…what does the number 3,105 mean?

In my Ancestry.com database:
Frantz……2,537
France……..550
Franz…………18

……………………………………………3,105

…and can’t let go.

Quite possibly, one hundred (or more) individuals added to my Ancestry database—and a thousand (or more) “sources.” I cannot ignore errors when they come to my attention!! I inadvertently made the same mistake (initially) because four individuals with almost identical birth and death dates. Yes, I caught my error but it has been time-consuming to research and document two marriages, two women named Martha Frantz and two men named Jacob Frantz (and fifteen children). ~~ Check my blog titled God’s gift.

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4:30 PM and I’ve still got that tiger by the tail. Here is the message (“comment” from four years ago) that I have with the father of one of my recent research project individuals:

Seriously, the Frantz/Brubaker/Blocher marriages were a nightmare to unravel. Somewhere in the past, I copied from another Ancestry Family Tree. It contained many errors so (recently) I spent days working with the **sources** for these several families. I believe my information is completely accurate. ~~ With time, I’ll add more references to Frantz Families–Kith & Kin with volume and page number. ~~ Suggestion to fellow researchers: Check and double-check dates. Don’t ascribe the birth of a child to a wife that is dead. Don’t have the same individual child listed two or three times under the parents. (Example: Two… named Noah, one name Elias and one named Eli but both Elias and Eli have the same birth date.) ~~ Forgive me for preaching but I get so frustrated with the errors!! ~~ My method of research: Only use “sources”; ignore the Ancestry Member Trees. Or, when all else fails, use the Ancestor Member Tree for reference information (write it on a piece of paper). Then search for birth, marriage, death, Census, etc. ~~ In my humble opinion, NEVER import Ancestry Member Tree data into your personal database. (Mine might be the exception? )

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It’s a conspiracy? I see obvious errors every time I compare “mine with theirs.” I “compare”  because I may see a name, or date, I want to explore. I scribble the information on ever–ready scratch paper. Then I use Ancestry’s  search features…

…and it required several hours to untangle.

I’m finding that Ancestry’s “hints” may not be accurate. It is requiring a lot more time to carefully examine records. Often the problem appears due to “same name, same location,” so the kids are listed with the wrong parents. I spend a lot more time than other “armchair researchers.” I look at the Census records, birth and death records, Find A Grave details, etc.

Question: Why don’t folks check their documentation?

This old lady would like an answer.

Yesterday, while documenting a branch of the Frantz family tree, I came across Nora B. Frantz (1890-1979). Alarm bells went off in my mind: “She doesn’t belong to that family” (the family that a “hint” was suggesting). This morning, I did a search and began to document her family. Here is her father, and father’s father, etc.

Look: Jacob is my third cousin three times removed. I’ll spare the reader the details about how “we” got here at 4:35 on a Wednesday morning in August. ~~~~ I’m praising God, my Heavenly Father, for the gift of a remarkable memory for members of my enormous forest of family.

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Postscript: Curiosity prompted me to explore for information hidden on branches of the trees. I found “comments” that revealed I documented these families in early November 2020 (nine months ago). ~~ Failing eyesight but sharp memory! Praise God!!

Even later postscript: My mind—and my memory—questioned the close cousin relationship. Another problem?? Our “close” relationship is through my grandmother Traxler and not through grandfather Frantz. How interesting.

. . . . . . . . Lorraine . . . . . . .

It’s the middle of the night and I’m wide awake. It seems “such a waste of time”  to toss and turn in bed. “In the middle of the night,”  I was reminiscing about a young woman who was (and is) precious to me. I don’t “do” Facebook; maybe she reads my blog. I’m sending love and lots of virtual hugs!!

A visitor will see all that coffee on top of the kitchen cupboards. Have you noticed that coffee prices have increased? That’s what I heard on TV. So I couldn’t resist buying four cans when I saw them discontinued and discounted. Truthfully, I’ll share with the RV Park residents who get together, at 8 o’clock, at the Clubhouse, for coffee. I don’t “go” but I’ll gladly share.

Here’s “Mr. Red”—owner-manager of the RV Park—ready to carry my groceries to the front porch. He makes the coffee—in the Clubhouse—almost every morning. **If** we didn’t have the Coronavirus, more residents would get together. This month, we have four new residents on two sites. Before the end of the year, occupants will change on two more sites (that I’m aware of).

Going grocery shopping before it gets “too hot.”

“This double cousin chart prompted this researcher to explore two sons of Michael Peters (1748-1835). Both Michael D. Peters and Daniel Peters identified with identical birthdates. Were they twins? If twins, they would have the same mother. One man?” <<<<< That’s the message I posted with that chart yesterday (on Ancestry). Late in the day, yesterday, I received this obituary from “cousin Patrick.” The lady, “Lois,” was not in my database but the connection was made with her grandfather. “Yes,”  she is another descendant of the families in the chart. Lois is my seventh cousin. ~~ It’s uncanny how often new information dovetails with recent documentation.