<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:initial">Need to </span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:initial">unsubscribe</a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:initial">?</span></div><div><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Genealogy Update</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">27 August 2026</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">** The Family No One Is Working On</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">** Current Offerings</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">** </font></span><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Why Were they All Dressed Up? And Who Took the Picture?</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">** Consultations</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">** Keep Getting the Update</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-------------------------</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The Family No One Is Working On?</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">---------------------------------------</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">I made a joke on one of my Facebook pages and on my Twitter feed:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;border-width:2px;border-color:rgb(0,115,170);color:rgb(23,37,42)"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Ever feel like you are the only person on the planet researching a family from somewhere in 1750?</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Sometimes it feels that way. Other times it feels like hundreds of people are researching the same family and a proportion of them repeat errors in old genealogies that have been corrected decades ago. That\u2019s another issue for different reasons. This post is about feeling lonely.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">One respondent (Allison B) mentioned that she felt she was giving those ancestors \u201cnew life.\u201d</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">That seems to be an excellent way to look at it. While it can be frustrating to research a family that no one else is seemingly interested in, it is an opportunity to make discoveries and, in some way, bring those families back to life. At the very least it is a chance to make those stories known and to connect those individuals with other family members.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Many times these \u201cunresearched\u201d ancestors are more difficult to research\u2013that\u2019s often why they are unresearched. It may be that no one has even remotely connected the family to any with living descendants. It may be that other descendants simply are not interested in them for one reason or another.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">If you are fortunate to make discoveries on these individuals and post the information in any public forum, there\u2019s always the chance that someone else incorporates the information into their tree without any communication with you. <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">That\u2019s the reality. That\u2019s the chance (or opportunity\u2013depending upon your perspective) that you take when you post any information publicly. </em>There\u2019s no control over information once it has been posted and, as we\u2019ve stated before, statements of fact cannot be copyrighted. Copying paragraphs of your analysis and putting it on as their own is a separate issue and is a violation of copyright. Whether it\u2019s courteous to communicate beforehand when reusing facts is a separate issue, but I can guarantee that it more the exception than the rule.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">When a person has researched a family for some time and has worked through research challenges with them sometimes they feel something of a connection to those ancestors. That\u2019s understandable. It\u2019s understandable too why it\u2019s frustrating when someone \u201ccopies\u201d that information and puts it forth as their own. The other option is not to post the information publicly.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">My philosophy is that by spending that time researching that specific family helps me to know them better than someone who simply copies my facts and puts them out there as ones they discovered. I\u2019ve gained something that they haven\u2019t. Wading through the research gives me more of a connection with individuals than simply copying and pasting facts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">That\u2019s something the copy and paster won\u2019t get.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">And time spent waging battles with the copiers and pasters takes away time from my research on those families that haven\u2019t been worked up. Or working on those families where there are lots of mistakes and gaps.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">I\u2019d rather spend my time doing that.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Current Offerings</font></p><p style="color:rgb(23,37,42);line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span 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And Who Took the Picture?</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">-----------------------------</font></div><div><div id="gmail-attachment_8685" class="gmail-wp-caption gmail-aligncenter" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:5px 3px 10px;outline:0px;text-align:center;font-family:"Open Sans";max-width:96%;clear:both;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:1px solid rgb(240,240,240);color:rgb(23,37,42);font-size:16px;width:410px"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8685" class="gmail-wp-image-8685 gmail-size-full" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/herschel_married.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="242" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; max-width: 98.5%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; text-align: initial; font-family: inherit; transition-property: background, padding, margin, border, transform, box-shadow, opacity, color, fill, font, border-radius, max-height, max-width, filter, -webkit-transform, -webkit-box-shadow, -webkit-filter; transition-duration: 0.5s; border: 0px; width: auto;"><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-8685" class="gmail-wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 4px 5px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.6em;line-height:14.4px;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%">Charles and Fannie (Rampley) Neill family\u2013probably taken West Point, Hancock County, Illinois. Identification is from left to right. Front: Pat Neill, Roger Neill. Back: Cecil Neill, Mae (Randolph) Neill, Ralph Neill, Ida (Trautvetter) Neill, Keith Neill, Armin Shanks, Fannie (Rampley) Neill, Nellie (Neill) Shanks, Charlie Neill</p></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">I wondered why they were all dressed up. There had to have been some sort of \u201coccasion\u201d as most of the snapshots of the Neills show the men in more traditional farmer attire (son-in-law Armin Shanks was a school teacher as was his wife Nellie) and the ladies in less formal dresses. Common sense told me it was not that all the Neills had been to church. The attire also indicated that the picture was probably not taken in the summer or in the depths of winter. But why were they all dressed up? This is one of the few pictures I have of the entire family in one shapshot. The other photographs from the 1920s and on do not include the entire family group.