tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9750613935844299342024-03-19T03:13:49.266-07:00Who Do You Think You Are?The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-29091006142709603782016-04-05T01:50:00.002-07:002016-04-05T01:50:56.102-07:00All Things Manire 2.0I've been asked why I had taken down one of my family trees. I replied that I had found a bunch of mistakes and it was easier to take it down and redo it (mostly from scratch) so I could verify my information more. I have tons and tons of notes that I'm slowly going thru. Especially then I tend to find I have multiply copies of the same notes. I really don't need multiply copies LOL.<br />
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I have the Family Tree Maker software that links up with Ancestry.com. I can start my tree in my software and then link it to Ancestry.com so that when I make changes it automatically does it on Ancestry or vice versa. Currently I'm working on the All Things Manire 2.0 Family Tree. As you can see in the title I'm putting up any information I find dealing with the Manire/Manier name. I'm trying to link as many of the families together as I can. I'm adding my own little notes on the Ancestry side about the events that I have documented there. I'm adding pictures and as many documents as I have found (which is hundreds it seems).<br />
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So far I've recorded all the Manire's with first names starting with the Letter A... including parents and spouses if I have the info. I have about 369 names so far. I still have letters B - Z to get thru. It will be interesting to see how many names I end up with at the end of the Alphabet.<br />
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I like puzzles and this is like a huge big puzzle. I like when I can find stuff that other people haven't found. I've been told I've kinda become one of the official Family Researchers.. well at least to some. And that's kewl. It's fun to help others find information about their family.<br />
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Right now as i'm still adding information to the Manires 2.0 so I have it as a Private tree that doesn't show up in the search engine on Ancestry.com. I hope to release it to the search engine as soon as I've gotten at least all the Manire names in and have as many of the people linked up in families as I can.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-53909593787439648222015-11-18T04:15:00.001-08:002015-11-18T07:56:04.358-08:00Susan Manire vs. Addie ManireIt's quite a mystery that I've been trying to figure out. I was looking at the children I have listed for Edmund Henry Manire and Elizabeth Jane Sharber. Many times I come back to Susan and Addie. Here's what I've been able to gather so far and what I speculate.<br />
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Edmund and Elizabeth had about 10 to 11 children depending...<br />
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- Sarah Frances<br />
- Mary J. "Mollie"<br />
- Marsha Elizabeth "Betty"<br />
- Thomas F. "Tom"<br />
- Adner E. "Addie"<br />
- Susan<br />
- Edmund Henry<br />
- James Madison<br />
- John Primm<br />
- Virgie Ann<br />
- Judie Belle<br />
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For the longest time we got Sarah Frances and Susan mixed up. Both are S names and Sarah was born about 1849 and Susan was born about 1860. There were alot of name changes and birth date changes on the Censuses that makes it hard. We have figured out that Sarah and Susan are 2 different children as both were listed together on the 1860 Census.<br />
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But now we have the problem with Susan and Addie. According to the 1860 Census, Susan was 1 month old. The Census was taken July 6, 1860, so Susan was likely born around May or June of 1860 in Marshall County, Tennessee.<br />
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Skip to the 1870 Census in the 9th Civil District for Marshall County, Tennessee. Okay we should see both Susan and Addie correct? When I looked at the 1870 Census there is no Susan listed with the family. She should be about 10 or 11 years old by now. Instead on the census there is Addie E. Manire who is 10 years old. So now I'm wondering, could Susan actually be Addie E. Manire and vice versa? There is no other record for Susan Manire. We do see Addie on another census with the family.<br />
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Poor Addie has had a lot of problems with her name. I believe this is how I'm seeing it so far on Documents:<br />
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Addie E. - Ada - Adner E. Manier<br />
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I can speculate on it until I'm blue in the face but we may never really know. So for now Susan is some "semi-unknown" child of Edmund and Elizabeth who was born around May or June of 1860 and probably died before the 1870 Census.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-88230237761659206802015-11-10T00:42:00.000-08:002015-11-10T00:42:18.691-08:00Ella ManireSupervisor District No. 3, Enumeration District No. 196<br />
