Family Memories ~ Little House on the Prairie

Not so long ago there was no PVRs. 

If you missed an episode of a tv series you didn't know what happened. Years later you might catch the episode on reruns, but the ability to see every episode of a series was scarce. 

Some of my fondest childhood memories are rushing to get into my pjs to watch Walt Disney on Sunday night & Little House on the Prairie on Monday nights. 

Both play a significant role in my leisure time memories.

My whole family in our pjs snuggled on the couch until we got too big for family snuggles and we moved to our own spaces. 

What didn't change was watching these shows every week in our pjs with our family. 

Sometimes with hot chocolate. Sometimes with popcorn. Sometimes freshly bathed. Sometimes with a blankets. Sometimes with a fire burning. 

As a kid who moved many times (5 schools in 3 provinces for grade 3, and 3 schools in 2 provinces for grade 4 plus many more) it's those tv times that elicit the memory of the home we were living in. 

While researching for a blog about famous folks I discovered that the author Laura Ingalls Wilder was related to a few of my famous folks.

After digging far & wide I discovered that I am related to Laura's father Charles Phillip Ingalls through my mother's maternal line. 

Now ... this really is a stretch, but I will definitely take it. 

Laura is my 1st cousin 4x removed of wife of 4th cousin 7x removed.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
BIRTH 7 FEB 1867 • Pepin County, Wisconsin, USA
DEATH 10 FEB 1957 • Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Wright, Missouri, USA
married to
Almanzo James Wilder
BIRTH 13 FEB 1857 • Burke, Franklin, New York, USA
DEATH 23 OCT 1949 • Mansfield, Wright, Missouri, USA

As I snuggled with my family in my pjs watching the tales I would have loved to know I was connected to Laura. Even as loosely connected as we are I feel blessed to have her connected to my tree at all. 

The tales she told in her books, that the tv series was based on, were based on hers and Alonzo's childhoods.

Were they facts. Not at all. Did they introduce children and adults to the past. Absolutely. 

When I look back at my early watching and reading interests I realize I have always been a historical fiction fan. 

I love viewing the past through the eyes of a person.

Adding flesh & bones to our family history!!!

Cause ... 




You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

This is why I search - 

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Photo Source:

File:Laura Ingalls Wilder - Documentary - DVD - 150th Birthday - cover art.jpg, Retrieved August 31st 2021 from: 
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Place Holders - Not a Tragedy

This is my 3rd year with the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. 

I am finding it a challenge to write each week. I suspect it's rooted in the pandemic appearing like it will never end. I am struggling with my lack of focus and ambition. I just can't seem to get it together to do anything except work.  I spend too much time doing nothing.

This week I was on vacation.

I didn't prep a blog entry. 

I considered not writing this week. 

Then I realized it's okay to take a break. 

I primarily write for me. 

If I don't have the time, energy, or ambition to write this week that is okay. 

I also write for future researchers who may find what they are looking for in the stories I have left behind. 

This week they will find that I have left a bit about me in this week's placeholder.

Writing a place holding week is not a tragedy.

What did we do this week on vacation?

We cycled:

We got outdoors:

Ate some good food:

Took car trips:

BUT there is still a pandemic so we stayed close to home & didn't visit with any other people. 

Getting pretty tired of Covid-19.

Recording for future searchers!!!

Cause ... 




You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

This is why I search - 

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

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New York City ~ BUT Not Ellis Island

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021: Week 32 (IN THE CITY)

Last September our trip to New York City was canceled. 

On that trip I planned to research more about my husband's 8th great grandparents who arrived via New York.

Sadly that trip didn't happen because of the worldwide Covid pandemic. 

We do not have a lot of information or confirmation of exactly when they arrived. 

That was supposed to be found in our Ellis Island searching.

BUT since it appears as though they arrived between 1710 and 1717 they didn't enter at Ellis Island.

Ellis Island opened as an immigration site in 1892.

All that we know about my husband's 8th great grandparents on his father's maternal line.

Freidrich Wilhelm Schram

BIRTH 2 JUN 1695
DEATH Unknown
                       &
Anna Maria Kuester (Kuster)

He descends via their son (7th great grandparents)

Johan Wilhelm (John) Schram

BIRTH 22 JUL 1717 • West Camp, Ulster, New York, United States

DEATH JAN 1785 • New York, USA

                         &

Anna Catherine (Catharina) Lehman

BIRTH 12 FEB 1720 • Loonenburg, Greene, New York, United States

DEATH 1784 • Athens, Greene, New York, United States

AND their son (6th great grandparents)

Johannis (John) Schram UEL

BIRTH 9 MAR 1759 • Loonenburg, Greene, New York

DEATH BEF. 1817 • Grantham Township, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada

                            &

Nancy Ann Derby Derby (Darby, Darbie)

BIRTH 23 DEC 1765/1755 • Kiskatemesy, New York, USA

DEATH 10 APR 1856

and their daughter (5th great grandparents)

Elizabeth Schram

BIRTH 28 FEB 1782 • New York, USA

DEATH AFTER 1840

                            &

William Havens

BIRTH 20 MAY 1764 • Jefferson, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA

DEATH 20 DEC 1836 • Gore, Erin, Ontario, Canada

DNA matches have confirmed the family connections to William & Elizabeth (nee Schram) Havens.

Finding family via dna & records!!!

Cause ... 




You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

This is why I search - 

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Sources:

Ellis Island, History.com. Retrieved August 13th 2021 from
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/ellis-island

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Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
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Favourite Name ~ I Don't Think I Have One

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021: Week 31 (FAVOURITE NAME)

I am not very good at choosing favourites.

Everytime I'm asked for a favourite I struggle with how to choose just one.

My favourite depends on so many factors that change constantly.

I couldn't choose just one favourite in any category. 

Favourite Food - depends on the moment. 

Favourite Colour - depends on what it's for

Favourite activity - depends on the mood

Favourite travel destination - depends on the season

ON & ON it goes...

Sometimes when I am asked for my favourite I choose whatever random one comes to mind first.

Later I wonder if folks think my answer was strange, and then I remember no one actually cares!!!

How exactly should I write this week's blog?

I could talk about my least favourite name. I thought I could choose just one because of the generation after generation of the same name, but then I realized I don't dislike the name - just the naming pattern. 

I could list a whole bunch of names I like, but then that wouldn't focus on an ancestor for week 31 of 52.


What to do?

I decided to write about a person in my tree with a cool name.

My 7th great grandmother's name leapt off the computer screen as I was scanning for who to write about. I realized that I like how the name looks in print, and the flow of the name.  

Agness Forrest

BIRTH ABT. 1711 • East Lothian, Scotland

DEATH Unknown

Agness is my 7th great grandmother through my father's maternal line. She married my 7th great grandfather, James Richardson,  on the 11th of June 1731. 

I further connected with this 7th great grandmother because my husband & I were also married on June 11th. 

I haven't yet figured out who Agness's parents were.
I would love to figure out where the Forrest name originated. 

I am pretty sure Agness was a very interesting person. 

She is just waiting for me to tell her story.



As always - 

My work here is not yet done!!!

Cause ... 




You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

This is why I search - 

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Links:

Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/

If you reference or use my blog posts in any way please

include a link to the specific blog and

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Please & Thank you!

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