Way Back Wednesday: What Ethnicity Was Ozro Bales? - My great-great-grandfather Ozro Bales was born to parents who trace their documented lines back to England or Ireland. His parents appear to be Caucasian as expected according to all of the lines I've been able to follow, and yet Ozro appears to have something other than
Way Back Wednesday: What Ethnicity Was Ozro Bales? - My great-great-grandfather Ozro Bales was born to parents who trace their documented lines back to England or Ireland. His parents appear to be Caucasian as expected according to all of the lines I've been able to follow, and yet Ozro appears to have something other than
Way Back Wednesday: Could My Ancestor Have Been One of the Mysterious Melungeons? - Until two weeks ago the Melungeons were so mysterious to me I didn't even know they existed. I had encountered Mulattos in census records. I had come across Mestizos in history textbooks. However, Melungeon was a completely foreign word to me
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September 24, 1884 - Soap Creek to Badger Creek (Vermillion Cliffs) "It seemed that God had tried to make up in color what he had left out in vegetation." Juanita Brooks (photo: jaypatelphotography.com) Badger Creek (Vermillion Cliffs) near Badger Canyon (see map) is part of the Vermillion Cliff's National Monument Day 23 of 44 - Week 4 (Day 4) Soap Creek to Badger Creek = 6 Miles: Total Miles = 429 Total Trip Average Miles per Day = 18.7: Average Miles per Day - Week 4 = 14.5 September 24- 26 September 23 -24 Original Journal Entry (posted above) Wednesday Sep 24 Horses came down to camp at daylight, fed grain and turned them up the canyon on good feed. Stayed there until 3 o'clock shooting at marks etc. Went after the horses and drove to Badger Creek 6 miles. Sandy and rocky - water dried up - turned out on good feed - next morning there was plenty of water in the the creek. Final Journal Entry (Charles P Anderson Journal - p 6) Wednes. Sept. 24 horses came to camp at daylight - fed grain and turned them up the canyon on good feed - stayed there until 3 o'clock shooting at marks etc. Went after animals and drove to Badger Creek 6 miles. Sandy and rocky - water dried up. Good feed. Next morning there was plenty of water in the wash. This was the fewest miles travelled in one day since the journey began. They took a break at Soap Creek before they left and shot at marks. This allowed time for the horses to rest as well. They waited until 3:00 P.M. to start for Badger Creek some six miles away. This will be one of the shorter blog posts. Before they left Soap Creek (Cliff Dwellers) , they "went after animals." I stayed the night before at Soap Creek and before I left, I also walked up what was probably the same canyon. It looked like there was plenty of water for the animals. There is a video (Cliff Dweller's Lodge - Honeymoon Trail Hike).on Day 22 to follow the route up Soap Creek. Badger Creek was so named because Jacob Hamblin killed a badger there. He then took it to Soap Creek where he attempted to make a stew of the badger.After boiling it all night in the alkaline water the stew was more soap than soup. That is how Soap Creek was named. Badger Creek (Vermillion Cliffs) Honeymoon Trail Road at Vermillion Cliffs Vermillion Cliffs Badger Creek Road at Vermillion Cliffs Badger Creek at Vermillion Cliffs Northern Arizona Guide Service Lees Ferry Lodge Lee's Ferry Lodge Take a minute to click here and sit on the patio to see more views of the area The journal says it was 6 miles from Soap Creek to Badger Creek as does the map. I won't argue but this would depend where they actually camped compared to where the map is measuring the distance. The map is measuring from Cliff Dwellers Lodge to Lee's Ferry Lodge (and adds a little mileage for Honeymoon Trail Road). They possibly camped nearer to Soap Creek east of Cliff Dwellers Lodge and west of Lee's Ferry Lodge. But rounding the number would still put them at 6 miles. They were "right on." The most difficult part of their journey would be at the next stop, This was the only place where they could cross the Colorado River for 260 miles. This was due to the shale deposits which slop gently up to the river here. Everywhere else along the Colorado from Moab, Utah to Laughlin, Nevada, the Colorado has cut through limestone and sandstone which creates vertical cliffs and gorges as it erodes, thus making it impossible to ford. (Deseret USA). In fact at Lee's Ferry a visitor can drive to the Colorado River, right up to the first rapid in the Grand Canyon. A natural corridor between Utah and Arizona, Lee's Ferry figured prominently the exploration and settlement of northern Arizona. It is now a meeting of the old and the new. (NPS) Looking down at Lee's Ferry from the cliffs above Additional Maps showing Soap Creek Trail, Honeymoon Trail Road and Badger Creek Road SaveSave
If you're lucky enough to have more than a few pages of documents inherited from your ancestors' lives, my number one tip is: Index them! Otherwise, future generations won't know who's mentioned where--and they might not take the time to read all the way through. With an index, they can look up individuals quickly and easily. And for family history researchers, the index gives us extra help seeing connections between people, events, dates. See my sample format for indexing here. I have three sets of documents that have been passed down in the family: Farkas Family Tree reports and minutes. My mother's family accumulated 500 pages of meeting minutes from the 30 years of the Farkas Family Tree, a family association that began in 1933. I scanned 'em all, read 'em all, and then prepared an index listing every person mentioned. It took a while, but above you can see the results. Mr. & Mrs. B, the first family members listed in the index, were only at one meeting, June 1946. Others in that family were mentioned numerous times, as shown in this index. Who could resist looking up their parents' or grandparents' or first cousins' names? That's the allure and advantage of an index. Father-in-law Edgar J. Wood's diaries. For decades, Edgar Wood kept a brief diary with 1-3 sentences per day. I indexed every family and friend mentioned in the diaries, including names that were unfamiliar. Eventually, cross-referencing the entries led me and my husband to be able to identify cousins and pinpoint the exact relationships between most of the folks named. Without indexing, we wouldn't have connected the dots between people discussed in multiple entries. Letters to Mom during the 1930s/40s. I have transcribed these dozens of letters and will index these soon. Preparing a time line based on the index will help me follow friends and relatives during the years after Mom (Daisy Schwartz) graduated high school and before she married Dad (Harry Burk). I know I groan when I see a collection of documents on Family Search or Ancestry that is NOT indexed. With an index, I can do a quick search. It's the same with our family documents. I want those who come after me to dip into these documents, so now they're indexed, with a bit of explanation about who's who. Plus it helps me to be able to quickly look up someone as I research that part of the family.
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Last year I worked on going over my genealogy with the "Genealogy Do Over". In particular I liked listing out my research goals. Well, here I am a year later, and have done a lot of work on my goals. I finished up the genealogy photobook for my mother, and did a lot of research for it. Here is a photo of my spreadsheet at the beginning of last year: And here is a more recent shot of it: As you can see I have filled in some more of the squares. While there are still more empty spaces than I'd like, it's nice to see how far I've come. View the photobooks I made!
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