My Genealogy Blog

Fanny Crail Halley

2013-04-11T13:27:00.001-04:00

I received a phone call yesterday from an Anne Marie Mistretta. She explained she is involved in the Crail Ranch Conservators and wanted to know if I was Kathleen Halley related to Fanny (Crail) Halley, I said that I was and asked how she found me, she said she was researching the Halley surname and she came across my web site, then googled me! Anna Marie explained that the Crail Ranch is a historic site and that she was researching the ancestry of the Crail family.

Fanny (Crail) Halley is my 2^nd great grandmother, and the sister of Augustus Franklin Crail, who established the ranch. She told me she had pictures of Fanny, her two daughters, and Fanny’s brothers. She e-mailed them to me! I was so excited; I now know what they look like!

Fanny (Crail) Halley - unknown date Martha & Mary Halley – unknown date

I do not know which one is Martha or Mary

Fanny’s brothers

Augustus Frank Crail –unknown date Albert Crail –unknown date John Crail & family – unknown date

Established Crail Ranch

A brief history about the ranch

In 1902, Augustus Franklin Crail moved his family to Gallatin Canyon Basin (now called Big Sky), after he purchased a small cabin and a 160-acre homestead. The Crails raised wheat, cattle, horses, and sheep. The home stead was occupied by Crail family members for nearly 50 years.

In 1950, Emmet, Augustus son, sold the ranch; the ranch was sold at least two more times.

In 1982 the Historic Crail Ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places through efforts of a group of Big Sky residents.

In 1997 The Crail Ranch buildings and about one acre of land was turned over to the non-profit Big Sky Community Corporation as a community resource.

The Crail Ranch Conservators mission is to preserve and maintain the ranch as a heritage property and to promote it as an educational resource.

The Conservators are also working on several projects, besides establishing a Museum and preserving the Ranch’s collection of historic artifacts, photographs and documents, they are also researching the ancestry of the Crail Family.

To read more about the Historic Crail Ranch please see the web site at http://www.crailranch.org

When my grandmother passed away a few years ago, I inherited all of her pictures. Among the pictures was a photograph of women with no name written on the back. I believe this now to be Fanny.

Picture from Anna Marie Picture from my grandmother

Do you think they are the same women?

Marriage

2013-03-05T13:45:00.000-05:00

A family member had documented that a marriage between Joshua Halley and Sally Jennings happened in Clark County, Kentucky on 24 May 1805, but did not have the actual record or source location.

I ordered two rolls of microfilm from the Family History Center:

Clark County, Kentucky, marriages, 1792-1851 Bell, Annie W.B.

Marriage bonds of Clark County, Kentucky from the formation of the county in 1793 to 1850 Doyle, George F. Clark County (Kentucky). Clerk of the County Court.

Out of the two the Marriage bonds of Clark County, Kentucky had them listed! I am glad I ordered both of the films.

Israel Halley

2013-02-15T10:47:00.000-05:00

Indiana 1860 Mortality Schedule

I found out how my 3rd great grandfather died in 1859, thanks to the Indiana 1860 Mortality Schedule. I found the Mortality Schedule's on the Indiana Memory Digital Collections web site athttp://cdm15078.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ under Indiana State Library Treasures of all places!

Also listed was his daughter who died at the age of 21 of Scrofula, just a few months before he died of "Liver complaints".

Genealogical Crime Mysteries!

2012-07-19T14:06:00.001-04:00

Has anyone read these books?

DESCRIPTION:
Family history was never supposed to be like this... When American genealogist, Jefferson Tayte, accepted his latest assignment, he had no idea it might kill him. But while murder was never part of the curriculum, he is kidding himself if he thinks he can walk away from this one. Driven by the all-consuming irony of being a genealogist who doesn't know who his own parents are, Tayte soon finds that the assignment shares a stark similarity to his own struggle. Someone has gone to great lengths to erase an entire family bloodline from recorded history and he's not going home until he's found out why. After all, if he's not good enough to find this family, how can he ever expect to be good enough to someday find his own? Set in Cornwall, England, past and present, Tayte's research centres around the tragic life of a young Cornish girl, a writing box, and the discovery of a dark family secret that he believes will lead him to the family he is looking for. Trouble is, someone else is looking for the same answers and they will stop at nothing to find them.

