies, and other
miscellaneous information of local interest is also included.

Source Information: Ancestry.com. "Westfield and Vicinity,
Massachusetts City Directory, 1881-1882" [database online]. Provo,
Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: "Westfield Directory,
Including East, West and Middle Farms, Little River, West Parish, the
Owen District, &c., for the Year 1881-82. Embracing a General
Directory of the Citizens, a Business Directory, a Complete Census of
Massachusetts, a Complete List of Incorporations, Societies, &c. and
Other Information of Local Interest." Albany, N.Y.: R. S. Dillon,
1881. This directory was reproduced courtesy of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society (http://www.nehgs.org ).

Ancestry.com subscribers can search this database at:
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HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS COLLECTION UPDATE
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Ancestry.com subscribers with access to the Historical Newspapers
Collection can search these databases and view the complete
description and source citation at the links below:

"Colorado Spring Gazette" (Colorado Springs, Colo.), 1876-78, 1888-
97, 1900-1903, and 1909-14
This posting adds newspapers from:
--- 1909-14 (15,097 pages)
http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=4717&key=D6921

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NEW U.K. AND IRELAND RECORDS COLLECTION DATABASE
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YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND: PARISH RECORDS (Images online)
Update adding:
- Maltby Parish Register, 1597-1812
- Mirfield Parish Register, 1559-1700
- Mirfield Parish Register, 1700-1776

This database is a collection of historical parish registers from the
County of York in the Country of England. The records in this
collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to
late-1800s. Parish records--primarily baptisms, marriages, and
burials--provide the best source of vital record information in the
centuries before civil registration. Baptismal records generally list
the date of the baptism, the name of the child being baptized, and
the name of the father. Marriage records generally include the date
of the marriage and the names of the bride and groom. Burial records
generally list the date of the burial and the name of the deceased
individual. Occasionally burial records will include other bits of
information such as where the individual was from or if he/she was a
widow.

Source Information: Ancestry.co.uk. "Yorkshire, England: Parish
Records" [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.
Original data:
--- Hughes, C. E., ed. "The Register of the Parish of Maltby Co.
York. (1597-1812)." Yorkshire: Yorkshire Parish Register Society,
1926.
--- Brigg, William, trans. and ed. "The Register of the Parish of
Mirfield. Part I. Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, 1559-1700."
Yorkshire: Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1919.
--- Brigg, William, trans. and Lumb, George Denison, ed. "The
Register of the Parish of Mirfield. Part II. Baptisms and Burials,
January 1700-March 1776. Marriages to March 1754." Yorkshire:
Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1923.

Ancestry.com subscribers with access to the U.K. and Ireland Records
Collection can search this database at:
http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=4717&key=D8020


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TODAY'S FEATURED MAP
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INDIAN BATTLES, 1521-1700
National map of the United States showing the battles between Native
Americans and European settlers, 1521-1700.

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Family History Compass
"Random Thoughts from a Family History Journey," by Juliana Smith
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Well, I started to work on my column for this week early this
morning. It's now after 10 p.m. and I still don't know what route to
take. As I often do, I turned to my ancestors for inspiration. As I
pondered which line to use, I spied an index card that had somehow
made it to my desk. It was for my Dooner line. It was obviously meant
to be, so I chose to begin my travels with them. (Sometimes, it's
just that scientific.)

Now, my office is buried in Dooners and related families, reference
and history books are piled everywhere, and even my dogs and cats,
who normally inhabit my office while I work, have vacated "the office
of the crazy woman." All of this is telltale evidence of a day of
family history fun ... er, I mean, hard work. (I love that I have
that excuse! Rather than making me seek professional help for my
obsession, they just think I'm a workaholic.)

At any rate, it was a good choice. The Dooners and friends led me
through a variety of records available online and I was able to get a
few leads. However, the journey I took had quite a few twists and
turns as I searched for a good topic. Try as I might, I haven't been
able to connect the disjointed pieces. So here we are with some
random thoughts that came to me as I meandered through a day of
research.

Random thought #1: Review research and look for dates that don't
jive.

The first thing I did was pull out the Dooner family binder and start
browsing through it. It had been a while since I researched this
line, so I wanted to review what I had and look for holes that needed
to be filled in. In the miscellaneous section at the end of the
binder, I found a note from a passenger list. It was from a family
named O'Donnell and although the last name was off a bit, the family
structure and ages were roughly in line with my Dooners. Since it's
important to keep an open mind when it comes to names, I had saved
this little tidbit. However, upon closer inspection I noted that the
O'Donnells came over in 1847. They couldn't be mine because I have
Margaret Dooner's baptism record in Brooklyn in 1841 and it's not
likely they decided to pop back overseas to Ireland with the family
for a visit at the height of the famine years. Not exactly a family
vacation destination.

Random thought #2: The things you can find when you play with online
searches can be very cool!

