May 17, 2010
Reading census records from 1910 is not the easiest thing in the world. I’m not sure if it is the handwriting or the fact that the images are not the clearest that makes it hard to read but they are. My first step was to try and search out the record for my great-grandmother but nothing was coming up. Since I have an idea of where she lived in 1910; York County, Maine; I figured to try and read them first. Knowing she was born in Old Orchard, I figured I would start my search there. After looking through the twenty pages of records without finding the last name Taylor, I’ve decided it’s time to work my way into Saco records. It appears that there are seven wards of Saco to work my through. If it goes to what I’ve found in the past, I will have about twenty pages in each section to go through. Of course, during my search, I now have to stop and look to see if my great-grandmother was actually born in Maine or Pennsylvania. A 1910 census for a Taylor family that appears to have the same family members (down to the weird name of Jennifred for my great-great-grandmother) has them living in Pennsylvania in 1910 and my great-grandmother being born in Pennsylvania. Hmmm. This is interesting. Must research this some more.
October 22, 2009
You know, I had a feeling that I was going to get waylaid from everything but I really do not know why. It seems like for the past month, I really haven’t had an interest in doing anything. And I do not know why. I don’t think I’m depressed and that’s something that I know I have to keep an eye out for. Of course, I could be slightly depressed and not even realize it. Or at least I was. I’m starting to find interest in things again. Last night I did homework and tonight I did KGB for an hour. I would do more then an hour but I do not like signing up for long periods of time in case something comes up. Now I am going to do some family tree research and at nine I am going to get off the computer and write a letter for an hour.
So two weeks ago, dad and I took a trip up to Columbia County, PA to see if we could find some information on our ancestors. His dad was born up there and that is where the Billig’s primarily are from in our family. We did manage to find some information; most we had but we did get pictures of grave stones from a few of the Billig’s. This is the first time that we found the gravestones and it was exciting. We still have a lot more work to do but on the Billig side, we are doing decent. The biggest part we have to do is verify that information that we have and see if we can find anything like stories and such about the family. We’ll probably have to go up again later when we find more information but that is to be expected.
At this point, I think I will try and find information on the Reynolds line and the Wilson line since we know next to nothing about them.
