The National Society United States Daughters of 1812

I've been working on my application to apply to The National Society United States Daughters of 1812. I'm hoping to join from my Nelson line through Sampson Nelson. I've sent my application in for preview. I've copied my documents, and written the necessary information on the back of each. My glitch is that Sampson Nelson and Eli Nelson, his son, never appear in documents together by name. Sampson died the year Eli was born. Eli is listed in the 1830 census as a tic mark, but not a name. I don't have a birth or death record for Sampson either. I do have a marriage record, and his 1812 service record which I found on Ancestry and Fold3.

To further complicate things his wife was Ann Carnes, but went by Nancy. On their marriage record she is listed as Ann Carnes, but after that is referred to as Nancy Nelson. When Sampson died Nancy married his friend Lewis Vonschriltz so she is also Nancy Vonschriltz. Nancy is on record as having a son named Eli Nelson so I'm hoping those facts can be tied together.

Now I'm going to work on application to Daughters of the American Revolution.

Happy Hunting!

Research Checklist

Yesterday I found a Research Checklist that I could work with. It's from the Midwest Genealogy Center and you can find it here: Research Checklist

I received my dad's birth certificate from the state of Michigan yesterday. Since he is deceased I had to send them the death certificate before they would release the birth certificate to me. Someone from their vital record office called me and told me he would hold on to my application for the bc,  I could fax it or email it to him when I received it from the state of Texas.

Today I uploaded the death certificate to Ancestry.com and to our family fb genealogy page. I also uploaded some other documents to his record as well.

I'm ordering birth certificates from Kentucky and Michigan tonight. Kentucky docs are $10 while Michigan docs are $34. Go figure.

Yours for Today's Genealogy-
Vikki