Welcome to the Elder, Griffin, Greenwood, Starkweather, Thiele, James family website
28 September 2008 - 8:07:18pm

Hello again,

This is Amelia James. I have updated a few things and added some wonderful photos from Jan Stamm's personal collection. My Uncle Earl made some great copies for me and I have added the following jpgs;

Greenwood, Jean and Pearl (M44)
Greenwood, Mary and Jean (M48)
Greenwood, Mary Clarissa 1 (M45)
Greenwood, Mary Clarissa 2 (M46)
Greenwood, Mary Clarissa 3 (M47)
Griffin, Homer Virgil (M49)
Griffin, Ida Louise (M50)
Starkweather, Greenwood family (M51)
Starkweather, Nelson J and baby (M53)
Starkweather, Nelson V and Nelson J (M52)

Thanks to Jan Stamm and Uncle Earl for those pictures.

Also, I have updated the document
S106 *Greenwood Family of Norwich, England in America pt.2
Thanks again to Uncle Earl for pointing out the great letter on p.183-184 about our Greenwoods and Elizabeth Ventiman

updated *Greenwood-Mary Clara obituary "Sitl hard to read" to [Sipp]

changed Jennie Lois Greenwood to Jean Lois Greenwood and added her death date
changed her first husband's name from Boyat to Boynton
added note to her re: Jennie to Jean
added notes to both marriages

added record for Pearl Grace Willing
added person William Alexander Faughner and marriage to Pearl

updated *Illinois Statewide Death Index 1916-1950

added doc S416 *Greenwood-Jean obituary and linked
added doc S417 *Willing-Pearl obituary and linked
added doc S418 *Faughner-William_obituary and linked

finished cleaning up Mary Clarissa Greenwood and her many husbands
*Mary Clarissa Greenwood (I1298)

added note to records re: Editha (Kellogg?)
added following note to everyone "downstream" from her
note: because it is not proven that Lt. Joseph Kellogg is the father of Editha who married Ebenezer Moody, everything "downstream" from her is suspect. (note the parentheses and question marks) Please see the document "*Kellogg, Editha_Moody_argument" for the reason why I am including the Kelloggs in this tree. It seems very likely, until proven otherwise, that Editha's maiden name was Kellogg and that her father was probably Lt. Joseph Kellogg.

added link for Theophilus Chamberlain and others to Gertrude Tratt's article
*Chamberlain, Theophilus_Tratt article (S29)

added doc S419 *Great Migration - Lord_Thomas, and linked to some of the people and events, (i.e. changed date of birth for William Lord, date was a baptism date)
I will be adding more of these Great Migration excerpts in the future. These can be found at http://www.greatmigration.org/. I access these through my membership with the New England Historic and Genelaogical Society at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/

Also, Glenn Wheeler kindly sent me excerpts of The Baxter Lineage by Luther Travis. I am still processing this and some other new information I found on the Baxters and have started to add it to the database. Thank you to Glenn Wheeler for that.
below are some of the changes I started to make:

changed Marcus Baxter to Marcus Baxter (2)
changed Jermima ? to *Jemima Baxter
(changed her daughter Jemima Baxter to *Jemima Baxter (2)) cleaned up and linked all sources

created following new people;
*Marcus Baxter (completed links, sources and notes, just need to add parents)
* ? Giraud (completed)
*Thomas Baxter (3) completed
*Abigail ? (2) ) completed
*Thomas Baxter (4) completed
*Deborah Hunt completed
*John Hunt completed
*Grace Fowler completed
*Thomas Baxter (5) completed

created new source documents:
S420 *Baxter Lineage Travis, Luther
S421 *Putnam County New York Cemeteries Eardeley, William A.
S422 *Baxter Family pt.1 Baxter, Frances
S423 *Baxter Family pt.2

oh, also I added a source document for a locket that I found in my mom's things.
S424 *Willing locket, Willing locket (M55) and Willing locket photos (M56)
Thanks again to the Beeses for helping me identify Jennie Greenwood's photo in the locket.

I'm probably forgetting a few things, but this is the bulk of what has been changed. There are still plenty of things to clean up. Please let me know if you come across anything totally egregious.
thanks and enjoy!
Amelia

Reed Genealogy
28 September 2008 - 6:07:02pm

This information might be well known by others, but I wanted to acknowledge it here.
I have added the following to *Reed-History of the Reed Family in Europe and America by Jacob Whittemore Reed (S258) (please notice the last line in the Bibliographic note below. It comments on the reliability of this source)

PLEASE NOTE:
posted 9-28-08
per The Great Migration Study Project, which I trust and respect, in their recent posting of a sketch for a William Read (not ours) of Weymouth; two things of note,

