Time for a quick review of the Lee-o-netto situation. I am ready to show how this question has resolved itself by locating additional data concerning family members.
Analysis
One Lee-o-netto or Two?
Categories: Analysis, Family-Kanistanaux, Review
Tags: allegany, aunt nettie, bible story book, census record, charles dodge, death notices, news clipping
Moulton Cemetery Card
Today’s post will cover the cemetery card from Stockton, NY showing the plot information for Eli and Kate Moulton. I am grateful to Randy Blood for sharing all the wonderful items he photographed during his recent visit.
Categories: Analysis, Documentation, Family-Kanistanaux, Family-Moulton
Tags: cemetery record, death record, moulton, original records, town historian
Jane Kanistanaux – who is she?
My friend, Randy Blood, has been visiting in New York State and collecting documents for this Kanistanaux family. My next two documents are cemetery cards provided by the local historian (name unknown, age 91).
Today I will introduce a new family member.
Categories: Analysis, Documentation, Family-Kanistanaux
Tags: burial plot, index cards, new york state, original records, town historian, transcripts
1920 Death Record for Isaac Kanistanaux
In June I hired a researcher using the genealogyfreelancers.com service to retrieve records for me. They are now starting to dribble in. So, today I will take a break from the Paris Expo series to post the first of my new records.
Today I am posting the Death Register entry for Isaac Henry Kanistanaux.
Categories: Analysis, Documentation, Family-Kanistanaux
Tags: census records, chautauqua co, death record, fredonia, new york
U-ta-wa-un and Wa-no-na in Paris
I am so excited to share the following image with my readers.
I have located and acquired images of U-ta-wa-un and his “wife” while exhibiting at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1867. The image originally appeared in an 1867 French newspaper.
Ne-Do-Ba acquired the image through Le Hinchet Books & Prints of France. I would like to thank them for their very prompt service and for making this historically important print available.
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Indians in Paris?
I recently found a single sentence in a book (written in French) which could be of great interest to the Kanistanaux project. The topic is, of all things, the 1867 Universal Exposition in Paris, France.
Guess who was there? Yep, it’s him 
He’s baaaack —
Dr. Lee & U-ta-wa-un
A few weeks ago I posted a news clipping about U-ta-wa-un touring in Vermont with Dr. Lee-o-netto as a member of his troupe. Today’s post will cover a nice little treasure relating to this tour. It was located by my good friend Salmon, who is a total research hound. Once he found this artifact, he tracked down the owner and purchased a digit copy for me so I could post it on this blog.
K’chi Wliwni Nidoba
This document is a bit unusual for the time period since it is written using an early version of the “writing machine” or what folks of my generation would recognized as a typewriter.
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Categories: Analysis, Culture, Documentation, Entertainments, Family-Kanistanaux
Tags: abenaki, cambridge vermont, dr lee, ellinwood, farce, indian medicine, news clipping, red men, waterbury vt
Dr. Lee-o-netto’s estate
Today’s post will deal with the estate of Dr. Lee in Allegany, NY and how it was divided according to the local newspaper.
This is another news clipping to be credited to the research efforts of Randy Blood.
Categories: Analysis, Documentation, Family-Kanistanaux
Tags: 1940, allegany ny, dr lee, east randolph ny, grace kelly, native heritage, olean times herald, times herald, wells bridge ny
Dr. Lee in the 1880 Census
Well, what do you know! My last post suggested I might find Dr. Lee living near Herkimer, NY around 1880. Once I had an idea where she might be, it didn’t take long to locate her in the 1880 census.
This is why it is important to spend time tracking down other types of resources when doing family research. The contents of news clipping for the Kanistanaux family have provided many vital clues about the people in the family, their connections to each other, and where to look for missing pieces.
I found Dr. Lee in the 1880 census using Ancestry.com. First, I selected Census, then 1880. In the search box I entered Herkimer Co., NY as the “Lived In” location and used the setting “Restrict to Adjacent Counties”. The only other item was setting “Indian” as the race. I did not use any names, since I have already done name searches that did not discover her.
What do you know, there she is on the first page of results in Rome, Oneida Co., NY. If only they were all that easy. Oh wait, this wasn’t easy. It took me and Randy hours and hours of searching old newspapers to find the bits and pieces that brought me to this point.
If she had been listed as white instead of Indian, it would have taken much longer to find her!
Categories: Analysis, Documentation, Family-Kanistanaux, Tutorials-Tips
Tags: 1880 us census, dr lee, herkimer co, oneida co, rome
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