Just to let everyone know, I will be gone for a few weeks on vacation. Thanks for visiting iPentimento | Genealogy and History while I’m gone. I hope you enjoy some of my previous posts.

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My Genealogical Research Arsenal

I have three computers in my genealogy research arsenal (GRA): All of them are Dells and have their different uses.

Dell #1 is an XPS purchased in 2002.  It is ‘my” computer where I have the majority of my genealogical files within easy access. Dell #2 is “Jim’s” computer but it has the scanner hooked up to it because that is where we had physical space to put it on his desk.  Dell #3 is my new laptop and most of the time it sits by me on the love seat (we’re in love) and I use it to compose articles sometimes, and sit and relax and surf the web. All of them are networked together so I can access most things on the other.

My scanner is quite old but still going strong (knock on wood). It’s a Umax Astra 1220S.  It’s a flatbed scanner (SCSI “scuzzy”) and does an excellent job for me.  The only challenge is keeping people from putting things on the lid.

Next in my equipment is my HP Deskjet 5940 printer. I like having a separate printer because if something goes wrong with any of my peripherals it is just that one machine, not all of them out of service. That’s just me though.  I’m not totally thrilled with this printer, only because for some reason it has quit printing envelopes for me. But, I have a solution for that problem that works most of the time…

Also in this list is the Avery Personal Label Printer that I like to use when I have just one label I want to print off.  The printer has an associated program that lets me save labels in a file and I can access and print them quickly.

It goes without saying that all of us genealogists use our telephones and cells for communication purposes.  There’s nothing like a call from a new cousin!

Over the years I’ve been very luck to be able to add to my personal genealogical library, see  A Dozen Genealogy Books I Own and each year it seems to get bigger.  Jim just came home from Iowa with some books about his home town of Clinton and another about the submarines built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin during World War II by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company.

I have used Family Tree Maker program since it was begun by Broderbund and up until they changed it to accommodate Vista users I really liked it.  I have the 2010 version I can use, but I prefer the ease of using my old 2006 version and I worry that it will not be supported someday.  It’s so much easier for me to see and make sense of the family pages. I don’t like everything crammed into one screen like on the newer versions.

Probably my biggest guns in my genealogical arsenal are my subscriptions to websites like Ancestry and photo sites like Flickr.  For the truly paranoid who are worried about losing everything (that would be me) I also subscribe to Carbonite.  I’m an Ancestry affiliate and if you’re interested in joining please click on one of my Ancestry ads in the sidebar.

My genealogy friends are priceless and you can find them at these various sites and groups:

Geneabloggers on Facebook

Geneabloggers main site by Thomas MacEntee

webduck’s genealogists list on Twitter (that’s me!)

Gather genealogy-related groups: Grandmother stories , Grandfather Stories , Genealogy Central

Last, but not least, I’m a member of the National Society DAR, the Ozark Springs DAR Chapter of West Plains, Missouri, and an associate member of the Elizabeth Ellington DAR Chapter, Bremerton, Washington.

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Her brother Dick Moore called her Mary Allene, but when she and I first began to share family information she instructed me to call her Allene.  Allene will always be thought of in my mind as one of those “grand gals” with spirit and the spunk to speak her mind.  Sadly, I never got to meet her in person, but we had many spirited phone calls, during one of which she told me my voice sounded like my Grandma Minnie.

Allene was one of the few cousins I could talk to about grandma who knew her as their aunt.  Allene was one of those people who would make you feel like family from the first moment you met.  No fussing around, just come on in and sit a spell.  I loved to listen to her speak with that fine Missouri sing-song twang I remember so well from my Grandpa Will Yates and his side of the family.

As one of the founding members of the Ozark Spring Chapter of the DAR, Allene was instrumental in having me join their ranks.  It was for sentimental reasons that I joined that chapter instead of one here in Washington state.  Allene wanted to be one of the ladies who signed my application for membership as a tribute to my grandmother.  As it turned out, I wasn’t able to join through her Patriot because there needed to be more documentation, but I was able to tell her of a few “new” ones, including my Captain Thomas Poindexter.

