By Kathy Wait Myers, on October 15th, 2009
I dreamed about genealogy all night last night! Who belongs to who, who lived where, and what happened to William Mathews from yesterday’s post. So when I woke up this morning, I hopped right on the computer and started searching for people in that family cluster. One thing led to another and soon I was [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on October 14th, 2009
I finally found James G and Susannah (Susan) WAITS and family in the 1870 Census! They’re in Ohio for the 1860 census and in Nebraska by 1880. So I decided to look at every census form of anyone with a name anything like WAITS. There they were in Illinois, of all places! Pittsfield in Pike [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on August 10th, 2009
1920 US Census – District 383, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, USA
I found the twins in the 1920 Census. =) I’m still on the trail of Aunt Harriet’s twin, Elvie, so I can possibly get a photo [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on July 26th, 2009
William and Elve Waits and family
Mystery solved!!
After posting about Grandpa Will’s obituary yesterday and finding the Pitt reference for Elve, I remembered seeing something with the name Pitt on it. So I dug out my big envelope with all of the [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on July 20th, 2009
I have a confession to make. Over the past few months, I’ve acquired a bit of an obsession about our family history. It all started with a trunk of old photos and an old family tree that I inherited when Dad passed. I recognized a few people, but the rest were a mystery! Who were [...]
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