Community college English professor, family historian, science fiction fan, catmom.
Also, this blog is now becoming more of a professional blog, which is partly because I don’t want to run yet another blog, and partly because I mostly put my personal stuff on Facebook. I thought about restarting my blog hosted over at the MLA/Humanities Commons site, but this blog is all set up and is on my own domain.
On a positive note, I do have a profession, so perhaps I will have more to blog about and will post more frequently.
Winter Storm Avery was not a surprise; it was in the forecast. So why was there no salt? No plows? It took me almost 4 hours to get home from work. (Usually 60-90 minutes.)
As a stress-recovery activity, I added sources to the last family history entry.
I am thankful to Mia for the question, but I am now going to turn off comments on the Family History Page. I know from previous websites that a comments section gets rapidly out of control. PLEASE DO FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS THOUGH! See the Contact Page. It is also OK to comment on blog posts because they move down the page. What I don’t want is a Family History Page with a long string of comments, half of which are side conversations.
Ultimately I hope to add more Family History pages with sketches of each family.
I resolve to blog more in 2017.
My semester break has been pleasant but is drawing to an end and it’s time to return to blogging.
Dear Emily, thank you for your research 🙂 I am helping a neighbor (your distant cousin, I suppose!) with her family tree. Her father was from Newfoundland and she has Edward de la court (Lacour) #102 and Mary Hicks in her tree. I was wondering where you found the reference to his parents? Many thanks!
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Hi Mia,
I don’t have a reference to Edward LaCour’s parents. He and his wife Mary Hicks are recorded twice in my ahnentafel because two of his daughters ended up in my tree — it’s a small fishing town with a lot of interconnections. Edward LaCour’s 1790 wedding to Mary Hicks was recorded at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Harbour Grace. Harbour Main didn’t have a church at that time. I also relied on entries for Edward LaCour’s land claims in the Harbour Main section of the Plantation Book from the late 1790s to the early 1800s.
I don’t know who Edward LaCour’s parents were. There is a section on the De La Cour family of Jersey on the ThisIsland wiki, but I can’t link Edward directly to it. http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/De_La_Cour
I’m glad you asked this question because I haven’t looked at this branch of my tree in quite awhile. I’m horrified to see that some incidents are relying on OneWorldTree for a source, or just various Ancestry family trees. I need to firm up these sources. I am seeing connections to Furey and LaCour families in my AncestryDNA results, so it’s probably correct, but I need better sources.
Good luck with your research!
– Emily