Ghostery

I use the Firefox browser and after the last update, it started hanging up after shutdown.  Ccleaner said it couldn't finish the cleaning because Firefox was still open, and I couldn't restart it because the profile was in use.  Installed the Ghostery add on, a tracker blocker, and haven't had the problem since.  The trackers must have been causing the shut down to hang.

While researching Calkins in Oswego county, NY, I found a interesting article in the Pulaski Democrat, 1884 about the coming of 4 Calkins families to the Town of Richland.  They were living in Ontario just before the War of 1812 and had to sign a loyalty oath to the Crown or get out.  They chose to go and ended up in Oswego county.  I'll post it on my site as soon as it's transcribed.  That could take a while as it's tree columns long.

Bobolinks, Wilson's snipes and barn swallows are back.  The frogs sing most nights.

Hartson Page Added

While researching Masner, I found so much material on Hartson that I created a Hartson page in the Family events section of my homepage.  In the Rome Semi-Weekly Citizen, I found a long article about a multiple structure fire that burned the hotel, several houses and barns and all associated out houses in Stokes  August 1896.  I've fished in Delta lake and been to the state park and it's interesting to read about people who lived in Delta before it was flooded.  Baretown and Quaker Hill are mentioned but I'm not sure where they were except somewhere north of Rome.

April Snow

An inch of heavy wet snow with high winds today.  We'll be lucky to avoid a power outage.  The new leaves are holding the snow but maybe the wind will shake it off.

Added a few more items to Masner Events.  They reported a thief of $7.25 while they were all away working at a canning factory.  I didn't know there were canning factories in Rome. The family apparently came to New York from Germany in June of 1845.  I can't tie it down exactly because of the early date but based on the dates from the 1880 census for Mary/Anna Masner, b. Germany 1802, it appears they arrived June 6, 1845 and the surname was Maussner or that is what the immigration agent thought he heard. 

Added a new page to Family Events, Jefferson Vets B.  This is more of the obits and news articles I've found while looking for information on veterans buried in Jefferson county.  Someone hit by a train and another caught in old, new then, belt driven farm equipment.  The newspapers when into a lot of detail about injuries back then.

Very odd spring

Very odd spring to be sure. Nice mild days with freezing nights.

Created a Masner page in the Family Events section of my website. It also contains Hartson, Holland and Kipfer. Some of this material was moved from the Others folder which is now quite small. I was asked a question about the Hartsons in my ancestry tree and in answering that, I found more information about the Masner family. Putting it together with the material I already had , it was enough for a new page.

Update

Updated the Family events for Calkins and Applegate. An obituary for Helen Calkins, wife of Perry, was added. On the Applegate page, I was able to add an obituary for Edmund and a news item about the death of his first wife, Nettie King. They had a incubator in the back of their home that was warmed by a kerosene lamp. When the lamp caught fire, she threw it out the window but her clothes caught fire. By the time they were extinguished , she was burned on her lower body and died two weeks later.

Whenever I encounter situations such as " Paul Smith son of Mr. and Mrs John Smith", I enter Paul's father as John in my tree, with no entry for his mother as I don't know her given of maiden name. If it's " Paul, son of Mrs. Mary Smith", I enter his mother as Mary Unknown. It's unlikely her maiden name was Smith and I use Unknown as a place holder. It now appears that one of the largest families in my tree is Unknown and it's surprizing how many people named their children, male and female, Unknown. When things are slow I attempt to clear some of these up but that often result in another Unknown a generation back.

Update

Added updates on Kipers, Dlugolecki, Friberg, Zick and Moda Family Events pages. Updated Coyne Obits and added a Convertino page Family Events.

Very nice weather up here . I was able to search some cemeteries and fill some photo requests. I got ahead of myself and turned on the well in the pump house only to have it freeze and burst some pipes.

Snow Geese

Yesterday, a beautiful warm day, my wife and I went birding in the Perch Lake area. We sighted 5 swans in the upper basin area and hundreds of snow geese on the ice at Perch Lake. On the way home we observed a flock of several hundred in a field near Black creek. I wonder if their migration patterns are changing or if it's the warm winter but I've never seen so many snow geese. Last fall I observed a large flock on Crystal lake being harassed by a gyre falcon. It went off hungry, right over my head.

Stopped in Perch lake cemetery for a photo of John Timmerman, 1812 veteran.

NNY Genealogy has added a list of Revolutionary war veteran buried in Jefferson county along with their DAR numbers, when available. Very helpful for anyone interested in the Revolutionary war.