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My Genealogy Document Processing Steps
We have all downloaded documents in haste only to repent at leisure. The lure of free access to genealogical records for a short period of time, such as a weekend, is irresistible. The urge to maximize the free period leads us to download files in a frenzy. After the weekend is over the amount of files in your download folder is usually overwhelming. In order to bring order to my life, I developed the following steps to process downloaded documents. Zotero is the reference management tool that I use in conjunction with my genealogy software.
The example I am using is a deed for Aaron Guice (1835-1917) found by using the FamilySearch full-text search product.
Step 1: Review the document.
Review the record image to see where the document starts and ends. This deed begins at the bottom of page 529,
continues on page 530. and ends half-way down the page.
Step 2: Download the digital image(s).
The record image is downloaded to the appropriate file folder on my computer.
Step 3: Name the digital file.
My naming standard is SURNAME_Given Name-MARRIED SURNAME-YYYY-MM-DD-What-Where-Platform. The digital file names can be seen in Step 7. Since there are several Aarons with the surname Guice, the RIN number is included in the file name.
Step 4: Obtain the FamilySearch film number.
On the FamilySearch record image screen click on the “Group Data” tab located at the top of the Full Transcript panel. This will give the image group data including the FamilySearch digital file number.
Step 5: Set up the Zotero Info tab.
Set up a Zotero item in the appropriate Zotero file. Enter the relevant information, including the URL, DGS file number and image number(s).
Step 6: Link the digital file(s) to the Zotero item.
Step 7: Zotero Notes tab.
Copy and paste the AI transcript into a note. The citation will go into a separate note.
Zotero item showing attached notes and linked digital files.
Step 8: Set up Zotero Tags.
Set up tags to aid with searching for items in the collection.
Step 9: Zotero Related items.
Link related items from other files in my Zotero collection.
I used this tab to link the previously entered item for my 4 March 2024 blog post on the deed transcription. Also listed are items for the deed index and the digitized deed register.
Step 10: Transcribe the document.
Since I started using Zotero and following these basic steps I have found it easy to keep track of my family research.
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School Days: Joan Guice (1945-2014)
Joan Elizabeth Guice, the daughter of Edgar Nelson (1927-2001) and Valencia Guice (1927-2002) was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 9 September 1945. She was educated in the Birmingham Public School system. The primary and secondary schools Joan attended are a remarkable part of Alabama history.
Tuggle Elementary School
The Tuggle Institute and School was a privately-run charity established in 1903 by social worker Carrie A. Tuggle. It was initially an orphan home for African-American boys. Mrs. Tuggle operated the institute from 1903 until her death in 1924. At that time the school was absorbed into the Birmingham Public School system. In 1934 the name of the school was changed to Enon Ridge School. The Birmingham City Board of Education purchased the school building and property in 1936 and changed the name to Carrie A. Tuggle Elementary School.[1]
A modern school with a 14-classroom building was built on the property in 1952. In 1954 the City Board of Education placed a bronze plaque in the memory of Carrie A. Tuggle as the cornerstone to the new school.[2]
Carol M. Highsmith, Carrie A. Tuggle School, Birmingham, Alabama, 2010, Library of Congress [3]
This is the school building that Joan Guice attended for her primary education.
Joan Guice, School Days 1956-57; scanned from photo collection of Valencia Guice Byers (1927-2002). Privately held.
Parker High School
Illustration: Parker High School, main building. From The Bison 1952 yearbook.[4]
Parker High School in Birmingham, Alabama was established in 1900 as the Negro High School. The principal and only teacher was Arthur Harold Parker. The school initially had 15 students in its graduating class of 1904. When Mr. Parker retired in 1939 the school, now known as Industrial High School, had an enrollment of over 2,700. After Mr. Parker's retirement, the school was renamed A. H. Parker High School in his honor.[5]
Joan followed in the footsteps of her mother who graduated from Parker High School in the mid-1940s.
The summer of 1962, Joan was a rising senior at Parker High School. She attended summer school taking history and biology classes.
Joan Guice, Parker High School report card, summer session, 1962; scanned from collection of Valencia Guice Byers (1927-2002). Privately held.
