Indiana Trip

During my trip home in early August, I am hoping to go with my mom (and anyone else in my family who I can drag along) to visit Knox County, Indiana, the home of James Hooper and family from apx. 1838 to 1868. Hopefully, we will come home with lots of new info and some great pictures!

Nauvoo

As a Christmas gift for my mom (but really for myself a little bit) I put together a project about our Nauvoo ancestors. It includes ancestors from both the Arnell and Farnsworth sides of the family. It has four parts, all as .doc/.docx files:

Introduction
Life Events
Land Ownership
Life Stories

Later, I should be able to turn them directly into webpages to make them easier to view online.

William B Hooper Pension File

William Hooper, the oldest son of James and Elizabeth Hooper, died in the Civil War. This is the card from when James and Elizabeth filed to receive a pension after they moved to Idaho.

Who is James Hooper?

For those of you who will be wondering who I am talking about when I say the name "James Hooper", here is his relationship to Grandma...

James Hooper
-->James Hayes Hooper
---->Leone Elizabeth Hooper
------>Loene Kay Herlin

Children's Blessings

At the same time I found the baptismal records I just posted, I also found these children's blessings from James Hooper's younger children from (if I recall correctly) the same date.

Patriarchal Blessings

I received a few months back copies of James and Elizabeth [Parker] Hooper's patriarchal blessings. Here are links to where I have uploaded them in PDF format. I will upload my transcripts of them soon.

James Hooper Patriarchal Blessing
Elizabeth Hooper Patriarchal Blessing

Baptisms

Many months ago , I made one of my most exciting finds, when I stumbled across this baptismal record for the James Hooper family while scanning through a microfilm of membership records from Pleasant Grove.

The question I still have not found an answer to is this: If they didn't get baptized until they were already in Utah, why were they in Utah in the first place?

Email addresses

We can have up to 100 authors for this blog, so anybody else that wants to contribute, just let me know their email address (by email ideally, it probably isn't the best idea to post their email address to the blog) and I will send them an invite as well.

Introduction

Hello Farnsworth Family!

I have decided that a blog will probably be the best way to share my family history research. The idea I have right now is that I will start out by using this blog to post some of my research to share it with the family, and also to point out areas of research where I am not currently working but where I see others could look into. Everyone that joins the blog I will add as "authors" so that you can post to the blog too, and it could turn out that it becomes a place for everyone to share their research. We'll see!

As an intro, I am working right now on the James Hooper family, and have found some great stuff that I will share with everyone in the next little while as I find time to post it. And you will probably see that I go in waves, so if you don't see any updates for a while, I probably have put my research up on a shelf somewhere for a little while.

By the way, I love family history.