Life In The 19th Century
May. 26th, 2013 06:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robbyI was working on genealogy, but am stuck with one of my great-grandfathers named George A Rogers or Rodgers. He was born in the US about 1854, and married at age 35, but five years later, his wife dies and his two young sons are raised by their maternal grandparents. I'm doing this on ancestor.com, and found two family trees done by my cousins, but we're all stymied.
A fire destroyed the national census data from 1890, which might have been the key. His two sons have what sound like family names (Calame, Payne) as middle names, but I don't find genealogies with those families connected to Rogers. I need the history detectives.
A lot of my ancestors emigrated to America and passed through New York in the mid-19th century, and Gotham, the history of NYC that I'm reading, does a good job of describing that era.
A fire destroyed the national census data from 1890, which might have been the key. His two sons have what sound like family names (Calame, Payne) as middle names, but I don't find genealogies with those families connected to Rogers. I need the history detectives.
A lot of my ancestors emigrated to America and passed through New York in the mid-19th century, and Gotham, the history of NYC that I'm reading, does a good job of describing that era.
