First Posting

I wanted to create a Genealogy Journal using a database. But after goofing around with OpenOffice.org database app, I discovered that the product was not ready for prime time. I said "OK, I'm thinking old school." So I'm trying to use a blogger to keep track of my research progress.

I keep forgetting if I've researched something already or what I would like to do next. Also, what was my thinking at the time? When did I have that ah-ha moment.

I'll backup a little, because I did have an ah-ha moment last Friday the 19Th. After looking up my Great-Great-grandfather J. Andreas Heinrich Schroeder in the Federal Census, (who should have been located in Sandusky County, Ohio in 1860) I've come to the conclusion that the enumerator could not understand German immigrants or was just disorganized.

The ages were correct for the family. The names were right for the parents, and even the fact that the parents and the first born child were born in Germany. But then the problem starts where the 5 children's names are mixed up on the list as to who's age is who's. And there's a child's name of Aaron who I believe should have been Ernst (sounds like?). But once I could confirm that they lived just west of Hessville in Washington Township, I new I had a match with one of the children, my great-grandmother. On here death certificate filled out by her husband, he said she was born in Hessville. And she would have been 5 years old in the 1860 Census. I was also able to match up their location on an 1860 landowner atlas from Sundusky Co. Kin Hunters.

I want to prep for a LDS session on another family: Myers or Meyer. I've had a hard time finding them prior to when Fred Myers was married in 1871 in Toledo, Ohio.

I'm going to look for a place to backup my history data. That's all I need is to lose that!