Geocities to Yahoo Migration--Take Two

Following a couple of very frustrating days of attempting to build my new home page on Yahoo, I decided that the better option would be to begin downloading all the pages--both the real page and the html version. Since geocities is closing at the end of October, less than a month away, saving all my written research became the most important task. This has taken me a week of work in between my employment and the daily household chores.

Now, I have my entire geocities home page saved in my computer and on an external hard drive. All surnames are in individual files. Actually, I am more organized than I have ever been with my website!

While downloading, I have noticed how outdated much of this published research is. And, the quality of the photos is dismal. Perhaps in the end, this has been beneficial. It will give me the opportunity to rewrite many of the biographies and update them with new research. Now that I have a newer scanner, the photos will all have to be rescanned and edited.

It looks like my next step will be back to the work of building the pages on Yahoo. I have downloaded their site builder program. I have to play around with it to figure out how to use it. I have noticed that when I tried to build a page directly from the Yahoo file manager, that I was not able to edit it. In the past, I built all my own pages in file manager using html and when I wanted to change or update, it was a simple process....just click edit and make the changes. The new file manager does not allow this. The little edit icon did not appear beside my designed page, but it does appear beside pages created with the site builder program.

Is there anyone else out there migrating their websites?

More work is needed. Stay tuned!

Monday Madness--Elva M. McGoey

My “madness” with this blog is that I didn’t have a tombstone photo for Elva. My original thought was to make this a Tombstone Tuesday. So, I am mad at myself. When I was in Clearfield, Pennsylvania a few weeks ago, time did not permit me to find Calvary Cemetery and take photos of the remaining McGoey markers that I am missing—Elva being one of them.

The McGoey’s are not my biological line. They belong to my “Michigan” cousins--the sons and daughters of my aunt, Barbara Ann McGoey Hughes. Elva would be their maternal grandaunt.

Elva M. McGoey was the first child born to Michael Joseph McGoey and Clara Green McGoey, in September 1891, Clearfield, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.¹

Elva never married and unfortunately, I have, to date, no photos of her. In fact, until several years ago, when I joined ancestry.com, I knew nothing about her. She seemed lost to the ages. Ancestry.com has copies of many decades of the Clearfield Progress, the local newspaper, and I was able to find a few pieces of information about Elva.

She was a bookkeeper for the Leitzinger Brothers Department Store in Clearfield for 32 years from 1909 until her death in 1941. In honor of her devoted service, the store closed until 10:30 a.m. the morning of her funeral.²

While researching Leitzinger’s, I found that they had an unusual system for collecting the money from their customers. They utilized what was called the electric car system. When the sales person collected the money from the customer, it was sent along with a bill on a little trolley car up to the cashier department located on a floor above. The cashier would then process the receipt and any money due back and send it back to the cashier. This system was replaced in 1951’s with a pneumatic tube system that ran throughout the store.³ Elva, as a bookkeeper, would have been involved with the electric car system of money collection.

She was a life long member of the St. Francis Roman Catholic Church in Clearfield where her funeral services took place. Elva predeceased both of her parents. She died on September 7, 1941 and was laid to rest in Calvary Cemetery, Clearfield, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1941.⁴

Notes:

1. 1900 Pennsylvania Federal Census, Clearfield County, Clearfield.
ED 64, Sheet 27, Line 95.

2. “The Clearfield Progress,” Clearfield, Pennsylvania, Tuesday Evening, September 9, 1941, page 3.

3. Julie Rae Rickard, "Images of America Clearfield County," Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2003, page 111.

4. “The Clearfield Progress”, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, Monday Evening, September 8, 1941, page 10.

Monday Madness--Frederick Gibler/Kibler

There is an on going debate among VanGilder researchers that I addressed in the John VanGilder from Cape Girardeau, Missouri blog. It concerns whether or not the John VanGilder from the Morgantown, West Virginia area circa 1800-1806 is the same John VanGilder living in Cape Girardeau, Missouri beginning about 1808's. I am beginning to think that the answer to the question involves Frederick Gibler or Frederick Kibler.

