Tombstone Tuesday - Barfield

William Leander Barfield was my Great-Great Grandfather. He's one of my brick-wall ancestors. He was born in 1872, supposedly in Glascock County, Georgia. I married Frances Boatright in Emanuel County, Georgia in 1902.

William died in 1924 - a time at which death certificates were mandatory. I cannot find a death certificate for him in Georgia, though I have tried multiple indexes. He was a farmer with a large family, working on his "own account" on rented land in 1920. I find it hard to believe that he left the state - but who knows? I just know I'd really like to get a copy of his death certificate!

He's buried at Hawhammock Missionary Baptists Church near Swainsboro, Emanuel, Georgia.

SC Historic Newspapers Online

Online newspaper subscriptions can be pricy. Before making the investment, make sure to see what newspapers are available for the areas that are important to your research. I've previously comprised a list of Georgia newspapers available online (updated as of today).

Here's a list of digitized South Carolina Newspapers available online at the major database sites. If you looking for a specific newspaper, remember to check their website. Many major newspapers now offer programs to access their archives on their websites.

Databases:

GenealogyBank.com ($)

- Aiken Standard (2008-Current)
- Anderson Independent-Mail (1998-Current)
- Anti-Monarchist (1811)
- Beaufort Today (2008-Current)
- Belton & Honea Path News-Chronicle, The (2004-Current)
- Bluffton Today (1999-Current)
- Camden Gazette (1816-1822)
- Carolina Gazette (1800-1828)
- Charleston Courier (1803-1822)
- Charleston Evening Gazette (1785-1786)
- Charleston Mercury (1854-1859)
- Charleston Morning Post (1786-1787)
- Cheraw Chronicle, The (2006-Current)
- Chronicle of Liberty (1783-1783)
- City Gazette (1787-1833)
- Coastal Observer - Pawleys Island (2009-Current)
- Columbia Gazette (1794-1794)
- Columbia Star, The (2004-Current)
- Columbian Herald (1784-/1796)
- Daily Evening Gazette (1795-1795)
- Daily Journal-Messenger - Seneca (2006-Current)
- Echo du Sud (1801)
- Evening Courier (1798-1798)
- Gaffney Ledger, The (2004-Current)
- Georgetown Gazette (1798-1826)
- Herald Independent, The - Winnsboro (2008-Current)
- Herald, The - Rock Hill (2004-Current)
- Herald-Journal - Spartanburg (2004-Current)
- Horry Independent, The (2007-Current)
- Investigator (1812-1814)
- Island Packet (2009-Current)
- Messenger, The - Hartsville, (2007-Current)
- Miller's Weekly Messenger (1807-1820)
- Newberry Observer, The (2006-Current)
- Oracle 1/1/1807 - 12/8/1807 Historical News
- Pickens Sentinel, The (2008-Current)
- Post and Courier, The - Charleston (1994-Current)
- South Carolina Gazette (1792-1793)
- South Carolina State Gazette (1800-1828)
- South Carolina State Gazette (1799-1828)
- South-Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser (1783-1785)
- South-Carolina Independent Gazette (1791-1792)
- South-Carolina State-Gazette (1794-1802)
- South-Carolina Weekly Advertiser (1783-1783)
- South-Carolina Weekly Gazette (1783-1786)
- Southern Chronicle (1822-1825)
- Southern Evangelical Intelligencer (1819-1820)
- Southern Patriot (1831-1848)
- State (1891-1922)
- State Gazette of South-Carolina (1785-1793)
- State, The - Columbia (1987-Current)
- States Rights and Free Trade Evening Post (1831-1832)
- Strength of the People (1809-1810)
- Sun News, The - Myrtle Beach (1996-Current)
- Telegraph (1795-1795)
- Telescope (1815-1815)
- Times (1800-1820)
- Times and Democrat, The - Orangeburg (2002-Current)
- Union Daily Times, The (2006-Current)
- Winyaw Intelligencer (1817-1833)