In May 1963 Joan was a high school senior at Parker High School. It was a tumultuous time. On 2 May 1963 the “Children’s Crusade” of the Birmingham Civil Rights campaign took place. African-American school children were encouraged by adult activists to skip school and participate in a nonviolent demonstration. According to the principal of Parker High School, 25%-40% of the 2,200 student body did not report for classes on that day.[6] It is unknown if Joan was among her classmates who joined the demonstration.
A subsequent Civil Rights demonstration in downtown Birmingham, Alabama on 3 May 1963 made national news. When the child marchers did not disperse, firemen blasted them with water from high pressure fire hoses. Police K-9 officers were deployed and several protesters were bitten. Hundreds of school children were arrested, booked and jailed.[7]
Joan Guice graduated from A. H. Parker High School in May 1963.
Joan Guice, graduation, 1963; scanned from photo collection of Valencia Guice Byers (1927-2002). Privately held.
Joan E. (Guice) Smith is my husband's sister.
Sources
Wikipedia contributors, "Carrie A. Tuggle," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrie_A._Tuggle&oldid=1208116718 : accessed 8 April 2024).
“Founder Of Orphans Home—Memory Of Carrie Tuggle To Be Honored With Plaque,” Birmingham (Alabama) Post, 6 February 1954, Birmingham Public Library (https://bplonline.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4017coll2/id/1545/rec/7 : accessed 8 April 2024).
Carol M. Highsmith, “Carrie A. Tuggle School, Birmingham, Alabama,” reproduction number LC-DIG-highsm-05093, The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; imaged in Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith Archive (https://www.loc.gov/item/2010636966/ : downloaded 8 April 2024).
A. H. Parker High School (Birmingham, Alabama), The Bison, 1952 (Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1952), “Main Building”; “U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016,” database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/sid_3239_1952_0014 : accessed 8 April 2024), image 14 of 184.
“Parker High School History; From The Records At the Parker High School Learning Resource Center With The Assistance of Ms. Camp,” Birmingham (Alabama) World, 26 February 1998, page 24, col. 1; imaged, Birmingham Public Library (https://bplonline.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4017coll2/id/1506 : accessed 8 April 2024).
“Singing, kneeling marches—Fire hoses, police dogs used to halt downtown Negro demonstrations,” The Birmingham (Alabama) News, 3 May 1963, page 2, col. 2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/575447155 : accessed 8 April 2024).
Ibid.
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Favorite Recipe / 52 Ancestors
My first Christmas with my in-laws was in 1986. After spending time before Christmas with my family in North Alabama, we drove to Birmingham to spend a few days with my husband's family. This was my first experience with their tradition of spending Christmas day visiting friends and family. The agenda was to take it easy, eat, drink and be merry. It was a mini-convoy. I was in one car with my husband and his mother. My husband’s first cousin drove another car with his mother and uncle as passengers.
Our first stop was at the Woods house. Their daughter had made the following dish as her contribution to her family’s Christmas buffet. It was sooo delicious. When I complimented the “chef”, she graciously wrote out the following recipe.
The dish is elegant but simple to make. It is one of my favorite recipes.
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Technology / 52 Ancestors
The majority of machines were invented to reduce human labor. They enable us to save time and increase productivity. Sometimes new technology has unanticipated and unintended consequences.
The invention of spinning and weaving machines in the 1770s fostered the mass production of textiles. Cotton became a cash crop, however it was labor intensive to deseed cotton bolls. A bale of cotton weighs 400-500 pounds; humans could only clean about five pounds of cotton a day by hand. This caused a bottleneck in processing cotton and getting it to market.
In 1794 Eli Whitney received a patent on a hand powered cotton gin.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
His machine could efficiently clean approximately 50 pounds of cotton a day. The cotton gin enabled cotton to become the economic lifeblood of the antebellum South.[1]
The new technology had dire consequences for enslaved people in the United States.