A tanner with the name of Frederick Gibler lived in Morgantown and is also found in Cape Girardeau at the same time as John VanGilder. To add to the puzzle is Frederick's surname, which happens to be the same as John VanGilder's mother's maiden name--Gibler or sometimes written, Kibler.

I have had bits and pieces of this research sitting on the back burner for almost a decade and have decided it is time to drag it out and begin working on it again.

I am hoping that someone out there might wander onto this blog who relates to Frederick Gibler of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, although from tax and census records in Missouri, it does not appear that he lived there all that long. He either moved on or died.

Maybe we can finally get this brick wall behind us.

Stay tuned.

MONDAY MADNESS--Edna May Frederick Zeigler Gween

As you may have read on several of my other blogs, this Frederick clan is driving me mad. I have done three of these on my grandmother’s siblings! AND, I am not going back into history all that far, just the early to mid 1900’s.

Edna with my mother

Edna May Frederick

Parents: Alfred Frederick and Lucinda B. Orr Frederick¹
Birth: August 24, 1876, Columbiana County, Ohio²
Death: January 25, 1961, probably in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania³
Buried: William Penn Memorial Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania⁴

Married:
Harry G. Zeigler, born March 1873 in Pennsylvania⁵
On the 1900 Pennsylvania Federal Census, Harry was a shoe clerk in Pittsburgh and he and Edna were living at 5018 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Harry and Edna had one child, a daughter, Mary A. Zeigler⁶, born 1903 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Edna is enumerated with Harry’s parents on the 1910 Pennsylvania Federal Census report⁷ and she lists herself as single. Perhaps he died between 1900-1910.

Second Marriage:
Before 1918, Edna married William Clinton Gween, born April 16, 1876 in Pennsylvania⁸. He was employed by Westinghouse and he and Edna lived at 838 Sheridan Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

I lose track of Edna and William in 1930.

Mary A. Zeigler, Edna’s daughter, married Robert B. Quinn, on November 4, 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania⁹. Robert is the son of Thomas B. Quinn and Mary B. Wells Quinn¹⁰. He was born on July 7, 1898 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died September 1971 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania¹¹.

My mother has told me that later in life, Edna lived with Mary and Robert Quinn. I would take an educated guess that they are all buried at William Penn Cemetery.

Mary and Robert did not have any children, so perhaps there is a Quinn or Gween researcher out there that might have this branch in their family tree, too.

Notes

1. Columbiana County Ohio Birth Records, Volume 2, Page 61, Number 225.
2. Columbiana County Ohio Birth Records.
3. Martha Marie Frederick Stark, Personal Journal.
4. Stark.
5. 1900 Pennsylvania Federal Census, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, ED 234, Sheet 6B.
6. 1900 Pennsylvania Federal Census.
7. 1910 Pennsylvania Federal Census, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, ED 418, Sheet 5.
8. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC).
9. Martha Jean Stark Hughes, Interview conducted in 1997.
10. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Application for Marriage License, Docket 115, Page 301.
11. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Application for Marriage License.

Corrected February 7, 2012--Surname was spelled Zeigler not Ziegler.

Monday Madness--Alfred Frederick

Mad ancestors or elusive ancestors who drive US mad" 

Amy Crook of Untangled Family Roots is starting a new meme for those of us researching our ancestors. This will occur each Monday as a recurring meme similar to Tombstone Tuesday and Wordless Wednesday.

Alfred Frederick
Carte de visite
In my possession

     Where oh where did my great grandfather, Alfred F. Frederick die? I have had good success tracing him throughout his life, but his death has been a major stumbling block for well over a decade. He was last living in Avalon, Pennsylvania with his son, Robert B. Frederick. I have photos of him with my Mother in the very early 1920’s. 

     Alfred was a railroad man and perhaps he took a train to visit relatives and died in their home. I will admit that the Frederick family is pretty extended. 

