Madness Monday

It is driving me nuts that I can not find anything about Nathan or Lena/Leah!!! Uhhh I have looked every where. I can not even find the ship that they came over on! I know they came from Russia so when did they get here? How did they get here?!

This is really annoying me today. They are relatively simple questions to have answered yet it feels impossible. I learned where their graves are so I am hoping a visit to their grave sites might give me some more clues..although even with more clues I am not sure what I am going to be able to find out.

Head meet Desk



Nikki

Thoughts from this weekend

This weekend was semi exciting. Since I found out my local library subscribes to Ancestry I was dying to get there. Bright and early Saturday morning I made my way there. It was so neat to be able to actually look at the documents, but honestly I was so overwhelmed by it all. I had no idea what I actually wanted to look for or what I wanted to do. I wish I had just taken a breather to figure out exactly what I wanted to look for. That time spent at the library was a waste. You have a 2 hour time limit to use the computers (which is awesome and reasonable) but there is a timer on the top of the computer counting down your time. It was very intimidating. Don't ask me why, cuz it was just a stupid timer, but it was very intimidating to me. So after looking at a few things I got the heck out of there. Not much was a accomplished and this coming Saturday I am going to put my 2 hours to good use and not have a mini freak out.

After the library I went to my grandparents house. I wanted to pick their brains for any information I had not heard yet. I actually did learn a lot. Like the fact that my grandfather had another brother?! I had no idea. But apparently my grandfather had 2 brothers and 1 sister. Albert, Paul, Marion, and Kenny. Who would have known.

I shared what I had learned and then we called my Great Aunt Beverly to see if she knew of her grandfather (George McCormick) moving to Arizona at some point. From what she knew that did not happen, but I did learn that my 2nd cousin Steve is into this as well. I guess he has been calling around for information too. How funny, so I sent him a text asking if he would please share all that he has learned with me, and he said he would. I am excited to get that email to see if maybe he was able to get further on that side than I was.

Cuz in all honestly it is like that side is just non existent before they came to America in 1913. I have looked high and low, searched all records of new arrivals in America in 1913 and they are just no where to be found. The trial just goes dead, it annoys me to no end too.

Patience. I guess in good time it will all reveal itself I mean I have only been at this for 3ish weeks now.



Nikki

National Tell A Story Day

Did ya know that? I didn't but it is in fact National Tell A Story Day today! So I am going to share a family story with you today and I had not heard until coming in contact with my 2nd cousin 1 time removed. It is not a nice family story and I am working on uncovering the true nature and details of the story, but here is a piece of my family history that I had no idea about.

My Grandpa Joe had a sister named Florence. Florence married John B Buending on January 1st, 1959 I am sure expecting him to be the man of her dreams. But John was a nightmare, nothing but a horrible demon.

He murdered Florence and then killed himself. Coward. To top it off not only did he murder Florence, but she was 8 months along carrying their unborn child! 
The story goes that my Great Grandmother Louise found Florence and her husband in the basement of their home. She was trying to reach Florence so she went over to see why she was not answering any of her phone calls.

I know it is a terrible story, but it is still a part of me.



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UPDATE:
I found the newspaper article from this. It is so sad that, it is all true.

Buending Murder-Sucide

I was then able to find this article about how John came back positive for gun powder. I know it is horrible quality and terrible to read but it was the best I could do!

Nikki

"Organization Papers"

One of the readers requested I share my "organization papers" that I found, and gladly I will because honestly this is what my desk used to look like when doing research...

And now I was able to find these great free sheets and my desk now looks like this!

I don't know about you guys but I am LOVING the difference! Any road, while exploring GeneaBloggers I came across this young ladys blog, she has not written in a long while which upsets me, but she did have some wonderful resources for people to use and those sheets were among the stuff that I was able to find.

I am using Ancestry.com's Ancestral Chart to keep track of up to five generations. It is awesome, and what I am really loving is the Family Group Sheet from FamilyTreeMaganzine.com


Hope this helps guys, cuz it has seriously helped me! I am not an organized person so I have to work at it. And work, and work, and freaken do more work at it. So these sheets will help me so much.



Nikki

Breaking News!!!

I can not wipe this smile off my face!!!

Click Here! You know you wanna!! Any road scroll alll the way down to the J's...okay scroll just a little more..okay STOP!

Do you see it? A little ole link to my little ole blog!! I am so proud. Now to vamp up this biscuit while new readers trickle on over.

Welcome, please become a follower!



Ill be back tomorrow, with juicy details and links to my organizational tools.


Nikki

Pleased to announce

I am very pleased to announce that I was able to thoroughly get through majority of my family onto paper in a organized way. It has taken a lot of my shoulders because, seriously the amount of random papers with tips and leads about my ancestors was way out.of.control.

I also happy to announce that I discovered my local public library subscribes to Ancestry so I thrilled to be able to go and access what I am not able to with my free membership! Literally brightened my day so much, so call your local library and see if they subscribe too! It is such a wonderful resource!

Have not got much back in email. I have received 2 emails so far (when I maybe did 5-8 emails) but nothing overly exciting to report, plus it was just repeat information that I had already come across. I am hopeful I will hear something back in the next couple of days. Of course sooner than later is better but I will take what I can get for now.



Nikki

Quiet on this front

I found some great organizational papers for genealogy, and since I have noticed over the past week I am literally drowning in papers I think for tomorrow and the next day I am going to take sometime and get this stuff all organized. If I don't in about a weeks time I will die from too many random papers with random notes. And too many times during this journey have I wondered where a certain paper is, only to have to shuffle through a million other papers first.

Not fun. Any road I am waiting back on several emails from several different sources, so I will return with joyous news I hope. High hopes for that anyway..

Feel free to roam around while I am in organizational hell.


Nikki