From the baptism, I knew that the eldest daughter of John and Eliza
(Moran) Dooner, the aforementioned Margaret, was born in Brooklyn in
1841. From various census years, I knew her to be the eldest child so
I could assume that her parents came over before 1841. Since the
Ancestry.com Immigration Collection has a database of "New York
Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1850," I thought I'd give it a
shot.
(http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=4717&key=D7485 )

A quick search for John Dooner and I had one hit:
John Dooner, arrived Jul 10, 1839, age 26, male, departed from
Liverpool, place of origin Ireland, on Ship Ganges

Yeah! Since the entry had the correct surname spelling, I broadened
my search by eliminating his first name. There were sixteen Dooners
in the database, but his wife Eliza wasn't among them. Hmm, maybe he
came over alone first, as was often the case. Some of the other
Passenger List databases, like New York Passenger Lists, 1851-1891
(http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=4717&key=D7488 )
and San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1890-1912
(http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=4717&key=D7949 )
allow you just page forward and backward through the images.

I did want to see who else was on his ship, but since this database
doesn't have the images to browse through, I did some creative
searching. Using the advanced search options, I entered the year 1839
in both of the year of arrival fields (1839 to 1839) and Ship Ganges
in the field for the ships name. I was rewarded with 159 passengers
on the Ship Ganges, 10 July 1839 and among them was one Eliza Moran.

Random thought #3: Don't let assumptions sidetrack your research.

I was so hung up on looking for her Eliza's married name that I
forgot to search for her maiden name. Duh!

As an aside, (I guess this would be another random thought but I
don't want it to throw off my numbering) there's a great book on
Irish women immigrants called "Erin's Daughter's in America: Irish
Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century," by Hasia R. Diner
(Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1983.) It
contains a whole chapter on "Patterns of Female Migration." I found
it interesting when I read it a few years ago on a long road trip.
And lest you think I'm just some kind of fanatic ... well, yes I am
but ... I read portions of it to my husband ... while he was driving.
He didn't fall asleep behind the wheel, and he said he also found it
interesting. (Note: My husband and I have been married nine years
now. He has learned by now that if he acts interested, it only
encourages me, so I doubt he was lying.)

So where were we? Oh yeah, maiden names--which leads us to....

Random thoughts #4 & #5: Don't get hung up on a name, and watch your
ancestor's neighbors CAREFULLY.

Let's start with #4--I've found this family in censuses from 1850 to
1880 some time ago. Their last name has been listed in censuses as:

1850--Doveor (Thanks to some hideous handwriting on behalf of the
census taker.)
1860--Dooner
1870--Donar
1880--Doner

On to #5--Besides being kind enough to have a somewhat-less-common
name, the Dooners were also kind enough to live in one place for
several decades, which is highly unusual in my family tree. A good
genealogist knows to always check out their ancestors' neighbors, and
I thought I was being a good genealogist. I had long ago spotted a
Patrick Downer on the same page as the Dooners in 1860, but I wasn't
sure if they were related.

As I went over some of my finds for the day with Mom on the phone,
she mentioned that she still had more of those index cards that she
hadn't had time to transcribe and share, like the one that had made
its way to my desk. She faxed over photocopies of a bunch of them and
hidden among them was a card with a transcribed entry from an 1875
Brooklyn Directory--Patrick Doner, laborer, at 111 Tillary.

My Doners lived at 117 Tillary. Here was a pretty good indication
that my hunch was correct and Patrick Downer was indeed a Doner. Was
he there in other years? I took the search further, and sure enough I
found him and his family there in 1870 too. How had I missed them
before? They were enumerated as Dolan and I hadn't picked up on the
similarity. So let's make....

Random thought #6: Compare your ancestor's neighbors from census to
census and look for similarities.

Random thought #7--The census takers didn't always follow the same
path as their predecessors. Be sure to compare neighbors both before
and after. In some cases I found that the neighbors found listed
before them in one enumeration, were listed after in another.
Beginning in 1880 house numbers are a big help when searching for
urban dwellers.

Random thought #8 is that when you're looking at addresses, be aware
that you may find the streets split up, also dependent on the
enumerator's route. Blocks may be separated by many pages of other
streets, and in the case of Tillary in 1880, I found the odd-numbered
houses in District 22 and the even-numbered houses in District 24.
Neighbors that lived across the street from one another were found
two districts away.

Random thought #9 is to pay special attention to those families
grouped together. While there were a lot of tenements in large cities
that housed many unrelated families, families still tended to try to
remain close. In 1860 the Dooners are listed with Eliza's occupation
as grocer. In the same "dwelling" is a family named McLoughlin.
Patrick McLoughlin is also a grocer. This is one of those leads I've
had on the back burner for a while and put off, dreading a search for
yet another common name in Brooklyn, but after some preliminary
research today, I am intrigued by some of what I found and I will
definitely be devoting some time to them.

The McLoughlin's present another mystery, though, and one I have yet
to unravel. That will have to be a column for another day because
it's now 1:00 a.m. and both my fingers and eyes are failing me.
Random thought #10 is that it's past my bedtime.
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Juliana Smith is the editor of the "Ancestry Daily News" and author
of "The Ancestry Family Historian's Address Book." She has written
for "Ancestry" Magazine and "Genealogical Computing." Juliana can be
reached by e-mail at mailto:ADNeditor@ancestry.com , but she regrets
that she is unable to assist with personal research.

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CLIPPING OF THE DAY
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From the "Adams Centinel" (Gettysburg, Pa.), 19 July 1815, page 2:

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