From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun May 21 08:48:28 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4LEmSjb024748; Sun, 21 May 2006 08:48:28 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4LEmPiD009389 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 08:48:25 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4LCDqFI007620 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 08:13:52 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k4LCDqkQ007619 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 21 May 2006 08:13:52 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k4LBl8FI007505 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 07:47:08 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k4LELVS6013640 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 21 May 2006 08:21:31 -0600 X-Envelope-From: otg@csolve.net Sun May 21 08:21:30 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4LELUjb013631 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 08:21:30 -0600 Received: from balrog.csolve.net (balrog.csolve.net [207.164.80.179]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4LELQgR019174 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 08:21:27 -0600 Received: from barrie-dialport-216.209.18.120.csolve.net ([216.209.18.120] helo=Lorine1) by balrog.csolve.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1Fhony-000P8P-M1; Sun, 21 May 2006 10:21:16 -0400 From: "Olive Tree Genealogy" Organization: Olive Tree Genealogy To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 10:21:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-to: otg@csolve.net CC: Carol Botteron Message-ID: <44703F18.20884.2F3B7D@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200605211400.k4LE0WNb000641@lists5.rootsweb.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: TACHART surname (German)? On 21 May 2006 at 8:00, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Specifically: Elizabeth TACHART b. 27 March 1860, > supposedly in Germantown, Pennsylvania. (Mapquest finds 5 > of these but she most likely was near Pittsburgh.) She died > 24 March 1916. All this from family records. > > She married (about 1877) Albert BEILSTEIN (b. 1852 Penn.) > whose parents came from Hesse Darmstadt. In the 1880, 1900, > and 1910 censuses Elizabeth and Albert lived in Allegheny > (Allegheny Co.), Pennsylvania. > > I'd like to find Elizabeth's parents but have had no luck > with censuses, IGI, etc., even with creative spelling. Hi Carol My advice is to concentrate on the 1870 census. You should find Elizabeth as a 10 year (give or take a year or two) with her parents. Instead of using creative spelling, make wildcards your friend! For eg on Ancestry.com I can search under eliz* tac* which covers a great deal of possible spellings for first and last name. If that comes up empty, try 'lizzie' but use wildcards and use liz* Also you can try as the surname tuc* or tic* or tak* and so on... Another idea is to search just under the surname (I'd use tac* to start), AND Alleghany county - since Elizabeth and hubby lived there. Also be sure to think about the fact that if they are German, Elizabeth was probably her middle name, not her first, so she may be under something like "Anne Elizabeth" or some such name - perhaps even "Anne E" so you will never find her under "Elizabeth" For a how-to on using search engines and wildcards see http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ As an aside, I had a quick look in 1870 using the ideas I gave you above, and found a suitable candidate -- Mary E. Tacker birth Year: abt 1862 Age in 1870: 8 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Pittsburgh Ward 20, Allegheny, Pennsylvania Post Office: Wilkins Her mother, Mary E. age 32 was born in Hanover Germany, her father (Barney?) age 35 was born in Prussia. Little Mary E. has a sister called Mary A. (which reinforces my point about middle names, that's a German custom to give a child two names at birth with the second name being the name used) For help with census records see http://allcensusrecords.com/ There's a great deal you can learn from the census besides names, ages and occupations - such as immigration years, naturalization years, etc Lorine -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com