Source: Population of the United States in 1860, page ix. [2]
The economic boom of cotton required more and more enslaved people to plant and harvest cotton. Enslaved people became valuable commodities. It became financially advantageous for people in the upper South to sell their enslaved laborers to the Deep South. Many enslaved peoples became victims of forced migration, including my ancestors.[3]
Sources:
[1] “Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin – A Mixed Legacy,” National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
(https://freedomcenter.org/voice/eli-whitney-cotton-gin : accessed 21 March 2024).
[2] Population of the United States in 1860; compiled from the original returns of the eighth census under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by Joseph C.G. Kennedy, Superintendent of Census (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864), ix; imaged at Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/populationofusin00kennrich/page/n20/mode/1up : accessed 23 March 2024).
[3] “The Slave Economy,” Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/sectional-tension-1850s/a/the-slave-economy : accessed 21 March 2024).
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Transcription of 1879 Deed for Aaron Guice, Barbour County, Alabama
Barbour County, Alabama, Conveyancing Record, Vol. 14: 529.
Barbour County, Alabama, Conveyancing Record, Vol. 14: 530.
Transcription:
Source:
Barbour County, Alabama, Conveyancing Record, Vol. 14: 529-530, Lucy Lindsay and Thaddeus Lindsay to Aaron Guice, 24 November 1879; Judge of Probate, Clayton; imaged FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3SH-H7WP : accessed 3 March 2024) microfiche 1536361 / digital 8497656 > images 316-317 of 828.
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Wordless Wednesday
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Heirloom
My father, Daniel R. Salter (1920-2013), entered active service with the Army Air Corps on 21 March 1943. He received his Honorable Discharge on 24 February 1946. An Eisenhower jacket was one of his mementos of his service in World War II.
This 78 year old heirloom is still in good condition.
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Amos Fuller - Earning a Living
Amos Fuller is my 2nd great-grandfather (Ahnentafel #26). He was born in Alabama between 1847 and 1850 of Alabama parentage.
The earliest record found for Amos Fuller is the 1870 U. S. Census. He is listed as “Ames” Fuller, a twenty-three year old black male, born in Alabama. His occupation is given as “St.Bt.L???.[1] This abbreviation at first glance is rather cryptic. Ancestry transcribed the occupation as “St Bt Land”. Additional research on Amos’ occupations suggest that “St. Bt.” stands for steam boat.
I was able to trace Amos consistently through the Mobile City directories. He first appears in the directory in 1877 with the occupation of “laborer”. Amos is also classified as a laborer in the 1879 and 1880 directories. [2] The 1880 U. S. Census gives Amos Fuller’s occupation as stevedore. This is a dock worker who loads and unloads ships in port.[3]
In the 1884 Mobile City directory, Amos Fuller is listed as a steamboat hand.[4] This means that he was employed by a steamboat as part of the crew. Deckhands made up the bulk of the crew. Most of the deckhands were immigrants and freedmen. Their job was to load and unload cargo transported on the steamboat. Deckhands worked almost 24/7, bunked with the cargo and were paid low wages.[5]
Amos Fuller had a change of occupation as noted in the 1885-1886 and 1887 Mobile City directories. He is listed as “fireman Mobile ice Factory.”[6] Contrary to our popular image of a fireman, Amos was not putting out fires, he was stoking up fires. A fireman’s job was to shovel coal or wood into a boiler to keep it running.[7] Ice factories of the late 1880s used steam engine powered pumps which were integral in the process of making ice.[8]
For the next several years, Amos Fuller was listed in the Mobile City directories as a laborer.
In the 1894 Mobile City directory Amos was listed with the occupation of “fireman stbt D. L. Tally.”[9] Steamboat firemen reported to the engineer. The fireman’s job was to stoke the boiler to keep the steam engine running. They shoveled coal all day, hour after hour. Not only was this a strenuous job, it was also dangerous. If a boiler exploded the fireman would be the first to die. [10]
The steamer D. L. Tally was a packet boat based in Mobile, Alabama. It traveled the Alabama River carrying freight, mail and passengers.
“The Steamer D. L. Tally,” The Monroe Journal (Claiborne, Alabama), 18 October 1894, p. 2, col. 4, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/244603449 : accessed 7 February 2024).
