Relationships

 I've always kept Legacy on my computer. I like it for some things, for others not so much. But, I did buy the full program when 9 came out. Now it has upgraded to Legacy10, It's FREE! I could not believe it. I thought it had to be a trial or just part of the program, but no. It is the full program! It is also great. I think I know the 2 programs I will be working in now.      

Legacy10 sent me an exciting "Tip 1". You can turn on relationships. Just like that! You can see below how they display. It also lists my brother's wife as "sister-in-law".  It also will list "Stepfather" and "Stepbrother". None of the others do that. Perfect.

Family Historian is the program I am using now, and I am very pleased with it. In it, relationships are just part of the work. You will see them in the Individual Record list. Didn't have to set it up, it was just there. How good is that?! It lists my brother's wife at just that, brother's wife. Very good.

RootsMagic 7-Click Tools, then click Relationship Calculator, click to find the person1, then click to add Person2, click Calculate.  You will see the relationship between the two. It will only list blood relatives, blank for in-laws.

RootsMagic 9- It would seem that RM9 is actually set up to be a scavenger hunt, you know what you want, now go see if you can find it.  I couldn't find it so it took me at least an hour of reading the "not so helpful Help" and user groups. Finally found it, may never be able to find it again. Pull up Relationship Calculator, click to find the person1, then click to add Person2, click Calculate.  You will see the relationship between the two. It will only list blood relatives, blank for in-laws. Same old.

Click - click - click - click - click - click - click. . . sorry. I'm being a jerk but it feels right. I'm old. I don't want complications. I hate scavenger hunts. They give me a headache. Get off my lawn. I just want to work.

Trials and Tribulations

 I don't use RootsMagic 9 for much of anything, but I bought it and I keep thinking I might find something useful about it.

I had an error problem in RM9 some time back. I went to the user group and posted it. I was given help to fix the problem. It did go away. At least until I closed it and went to bed. Next day, same error. I spent days reading everything I could find about the error as I had time. Must have spent a few hours over all. One guy had said remove the program and download a new copy. So I tried that. I wiped it off my computer. Cleaned it off completely. Downloaded a new one and added my GedCom.  Photo below shows what it looked like shiny and new.

 

Right. The little photos are gone. There are photos in Media. When you click on the person, and go to their Media, you can see them. They just don't show on the Person or Pedigree. After at least an hour of reading and trying to get them back, I quit. The RootsMagic Help seems to be talking about a different program.  It is not talking about the one I have.

So, I don't know if the error would come back or not, since I did not add anything to anyone, and have no plans to do so. 

I don't think I can take RootsMagic serious at all anymore. I am old. I don't have time for this. Good thing I have been working in my newest app. It had a learning curve. Everything is right where you expect it to be. I spent less time learning it than I spent looking for answers to fix the problems in RM9.  Also, I've almost gotten all my digital files organized nicely. I'm down to transcribing obits and articles. Feels good.

RootsTech!

 Today is the day!!!!

The Five Wives of James C. Bohall

 I've been adding source material to the Bohall line in my tree. I love this line of my family. They are fascinating, full of great people, sad people, people that are strong and caring, criminals, strange people and people of joy and tragedy. You know, normal life stuff. Being in a rural type of area their lives end up in the newspapers. For me, this is great. 

I found an article about the death of Malinda Bohall that was interesting. She was born Malinda Hart. Now, on Find-A-Grave and FamilySearch she is listed as Malinda Hedrick.  This is simply not true. Mary Jane Hedrick married James Seth Bohall, and that is the only Hedrick in the Bohall family. Since she married a James Bohall, I feel like that is where it all went wrong for the other family researcher. I have attempted to "fix" profiles on FamilySearch before, which were so much worse than this one, only to have my "fix" that I added with sources to prove it, undone by the same researcher. I may give it a try on Find-A-Grave, but judging by the comments on the page it has been attempted before.  This wrong information is cloning itself as I write this. Over and over again. Researching over 40 years you would think I would not feel so frustrated about this, but I do. I will be calm.

On August 16, 1856 Malinda married Frederick Miller, born September 25, 1804 and died on December 31, 1862. On November 23, 1864 she married James C. Bohall in Jackson County, Indiana. Malinda was born in 1823 and died on April 9, 1881 in Jackson County. Her cause of death is here in the article:

Death of Mrs. Malinda Bohall.

