Year: 2004

Michael Tiedeck

Disclaimer: I’m still very new at genealogy.

TIEDECK, MICHAEL (1910 U.S. Census)
NEW YORK , KINGS, 29-WD BROOKLYN
Age: 46, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: GERM
Series: T624 Roll: 982 Page: 29

Michael Tiedeck 1910 Census

Recently I sat in a training meeting for a few minutes. The Stake Family History Director (who was training) told me about being able to access Census Data online through our local library’s website. Well I finally upgraded my library card ($1) and quickly searched for Michele’s Paternal Grandmother’s surname “Tiedeck”. I’ve been peeking at the Tiedeck line for a while and haven’t found very much (other than marriage information for George, who I assumed could be a uncle).

Well I logged in to www.lvccld.org. Then I searched the Heritage Quest Census database.

Bingo!

Age, country of birth, seven children including Michele’s Great Grandfather Harry Tiedeck, and more.

Tiedeck, Michael, head, 46
Anna, wife, 44
Alice, daughter, 18?
George, son, 14
Florence, daughter, 13
Harry, son, 12
Anna, daughter, 7
Michael, son, 6
Roy, son, 2

Both parents were born in Germany. All the children were born in New York. Michael was employed as an iron worker. It looks like the family spoke english.

I wonder if Michele’s father was named (in part) after his Grandfather Michael Tiedeck?

Update

Our new baby should arrive sometime this month. Life will continue to be busy at least for a couple months. I won’t be making frequent updates at least until October.

I did want to point out Joe Edmon’s Bookmarks on steroids – Using an RSS News Reader article at Genealogy Blog. It’s a good introduction to syndicated news feeds and genealogy. (I use bloglines as my news reader).

One thing not mentioned in Joe’s article is about a news feed on this site and other’s that provides updated information on genealogical data updates. This feature (provided by TNG software) allows anyone to keep up on other’s research and work. This is essentially just a news feed of TNG’s “What’s New” (recent changes).

Here’s the link to Family Preserves RSS 2.0 (Gen Data) news feed.

And a few others:
lythgoes.net
slpatterson.com/
www.celestialfamily.org
www.jonesworld.org

The workers at celestialfamily.org and slpatterson.com are especially busy, and update their data a at few times each week.

Privacy is also not an real issue, because the newsfeeds also takes advantage of TNG’s built-in security feature for living individuals. If you don’t have a user name and password you don’t get the information.

I think the most powerful part of blogs, news readers and genealogy is the potential to collaborate and share research. Unfortunately I haven’t done as good of a job as I should have with my own family to evangelize this. I also think weblog, news readers and web-based genealogy software is still in an infant stage. Here’s to the future.

Changes

Terry has sent me an updated gedcom for the Roper and Hansen lines. I had to import it into PAF and they export back to a gedcom before the website genealogy software would import it.

Unfortunately it looks like some of the photos are now linked to wrong individuals. These will be fixed shortly.

Finished Reading

Last night I finished reading From Quaker to Latter-Day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley by Leonard J Arrington.

The historical tome, almost 500 pages, is wonderful book, that provided me with a much better historical perspective. Not only history on Edwin Dilworth Wooley, but also on the Church. There are many familiar things with church history that I wasn’t aware of, along with many others that weren’t so familiar.

This is definately a must read for any of his descendents (I’m married to one). A word of caution, if your not an avid reader, which I’m not, it may take a little while to finish.

You can find used copies on Amazon starting under $8 (plus shipping).

Isaac Morley & The Manti Temple

We just arrived back in town after a quick trip to Delta, Utah for Dan’s (Michele’s brother) wedding. Dan married Tiffany, a VERY nice girl from Sutherland. The married was performed in the Manti Temple.

I noticed an item of Isaac Morley’s on display just before the recommend desk on the way out. I had heard from a few people about this, but it was neat to see it for myself. The plaque mentioned that this was one of the first made in the church. Unfortunately I didn’t write down the rest of the information and now can’t remember it, including who donated it to the Church.

If you search on this site for Diantha Morley Billings you’ll find a very interesting related tidbit.

We drove to Delta through Nephi and then down. I didn’t take time to look closely at the map before we left. We were also pressed for time. I look forward when we can be back and have a family history trip to see many places including Fayette, Huntington (east over the mountains) and many other places. We’ll be able to spend more time next time we travel through when Michele is not expecting.