NewspaperArchive.com ($)

- Aiken County Journal, The (1969)
- Aiken County Rambler (1981 - 1983)
- Aiken County Register (1983 - 1984)
- Aiken Courier Journal (1874 - 1878)
- Aiken Journal (1874)
- Aiken Journal and Review (1885 - 1935)
- Aiken Journal and Review, The (1925)
- Aiken Recorder (1882 - 1907)
- Aiken Standard (1924 - 2009)
- Aiken Standard and Review (1935 - 1969)
- Aiken Standard and South Carolina Gazette (1930 - 1935)
- Aiken Tribune (1871 - 1875)
- Columbia Star Columbia (2005 - 2009)
- Columbia Star Reporter (1966 - 1971)
- Conway Horry Independent (2008)
- Daily Mail Anderson (1952)
- Daily Times-News, The - Burlington (1957)
- Florence Morning News (1929 - 1977)
- Horry Independent (2003 - 2009)
- Journal and Review, The (1892 - 1899)
- Loris Scene (2008 - 2009)
- Loris Sentinel (1953 - 1959)
- Morning News - Florence (1933 - 1936)
- Morning News Review, The - Florence (1924 - 1928)

Ancestry.com ($)

- Aiken Standard (1969-1977)
- Daily Times News - Burlington (1957-1957)
- Florence Morning News (1929-1977)
- Morning News - Florence (1936-1936)
- The Morning News Review - Florence (1924-1928)

Footnote.com ($)

- Columbia Star (2003-2004)

- Horry Independent (1999-2004)

- Loris Scene (1998-2003)

- Loris Sentinel (1953, 1956-1959)

- Star Reporter (1963-1971)

NewsInHistory.com ($)

- Camden Gazette (1816 - 1822)
- Southern Chronicle (1822 - 1825)
- Carolina Gazette (1800 - 1828)
- Charleston Courier (1803 - 1822)
- Charleston Mercury (1854 - 1859)
- City Gazette (1800 - 1833)
- Echo du Sud (1801)
- Investigator (1812 - 1814)
- Oracle - Charleston (1807)
- Southern Evangelical Intelligencer (1819 - 1820)
- Southern Patriot (1831 - 1848)
- Strength of the People (1809 - 1810)
- Times - Charleston (1800 - 1820)
- South-Carolina State-Gazette (1800 - 1802)
- South Carolina State Gazette (1800 - 1828)
- State - Columbia (1891 - 1922)
- Telescope - Columbia (1815 - 1843)
- Anti-Monarchist - Edgefield (1808 - 1811)
- Georgetown Gazette (1800 - 1826)
- Winyaw Intelligencer (1817 - 1833)
- Murfreesboro Union (1939)
- Miller's Weekly Messenger (1807 - 1820)

Wordless Wednesday

SNGF - Birthday Calendar

This week's SNGF is to make a calendar showing all of our ancestor's birthdays using our genealogy software.

In reunion, you can create a calendar list of certain events. Simply select "List" from the file menu, and then chose "Calendar..." From here, decide which event you'd like to list: births, deaths, marriages, emigrations, censuses, etc. It does not appear that all events can me made into one calendar list. Next, designate the time span the the folks that you want showing up (all, marked, living). Once the list is created, columns can be added or removed. For example, I can add an age column. Finally, decide the output of the file: text or web file. The file will be a list only and is not available in a "wall calendar" format.

To the left I have an image of the birthday calendar list as it appears in reunion, before being sent to a file. Those with January birthdays with no specific date are listed first, followed by a chronological list of everyone else.

I see that today there are four birthdays in my family tree. The "closest" relative is my half-brother's Great-Grandmother, Evie Williams Belk. Yesterday was my Great-Grandmother's birthday.

More Confusion with FamilySearch Indexing

A little while ago I wrote a post about some issues I was having with FamilySearch Indexing. Most of those issues seems to have been fixed. Today, however, I came across a new issue.

