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More Magna Carta Barons, PLUS New German Project

Since my last post, I’ve identified another seven members of royalty who signed the Magna Carta who are our ancestors. There was a second list of “illustrious people” of the time mentioned in the Magna Carta, and we are related to at least ten of those. The newest list is found at: http://allinthepast.net/notables/magna_carta/magna_carta.htm

The importance of these ancestors is that, in many cases but not all, their descendants became European royalty, members of the Puritan Migration to the Colonies from England, were important figures in the American Revolution, or in some other way influenced early American history.

One such family, for example, is the de Clare line of Magna Carta barons.  Two de Clares signed the document, after the family made a name for itself immigrating from France and Belgium. They are the progenitors of the Murray Clan in Scotland, later found in Ireland, and whose descendants eventually settled the Colonies in Pennsylvania. Others migrated to the south, progressively moving from North Carolina to South Carolina to what would become Alabama.

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The second task this past week was beginning a project for Wikitree with Germans from the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Southern Germany, near France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Also known as Rheinland-Pfalz, the area was occupied by the French after World War II, until it became part of the German Federation in 1949. Much of the land area was once considered part of Prussia and Bavaria. The projects can be found at:
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Rheinland-Pfalz%2C_Deutschland and http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Bavaria

 

Two Exciting New Projects

The past week or so has been an interesting one. First, I got more involved in a project on Wikitree I’ve been skirting for quite a while as I was doing other things. I found a list of Magna Carta Surety Barons and recognized some names. A quick check of my database yielded at least five Barons on a list of 25 names who were privy to the historical document. On another list of 16  distinguished persons named in the Preamble, I also recognized some names, but haven’t done anything with them, yet. You can find what I currently have at: Magna Carta Surety Barons with more research yet to be done.

The second project fell into my lap this morning, also from Wikitree. A gentleman asked on the forum if he could create a category of profiles of people involved with the Salem Witch Trials. Having four of the witches in my maternal lines, here, as well as the English Governor who presided over the process, I continued reading. Someone responded that two categories had been created. One was for “Accused Witches in New England” and another was for “Salem Witch Trials.” Only two of my ancestors are listed on the “Accused” list, and none are listed on the “Salem” list, so now I have some work to do. It will have to wait until after Christmas, though.

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An Irish Christmas Festival — Wikitree Clean-up

Last weekend, we went to an Irish Christmas festival arranged by a wholesaler we’ve known for several years. He moved his store (http://celticbroker.com) to a different location inside a merchandise mart since we had been there last. He gained a little bit of space, but ended up with a lot of glass with sliding glass doors along two walls of the shop.

The beer was good, the whiskey better, and then we got Mulligan Stew, to boot! A local step-dancing class performed, there was a short hurling demonstration, and then we heard new and old Christmas carols sung by a local group called Celtic Friends.

Had a good time, but KNOWING you’re Irish doesn’t hurt. Years ago, when I thought I was mostly German, I’m not sure it would have been as much fun. Over the past few years we’ve been exposing ourselves to Irish and Scottish culture a bit more, and it’s been enjoyable, to say the least.

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Just today, I spent quite a bit of time updating some of my profiles in Wikitree. When I originally uploaded files in a GEDCOM, the first and middle names of dozens of people went into the Wikitree database on the same line. Then, when the profile displayed, it left what was basically an error message when it couldn’t post a standard middle name.

Everything looks a little better now, except that middle names turned into middle initials, or didn’t show up at all. The latter problem may be confusing when several people had the same first name and surname, with the only difference being the middle name. Time will tell if it makes any difference.

 

Ancestor Lists from Wikitree

I’ve just added ancestor lists for both me and Cyndie, transferred from my online work at wikitree.com.I have also added them to the drop-down menu so you can go to them directly.

Each list is seven generations (126 people) long. There is a placeholder for missing ancestors, that is, those you don’t have any information about or haven’t researched yet.

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Each person has a profile link based on their last name and the number when it was entered. For example, my link is Thomas-10705, meaning mine was the 10705th name unloaded under the surname Thomas. If you have both the surname and number, you can move around fairly quickly on wikitree. Almost everything you do on the site is based on those two bits of information, including searches and merges, two of the most important things you can do on the site.

How Do You Archive Your Records?

