Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/genealogy-in-search-of-history-and-some-blue-blood

Comment #902

2019-05-06T03:27:15Z

Hi, Wayne! Thanks for your comment. As you probably know, The Descendants of Edward Perkins of New Haven, Conn. (available online at HeritageQuest) lists five children for Elijah and Lydia (Sperry) Perkins: Abraham, Lyman, Kathan, Mark, and Hannah. Pioneer History of Camden mentions Abram and Woodard and says there were four other children, not named. From some un-remembered Internet source I've seen another son listed, "Green Perkins" born 1788, but I have found no documentation for that.

Do you know whether Kathan is male or female?

As far as I know, Ursula Perkins had no siblings. She was born in 1812 and her father (Mark) died in 1813. If I'm right about her mother's second marriage, she probably had step-siblings, but I have found no evidence as yet.

Polly Yale had one sibling, a brother: Gad Yale, born 21 August 1791, and two step-sisters, Harriet and Roxana, by her father's second wife, Anna Northam. (See Rodney Horace Yale, Yale Genealogy and History of Wales and Eddy N. Smith, et al. Bristol, Connecticut: "in the Olden Time New Cambridge.")

If you'd prefer to continue this conversation by e-mail, you can use this address. Either way is fine with me; I'm thrilled to find someone else working on the same line.

Comment #901

2013-02-26T12:34:19Z

Hi, D. Perkins! Thanks for writing. What is your connection to this line? With a name like Perkins, there must be one.

My records agree that Elijah and Lydia were in Oneida, but I'm pretty sure that Mark and Polly were in Oneonta (Otsego County). When I get the chance, I'll poke around a bit more on this line.

Comment #900

2013-02-26T05:20:19Z

I find Elijah & Lydia (Sperry) Perkins living in 1810 and listed at Oneida, Oneida Co., NY. I believe the town of "Oneonta" should have actually been "Oneida" right where I found them.

Other sources:

a.Pioneer History of the Town of Camden, NY , 1897

b. Our Country and It's people, Chapter 31 - The town of Camden, NY

Comment #899

2009-08-09T19:11:18Z

Thinking about it. Not sure I want to get involved in another social networking site, however.

I didn't know you were doing genealogy! Maybe we're related. :) That's an easy thing to say, since I think I'm related to about half the country.

Comment #898

2009-08-09T17:16:20Z

Take a look at geni.com

It's a social network (e.g. Facebook) for your family tree. It existed before, but I joined now that it can import gedcom files. I really like the concept b/c my whole family can access any new information added to the tree right away.

Comment #897

2009-08-09T00:27:54Z

I have done very little research across the pond, but for American research I've so far made the most progress at the library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. Even though I rarely get to Boston, I've found it worthwhile keeping a membership in that organization so I can use their online resources. They're working on getting books online, but for that particular line of research you can't beat the library itself.

I can access HeritageQuest online for free using my local library card, and they have many interesting and helpful books.

As you know, Ancestry has a good stock of book images, though I find it harder to find things in books there than at other places.

Google Books is enormously helpful. They have many useful genealogy books available for full viewing, and even when you can only see a snippet (or less) you can learn a lot; it's great preparation for a library trip.

I don't know where you live, but I learned through Google Books that the New York Public Library must be an enormous place, as it has nearly ever book I've wanted!

Of course, the most important thing is to know your ancestors back far enough to connect them in with ones that someone else has written about.

I hope this helps some. Best of luck to you!

Comment #896

2009-08-08T21:43:26Z

If you don't mind me asking, how did you find such great genealogy books that were specific to your family line? I seem to have exhausted Ancestry.com's searchable record database and now I'm stuck.

I'd love to find some relevant genealogy books but I'm not sure where to start. I know that finding my ancestors in books is going to be more difficult than it was for your ancestors, because the English kept better records than the Germans or Irish.

Thanks in advance!

Comment #895

2009-06-02T21:39:26Z

Take a look at Pioneer History of Camden, New York by Elizabeth T. Pike, pages 43 - 45. Its available on-line. You'll find a ELIJAH MARK PERKINS' father, ELIJAH PERKINS, eldest brother, ABRAM or ABRAHAM PERKINS, and youngest brother, WOODARD PERKINS,settled in Camden circa 1803. MARK had a brother named LYMAN who served in the 25th Infantry Regiment during the War of 1812 and was killed in the war. His family resided in Hartford County in 1817 and received a pension (Source: The Pension Rolls of 1835, Volume 1, Page 27). In 1810,LYMAN resided in Farmington of Hartford County with his family. ELIJAH and LYDIA SPERRY-PERKINS had 5 sons. One I have yet to identify.

Do you know the names of URSULA'S siblings? Do you known the names of POLLY YALE-PERKINS' siblings?

Comment #894

2009-02-28T10:47:34Z

Hi, Cousin Charles! Thanks for stopping by. You may be my husband's cousin more directly than through Charlemagne. I found a speculative line (that's what I call everything I find as someeone's tree on the Internet) that links Samuel Appleton with John Hubbard and Mary Phillips, who are definitely his ancestors. I have yet to investigate that link, however, and one evidence that what I have may be wrong is that the speculative line has Samuel Appleton married to Judith Everard, not Mary.

Comment #893

2009-02-28T07:26:08Z

Greetings cousin(?). Charlemagne is my 36th GGF. William the Conqueror is my 27th GGF. I come down through Samuel Appleton and Mary Everard

Comment #892

2009-02-16T12:55:47Z

Wow, with all that royal blood I'm just glad I'm not a hemophiliac :)