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Schedule 5 - Person who have died during the year ending May 31, 1880, enumerated by me in 8th Civil District, in the county of Rutherford , Tennessee. - Samuel H. Scales, Enumerator<br />
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Line 11 - Ella Manire 1 year old Female, listed as "Black", born in Tennessee as was her parents. She died in January 1880 from Cholera Infantum. She had been in the Rutherford County her whole life of 1 year.<br />
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* Interestingly enough the attending Doctor was none other than Dr. Amasa W. Manire.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-16192402784681664872015-11-09T04:15:00.001-08:002015-11-09T04:15:39.501-08:00William Andrew ManireWilliam Andrew Manire was born November 13, 1962 to William Francis Manire and Mary Doran. He was 19 days old when he died in a local hospital following a short illness on December 2, 1962. He was buried in the Fairview Park Cemetery in New Mexico on December 3, 1962.<br />
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<br />The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-69602173624499588722014-05-19T01:55:00.000-07:002014-05-19T01:55:15.094-07:00North Texas Normal CollegeI was again playing on Ancestry.com looking for anything new on my Great-grandpa James Alton Manire. I came across a 1916 yearbook for North Texas Normal School .. "The Yucca" it was called. It showcased James Alton Manire's name under the Organizations... the Montague County Club. It also listed 2 of his brothers, Charles and Ira.<br />
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Knowing how yearbooks usually work I wondered if there was any class pictures of the 3 brothers. I scoured the pages (and there were alot of them) until I found Charles in the upper class men pictures. Ira and James were both in the Freshman class for Language.<br />
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It's really kewl to see the old pictures of them in their late teens. And it's interesting how much my grandpa looked like his father James Alton Manire.<br />
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This was a awesome find but not nearly as awesome as finding the info for Miss Peggy Marie Manire (Grandpa's lil sister), but that's another story.<br />
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** side note: There was an Ivan Coleman (female) also in the yearbook. She was also a member of the Montague County Club. Could this be the daughter of Martha Elizabeth Manire and J. B. Coleman? Supposedly Arthur C. Manire and "Aunt Jenny" went to collect the Coleman children when Martha died in 1906. Ivan would be James' cousin I believe.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-32738133261133923072014-05-15T01:14:00.000-07:002016-04-05T01:54:22.037-07:00Census HuntI was working on a project for a cousin. I had come to my Great great-grandfather Arthur Cornelious Manire. I was looking at the info I had for him. I only had censuses for him from 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920. I knew he lived until 1949. What about the 1930 and 1940 censuses?<br />
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Well I went on to Ancestry.com and plugged in the information I had in the search engine. I couldn't find Arthur. I tried different spellings and using "Wildcards". There wasn't anything remotely close for Arthur. I tried looking up his brother and sister William Archibald and Emma Virginia Manire, who lived with him sometimes. I couldn't find them either.<br />
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I had their death certificates. So I went back and looked at Emma's and Arthur's. Emma died in Forestburg, Montague County, Texas in 1936. So I knew she was would be on the 1930 Census. She was also hemiplegic so chances are she'd be with Arthur still. It also stated that she had lived in that area about 37 years. So she should be in the Forestburg, Montague County, Texas area on the Census. Luckily on Ancestry.com I can look at a census page by page if I know the state, county, and city. I looked at the previous census to guess on the precinct or district number. The 2nd page I went to view had them there... so I have the 1930 census. The indexer had them listed as MA?lal instead of Manire.<br />
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So I wanted to find the 1940 census also. I looked at Arthur's death certificate. He died in Lubbock County, Texas, but had only been there a few years. So he wasn't living in Lubbock at the time of the census. So I looked for the Montague County Census. There were only a few cities/towns listed and OTHER. St. Jo was one that was listed but I didn't think that was it. It's another family that lived in St. Jo at one time. So I went to the Other... I scrolled down until I came to one that came to edge of Forestburg. There were 2 of them and I wasn't sure which one. I started with the first one... I started going thru the pages 1 by 1. Finally about page 15 I found him with his oldest son's family. Which was kewl since I never had anything with Harry and his wife or kids together. The family was listed under the name Marine instead of Manire.<br />
