Rainy Day Saturday Genealogy

It's been raining off and on all day today, including the thunderstorm that woke me up at 5am this morning.  I did get back to sleep, only to wake up again around 8am.  I decided to stay up since I had agreed to help my grandmother fix her computers and show her some of the documents and photos I've gathered recently on her side of the family tree.  That's been postponed until tomorrow though.

I did make some progress today in my RootsMagic database.  I sourced the marriages of my great aunt Ozella Lee Hazlett and her husband.  I also sourced the marriage of my 2nd great-grandfather Hillary F. Vestal and 2nd great-grandmother Malvina Chappel, and the marriage of my 3rd great-grandfather Alexander Vestal and Delanah Gross.  Another marriage I sourced was of my 3rd great-grandfather, Moses Chappel and his wife Kissiah Swaim.  I've been slowly making progress catching up on my source citations in my database.

I was browsing ancestry.com earlier, and I found city directories for my great-grandfather Ralph Leo Hazlett and my great-grandmother Lois Lavon McDonald (with both Ralph Hazlett in 1942 and her 2nd husband in 1954) and add residence entries for each with source citations for them.

All in all, not a bad way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon.

One brick wall has been smashed to the ground!

I was browsing around the internet last night and came across the Lawrence County, MO genealogical society site which wasn't loading for some reason.  Well, I went back this morning and it loaded up just fine.  I am sure glad it did because it's led me to a treasure trove of information on one line of my family.

It had a link to the Missouri Death Certificates online images and so far I have found at least 6 ancestors in my Hazlett lines.  I've found great-great-grandma Mamie Kate Wallace and her husband John Wesley Hazlett who I already had some information on thanks to my grandmother.  I have also finally, after years of trying,  broken through the brick wall and found John Wesley's parents (and their death certificates too!).  Another great find was the death certificates for my great-grandmother's parents on the McDonald lines. 

I highly recommend that if anyone has relatives who have died between 1910 and 1959 in Missouri to go visit this site.  I can't wait to comb through my tree and see who else I might find in this database!