Image: Left to Right: D. L. Tally; sternwheel C. W. Anderson, n.d., black and white photographic print. From the Collection, UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photographs. Used with written permission of Murphy Library Special Collections / ARC, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Image: D. L. Tally (Packet, 1870-1895), n.d., black and white photographic print. From the Collection, UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photographs. Used with written permission of Murphy Library Special Collections / ARC, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
In the 1900 Mobile City Directory, Amos had the following listing: “Fuller Amos, c, stbtmn, res 252 Lipscomb.”[11] This was the last time his occupation was specified as a steamboat man.
Amos Fuller died on 4 September 1909 of pulmonary tuberculosis.[12] One wonders if his exposure to coal dust had any relationship to the tuberculosis.
Sources
1870 U.S. census, Mobile County, Alabama, population schedule, Mobile Ward 8, p. 36, dwelling 257, family 257, Ames Fuller; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6FZ9-M5B : accessed 17 April 2021); microfilm 545530/digital 4257608 > image 673 of 818; citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll 31.
Henry Farrow & Co's Mobile City Directory For the Year 1877, (Mobile: Henry Farrow & Co., 1876), 76, entry for "Fuller Amos"; also subsequent years with varying titles, specifically (1878) 68 and (1880) 69; imaged in “U.S., City Directories,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 September 2017).
1880 U.S. census, Mobile County, Alabama, population schedule, Mobile, enumeration district (ED) 140, p. 21 (written), 367A (stamped), dwelling 189, family 190, Amos Fuller household; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYL-HRT : accessed 13 September 2017) microfilm 1254025 / digital 5157243 > image 459 of 791; citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 25.
George Matzenger’s Mobile Directory For The Year 1884, Volume XX (Mobile: George Matzenger, 1884), 104, entry for ”Fuller Amos”; imaged in “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2024) > Alabama > Mobile > 1884 > Mobile, Alabama, City Directory, 1884 > image 55 of 215.
“Steamboat Heroine: The Crew of a Western Steamboat,” Oklahoma Historical Society (https://www.okhistory.org/learn/steamboat4 : accessed 7 February 2024).
George Matzenger’s Mobile Directory For 1885-6 (Mobile: George Matzenger, 1885), 100, entry for “Fuller Amos”; also the subsequent year (1887) 113; imaged in “U.S., City Directories,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 September 2017).
Wikipedia contributors, "Fireman (steam engine)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fireman_(steam_engine)&oldid=1187171257 : accessed February 4, 2024).
"When Steam Brought Cold, and Fire Made Ice," blog post, Hometown by Handlebar, posted 14 July 2022 (https://hometownbyhandlebar.com : accessed 4 February 2024).
George Matzenger’s Mobile Directory For 1894, Volume XXIX (Mobile: George Matzenger, 1894), 122, entry for “Fuller Amos”; imaged in "U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995," Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2024) > Alabama > Mobile > 1894 > Mobile, Alabama, City Directory, 1894 > image 72 of 273.
“Steamboat Heroine: The Crew of a Western Steamboat.”
George Matzenger’s Mobile Directory For 1900, Volume XXXV (Mobile: George Matzenger, 1900), 149, entry for “Fuller Amos”; imaged in "U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995," Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2024) > Alabama > Mobile > 1900 >Mobile, Alabama, City Directory, 1900 > image 80 of 322.
Alabama Department of Health, death certificate no. 147 (1909), Amos Fuller, d. 4 September 1909, Mobile; digital image, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 August 2022). This image is only viewable at a family history center or affiliate library.
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SNGF - Legacy 9 Potential Problem Search
It’s Saturday Night and Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings has issued our weekly mission:
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) Have you run a "Problem Search," "Problem List," or "Consistency Check" or similar in your genealogy software or online family tree? Do it now, and tell us which program or online tree you used and what your results were.
2) Tell us what you found when you ran a problem list in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook Status post. Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.
Legacy Family Tree 9.0 Potentials Problems Report
A detailed description of how the Legacy 9 report is set up can be found in my blog post, “SNGF: Genealogy Software Problem Report.” That report was run on my husband’s family tree database.
