Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 30 Jan 2016.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be traveling for my primary job over the next few days so I decided to save my Kinship Determination Project (KDP) in several places \u2013 the cloud (I use Dropbox), a thumb drive, my desktop, my husband\u2019s computer\u2019s desktop, and a hard copy.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m a little paranoid that my hard work will disappear!<\/p>\n
This trip could not have come at a worse time as far as the KDP is concerned.\u00a0 I was really on a roll with it and then company arrived last Sunday so I wasn\u2019t able to spend as much time as I wanted to do.\u00a0 Had a very busy week of classroom visits and meetings, took a webinar, and was fighting off a cold so the KDP was put on the back burner.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t want another week to go by without progress on it so I thought maybe I could edit the hard copy on the plane and make an update via the cloud when I land.<\/p>\n
I resolved a few confusions – the first had to do with a death certificate not matching a tombstone; the second was too many people with the same name in the same place at the same time but they were all of vastly different ages so that was a quick analysis, too.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve gotten a lot of the first and second generation written but I’ve identified two areas I need to do more exhaustive research in \u2013 I need to find a deed and a will.\u00a0 Other than that, I\u2019m feeling good about the records I\u2019ve uncovered.<\/p>\n
So after awhile of analyzing records I decided I needed a break and I took a look at a different line that I’ve hit a brick wall with. \u00a0Last month I found the obituary and it wasn’t very helpful. \u00a0I’m trying to identify parents but it didn’t mention them; neither did the death certificate or the cemetery records. The obit did say the individual was a lifelong member of a church so I decided to contact the church to see if they had a baptism record that might list the parents. \u00a0It’s been 6 weeks and I’m getting a little frustrated. I\u2019ve emailed, called (several times), written a letter, and posted on their Facebook page.\u00a0 I\u2019m feeling like a pest but persistence pays so I\u2019m not giving up yet.\u00a0 How hard can it be to look this up, especially since I gave them the date of birth, too!\u00a0 I offered to pay.\u00a0 I sent a stamped return receipt envelope. \u00a0\u00a0Still received nothing. \u00a0I know no one that lives in the area that could go in person on my behalf. \u00a0I contacted the library, museum and the local genealogy society to see if they had any ins with the church. \u00a0Nada! \u00a0If anyone has any brilliant ideas for me I\u2019d appreciate hearing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 30 Jan 2016. I\u2019ll be traveling for my primary job over the next few days so I decided to save my Kinship Determination Project (KDP) in several places \u2013 the cloud (I use Dropbox), a thumb drive, my desktop, my husband\u2019s computer\u2019s desktop, and a hard copy.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m a … Continue reading “Help! Need Ideas to Obtain Baptismal Records”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[243,244,34],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brick-walls","tag-baptism","tag-christening","tag-kdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}