Fyrewurks » Beals http://fyrewurks.com between the click of the light and the start of the dream Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:47:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Elusive Elizabeth Brey http://fyrewurks.com/2010/05/the-elusive-elizabeth-brey/ http://fyrewurks.com/2010/05/the-elusive-elizabeth-brey/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 18:10:56 +0000 Jennifer http://fyrewurks.com/?p=748 I’ve put Jacob Beals research on the backburner now and have moved on to his wife, Elizabeth Brey, both for a change of pace and in hopes of getting some Jacob information out of the new line of research. What’s so tricky about these two is that there are so many variations on the spellings of [...]]]> I’ve put Jacob Beals research on the backburner now and have moved on to his wife, Elizabeth Brey, both for a change of pace and in hopes of getting some Jacob information out of the new line of research.

What’s so tricky about these two is that there are so many variations on the spellings of their last names.  Elizabeth’s has been spelled Bry, Brey, Bray, and even Brier and Jacob’s has been spelled Beal, Beals, Beels, and Biehl.

So far I have her page up on my Beals/Hall genealogy wiki and have posted the info that I already had, now I’m going to see if I can find more… to start with, I’m doing a small page on Elizabeth’s birthplace (and the home of many of my ancestors),  Lehigh County, PA to get a better picture of the history and land and to serve as a placeholder for my favorite Lehigh links to refer to later.

]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2010/05/the-elusive-elizabeth-brey/feed/ 1 The Mystery That Is Jacob Beals http://fyrewurks.com/2010/04/the-mystery-that-is-jacob-beals/ http://fyrewurks.com/2010/04/the-mystery-that-is-jacob-beals/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:05:38 +0000 Jennifer http://fyrewurks.com/?p=703 I got to the end of the Beals line today in my genealogy wiki, Jacob Beals, and am dying to know more – who were your parents, Jacob Beals?  This is too early to be the end of the line! I did manage to get a nice amount of information from Mouser Ancestry, and you [...]]]> I got to the end of the Beals line today in my genealogy wiki, Jacob Beals, and am dying to know more – who were your parents, Jacob Beals?  This is too early to be the end of the line!

I did manage to get a nice amount of information from Mouser Ancestry, and you can even read a wonderful biography on their site.  And I managed to get a few census records and a bit about he and his wife from a book on Ancestry.com… but that’s not enough – I want parents’ info!

So far I’ve scoured Google books and Google newspaper archives but have found next to nothing… so if YOU have any ideas, please leave a comment here! :)

What we do know is that Jacob Beals was married to Elizabeth Bry (or Brye, Brey, or Bray) and was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1806 and died October 20, 1890 and that he was “of German descent.”

]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2010/04/the-mystery-that-is-jacob-beals/feed/ 0 Great Great Grandpa James Francis Beals http://fyrewurks.com/2010/04/great-great-grandpa-james-francis-beals/ http://fyrewurks.com/2010/04/great-great-grandpa-james-francis-beals/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:19:26 +0000 Jennifer http://fyrewurks.com/?p=693 I’m still working mainly on my dad’s side of the family and have spent the past couple of days putting James Francis Beals‘s page together and it would truly be ‘but a mere shadow of its former self’ (a phrase my dad used to use often) if it weren’t for the vast amount of information [...]]]>

James Francis Beals

I’m still working mainly on my dad’s side of the family and have spent the past couple of days putting James Francis Beals‘s page together and it would truly be ‘but a mere shadow of its former self’ (a phrase my dad used to use often) if it weren’t for the vast amount of information on James F. Beals that Mouser Ancestry has gathered and allowed me to use in my tree.

So while my husband’s ancestors were medicine men and Cherokee outlaws, mine were vanilla German farmers in Pennsylvania - well, vanilla as far as I know, there still could be stories out there to uncover and mysteries to reveal.

]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2010/04/great-great-grandpa-james-francis-beals/feed/ 0 Great Grandpa James Elgie Beals http://fyrewurks.com/2010/03/great-grandpa-james-elgie-beals/ http://fyrewurks.com/2010/03/great-grandpa-james-elgie-beals/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:32:45 +0000 Jennifer http://fyrewurks.com/?p=662 The genealogy project continues… Tonight I’ve been working on the ancestry wiki page for my great grandfather James Elgie Beals.  He died when I was nine years old, yet I don’t remember if I ever met him. The information for this page has come from a combination of photos and clippings from my dad’s drawer [...]]]> The genealogy project continues… Tonight I’ve been working on the ancestry wiki page for my great grandfather James Elgie Beals.  He died when I was nine years old, yet I don’t remember if I ever met him.

The information for this page has come from a combination of photos and clippings from my dad’s drawer and research and pictures from my second cousin over at Mouser Ancestry, who has an amazing online family tree!  That’s the way to make a family tree, and that’s what I’m modeling mine after.

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