I’ve always wanted to know more about my 11th Great Grandfather John CRAM (About 1540 – 28 May 1599). I hope this will cover all CRAM, CRAMME, CRAMBE and VonCRAM. I know there are other cousins out there that I haven’t met or been in contact with. I hope to meet them and hope that we can help each other discover other relatives. Always interested in getting new data on my family. Please contact me if you do have some. Thank you.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Events Week of January 26 - 31

26 Jan 1726 Henry Fifield & Comfort Cram married
27 Jan 1670 Samuel Dearborn born
27 Jan 1713 Ebenezer Lovering, Sr & Esther Dearborn married
29 Jan 1737 Jonathan Cram, Jr. born
29 Jan 1933 Donald Butcher born

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Blog Improvement - 1/19



After reading all the suggested articles. These are the three things I've picked out some of which I already had started to do.

1) Outline Posts Before Writing Them - need to start this one.(suggestions welcome)
2) Take Your Ideas and Plan a Posting Schedule - have started with weekly memes and weekly events
3) Improve Your Title Writing Skills - need to work on this one. (suggestions welcome)

Monday, January 19, 2009

Events Week of January 19 - 25

19 Jan 1730 Jeremiah Sanborn, Sr. & Lydia Dearborn married
20 Jan 1734 Nehemiah Cram born
21 Jan 1642 Henry Sherburne, Jr. born
21 Jan 1733 Mary Hussey died
22 Jan 1704 Captain William Marston Jr. died
22 Jan 1886 Paul Rufus Cram died
23 Jan 1790 Jonatha Cram died
23 Jan 1964 Victor Dee Cram died
24 Jan 1776 Jabez Dow born
24 Jan 1930 Charles Sanborn Cram died
25 Jan 1675 Job Junkins born

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Events Week of January 12- 18

12 Jan 1718/1719 Henry Holt Sr
12 Jan 1718 Benjamin Batchelder died
12 Jan 1862 Nancy Carr died

13 Jan 1827 Judith S. Prescott died
13 Jan 1730 John Cram, Sr. & Susanna Page married

14 Jan 1718 Nehamiah C Heath died
14 Jan 1682 Sarah Sherburne born

15 Jan 1756 Joseph Dearborn died
15 Jan 1933 John Smith Cram died

18 Jan 1725 Henry Sanborn Sr. died
18 Jan 1949 Alexander Smith Cram died
18 Jan 1886 Paul Rufus Cram born

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Ten on Tuesday





Ten On Tuesday

10 Things You're Really Good At

1. Procrastinating
2. Research for Genealogy
3. Gardening
4. Making Lists
5. Saving money
6. Reading
7. Counted Cross-stitch
8. Learning New things
9. Listening to others
10. Organizing

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Genealogy Meme

I decided to do this genealogy meme that's going
around the genealogy blogs.


The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type

1. Belong to a genealogical society.
2. Researched records onsite at a court house.
3. Transcribed records.
4. Uploaded tombstone pictures to Find-A-Grave.

5. Documented ancestors for four generations (self, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents) .
6. Joined Facebook.
7. Helped to clean up a run-down cemetery.
8. Joined the Genea-Bloggers Group on Facebook.
9. Attended a genealogy conference.
10. Lectured at a genealogy conference.
11. Spoke on a genealogy topic at a local genealogy society.
12. Been the editor of a genealogy society newsletter.
13. Contributed to a genealogy society publication.
14. Served on the board or as an officer of a genealogy society.
15. Got lost on the way to a cemetery.
16. Talked to dead ancestors.
17. Researched outside the state in which I live.
18. Knocked on the door of an ancestral home and visited with the current occupants.
19. Cold called a distant relative.
20. Posted messages on a surname message board.
21. Uploaded a gedcom file to the internet.
22. Googled my name.
23. Performed a random act of genealogical kindness.
24. Researched a non-related family, just for the fun of it.
25. Have been paid to do genealogical research.
26. Earn a living (majority of income) from genealogical research.
27. Wrote a letter (or email) to a previously unknown relative.
28. Contributed to one of the genealogy carnivals.
29. Responded to messages on a message board or forum.
30. Was injured while on a genealogy excursion.
31. Participated in a genealogy meme.
32. Created family history gift items (calendars, cookbooks, etc.).33. Performed a record lookup for someone else.
34. Went on a genealogy seminar cruise.
35. Am convinced that a relative must have arrived here from outer space.
36. Found a disturbing family secret.
37. Told others about a disturbing family secret.
38. Combined genealogy with crafts (family picture quilt, scrapbooking).
39. Think genealogy is a passion not a hobby.
40. Assisted finding next of kin for a deceased person
41. Taught someone else how to find their roots.
42. Lost valuable genealogy data due to a computer crash or hard drive failure.
43. Been overwhelmed by available genealogy technology.
44. Know a cousin of the 4th degree or higher.
45. Disproved a family myth through research.
46. Got a family member to let you copy photos.
47. Used a digital camera to “copy” photos or records.
48. Translated a record from a foreign language.
49. Found an immigrant ancestor’s passenger arrival record.
50. Looked at census records on microfilm, not on the computer.
51. Used microfiche.
52. Visited the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
53. Visited more than one LDS Family History Center.
54. Visited a church or place of worship of one of your ancestors.
55. Taught a class in genealogy.
56. Traced ancestors back to the 18th Century.
57. Traced ancestors back to the 17th Century.
58. Traced ancestors back to the 16th Century.

59. Can name all of your great-great-grandparents.
60. Found an ancestor’s Social Security application.
61. Know how to determine a soundex code without the help of a computer.
62. Used Steve Morse’s One-Step searches.
63. Own a copy of Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills.

64. Helped someone find an ancestor using records you had never used for your own research.
65. Visited the main National Archives building in Washington, DC.
66. Visited the Library of Congress.
67. Have an ancestor who came over on the Mayflower.
68. Have an ancestor who fought in the Civil War.

69. Taken a photograph of an ancestor’s tombstone.
70. Became a member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits.
71. Can read a church record in Latin.
72. Have an ancestor who changed their name.
73. Joined a Rootsweb mailing list.
74. Created a family website.
75. Have more than one "genealogy" blog.
76. Was overwhelmed by the amount of family information received from someone.
77. Have broken through at least one brick wall.
78. Visited the DAR Library in Washington D.C.
79. Borrowed a microfilm from the Family History Library through a local Family History Center.
80. Have done indexing for Family Search Indexing or another genealogy project.
81. Visited the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
82. Had an amazing serendipitous find of the "Psychic Roots" variety.
83. Have an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War.
84. Have an ancestor who was a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War.
85. Have both Patriot & Loyalist ancestors.

86. Have used Border Crossing records to locate an ancestor.
87. Use maps in my genealogy research.
88. Have a convict ancestor who was transported from the UK.
89. Found a bigamist amongst the ancestors.
90. Visited the National Archives in Kew.
91. Visited St. Catherine's House in London to find family records.
92. Found a cousin in Australia (or other foreign country).
93. Consistently cite my sources.
94. Visited a foreign country (i.e. one I don't live in) in search of ancestors.
95. Can locate any document in my research files within a few minutes.
96. Have an ancestor who was married four times (or more).
97. Made a rubbing of an ancestors gravestone.
98. Organized a family reunion.
99. Published a family history book (on one of my families).
100. Learned of the death of a fairly close relative through research.
101. Have done the genealogy happy dance.
102. Sustained an injury doing the genealogy happy dance.
103. Offended a family member with my research.
104. Reunited someone with precious family photos or artifacts.