Mrs. Malinda Bohall, wife of James Bohall, of this place, died on Saturday last under circumstances which should serve as a fearful warning to people against carelessness in the administration of medicines. Mrs. Bohall had been suffering from an attack of pneumonia, combined with neuralgic pains. She was in great agony on the Sunday preceding her death, and among the prescriptions was one containing chloral. The instructions of her physician were explicit, but either through carelessness of the nurse or ignorance of the danger attending the medicine when given excessively, the chloral was administered too frequently, the result of which was that she was thrown into convulsions, while her whole body assumed a dark purplish hue. But for the speedy arrival of her physician, Dr. Stilwell, she undoubtedly would have died at the time. She remained in critical condition through the week until Saturday, at 11 o'clock a.m., when her spirit took its flight for the summer land. Indirectly, at least, the chloral was the cause of her death, aided somewhat by the other ailments with which she was afflicted. She was about 58 years of age. Formerly she was the wife of Frederick Miller, a well-known citizen of this vicinity, who died nearly 20 years ago. some years after his demise she was united in marriage to James Bohall, who survives her. She has three children by her former husband living, namely, Mrs. David H. Lubker, Mrs. Solomon Perrin, and Cyrus L. Miller. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon and was largely attended. An appropriate discourse was preached by Elder Washington Hogg, after which the remains were deposited in the Burrell burying ground, below town, where her former husband was buried.

Poor James. He was a widower 3 times before he married Malinda. She was wife 4 of 5.  He waited until January 31, 1882 to marry his 5th and final wife, Emily Cornett. She had been married to a William Goble until his death in 1858. James died in 1886. So Emily outlived him. She died in 1903. 

I'm going to he** for the place my brain went when I read the article. But, really??! How could you not wonder? Maybe James was just unlucky in marriage? Indiana did not require death certificates until 1907, though some counties did issue them around 1882. My only hope in finding out how the other wives expired, is finding an article in the newspapers.  So far, my luck equals James, I haven't found anything.

For the record, wife one; Perlina J. Hobbs, married 1841, wife two; Amanda Garrett, married 1857, wife three; Eliza Jane Newby, married 1860, wife four; Malinda Hart Miller, married 1864, wife five; Emily M. Cornett Goble, married 1882.

Sources:

Article: Jackson County Banner; Brownstown, Indiana; Thursday, April 14, 1881; Page 4.See original newspaper clip here at my GooglePhotos:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/t9tdd23nHFUMqrr38

"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQT-64M), Entry for James Bohall and Pelina J Hobbs, 22 Oct 1841.

"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQR-FRM), Entry for James Bohall and Amanda Garr*Tt, 29 Oct 1857.

"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQR-X95), Entry for James Boholl and Eliza Jane Newby, 20 Nov 1860.

"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQY-867), Entry for Frederick Miller and Malinda Hart, 16 Aug 1856.

"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQB-Q5W), Entry for James Bohall and Malinda Miller, 23 Nov 1864.

"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQB-HY3), Entry for James Bohall and Emily Goble, 31 Jan 1882.

100 of My Veterans

For Veteran's Day I'm posting 100 of the veterans from my family file. Next year maybe another hundred.

I'll start with my brother. 

Brock Paul E.  (Marine Corp)

Alexander, Thomas American Revolution

Allman, Raymond (Navy)

Allman, Fred  (Army) WWI KIA

Allman, Robert D.  (Navy)

Allman, Royal "Bud" (Army)  WWII 

Austin, Nathaniel Sr.  American Revolution

Ballard, Melvin  (Navy) WWII

Banister, Alvin Henry (Army)  WWII 

Banister, William E. "Bill" (Army) WWII 

Beard, Elijah  Civil War/Confederacy

Beard, Franklin Pinkney Sr. WWII 

Beard, Leonard Herchel (Army)  WWII 

Beard, William  American Revolution

Bearden, Richard D. American Revolution

Bedel, James Edward "Jimmie" Vietnam

Benbrook, Adrel A. WWII 

Black, Edgar O. WWII 

Bode, Carl H. (Army) WWII 

Bode, Francis O. (Army) WWII 

Bohall, Daryl Wayne Vietnam

Bohall, Ervin E. (Army Air Corp) WWII

Bohall, George Emil (Army Air Corp)

Bohall, John Dudley Civil War/Union

Brock, Andrew Jackson Civil War/Union

Brock, Benjamin F. Civil War/Union

Brock, Calvin Lee (Navy) WWII

Brock, Ernest Cleveland WWI 

Brock, Isaac   American Revolution

Brock, Lawrence Porter Civil War/Union

Brock, Paul Henry (Army) WWII 

Brock, Rufus Marvin (Navy) WWII

Brock, Thomas Porter (Army) WWII

Brock, Warner Hardin (Navy) WWII

Bush, Bernard (Army) Korea

Bush, Gerald N. (Army)  WWII 

Bush, Jerry Lynn (Army)

