Genealogy Tales

A few weeks ago, I was at the Family History Center, using the center's account on Ancestry.com to search the 1930 census. Looking for great-granduncle Harry Greenberg, I not only found him, but also his mother Esther Levin, sister Jennie Greenberg, her husband, and son.

Before this, I had no idea who Jennie married or what her married surname was. On the census, it showed that her husband was Maurice A. Galitt born in 1900 and her son was Calvin Galitt born in 1925.

I was thinking this was all good and that I could search further with this information, but it turns out that Galitt is not exactly a common name. There are no Galitts on the Social Security Index and none on the Illinois Death Database.

Interestingly, on the Illinois Death Database are Jennie Gale and Maurice A. Gale, and on the SSDI is a Calvin Gale. So, maybe I'll send away for information on the Gales and rule them in or out.

For years, those of us researching Dawson Seals and his family have been trying to find Dawson's wife Elizabeth's surname and family. It has been a mystery. Cousin Jay Seals had told me years ago that Elizabeth was a Brewer, but I hadn't found anything that proved this.

Recently, I did a Google search on "Dawson Seals" and one of the links that came up was to a page on the Ontario Vital Records Project:

5803-86 Charles Brady SEALS, 40, widower, Baptist minister, Tennessee US, Indianapolis, s/o Dawson SEALS & Elizabeth BREWER, married Frances MATTHEW, 21, Clinton twp, Indianapolis, d/o James MATTHEW & Amelia GATES, witn: Mr. & Mrs. David WADDELL of Plympton twp., 3 Sept 1886 at Chapman House, Sarnia.

For many years, I had a website online called "Genealogy Tales," but when money got tight, I took it down.  I'm glad to say that today I'm resurrecting the website in this blog format, but you will still be able to see the stories and database by clicking on the links in the Pages section to the right.  

I'll be entering the old stories from the old website as I have time and energy, but I'll be posting new  blog entries as I collect more information.  I'm using The Master Genealogist to enter data and publishing it with John Cardinal's Second Site.  

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to contact me or post a comment on the blog.  I look forward to hearing from you.