What you might find on Ebay

 A new branch of the family.

I bought this on Ebay very recently:

This is Moses and Mary Wormuth of Van Buren, Onondaga County, NY.  The illustration is from a History of Onondaga County.

I've begun the research of Moses and his family.  I've created a profile of Moses at WikiTree and I've added him to the One-Name Study.  

This has already opened this branch of the family and new sources of information about the family, including family trees @ Ancestry.com.

Always great fun.

Slow Progress

Progress is slow, if I'm conscientious and complete, at least, the basic information for each individual.

I'm currently moving forward from Peter and Harriet Wormuth and his other marriages, making sure that each person in the family are given profiles @ WikiTree and added to the Study.  Then, the marriages and children of each individual is added and another generation is completed.  

Right now, I'm working on Joseph Wormuth's family, having added all his children.  I'm now researching each of his children's families; the spouses and children.  I will then move on to the families of Joseph's brothers: John, Stephen and Peter, Jr's.; then, on to his half brother's families.

They all had a lot of children back then so that's a lot of profiles, most of which haven't been created yet.

BTW, I'm going to do a little Study, at some point, about the number of children that some of the women had and how old they were when they gave birth to their last child.  I'm thankful that changes happened.

I have a checklist for each profile I create @ WikiTree.  Each piece of the profile is not always found which is frustrating and I try to take the time to look in as many places as possible.  One of the most difficult things about researching the Wormuth family branches is that so many individuals in the family were named the same in different branches of the family.  Some have the same middle names so there may be multiple people within OUR branch of the Wormuths with the exact same name.  It makes research more time consuming because I have to spend more time sorting out which Peter or Joseph or Leon I'm finding.

What you can expect to see in most of my WikiTree profiles, if found:

• Birth, marriage and death dates and places.
• Place of burial.
• Parents
• Children
• A photo.
• Military service.
• Any unusual information found.
• Any memories discovered.

Any of you reading this, can join WikiTree and the Study, if you want.  Any of you can send me information and photos, and I will include them.

Watch the Count on the right.

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Latest News

 I've added a Study Count to the right hand column so you can quickly see how many profiles are currently in the Study.

Since one task of a one-name study is to find all individuals with any of the variants of that surname, I had been doing just that, hunting and finding individuals.  Then, I realized that I hadn't finished with the my own branch of the Wormuth family; so, I shifted gears.  The Study count will increase but probably a little slower because I will be trying to fill in basic data in the profile and sources.  But I should also be adding wives and children.

I'm working to complete our Wormuth family branch, all the individuals, and to bring those family branches forward to find living relatives.

In so doing the following have been discovered:

• There are a lot of repetitions of given names; lots and lots:  Peter, Joseph, Mary, Stephen and more.  
• Some of the family trees, relating to our branch, posted online have large mistakes; mostly confusing those repetitious given names.
• Some branches of the family had a very large number of children.

While working to improve the profiles of those already on WikiTree and adding profiles of additional members of specific family groups, I decided to trace direct male lines from Peter Wormuth, in Sullivan County, forward.  That gives us the direct male DNA for purposes.  Y-chromosomal DNA is passes from father to son only.  I'm not going to post that online for privacy reasons but I do have it so, if anyone reading this, in the Wormuth family, wants it, I can send it to you.  Of course, if you're male and your name is Wormuth, and recognize any of this family line, you're descended from Peter Wormuth of Sullivan County, New York.  Your DNA test will give you the origins of the family.  Please share it with me.

FYI, the Study includes all individuals with any of the variant surnames but also wives because they take the name at marriage.  Females with the surnames, at birth, who marry are, of course, included because their birth surname is Wormuth, but their children will not be included because the Study is of the name, not the relationships.  This is a clarification of the Study.

That's it for now.  Watch the count.

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