1) COMMENTS: There were at least two William Reads who resided at Weymouth in its earliest years, the subject of the current sketch and another of the same name who arrived in town around 1650 with wife Avis. We have built the present sketch on the following framework: as a passenger to New England on the same vessel with Rev. Joseph Hull, we would expect William Read, tailor, to have settled first in Weymouth; at the baptism of John Read in Boston in 1646, his father was said to be of Weymouth; Susan, the known first wife of William Read of Weymouth and Boston, died in Boston in 1653 and within a few months a William Read had married Ruth Crook in Boston; and soon after this marriage William Read of Boston, tailor, and wife Ruth were involved in some land transactions.

and 2) important to this source;
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The prior literature on this William Read and the other William Reads of Weymouth and Boston contains so much confusion and error that no attempt will be made here to address and correct all problems. By far the best treatment of both William Reads of Weymouth was published in 1945 by Donald Lines Jacobus [Granberry 297-303]. Less successful but still useful is the work on these families by George Waldo Chamberlain [Weymouth Hist 4:565-66, 568-69]. Both Savage and Pope muddled the records for these men [Savage 3:519-20; Pope 380-81]. Jacob Whittemore Reed’s History of the Reed Family in Europe and America (Boston 1861) is worthless.

previous posts from June 7, 2008
27 September 2008 - 6:19:00pm

Hello, this is the latest update of my Elder, Griffin, Greenwood, Starkweather, Thiele, James family gedcom file.

Mostly I have been working on my maternal Griffins. (I have Griffins on both sides of my family) I have been digging up information on the brothers of Homer Virgil Griffin as suggested in the probate records of his father Daniel Griffin. Researching them in Chicago, the Illinois court records, their family census records and where and how they died has been pretty interesting. Having more information about who was what age when has allowed me to better analyze early census records. I think I can fairly say that our Daniel Griffin was the one living in Broome, Schoharie County, Pennsylvania in 1830. Before I didn't have enough information about his children to be able to say that. Now I think I do.
(see document *GRIFFIN_mat. search for Daniel Griffin in 1830 NY census)

some of the changes as of May 26 2008:
(not all changes have been noted below, but it reflects the major ones.)


created new documents
*GRIFFIN_mat. search for Daniel Griffin in 1830 NY census
*GRIFFIN_others 1850 New York, Genesee, Alexander
*GRIFFIN_mat. Griffin Bros legal matters
*Griffin, Edgar F. obituary
*GRIFFIN_mat. Anson, death, obit
*Rogers, Thomas, Thomas Rogers Society pt.1
*Rogers, Thomas, Thomas Rogers Society pt.2
*Boston Marriages 1700-1809
*Morgan genealogy

updated old documents
Find A Grave doc pt.2
*Graceland Cemetery Cards doc
*GRIFFIN_mat. 1840 Indiana, La Porte County
*Chicago City Directories
*Griffin-other Griffins (Graceland)
*GRIFFIN_mat. 1870 Illinois, Cook, Chicago, H.V.
*Davison-History and Genealogy of Davison Families
*Greenwood, Elizabeth, letter Chicago 1836

changed names of old documents
changed name of *Griffin Bros connection to *GRIFFIN_mat. Griffin Bros

changed Rogers, Thomas Thomas Rogers Society info
to *Rogers, Thomas, Mayflower History.com

changed *Thomas Haskell obituary to *Haskell, Thomas - obituary

created new cards for
place Perry Springs, Pike, Illinois
place Church Run Crawford Penn
person Frances Merritt Hawkins
person Edward W. Griffin (Wellington)
person Augustus Griffin
person Jane Moore

updated cards for
Lillian G. Griffin (marriage to Harry O. Sipp)
Harry O. Sipp
Anson D. Griffin
Edgar F. Griffin
Mary Clarrisa Greenwood
Ruth Rogers
James Bishop
Homer Virgil Griffin
Daniel Griffin


previous updates:
Recent additions and changes
26 April 2008 - 2:54:24pm

some of the things that have been changed or updated from the old tree at http://www.remleml.com/mambo/phpGedView/ are the following;
added documents;
*Symonds_Mark, T.A.G. article
*Greenwood-Early Chicago book
*Gurney-Charles W - South Dakota death index
*Elder-Frederick Eugene death
*Find A Grave information pt.1
*Find A Grave information pt.2
*Griffin-other Griffins (Graceland)
*Griffins_both 20th Cent. Hist. Bio. La Porte
*GRIFFIN_others 1860 Illinois, Cook, Chicago
*GRIFFIN_others 1870 Illinois, Cook, Chicago
*GRIFFIN_others 1880 Illinois, Cook, Chicago
*GRIFFIN_others 1900 Illinois, Cook, Chicago
*GRIFFIN_others 1900 Illinois, Cook, Chicago Ira
*GRIFFIN_others 1910, Alaska, Division 2, Fairbanks
*Griffin_pat.-1920 LaPorte IN George Davenport
*History of the Town of Rye, New Hampshire
*Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire
*Savage Geneal. Dict. pt.1
*Schaeppi-Henry passport application 1894
*Thiele-4 generation pictures
*Thiele-Victor H. obituary