Bush, Neal William (Navy)  WWII 

Bush, Russell L. (Army Air Corp) WWII

Carmer, James C. Civil War/Union

Carmer, Samuel C. Civil War/Union KIA

Cockerham, Reuben B. Civil War/Union

Ditmore, Edwin James Civil War/Union

Ditmore, Vincent A. Civil War/Union

Erhardt, Joseph H. (Army)  WWII 

Gerth, Ralph (Army National Guard)

Gerth, Thomas J. (Navy)

Golden, David Civil War/Union

Hackman, Earl Charles (Army) Korea

Henry, Clifton  Civil War/Confederacy

Hicks, John American Revolution

Hite, Julius  American Revolution

Hoke, Caspar  American Revolution

Hovis, Frederick  American Revolution

Hovis, John War of 1812

Hunnicutt, William Orlando WWII KIA

Jaynes, Albert T. WWII 

Jaynes, Arthur R. (Navy) WWII 

Jaynes, Donald Charles (Army) WWII 

Jaynes, Edwin WWII 

Jaynes, Kenneth W. (Army Air Corp) WWII 

Jaynes, Leon Golden (Navy) WWII 

Jaynes, Louis W. (Army) WWII 

Jaynes, Marion F. (Army) WWII 

Jaynes, Millard (Army) WWII 

Jaynes, Noble (Navy) WWII 

Jaynes, Roscoe Nelson (Army) WWII 

Jaynes, Thomas (Navy) Vietnam

Jaynes, William E. (Army) Vietnam

Joyce, Elijah Civil War/Union

Kiser, James Sr. Civil War/Union

Loop, Lewis N. (Army) WWII 

Lucas, James E. WWII 

Manning, John Gordon (Navy) WWII 

Manning, Robert Gordon (Army) WWII

Martin, John Civil War/Union

Mashburn, Grady Dean (Army) WWII

Milstead, James Civil War/Union

Morgan, Andrew Anderson Sr. Civil War/Union

Morgan, Jeremiah American Revolution

Partridge, Isaac Newton  Civil War/Union

Pearson, Joseph G. (Army)  WWII 

Raborn, John J.  Civil War/Union

Sandlin, Fred (Army)

Tallent, John Lott Sr.  American Revolution

Trapp, Donald Lee (Navy) WWII 

Trapp, Ermil Russell (Army) KIA

Trapp, Ernest Roy (Army) WWII 

Trapp, Murrel Ray (Army) WWII 

Trapp, Robert Dale (Army) Vietnam

Trapp, Robert Thomas (Army) Korea

Ward, Raymond Carlos (Army Air Corp)  WWII

White, George  Civil War/Union

Williams, Russell R. (Army Air Corp) WWII

Wilson, Ephraim Civil War/Union

Wilson, Willard Spanish-American War

Wineinger, Solomon Civil War/Union

Woodson, George M. WWII KIA

Wright, Wayne L. "W.W." (Air Force) Vietnam

Wright, Wayne Eugene "Babe" (Army) WWII 

WikiTree Day and Symposium

 

WikiTree Day and Symposium is going on now.

WikiTree Day is SUNDAY!!

There are many things going on and this link will help you connect with all of them:

 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_Day/Welcome

Recovery

 I've gotten behind on my blogging again. I do have reasons, or, if you like, excuses.  I played fast and loose with my mask during my mother's services.  With my immune system it was a given, I suppose that I got a flu. I am happy it was not covid. Still, I was in bed for a week with fever and I'm still trying to recover completely.  It's slow going.  I will keep my mask properly on from now on. Trying not to fall into a deep depression as well. I miss my mom. I still find myself making a note to tell her something in the morning, as I talked to her every day.  And she was the only one that was interested in my family history work.

I have been grabbing documents from Ancestry during my recovery time. Also doing some clean up.  Trying to just have one copy of a document instead of two or three. That's one for my working computer, one in my backup drive and one hard copy. Yeah, I'm old enough to do hard copy. 

I have three (3) Bluesky invites. If anyone wants one, just let me know. I personally really like Mastodon. I'm not terribly good at the social thing but I have posted to Mastodon. I'm from a time we got together to socialize, and I'm pretty boring as well. I follow artists and genealogists at Instagram, so it's got a lot of pretty pictures. Facebook/Threads are tooooo newsy/political. I go there but not so often.

 I am:

Mastodon:  @sheribush@mastodon.social (No invites needed)

Bluesky:  @sheribush.bsky.social (have 3, need one?)

Threads/Instagram: @familytwigs

Facebook: Sheri Brock Bush