Genealogy

[Gale Hawkins]

Some shots of our genealogy trip to eastern end of state.

1. Ted standing on dad's grave who died in 1947 when he was 3. I was found out who his dad was a couple weeks ago and was buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Scott Co. KY near Frankfort. We got to visit with the one living nephew.

2. The stone Ted is getting for his, mom and step dad cemetery plot that stated me on my first genealogy quest. The back side will have his mom's parents and names of her children on the right side and Ted's parents will be listed on the left side.

3. Ted standing on his brother's grave who had not been seen about 40 years. He is in an unmarked grave in The Lexington Cemetery in Lexington KY since 1989. There is no doubt he would never had a marker (will get one when funds are saved by Ted) or his where about known to others.

4. Same as three but at a different angle.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Ted Riddle (1943 - ) - Find A Grave Photos

Right after his 70th birthday and right before Christmas they got the stone set.

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2014/2/95797705_138876696986.jpg

You can double click a couple times and blow up the genealogy that I researched and had put on the back.

The guy that set the marker and his equipment showed up in the mirror like surface for the black stone as did the landscape by you can compare it to the photograph of the display in the post above.

Ted was so excited to finally have a nice stone. Our 16 year old daughter took the photo that you see inserted into the marker.

The funny part is I an not stop doing genealogy for others now.

 

[ericb2400]

very nice. :thumbsup:

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Man, I hate sounding like an advertisement, but Ancestry.com is a great product. I got started with Family Tree Maker back around 1995 and they eventually merged. Started with talking to living relatives and reading old letters and photos, and writing stuff down. Then doing the Ancestry.com. Finally doing visits to places, graveyards, and town record offices as well as writing to the same for information. You do run into a lot of misinformation, poor writing, poor record keeping, things you really don't want to hear but happened none-the-less, things that nobody else in you family will believe. I make it a point to ensure I record sources and evaluate their reliability. Even with the Ancestry product, if I can't match parents, siblings, children, dates and locations, doesn't matter if the person had the same name, they don't get added to the known tree.

Of course you eventually come to a dead end no matter what you do, and sometimes the only way to go any further is to do the DNA thing, which gives probability of relationships, not hard and fast in writing.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

I know of some Riddles in Meade Co Ky(Brandenburg) just west of Louisville. I went to school with some.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I know of some Riddles in Meade Co Ky(Brandenburg) just west of Louisville. I went to school with some.

I have talked to some but they were just east of Frankfort. You may have noticed on the stone Ted's dad is buried in Scott Co in Cedar Grove Cem near Stamping Ground KY. We actually talked with his only living nephew when we visited his dad's grave site.

On the Ancestor.com remark I find myself sticking with the site and adding to old and starting new research projects. Dad had a friend who died in 1946 and all I knew was it bother him because the guy started 'acting strange' after the war. Last weekend I did some work on that family and found the hand filled Death Cert by the local doctor at the time. The cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage due to brain abscess. That had to be a tough way to go with no CAT scans, etc. Also family secrets can come to light. My wife swore I had her great grandmother's first and second name wrong so I took her to the records so she could see the evidence I found. Family verbal and recorded history can be very different sometimes.