I didn’t work at all yesterday due to Veterans Day, but I did spend a good share of the afternoon the day before trying to clear out my Genealogy records.

I have two sets. I used to have four sets, so I’m getting better! I usually run with a working computer and an attached external hard drive. Periodically, I make sure everything on the computer makes it to the hard drive. Problem is, however, when the hard drive is full, I swap it with another external, fully intending to clean it off for reuse. I do eventually get to it, but not on any set schedule.

Anyway, I decided to try to combine the two so I had ONE set of files.I have software that reads and compares two drives, allowing me to delete duplicate files, but I couldn’t put my hands on it easily. Ignoring the external hard drive files, I decided to attack the computer files, instead.

I had two directories – one for my wife and related files, and one for mine. I found several things I could move out first to another location. Before I did a lot, however, I started a directory with folders based on surnames. I’ll let you know how that works out.

Everything I could find in our directories that could be tied to a name went into the new name folders. That made quite a dent in our two folders but left me with quite a few other files that didn’t fit. I needed other categories, so I cleaned up my older system of directories – Royalty, Historical Topics, Research Resources, Continents, Military, Immigration, and others – all folders I’ve used in the past to file Wikipedia information, books I’ve downloaded, e-mail sources I’ve collected, and so on.

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Keep in mind, these are just my DIGITAL files. I’ll discuss how I handle my PAPER files, books, and other things we end up with as we do our research. That’s a whole other story.

The lesson, I think is this – if you only have a few individuals or families to research, you don’t have a big problem organizing your data. As your research expands, so does the amount of material you end up storing.

If you have a lot of names, over 25,000 in my case, the job is not impossible, but it is daunting, at best.  I try to include a lot of information in my database, and I rely on it 100% for names, dates and places. Everything else is support material – sources, references, contacts, projects to undertake, background information, printouts, and so on for use while I’m working.

Now that I’ve found a few of those “gems” I knew I saved, they should begin to show up on this site.

PGM – The Puritan Great Migration, Links to the Past

If you were able to trace your ancestors back far enough, you can probably claim a relationship with a Puritan who emigrated to this country from England. If your ancestors came from another part of the world – Canada, South America, Europe, etc. – and came sometime after the mid-1600’s, you probably can’t.

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First, let’s differentiate. PILGRIMS came on the Mayflower in the early 1600’s, landing on Plymouth Rock, now located in Massachusetts. PURITANS (most) came a short while later. Pilgrims were Puritans and Separatists, but not all Puritans were Pilgrims. Got it?

Puritans had a special set of religious beliefs, and the Separatists just wanted to get away from England. Between the years of about 1621 and 1640 (0r 1650) in some opinions, Puritans left England to come to the American Colonies in droves. As many as 20,000-40,000 people came in those decades, and the era became known as the Puritan Great Migration. In your genealogical records, you will find all were born in England, but most died in the colonies. Some were disheartened by the rough and tumble land they arrived in and decided to go back to England, but most stayed. Those who did were a mix – farmers, shopkeepers, pastors, bondsmen, indentured servants and, yes, criminals, but they were also joined by wealthy members of English society (to be called aristocracy) who would go on to become famous landowners, politicians and soldiers.

English law prevailed, as did customs and traditions brought with them from England. As the settlers built towns and cities, they named them for locations they had known in England. As counties were created to consolidate the needs of several towns, they too were named for English locales. Naming conventions followed by parents and children also transferred across the oceans. If you study England in the late 14th Century, you know what America was like in the early 15th Century.

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Taken together, the Mayflower families and PGM families offer links, for those able to find them, to families who remained in England and carried on the history of that nation. Aristocrats who came to America left aristocratic families in England. Many of them, if not most, were involved at some point in every important historical occurrence in England, from the time of the Romans and Celts. These include (in no particular order) the Norman Conquest of Britain, the Magna Carta, the expulsion of the Romans and Vikings, the beginnings of the feudal way of life, the Crusades, wars with Ireland and Scotland, and more.

If you never liked history in school, I think it’s difficult to be really successful in Genealogy. The best researchers I’ve run across have been avid history buffs. The two, Genealogy and History, seem to go hand-in-hand. That will be evident in what you continue to read here.

