- Tombstone Tuesday: Henry Horn
- Tuesday’s Tip: Putting Together the Clues about Henry Horn
- Military Monday: Henry Horn & the Battle of Trenton
- Military Monday: Henrich Horn- American Prisoner of War
- Military Monday: Henrich Horn on the March
- Travel Tuesday: Henrich Horn, Prisoner of War
- Military Monday: Henry Horn and Hessian Resources
- Tuesday’s Tip: More Henry Horn and Hessian Resources
- Sorting Saturday: Henry Horn and American Resources
- Workday Wednesday: Dec. 26, 1776 in Trenton, New Jersey
- An Independence Day for Henrich Horn
McMurray Family (Click for Family Tree)
Tuesday’s Tip: When you find a resource that lists your ancestor, or has information to add context to his/her life, “mine” it for more information than just the first page that came up in a search engine.
Finding new information about an ancestor, their time, or the places they lived is always exciting! But don’t stop with the first item that comes up on a website search or when checking the index. Look through the information, using a variety of search terms, to see what else might provide more information. Browse through a Table of Contents or go page by page through a document. Important-to-you items can get missed by an indexer, spelling can be off, and sometimes titles are misleading, or the article has more than suggested. This tip will help “put flesh on the bones” of an ancestor, and help you to understand more about the context of their life.
Using references, notes/footnotes, and bibliographies can point a researcher toward more pertinent information as well.
The Journal of the American Revolution is a good example. After finding the items that were listed in yesterday’s post, another search on the website, this time for “Hessian,” brought up more interesting articles that are useful as background for understanding the early years and military service of Henry Horn:
The Hessian Jägerkorps in New York and Pennsylvania, 1776-1777
Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America
More to come about Henry Horn as we complete more research.
Notes, Sources, and References:
- How are we related? One of the sons of Henry HORN and Elizabeth (PRETZMAN) HORN was Frederick P. HORN (1796-1867). One of his daughters with Hepzibah (CLARK) HORN was Mary Ann HORN (1824-1891), who married Henderson McMURRAY (1819-1906). Their son Frederick Asbury McMURRAY (1850-1929) was the grandfather of Edward A. McMURRAY, SR. (1900-1992).
- Journal of the American Revolution, allthingsliberty.com.
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Great blog! Glad I stumbled across it. My grandmother was a Horn and grew up in Newton.
Thanks for reading, and for your comment! We plan to get back to blogging shortly and want to finish up the story of Henry Horn.