     Alfred F. Frederick. I have only seen his middle initial listed once. I have also seen him referred to as Nick, but I have no idea where that nickname would have come from.

Parents: Joseph C. Frederick and Mary Betz¹ both of Columbiana County, Ohio 

Born: May 1, 1836 in Columbiana County, Ohio² 

Died: February 9, 1927³ 

Buried: Firestone Cemetery, Columbiana County, Ohio⁴ 

Married: Lucinda Orr on October 22, 1868 in Columbiana County, Ohio⁵ 

 

Children of Alfred Frederick and Lucinda Bell Orr Frederick:

1. Albert Frederick⁶—1869-? Another Frederick MIA 
2. William Walter Frederick⁷—1871-1899 (died in Youngstown, Ohio) 
3. Robert Bell Frederick⁸—1873-1959 (died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 
4. Edna May Frederick⁹—1876-1961 (died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 
5. Martha Marie Frederick¹⁰—1880-1971 (died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) My maternal grandmother

      Following Alfred Frederick through the Federal Census: 

1836-1950—Living with his parents in Columbiana County, Ohio¹¹ 

1860—Living with his cousin, Sarah Frederick Lepard, Attica, Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio¹² 

1870-1898—Columbiana County, Ohio¹³ 

1900—Esplen, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania near McKees Rocks¹⁴ 

1910—Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania¹⁵ 

1920—Avalon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania¹⁶ 

     When Alfred died, Albert, if he was alive, could have been living in Chicago, Illinois. Robert, Edna and Martha, all married were living in the Pittsburgh area. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!!!

Note:  This is a very early blog.  Much has been found since 2009.  Check out the other Frederick blogs on Flipside.

-FREDERICK, ALFRED and LUCINDA ORR--Biography

-FREDERICK, ALFRED and LUCINDA ORR--Marriage Record--Fearless Females #4

-FREDERICK, ALFRED and LUCINDA ORR--Tombstone Tuesday

-FREDERICK, ALFRED--Train Accident 77th Carnival of Genealogy

-FREDERICK, ALFRED--Monday Madness

-FREDERICK, ALFRED--Place of Death

-FREDERICK FAMILY--Pittsburgh City Directories

-FREDERICK, LUCINDA  BELL ORR--16th Smile for the Camera--Bling

-FREDERICK, LUCINDA BELL ORR

Sources

1. 1850 Ohio Federal Census, Columbiana County, Salem Township, District 202.

2. Firestone Cemetery, Columbiana, Columbiana County, Ohio, Old Section 8, Rows 15 & 16.

3. Firestone Cemetery.

4. Firestone Cemetery.

5. Columbiana County Marriage Records, Book # 5, Record 441.

6. Columbiana County Ohio Birth Records, Volume 1, Page 76, Number 126.

7. Columbiana County Ohio Birth Records, Volume 1, Page 80, Number 208.

8. Columbiana County Ohio Birth Records, Volume 2, Page 57, Number 61.

9. Columbiana County Ohio Birth Records, Volume 2, Page 61, Number 225.

10. Ohio Certificate of Birth, Birth Records from the state of Ohio, Columbiana County, Volume 3, Page 55, No. 105 AND Volume 3, Page 55, No. 128.

11. 1850 Ohio Federal Census

12. 1860 Ohio Federal Census, Attica Post Office, Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio, page 13 (233).

13. 1870 Ohio Federal Census, Franklin Square Post Office, Salem Township, Columbiana County, Page 12 & 13 (310-311) and 1880 Ohio Federal Census, Fairfield Township, Columbiana County, Ohio ED 47, page 40.

14. 1900 Pennsylvania Federal Census, Allegheny County, Esplen Borough, ED 381, Sheet 5A.

15. 1910 Pennsylvania Federal Census, Allegheny County, Bellevue Borough, ED 13, Sheet 23A.

16. 1920 Pennsylvania Federal Census, Allegheny County, Avalon Borough, ED 5, Sheet 10A.

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