I absolutely loved listening to this Kirsi thank you so much for sharing this with us, there is so much for everyone to take away from this story. Family history research is about painstaking attention to detail, it’s about assembling multiple sources and multiple pieces of evidence before reaching a reasoned conclusion about our ancestors life. This step by step journey and the attention to detail shows exactly how we should approach and document this type of research. Excellent podcast enjoyed it immensely
I consider understanding the place one of the key parts of my research. My wife's family came from to Canada from a small village in Hungary, which is now in Slovenia, formerly Yugoslavia and formerly a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The countries listed on census and travel documents varies a lot, Hungarian, Austrian, Jugoslavian, Serbian. Really understanding the makeup of the village itself helped me to track the people I was researching there.
I thnk you make a great point. Someday I hope to be able to track the specific village my ancestors were from so that I can learn more about the geo-politics of the time - which could help me understand why they immigrated to America when they did. Thanks for reading and commenting!
Really interesting and it gives me some ideas about incorporating audio. Couple of questions came to mind: 1) where do you have your online tree? 2) have you scoured the newspapers for any reporting of his accidents or maybe an incident that prompted his being committed? I've been amazed at what I've found about my Indiana ancestors through the small town of Tipton's TWO newspapers, using a combination of newspapers.com, newspaperarchive.com and to a lesser degree GenealogyBank.com. I don't remember a mention about this, but if Michael was in the institution during a census enumeration period he should've been listed with all of the patients on the census. I helped a friend's adopted mother (Bettye) create her whole family tree based on her unwed mother's and the father's name and age. And with the help of a bit of luck ... Bettye was born in November 1930 in a "Research Hospital" as it was reported on the census form. Bettye's mother's name was Mary Clara King (not her real name, she's still living). Mary was from Star City, a small town in southeastern Arkansas. It just so happened that on April 11th 1930, the census was enumerated in Star City and Mary is listed with the entire King family. Two weeks later, the enumeration for the "Research Hospital"in Little Rock occurs and Mary's listed among the "Pupil Nurses" as 19-year-old "Clara King." That was five months Baby Bettye was delivered, but her father was the Methodist preacher in town with a reputation to uphold. Baby Bettye's father, however appears to have been a ne'er do well sailor who was stationed outside of Memphis. Never found any evidence as to how Mary would've hooked with the guy, but finding that census for the hospital was the first big discovery. Good job with the podcast! Have you done any others?
Sounds like you had a series of great discoveries! How exciting.
I have scoured the newspapers for any potential details and haven’t found anything connected to his condition or precipitating it, unfortunately. New papers come online regularly so I have a search set that will alert for any new hits.
I have quite a few podcast episodes. I hope you get a chance to check some of them out.
Outstanding research! This is one reason your stories are amazing--you research them so well and put a great deal of thought into them.
I absolutely loved listening to this Kirsi thank you so much for sharing this with us, there is so much for everyone to take away from this story. Family history research is about painstaking attention to detail, it’s about assembling multiple sources and multiple pieces of evidence before reaching a reasoned conclusion about our ancestors life. This step by step journey and the attention to detail shows exactly how we should approach and document this type of research. Excellent podcast enjoyed it immensely
Thanks Paul! I really appreciate your comments. I was worried it was too complicated to explain, but I'm glad it made sense to you!
It was easy because your approach laid things out in a logical way Kirsi
I consider understanding the place one of the key parts of my research. My wife's family came from to Canada from a small village in Hungary, which is now in Slovenia, formerly Yugoslavia and formerly a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The countries listed on census and travel documents varies a lot, Hungarian, Austrian, Jugoslavian, Serbian. Really understanding the makeup of the village itself helped me to track the people I was researching there.
I thnk you make a great point. Someday I hope to be able to track the specific village my ancestors were from so that I can learn more about the geo-politics of the time - which could help me understand why they immigrated to America when they did. Thanks for reading and commenting!
Really interesting and it gives me some ideas about incorporating audio. Couple of questions came to mind: 1) where do you have your online tree? 2) have you scoured the newspapers for any reporting of his accidents or maybe an incident that prompted his being committed? I've been amazed at what I've found about my Indiana ancestors through the small town of Tipton's TWO newspapers, using a combination of newspapers.com, newspaperarchive.com and to a lesser degree GenealogyBank.com. I don't remember a mention about this, but if Michael was in the institution during a census enumeration period he should've been listed with all of the patients on the census. I helped a friend's adopted mother (Bettye) create her whole family tree based on her unwed mother's and the father's name and age. And with the help of a bit of luck ... Bettye was born in November 1930 in a "Research Hospital" as it was reported on the census form. Bettye's mother's name was Mary Clara King (not her real name, she's still living). Mary was from Star City, a small town in southeastern Arkansas. It just so happened that on April 11th 1930, the census was enumerated in Star City and Mary is listed with the entire King family. Two weeks later, the enumeration for the "Research Hospital"in Little Rock occurs and Mary's listed among the "Pupil Nurses" as 19-year-old "Clara King." That was five months Baby Bettye was delivered, but her father was the Methodist preacher in town with a reputation to uphold. Baby Bettye's father, however appears to have been a ne'er do well sailor who was stationed outside of Memphis. Never found any evidence as to how Mary would've hooked with the guy, but finding that census for the hospital was the first big discovery. Good job with the podcast! Have you done any others?
Sounds like you had a series of great discoveries! How exciting.
I have scoured the newspapers for any potential details and haven’t found anything connected to his condition or precipitating it, unfortunately. New papers come online regularly so I have a search set that will alert for any new hits.
I have quite a few podcast episodes. I hope you get a chance to check some of them out.