Theodore Haney/ Edith Bishop

Last week I went to work on proving the hand written tree that has come down to me through my Grandparents, Karl and Edna Bishop. Karl's sister Blondene and Nellie had been the originator of the tree, with the last entry in 1953. I don't know when they started the work on the tree, however the first entry on the tree is Johnnan Gerard H. Bischoff and his arrival in 1839, Havana, IL.

I started at the bottom of the tree with the information regarding Theodore and Edith. I proved what information I had on them. I discovered Theodore had two other sons, by a previous marriage. I was able to prove their relationship and found them to be about the age of Edith when she married Theodore. Edith and Paul had only one son Paul, who had three children, Donald, James and Judith. I am now working on Donald having completed working on Paul. The hand written tree states that he liked swimming, scouting and Baseball,and was born Feb 1940. I found that he lived in Sacramento, CA. And now, back to the research.

Charleston, SC

I went to the NGS meeting in Charleston and visited with Drew Smith about how I had started a blog, but was having a hard time keeping up with it. So I'll try again. I am still busy transcribing Grandma B. diaries, writing MY story, doing a journal on prison life of an ancestor who left letters behind, volunteering my time with Find-a-Grave and Ramdon Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK), plus I've been made Web Master for Smith County Texas. A job I am struggling to full fill. Then there are genealogy meeting, and cemeteries to photography for the society (ETGS) that I belong to. Finally there is Mary Jane, my dear aunt who will be 100 in August. She is in a nursing home, however it is up to me to help her and visit as often as I can.

I have been able to do some research on my own family: Anna Gertrude Wessling via Sister Mary Pauline. She is the Grand niece of my Great grandfather Bishop. I had some information on her and wanted to verify it, so I spent days looking and finding her on censuses, tax roll, voter lists, city directories, but no death date. She had been in California for years and my information confirmed this, but no death date. Finally a member of RAOGK suggested I contact the Mother House of the Sisters of Mercy, her order. After she went to the home for the aged in California, they moved her to Council Bluffs, IA to their hospital, where she died and was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery in Council Bluff, in the section reserved for Sisters of Mercy. Now it's on to another ancestor.