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I was soo elated to find the censuses and fill in some more information.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-84621579518770122252013-08-04T17:07:00.001-07:002013-08-04T17:07:50.085-07:001880 Non-Population Census in TennesseeI was on Ancestry.com not long ago when I came across a Amada W.Manire listed on an 1880 Non-population Census (it's like an Agriculture Census instead). I had to go look at it because the name was similar to one I knew but not the same. I found I was right... It was Amasa W. Manire. And also listed on the adjoining page was John W. Manire, Stephen Bennett, Manerva O. Hays, and Lem Sen Manire,<br />
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This Agriculture Census that had some of my ancestors listed was for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It had many interesting things on it like:<br />
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<li>Was farm owned by them, worked by them for rent, or worked by them for part of crops.</li>
<li>Value of farm and(or) machinery and farming implements.</li>
<li>Did they have any farm labor and how much was paid towards farm labor.</li>
<li>How many horses and how many mules/asses.</li>
<li>How many cattle and the movement of the cattle (how many were sold, bought, died, slaughtered)</li>
<li>How much butter was produced</li>
<li>How many Sheep and lambs were on the farm. And the movement of them like the cattle.</li>
<li>How much fleece.</li>
<li>How many swine (Pigs).</li>
<li>How many Chickens and other poultry. </li>
<li>How many dozens of eggs were collected in a year.</li>
<li>What kind and how much "Cereals" were grown like (Indian Corn and Wheat)</li>
<li>If had crops like Flax or cotton and how much was grown.</li>
<li>If made any sugars, Cane, Sorghum, or Maple.</li>
<li>If they grew potatoes, sweet potatoes, or tobacco and how much.</li>
<li>Did they have orchards. What kind of fruit trees did they have and how much.</li>
<li>Did they have nurseries? The value...</li>
<li>Did they have vineyards? The value...</li>
<li>Did they have Market Gardens? The value...</li>
<li>Did they keep bees? How much honey? How much wax?</li>
<li>How much wood was cut? Value of the wood products sold or consumed in the year...</li>
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It goes a long way to helping to round out the story of how our ancestors lived. And I recently came across a few other family members who were listed on the 1880 non-population census also on another page. I will haveto add they names here as soon as I can...The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-55427524870295927772012-06-26T14:42:00.002-07:002012-06-26T14:42:43.836-07:00A Sad Truth...It's a hard and sad truth when confronted with actual proof that your ancestors had "slaves". Though it's in the past and can't be changed, you hope that your ancestors were the kind of people who treated them better than the horror stories that most often happened. I personally think they were the kind that were out there working along side them as they didn't have a whole lot of them. We also have to stop and think about the time period. It was the "norm" for the time period and location to have "slaves". Not that it made it right!<br />
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I came across scanned copies of the Will of Lemuel Manair (Manire). I knew there was a chance because of the time period and where the family came from that they would have "Slaves". Lemuel's Will confirmed some of the names... a man named Solomon, a woman named Mary with a girl child named Harriet, a boy named Edmond, a boy named Hardy, and a boy named Balam.<br />
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I wonder if they took on the Manire last name as some did. Lemuel left the ones named above to his beloved wife Susan Ann E. Manair during her natural life time or widowhood. He also left her the land he owned.. some 130 acres plus the 54 acres he bought from William McKay of Rutherford County in 1835.<br />
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When I found the Will, I also found other Documents. An Inventory in 1846 shows that Susan (listed as S.A.E. Manire) bought some furniture for total of $8.00 and a sugar chest for $5.00. A negro woman named Jinny (28 to 30 years old) was sold to Stephen J. Manire (son?) for what looks like $301.00. A boy named Samuel (7 or 8 years old) was sold to Y. W. Redmon for $349.00. A boy named Edmond (about 4 years old) was sold to John W. Manire (son?) for $240.00.<br />
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I found an 1860 Indenture (agreement) between Susan Ann E. and all her kids getting together for selling some land and "slaves". They were selling the 54 acres of land Lemuel had bought from William McKay. They also had listed to sell.. 30 year old Edmond, 27 year old Balam, 19 year old Jason, 17 year old Andy, 14 year old George, 1 sorrel mare, 1 yellow mare, 1 bay colt, 3 mules, ____ blacks, 1 bay, and a set of Blacksmithing tools.<br />
