Family Pictures!

Here are some pictures of my family! I think pictures are my favorite part about family history, so that's why I am posting some of mine here!

This is our new puppy, Doug!  He is a pug mix!

This is Drew and I on our wedding day :)

And on our honeymoon in Hawaii!

This is an older picture of my extended family, love them!

And the other side of my family! At the Orange County Fair!

Research Logs

My teacher posted these helpful screenshots to using roots magic and I thought i would post them here to help others!  They are about research logs!

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   In your personal “Edit Person” screen, click on the “Research Log” tab. Make sure the “YOUR NAME- Birth Certificate” is highlighted and click the Print tab. Click the “Generate Report” tab. Click the Save tab and then click “PDF”. Save your report someplace you will be able to find it. Take a screenshot of your report, or save it as an image and upload and submit it to your instructor when you have finished the assignment. You may view the example of a report below:
   
   
2. Open your Roots Magic file. Click on the Help tab in the top center of the screen. Click on “Contents”. With the “Index” tab clicked, find “Notes”, click “Add”, and click Display. Review the instructions about using notes in Roots Magic.
   • In your Person edit screen, highlight the Birth fact on the left side of the screen by clicking it once under “Facts”. Click in the highlighted box under the green notebook icon. A birth note box will open. Record stories you know about your birth in the box. Click the “Save note” tab.

Goals

This was one of the assignments I did in my Family History online class.  We got to think of goals and our dreams for this life, I really enjoyed it!

Self-Application

Answer the Following Questions—Type your answers below the questions:

1. Write your favorite quote from the provided list.

-“A goal is a dream with a deadline”–Napoleon Hill

2. Write your feelings about family history work.

-I think that family history work is an amazing thing!  It is spiritual, mental and sometimes physical all at the same time!  I enjoy being able to do work that I can see and feel the effects making me a better person and helping my ancestors.

3. Define in writing a character trait that you desire to work on in order to realize more success in your future family history efforts.

-Consistency.  I think that being consistent is one of my weakest areas because I will go through levels of dedication, instead of keeping the work going.

4. Write specific goals you feel to set for yourself concerning your future work in family history and temple service. Consider breaking the goals into short, medium, and long-term.

-Take more names to the temple, don’t forget them at home.  Work on one or two people at a time, getting lost in all the names is how I get frustrated.

5. Identify challenges that may derail your goals.

-Stress, work, school, anything that takes my time and feels more important.

6. Make plans that will enable you to realize your goals. Don’t just identify what you want to do, also state how you will do it.

-I will set aside at least 3 hours a week to work on family history and readying a new name for the temple each month.

Create your own goals—Fill out the chart below with your own goals. They can be Family History related or just general life goals. Set goals and use them.

Submit your responses—Copy your answers above and the chart below and paste them into the comment box of the corresponding iLearn assignment.

My Dreams	Goals
---Goal 1--- Create Larger Savings	Daily: ---Keep track of recites ---Talk with husband about daily finances Weekly: ---Move 10% of paycheck to savings ---Track spending ---Balance checkbook Deadline: ---Have $3,000 in savings by September
---Goal 2--- Scrapbook/Journal Family Memories	Daily: ---Spend at least 10 minutes journals important details of life ---Take pictures of exciting events ---Talk with my family about their lives to add to my journal Weekly: ---Spend 1 hour working on my scrapbook ---Print pictures ---Buy Material, prepare Deadlines: ---Each new event must be done 2 weeks after its date
---Goal 3--- Run a 5-K	Daily: ---Use 5-k training schedule ---Eat at least one fruit a day ---Eat at least two vegetables a day Weekly: ---Record in a journal running progress ---Check in with Husband for support ---Rest on Sunday Deadline: ---July 5th-Color Run Rexburg

Searching

These are some websites I found very helpful while going through my search for my ancestors.  Some of them you have to sign up or pay, but most you don't!