You can find our PGM ancestors here: http://allinthepast.net/usancestors/pgm.htm

Scottish Clan Updates

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I am the manager for several Scottish Clan sites on wikitree.com, a free Genealogy site that is worth your time (http://www.wikitree.com). I manage the profiles for BRUCE, GORDON, KEITH, MURRAY, and SUTHERLAND, as well as related history and other material about the Clans. That same material, and then some, is now available on this site from the Scottish/Irish Clans link on the Menu Bar on the Home Page. Other Clans connected to us, including Seton and Gunn, are managed by other members of Wikitree.

Personally, I (Michael) link to Clan Gordon about 13 generations back on my mother’s side. As I follow Gordon ancestors further back, they intermarry and I also become part of Clan Murray. I also have maternal links to Clan McMahon from County Clare (probably!), Ireland, although little is known about them in Ireland. They came to the U.S. during the Irish Potato Famine in the early 1800’s, and far more information is available on this side of the ocean than where they came from.

Cyndie is from Clan Murray, but through various links can also identify ancestors in Clan Bruce, Clan Gunn, Clan Keith, and Clan Sutherland. We have followed Cyndie’s lineage back to when the Murrays were Norman knights who came from Belgium to fight in England in the 1oth Century, and stayed on as landowners, politicians and soldiers. Many of our Clan members fought in the Crusades, but we haven’t hashed out exactly who and when yet.
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Bruce and Keith are Lowlands Scots, while the others are Highlands Scots. Various alliances were established in Scottish history to defend against the invasions of warriors from Scandinavia, England, France, and other locations in Europe. The easiest way to differentiate the two areas is to say the Lowlands included the large cities, farms and industry, while the Highlands remained a relatively-undeveloped area with some farming and livestock as the principle source of income. On the Clan map on our Scottish/Irish Clans page, the Highlands are the darker areas in western and northern Scotland, and the lighter areas to the south and east just above England are the Lowlands.

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Housekeeping Items – Please Read

Before we begin sharing our heritage gathered over a period of two decades or more, let’s get a few housekeeping things out of the way. As I do updates to this site, they will be posted under the obvious category, SITE UPDATES. Other items will more than likely fall under RESEARCH NOTES, and a few will be covered by ADMINISTRATION. As I develop the site, it may expand into other categories.

FTM

I have a database run by Family Tree Maker 2014 software. Actually, I have TWO databases. One is my working database located on my computer; the other is the database that appears online that you look through. The computer database is constantly updated (several times a day at times), but the online database is only updated when a major change (usually in the number of ancestors displayed) is made. Uploading it to the Internet is a chore since the software I use for the conversion creates a few thousand files that upload one at a time.

My online database, uploaded last on October 22, 2014, has profiles on 25,223 individual ancestors, 4473 surnames, 7398 marriages, and covers a total of 141 generations. A typical generation is usually considered to be 25-30 years, so you can do the math, or take my word for it – 3525-4230 years! Now, I’m not going to tell you everything you see is “gospel,” but I didn’t make it up, either. All the information you see is online somewhere, however source information and accuracy of information may be scarce in some instances.
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I was once told that Genealogy research was difficult, at best, unless your ancestors owned property, belonged to a church, or did something important while they were alive. Truth be told, many of our ancestors weren’t the kind to leave much of a mark on the world and were forgotten, resulting in only a few generations of records. On the other hand, others have books written about them, we find them in encyclopedias, or they did remarkable things  in politics, the military, the church, or some other endeavor to the point that someone wrote down and saved information about them.

Some who work on Genealogy are “snobs,” thinking that only the most complete and most accurate paper trail defines their ancestors’ value to the story of mankind. Personally, I believe a few generations is all it takes to put a question mark on what one sees and reads in their research, unless it is verified in other sources. Sources are hard to come by for most people, so oftentimes we work on Genealogy for the fun of it, taking what we find with a grain of truth that still needs to be proven by other means. In short, Genealogy is not worth getting upset about if the truth is somewhat lacking; you just keep looking for it. No one’s information is really any better than anyone else – that’s why we collaborate, constantly sharing and comparing.

Finally, we get to the legal stuff. This site has been online in one form or another since 2006. All information is Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved, so please credit “http://www.allinthepast.net” as the source of any information you reuse.