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I have found some info on a Jason and a Balam Manire. I'll have to look thru my notes. I believe they got married. Will post it when I find it again.<br />
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<br />The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-45067696394708521342012-04-25T16:36:00.000-07:002012-04-25T16:36:24.739-07:00Nashville Manier BranchI've been able to sort of trace one whole family Branch of Manires who lived mostly in Nashville, Tennessee. I saw a posting about a Sarah Rucker who married a Manire. It got me curious. So I started hunting around. Luckily the Nashville Manires were very prominent people and most stayed there in the Nashville Area most of their lives.<br />
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The line starts with a John B. Manier. I thought mayhaps that he could have been a son of Daniel Jackson Manire and Ann Bullock Vandyke. I just can't really find any proof. I keep holding out that I will find the connection but it's hard to find much paperwork for 1700's.<br />
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So I have a John B. Manier. On February 8, 1825, he married Mary Jane Evans (nee. Wyche) in Granville County, North Carolina.<br />
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Mary Jane was born November 2, 1787 in Henry County, Virginia to Peter Wyche and Elizabeth Jenkins. She married Daniel Lewis Evans December 10, 1810 in Brunswick, Virginia. They had 5 children: George, Elizabeth Jenkins, Davis Lewis, Thomas Wyche, and William Henry Evans. Daniel died in 1821 (the same year William Henry was born). Four years later she marries John B. Manier.<br />
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A 73 year old Mary is listed on the 1860 Census for Nashville Ward 5, Davidson County, Tennessee. I believe she was listed with her Son's family. Mary died December 20, 1873 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee at age of 86 years old.<br />
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I only have one son for them, a James Wyche Manier. He was born March 19, 1826 either in Granville County, North Carolina or Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. James Wyche married Sarah Rucker in 1856. They had 4 children: (1) Mary P., (3) James Wyche Jr., (2) William Rucker, and (4) Fanny Manier.<br />
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(1) Mary P. Manier was born about 1857 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. She was listed with the family on the 1860 Census for Nashville Ward 4, Davidson County, Tennessee (age 3). She was listed with the family on the 1870 Census for Nashville Ward 4, Davidson County, Tennessee (age 13).<br />
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(2) William Rucker Manier was born November 13, 1861 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. He married Mary Eliza Owsley November 1, 1883 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. Mary Eliza was born December 25, 1864 in Kentucky to John Samuel Owsley and Susan Malinda Miller. They had 4 children: William Rucker Jr., John Owsley, Mary Malinda, Thomas Miller Manier.<br />
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(3) James Wyche Manier Jr. was born March 19, 1868 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. He married Emmett Lee McWilliams sometime before 1891. They had 4 children: James Wyche III, Emmett, Sarah Rucker, and Nancy Manier.<br />
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(4) Fanny Manier was born about 1869 in Nashville, Davidson County,
Tennessee. She was listed with the family on the 1870 Census for Nashville Ward 4, Davidson County, Tennessee (age 1).<br />
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I have more information on the families of William Rucker Manier (1861) and James Wyche Manier, Jr. (1868). For more information on this branch of the family I have a family tree with a whole buncha information on Ancestry.com .... <a href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/24337308/person/1513184210" target="_blank">Nashville Branch of Manier/Manire</a>. There are a buncha documents and Pictures there.. :) <br />
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<br />The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-1857951247789522962012-04-18T22:55:00.000-07:002012-04-18T22:55:39.209-07:00What's in a name...Apparently the Manire family has their favorite letters of the alphabet for naming children.<br />
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Letters with the most names for the Manire families: "C", "E", "J", "L", "M", "W"<br />
Other letters that have quite a few names: "A", "D", "R", "S"<br />
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Researching people can get a bit tricky sometimes. Starting with the early 1700's the family had their favorite names. These names were used just about in every generation. The closer to 1900's the more they started getting more creative with the names of their children.<br />
