After taking an extended summer vacation, I'm back working on genealogy. Over the past couple of weeks, I've found a bunch of census records, references to John Manquen (look under "Manquin") in the Erie Railroad Employee Magazine, and some evidence that the Manquen family came to the U.S. in November 1850 on the three-masted ship Robert Kelly.
Dave on 11.26.04 @ 09:57 PM EST [link]
Going through the Concordia Cemetery records, I've found quite a few Harlachs, most buried in the St. Peter's German & Evangelical Church section. This church was located on Goodell and Maple Streets, which is pretty close to Mortimer Hollister Street, where "my" Harlachs lived in the late 1800's. I don't recognize any of the ones listed in the cemetery records, but knowing they went to St. Peter's gives me a good lead on finding records for the others. I also recall my Grandma and Aunt Marie saying that their father, Frank, was the only one in his family to convert to Catholicism, which makes it more likely that they belonged to a Protestant church.
Dave on 05.28.04 @ 11:46 AM EST [link]
I believe I've found the Haag family in the 1860 Census, in Nankin Township (now the City of Westland), Michigan, under the name "Hoeck". The names and ages of the parents and the two oldest children match exactly, and "Hoeck" is phoenetically similar to "Haag" (they also translate to the same Soundex code). Here's what I found:
Joseph Hoeck 40 Farmer Bavaria (German)
Mary Hoeck 44 Bavaria
John Hoeck 13 Bavaria
Barbara Hoeck 11 Bavaria
Sally Hoeck 9 Bavaria
Catharine Hoeck 5 Michigan
Elisabeth Hoeck 2 Michigan
The Haag family came to America around 1853, and the birth dates and places of Sally (1850, Bavaria) and Catharine (1854, Michigan) would provide even more evidence of a match. As to why the younger children don't show up in subsequent census records, Sally would have been 19 by 1870 and possibly married, and for the others, the sad fact is that back then the mortality rate for children was pretty bad.
A possible source of confusion is that Sally is not listed in the passenger manifest I found previously for the ship "Charles and Edward", dated 5 June 1852. However, there is a three-month old child named Rosalia Haag; is "Sally" a nickname for "Rosalia"? The usual census taker rounding errors could account for the slight age difference.
Dave on 05.26.04 @ 08:45 AM EST [link]
A head-of-household index for the 1910 census also became available on Ancestry.com last week. This weekend I found many people from many families, too many to list here, but including a lot of Doetschs and Manquens in Detroit, the Muth family in Clarence, and various others in Buffalo.
Dave on 05.16.04 @ 09:56 PM EST [link]
Friday night, Ancestry.com quietly put the every name index for New York State into the 1860 census. I was able to find the family of Frederick Harlach in the 5th Ward of Buffalo under the name "Frederick Haller". In fact, in addition to the five people I expected to find, I found six others that I did not expect, including an older couple who may have been his parents, which would give me another generation for which I previously did not have names. Unfortunately, they did not record relationship to the head of household in the 1860 census, so more work will be required, but this was a major find for me.
Here is the family I found:
Frederick Haller 35
Dora Haller 25
John Haller 5
Henry Haller 2
Louisa Haller 2/12
John Haller 19
Henry Haller 24
Mary Haller 22
Amelia Haller 1
Christian Haller 76
Mary Haller 57
The first five are Frederick Harlach's family; I'll guess that John and Henry were his brothers, Mary was Henry's wife, Amelia was Henry and Mary's daughter, and Christian and Mary were the parents of all of the above siblings. I'm not going to make assumptions, but it's a good start, and may tie in a Henry Harlach (who also spelled his last name "Harlock") who shows up all over the place and for whom I have not been able to establish a relationship with the rest.
Dave on 05.16.04 @ 09:53 PM EST [link]
Very late Saturday night, I finally found Laura's grandmother, Rosalia Gloss (Baumgart), in the 1920 census, in Sharpsburg, PA. I still can't find her grandfather, William Baumgart. Part of the problem is that the 1920 census is only indexed for heads of households, so if he was living with a relative, he would not show up via Ancestry.Com's search engine. I also do not know if he was still with his first wife, Margaret, and his daughter, Dorothy, at this time. I did a variety of searches on "Baumgart" and "Kerwin", and found nothing of interest.
Dave on 05.03.04 @ 12:13 PM EST [link]
Looked for Christ Harlach, at 140 Moselle, in ED 111, which contains the even-numbered houses for that part of the street. They apparently skipped it; I also checked ED 112, on the chance that it was picked up later when the odd-numbered side was enumerated, but it wasn't there, either. Checking alternate addresses from the 1910 and 1911 city directories, 515 E. North and 799 Genesee, also did not turn up anything. I did, however, find Charles and Barbara Harlach at 121 Ivy in ED 111; it pays to scan all the entries as you're searching for a particular name or street.
Dave on 05.01.04 @ 12:27 PM EST [link]
Found the family of Henry Harlach, including three previously unknown children (Edward, Henry, and Howard), in the 1920 Census at 25 Jones Street in Buffalo.
Dave on 04.30.04 @ 10:56 PM EST [link]
Tonight, I found various members of the Emerick Family in the 1930 census: Edward (widower of Kate Yearke); his daughter Minnie; his son Walter and his family, wife Bertha and son Wesley; and Minnie's husband, William Mueller. Note that at this time Minnie was living with her father, and designated "single", while William was living with his mother and designated "married"; a possible indication of separation?
Dave on 04.30.04 @ 10:08 PM EST [link]
I checked the 1860 federal census page on Ancestry.com over my lunch hour, and they have 32 of the 40 states and territories available for searching, but still not New York! Grrrr! Sometimes I think they're taunting me ... :-)
Dave on 04.30.04 @ 01:18 PM EST [link]
I've been losing track of what I'm doing. Back in the early 90's, I used to keep a journal in Microsoft Word format, but it was inconvenient to update it all the time. I am hoping that this will be easier, and will prevent me from performing duplicate work.
Dave on 04.30.04 @ 10:28 AM EST [link]
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