It is 1 Jan 2015. Happy New Year!  

This year I want to get more done. I have a Pituitary Gland that likes to spud-er and I live on a roller coaster of changing hormones. This past year I have been learning how to live with this new life and I have come a long way. I now at least realize that I will have good days and bad days and as long as I take them in stride the bad days are not so bad. What I want to do this year is figure out how to make the most out of my good days and how to still get things done on my in between days. In order to this I have to learn how to organize myself better and yet be flexible. So here is my plan for at least the first few months to see if I am headed in the right direction.

1) Continue indexing and arbitrating for Family Search 6 out of 7 days a week or at least a total of 700 names a week.
2) Watch and possibly participate in Mondays with Myrt and Wacky Wednesday each week. This is to help me stay in touch with others and is easy to schedule
3) Update to Roots Magic 7 and starting from scratch re-enter my genealogy one name at a time and make sure I do correct citations. This is part of the Genealogy do over that starting on Facebook
4) On Sunday put together at least one blog post and then sometime in the week post it. I may be having a good day one Sunday and then try to draft several so on the bad weeks I can still post something.
5) Put together a Research Notebook for my military records and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) records so when I have the money or by some miracle I am able to go to the National Archives in Washington DC, I will know what I want.
6) By the end of January have my direct line ancestors in my new data base with full and complete citations back at least 4 generations.
7) By the end of this week have started my revisited proof of Phoebe Coulton's parents, and have an outline done.
8) Work on finish watching Dear Myrtle's HOA on Thomas Jones "Mastering Genealogical Proof" This is kind of a hard one because each HOA is almost 2 hours and there are only a few days a month I can sit and really concentrate for that long.

So that is my plan to begin with. I just wish I could say on Mondays I will do this and Tuesday this and so forth but my week does not go that way.

Athena Maree Burton

She was named after the Greek Goddess Athena. 

We were visiting the Parthenon in Nashville 

when I blurted out "what about Athena Maree?" 

The older kids said yes. When I realized she 

would have the same initials as her older sister,

Angela, I tried to change just the middle name and

the other children would not let me. 

The spelling of Maree comes from a dear friend I had 

in High School whose name was spelled with two e's.

Ryan's Birthday

On 6 November 1986, I delivered my eldest son

Ryan Lynn Burton.

He has his father, Randy Layne Burton and 

paternal grandfather's, Robert Lynn Burton initials

 and as you can see his paternal grandfather's middle name. 

 Lot No. 3, Locke, Cayuga County, New York

Since we had traced  the Maynard/Minard/Miner Family to New York prior to 1850, I started looking at land records. While my sweet sister-in-law was in Salt Lake awhile ago she located several deeds in Cayuga County for our Minard/Miner family. While looking at these deeds it appeared they contained the dividing up of John Maynard/Minard land upon his death. Thinking it would be easy, I decided to try and put this family together and locate as many of the siblings of Samuel Minard, my 3-great grandfather. Well it is not easy as I thought, it is becoming rather difficult. Not in locating the later deeds from after John Maynard/Minard died, but rather figuring out how many acres are involved and just how he came to possess it.

Lot No. 3 in Locke, Cayuga County, New York was originally part of the Early Military Land Tract. This was land set aside as payment for service during the Revolutionary War. Ebenezer Burnett was the original soldier that received the land. He sold it to an Evander Childs, so far no problem now is where it gets tricky. Evander Childs sold part of the land to John Maynard and Azariah Ketchum. However, the deeds I have found so far make it hard to figure out how many acres John Maynard actually bought. One deed shows only him buying 150 acres of land from Evander Childs. Another deed shows John Maynard splitting the 300 acres bought from Evander Childs with Azariah Ketchum and the a third deed showing Azariah Ketchum selling back to Evander Childs 150 acres. All of these deeds referring to the same half of the 600 acre Lot 3 in Locke.

I do know at some point John Maynard/Minard ends up with 150 acres of land in Lot 3 of Locke. I just now have to figure out if at the time of his death that was all the land he had in Lot 3. I know he had bought land in Lot 4 and lot 44 or 54 (or both) and a few other places. Thankfully FamilySearch has digitized these land records. They are not indexed, but I can look through them like I would the microfilm housed in Salt Lake.

Wish me luck. I will be posting the deeds I find as I transcribe them over on my website Baker Roots Research Notes The URL for the page for Minard New York deeds is http://bakerrootsresearch.weebly.com/minard-land-records.html

A Garden Memory

      When I was a very young girl I would go into the garden and eat the tomatoes straight from the vine. I still enjoy fresh tomatoes. The last few summers I have been planting cherry and grape size tomatoes so I can just pop them into my mouth and eat them. The smaller size tomatoes are less messy to eat. I will still eat the larger ones the way many people will eat apples. You just have to be careful and not squirt them all over the place.

       My mother, Elizabeth Joan Bionaz Baker, told a story similar to this. Her uncle had an artichoke farm and she would sit out in the field and eat raw artichokes. She said her mouth and lips would turn black from the iron in them. Now I do enjoy artichokes, but I do not think I could eat them raw like that.

Phebey Coulton Robison

I posted the other day on facebook that I have found a record that specifically states that Phebey Robison was the daughter of William and Phebe Coulton.
You can look at a blog post about why there was confusion about Phebe Coulton's parents here http://myfamilyresearchadventures.blogspot.com/2008/09/phebe-coulton.html

The record I found about her parentage is:

This record can be found on Ancestry.com in their Quaker collection. It is a digitalized copy of a Darby Monthly Meeting. Source Citation: Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR-PH-141. 

The third paragraph down reads:

Whereas Phebe Robison Daughter of William -

Coulton and Phebe his Wife was Educated in the profession

of Faith as held by us. But giving way to a Libertine spirit

hath been so far Led into Error as to suffer herself to be Joined

in Marriage by a Priest to a person not of our Society to the

Reproach of our Christian Profession, and Contrary to the 

good and regular Order Established among us, Notwith-

standing she had been advised and Precautioned to the Con-

trary.

Memorial Day 2014

I have a cousin who died during World War II and is buried in Belgium.

This post is in remembrance of him.

Cesare Ducley

He was born to Louie "Luigi Ceaseare" Ducley 

and Mary Frances Boche

26 Nov 1912 in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania.

He was a Technician in the 

557th Antiaircraft Artillery 

Automatic Weapons Battalion.

Cesare was killed in action

2 Feb 1945 in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.