1. BYU Library — Many historical books are available in digitized format.
2. BYU-I Library — This is the school’s Family History page with many great resources.
3. CyndisList.com — This free web site provides links to other family history web sites by categories. It is the “card catalog” to family history on the internet. Search by subject, surname, or place.
4. Findagrave.com — This website allows you to search for images and indexes of headstones, submit images of headstones, and request images of headstones from volunteers.
5. Fold3.com — Thousands of scanned images and documents from the National Archives in Washington DC. The records include original military records, immigration and naturalization records. It is a fee-based website, but we have free access through BYU-Idaho’s website.
6. FreeBMD.org.uk — Birth, marriage, and death indexes for England and Wales for the period 1837–1983.
7. HeritageQuestOnline.com — This website helps enable students to search the US census, search local and family history books, directories, surname books, and Revolutionary War records of their ancestors.
8. Library of Congress — Search a huge collection of biographies and genealogies.
9. Linkpendium.com — Links to genealogy information by state.
10. Mocavo.com — A search engine that only looks at genealogy-related web sites. The World’s Largest Free Genealogy Search Engine.
11. RootsWeb.com — This free website serves to connect people so that they can share genealogical research by way of the World Connect Project, surname lists, message boards, mailing lists, and more.
12. USGenWeb.org — This volunteer project provides family history websites for every county and state in the United States. Other projects they are developing include archive, census and tombstone databases. Try the project state pages to find a website for a county of your choice.
13. WorldCat.org — The world’s largest network of library content and services.
14. Wiki.familysearch.org — Research Wiki: free family history research advice for the community, by the community.
15. WorldGenWeb.org — This volunteer project provides family history websites for every country in the world. Click an area of the world and then the desired “GenWeb Project.”
16. WorldVitalRecords.com — World Collection Comparable to ancestry — many records and cheaper. Many databases and growing — includes core sources plus newspapers, immigration, military records, and many others. You can browse 39 countries, and receive a free weekly newsletter on family history research. It is a fee-based website but we have free access through BYU-Idaho’s website.

Ancestral Knowledge

Sir Edward Osborne Lord Mayor of London

            Sir Edward Osborne Lord Mayor of London is one of my distant relatives on the grandfather’s side.  I decided to research more about him because I am fascinated by the important and royalty in my family. 

            He was married to Anne Hewett.  Anne’s father was very wealthy which made her a very desirable in those days.  They had four children, Hewett, Edward, Anne and Alice. 

            Sir Edward Osborne Lord Mayor of London dies in February 14 1591/92.  They are not sure what year because the records are not as clear as they could be.  He was an apprentice to William Hewett and was freed from apprenticeship in the Clothworkers’ Company in May 1554. 

            He as elected treasurer of St. Thomas’s Hospital, an alderman, and Sheriff throughout his life.  All before becoming the Lord Mayor of London.  The title Lord Mayor of London was the head of the City of London Corporation.  It is different from the actual mayor of Lord because they are over the Greater London, not just a portion of it. 

            Since, this was an ancestor on my grandfather’s side I asked him if he had ever heard of Sir Edward Osborne Lord Mayor of London.  He said that he hadn’t heard of him specifically, but he knew that we had a lot of royalty in our family.  His father used to tell him that he would have to behave specially well because he had royalty in his blood.  I found that really interesting because even though he did not really know anything about this particular ancestor, it influenced our family.

            Since, there were not cameras back in these days I found a crest of the Lord Mayor of London instead.

Resources:

   Larry Arnold

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jsggenealogy/Jsgordon/d2569.htm

Anna Mae St. Peter

            Anna Mae St. Peter is my great grandmother.  She was born in April 26, 1918.  She passed away at the age of 95, this past year.  She lived a long and full life. 

            Her husband, Herald, died and left her with five children to fend for.  Though her life was tough and she had her hardships she was a very funny lady.  Her husband was both emotionally and physically abusive, so in the family’s mind it was a blessing the passing of her husband.

            About the past 10 years she had Alzheimer’s and did not really recognize many people.  She lived with my grandparents since she was 87.  They took very good care of her in her last couple of years. 

            This is her obituary: “Anna Mae St. Peter, age 94, of Claremont, California entered eternal life on Thursday, February 14, 2013. She entered life Friday, April 26, 1918 in Ommee, North Dakota. Anna Mae was the daughter of the late Peter Clouatre and the late Rose Latterneau Clouatre. She was a member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church. Surviving are son, Jerome St Peter; daughters, Sharon McKindley, Judith Ann Arnold, Margaret Sogard and Sandra Tussey; 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.”

           

            Her funeral services were held on Wednesday, February 20 
11:30 AM, at Menifee Valley Memorial Park 
26770 Murrieta Rd.
Sun City, CA 92586.

Resources:

  Taylor Barney

  Kimberly Arnold

  Judith Arnold

  http://www.tributes.com/show/Anna-Mae-St.-Peter-95256557

Family History Fan Chart!

I was able to create a fan chart for my family history!  It was really neat to see all of the work that has and has not been done for my family.