The author has done a major update today, including adding exciting stories, rewording some sections for more clarity, fixing the Feedback page where comments were blocked for a few days, fixing a number of typos, improving grammar in several places, and most of all adding a Search field to the main menu. That means readers should review all the material so as not to miss important updates. There are two other new Asa topics that are well along in research so check back from time to time. Some fixes required contacting an expert in WordPress who provides media consulting services for my son’s firm.
Today some very important new stories were posted to Asa’s website. Under the menu item Asa’s Families, a new section was added “The Family Who Was Nearly Erased (that’s us)” in a massacre in 1708. Under the menu item Asa’s Famillies-Children submenu is added a postcard photo view of the Columbian Exposition, and another section is added which presents 4 generations of schoolteachers among Asa’s descendants. Keep returning for completion of very complex research on the topics of Asa’s watch which still exists, as well as completion of detailed and validated information on the ship and route of Asa’s sailing voyage to California in 1852. To add a comment here, fill in the “Leave a Reply” and fill out your email address (never made public) and your name or nickname, then press the Comment button.
The author-webmaster has reached completion with the last set of major updates, including many new photos and interesting stories, which are now integrated into the website. On the Returns Home menu item, the additions include the “Amazing Story of the 175 years old pocket watch” and “Uncle Asa was a nearby druggist and watchmaker”, also on the same page is a connection to the famous painter George Catlin. There are several other images and additions on other menu choices relating to Asa’s jury duty on a Weaverville trial, to the deeds when buying a farm, and to the clipper ship story. Many typos have been fixed after readers made contact.
Today the Descendants page and the About/Contact page were significantly updated. This was due to eliminating some overlapping of information. Think of it as a clarification. There was no new information added, but the sentences were rearranged between the two pages and within each page. In other news, one Bartlett has been contacted and given some time, we hope to have an update which ties more names to the numbered faces on the reunion photo on the Descendants page. In other news, a purported historic painting by a ship expert of the “North America” clipper ship has been discovered by a very helpful cousin, and steps to verify the provenance of the photo is in progress. Up until now, there was no photo or sketch found of that specific ship where Asa is confirmed as a passenger.
Major updates – look at the Home page for the addition of a verified accurate painting of the exact clipper ship that Asa booked for San Francisco, thanks to one reader who is a direct descendant. Also go to the menu for the Returns Home page which has the results of an extensive study of Asa’s pocket watch which is conclusive that Asa purchased the watch during his California years. A number of typos or new tidbits of information are incorporated for accuracy, and several passages have been edited for improved clarity. An important website administration achievement is the acceptance by a relative to take over this website in case of accident, to assure it will continue for a long time.
The website is really looking great! Asa Hartshorn was a very distant cousin of mine. He (and you) descend from the immigrant Thomas Hartshorn through his son Lt. John Hartshorn, a son of Thomas’ first wife Susanna Buck. I descend from Thomas through his son Timothy, a son of his second wife Sarah Ayers.
Thank you for pointing out the early Hartshorn’s entry into America. You and I are double-related, as you have discovered in your research. I hope that some of the other modern day descendants will be looking at their ancestry and discover the names of some relations in this website. Since Asa sent letters to his siblings during his gold panning days, a big hope is that some of those letters, or other memorabilia, have survived. I have included the married names of his siblings in this website.
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The author has done a major update today, including adding exciting stories, rewording some sections for more clarity, fixing the Feedback page where comments were blocked for a few days, fixing a number of typos, improving grammar in several places, and most of all adding a Search field to the main menu. That means readers should review all the material so as not to miss important updates. There are two other new Asa topics that are well along in research so check back from time to time. Some fixes required contacting an expert in WordPress who provides media consulting services for my son’s firm.
Today some very important new stories were posted to Asa’s website. Under the menu item Asa’s Families, a new section was added “The Family Who Was Nearly Erased (that’s us)” in a massacre in 1708. Under the menu item Asa’s Famillies-Children submenu is added a postcard photo view of the Columbian Exposition, and another section is added which presents 4 generations of schoolteachers among Asa’s descendants. Keep returning for completion of very complex research on the topics of Asa’s watch which still exists, as well as completion of detailed and validated information on the ship and route of Asa’s sailing voyage to California in 1852. To add a comment here, fill in the “Leave a Reply” and fill out your email address (never made public) and your name or nickname, then press the Comment button.
The author-webmaster has reached completion with the last set of major updates, including many new photos and interesting stories, which are now integrated into the website. On the Returns Home menu item, the additions include the “Amazing Story of the 175 years old pocket watch” and “Uncle Asa was a nearby druggist and watchmaker”, also on the same page is a connection to the famous painter George Catlin. There are several other images and additions on other menu choices relating to Asa’s jury duty on a Weaverville trial, to the deeds when buying a farm, and to the clipper ship story. Many typos have been fixed after readers made contact.
Today the Descendants page and the About/Contact page were significantly updated. This was due to eliminating some overlapping of information. Think of it as a clarification. There was no new information added, but the sentences were rearranged between the two pages and within each page. In other news, one Bartlett has been contacted and given some time, we hope to have an update which ties more names to the numbered faces on the reunion photo on the Descendants page. In other news, a purported historic painting by a ship expert of the “North America” clipper ship has been discovered by a very helpful cousin, and steps to verify the provenance of the photo is in progress. Up until now, there was no photo or sketch found of that specific ship where Asa is confirmed as a passenger.
Major updates – look at the Home page for the addition of a verified accurate painting of the exact clipper ship that Asa booked for San Francisco, thanks to one reader who is a direct descendant. Also go to the menu for the Returns Home page which has the results of an extensive study of Asa’s pocket watch which is conclusive that Asa purchased the watch during his California years. A number of typos or new tidbits of information are incorporated for accuracy, and several passages have been edited for improved clarity. An important website administration achievement is the acceptance by a relative to take over this website in case of accident, to assure it will continue for a long time.
The website is really looking great! Asa Hartshorn was a very distant cousin of mine. He (and you) descend from the immigrant Thomas Hartshorn through his son Lt. John Hartshorn, a son of Thomas’ first wife Susanna Buck. I descend from Thomas through his son Timothy, a son of his second wife Sarah Ayers.
Thank you for pointing out the early Hartshorn’s entry into America. You and I are double-related, as you have discovered in your research. I hope that some of the other modern day descendants will be looking at their ancestry and discover the names of some relations in this website. Since Asa sent letters to his siblings during his gold panning days, a big hope is that some of those letters, or other memorabilia, have survived. I have included the married names of his siblings in this website.