Today
I am writing about my 3rd great-grandfather, Joseph Lester Shipman,
in relation to my 2017 genealogy goals (as posted on 2 Jan 2017).
Review.
In checking him on my
website, I found it told of his birth on 25 Jan 1807 in Old Lyme, New
London County, Connecticut, the son of Elisha and Catherine Shipman. There was his marriage to Mary Carey (or McCreary) on 16 Feb 1837 in
Ashtabula County, Ohio. The information from the 1850 census was
there as well as his death on 30 Sep 1893 in Tuscola County, Michigan
with burial in Moreland Cemetery. Only my 2nd great-grandfather,
Joshua Rodney Shipman, was shown as his child. I believe this
information was basically correct, but so much was lacking. There
were more censuses to be entered. I remembered that his first wife
had died and he had a second wife and a number of other children.
Organize.
I had collected a fair amount of information on the Shipman family,
particularly with help from other researchers. But, it was pretty
much all in one big pile. So I divided most of it into four sections:
(1) Joseph Lester, (2) his son Joshua Rodney, (3) Joseph's father
Elisha and (4) Joseph's grandfather Abner, with the other children
of each in their section. This led me to do more research on the
family.
Write.
Well, since you are reading this, I have done that.
Enter.
This is the step that still has much to be done. I have found the
census entries for Joseph in Ohio in 1860 and in Michigan in 1870 and
1880. There is his 2nd marriage to Huldah Jane (with a very difficult
to read surname on the marriage record) and 8 more children.
Digitize.
So
far I have saved digital
copies of his two marriage records from the Ashtabula County marriage
books as found on familysearch.org. Again much more needs to be done
on this goal also.
But
that's what goals are for, to help us see what needs to be done and
give us the incentive to do it.
Posted
25 Jan 2017
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