The challenge—Find:
1. Ms Chitwood's real name
2. Where she was born
3. Where she died
4. Her marriage date and place
5. Her parents names
What I already know:
1. Her family called her "Lonna". No one knows how it was spelled.
2. In the 1900 census she was listed as Martha., born in Alabama, in May of 1867, married 15 years (1885), mother of 6 children, 5 living. The first four children listed were born in Mississippi. The last one was born in Texas.
3. In the 1910 census she was listed as Marguerite D(?), age 39 (1871) (married 23 years (1887), mother of 10 children, 8 living. The last four were born in Texas.
What I've done so far:
1. Googled for Martha or Marguerite Chitwood in Alabama. No helpful results. Most Chitwoods were in Kentucky, but some went on to Alabama.
2. Checked out probable Chitwood books at the FHL.
3. Searched for Martha or Marguerite Chitwood on FamilySearch. Found only the 1900 and 1910 census records.
4. Searched Census index in Alabama in 1870 for Martha/Marguerite Chitwood.
5. Searched Census index in Alabama 1880 for Martha/Marguerite Chitwood.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Citations!
It's been about 5 months since I last posted. I have been re-locating (3 times), trying to find gainful employment, and working on getting my Genealogy Accreditation.
For the past week, I have been frustrating myself with trying to write citations for the records I'm collecting. Some are easy, but when I get to the (many) online records, I can't quite figure out what to put where. Since there may be some of you out there who want to cite those online sources, I thought I'd track my trials and tribulations, and hopefully my success (somewhere in the future.)
FamilySearch is doing a great job of trying to keep up with the exploding genealogy market out there. They have put citation suggestions on the document site and further on a related "research wiki", which is enough for me, but I'm afraid it won't satisfy the Certification Committee.
So the next thing I did was to finally install and start using my RootsMagic5, which has a built-in citation-maker. Sounds like a snap, huh? Not so. I watched the tutorials and the webinars, which are very elementary and helpful, but when I go to put the actual information into the citation template it just doesn't come out looking like the entries in Evidence Explained, by Elizabeth Shown Mills. She has thought of just about any citation you might come up with, and RootsMagic uses her book as their foundation for the templates. But I can't get the FamilySearch documents to come out right. Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow.
For the past week, I have been frustrating myself with trying to write citations for the records I'm collecting. Some are easy, but when I get to the (many) online records, I can't quite figure out what to put where. Since there may be some of you out there who want to cite those online sources, I thought I'd track my trials and tribulations, and hopefully my success (somewhere in the future.)
FamilySearch is doing a great job of trying to keep up with the exploding genealogy market out there. They have put citation suggestions on the document site and further on a related "research wiki", which is enough for me, but I'm afraid it won't satisfy the Certification Committee.
So the next thing I did was to finally install and start using my RootsMagic5, which has a built-in citation-maker. Sounds like a snap, huh? Not so. I watched the tutorials and the webinars, which are very elementary and helpful, but when I go to put the actual information into the citation template it just doesn't come out looking like the entries in Evidence Explained, by Elizabeth Shown Mills. She has thought of just about any citation you might come up with, and RootsMagic uses her book as their foundation for the templates. But I can't get the FamilySearch documents to come out right. Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow.
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