in pursuit of a pedigree

Kathryn Acker

Born: abt 1861 in New Jersey, United States

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Marriage
Nathan Decker abt 1877

So where have I been? Well, I’m still unemployed (college full time now, so hopefully that will change soon) and my unemployment benefits were exhausted about the time I stopped posting. I no longer had any extra money to devote to research and as a result, it kind of fell off my priority list. I never forgot it but I just couldn’t keep banging my head against the wall.

This is my third time writing for the Carnival of Genealogy and when I first saw the topic “Cars” I couldn’t think what I could really write about except the sad parade of cars my siblings and I have used.

Kate Lyden (3 Nov 1886-5 Apr 1957)

I’m pretty sure that I’ve been able to get into genealogy at the best time. Nine years ago, when my mother began this research, she wrote to a lot of people, she visited a few of the local historical societies, she talked to the living relatives and she managed to work out a decent pictures of her WINSTANLEY line, who began in Leeds, York, England and ended up in Collingswood, Camden County, New Jersey.

I was very fortunate when I began my family genealogy — my mother had done work on her own lines a few years ago for a project in college and had completed a lot of the ground work, particularly on her maternal line for her mother Beatrice TRAINER (1938-2006). She had already gathered a great deal of information about Beatrice’s father Harold TRAINER (1907-1967) and his parents, the first of that line to emigrate to the United States from their native England.

Edmund Hewitt Priest

Born: abt 1850 in Pennsylvania, United States

Mother: Sarah [--?--]
Father: George W Priest

Death:

Margaret B Krips

Born: 14 Jan 1858 in Pennsylvania, United States

Mother: Sabina Gary
Father: Thomas Krips

Germaine (German) Smith Hammell

Born: 15 Sep 1854 in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States

Mother: Mary Locke
Father: Joseph R Hammell

My Trenton trip was just about a success. I came home with about eighteen documents and found almost all of the records I went there to search for. A few marriage records still remain elusive and I’ve just about given up hope of finding some of them in the state archives. I’ll have to pay a visit to the Cumberland County repositories in the near future since a great deal of my ancestors on the Hudson side have come from there.