[or-roots] BLANCHARD

[Leslie Chapman]

Albert;

I don't find much joy in the 1860 and 1870 Census info; there is a J. P.
Blanchard who shows up in both of those that may be Joseph;

1860 OR  CLACKAMAS  OREGON CITY PCT
J. P. Blanchard	40 (or 44, unclear which) b. Vermont
Rebecca J. 		32					Ohio
William		 8					Oregon
Eva			 6					"
Ann			 4					"
Elizabeth		 2					"
Mary			 1					"

The good news is I don't find any Blanchard's in the 1865 delinquent tax
rolls. I also don't find any Blanchard's in the 1860 or 1870 Legislative
roll.

In 1860 Heritage quest lists Albert age 25 b. Canada, Dean age 26 b. Maine,
F.N age 50 b. Can (fa of Albert? FN is in Clackamas co and Albert is in
Wasco, which means they were a looong ways apart in 1860) H. G. age 25 b.
England (Hypolite age eight when he came over trail??) Henry age 20 b.
Wisconsin and JP. The closest thing to a cluster we have is JP and FN both
in Clackamas co.

In 1870 they have Chas age 56 b PA, D age 26 b Cana, Dean 36 b Maine, JA 54
b Ohio, JP again age 50, Sarah 37 NY, William 42 Ohio, Wm 35 VT. D and JA
are both in Portland, Chas and Sarah are both in Baker, otherwise everybody
is in a county of their own.

Somewhere I have access to a listing of the 1850 Oregon Census which may
have more info, but I am on my way to a Birthday party for a 93 year old
aunt so am going to sign off here.

I will try to get back to your problem again later, if somebody else doesn't
have what you neeed by then.

Les C.

1850 ORE Census from; http://gesswhoto.com/census.html

BLANCHARD (see also Blanchford)
BLANCHARD, John (Washington)
BLANCHARD, Wm. (Yamhill)
BLANCHETTE, F.N. (Clackamas)
BLANCHFORD (see also Blanchard)
BLANCHFORD, W.K. (Clatsop)


Okay, while I was at the party I see Steve and Rhonda came up with a lot of
the same info I have above, one thing I would note is that of the family
trees that they found at Ancestry; a lot of them will be duplicates from the
same submitter, hopefully Steve and Rhonda can sort out the 'wheat from the
chaff' and not spend a lot of their time obtaining duplicate information. I
usually won't bother with a family tree from ancestry unless it meets
certain criteria, number one the individual(s) I am interested in must have
some kind of realistic dates for at least birth and or death: beware of
trees that list things like WFT estimates .  .  .  .   and that sort of
thing, by the time WFT gets through with a few generations of that the dates
can be off a century. I pretty much won't bother with anything from Rootsweb
or Ancestry in terms of submitted family trees unless they site some hard
sources. If all that is sited for sources are email addresses it means that
they most likely have just pieced together other folks online family trees
to suit their purposes. If they have Vital records, Census and bible sources
and the like then they may be more reliable. The trick there is if they are
getting their info from somebody like me it might be hard to judge what the
value of the sources are;

2959.  kim at schludecker.com, Wheeler Ephraim ancestor 450445,  (Ancestry.com
download), "Electronic," 21.
2960.  Kathie (Wheeler) Lloyd, Wheeler from Kathie Lloyd,  (email from above
9/8/01), "Electronic," 5.
2963.  parts at d-and-h.com, Wheeler Rebecca ancesdescend 232402,
(Ancestry.com  download), "Electronic," 6.
2964.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM),
(June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998), "Electronic."
2965.  Melvin2.FTW,  (LDS download from IGI), "Electronic," Date of Import:
Apr 18, 2001.

this is a partial list of sources in one of my genealogy reports and first
of all the sheer number of sources might be inclining you to think "this guy
does great stuff" and they all look very officious. Ironically the only one
I really trust is 2960, because I know she has a lot of 'original source'
information in her family tree in what she has shared with me. I am a little
fuzzy whether she herself did the digging or she got her information from
the Wheeler Genealogy in America best source, but the point is the other
sources are family files I keyed information into my family file from and a
lot of those files that listed absolutely no sources listed.

I didn't learn how important sources were until I started getting a
significan number of folks in my tree from diverse sources and finding that
a lot of them were in total disagreement on places, names and dates, and
that some of them contained individuals that other folks claimed never
existed. Even so, as I mentiond in my 'foe paw' posting a few days back,
folks that use 'original sources' can still mess up if they don't pay close
attention. I currently have a family group in my file that I cannot
conclusively link to the person I have tried to link them to. I have a
Samuel McVay son of John b. Indiana and Martha b. Tennessee in my family
tree from when I tried to marry his sister Martha L off as Leticia Martha to
Nicholas Francis McNamara only to discover that Martha L was about 40 years
too old to be Leticia. In 1900 I find a Samuel McVay with a daughter whose
name 'seems' to be Tecia age 5 which would make her about right age to be
Laticia living in Del Norte Co Cal which is where Laticia marries Nicholas,
and Sam's folks are listed with appropriate birth places by him. Biggest fly
in the ointment is his age is off by two years, but I can live with that,
but before I put him in I would like a more positive link between the facts.
Like Samuel and wife with Laticia spelled out and another one of John's kids
or even better yet Mom or Pop in the house with them. Unfortunately after
1880 Samuel is the only member of the clan I am at all sure of. I think I
have Daniel his bro in another town in 1900, except parents place of birth
and his place of birth are scrambled.

Back to my point; I don't entirely dismiss other people's work as it is
posted on the internet, for one thing I believe very few folk are posting
bogus info with bad intent, they are either sloppy like me, or not versed
with the protocols of "proper genealogy" but be aware of what you are
getting. I freely share my info, and I have it pretty heavily sourced and I
always tell folks I share with, check my sources, if you don't see an
original source, and some of these can be electronic if they are vital
records or some such that I have found online, you have to be aware that the
information may not be worth the pixels it's made of because I don't "PROVE"
every fact I put in MY family tree.

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Albert Belanger
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 7:30 AM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: [or-roots] BLANCHARD Families in Oregon : 1840 -1900


Bonjour,

I hesitate to barge in on you all, but am encouraged by the wealth of info
that some of you have access to and are so generously willing to share with
others seeking connections with Oregon kin.

I have been trying for several years to sort out and connect, if possible,
the two or three branches of the BLANCHARD families who were in Oregon ,
specifically in the 1840's through the 1890's.