This is
not a birthday post. Last week I wrote about how I had pulled all of the
BDM and other interesting certificates out of my files and
was doing some nitpicking. Just this morning I read
a post from Canadian genealogist, Lorine, who also extolled the virtues of
returning to old records.
It
feels like my birthday because I uncovered some clues that lead me to find some facts on direct ancestors that I had previously missed. I also found a few silly things I had done. In my earlier post I shared some of the things I had found....but wait - there's more.
I found a
Marriage Date and Place in Sydney for
Patrick Curry and
Ellen Moore. This pair claimed to have been married in Limerick, Ireland prior to their transportation to Australia. A visit to the Limerick Church they named and a helpful priest who let me look at the registers did not find such a record. I'm pleased they got Churched in New South Wales.
For nearly 30 years I had thought that my 2x Great-grandmother,
Bridget Ryan, was
a good swimmer. I can now report that the good swimmer genes don't come from Bridget. She enjoyed the journey to Australia in 1849 with her sister, Ann, on the good ship, British Empire. I had missed the clue on her death certificate that she first went to Victoria and I had believed a newspaper article that said she arrived ea few years earlier.
I
killed off Mr GeniAus' 2x great-grandmother,
Jane May. Mr GeniAus wasn't half as excited as I was. We have previously visited the cemetery where she is buried, perhaps we need to visit again and diligently
check all the headstones.
When I visit some repositories
I go crazy taking photos of documents and sometimes, when I get home, I forget to go nitpicking and record all details. I found a couple of Death Certificates whose
details I hadn't recorded lurking in Probate Packets. Perhaps I should fetch less and spend
quality time on what I manage to collect.
I got a couple of surprise when I found some certificates
misfiled in the wrong folders. That's probably why I found that I had purchased
duplicate certificates for some ancestors.
I am sorry to report that I had to do some pruning and
lop a branch off my tree. We all make mistakes, I had given some poor woman
a couple of extra children.
It wasn't really of any consequence but it was interesting to see that one of Mr GeniAus' ancestors who
worked for an undertaker was a witness at the burial of one of my ancestors.
Of course I found the small pile of certificates I had
bought in error. I must hnd these on to a society or site that will make them
available to others.
I was
wearing my halo after completing this task until this morning when I was
on my feet dealing with piles of paper. I found a plastic sleeve that contained
72 more BDMs!
No prizes for guessing that more Nitpicking is on my agenda.
