Hi Everyone,

Hope you all are having a great weekend so far....

I haven't blogged in a while but i am always working on my family tree.....

In my neverending quest to find new family tree information....

I decided to use the google search engine and do some searches on my  family names.

I usually put the name in quotes(before and after the name) and their known location.

For example, i googled my great-grandfather's name: "Elias Sindle", New Jersey.

Sometimes you get information and alot of the time, you get nothing that relates to what you

 are looking for.

I was lucky the last time i tried this. I accidentally spelled the Sindle name as Sindel.

With this error, i found an article in the New York Times dated 1877 on my great-grandfather,

Elias Sindle. What a find.....

Once in a while, you luck out.

Nance

I recently took a trip to a nearby cemetery called the Canfield-Doremus Cemetery(the old Cedar Grove Cemetery).in Northern New Jersey.  It is a relatively small cemetery and not affiliated with any religious group.This is a one acre plot that was on a farm  that belonged Thomas Doremus. It was used for 70 years as a burial ground. Other land was later added.

It has some burials going back to the 1700's. Some of the older stones were made of red

sandstone and i found some profound inscriptions on them.

The photo above caught my attention: It states

IN
MEMORY OF
JOHN W. WHITE
WHO DIED. 9.TH APRIL. 1841
AGED. 52 YEARS.
Behold. me here. as. you. pass by
As you. are now. so once was I.
But as I am so. you must be.
Prepare for ???

Picture of the stone for Margaret-Caroline Delany

Another read

SACRED
to the Memory
of ROZIL DAVIS who
died September 10th,
1804, in the 40th Year of
his age.

to mortals and sure hope I bid a dieu
And no more the riling sun will view
ready remember thou must die
and like me go into eternity

Canfield Cemetery

I did find a branch of my family also-Sindles

FAMILY OF
GEORGE SINDLE
1821 -
and
SOPHIA, 1823 - 1895.
MARGARET ANN 1846-1885
?ESTER 1848-1874
RACHAEL 1850-1876
ELIZABETH 1853-1874
WILLIAM H 1855-1887
REBECCA 1857-1883
MARY 1863-1895
?HARLES 1865-1884
SINDLE

A very interesting day. I love reading the inscriptions on the old stones. They are always very

touching.

Nan 

Hope everyone had a great weekend.....

Below is a list of Genealogy lookup and information sites

I hope they are helpful.

http://www.rootsweb.com

http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgenweb/

http://www.lambertcastle.org/

http://www.familysearch.org/

 http://www.familysearch.org

http://rocklandgenealogy.org/

Nance

I recently visted some old cemeteries in New Jersey. I will try to post some pictures soon.

I found a lot of the old sandstone headstones with inscriptions that had a sentiment below the names and dates on the stone. They were very moving. I recorded some of the messages and took some pictures.

Hi Everyone,

I had an idea and wanted to get your thoughts.

What if we each listed a Genealogy related website that has helped us in our

family tree research.

If each person just listed one site that you have used that

was helpful, we could all benefit from it.. You never know. I have tried a site

recommended by a friend and found new information that helped me.

So here goes, i'll start.

http://www.findagrave.com/

This is great for finding graves of ancestors......

Hope to see many listings.

NANCE

Hi Everyone,

Here is a great free site for Genealogy. I have one set up there.

You can build a tree and put in pictures. You can go in and get all sorts of reports

free of charge, re: charts, relationships,descendants, a picture family tree. etc.

Great site.....

http://tribalpages.com/

Enjoy and let me know what you think....

Love, Nan

This is a wonderful post i received from a Myspace friend. I wanted to share it.....

We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on the bones and ask them to live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe.



All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story, so we do.



In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family, you would be so proud of us." How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I can not say.



It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can not let this happen.



The bones there are bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resolution to go on and build a life for their family.



It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long family storytellers.



That is why I do family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those whom we had never known before.



Author: Bob Dunn

Looking for any information on:

Parks, Joseph and his wife Annie Lee, both born in 1842 in England.

Joseph was a director of the Bloomingdale Coronet Band in New Jersey

and several other bands.

They lived in Pompton Valley(Pompton Lake/Bloomingdale area )in New Jersey

Joseph died around 1894 and Annie died in 1902.

Their children were: Elizabeth, Annie,George, Florence,John, Lucy.Joseph, James and

Thomas.

Any information would be greatly appreciated. I have hit a brick wall and want to knock it

down.

If i can help anyone with some research, just let me know.

Love, Nan

Hi, My name is Nance....

I have been working on my family tree for at least the last 20 years.

I always get excited when i find a new piece to the puzzle...

I hope to share ideas and reseach.

I look foward to hearing from everyone...

Nan