tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post1402586475799825489..comments2024-03-13T21:06:16.936-04:00Comments on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: That Genealogy Moment! Olive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-33556966526685258402018-06-25T07:26:47.367-04:002018-06-25T07:26:47.367-04:00What a great post! Mine has to be when I found th...What a great post! Mine has to be when I found the succession papers of a sibling of my 3rd gr grandmother in Bossier Parish, LA. In it, Sarah (my 3rd great) states that her brother has died and names all of her siblings, both living and deceased, their married names and locations as well as a few nieces & nephews. I did all of the research on each of the siblings in hopes of finding their In The Treeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375033022104189242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-30117637270005500412018-06-24T19:08:32.703-04:002018-06-24T19:08:32.703-04:00Mine came thanks to a Canadian War of 1812 enthusi...Mine came thanks to a Canadian War of 1812 enthusiast. For decades various members of my mother's family tried to identify the parents of Hannah Plato, wife of Joseph Johnson. A family story said she'd carried water to the troops during the siege of Fort Erie. Almost immediately after I put a query on an 1812 website a man asked for more information. Within 30 minutes of my reply he'dNogadamo Bhiitanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-11174297798667493062018-06-24T10:32:17.533-04:002018-06-24T10:32:17.533-04:00I spent about 35 years trying to extend my direct ...I spent about 35 years trying to extend my direct line just one more step. Over those years I developed a hypothesis of the next step but was never able to prove it. Then one day a couple years back, in an instant I found a probate record that definitely sealed the case. I had been right al along. The probate document answered many other questions as well. I wrote a 3 part blog post about my Gary Polsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-54812163083496890212018-06-23T07:32:10.935-04:002018-06-23T07:32:10.935-04:00One of my eureka moments also occurred when I was ...One of my eureka moments also occurred when I was staring at a probate record. I was at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston on my last day of research there before getting on a plane to go home. I was searching through probate records, trying to prove which of the two wives of John Kent of Newbury was my ancestor’s mother. And, I found the evidence in the probate record of a KSteckelberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948221252287840929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-88021652163889904862018-06-22T17:06:39.408-04:002018-06-22T17:06:39.408-04:00It happened in 2011, when I was preparing to trave...It happened in 2011, when I was preparing to travel from my home in Oregon back to GA to see family, and then on to VA to visit Yorktown over the 4th of July. The brick wall on our Fletcher line was finding anything prior to the birth of our ancestor, James Fletcher, b 1786 in NC. (Professional genealogists at a conference in San Francisco had referred to NC as the "black hole of genealogy&Sophi Fletchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-73273623420643038862018-06-22T13:08:57.828-04:002018-06-22T13:08:57.828-04:00My moment was after searching the Library and Arch...My moment was after searching the Library and Archives Canada online for a few years and finding a marriage bond from 1836 for my gr. Gr. Grandparents. There was a signature of the father of my gr. Gr. Grandmother which proved her family name and then I was able to find her mother.<br /><br />Janice NickelJanice Nickelnoreply@blogger.com