Listening to Podcasts and watching some YouTube videos taught me neat tricks with Google, organizational tips, and record-hunting tools.
While “branching out,” see what I did there? I have hit one brick wall after another: the Chapman family of Spotsylvania County, Virginia; the Burns family of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (they married in Hagerstown, Maryland, so maybe I need to pursue that, although the marriage book didn’t tell me much); and the Bauer and Fugina families of Slovenia!
I’ve since ordered some Gottschee marriage CDs from the Bauers and Fuginas areas, so here’s hoping that will give me some insight. My Slovenian group was able to narrow down my search to the Altenmarkt parish and the Nesseltal parish. We’ll see what the CDs bring.
My other great find was a program that helped me find errors in my Ancestry tree. I had some real doozies! Mothers at the age of 10! Thirteen, maybe, but not ten. This analyzer helped me clean up some old “rookie” mistakes and some not-so-old. 😉
And, for the Logans, here is an update on our Clan Logan status from our cousin, James.
Status Report from President James C. Logan
San Diego, CA, USA
29th July 2018
During my recent trip to Scotland, I reviewed the status of our Chief Restoration Project with the Chairman of this Committee, John Marjoribanks. John has been making progress on our search and there is now a reasonable chance of success quite soon. I had the privilege to meet our putative Chief and I am impressed that he is likely to be defendable before the Court of the Lord Lyon. He and his wife are a very personable and intelligent couple. And he has the charisma we would like in the Chief of our Clan. I do not know how long it will be before we can submit our application to the Lyon Court – it could be as long as a year or two. There are two key issues to be resolved before we can proceed and we are planning to hire a professional genealogist to resolve these issues. In the meantime, to protect the privacy of our candidate and his family, a full disclosure of his identity will only be made when we are prepared to proceed with the formal process.
You can read the history of finding a chief and what it means here https://clanlogansociety.org/Chief-Restoration.html
Wish me luck on crashing through these walls. I will be sure to post my findings!
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