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Popular Manire names: Ann (Annie), Benjamin, Charles, David, Edmund (especially Edmund Henry), Elizabeth, George, James, John, Joseph, Lemuel, Martha, Mary (especially Mary J. or Mary Jane), Philip, Robert, Sarah, Stephen, Susannah, Thomas, and William.<br />
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By far the Winning name being JOHN... I have like 30 with John for their first name. Luckily a lot of them have different middle names and birthdates.<br />
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It gets a bit crazy when a John has sons named John and William. And they have sons named John and William. (just an example of what I mean) And they didn't always go by their names given at birth. There are a lot of nicknames I have yet to understand... like Polly for a Mary or Martha. Guess you had to have been there to understand it.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-22059900431239156872012-04-18T22:28:00.000-07:002012-04-18T22:28:02.671-07:00Dynamite ... really?Charles Edward Manire was born August 14, 1918 in Kentucky to Hanson Curtis Manire and Ivie Sarber Marque. His parents split up (if they were even married). His Father married Nola Wilson and they had 4 more children. His Mother married a Clarence Sharter.<br />
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Charles married Texie Mae Thompson. They had atleast 2 daughters, Maragretta Ann Manire and Wanda Jean Manire.<br />
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For whatever reason, about 8 years after his daughter Wanda was born, Charles decided he had an issue with his Mother and Stepfather. <br />
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(I will have to look thru some of my old documents I have on discs.. I could have swore I had another article describing that the dynamite was put under the bed.. but I could be wrong. I will have to go digging)<br />
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He was in the Kentucky State Penitentary in Eddysville, Lyons County, Kentucky when he died of a possible Coronary Occulsion April 12, 1950. He was 31 years old. His occupation had been a tool grinder and he was divorced at the time. (have a scanned copy of his Death Certificate)<br />
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His body was removed to be buried in the Haley's Mill Cemetery in Christian County, Kentucky where he use to live.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-31931573980889794882012-04-18T21:14:00.000-07:002012-04-18T21:14:05.229-07:00Manire Family IndexI got the new Family Tree Maker 2012 Software not long ago. It's very kewl stuff. I can tailor it the way I want to in so many ways and it allows me to link the research to my family tree on Ancestry.com. I can look at info on Ancestry.com thru the software when working on a certain person. You can even save the documents from Ancestry to your database in the software.<br />
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I've found so many mistakes in some of my older research databases. So I'm redoing a "Manire Notebook" database in my Family Tree Maker. In this notebook I'm adding anything to do with the Manire family. Even stuff I haven't been able to connect to our family tree yet. I'm going to go thru all my notes and all my printed stuff I have in boxes and adding it to the database. It's gonna go a bit slow. I started but realized I have some names missing or some dates missing that keep me from finding the right people in my database to add the notes too. There are too many of the same name in some instances.. It gets very confusing when trying to make sure you have the right person.<br />
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I ended up getting a special notebook... and I made a page for each letter of the alphabet. I went thru several of my older databases and wrote down the first names and middle names of all my Manires. I added just their birth year for reference. It's my Manire Index Notebook. That way I can use the Index to help me put the names in my Database (I can connect the people to families later) and I can use it to reference if I found a new person or not when looking online.<br />
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I currently have about 605 people with the MANIRE last name in my database.... The total people in my database currently is 1,089.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-975061393584429934.post-28333840540732395042011-03-06T04:39:00.000-08:002011-03-06T04:39:08.253-08:00My Grandparents - Journey BeginsI didn't have much of a relationship growing up with my Maternal Grandparents. We kept in touch through letters, cards, and phone calls. We got Christmas presents in the mail. Grandma made goodies and sent them to us, but we lived on the East Coast. They lived on the West Coast. Neither of us ever really had a lot of money to make a trip as much as we would have liked.<br />