DESCRIPTION:

Inspired by the author's own family history...

To the Grave follows American genealogist, Jefferson Tayte, as he uncovers the disturbing consequences of a seemingly innocuous act in 1944 that was intended to keep a family together, but which ultimately tore it apart. His research exposes hidden pasts and the desperate measures some people will take to keep a secret.

Sitting in a hotel room at gunpoint, facing an impossible decision, Tayte is forced to wonder how his latest assignment had come to this. Five days earlier, after a child's suitcase arrives unexpectedly at his client's home in Washington DC, Tayte embarks upon a journey that takes him back to England as he tries to unravel the story of Mena Lasseter - a girl whose life has become a family mystery.

Hoping to reunite his client with the birth mother she never knew she had, having no idea that she'd been adopted, Tayte's research draws him back to wartime Leicestershire and the arrival of the US 82nd Airborne, which irrevocably changes the course of Mena's life. But as Tayte tries to find out what became of her and why she was separated from her suitcase all those years ago, he soon finds that he is not the only one looking for her. Someone else is determined to get to Mena first and it quickly becomes apparent that their motive is a secret worth killing for.

I want one of these!

2012-07-16T16:28:00.000-04:00

Has anyone tried the Flip Pal Mobile Scanner?

The Ancestry Insider: Ancestry.com Intends to Acquire Archives.com

2012-04-26T09:53:00.001-04:00

The Ancestry Insider: Ancestry.com Intends to Acquire Archives.com: Ancestry.com announced Wednesday that they have signed an agreement to purchase Archives.com for $100 million plus assuming some of their ...

The Ancestry Insider: Indexing Tips: The Palmer Method in New York City ...

2012-04-24T15:41:00.001-04:00

The Ancestry Insider: Indexing Tips: The Palmer Method in New York City ...: To the young person attempting to read cursive handwriting for the very first time, or after only a brief study in school, indexing cursive ...

Welcome Mylinah

2012-04-20T14:06:00.002-04:00

I became a grandmother for the first time on Wednesday! I am in love with a 6lb 13oz, little girl! I already started her " How I Came To Be Book" with all of her family history!

1940 Census

2012-03-22T13:24:00.000-04:00

11 more days until the 1940 Census!

On April 2, 2012, NARA will provide access to the images of the 1940 United States Federal Census. Unlike previous census years, images of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be made available as free digital images.

There are no name indexes for the 1940 census. At present nobody has a 1940 name index. If you would like to help index the census go to familysearch.org and download the program, it is very user friendly.

Although there are no name indexes, check out http://stevemorse.org, a web site with tools to help you find people in the census based on where they lived.

1940 U.S. Census

2012-03-18T22:27:00.000-04:00

Is anyone helping to transcribe the 1940 Census?

A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources

2012-03-15T10:05:00.001-04:00

A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources

Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall

2012-02-28T12:48:00.000-05:00

Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall

by LTC Ken McIntyre

"Carved on these walls is the story of America , of a continuing quest to preserve both Democracy and decency, and to protect a national treasure that we call the American dream." ~ President George Bush

SOMETHING to think about - Most of the surviving Parents are now Deceased.

There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.

Beginning at the apex on panel 1E and going out to the end of the East wall, appearing to recede into the earth (numbered 70E - May 25, 1968), then resuming at the end of the West wall, as the wall emerges from the earth (numbered 70W - continuing May 25, 1968) and ending with a date in 1975. Thus the war's beginning and end meet. The war is complete, coming full circle, yet broken by the earth that bounds the angle's open side and contained within the earth itself.

The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.

• There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

• 39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

• 8,283 were just 19 years old.

