THE ART OF GENEALOGY: JUMPING OUT OF THE RUT AND FINDING EBER
don’t know about you, but I often get stuck searching the same surname or state while neglecting many other perfectly fine surnames and states. So today I decided I would get out of the rut, live on the wild side and venture into a new state. Vermont came to mind so I thought I would give it a try. I have no shortage of surnames in this state: Barber, Boyden, Cutler, Haynes, Myers, Nichols and Roberts.
I started with a Google search for “Vermont genealogy” and had a fabulous time checking out the genealogy societies, archives and museums. Then I decided to narrow my search down to Windham County and found a website called “Welcome to Windham County Vermont Local History and Genealogy” (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/vt/county/windham/index.html). I clicked on Vital Records, and here I found a page of links. Under Church Records, I found a link to “Marriages 1814-1839 Performed by missionaries of the Baptist Church In West Vermont and Central New York” (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/CHURCH/firstbaptistchurchsyr.html).
So here I was back again in Central New York. I did a quick scan of the names and whose baptism do you think I found? EBER CRANDALL! If you have been following my blog, you will know that Eber has been a real pain because there appear to be countless not-the-right Ebers. Of course, this Eber’s baptism did not correspond with the Eber I had been looking for either. I was struck by the irony of the situation. Here I was trying to break out of a rut and explore a new state and new surnames and I get thrown back into New York with Eber.
It reminds me of the phase "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get."
Forrest Gump. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Perf. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise. 1994. Film.
Posted by Karin Hadden at 6:54 PM
Labels: Vermont, Windham County
Jacqi Stevens October 1, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Karin, what a frustrating full circle you seem to have taken! And how interesting about all those Ebers you've found.
Despite all this, I agree with your hunch that it may be helpful to jump out of the "rut" for a while and try a different approach.
THE ART OF GENEALOGY: JUMPING OUT OF THE RUT AND FINDING EBER
don’t know about you, but I often get stuck searching the same surname or state while neglecting many other perfectly fine surnames and states. So today I decided I would get out of the rut, live on the wild side and venture into a new state. Vermont came to mind so I thought I would give it a try. I have no shortage of surnames in this state: Barber, Boyden, Cutler, Haynes, Myers, Nichols and Roberts.
I started with a Google search for “Vermont genealogy” and had a fabulous time checking out the genealogy societies, archives and museums. Then I decided to narrow my search down to Windham County and found a website called “Welcome to Windham County Vermont Local History and Genealogy” (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/vt/county/windham/index.html). I clicked on Vital Records, and here I found a page of links. Under Church Records, I found a link to “Marriages 1814-1839 Performed by missionaries of the Baptist Church In West Vermont and Central New York” (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/CHURCH/firstbaptistchurchsyr.ht
ml).
So here I was back again in Central New York. I did a quick scan of the names and whose baptism do you think I found? EBER CRANDALL! If you have been following my blog, you will know that Eber has been a real pain because there appear to be countless not-the-right Ebers. Of course, this Eber’s baptism did not correspond with the Eber I had been looking for either. I was struck by the irony of the situation. Here I was trying to break out of a rut and explore a new state and new surnames and I get thrown back into New York with Eber.
It reminds me of the phase "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get."
Forrest Gump. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Perf. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise. 1994. Film.
Posted by Karin Hadden at 6:54 PM
Labels: Vermont, Windham County
Jacqi Stevens October 1, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Karin, what a frustrating full circle you seem to have taken! And how interesting about all those Ebers you've found.
Despite all this, I agree with your hunch that it may be helpful to jump out of the "rut" for a while and try a different approach.