tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501770385498616666.post8233506458611123516..comments2022-05-14T19:37:07.271-04:00Comments on Uncontained Multitudes: "Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go"Rob'thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14912152363748830870noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501770385498616666.post-15814336745012082552012-01-10T00:49:37.223-05:002012-01-10T00:49:37.223-05:00Hello, Cousin Robert. I'm Teri, by the way......Hello, Cousin Robert. I'm Teri, by the way... Pleased to meet you. Yes, my fourth-great grands were Stephen S. Doty and Polly Holmes. I have their headstone photos somewhere, will have to see if I can find them if you are interested.<br /><br />I've been researching since about 1996 when my father passed. My mother passed less than a year later and she is the Doty connection. She never knew she was a Mayflower descendant. <br /><br />We are presently retired in southern Oregon after living all over the country from CA, to Idaho, to Alaska and most recently the south coast of Georgia with a few others scattered in between. My husband spent many years as a federal agent and we call ourselves lucky to have lived in so many varied places. <br /><br />I let my imagination go when I read about SAD mining on the North Fork. We left in the late 90's, but there is still a lot of mining going on in that area, administered by BLM on federal lands. Miners would live on their claims, out in the middle of nowhere and as you can imagine,there was a fair amount of backwoods justice, even in the late 90's. There still is from what our friends in the area tell us.<br /><br />Again, thanks so much for posting such interesting information. <br /><br />T.Beeskneeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01904137829176360267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501770385498616666.post-3915267355503988442012-01-07T11:55:52.080-05:002012-01-07T11:55:52.080-05:00Beesknees: Our common ancestors, then, would be St...Beesknees: Our common ancestors, then, would be Stephen S Doty and Polly Holmes, my fifth-great and your fourth-great grandparents. Apparently that makes us fifth cousins, once removed! I was excited to read you used to live in SAD's old home. I, too, often wonder where he is buried; searching for his burial/cemetery records is on my long list of genealogical to-dos! I looked at your blog, and it is charming. We seem to have many interests in common. My father's side of the family all live in Washington state, so I am very familiar with it. Whereabouts are you? I will look through my Davenport papaers and see if I can find anything else about Linas and his descendants to share with you. RobertRob'thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14912152363748830870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501770385498616666.post-31812314681089845532012-01-06T01:07:27.529-05:002012-01-06T01:07:27.529-05:00Fascinating reading! Thank you so much for postin...Fascinating reading! Thank you so much for posting this information. S.A. Davenport was married to the sister of my 3rd maternal great-grandfather, Linas Doty. He was also living in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the early 1850's. Alma, along with the children still at home relocated to Green County, WI, and were living with Linas and his family there in 1860. I knew that Stephen Davenport had died in 1850, I had found the same probate notice that you have posted above, but had no idea that he had died in the gold fields. Coincidentally, my family and I lived for nine years in the very area near the North Fork of the American River in Placer County CA that you describe. We actually lived between the North Fork and the Middle Fork. I wonder where S.A.D. was buried. I know that to be wild and rugged country, even today.Beeskneeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01904137829176360267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501770385498616666.post-51785786763987534942011-04-02T11:30:20.436-04:002011-04-02T11:30:20.436-04:00Ha! Indeed. There is a staggering amount of inform...Ha! Indeed. There is a staggering amount of information online now. I once saw a graph of how it has increased and the spike in the last couple of years is unbelievable and truly seems unsustainable. And it is all being archived and recorded. Take a look at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php and trip yourself for a few hours.<br /><br />It all does make me wonder if it will make research easier or harder to sort through in the future. Some day, my underwear will be a needle in a haystack of underwear. Hell, it already is.Moehttp://stitch.thosemoes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501770385498616666.post-86028745053401351992011-04-01T17:58:10.608-04:002011-04-01T17:58:10.608-04:00I can only imagine our descendants' (well, gra...I can only imagine our descendants' (well, grand-nieces and -nephews, more likely) responses to Facebook postings; I often find them hard to believe myself! Which brings up the other alternative... that there is a huge data crash, and that all of the 21st century is lost. Not that that's a bad thing. You have also anticipated the theme of next week's post: the amazing amount of information available online, like photos of my cousin's underwear, to cite just one example.Rob'thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14912152363748830870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501770385498616666.post-33830661784657410652011-04-01T17:40:11.733-04:002011-04-01T17:40:11.733-04:00It's pretty mind-boggling to be able to trace ...It's pretty mind-boggling to be able to trace relatives back so far and no so much detail about them. I imagine in the future they will all just pull up our facebook feeds and get to know far more about us that they would ever want to know.<br /><br />I find it unsurprising that a member of our family would have founded a town called Nutfield.Moehttp://stitch.thosemoes.comnoreply@blogger.com