I finished indexing a batch of census images and wanted to try something new. When picking a new batch to index, I generally sort by language and pick from the english projects. I decided to try South Africa, Cape Province - Church Records 1660-1970. They were listed as English, Advanced. Much to my surprise however, the record I was presented with was in Dutch!

I thought that I must have missed something when I selected the record - but no. I went back to the selection screen and this collection is listed as english. But if I check the FamilySearch Indexing website, the project details state that the records are in Afrikaans, Dutch and English. Hmmm... now why couldn't they list this information in the indexing program?

I have absolutely no knowledge of Dutch, but it seems to be very much like German. I was able to guess at the meanings of the words, but in the end decided to find a translator. Google's translator is very good. It translated what I typed as I typed and the results were grammatically correct.

I hope that FamilySearch Indexing will correct this error. If they don't, they may find that a lot of batches may be returned. However, having been able to successfully complete this Dutch record, I may try my hand at other foreign language documents.

Name Your Kids Already!

This is the 1880s Census enumeration of my Sprouse Ancestors. The family of William Washington and Nancy K (Armstrong) Sprouse were living in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina in 1880. This page shows only their children, with the couple listed on the previous page. And the names of two of their children? Babe. As in, unnamed babies. I know that it's not that unusual to have not named a child immediately, but I personally find it unusual to have two unnamed daughters of different ages, neither of which are infants.

The eldest of the unnamed girls was my Great-Great Grandmother, Nina Frances Spouse. I'm curious as to how she made it to the age of two without a name. Could the couple not pick a name? Was she was named after someone? The name Nina (Nine-uh) doesn't appear previously in the family that I can find, though there were tons of Franceses. What was the general length of time that children went without names during this time period?

I'll probably never know specifically why Nina wasn't "Nina" for over two years, but it's an interesting mystery to ponder.

Wordless Wednesday

Floor Plans - My Home as a Baby

This post is part of an on-going series about the homes of my family. Today's house is the one that I lived in at the very beginning of my life.

This house was on Allen Wood's Drive in Norcross, Georgia. Although I do not remember the house at all, I easily remember the street name, as it is the same as my brother's. My mom drew this floor plan. The house was a two story duplex. That's all the information I have now.

Surname Saturday - Huyler

My maternal Grandmother's maiden name was Betty Huyler. Her father was born Vary Americus Hyler, but changed his name to Mack Huyler. My grandmother did not know her father as a child and never knew about, nor met, any of his family. It was one of those great moments in my genealogy research to be able to provide her with the names of her grandparents: John Willis Hyler and Ida Leaphart.

My Huyler / Hyler ancestors are mainly from Lexington County, South Carolina. Other spellings of this name include Hiler, Heyler and Hoyler. I can trace this line back to Gabriel Hoyler / Hyler, born abt 1794 in South Carolina. He lived in Lexington County with his wife, Abigail Gartman. According to census records, their children were Almenia, Reuhama, Nathan Washington, William, and Frances E. I descend through Nathan Washington Hyler, who served as a confederate soldier during the Civil War.

Other researchers have Gabriel's father as Barnet Bernard Hoyler / Hyler, whose parents are said to be Johann Michael Heyler and Hannah Catherine Morlokin. They are said to have been born in Baden, Germany. I have not seen documentation to prove these two generations.

If anyone else is researching this family line, I'd love to hear from you.

Image Oddities

I've been browsing through Ancestry.com's new City Directory listings (yes browsing only - the search doesn't seem to find folks half the time) and have found some image oddities. Check out the screenshot below:

See they gray spots and textured areas? It can make it just about impossible to read some of the images on this page. But what if you ancestors are on this page? Never fear intrepid researchers! Just click to save the image to your computer and...

The new image is perfect! I'm not sure what's causing the error in the original image, but this is an easy way to get around the problem.