I noticed a few days ago that some of the burial sentences weren't looking quite right on my website - turned out that a setting in my software had gotten changed and the result was that the names of the cemeteries were being left out of the sentences. Now who on earth could have changed that setting? So I corrected the setting and updated the site; the burial sentences are reading much better now.
Just in case you're wondering ... my backwards review has continued, and I'm now back to ID# 1250 (from 1526). I just updated the website again to reflect the latest corrections I've been making. Check out the Recent Updates page to see links to the folks who have had changes made.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Henry Church and Hannah Keine
If you read my last post, you'll be glad to know that my backwards trek through my database has progressed from person ID# 1644 to 1526. Is it appropriate to say I progressed when I'm actually moving backward??? Hmmm.
Well, whatever it should be called, it's a little slower than I had hoped, but hopefully it is worth the wait. I've done a lot of work on my pages for Henry "Old Hundred" Church and his wife, Hannah Keine, the founders of Hundred, West Virginia. I updated the info about their births to include more about my thoughts regarding some of the various alternatives that I have found. I hope you'll check them out!
Well, whatever it should be called, it's a little slower than I had hoped, but hopefully it is worth the wait. I've done a lot of work on my pages for Henry "Old Hundred" Church and his wife, Hannah Keine, the founders of Hundred, West Virginia. I updated the info about their births to include more about my thoughts regarding some of the various alternatives that I have found. I hope you'll check them out!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Cobwebs Be Gone ... and Backwards It Is!
Considering that my last blog post was in October, it's a good thing that working on genealogy isn't dependent on writing new posts!
Blogging is a lot harder than it looks.
It takes time.
It takes ideas.
It takes creativity.
It takes dedication.
It takes more than I've been willing to give it the past few months. An idea would pop into my brain, I would think about what I might write, then I would promptly move on to other things and another day/week/month would go by. Sigh.
So winter passed and it's now spring ... time to start anew. Shake off the cobwebs, so to speak.
Last October I thought I had a "substantial portion" of cleanup on my website done ... but I later discovered it wasn't as done as I thought it was! I found some issues that required changing the way I was inputting parental and birth info. It was one of those "back to the drawing board" moments that set me back considerably.
I'm now working backwards one person at a time through the folks that appear online. I thought I would try working backward instead of forwards to see if it would help with momentum. And I think it's actually working!
The technicalities involved with getting my website formatted the way I want have been more difficult than I expected. The review I've been working on for months has started and stopped and started and stopped way too many times. This time though I've made it from person ID# 2752 backwards through ID# 1644 making updates and corrections. That may not mean much to you, but I'm quite pleased to have finally gotten this far.
I'm off to upload the latest updates to the website ... be sure to check out the Recent Updates and the New Persons Added. Then I'll resume where I left off with my review. If backwards is what works, then backwards it is!
Blogging is a lot harder than it looks.
It takes time.
It takes ideas.
It takes creativity.
It takes dedication.
It takes more than I've been willing to give it the past few months. An idea would pop into my brain, I would think about what I might write, then I would promptly move on to other things and another day/week/month would go by. Sigh.
So winter passed and it's now spring ... time to start anew. Shake off the cobwebs, so to speak.
Last October I thought I had a "substantial portion" of cleanup on my website done ... but I later discovered it wasn't as done as I thought it was! I found some issues that required changing the way I was inputting parental and birth info. It was one of those "back to the drawing board" moments that set me back considerably.
I'm now working backwards one person at a time through the folks that appear online. I thought I would try working backward instead of forwards to see if it would help with momentum. And I think it's actually working!
The technicalities involved with getting my website formatted the way I want have been more difficult than I expected. The review I've been working on for months has started and stopped and started and stopped way too many times. This time though I've made it from person ID# 2752 backwards through ID# 1644 making updates and corrections. That may not mean much to you, but I'm quite pleased to have finally gotten this far.
I'm off to upload the latest updates to the website ... be sure to check out the Recent Updates and the New Persons Added. Then I'll resume where I left off with my review. If backwards is what works, then backwards it is!
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Noah Grant Church
What do you think of when you hear the word cholera? As part of my website cleanup, I was digging a little more into Noah Grant Church and his death certificate which I had found some time ago in the vital records images that the West Virginia Division of Culture and History has put online.
Commonly known by his middle name, Grant was the son of William Church and Elizabeth Roberts - an older brother to my great-grandfather, Eli Church.
Grant's death certificate states that he died from "cholerra morbis" [sic] on 03 October 1934. Per numerous websites, cholera morbus is a term no longer used. As it turns out, it did not refer to the cholera epidemics we think of when we hear the word cholera ... it describes what we now call gastrointestinal illnesses. The types of illnesses that generally result in cramping, vomiting, and severe diarrhea and dehydration that can result in death if not treated quickly enough. Apparently cholera morbus was often associated with food poisoning.
In Grant's case, a contributing factor to his death was myocarditis, defined by the Mayo Clinic as an inflammation of the middle wall of the heart and usually caused by a viral infection. Symptoms include chest pain and it can result in heart failure. Reading through all the info about cholera morbus and myocarditis, it seems that Grant must have been through quite an ordeal in his final hours.
For a long time I could not decipher the handwritten name of the cemetery where Grant was buried as it appeared on his death certificate. I kept thinking the first word was something like Robain but could never find a cemetery with a name close to that spelling when I searched lists of Wetzel County cemeteries on the internet. Then yesterday morning it dawned on me that it reads "Robsin Ridge C" - an interesting spelling of Robinson Ridge Cemetery.
Next step was to try to find a photo of his gravestone online, but I was coming up empty. Samuel and Jennie Bradley Church are the only two Churches that show up in Robinson Ridge ... but then I discovered a note on the Wetzel County WVGenWeb site that says that there is a whole section of the cemetery that is full of graves with no markers. Perhaps Grant is buried in that section.
Commonly known by his middle name, Grant was the son of William Church and Elizabeth Roberts - an older brother to my great-grandfather, Eli Church.
Grant's death certificate states that he died from "cholerra morbis" [sic] on 03 October 1934. Per numerous websites, cholera morbus is a term no longer used. As it turns out, it did not refer to the cholera epidemics we think of when we hear the word cholera ... it describes what we now call gastrointestinal illnesses. The types of illnesses that generally result in cramping, vomiting, and severe diarrhea and dehydration that can result in death if not treated quickly enough. Apparently cholera morbus was often associated with food poisoning.
In Grant's case, a contributing factor to his death was myocarditis, defined by the Mayo Clinic as an inflammation of the middle wall of the heart and usually caused by a viral infection. Symptoms include chest pain and it can result in heart failure. Reading through all the info about cholera morbus and myocarditis, it seems that Grant must have been through quite an ordeal in his final hours.
For a long time I could not decipher the handwritten name of the cemetery where Grant was buried as it appeared on his death certificate. I kept thinking the first word was something like Robain but could never find a cemetery with a name close to that spelling when I searched lists of Wetzel County cemeteries on the internet. Then yesterday morning it dawned on me that it reads "Robsin Ridge C" - an interesting spelling of Robinson Ridge Cemetery.
Next step was to try to find a photo of his gravestone online, but I was coming up empty. Samuel and Jennie Bradley Church are the only two Churches that show up in Robinson Ridge ... but then I discovered a note on the Wetzel County WVGenWeb site that says that there is a whole section of the cemetery that is full of graves with no markers. Perhaps Grant is buried in that section.
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