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">This picture was one that was in Fannie Rampley Neill\u2019s collection of photographs which are in the possession of a family member. The same picture was also in an envelope in her daughter Nellie\u2019s collection of photographs. Written on the envelope was a note indicating that the pictures were taken when son Herschel had come back with his new bride. The couple had married in Texas where he was stationed during part of World War Two.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">There was a second photograph including the newlyweds.</font></p><div id="gmail-attachment_8686" class="gmail-wp-caption gmail-aligncenter" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:5px 3px 10px;outline:0px;text-align:center;max-width:96%;clear:both;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:1px solid rgb(240,240,240);color:rgb(23,37,42);width:410px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8686" class="gmail-wp-image-8686 gmail-size-full" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/herschel_married2.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="256" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; max-width: 98.5%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; text-align: initial; transition-property: background, padding, margin, border, transform, box-shadow, opacity, color, fill, font, border-radius, max-height, max-width, filter, -webkit-transform, -webkit-box-shadow, -webkit-filter; transition-duration: 0.5s; border: 0px; width: auto;"></font><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-8686" class="gmail-wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 4px 5px;outline:0px;line-height:14.4px;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Charles and Fannie (Rampley) Neill family\u2013probably taken West Point, Hancock County, Illinois. Identification is from left to right. Front: Roger Neill, Pat Neill. Back: Cecil Neill, Mary Ann (Hartman) Neill, Herschel Neill, Ralph Neill, Mae (Randolph) Neill, , Ida (Trautvetter) Neill, Keith Neill, Fannie (Rampley) Neill, Nellie (Neill) Shanks, Charlie Neill</font></p></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Identifying the people in the photograph also led me to believe that Herschel took the first picture (he and Mary Ann are not in it) and that Armin Shanks took the second picture as he is the only one absent from that picture.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">One cannot always tell the reason why a family got together and it\u2019s not always obvious who took the picture either. But sometimes there are clues\u2013one just has to look. Before we found the envelope explaining why the pictures were taken, we were using my father\u2019s birth to approximate the picture\u2019s date (he\u2019s the one being held by his mother in both snapshots).</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">My Grandma Neill (Ida [Trautvetter] Neill) would have said they were \u201call dolled up\u201d for the occasion. Somehow I just can\u2019t bring myself to use that phrase to describe my grandfather.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------------</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Consultations</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------------</font></p><h2 style="color:rgb(23,37,42);text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-weight:300;font-size:2.625em;line-height:1.143">Genealogy Consultations</h2><h2 style="color:rgb(23,37,42);text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-weight:300;font-size:2.625em;line-height:1.143"> with Michael John Neill</h2><div><br></div><h2 style="color:rgb(23,37,42);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-weight:300;font-size:2.625em;line-height:1.143">What is a consultation?</h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)">It\u2019s a chance to discuss your specific problem with a professional genealogist, one who can look at your problem family with a fresh set of eyes. It can help you get started if you are just getting started with your research or continue if you\u2019ve reached a point where you do not know what to do. It\u2019s like having a problem-solving class devoted to your family. We\u2019ll look at see if there any additional clues or leads in the records you have already located and discuss what the next steps are in your genealogy journey on your family of interest. It\u2019s also a time for you to ask specific questions about the materials you have found.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)">People\u2014problem will revolve around one ancestor, a couple, or a couple and their children.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)">Places\u2014problem will be US based, including people who were immigrants to the United States.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)">Time period\u2014problem will focus on individuals born before 1900.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)">Consultee will submit documents on ancestor in an electronic format as either an email attachment or via Dropbox. <strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px">Submission should be no more than fifteen pages of records and one additional page of questions about those records</em></strong>. Submission should include materials located and materials searched negatively. Submission should include research goal.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)">Fee is $140\u2013we are having a 2025 <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=N9T7VCB8DTJ7C" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:1em;line-height:1.5">holiday sale of $100</a> (number of consultations at reduced price is limited). Michael will review materials submitted and schedule a Zoom meeting for a discussion of the problem. Consultees are encouraged to have a list of questions</p><h2 style="color:rgb(23,37,42);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-weight:300;font-size:2.625em;line-height:1.143">About Michael</h2><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:auto 1.5em 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">Michael has nearly forty years of research experience in courthouses, libraries, archives, and online.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">Michael has led research trips to the FamilySearch Library and the Allen County Public Library where he helped participants on a regular basis.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">Michael has worked on families in a variety of areas in the United States\u2014including rural and urban areas.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">Michael can help you evaluate and interpret sources for perceived reliability.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">Michael can help you create a to-do list based on your problem\u2014including materials to access and skills and methodologies that could be helpful generally.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">Michael will let you ask questions as a part of the consultation process.</li></ul><h2 style="color:rgb(23,37,42);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-weight:300;font-size:2.625em;line-height:1.143">What you\u2019ll get:</h2><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:auto 1.5em 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">Michael\u2019s notes (typed) on your problem that were used in preparation for the Zoom meeting\u2014including a section of where to go next.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px">The Zoom meeting with Michael.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)">Zoom meetings are scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time based on the schedule of Michael and the consultee.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=N9T7VCB8DTJ7C" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:1em;line-height:1.5">Register for a consultation today</a> ($100 sale price\u2013save $40!).</p></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif"><font size="4">
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