When I said “spirited” to describe Allene it was our conversation about the “Oglethorpes” that I remembered.  Many years ago Allene, Pauline Pond, and Ruth Dixon put together a family tree of sorts from what they knew and remembered hearing from their ancestors.  When I began looking for my ‘Oglethorpes’ in Clay, Overton and Jackson, Tennessee I soon found out that there were no Oglethorpes of any kind there.  What was there were the Osgatharps and they had been in that part of Tennessee for generations.  I had to send her tangible proof of the family name so she would believe me! Once she had that though, and found that our line connected to Richard Osgatharp/Osgathorpe who had served in the American Revolution, she was accepting of the name change.

A wonderful lady has passed from our midst, but she will never be forgotten. Even if you don’t know her I hope that you will take a few minutes to read her obituary by her son that was extremely well written . I’m adding the two pages as thumbnails. Please click on them till you get them to the size to make them more easily read.

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Rest in Peace Allene

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Note: Elisha Bailey was in court on this day, 176 years ago!

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION RECORD of ELISHA BAILEY – W. 8344

State of Kentucky

Adair County

On this 1st day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the county court for the County aforesaid now sitting Elisha Bailey a resident of Adair County and state aforesaid, aged 69 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 1st 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

That he entered the service in the spring of 1781 under Capt. Leak in the County of Albemarle and state of Virginia, where he then lived, in the month of April, but does not recollect the particular date of the month. The regiment and number thereof he does not recollect, but the Commander was either General Nelson or Lawson. He was however under the command of both in this tour and the other in a subsequent term, which he will speak about.

That he marched from Albemarle County to Richmond Virginia, then to Cabinpoint, lay there sometime, then marched to Fredericksburg, and was then dischargedby Capt. Leak in writing but his discharge has been long since lost. This tour was three months.

That in a short time after he was discharged and returned home, he engaged as a substitute for Zackariah Roberts under Capt. Barnett who was under Colonel Campbell and marched to York and lay there sometime and then marched about through the country to avoid the enemy as we were not at that time strong enough to go into action and then returned to York and there remained until after Cornwallis was taken, at the taking of whom he was present, after which he with others marched to the Maryland line to guard the prisoner’s that far.

He was then discharged but by whom he does not recollect the discharge is however lost. He would here state that the time under Capt. Barnett when he was a substitute for Zackariah Roberts was two months an he got only a verbal discharge, if any. That when he was at the taking of Cornwallis he was under Capt. Leak, the Col. under whom he was he does not recollect, but that Layfayette and General Washington were the Commander-in-Chief, that this last tour under Capt. Leak was about three months and he received a verbal discharge but from whom he does not recollect.

He states that in the first tour under Capt. Leak he served three months. The second tour he was under Capt. Barnett & Col. Campbell two months. The third tour under Capt. Leak three months, making in all eight months he served.

That he was born in the year 1764 the month not recollected. He has no record of his age. He lived in Albemarle County, Virginia after his service several years, the exact time he cannot recollect. He then removed to the County of Lincoln in the State of Kentucky lived there sometime, then removed to the County of Adair where he now resides.

That he is known in his neighborhood to Harrison M. Gill, Alex Walker and Jackson Atkins. That he has no documentary evidence that he knows of, no person living by whom he can prove his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension and annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Rolls of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Elisha Bailey

We Samual Wilson, a clergyman residing in the County of Adair and Charles Scaggs, residing in the same county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha Bailey, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be 69 years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Samuel Wilson

Charles Scaggs

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department
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Certificate of Pension was issued September 23,1833 at $26.66 per year. Recorded in Book 6, Volume 7, Page 4

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The Marcus Whitman Chapter, NSDAR – Daughters of the American Revolution will be holding a wine tasting to help raise funds. What fun to have a wine tasting and help out a worthy cause at the same time. Please click on the attached PDF file and get the full details for this March 1 event in Marysville, WA.  Wine Tasting Flyer

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