Question of the Week: What genealogy gifts are on your wishlist?

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Is there anything genealogy-related that you would love to receive as a gift this holiday season?

Is it a wish that one of our Secret Santa Elves could grant?

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Answer 1

I would love to receive 1-2 extra hours per day so that I could really dig into existing genealogical projects.

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Sing it sister! Mags

Answer 2

My DNA is increasingly showing that my paternal line came from county Mayo in particular Hollymount parish I would appreciate help in unpicking  the Hessions from there

Answer 3

Being a Christian, my first impression of this question was to be amazed and take a step back, asking "Wow! Is genealogy a Spiritual Gift (1 Cor 12:4-11)?"

Of course, I'm being facetious.  Or am I?  The deeper I looked, the more parallels appeared.  If I were still in university I might consider writing a paper on this, but thankfully I'm not.

Having said that, my wishlist would include sharing my love of genealogy (and my research thus far) with all of my relatives, especially the younger ones. I would wish on them the Gift of Genealogy, which I can honestly say has been a huge gift to me over the past decade or so.

Answer 4

I would love to know who John Green Mosleys parents are he said he was b 1821 in VA always. He is first found in Bedford co TN in 1840. He married martha c Oneal in 1845 in Marshall co TN. Lived in Lamar co Tx after 1870. Died in TX abt 1900... 2nd wife buried van zandtt co tx name emaline mosley.

Answer 5

I wish I could tie more of my family to the bigger picture.

Answer 6

I've always wanted to try those DNA kits. Family members have done them and found some surprises - it would be fun to do my own if the prices ever go down!

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Watch for sales from the companies offering DNA tests. Reduced prices are offered several times a year and some of these offers have already started for the Christmas-New Year, etc., holiday season.

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Along with Marilyn's great answer, think about what you want to find out by testing. For autosomal DNA  (back to about our 64, 4th great grands) all of the companies have sales over the holidays.

Answer 7

I'm asking for a subscription to Newspapars.com - so many times in my research I bump up against the need to buy a subscription to find out something about an ancestor. If noone comes through I think I'll need to pay up!

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If you're so inclined, check your local libraries to see if they have subscriptions you can use either on-site or remotely! In Round Rock, TX, you can get remote access to newspapers.com with your library card (which you can get with a TX state ID regardless of residence - though you have to apply in person). Other areas might have something similar!

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Great idea, I'll check it out. We do have access to Ancestry.com that way. I'll have to wait, our library was the victim of a ransomware attack and full service isn't expected back until January.

Answer 8

My genealogy wish would be rather selfish, as I am not in a position to return the compliment. My wish would be to find the parents of my paternal ancestor John Beavis (Beavis-194) born about 1741, married Edith Beardmore (Beardmore-51) in 1775 at St Katherine Creechurch, Aldgate, London and died in 1809 and buried at St John at Hackney, Middlesex, England. He was a watchmaker. I suspect he may have been born somewhere other than London, possibly outside of England. I have searched high and low, even with assistance from a professional genealogist, but his birth or baptism, and his parents names have not been found. I think it could be possible his parents might have been Huguenots.

Stuart Beavis (Beavis-123).

Answer 9

I have two paternal great great aunts that I have been searching for info on for several years. I know where they both were at one point in time (Portland, ME)  thanks to a probate record of one of their brothers, but have not had any luck any further than that. So, my wish is to find anything further on them.

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Hi Patty,

Have you posted on the wishes g2g post https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1672303?

Answer 10

MEMBERSHIPS! Ancestry, Familytree Webinars, GenealogyBank

Answer 11

My genealogy wishlist has this one at the top: Kentucky & Its Kin: An In-depth Guide to Genealogical Resources in Kentucky and Beyond

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Random books are definitely on my list as well.

Answer 12

To connect my Vernon family line

Answer 13

I would like to find parents for my mother-in-laws ancestor John Holmes. It’s been a dead end for both of us to try and find them. [[Holmes-14447|John Holmes (abt.1780-abt.1850)]]

Answer 14

My Christmas Wish list is for someone to do a scientific Study to determine the most likely Y-DNA Haplogroup signature for the English Philosopher, John Locke (Locke-2), much like the study that was recently performed on Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Locke had no children of his own, and different genealogies of his paternal ancestry (and lateral lines) from the 1800's appear not to agree on all points. A chart included in "The Book of Lockes" appears to have been cited to connect him to two different Y-Haplogroups (R1b and J2) (see Link from Internet Archive below)

Book of the Lockes : A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of William Locke, of Woburn ... : Locke, John G. (John Goodwin), 1803-1869 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Answer 15

I wish to find proof of a link between Richard Marchant (Marchant-175) and his parents/grandparents.  This site (and others) show his parents are William Marchant (Marchant-176) and Mary Ann Stoaker (Stoaker-1); however, there is no proof either of them exist.  In fact there is no record of Richard Marchant's birth.  His line extended westward on the National Road.  By the 1820s it eventual settled in Central Illinois.

There is also a speculative link that Abishai Marchant (Marchant-225) is William Marchant's father, thus linking all of them and myself to the well known Marchant line of French Huguenots who fought alongside Sir Francis Drake, and were early settlers in Cape Cod, and Martha' s Vineyard.  I have Merchant (Marchant) cousins who could provide yDNA evidence of such a link.

Thank you and Happy Holidays to all.

John

Answer 16

What comes to mind first is connection to the big tree for the 70 unconnected profiles I have created and not yet been able to connect.

Answer 17

I would like someone to solve at least one of the mysteries documented on the Ceruti Family Mysteries page.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Ceruti_Family_Mysteries

Answer 18

I have two big genealogical wishes at this time.

1) More Macklem & variant spelling males take yDNA tests at ftDNA.

2) Being able to figure out more about my Irish ancestors from Wicklow & Wexford. Last names are Brownrigg, Twambley/Twamly, Leggett, Price, Morris, Scott & Smith.

Answer 19

The only genealogy gifts I want are:
The parents to my 2x great grandfather Burton-8403
The burial location of my 2x great grandparents Fowler-9158 and Woodcock-1463
And the full name of Woodcock-1463's mother, whose first name was Margaretta and was from NY, but I could never find a birth, marriage or death certificate for her, nor where she or my 3rd great grandfather died or are buried.

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I recently ordered death certificates for around the same year as your Fowler but from Los Angeles, which is even larger, and believe it or not, they dug it right out and got it to me. I thought it had to be lost in the shuffle, but apparently CA is organized despite their size. I would send for his death certificate from the Alameda County clerk, and it should show the cemetery, and it also should show if he was widowed or still married, giving more indication to the wife's possible death year. Informational copies are available to anyone for $25. My ancestor from Los Angeles had moved there recently and actually had his body shipped back to South Dakota for burial well over a hundred years ago, so you can't rule out even back then that he wasn't buried where he died.

Answer 20

The maiden name of my 3 rd G.Grandmother Brown.