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Mom had 4 children to take care of. I was the youngest, and the one born with a Birth Defect I inherited from my Father's side of the family. So my early life was doctor visits and Surgeries.. and medical bills. It wasn't until I was older that Grandma and Grandpa M came out to visit. They came every few years. They came for My Sisters wedding. Grandma made her wedding cake. I can't remember if they came for my oldest Brother's wedding. They came for my High school Graduation. They came to see their great-grandkids, too.<br />
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It's on one of these trips out to see us that My sister and I start asking questions. Mom has always told me snippets of her childhood and family when I asked. I'm a curious person by nature. And I always wondered why they never really talked about family. Mom only knew a little bit about her Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. As they got older the families just kind of moved away. They all went their separate ways, not staying in touch with each other.<br />
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Grandpa gave me the names of his siblings... Lois Dean, Jewel "Jule" Allard, Mada Jeanette, Peggy Marie, and Richard Cavitt "M". He told me a little about his Mother, Ocie Ida Cavitt. Her mother was Florrie Dozier who married Richard Cavitt... Supposedly Richard Cavitt was a Native American who changed his name to Richard Cavitt when he got married. So far I have not found any proof to support that claim. I actually found proof of Richard Cavitt's parents... no Native American ties yet.<br />
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He told me about his Grandma Willie Mae Hodges... Her father was Ben Hodges who had a farm or ranch in Texas. His brother had a sheep ranch. He didn't know much though.<br />
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One thing that I thought was interesting was that Grandpa had a Sister named Peggy Marie. She supposedly was born between Mada Jeanette and Richard Cavitt. She died young but he wasn't sure when.<br />
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I started looking for Florrie Dozier Cavitt. I found a lot of Cavitts and Doziers. And I found some Florrie's. I just couldn't find the right one... I finally gave up on her for a bit. I started looking for other family names. Of coarse when I was doing this it was when I was still in High school. I was trying to research this online on free sites.. I didn't have any money of my own and no jobs while in school.<br />
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One day I came across 2 things... 1 was a posting about Benjamin Franklin Hodges... it had his children and grandchildren listed... lo and behold there was my Grandpa's sibings... of coarse the person who wrote it didn't have my Grandpa listed or his sister Peggy Marie. (Not many people know about Peggy so that was understandable). I contacted "Wrazzy" and told her who I was... I helped her add my line to her research and eventually she sent me hardcopies of her research on the Hodges family in snailmail. That was the start of my research.. that helped me Identify more people... It had my great-Uncles and Aunt... (Whom Mom later found a picture of when she visited Grandma and Grandpa a few years ago. It was when my Great-Grandpa and his siblings where young. It's a kewl old picture) Things were starting become a cohesive picture.<br />
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I was still wondering about Florrie Dozier Cavitt. I forget how I finally found her years and years later. She was Mary Florrie Dozier, daughter of Thomas Jones Dozier and Salena Palestine Hooker. I made contacts with the Dozier family researchers and Cavitt Researchers. And I had my Hodges Contact. I was well on my way.<br />
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I later added Bill Manire as a Contact... He was a distant cousin who helped me a lot. He and his wife had did a lot of research on the Manire family all the way back to 1700's. Though it was still limited in the lineage. I've used it as a stepping stone... I've since then added hundreds more names to the tree...<br />
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I'm always scouring the web for any mention of the Manire Family.... It's how I've come across obituaries and some historical websites that helped. Now that I work I'm able to pay for access to places like Ancestry.com and footnote.com. Both sites have really helped me. I love finding new pieces of lost history. Ancestry.com has a buncha stuff scanned. So you can see the actual Document like a Census. And I've gotten pretty good at reading the old writing.<br />
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It's been fun.. and I'm still at it. Though my one problem now is that I have too many notes. I need to organize them but sometimes I just get distracted or overwhelmed. Sometimes it's a bit sad as I get excited over something new but don't always have someone to share it with who will get just as excited about it.The Family Detectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100335794330188889noreply@blogger.com0