Founding Family Lines

Author: Mary Jane Saylor

  • Regarding Chapter One of “Mastering Genealogical Documentation” – Mary Jane Saylor

    Regarding Chapter One of “Mastering Genealogical Documentation” by Thomas W. Jones                                               – Mary Jane Saylor   When I begin to think of creating a citation for a source that I am looking at, I consider what steps I took to find the source in the first place. Did I do a search in the […]

  • “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with”- Mark Twain

  • Wondering How to Organize your Documents?

    In the process of researching our ancestors, we create quite a lot of documentation.  What to do with it? First of all, because I have lost my research before, I tend to back up in several places, Dropbox, external hard drive, jump drive and hard copies. I love Dropbox, because when I am traveling around doing […]

  • Online Book Indexes

         I recently came across the website everynameindex.com  that has a listing by state of various books that they have indexed.  So being ever curious as I am, I checked to see if I could find anything on my family lines. I hit the jackpot with a book called Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, […]

  • 1940 Census Results!

    1940 Census Results! Well, it’s official I found my family on the 1940 census!  It was very easy to search since I knew where they were living at the time. 1940 Census for Brookston, Praire, White, Indiana Name Age Marital Status Place of birth residence 1935 occupation Industry Tillotson, Don 44 Married Illinois same house […]

  • Ann Wright mother of Epharim Buell

     

  • Don Carlos Census

    By 1920, Don Carlos was married to Ruby Elsie Stultz and they already had one child, Don junior, the census was taken the 10 and 12 of January 1920, Lionel was born later that year in July. The census taker spelled his name as Donald Tillitson. Don and Ruby went on to have 9 children, […]

  • Don Carlos in 1910

    We next find Don Carlos again with his family in 1910.  He is still living in Pilot township with his mother who is now a widow and his brothers and sisters.  He is 14 years old at the time of the census.  We can also see that several siblings have moved on or died.  When […]

  • Don Carlos 1900 Census

    I have been able to track Don Carlos on the census records, beginning in 1900.  I am excitedly awaiting the arrival of the 1940 census information as it will be the last one he is recorded on.  If you haven’t had a chance to volunteer to index the 1940 census you can sign up by going to […]

  • Heroes

    Growing up Don Carlos and Ruby Tillotson were heroes in my eyes.  All the stories told of them made them seem larger than life.  How exciting as an adult to trace down those stories and see they are true.       One particular story is that Don was such a large man he would completely […]

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