• The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.

• 12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

• 5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

• One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

• 997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam .

• 1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam .

• 31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

• Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.

• 54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I wonder why so many from one school.

• 8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.

• 244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.

• Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

• West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.

• The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

• The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedys assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

• The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

• The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.

For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors..

Please pass this on to those who served during this time , and those who DO Care.

http://www.moaafl.org/Chapters/KOSMOAA/Interests.aspx

U. S. Census

2012-02-25T19:20:00.000-05:00

37 days until the 1940 U.S. Census!
See Ancestry.com for more information.

NGS Home Study Course

2012-01-24T10:16:00.000-05:00

I have COMPLETED the NGS American Genealogy Home Study Course!!! Woop! Woop!

Genealogy Know Your Records, Military 02 Army and Navy

2011-12-20T09:29:00.000-05:00

Maria (Pick) Bruck

2011-11-07T23:05:00.000-05:00

My 2nd Great Grandmother's papers from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services came in today. There is a picture of her!!!!!! Maria immigrated to the United States from Romania in 1927. Now I just have to translate the paper work, most of it is in German.

The Ancestry Insider: Copyrights, Contracts, and Trademarks; Oh My!

2011-11-03T12:14:00.000-04:00

The Ancestry Insider: Copyrights, Contracts, and Trademarks; Oh My!: If you smelled a setup yesterday, you were right. “What are they up to now?” “They,” the Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illi...

Home Movie Day!

2011-10-13T16:24:00.000-04:00

Saturday 15 October 2011 is Home Movie Day! For more information visit their web site at:
homemovieday.com

Family History Month

2011-10-04T11:37:00.000-04:00

Old Photograph

2011-08-30T12:35:00.000-04:00

I found this picture among my grandmother’s photographs that I inherited. There is no information on the back of the picture. No one in my family knows who this person is and I have never seen this picture before.
Does anybody know what kind of uniform this is? I have searched the internet and found nothing. My family was from Indiana and Kansas, if this is any help.

Almost Done!

2011-08-11T22:08:00.000-04:00

Almost done the American Genealogy home study course! I'd be done sooner if I can just get pass this one assignment. I have to do a narrative report on an ancestors "compiled service record". I received a copy of my ancestors civil war records from the National Archives, there are quite a few papers but they mostly have the same information. My report "should be complete enough that it could serve as a substitute for the photocopied document" it sounds easy enough.......

Emotions running high in cemetery land dispute

2011-07-15T12:48:00.000-04:00

The Shuler family is one of the founding families of the cemetery, and they are upset that a neighbor bought the land from the church that oversaw it.
Read the story: Emotions run high

McRae/Anderson Genealogy: Tombstone Tuesday - There's More Than Meets The Ey...

2011-07-12T19:54:00.000-04:00

New Genealogy Blog:
McRae/Anderson Genealogy: Tombstone Tuesday - There's More Than Meets The Ey...: "The city of Brockton, Massachusetts has many cemeteries and if I look around hard enough, I can probably find someone of relation in each on..."

National Digital Newspaper Program

2011-05-26T12:39:00.000-04:00

The Library of Congress has announced that it recently added 230,000 pages to its digital newspaper archives. The project includes some newspapers from 1860-1922, 22 states plus the District of Columbia. These newspaper pages can be searched, clipped, or downloaded to your computer.
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/

The Journey Takers

2011-05-20T13:19:00.000-04:00

I really enjoyed reading this book and thought I would pass it on.

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Leslie Albrecht Huber's ancestors were journey takers, leaving their homes in Germany, Sweden, and England behind to sail to the US and start new lives here. Huber sets out to trace these journeys and to understand her family - who they were and what mattered to them. As she follows in their footsteps, walking the paths they walked and looking over the land they farmed, she finds herself on a journey she hadn't expected. Based on thousands of hours of research, Huber recreates the immigration experience in a way that captures both its sweeping historical breadth and its intimately personal consequences.