I'm not a huge fan of New Year's Resolutions, but I do have a goal for 2025. I have signed up for the Research Like a Pro e-course in which I will spend a year working on a genealogical research question using the Research Like a Pro process. (The year-long e-course will be more manageable for me than their usual 9-week study group.)
Of course, my longstanding brick wall ancestor is going to be my research question: Who are the parents of Susan (Rood) Chapin, born 26 January 1799, who married Orramel Chapin on 17 September 1816, in Ludlow, Massachusetts?
I wrote about Susan in 2012 (Susan Rood's Parents), and again in 2015 (Susan Rood Chapin - A Challenging to Research Ancestor).
The key sources I have include an embroidered sampler, created by her daughter, Susan Arville Chapin, which I wrote about in 2011 (Chapin Family Sampler).
There is also the marriage intention, recorded on 20 August 1816, in Ludlow, Massachusetts.
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| Intention of Marriage made publick between Mr. Orimel Chapin + Miss Susan Rood both of Ludlow August 20th, 1816. |
I have written about Orramel Chapin at Moving West Part 1 and Moving West Part 2, as well as at Boarding House Keeper.
I also have plenty of posts with the Chapin label, which may have some helpful information in them.
I won't be blogging weekly, but I will try to share occasional posts about my research into Susan Rood's parents (as well as any other interesting things that I come across).
I descend from Susan (Rood) Chapin as follows:
Might be out of wedlock. What about the Arvilles as that is her daughter's middle name (and not Rood) ?
ReplyDeleteI will keep that in mind. However, in this period of time, upstate New York, where many New Englanders were migrating (and I theorize where she may have been born), had few records, and no birth or death records like Massachusetts had.
DeleteIt looks like Arville is a French surname, found in Quebec, though I've seen Arville or Arvilla as a given name as well.