French Connections: Aget and DeCramp

Some of you may not know that my husband's family has come to the United States more recently than my ancestors -- his grandmother was born in France. Well, I was feeling like I was at a dead end with my own ancestors and thought I would give some of his names a try.
I found two fantastic resource sites of transcribed French records for Dunkerque, France:
Marriages
http://www.gennpdc.net/releves/tab_mari.php?args=Dunkerque

1906 Census of Dunkerque
http://crgfa.free.fr/jfichaux/dunkindx.php

It was exciting to me to find names especially in the census records. The women are enumerated with their maiden name, which is a genealogist's dream come true! :)

So, I was able to go a couple of generations on my husband's family -- Aget and DeCramp -- and with the marriage records I feel like I've made great headway on connecting more generations.

I am so grateful to the people who have taken time to transcribe these records and make them available -- FOR FREE -- to other interested researchers. I know our Heavenly Father has special blessings reserved for those charitable acts of service.

Good luck and good gene hunting,
Dece

Carving out time to work on Carver's!

I love waking up and finding emails from distant cousins who have information about family lines that have been plaguing me. It doesn't happen every day but when it does... HURRAY!

I received an email, info, pics, etc on my Carver line. My grandmother, Ida Pauline Sullivan was the daughter of James Bryan Sullivan and Lillie Kerley. (I've worked a lot on the Kerley line, but have yet to get in contact with any of my great-grandmother's siblings/descendants). James Bryan was the son of George Washington Sullivan and Nancy Diana Hardt. (I've worked a lot on the Hardt's, too). George Washington Sullivan was the son of Ezekiel George Jasper Sullivan and Malissa Carver. And Malissa Carver was as far as I had gotten with anything definitive.

Now I have her siblings and her parents' names. Yay!

I am constantly amazed by how this tool, the internet, has transformed genealogy and made the whole world accessible, and CONNECTED! What a blessing we have!

So, along with Fisher's, I will be working on Carver's this week. :)

I am so grateful!!

Dece

Confusing Fisher's!

Like many out there, I inherited not-very-well-documented genealogy information. Perhaps you're like me and started out doing genealogy and not giving as much attention to every single source, but here I am 10+ years later trying to tease out what is real, what is fiction, what is "kind of" right, but not 100% accurate.

Well, I have a line of Fisher. What information I have been given is not supported by census or other records at this time. Who is my Matilda C. Fisher's mother? Father? Siblings? There are 2 Matilda Fisher's that I have found that "could" fit, but I do not know if they really do. The IGI and other online sources are no help with the documentation of the information -- so I have to do the combing through of census and other records on my own, knowing I cannot trust anything other than source information (census and marriage records at this point).

Matilda C. Fisher married James Turnbow 6 Jul 1865, in Lamar County, Texas. I have this from the Texas marriage records (though it is an index, not a scan of the actual record). From census records I have she was born in Mississippi, her parents were born in South Carolina. Is that even true?

So, I keep looking. Where are you Matilda? Where are your parents? Are you the Matilda Caroline Fisher daughter of Albert G. Fisher and Peggy Elmira Crowder? They were in Mississippi at the right time, then in Arkansas, and at some point Matilda was in Texas and married James Turnbow.

Off on the genealogy adventure (in between taking care of kids, making dinner, and being a wife!). Wish me luck!

Dece