Three types of Potential Problems Reports can be generated in the Legacy 9 software. All reports contain the following information for each error:
RIN number
Person’s Name
A description of the problem
The reports are sorted in ascending alphabetical order by the classification phrase describing the problem, person’s surname and given name.
Tonight I ran the Legacy 9 Potential Problems Reports on my family tree database. An example of each type of report is shown below:
Example 1 - Detailed Potential Problems Report (10 pages)
Example 2 - Abbreviated Potential Problems Report (4 pages)
Example 3 - Summary Potential Problems Report (3 pages)
Using the three-page Summary Report, I tackled data entry errors that could be easily and quickly corrected:
“No period after an initial”
“No space after a period”
“Possible illegal character in the Name field”
“Question mark in name field”
Resolving the above issues leaves a little over a page of problems. The remaining problems involve issues which merit a closer look.
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My Favorite Photo
One of my favorite photos is of my father with his parents.
Portrayed are Frank Salter (1898-1982), Anna (Ridley) Salter (1902-1947) and Daniel R. Salter (1920-2013). My father was their third born and only surviving child at the time of the photograph.
This photograph is the only image I have of my paternal grandmother.
Colorized using MyHeritage In Color™
The photograph appears to be a formal studio portrait. Palm tree leaves on the backdrop evoke a Florida mood. My grandparents were Georgia natives, but did move to Florida in the 1920s. There is a strong possibility the photographer's studio was in Florida.
The exact date of the photograph is unknown. My father is the major clue to dating the photograph. He was born in December 1920 and his next sibling was born in November 1922. My father appears to be a toddler. Based on his size, the portrait was probably taken in 1922.
Why did Frank Salter commission a professional photograph of his family? I can only speculate.
My father was the third child born to Frank and Anna Salter. Two months before my father was born, his parents lost twin sons to malaria within a two week period. As far as anyone knows, there were no photographs of the twins. The most obvious reason for the portrait is the simplest. The photograph is to document the family unit of Frank, Anna and their son, Daniel for posterity.
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RootsSearch
I spend the majority of my time researching records on Ancestry and FamilySearch. If a record is available for free on FamilySearch, I will use it as my source. The RootsSearch Chrome extension is a genealogy tool that I use daily. It makes it super easy to switch back and forth between FamilySearch and Ancestry to find records. RootsSearch also allows me to do a quick person search on multiple online genealogy sites.
RootsSearch is installed on the chrome extensions toolbar. In this example, information on Frank Salter has been recognized by the program. This is indicated by the RootsSearch extension icon showing a “badge” .
Click on the RootsSearch icon and the program’s Search page will open in a new tab. Some of the search fields will be pre-filled. Additional details can be changed and/or added to tailor a search.
Clicking on the desired search button will open that website in another tab. If required, you will be prompted to login to the website.
To search other websites, just return to the Search page tab in your browser. Click the button for another website and it will open in a separate tab.
At the bottom of the RootsSearch page is a link “More Sites”. This will take you to the Settings page which lists additional websites which can be added to the search list.
RootsSearch can be found at https://www.rootssearch.io/
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SNGF | My 2024 Genealogy Goals
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun mission from Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings:
"Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) What are your genealogy goals for 2024? Consider genealogy research, education, organizing, service, writing, and whatever else you care to share.
2) Tell us about your goals in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook Status post. Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post."
My 2024 Goals:
Continue participating in the WikiTree US Black Heritage Connecting Challenge each month. As I add profiles, I am cleaning up the sources and other data in my genealogy software.
Write at least two short biographical sketches on an ancestor each month. One for my family and one for my husband's family.
Be proactive in contacting DNA matches.
Continue sorting and scanning old photographs.
Write at least three blog posts per week.
Goals 1- 4 are recycled from 2023. The only new goal I have is to write three blog posts weekly. I usually do posts for “52 Ancestors” and “Saturday Night Genealogy Fun”, so this goal only requires me to write one additional post each week.
In case you are wondering, these goals are not retroactive to New Year's Day 2024. They start tomorrow.
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