2025 March

31 March 2025:- Total 51,938 including living.  Lots of searching and not finding in various US states. 

30 March 2025:- Total 51,934 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  Busy with other stuff... my wife wants me to have a 70th birthday party.  Not sure this will be a good idea.

28 March 2025:- Total 51,933 including living.  I am used to the United States' common practice of double accounting in its censuses (very rare in UK and Ireland) but today I found someone, Fenelon Dowling, who is in the 1850 census no less than three times!  With his uncle, at boarding school and with parents. 

27 March 2025:- Total 51,929 including living.  More Pennsylvania censuses for the line below back to 1850.

26 March 2025:- Total 51,907 including living.  Hard-won progress on a complex family from Pennsylvania with the estranged husband ending up in California...  more to do but a great puzzle that makes family history an absolute joy.

25 March 2025:- Total 51,897 including living.  Some Pennsylvania census entries with a puzzle that may link to an image.

24 March 2025:- Total 51,883 including living.  Small tweak of DNA haplogroup entries.

23 March 2025:- Total 51,883 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up. A couple of tweaks but mostly other things today.

22 March 2025:- Total 51,882 including living.  More in Indiana using frameworks in Find a Grave and augmenting them with census records.

21 March 2025:- Total 51,868 including living.  Lots of Census sources for an Indiana branch with some children added.

20 March 2025:- Total 51,853 including living. More from Indiana and a couple of source refurbs.

19 March 2025:- Total 51,819 including living. Still on an Indiana trail.  A few English source refurbishments to tidy things up for my retirement from genealogy.

18 March 2025:- Total 51,810 including living.  Added another line in Indiana that have some offspring who are coincidentally in the same cemetery as another branch.  A couple of refurbished sources.  Busy, busy.

17 March 2025:- Total 51,789 including living.  Some work on an existing branch in Ohio and Indiana, seems like a tragedy during the Civil War.  The new correspondent seems up for the local hunting.

16 March 2025:- Total 51,777 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up.  Busy with current relatives, I do like to get a visit from my sister.

15 March 2025:- Total 51,777 including living.  Setting of an ORA (Online Repository Assistant Template) which takes me a while but hopefully it will take some drudgery out of scalping data of one source and increase consistency. Just Sources for existing people added really and non-genealogy stuff... yes there is something in life other than family history!

13 March 2025:- Total 51,777 including living.  It took me most of the day but I think I cracked the Irish connection from New York.  It is always a trial when there are records missing that would support a hypothesis, so still working on it.

12 March 2025:- Total 51,768 including living. Busy day... revisited some old 1998 queries taken off the now defunct Rootsweb just as a note.  I reviewed them and merged two duplicates from a different source (the correspondent was fishing for any information on many sites).  I then found the reason I had come to a halt years ago was an error in the original post and I found the New York census entries... more to do tomorrow and may get them back to Ireland.

11 March 2025:- Total 51,755 including living. More sources for existing Dowlings from Michigan born in England, with their offspring.

10 March 2025:- Total 51,745 including living. More Dowlings from Michigan born in England.

9 March 2025:- Total 51,736 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  E-mails today.

8 March 2025:- Total 51,736 including living. More Michigan USA, including on who married his nephew's widow 30 years his junior.  That could have been dismissed as unlikely.

7 March 2025:- Total 51,728 including living.  Off from Frome in England to Michigan USA for some sources mostly for existing people.

6 March 2025:- Total 51,718 including living.  More complicated sorting in Somerset today.  Some great merges which ended up posing more puzzles.  Good work simplifying this Frome area and putting a name to a place holder where a child's school record revealed the birth was out of wedlock.

5 March 2025:- Total 51,715 including living.  Quite a complicated day refreshing some sources for some old entries into the database as well as trying to improve on the original work.  Managed a merge of two individuals in Wales but it took some doing.

4 March 2025:- Total 51,713 including living.  More sorting out in Ewell, Surrey.  Another brother that lived through Waterloo.

3 March 2025:- Total 51,702 including living.  Some parish records for Ewell in Surrey following what I believe is an error in a correspondent's tree.  Cool though, as it has turned up a Dowling who died at Waterloo.

2 March 2025:- Total 51,689 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.

1 March 2025:- Total 51,689 including living. Monthly Double Back Up.  Away from computer at the moment.

28 February 2025:- Total 51,689 including living.  More work on the framework below... found a few relative entries but by no means enough English baptisms to cover the family... it seems like a whole parish is missing over the 1700's.  Oh well, onwards and upwards.