Henry Cleveland Franke | discovered mother and siblings in 1900 US census

Posted on March 25, 2011 by
Henry Cleveland Franke , great-grandfather -click HERE for family tree view-
One of the Ancestry.com Hints for Henry was the 1900 US census.  Henry would of been about 15 in 1900.  This census includes the names of the persons living in the household at the time.  The newly discovered information from this source include:
  • mother, Eunice R. Franke
  1. born July 1853
  2. born in the state of New York
  3. widowed
  4. had 9 children, 4 living at time of census
  5. Eunice’s father born in Holland
  6. Eunice’s mother born in the state of New York
  • sister, Fannie A. Franke, born in October 1874
  • brother, George A. Franke, born in July 1883
  1. Henry, Fannie, and George were all born in the state of New York
  2. Henry, Fannie, and George’s mother (Eunice) was born in the state of New York (as stated above)
  3. Henry, Fannie, and George’s father was born in Germany
Merging the 1900 US census Ancestry Hint:

merging Henry Franke's Ancestry Hint for the 1900 US census and automatically adding his mother and siblings

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Henry Cleveland Franke | merging Ancestry Hints

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Henry Cleveland Franke , great-grandfather -click here to see family tree-

  • Married to:  Blanche Isabelle Bangs

I initially received two Ancestry Hints for Henry.  I merged the two hints with Henry then received an additional hint. After merging that hint, two more hints appeared.  Strange how that works.   The five hints were for the following sources.

Henry’s Overview page after completing Hint merge:

I will next manually edit the Facts to include the information that Ancestry.com did not automatically merge. For example, the dates for Departure and Residence are missing as seen in the above image.  This can be done by viewing the scanned images for the original documents provided by Ancestry.com and transcribing the necessary data.  I will share the updated Overview page in a future post.

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Marie Coryell Huckins DeGraaf

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

Marie Coryell (Huckins) DeGraaf , great-grandmother

  • Married to:  Leland Hugh DeGraaf

A letter to great-grandfather Leland Hugh DeGraf from his cousin, Henry DeGraaf Cochrane, states Great-Grandmother’s full maiden name being Marie Coryell Huckins.  I received 3 Ancestry Hints after entering this name and an estimated birth year of 1886 on Marie’s profile at my Ancestry.com member tree.  The birth year, 1886,  is an estimate from the 1920 and 1930 US census. I found Marie on these census records while searching for her husband, Leland.  In these census records Marie’s name is documented as Marie H. DeGraaf.

Letter from Henry DeGraaf Chochrane to his cousin, Lelaland Hugh DeGraaf -click image for large view-

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Leland Hugh DeGraaf | Ancestry Hint facts

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

Leland Hugh DeGraaf , great-grandfather

Primary and alternate birth dates with sources :

( click 2 times for full view )

Residences and Death with sources :

( click 2 times for full view )

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Leland Hugh DeGraaf | facts after completing Ancestry Hints

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

I began a new Ancestry.com Tree with only Leland Hugh DeGraaf’s name and birth year (1886). With this information a floating leaf appeared next to Leland’s  name at the family tree page.

floating leaf indicates Ancestry Hints available - ( CLICK 2 times for full view )

I received a total of eight hints for Leland.

complete list of 8 available Hints

Overview page after merging Ancestry Hints with Leland DeGraaf ( CLICK 2 times for full view )

Leland Hugh DeGraaf , great-grandfather

  • Spouse:  Marie Huckins
  • Children:  Leland, Ruth, Virginia
  • Parents:  William Henry DeGraaf and Elizabeth Lehman
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Great-Grandfather Leland Hugh DeGraaf, Sr.

Posted on June 24, 2010 by

I have started a new family tree at Ancestry.com .  This next series of blog posts may appear to be an advertisement for Ancestry.com, but the website is truly an amazing technology.  The site is especially helpful for the beginning genealogist whose ancestors lived far away from any local records repositories.  My closest ancestors lived 400 plus miles away of where I live now.

Starting a family tree is simple.  Ancestry.com guides you step by step starting with yourself followed by adding your parents.  You then add your grandparents and any information that you know such as birth, marriage, and death dates (ask family members what they know too!).   All this information is not necessary, but the more you add the better chances of Ancestry adding “leaves” next to your family members’ names.  “Leaves” are “hints”, as Ancestry calls them, which (according to Ancestry’s search engine) have the highest probability of matching  a particular ancestor.

I have been lucky enough to receive some information about the DeGraaf line of my family.  My Great-Grandfather corresponded with his cousin, Henry DeGraaf Cochrane, about their family history through letter writing in the 1930′s and ’40s.  Three of these letters I have copies of which include many birth, death, and marriage dates of my DeGraaf line.

Continue reading →

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Tombstone Tuesday: Ray and Bessie (Reams) Draffen

Posted on August 10, 2009 by

Ray and Bessie (Reams) Draffen

http://www.moniteau.net/cemetery/tiptonmasonic/draffen-bessie-ray.JPG

- Photograph by Alan Sparks,  Moniteau County coordinator of the MOGenWeb Project.

For my first Tombstone Tuesday, I am sharing this link to a photo of my maternal Grandfather and Grandmother’s grave site.  I discovered this photograph on the Internet yesterday while using a search-engine to “refresh” my memory for the name of the cemetery in Tipton, Missouri (Platial map) (Aardvark map) where my grandparents’ final resting place resides.  I found more than I expected.  The search took me to the Tipton Masonic Cemetery page of the Moniteau County, MO project site.  This county site is part of the MO GenWeb Project.  The MOGenWeb Project is the Missouri state site of its parent,  US GenWeb Project .  I was surprised to see a photograph of my Grandmother’s gravestone on the Internet considering she passed just 2 years ago.

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